Dual use trailer vehicle
AssigneePlasan Sasa Ltd.
InventorsAmir Ben Shoshan, Asaf Engel
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Abstract
A modular slave vehicle articulatable at one end thereof to another slave vehicle and at another end thereof to an independently driven master vehicle, simultaneously. The slave vehicle comprising a body including a driving system; a structural frame supporting said body; a master coupling system in the form of a mechanical stress absorbing coupling mechanism; at least one first slave coupling device; at least one second slave coupling device; said first and second coupling devices, when mounted to two adjacent slave vehicles intended to be articulated to each other, are detachably connectable to each other to form a tandem coupling configured to constrain all DOF therebetween.
Claims25
A structural frame for use with a modular slave vehicle, said structural frame being simultaneously articulatable at a rear end thereof to another structural frame of a modular slave vehicle, and at a front end thereof to a coupling portion of an independently driven master vehicle, said structural frame comprising:
- a master coupling system in the form of a mechanical stress absorbing coupling mechanism mounted to said front end, said master coupling system being detachably articulatable to said coupling portion of the master vehicle so as to constrain, at least partially, all translational DOF of the vehicles relatively to each other, and leave at least one rotational DOF at least partially unconstrained;
- at least one first slave coupling device mounted to said front end distally from the master coupling system;
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- at least one second slave coupling device mounted to said rear end;
- said first and second coupling devices, when mounted to two adjacent structural frames intended to be articulated to each other, are detachably connectable to each other to constrain all DOF therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.