Transportation system
AssigneeKargetu Private Limited
InventorNarendra PATIDAR
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Abstract
A transportation system (100) based on a plurality of pods (110) without any prime movers is disclosed, having a plurality of main tracks (102) having flexible drives to engage with the pods (110) and move the pods along the main track. The pods (110) can be carried by a last-miler vehicle for providing a seamless connectivity between a starting point of a commuter and a destination location without any change. The transportation system includes stations (150) having diverter belts (104), accelerator/decelerator paths (106) and diverter patch (114), where the pods (110) can be transshipped between the main track (102) and the last-miler vehicles.
Claims12
A transportation system comprising:
- a plurality of main tracks, each of the main tracks comprising a plurality of endless flexible drives arranged along length of the main track, each of the plurality of endless flexible drives comprising a plurality of engaging means on an upper surface of the plurality of endless flexible drives;
- a plurality of pods configured to get engaged to the engaging means of the flexible drives to be propelled along the length of the main track;
- wherein the engaging means is a friction material provided on the upper surface of the plurality of endless flexible drives and the plurality of pods include a longitudinally oriented channel located on a bottom surface of the pods, the channel being sized such that the corresponding flexible drive gets engaged with the channel and a frictional force between the channel and the friction material provides a traction force to move the pod along with the flexible drive.
A transportation system comprising:
- at least one main track;
- a plurality of pods configured to be propelled along a length of the main track;
- at least one diverter belt configured at an end of the at least one main track to direct the pods from a station to the main track, or divert the pods from the main track to the station;
- at least one acceleration/deceleration path to accelerate the pods from the station and deliver the accelerated pods to the diverter belt at a speed synchronized with the speed of the diverter belt, or decelerate the pods received from the diverter belt as the pods reach the station;
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- a control system comprising control units to control each of the at least one main track, the at least one diverter belt and the at least one acceleration/deceleration path based on signals from sensors configured with each of the plurality of pods, to move the pods from the station to the main track or from the main track to the station;
- wherein the at least one diverter belt comprises an endless conveyor moving along a direction generally aligned with the length of the main track, and a plurality of rollers provided on the endless conveyor, at least some of the plurality of rollers configured to selectively rotate along an axis perpendicular to direction of movement of the endless conveyor to move the pods in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of the endless conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.