Passive Weight Lift Assistive System for Hydraulic Trucks by Venkat S Arya - HTML preview

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ABSTRACT

Automobiles are now becoming the most essential part of our day-to-day life.  This  is  the golden age for automobile companies,  since they are attaining their  peak  selling  rates   in  this  21st    century.   However  with  the   increased production they are facing lots of problems  like traffic, fuel efficiency, blends, exhaust gas analysis, etc., Among them providing a proper and efficient weight lifter system  in an automobile  is  a  major  issue for them.  With  increased  load carrying requirements equipping the lifting system with more facilities  is their major  objective.  In  addition  to  that  efficiency  of  the  hydraulic  lifting  system gets reduced due to the self weight of the tipper truck. The system will have to lift the load along with the trailer and it is a major limitation in this equipment.

In this  project,  we made a simple  and  economical solution to  the above mentioned  problem.  We  used   pneumatic  spring  as  our  major  capital  and fabricated an equipment which can be attached to any automobile that it assists the  conventional  hydraulic  system  by  means  of  the  compressed  air.   The attachment is to be connected with the base of the trailer. Due to cost factors a small prototype of this project was done. Here we did a model with two metal frames hinged with each other. Two pneumatic springs are connected on either side of the frame with nuts and bolts. Self weight of the upper frame compresses the spring, then  it can be easily  lifted with less force due to the application of the compressed air inside the spring.

Key words: Hydraulic tipper truck, Pneumatic spring, Self weight