HK1244744A1 - Ride - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a ride within the meaning of claim 1. Such rides are intended to entertain passengers who sit in the passenger compartment and are then driven past backdrops, canvases or other entertainment facilities by means of the chassis.

It is known to attach the passenger compartment to a robot so that the passenger compartment can be moved in all six degrees of freedom of movement. Such a configuration is very flexible, but has the disadvantage that it is usually not inherently safe. This means that the passenger compartment can be moved into positions that endanger the passengers. It must therefore be excluded that the vehicle is misprogrammed. However, a proof of error-free is not in principle conducible. There is therefore always a systemic inherent risk that passengers will be harmed due to misprogramming.

US 2005/0014566 A1, US 7,094,157 B2 and DE 694 23 873 T2 are known to be operations where the passenger compartment is moved by means of a hexapod drive.

The DE 295 12 759 U1, US 7,033,177 B2 and US 8,641,540 B2 are known to have passenger-only services, which are necessary because of the need for a superstructure.

A genre-specific ride is known from DE 699 29 187 T2.

The purpose of the invention is to propose a ride-on device that ensures passive safety even when it has a large lift.

The invention solves the problem by a ride-on with the characteristics of claim 1.

The advantage of such a drive is that the vehicle can take the passenger into all positions that are accessible to the vehicles according to the state of the art and which are at the same time necessary for use in the drive.

The inherent safety achieved in this way also means that the vehicle can be easily reprogrammed, so that it is no longer necessary to investigate a new movement pattern to ensure that a risk to passengers is excluded in all conceivable situations.

It is also advantageous that the energy supply of the vehicle can be easily set up, since if the energy supply fails, the result in a driving operation according to the invention is only that the passengers are put into a resting position.

The advantage of the vehicle is that the number of passengers per vehicle can be chosen to be larger. Both a hexapod drive and a turntable can be constructed by simple means to accommodate large forces.

The vehicle is designed to accommodate more than four passengers in a preferred embodiment. Vehicles of known types of transport in which the passenger compartment is attached to a robot can be built for four passengers only, otherwise the apparatus required to provide the necessary torque would be unacceptably large. A vehicle of the invention, on the other hand, can easily accommodate more than four passengers, for example seven, eight, nine, ten or even more passengers.

It is particularly advantageous if the chassis is tracked. This means that it is trained to follow a structural path without leaving it. In other words, it is sufficient if the chassis always runs along the path due to design. For example, the structural path is exactly one rail or a pair of rails. In other words, the chassis can be a rail vehicle. Then the chassis is trained to be moved on or on a rail. Alternatively, the chassis is trained so that it can be moved on or on two rails. The rail can take at least one force and/or moment, but this is not necessary.

Alternatively, the design path may be a guide line, i.e. a device that extends along the trajectory the vehicle is to take. The vehicle is then preferably trained to detect its position relative to the guide line and to move autonomously, so that a distance from the guide line is minimized. This has the advantage that the trajectory on which the vehicle moves is design-specific and thus accidents due to faulty programming of the trajectory are excluded.

The vehicle shall preferably have a display area that can be moved to an active position where the display area is within a field of view of passengers seated on the passenger compartment and to an inactive position where the display area is outside the field of view. It is particularly advantageous if the display area is curved. In particular, the display area is curved so that it is concave from the passenger compartment.

If the screen is a screen, the vehicle preferably includes a projector which is positioned to project a film onto the screen; in particular, the projector is positioned to project the film onto the screen when it is in its active position, so that passengers can be shown a film while being moved along a trajectory by the chassis.

It is particularly advantageous if the rider has a control device, such as a control calculator, which synchronizes the movement of the vehicle, the movement of the display area and the projection of the film on the other hand. In this way, the movement of the vehicle can be coordinated with the film that the passengers are watching. It is particularly advantageous if the control device also controls the hexapod drive and/or the rotor so that the passengers can be simulated through a virtual space.

It is advantageous if the passenger compartment has a backrest and the hexapod drive and the passenger compartment are designed to bring the backrests into a tilting position in which the angle of inclination of the backrest to the horizontal is less than 20°, in particular less than 15°.

Preferably, the passenger compartment may be tilted around a passenger compartment axle and the hexapod drive and the turntable may be moved to a position where the passenger compartment axle is at an angle of not more than 10°, and in particular not more than 5°, with a horizontal plane, in which case the passengers may be seated side by side in a horizontal row.

The hexapod drive has six telescopic drives, each with its own footings, attached to a platform, whereby the hexapod drive has a central point which is the center of the balance circle of the footings, whereby a vertical projection of the passenger take-off rotation axis onto a plane through the balance circle has a distance from the centre point equal to at least two thirds of the radius of the balance circle. In other words, the passenger is anchored ascentrically to the hexapod drive, so that the passenger take-off can be moved by operators of the hexapod drive with a large minimum of up and down. It is not possible, but necessary, that all the footings lie on a circle.

It is advantageous if a rotary axis of the rotary table passes through the balancing circle.

A particularly simple design is obtained when the axis of rotation of the turntable includes an angle with the plane through the balance circle which does not differ by more than 10° from the right angle.

Preferably, the hexapod drive may be positioned at an angle of at least 25° between the balance circle and the horizontal plane, allowing the passenger compartment to be moved up and down a large distance.

As mentioned at the outset, passive safety is very important in driving. Preferably, therefore, the vehicle has a light profile, where the driving has backgrounds, and all backgrounds are arranged outside the light profile. The light profile is specifically the shell curve of the space that a part of the driving can reach due to design. The shell curve thus surrounds the intended space in which the driving can be positioned in all possible positions of hexapod drive, rotation and passenger pick-up. In other words, the shells are preferably arranged so that a collision of a passenger or a vehicle with exhaust gas is excluded, because the movement of the vehicle from the backdrop could therefore lead to a collision, which is likely to occur.

Preferably, the vehicle is trained to move along a given trajectory, with the ride having at least a first set-up in the form of a fixed screen at a first point along the trajectory and the ride having a control device trained to automatically move the vehicle along the trajectory and automatically project images onto the first fixed screen, with the projecting being synchronized with the movement of the vehicle.

Alternatively or additionally, the control device is set up to automatically project a film onto the screen that is part of the vehicle, and is particularly advantageous when the projection onto the fixed screen and the projection onto the screen connected to the vehicle and the motion of the screen are synchronized.

For example, it is then possible for the vehicle to be positioned automatically in front of a fixed screen, then a given film sequence is shown with the image display area attached to the vehicle in its inactive position. The image display area attached to the vehicle is then put into the active position, and it is possible that already during the placement in the active position the projection of a film on the display area begins. The control device is then trained to automatically control the components of the driving operation, so that this procedure is performed. A particularly impressive effect results when the image projection on the fixed screen corresponds to the projected image display area, so that the brass film projection is hardly perceived by the occupants in the active position.

The following illustration shows the details of the invention. Figure 1 shows a driving operation in the first position,Figure 2 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 1 shows a driving operation in the first position, andFigure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 1 shows a driving operation in the first position,Figure 2 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 1 shows a driving operation in the first position,Figure 2 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 3 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a driving operation in the second position,Figure 4 shows a procedure in the second position.

Figure 1 shows a driving range 10 with a vehicle 12 and a first backdrop 14.1 in the form of a fixed screen. Vehicle 12 has a chassis 16 which is trained to drive itself and oriented to a track 18.

Alternatively, the vehicle 12 may be run on exactly one track, the track absorbing the drive and steering forces and, where appropriate, the tilting torques.

Vehicle 12 has a hexapod drive 20 on which a swivel table 22 is mounted.

Figure 1 shows that the vehicle 12 also has a display area 26 which could be generally described as a projection area. Figure 1 shows the display area 26 in its active position, where passengers can look at the display area 26. Figure 3 shows the display area 26 in its inactive position. In the present embodiment, the display area 26 is rotatably fixed relative to the passenger compartment 24.

Figure 1 shows a schematic of a projector 28 which allows a film to be projected onto the projection surface 26 which is formed as a curved canvas.

Figure 2 shows vehicle 12 in an unusual position with the passenger compartment 24 raised. In Figure 2 the display area 26 is not shown. Passenger compartment 24 has a number of seats, of which seat 30.1 is shown schematically. The seat 30.1 has a backrest 32 which includes an angle of inclination α with the horizontal H which is less than α = 20° in the position shown in Figure 2. A schematically shown passenger 34 then lies virtually on his back.

The hexapod drive 20 has six telescopic drives of 36.1, 36.2, ..., 36.6 which are attached to a platform 40 at their respective footpoints 38.i (i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

The passenger compartment 24 is tilted around a passenger compartment rotation axis D24. A distance of the passenger compartment rotation axis D24 from the centre point M is in this case greater than a radius R of the compensating circle K. This is a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 3 shows that the turntable 22 has a turntable axis D22 which in this case passes through the centre point M (compare Figure 2) of the balance circle K. The turntable axis D22 also passes perpendicular to a plane through the balance circle K. Passengers 34 can look out on a second backdrop in the form of a fixed screen 14.2.

In Figure 3, the image display area 26 is shown in its inactive position, outside a field of view S of the passengers 34. The field of view is the area of β1 = 60° above the horizontal and β2 = 70° below the horizontal. This is particularly true when the passengers are in a normal seating position. When the passenger compartment 34 is tilted backwards, this angle refers not to the horizontal but to a plane tilted at the same angle as the passenger compartment 34.

The image display area 26 can be tilted in the present case to the active position shown in Figure 1, with the axis of rotation of the tilting axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the passenger image D24.

The following describes how a method of the invention is used to use the vehicle of the invention. First, vehicle 12 is placed in a position where passengers 34 can board the passenger compartment 24, in particular passengers 34 can sit in the passenger compartment 24. Then, for example, vehicle 12 drives to a first set 14.1, which may be a fixed-screen screen. There, after the vehicle 12 has arrived, a film is shown for the passengers 34 to view. Towards the end of the film, the projection area 26 swings into the field of view of the passengers and the projector 28 projects a film. This projection area 26 can be shaped so that the film 34 hardly interferes with the projection of the passenger 26's image.

Once the display area 26 is fully in the field of view of the occupants, vehicle 12 moves to the next setting 14.2 In this movement, the hexapod drive, together with the turntable, can simulate a motion tuned to the film projected onto the display area 26 and the occupants have the illusion of immersing themselves in the scene shown in the film.

As soon as the vehicle has arrived in front of the next set, the display area 26 is folded off. The second set is a fixed screen and another film can be shown on it. The procedure steps are performed by a control device 42 controlling the components of the driving operation 10 involved, in particular the vehicle 12.

Figure 4 shows a process diagram of a process according to the invention.

List of reference marks

10Traffic 12Vehicles14First Scene 16Further 18Rail 20Hexapod Drive 22Running table 24Passenger recording 26Picture playback area 28Projector 301 Seat 32Return seat 34Passenger 36Telescope drive 38Footpoint 40Platform D22Running table axis D24Passenger recording axis HORIZONTALKAequilibrium circle point

Claims (8)

1. Transport (10) and in particular ghost rail, with a vehicle (12) that: Other

   (a) a chassis (16) and

   (b) has a passenger compartment (24) for passengers (34),

   (c) where the vehicle (12) Other

   - a hexapod drive (20) mounted on the chassis (16) and

   - a rotary table (22) connected to the hexapod drive (20)

   (d) where the hexapod drive (20) has six telescopic drives (36) attached at each foot (38) to a platform (38) and having a centre point which is the centre (M) of the balancing circle (K) through all the footpoints,

   characterised by:

   (e) the passenger compartment (24) is tilted by a passenger compartment axis (D24) at the turntable (22) and

   (f) a vertical projection of the axis of rotation of the passenger compartment (D24) on a plane (E) through the balance circle (K) has a distance from the centre at least two thirds of the radius (R) of the balance circle (K).
2. The vehicle is equipped with a retractor and a retractor.
3. The vehicle is equipped with a retractor (10) that is capable of operating at a speed of less than 100 km/h. Other

   - in an active position where the image display area (26) is within a field of view (S) of passengers seated on the passenger side (24) (34), and

   - in an inactive position where the image display area (26) is outside the field of view (S),

   Other The Commission has already taken a number of steps to ensure that the
4. Ride (10) according to one of the above claims, characterised by:

   - the passenger compartment (24) has a backrest (32), and

   - the hexapod drive (20) and the passenger compartment (24) are designed to enable the backrest (32) to be placed in a tilting position where the angle of inclination (α) of the backrest (32) to the horizontal (H) is less than 20°, and in particular less than 15°.
5. The vehicle shall be equipped with a means of propulsion that is capable of providing a maximum speed of not more than 100 km/h.
6. Driving operation (10) according to one of the above requirements, characterised by the vehicle (12) having a luminous profile, Other

   - the carriage business (10) has backgrounds (14.1, 14.2) and

   - all the backs (14.1, 14.2) are located outside the lighting profile.
7. Ride (10) according to one of the above claims, characterised by:

   - the vehicle (12) is trained to move along a given trajectory,

   - the journey (10) has at least a first backdrop (14) in the form of a fixed screen (26) at a first point along the trajectory, and

   - the driving unit (10) has a control device (42) designed to automatically move the vehicle (12) along the trajectory and to automatically project images onto the first fixed screen (26), the projection being synchronized with the movement of the vehicle.
8. Driving operation (10) according to one of the above requirements, characterised by the trajectory following at least one rail (18) so that the vehicle (12) can move along the trajectory by moving along the rail (18).