SBIR Phase II: The Reinvention Of The Wheel. For Agricultural Uses and Beyond.

SBIR 第二阶段：轮子的重新发明。

• 批准号: 1853182
• 负责人: zack fleishman
• 金额: $ 72.43万
• 依托单位: Shark Wheel, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Reinvention; Wheel.

This SBIR Phase II project will explore the potential benefits of a sine wave shaped wheel compared to a traditional circular wheel for the central pivot irrigation industry. The central pivot irrigation industry is an essential segment of the agriculture industry and this project aims to deliver a superior wheel that solves the persistent issue of trench-digging that leads to equipment breakdown, down time, lost profits, and crop-loss. The broader significance of eliminating trench-digging would be significant savings for farmers, distributors and consumers. Agriculture is the largest industry in the world, and developing a wheel that eliminates an issue that plagues the industry is the central goal of this project. The development of a sine wave wheel also potentially impacts other fields as the technology can be used in over one-hundred different industries. The technical innovation of this project is creating a wheel that is non-circular. The wheel will exhibit the blending of multiple shapes in one design including a sine wave, cube, circle and hexagon. It will be approximately 4.5 feet tall, and weighing approximately 400lbs for use in the farming industry. The concept is to create two wheels in tandem where the sine waves are out-of-phase from one another. The front wheel would create a left-right-left path into the soil, much like the path a snake would leave behind traversing soil. The rear wheel would move in an opposite right-left-right configuration leaving a double helix footprint in its wake. The opposing wheels would push the soil back toward center, eliminating the largest issue plaguing the industry: trench digging. The sine wave wheel technology has already been scientifically proven on a smaller scale in the skateboarding industry to reduce friction, increase longevity, increase off-road ability, and increase speed. Multiple wheel iterations will be manufactured and subsequently tested in this project using off-the-shelf hubs within the industry and rubber tires. The wheel will not be pneumatic and will never go flat.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该SBIR二期项目将探索正弦波形轮与传统圆形轮相比在中央枢纽灌溉行业的潜在优势。中央枢纽灌溉行业是农业行业的重要组成部分，该项目旨在提供一种上级车轮，解决导致设备故障、停机时间、利润损失和作物损失的沟渠挖掘的长期问题。消除挖沟的更广泛意义将是为农民、经销商和消费者节省大量资金。农业是世界上最大的产业，开发一种消除困扰该行业的问题的轮子是该项目的中心目标。正弦波轮的发展也可能影响其他领域，因为该技术可用于100多个不同的行业。这个项目的技术创新是创造一个非圆形的轮子。车轮将展示多种形状的混合在一个设计，包括正弦波，立方体，圆形和六边形。这将是大约4.5英尺高，重约400磅，用于农业。这个概念是创造两个车轮串联的正弦波是异相的。前轮会在土壤中形成一条左-右-左的路径，就像蛇在土壤中留下的路径一样。后轮将以相反的右-左-右配置移动，在其尾流中留下双螺旋足迹。相反的轮子将把土壤推回中心，消除了困扰该行业的最大问题：挖沟。正弦波轮技术已经在滑板行业的较小规模上得到科学证明，可以减少摩擦，增加寿命，增加越野能力和提高速度。多个车轮迭代将被制造，并随后在该项目中使用现成的轮毂和橡胶轮胎进行测试。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。