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.

与中央枢轴灌溉行业相比，该SBIR II期项目将探索正弦波形轮的潜在优势。中央枢轴灌溉行业是农业行业的重要部分，该项目旨在提供一个较高的轮子，以解决持续存在的沟槽问题，从而导致设备分解，停机时间，利润损失和造物损失。消除挖沟的更广泛的意义将为农民，分销商和消费者节省大量资金。农业是世界上最大的行业，并且开发了一个消除困扰该行业的问题的车轮是该项目的核心目标。正弦波轮的开发也可能影响其他领域，因为该技术可以用于一百多个不同的行业。该项目的技术创新是创建一个非圆形的轮子。车轮将在一个设计中表现出多种形状的混合，包括正弦波，立方体，圆圈和六角形。它高约4.5英尺，重约400磅，用于农业行业。这个概念是在同时创建两个轮子，正弦波彼此之间存在相距。前轮将在土壤中创建左右路径，就像蛇会留下横穿土壤的路径一样。后轮将以相反的右右右配置移动，并在其尾流中留下双螺旋足迹。相对的轮子会将土壤推向中心，消除了困扰该行业的最大问题：挖沟。在滑板行业中，正弦波轮技术已经以较小的规模进行了科学证明，以减少摩擦，增加寿命，提高越野能力并提高速度。将在该项目中使用行业和橡胶轮胎的现成枢纽制造多个轮子迭代。车轮不会是气动的，也永远不会平整。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。