TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian researchers succeeded in designing and building a multi-purpose miniloader for use in the agricultural industry, carrying objects and roads and urban construction activities whose application can be changed within 5 minutes.
“This device can change the use of levers in less than five minutes; therefore, with the movement of the levers, a forklift loader, which is used for carrying goods, turns into an excavator. A smart middle ring made by the company's specialists is an interface for different functions and modes of the vehicle which makes working with the device highly easy for the driver,” Seyed Mostafa Samadi, the chairman of the board of directors of a technological unit stationed at the Science and Technology Park of Kurdistan province in the Western part of Iran, told ANA.
Noting that the application of the vehicle can be changed without the need to get out and only by changing the position of the lever, he said, “Using hydraulically controlled valves, the company's specialists define tasks like load carrying, snow removal, etc. for the levers.”
“Another important part used in this device is the station levers that transmit the command of how the loader should work to the levers at the moment.
The set of levers and hydraulic valves is placed inside a dashboard inside the driver's cabin,” Samadi said.
In a relevant development in February 2023, a group of engineers from a knowledge-based company in Iran had also designed and manufactured smart loaders without batteries for underground tunnels which can carry out loading and unloading the materials in three directions with high efficiency.
“These loaders can be used to create underground tunnels and mining. The hot testing on the device has been carried out inside a tunnel and it is ready to be used in mines,” said Engineer Shahed Shirin, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
He added that dimensions and sizes of the new loaders are different from other samples existing in the market and it can be used in small mines with very high carrying capacity, noting that the smart loader can perform the unloading process from the front side, left and right.
Shirin underlined that the loader is explosion-proof, adding that Germany is a leading country in making such loaders, “and our product can compete with foreign models in terms of quality, and we can also compete with Chinese models in terms of price”.
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Source: ANA