Patent ID: 11945529
Assignee: PLASAN SASA LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. The modular slave vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a structural frame being simultaneously articulatable at rear end thereof to another structural frame of the modular slave vehicle, and at a front end thereof to a coupling portion of an independently driven master vehicle, said structural frame comprising:
a master coupling system in the form of a mechanical stress absorbing coupling mechanism mounted to said front end, said master coupling system being detachably articulatable to said coupling portion of the master vehicle so as to constrain, at least partially, all translational DOF of the vehicles relatively to each other, and leave at least one rotational DOF at least partially unconstrained;
at least one first slave coupling device mounted to said front end, distal from the master coupling system; and
at least one second slave coupling device mounted to said rear end;
wherein said first and second coupling devices, when mounted to two adjacent structural frames intended to be articulated to each other, are detachably connectable to each other to form a tandem coupling configured to constrain all DOF therebetween.