Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rail vehicle having guide device
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Application No.: US16080242Application Date: 2017-02-27
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Publication No.: US10994753B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Toshifumi Kanno , Kouji Esaki , Koshi Tanimoto
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2016-038051 20160229
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/007530 WO 20170227
- International Announcement: WO2017/150462 WO 20170908
- Main IPC: B61F9/00
- IPC: B61F9/00 ; B60B17/00 ; B61B13/00 ; B62D1/26

Abstract:
The rail vehicle has a guide device configured to guide traveling of a bogie on a traveling track by rolling guide wheels in a state of bringing the guide wheels into contact with guide rails installed on both sides of the traveling track in a vehicle width direction perpendicular to a traveling direction, wherein: the guide device has an arm and the guide wheels, the arm having a central portion fixed to a stationary member, extending to both sides in the vehicle width direction, and having both end portions elastically deformable in a direction in which the guide rails extend, the guide wheels being mounted on the arm at the both end portions of the arm in the vehicle width direction; and a center of each of the guide wheels is displaced from a center line of the arm, the center line extending in the vehicle width direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190047596A1 RAIL VEHICLE HAVING GUIDE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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