Patents Assigned to Bombardier Transportation
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Patent number: 10566779Abstract: Disclosed is a DC circuit breaker including at least one contact configured to be coupled between a source of DC power and a DC load and a method of controlling the closed and open state of the contact. The DC circuit breaker includes a thermomagnetic trip circuit and an electronic trip circuit. The electronic trip circuit is responsive to a sensed level of DC current flowing in the contact in a closed state for accumulating an indication of the total time the DC current is sensed. The accumulated indication of the total time the DC current is sensed is compared to a predetermined value or level and, in response to the accumulated indication exceeding the predetermined value or level, the contact is caused to switch from a closed state to an open state.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Carl Lavertu, Maxime Berger
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Patent number: 10518787Abstract: In order to optimize the failure safety of electrical and electronic components located in an engine compartment of a rail vehicle, which additionally comprises at least one driver's cab, the rail vehicle is operated with an air conditioning system, which is provided to generate overpressure in the engine compartment and to control the climate of the at least one driver's cab. The air conditioning system includes a first air guidance system to introduce fresh air into the at least one driver's cab and a second air guidance system to transmit at least one part of the fresh air introduced into the at least one driver's cab into the engine compartment.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Jorgen Tscheng, Michael Welter, Karl-Heinz Buchholz
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Patent number: 10514112Abstract: The invention relates to a cable bearing element, to an arrangement of cable bearing elements and to a method of manufacturing a cable bearing element. The cable bearing element is adapted to position and/or to hold at least one line section of an electric line, wherein the cable bearing element provides at least one guiding channel for the section of the electric line, wherein a base of a first section of the guiding channel is arranged within a first plane and a base of another section of the guiding channel is arranged within a second plane, wherein the second plane is parallel to the first plane and spaced apart from the first plane with a first predetermined distance, wherein the guiding channel comprises a base part and side walls, wherein a geometry or size of the guiding channel is adapted to the diameter of the electric line or cable which is to be arranged within the guiding channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Tobias Leininger, Johannes Schütz, Anton Geiger, Federico Garcia, Ping Wei, Nestor Martinez Pelaez, Oliver Kerle
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Patent number: 10478917Abstract: A welding system comprises a two manipulators and a controller. A first manipulator has a joint detection device and a first welding device, usually of the laser type while the second manipulator has a second welding device, usually of the arc weld type. The joint detection device is operative to read welding joint characteristics along a welding joint. The controller determines a corrected trajectory based on a predetermined welding trajectory and on the welding joint characteristics read by the joint detection device. This corrected trajectory is transmitted with a first time delay to the first manipulator and with a second time delay to the second manipulator. The second time delay is a function of a distance between the joint detection device and the second welding device. A corresponding method for welding components along a welding joint is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Mario Legault
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Patent number: 10471539Abstract: A laser containment device, adapted to be mounted to a laser head, has an outer shell and an inner wall defining a peripheral chamber there in-between. An inner seal and an outer seal, respectively mounted to the outer shell and to the inner wall, are adapted to contact a workpiece. The peripheral chamber, encircling an opening in the laser containment device for letting a laser beam reach a workpiece, may be connected to a differential pressure generator operative to generate a differential pressure therein. A pressure sensor is located within the peripheral chamber to read the differential pressure. In use, the laser head, mounted to a computer-controlled manipulator, emits its laser beam. The pressure sensor sends its pressure readings to a controller which compares their values with a predetermined pressure threshold. If the pressure readings cross this threshold, the controller stops the emission of the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Simon Fissette, Lorraine Blais, Mario Legault, Daniel Chénard, Gabriel Caron-Guillemette, Michel Bochud
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Patent number: 10468999Abstract: Method for detecting load differences between at least one first electrical machine and at least one second electrical machine connected in parallel thereto, which are fed by an inverter, wherein the machines each are connected to the inverter via three supply lines and in two supply lines of the at least one first machine and in one of the supply lines of the at least one second machine, the currents are measured with the aid of current measuring sensors in the respective supply lines and, on the basis of the measured current values of the at least one first machine, the corresponding unmeasured currents of the at least one second machine are estimated, and the estimated total current of the supply lines of the at least one second machine is detected as a measure of deviation of the currents of the at least one second machine from the at least one first machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventors: Thomas Wolbank, Martin Bazant, Markus Vogelsberger
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Patent number: 10457197Abstract: A vehicle for conveying passengers includes an interior space for accommodating the passengers, a door area for entering and leaving the interior space, and a sensor arranged at the door area. The sensor is configured to emit an electromagnetic signal in which an individual identification of the door area is encoded.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Hans-Joachim Kirchner
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Patent number: 10442448Abstract: A secondary suspension system for a railcar comprises a chassis, a primary spring, a levelling actuator, a first hydraulic circuit and a secondary spring. The levelling actuator is adapted to be connected to the carbody. A piston shoulder, located at the lower portion of the piston and below an opening in the chassis, reaches farther than the opening so as to be capable of catching the chassis. The secondary spring is at least partially positioned underneath the piston shoulder. The piston is operative to adopt a high position inside the body under a pressure of a hydraulic fluid injected in a lower chamber below a piston head. This makes the piston shoulder abut against the chassis, thereby compressing the primary spring between the body and the chassis without compressing the secondary suspension.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventors: Mario Monette, Louis Dumoulin, Benoit Lussier
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Patent number: 10442447Abstract: A head monorail car having a front end and a rear end comprises a body, a front load wheel proximate the front end, a rear load wheel proximate the rear end and a seat installed in a passenger area. The front load wheel and the rear load wheel are laterally centered in the body and at least partially protrude through the floor in the passenger area. The first seat is longitudinally installed at least partially between the front end of the monorail car and a spinning axis of the front wheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventors: Peter Timan, Scott Finlayson
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Patent number: 10434882Abstract: A track-bound vehicle converter comprises a block-wave generator (20) configured to be connected to a direct voltage source (21) and connected to a series resonance link (34), or to an inductive link, for providing the input of a direct converter (41) with semi sinusoidal current pulses. The direct converter has at least one phase leg (42-44) having on one hand one switch (45-47) connected to the link (34) and able to block voltages in both directions thereacross and conduct current in both directions therethrough and on the other a capacitor (48-50) connected in series therewith. The voltage across the capacitor (48-50) of the direct converter is used to provide a converter output with an alternating voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Hans Bängtsson, Lennart Kruse, Luyu Wang
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Patent number: 10411576Abstract: A primary for a linear induction motor having a core, electrical winding coils and a cooling system. The core extends longitudinally and has slots extending laterally in a first face thereof. Electrical winding coils inserted in the slots have end turns that extend laterally beyond each side of the core. The electrical winding coils are aligned sequentially along a length of the core. The cooling system, which is adapted to receive a cooling fluid, includes a serpentine tubing assembly and two lateral tubes. The serpentine tubing assembly is at least partially in contact with the core so as to transfer heat from the core to the environment. Each one of the two lateral tubes extend longitudinally along a different side of the core and within a respective longitudinal alignment of the end turns of the electrical winding coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Peter Edward Timan, Evan Chou
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Patent number: 10378156Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fastening trackside modules to a rail having a base and a head. The device includes two clamps that are clamped on the base of the rail with the use of a mechanism that extends under the base of the rail. At least one of the clamps is movable. A bracket is fastened to at least one of the clamps and a trackside module is fastened next to the head of the rail. A pair of brackets is fastened with the use of fasteners to surfaces of each of the clamps. The brackets extend transversely to the longitudinal axis of the rail and at least one upwardly extending section is fastened using second fasteners to at least one of the brackets outer side surfaces. At least one trackside module is fastened to an upper end region of at least one upwardly extending section.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation (ZWUS) Polska Sp. z o. o.Inventors: Marek Górnioczek, Wojciech Radwanski, Adam Szczeponik, Dariusz Zielinski, Mateusz Mazur, Andrzej Stepien, Aleksandra Sawodni
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Patent number: 10343700Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a value of at least one state parameter of a rail vehicle and/or of a track for a railway vehicle, wherein in at least one capturing step, at least one actual first capturing signal correlated with the actual value of the state parameter is captured, via a first signal sensor on a structure in the interior of the rail vehicle, wherein, for capturing the actual first capturing signal, a first signal sensor of a mobile end device is used. For determining the value of the at least one state parameter a frequency range of the first capturing signal actual above 1 Hz to 2 Hz, preferably 4 Hz to 15 kHz, more preferably from 10 Hz to 1 kHz, is evaluated.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Volker Brundisch
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Publication number: 20190157946Abstract: An electric machine (1) has a stator (2) with a stator body (3) and a stator winding (4) and a rotor (5) rotatably disposed with respect to the stator and having a rotor body (6) with a plurality of permanent magnets received therein. The rotor is disposed with an air gap (14) between the rotor body and the stator body and to make a magnetic flux to pass between the permanent magnets of the rotor body and stator poles of the stator body through this air gap. The machine further comprises at least one member (15, 16) or an agent of a material having a high magnetic permeability configured to be positioned with respect to the stator body (6) so as to reduce the magnetic flux (A) from the permanent magnets through said air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Svante ANDERSSON, Asa SANDBERG
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Patent number: 10259474Abstract: The present invention relates to a running gear of a rail vehicle defining a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a height direction, the running gear comprising a first wheel unit (103.1) and a second wheel unit (103.2) defining a wheel unit axle distance, a running gear frame (104) supported on the first wheel unit (103.1) and the second wheel unit (103.2), and a first drive unit (107.1) driving the first wheel unit (103.1). The first drive unit (107.1) comprises a first reaction moment support unit (110) connected to the running gear frame (104) at a first support location to balance a drive moment exerted onto the first wheel unit (103.1) by the first drive unit (107.1). The first support location, in the transverse direction, is laterally offset from a center of the running gear frame (104). The first support location, in the longitudinal direction, is located at a first support location distance from a first wheel unit axle of the first wheel unit (103.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventor: Guido Bieker
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Patent number: 10153633Abstract: The invention relates to a device and to a method for monitoring an electrical network in a rail vehicle. The electrical network includes at least one converter, at least one drive motor, at least one first phase line for electrical connection of the at least one converter and the at least one drive motor. A magnitude of a current change of a first phase current is determined. A network error in a partial network on the machine side is detected if at least one criterion based on the current change is met. The criterion based on a current change is met when the magnitude of the current change of the first phase current is greater than a predetermined current change threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Gerhard Isepponi
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Patent number: 10144441Abstract: The invention relates to a rail vehicle including an image generation system for capturing a space outside the rail vehicle. The image generation system includes four image generation devices, each of which, during operation of the image generation system, generates two-dimensional images of the space. A first and a second of the four image generation devices are disposed at a first distance from one another on the rail vehicle and form a first stereo pair, which captures a first shared portion of the space from different viewing angles. A third and a fourth of the four image generation devices are disposed at a second distance from one another on the rail vehicle and form a second stereo pair, which detects a second shared portion of the space from different viewing angles. The first shared portion of the space and the second shared portion of the space have a shared spatial region.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Michael Fischer, Gerald Newesely
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Patent number: 10124814Abstract: The invention relates to a passenger cabin of a vehicle, in particular a saloon coach of a rail vehicle, wherein the passenger cabin (1) comprises a room divider (10), wherein the room divider (10) is attached to a cabin frame, wherein the room divider (10) comprises at least one backrest surface (11, 12), wherein at least a section of the backrest surface (11, 12) extends along a longitudinal axis (3) of the passenger cabin (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Paul Griggs, Richard Butterfield
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Patent number: 10059212Abstract: The invention relates to a safety system for an inductive power transfer system for transferring power to a vehicle on a surface of a route, wherein the primary unit comprises at least one primary winding for generating an electromagnetic primary field for the inductive power transfer, wherein a charging surface of the route is assigned to the primary winding. The safety system comprises at least one inductive sensing system, wherein the inductive sensing system comprises multiple detection windings wherein the multiple detection windings are arranged in an array structure, and wherein the array structure covers the charging surface at least partially. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of operating such a safety system and a method of building such a safety system.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Robert Czainski
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Patent number: 10040461Abstract: A monorail vehicle includes a chassis supporting a vehicle body, that includes a passenger floor and at least one side wall, and an electrical motor supported by the chassis. A drive wheel is coupled to a rotor of the electric motor with a rotation axis of the drive wheel substantially coaxial with an axis of the rotor. Portions of the drive wheel and the electric motor are positioned on both sides of an imaginary plane extension of the passenger floor. The drive wheel and the electric motor are covered by a shell that is integral to one side of the vehicle body and which defines a space between the other side of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventors: Peter Edward Timan, Hans Peter Trotsch, Martin Bazant, Daniel Martinez-Anon-Perez, Alexander Bauer