Patents by Inventor Hans Heiner Vogel

Hans Heiner Vogel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5909711
    Abstract: The bogie contains a bogie frame supported on two wheel sets with a coupling device via which the two wheel sets are coupled to one another so as to be steerable in opposite senses. The coupling device contains an additional adjustment device for the transmission of adjustment forces by which a steering movement in the same sense can be transmitted to each of the wheel sets independent of and superimposed on their oppositely directed settings. In this way an influence can be exerted on the shear movement between the wheel sets independently of the bending stiffness between the wheel sets and thus an ideal reaction of the bogie to the respectively arising free lateral acceleration can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: SLM Schweizerische Lokomotiv - Und Maschinenfabrik AG
    Inventors: Hans Heiner Vogel, Hans-Rudolf Kagi