Abstract: The invention relates to transport engineering, in particular to railway transportation vehicle wheels. Essence of invention: A railway wheel having a central plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the wheel which includes a rim formed by a tread surface and a flange, and also includes a hub and a web formed by external and internal surfaces and made in such a way that a theoretical midline of a transverse web profile passes through a first point located in a place of matching the web with the rim, a central point where the theoretical midline has maximum offset from the central plane in a direction opposite to the flange, and a second point located in a place of matching the web with the hub, wherein the external and internal surfaces of the web are formed by external and internal radius curves, respectively, wherein radiuses of the first and the second external radius curves for the external web surface are from 0.04 to 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to transport engineering, in particular to railway transportation vehicle wheels. Essence of invention: A railway wheel having a central plane perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the wheel which includes a rim formed by a tread surface and a flange, and also includes a hub and a web formed by external and internal surfaces and made in such a way that a theoretical midline of a transverse web profile passes through a first point located in a place of matching the web with the rim, a central point where the theoretical midline has maximum offset from the central plane in a direction opposite to the flange, and a second point located in a place of matching the web with the hub, wherein the external and internal surfaces of the web are formed by external and internal radius curves, respectively, wherein radiuses of the first and the second external radius curves for the external web surface are from 0.04 to 0.

Abstract: A wheel assembly for a wheeled vehicle utilizes interchangeable wheel hubs to secure various types of tires to provide better performance and maintenance on the vehicles. The design of the hubs is such that fabrication costs are reduced as well as costs for maintaining wheel inventories. The hubs are designed with locking elements and shoulders to ensure that tires are effectively secured in the wheel assembly. The hub is configured so that replacement of worn tires is done quickly, without having to touch the wheel bearings or drain the lubricant.

Abstract: A wheel assembly for a wheeled vehicle utilizes interchangeable wheel hubs to secure various types of tires to provide better performance and maintenance on the vehicles. The design of the hubs is such that fabrication costs are reduced as well as costs for maintaining wheel inventories. The hubs are designed with locking elements and shoulders to ensure that tires are effectively secured in the wheel assembly. The hub is configured so that replacement of worn tires is done quickly, without having to touch the wheel bearings or drain the lubricant.

Abstract: A wheel for rolling stock in which when a deflection amount .lambda. of a disk relative to a rim section is set to not less than 5 mm, a condition that a deflection amount .delta. of the rim section relative a boss section .gtoreq.40 mm is secured easily, an excellent durability against cracking damage can be obtained.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a running wheel for traveling units which are movable on rails, especially for traveling cranes. The running wheel includes an outer running ring, a resilient damping hub inserted in central opening of the running ring. The hub transmits torque received from a drive shaft to the running ring. The resilient damping hub effectively intercepts occurring torque peaks forward of the gear unit and drive shaft, by elastically deforming while maintaining a connection at the central opening of the running ring without play.

Abstract: A railroad wheel revolving around an XX' axle perpendicular to a median plane P, of the type that includes a rim with a rolling surface and a flange, a hub, a plate a connecting area of the plate with the rim, a connecting area of the plate with the hub and with the plate section constructed along a meridian line AB extending between a point A located at the junction of the plate and the connecting area of the plate with the rim and a point B located at the junction of the plate and the connecting area of the plate with the hub, and characterized by the fact that the two points A and B are located on either side of the median plane P and are symmetrical to one another in relation to the intersection point I of the meridian line AB and the plane P, with point I an inflection point for the curve AB.

Abstract: A stress-homogenized track wheel with a wheel disk (3) which connects the wheel hub (1) and wheel rim (2) and decreases in thickness from the hub (1) towards the rim (2), the disk's outer surfaces merging via three-center curves as radial generatrices tangentially with the adjacent outer surfaces of the hub (1) and rim (2) is shown. In order to suppress stress peaks and reduce the stress across the radial width of the wheel disk, the two outer surfaces of the wheel disk (3) are defined in the radial central area (1) geometrically by radial straight generatrices (Z3*,Z3**) which intersect in the area between the three-center curves on the wheel rim (2).

Abstract: In the case of a rail wheel having a wheel disk made of plastic and a tire made of metal, these are connected with one another by way of a metallic intermediate ring onto which the tire is shrunk. In this case, the wheel disk has a conical cross-sectional profile on its circumference and the intermediate ring, which is form-locking therewith, is axially divided into two partial rings with a correspondingly partially conical interior surface. The partial rings are in a mutual force-locking connection and are glued to the wheel disk. This ensures a double safety connection between the intermediate ring and the wheel disk.

Abstract: A steel railway wheel with reduced axial flange deflection and reduced, thermally-induced, residual-tensile stress in the wheel rim, has a clearly defined relationship among the plate angle, the maximum depth of curvature of the wheel plate segment, the location of the maximum depth of curvature, the wheel hub and the rim, which relationship is provided for plate segments both concave and convex with respect to the wheel outboard surface.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of sensing the presence of objects in its environment, categorizing these objects without a prior description of the categories to be expected, and controlling robotic effector mechanisms to respond differentially to such objects according to their categories. Such responses include sorting objects, rejecting objects of certain types, and detecting novel or deviant objects. The invention includes a device called a "classification n-tuple" (of which a "classification couple" is a special case) capable of combining signals from two or more sensory modalities to arrive at the classification of the object.The invention operates by simulating certain features of animal nervous system, including neurons with responses determined at each moment of time by inputs received along synaptic connections from sensory means or form other neurons. In this invention, neurons are arranged in "groups", which permits them to act cooperatively while still retaining characteristic individual responses.

Abstract: According to the invention, the rectilinear portion of the median longitudinal axis of the configuration of the disk of the railway wheel at the side of the wheel rim conjugates with a first portion described by the expressiony=-0.0074x.sup.3 +0.412x.sup.2 -7.25x+38.7,conjugating with a second portion described by the expressiony=-0.0009x.sup.3 +0.0658x.sup.2 -1.314x+5.5592,extending into a third portion described by the expressiony=-0.0129x.sup.2 +0.0335x-0.98,conjugating with a rectilinear portion at the side of the hub, whereas the abscissas of the points rest within the following ranges: ##EQU1## where x and y are the running coordinates,D is the diameter of the rolling surface, andd is the outside diameter of the hub.

Abstract: In order to attain a cost-effective manufacturing, suitable for large-scale production, in the case of a rail wheel, and, at the same time, a high degree of structural strength, whereby the wheel disk, which rigidly joins the wheel hub (4) with the wheel tire in a fibrous composite type of construction, is made of two external fibrous composite surface layers and a characteristically light inner core, which transmits shearing force, arranged between them, the inner core is composed, according to the invention, of ring segment-shaped, foam plastic-filled fibrous composite hollow cases (22), each consisting of web portions (28), running radially between the wheel hub and the wheel tire, arranged perpendicularly to the surface layers, with an intersecting fibrous orientation, slanted at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the sections, as well as profile side walls (30), formed in one piece, on the longitudinal edges of the web portions, with a continuous fibrous structure, each evenly bonded with the inne

Abstract: A disc wheel, particularly for rail vehicles, with a composite metal/plastic structure. In order to make possible simple manufacture with at the same time adequate force transmission, a structure between the hub and the tread comprises a plastic structure comprising two half shells of the same design which are subdivided in sector fashion by spoke-like reinforcement ribs. The reinforcement ribs each have a longitudinal slot into which rib plates are inserted which connect the two half shells to each other. Advantageously, plastic foam is inserted into the cavities of the half shells. All joints between the plastic structure and the hub or the tread are cemented joints.

Abstract: A disk wheel, especially a railroad wheel, has a composite construction of single piece metal hub and a single piece metal rim connected to each other by a wheel disk of fiber reinforced composite material providing exclusively adhesive bonds. The wheel disk transmits shearing stress between hub and rim. The rim is provided with two radially inwardly extending rim flanges. The hub has two radially outwardly extending hub flanges. The shearing stress transmitting wheel disk (12) has a radially outer rim contacting surface (9) adhesively bonded to the rim (3) and rim flanges (7), and a radially inner hub contacting surface (8) adhesively bonded to the hub (2) and hub flanges (6). The wheel disk (12) is inserted into the space between the concentrically arranged hub and rim as long as the composite material is not yet cured and hence sufficiently deformable. The wheel disk is exposed to compression during curing.

Abstract: A cooling device especially adapted to be applied to railway car wheels that are subjected to heating by the application of braking pressure to the rims. The cooling structure is suitable for mounting on existing wheels as well as on new wheels. It comprises a plurality of vanes extending radially from the hub of the wheel to its rim in spaced relationship. An annular cover is attached to the outer edges of the vanes to form a plurality of channels that have an opening at the hub end and another opening at the rim end. As the wheel rotates an air stream is formed in each of the channels with the air entering the channel at the hub opening, and exhausting at the rim opening so that the air impinges on the rim to carry away the heat from the rim.

Abstract: A railroad car wheel is designed to have an amount of displacement of 40 mm or larger, this amount being the amount of displacement of a rim portion relative to a boss portion of the wheel which is the distance between two lines perpendicular to the axis of the wheel, one from the midpoint of the thickness of a plate portion adjacent to ends of curves of the rim fillets and the other from the midpoint of thickness of the plate portion adjacent to ends of curves of the boss fillets.

Abstract: A wheel for rail vehicles with at least one disc which is connected to an axle, and with a wheel rim having a tread or surface surrounding the disc, while the rail tread in engagement with the rim tread results in contacting points of the wheel during straight forward drive of the vehicle located on the tread or track of the rails. At least within that region of the rim which contains the above mentioned rail contacting points of the wheel rim the wheel rim is turnably connected to the disc for turning about an imaginary axis located in about the driving direction of the wheel.

Abstract: A wheel for rail vehicles with at least one disc which is connected to an axle, and with a wheel rim having a tread or surface surrounding the disc, while the rail tread in engagement with the rim tread results in contacting points of the wheel during straight forward drive of the vehicle located on the tread or track of the rails. At least within that region of the rim which contains the above mentioned rail contacting points of the wheel rim the wheel rim is turnably connected to the disc for turning about an imaginary axis located in about the driving direction of the wheel.

Abstract: A lightweight wheel and axle assembly that reduces unsprung weight thereby improving the ride. The assembly also diminishes hunting and reduces tendencies towards unstable dynamic conditions. The wheel and axle assembly is easily adaptable to conventional three-piece trucks as well as to other truck designs.

Abstract: A railroad car wheel having an annular hub for connection to an axle and defining an inner radial surface adapted for disposition in facing relating to the inner surface of a wheel on the opposite end of the axle and an outboard radial surface facing outwardly of the wheel, an annular tread defining rim portion disposed generally concentrically of the hub and defining an inner radial surface adapted for disposition in facing relation to the inner surface of a wheel on the opposite end of the axle and an outboard radial surface facing outwardly of the wheel, the rim portion being displaced axially outwardly with respect to the hub and including an outer, generally cylindrical rail engaging surface provided with radially extending flange adjacent the inner radial surface, and an integral annular plate portion connecting the rim and hub, the plate having a relatively thin cross section and being generally frusto-conical defining inboard and outboard conical surfaces, the plate joining the hub adjacent the inner

Abstract: A wheel set for a bogie of a track vehicle in which wheels are mounted non-rotatably on an axle mounted in bearings of the bogie. Substantially wide rubber elastic inserts for springing each of the wheels, have an arched axial-radial cross-section. The height of the arch in radial direction is small relative to the width of the arch. The insert is arranged, furthermore, between the wheel hub and the wheel rim in the proximity of the hub boring and extending substantially over the entire width of the wheel hub. The apex of the arched insert faces the hub boring.

Abstract: A rubber shock-absorbent track wheel in which annular grooves are provided on the ring of the wheel and on the rim of the wheel disc. The grooves are formed between shoulders, and a clearance space is defined between the grooves and the shoulder. Prestressed rubber plates located within the clearance space have plane areas when in the original state. The two annular grooves are turned to one another so that the height of the clearance space varies over its width, and the height of the clearance space is maximum at the centers of the grooves. The rubber plates are more prestressed at their outer areas than in the middle areas of the rubber plates when positioned between the base of the annular grooves of wheel disc and ring.

Abstract: A rubber-suspended railway wheel having a highly-prestressed rubber insert embedded in facing annular grooves formed in the wheel rim and in the wheel tire and wherein, in order to restrict the extent of axial movement between the wheel tire and wheel rim, a shoulder of the annular groove of the wheel rim overlaps a shoulder of the annular groove of the wheel tire.

Abstract: A railway wheel of lightweight construction, having a disc-like wheel body and a tire which is tension-mounted on the wheel rim, and with the wheel disc including a tangential undulating or wavelike configuration of radially extending crests and troughs. In the railway wheel, between an inner annularly extending groove formed in the wheel tire and an outer annular groove formed in the wheel rim, there is provided a pre-tensioned or pre-stressed rubber insert, and in which the wheel disc has a radially unwaved conical basic configuration.