Abstract: A motor stator frame including two plates in cast iron; at least one steel bar connecting both plates, each bar having two threaded ends; and at least one threaded bushing. Where each of the plates has at least one orifice being used as a seat for each threaded bushing the threaded ends of each bar being engaged into the threaded bushings.

Abstract: A method for evaluating the angular velocity of a railway vehicle circulating on a track, the vehicle including an inertial unit including at least one angular velocity sensor, the method including measuring an instantaneous angular velocity provided by the sensor, determining the bias of the angular velocity measured around at least one axis, the velocity bias being taken as equal to the value of the angular velocity measured around this axis when the measured angular velocity is substantially constant for a predetermined period, and calculating the evaluated angular velocity, by subtracting from the measured angular velocity, the previously determined velocity bias.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting the presence of a rolling stock on a railway track that is subdivided in successive track sections forming successive electrical circuits independently fed with electrical current for monitoring the presence of a rolling stock on a track section. A transmission device for providing electrical current is located at one end of the track section, and a reception device for detecting the electrical current is located at an opposite end of the track section. This method includes steps for continuously feeding the electrical circuit with electrical current and monitoring the presence of a rolling stock on the corresponding track section so that an electrical current can be applied to the electrical circuit if the reception device detects that no rolling stock is present on the track section. A system for detecting presence of a rolling stock on a railway track is also provided.

Abstract: This washing machine for a railway vehicle includes a water texturing system, mixing water with particles able to produce textured water having super-hydrophoby properties making it possible to implement a lotus cleaning effect on the surface on which the textured water flows; a textured water spraying system, fed by the water texturing system and using at least one appropriate spraying device to spray the textured water on a surface of the railway vehicle to be cleaned.

Abstract: A railway vehicle for passenger transport comprising a vehicle body, said vehicle body including a passenger entrance area and a vehicle boarding aid for facilitating passengers' access to the passenger entrance area, the vehicle boarding aid comprising a movable entry threshold arranged in an access position facilitating passengers' access to the passenger entrance area and a vertical position adjusting device for vertically adjusting the access position of the entry threshold as a function of a potential vertical gap between a station platform and the passenger entrance area, wherein said entry threshold is fixedly arranged in said access position in all operating states of the railway vehicle.

Abstract: An assembly made up of a recharging system including a power supply contact on the ground, and a switching device, to bring the power supply contact to a supply voltage delivered by a source to which the recharging system is connected, and a vehicle including a contact shoe electrically connected to onboard energy storage means, the contact shoe being placed below the vehicle and movable between a high position and a low position, the vehicle including a control device able to command the movement of the contact shoe from the high position to the low position so that it is placed in contact with the power supply contact, only when the vehicle is stopped in said predetermined position allowing the capture of energy from the recharging system, in which the footprint of the vehicle covers the power supply contact.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fairing (3) for an articulated railway vehicle bogie, this fairing including: a bottom wall (30) and side walls (31) able to surround at least a lower part of a bogie, and first and second anchoring zones (51, 52) each able to be fastened to one end, respectively, of a first body and a second body of a railway vehicle that are articulated relative to one another, in a configuration where these first and second bodies rest at least partially on the bogie. The fairing (3) includes a flexible connector (4) that mechanically links the first anchoring zone (51) and the second anchoring zone (52) and that authorizes a movement of these first and second anchoring zones relative to one another.

Abstract: A system for controlling a level crossing between a railway track and a road, the system comprising a first couple of transmitters and a second couple of transmitters in proximity of a level crossing area; a first couple of receivers and a second couple of receivers opposite to the transmitters with respect to the railway track, the first couple of transmitters and receivers located on a first side of the road and the second couple of transmitters and receivers located opposite to the first side, a control unit sending and receiving signals from said transmitters and receivers, wherein each couple of transmitters transmits a first beam from a first transmitter towards a corresponding first receiver, and a second beam from a second transmitter towards an opposite second receiver, the control unit activates sending at least one second beam and sends a warning message and/or close bars of the level crossing upon interruption of at least one first beam due to the presence of the train on the railway track.

Abstract: A system for controlling a level crossing comprising one or more transceivers located in proximity of a level crossing area on a first side of a railway track; one or more corresponding passive reflective targets located in proximity of the level crossing area on a second side opposite to the first side where each transceiver is located; a control unit connected to each transceiver; wherein each target receives RF signals coming from each transceiver and sends back corresponding reflected signals; each transceiver is arranged to elaborate said reflected signals so as to calculate predetermined parameters values; the control unit acquires said parameters values from each transceiver and elaborates them so as to detect the presence of a train in an area around the level crossing area and, in case of presence of said train, to send a warning message and/or close bars of the level crossing.

Abstract: A railway bogie includes one or more operative components for the operation of the railway bogie and an impact guard protecting the one or more operative components from flying debris. The impact guard is made of a high density polyethylene (HDPE). The railway bogie can be used in Jacobs bogies of multiple units operating under wintery conditions.

Abstract: Controlling a level crossing includes one or more transceivers located in proximity of a level crossing area on a first side of a railway track; corresponding passive reflective targets located in proximity of the level crossing area on a second side of the railway track opposite to the first side where each transceiver is located and a control unit connected to each transceiver. Each target is arranged to receive RF signals coming from each transceiver and to send back corresponding reflected signals. Each transceiver is arranged to elaborate said reflected signals to calculate predetermined parameters values. Also, the control unit is arranged to acquire said parameters values from each transceiver and to elaborate them to detect the presence of a train in an area around the level crossing area and, in case of presence of said train, to send a warning message and/or close bars of the level crossing.

Abstract: The rotation device includes means for locking the seat in extreme angular positions, comprising a movable abutment carried by the seat, and interacting with a complimentary fixed abutment when the seat is in one of its extreme angular positions. The movable abutment may be moved between a locked position in which it abuts the fixed abutment, and an unlocked position in which it is above the fixed abutment. The device has a means for unlocking the seat, wherein it comprises at least one pneumatic control member and pneumatic means for driving the movable abutment from its locked position to its unlocked position when the control member is actuated.

Abstract: This infrastructure is characterized in that the multimodal network grouping together a plurality of monomodal networks, each monomodal network being equipped with an individual operating system, the supervision infrastructure includes a plurality of local supervision modules, each local supervision module being associated with a transfer station providing an interconnection between at least two of the monomodal networks and being able to perform a real-time synthesis of the traffic at the associated transfer station and continuously execute a plurality of operating rules by using operating data from the traffic synthesis so as to generate at least one setpoint, and to send the setpoint to at least one operating system of one monomodal network from among the monomodal networks interconnected to the associated transfer station.

Abstract: System for determining train information relative to a train moving along a railway track having a pressure measuring device placed along the railway track and arranged to measure the speed of an airflow generated by the train when moving on the railway track, and to generate a speed signal; and a controller arranged to receive said speed signal and to determine train information relative to the train in function of said speed signal.

Abstract: This electrical switching apparatus has at least two power components each including first and second power transistors. A driver control device of the transistors is configured to deliver a first control signal to each of the first transistors and a second control signal to each of the second transistors, and an electrical interconnect device connecting the driver control device to the power components. The interconnect device includes several electrically conductive plates extending parallel to one another, each being connected between a control electrode of one of the first or second power transistors and a corresponding output of the driver control device.

Abstract: A method for commanding a railway level crossing protection system comprising: a) activating a railway signal preventing a train from driving beyond a level crossing; b) detecting an incoming train approaching the level crossing and measuring a speed of said incoming train; c) calculating a waiting time, as a function of the train's measured speed; d) waiting until expiration of the calculated waiting time and, once said waiting time expires, sending an order to commute the protection system into the protected state; and e) querying the state of the protection system and if said protection system is found to have commuted into the protected state, deactivating said railway signal, and maintaining said railway signal in the activated state otherwise.

Abstract: A railway car includes a passenger compartment having, in a central segment of the compartment, a lower floor and an upper floor superposed with each other, respectively defining a lower story and an upper story, and, in end segments of the compartment, two platforms each connected to the lower floor through a descending passage and to an upper floor through an ascending passage. At least one platform is equipped with at least one row of longitudinal seats leaning against a side face of the railway car.