Abstract: A car body 1 provided in particular for railway vehicles has two longitudinal roof beams 2 that support a roof closing plate 6 fastened to them in an air-tight and water-tight manner. Transverse roof arches 3 connect the longitudinal roof beams 2. To achieve a simplified structure, the transverse roof arches 3 are located above the roof closing plate 6, whereby auxiliary units 13 are installed on roof arches 3.

Abstract: A method for determining the fatigue strength of a corrodible connecting part between at least two structural parts, with the connecting part being subjected to specified corroding surroundings and a given repeated mechanical strain while being used. Diagrams (stress-number curves) that represents the variable of the repeated strain in relation to the number of strain repetitions until the destruction of the connecting part are used in order to determine the fatigue strength. First, a strain-free pre-corrosion of the connecting parts is carried out in a corrosive atmosphere corresponding to the corrosive atmosphere during the intended use of the part, in a time period after which the duration of the pre-corrosion has hardly any influence on the shape of a stress-number curve that is recorded subsequently.

Abstract: A semiautomatic control system or control method ensures a driving method which is as energy-saving as possible. In the system, there is both a) manual inputting of control data, for example a definition of a vehicle speed specified value, by the driver of the vehicle and b) automatic determination of the most energy-saving vehicle speed as a function of predefined peripheral conditions, for example a general travel schedule, the topology of a route, vehicle-specific peripheral conditions and the like. An inference system determines which of these two values is smaller, and the smaller value is used to make possible safe and at the same time energy-saving travel (or journey). A safety check of the manual travel speed input value and of the automatically determined travel speed specified value can also be performed to reliably prevent a maximum permissible travel speed value from being exceeded.

Abstract: To minimize the energy required for operation of a rail vehicle, in a drive system that has an intermediate circuit converter 1 and a three-phase motor 7 fed by it, the intermediate circuit voltage in the intermediate circuit 12 and/or the magnetic flux in the drive motor 7 are optimized to correspond to the actual operating requirements, including, if necessary, the energy expenditure for the auxiliaries 9 that are provided to cool the components.

Abstract: A current collector is located on a roof cover plate of a car body for a rail vehicle. Mounted on said current collector is an intermediate carrier for a current collector frame which is equipped with two wearing strips. Said intermediate carrier is suspended on oscillating rods. According to the invention, the intermediate carrier is configured in the form of a thin plate so that in its resting position, i.e. in its lowered position, the current collector, including wearing strips, is located within the regulation limitation line of the vehicle. In this way, the construction height is reduced.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-speed gear with oil lubrication, with oil-recycling ducts (8) leading out of the labyrinth chambers of contactless shaft seals (6) to the crankcase (5) of the gear casing (3). According to the invention, the oil-recycling ducts (8) terminate in regions (10) in which a vacuum is automatically established during running operation, independently of the direction of rotation of the gear.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a rail vehicle with a head module made of a composite fiber material. For this, a joining region with height-tolerance compensating means (5) is arranged on the underframe (3) and a joining edge with longitudinal and lateral tolerance compensating means (7 and 8) is arranged on the wagon body module (2). The head module has joining edges that point toward the wagon body module (2) and the underframe (3) and is provided with reinforced sections (18, 19) that are integrated into the fiber composite material. The head module is attached to the underframe (3) and at least at the head module side walls (14) of the wagon body module (2) by means of fastening means (20, 21), which build up a pre-tensioning force, in such a way that shear-resistant connections are created.

Abstract: An improved device for measuring the contact force between a contact wire and a power collector in an electrically powered vehicle, specially an electrical railway vehicle, by use of optical fiber force sensors. To this end, two compact force sensors are arranged between the base body (7) of the contact strip (6) and the pantograph rocker frame (5) or between the wearing element or shoe (8) and the base body (7) of the contact strip (6). Each sensor includes a deformable body (11), which is elastic in an axial direction but highly rigid crosswise, with the body being fitted with an integrated optical fuber reflex sensor (19). Axial deformations of the deformable body (11) equivalent to the contact force are detected by the reflex sensor (19) with high resolution, accuracy and no interference, are then signaled to a device (27) via optical fibers requiring no potential and converted therein into contact force-equivalent signals (28) or instructions (29).

Abstract: Interference currents in railway trackside signaling apparatus are monitored by first and second transducers adapted to measure the traction current and frequency, respectively, of power electronics in traction systems of railway vehicles. An instantaneous interference current value is determined, based on data output from the first transducer. Data output from the second transducer is used to determine digital filter outputs for the trackside signaling frequencies for the interference current value. The determined interference current value and digital filter output values are recorded on a data storage medium and displayed on a display unit.

Abstract: This invention comprises a composite part (1) consisting of a top (11) and bottom (12) metal cover layer and a sandwich component (10) that comprises a core (13) made of a honeycomb structure, and at least one metal profile (20) equipped with a connecting surface (21) for the discharge of forces into the sandwich component (10), whereby the profile or profiles are joined to the sandwich component in a flat manner, and a method for its manufacture.

Abstract: A carriage body for a vehicle is described. It is possible to perform a displacement of a frame element (8) with respect to the outlook through windows (5) from each seat (14) in a train coach. Thus, the frame elements (8) are fastened to the cover plates (3, 4) of the coach above and below the window (5) via grooves (11) in which there are provided connecting means (13) sliding in the grooves (11). Hereby the frame elements (8) may be displaced longitudinally relative to the coach.

Abstract: On a railway vehicle for high-speed railways, there is an airflow breakaway or spoiler device in the area between a center part and a conically tapering terminal part to increase the dynamic stability of the car running on the end of the train.

Abstract: A vehicle cell with side walls that consist of a plurality of wall segments 2 that are joined together laterally in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle has door openings to make possible an advantageous construction concept that employs simple means, wherein the side wall segments 2 that are adjacent to one another laterally have, in the vicinity of their facing vertical lateral edges 2.1, door partial cutouts 4 which, when the segments are combined with one another, form a full-width door.

Abstract: A coupling element unit with spring action is located between a car body and an undercarriage of a railway vehicle. To largely relieve the coupling element unit from forces that act at a right angle to the suspension direction, a sliding adapter is provided that has two sliding elements and that can be displaced with respect to one another parallel to a floor of the car body.

Abstract: An improved, multi-strand design of a transverse flux machine with unilateral stator and rotor, with essentially U-shaped yokes (6) and I-shaped yokes (3) in the stator, as well as a rotor with permanent magnets (5) that are attached planar and a circular back iron (4). The bending of the U-shaped yokes (6) at a right angle results in a considerable reduction of the leakage paths. A joint use of the stator yoke by several strands results in a considerable increase in the torque density, as compared to known embodiments. The direct cooling of winding and stator iron makes it possible to have a machine design with considerably reduced eddy current losses.