Patents Assigned to SLM Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG
  • 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
  • Patent number: 5638757
    Abstract: The rail vehicle has at least one truck (1) with two wheelset units (12, 12') which are hingedly connected to one another via a coupling arrangement. This truck (1) is formed as a frameless support arrangement and the vehicle body (17) is supported on spring elements (10) and has at least one guide device or at least one pendulum (11) between the truck (1) and the vehicle body (17). The design is greatly simplified by the omission of the complicated bogie frame and is thus light and compact. The radially adjustable wheelset units (12, 12') can moreover be arranged with a small spacing from one another. The frameless truck (1) is accordingly particularly well suited for rail vehicles on rail networks which have narrow turning radii.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: SLM Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik AG
    Inventor: Alberto Cortesi