Abstract: A structure for sealing an electric motor so that it is not affected by the humidity from the environment it is placed in, while at the same time the heat generated within the structure is removed into the environment preventing long term motor damage.

Abstract: A rail vehicle includes an electric drive including a housing and power semiconductors arranged in the housing, and a braking system configured for operation with compressed air. The housing and the braking system are interconnected such as to enable supply of compressed air from the braking system to an interior of the housing. A depressurization device is arranged between the housing and the braking system such as to enable compressed air which is supplied to the housing to be depressurized prior to being supplied to the interior of the housing.

Abstract: A windscreen for housing a sanding system, a railway vehicle with a sanding system, and a method for installing a sanding system in a railway vehicle are described. The windscreen includes a first shell element and a second shell element, the first shell element being detachably connected to the second shell element, wherein the first and second shell elements, when assembled, form an interior space. A container is in communication with a sanding system for housing material used when the sanding system is in operation, wherein the container is configured to be positioned in the interior space formed by the first and second shell elements of the windscreen.

Abstract: An inventive pressurized cable is provided that simultaneously provides electrical connections and a supply of air, gas, or vacuum to an electromechanical device utilizing an existing connection on the device. The use of an existing cable connection for the supply of air or gas to provide positive pressure or a vacuum condition to an electromechanical enclosure allows for the use of standard electromechanical components without alteration and potential voiding of existing warranties. The present invention finds particular utility in the field of industrial automation where motors are subjected to coolant liquids and other types of contaminants that tend to infiltrate the motor seals, especially when the motor is shut down which causes a negative pressure inside the motor case that draws moisture in. Reactive gasses may be introduced with the inventive positive pressure cable that act to neutralize or condition harmful pollutants generated by the motor such as ozone.

Abstract: A railway truck is disclosed for use with a locomotive. The railway truck may include a first axle, a second axle, a plurality of wheels connected to each of the first and second axles, a frame connecting the first and second axles, and a plurality of traction motors. The railway truck may also include a bolster assembly pivotally connected to the frame. The bolster assembly may include a hollow bolster having an inlet and a plurality of outlets in communication with the inlet. The plurality of outlets may generally correspond to the locations of each of the plurality of traction motors. The hollow bolster may also include a flexible bellow extending between each of the plurality of outlets and each of the plurality of traction motors.

Abstract: A running gear for a rail vehicle includes a wheel unit and a cooperating unit. The running gear defines a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a height direction, while the wheel unit defines a wheel unit axis. The cooperating unit is connected to the wheel unit and cooperates with the wheel unit during operation the running gear to drive and/or brake the wheel unit. Furthermore, during operation of the running gear, an airflow passes the wheel unit and the cooperating unit, in the height direction, at a first height level below the wheel unit axis. At least one air guide device is provided, the air guide device being arranged and adapted to guide an airflow portion of the airflow towards a section of the cooperating unit located at a second height level, the second height level being located above the first height level above the wheel unit axis.

Abstract: There is provided a first accommodating chamber that accommodates a cooling unit frame that supports a cooling unit. The cooling unit includes a cooler that cools heat generated from a snubber circuit component and a semiconductor device utilizing cooling air from an air blower, a conductor bar that electrically connects the semiconductor device and a capacitor with each other, the snubber circuit component, and the semiconductor device. There is also provided a second accommodating chamber that accommodates the capacitor. The cooling unit and the capacitor can be separated from each other by detaching one of a connecting portion between a laminated bus bar and the conductor bar and a connecting portion between the laminated bus bar and the capacitor.

Abstract: A drive system for a grid blower of a vehicle is provided. The system includes: an electrical bus, a grid of resistive elements connected to the electrical bus, the grid of resistive elements configured to thermally dissipate electrical power generated from braking of the vehicle, the electrical power being transmitted on the electrical bus to the grid of resistive elements, an electrical power modulation device configured to modify electrical power received from at least one of the electrical bus and the grid of resistive elements, and a grid blower motor coupled to an output of the electrical power modulation device, wherein a speed of the grid blower motor varies based on the electrical power that has been modified by the electrical power modulation device.

Abstract: In the railway vehicle power conversion device, an air flow passage is formed by providing an L-shaped partition plate whose long side is in the rail direction, in the interior of a box suspended below the floor of the vehicle. On one side of this partition plate, there are included, in order of the rail direction, a high-speed circuit breaker, relay unit, interface unit and control device. On the other side of partition plate, a pair of smoothing reactors are included on the short side of L-shaped partition plate, and a semiconductor cooling unit is included on the other side of the smoothing reactors and partition. A heat-radiating part of this semiconductor unit projects at the side of air inlet port of air flow passage. Electrically driven fans are fixed within an airflow passage at the smoothing reactors.

Abstract: Apparatus for ventilating electrical equipment on board a rail vehicle, said rail vehicle being powered with DC either directly by an electricity pick-up system connected to a DC source, or indirectly by rectifying and filtering electricity picked up by an electricity pick-up system connected to a single-phase AC source, each piece of electrical equipment being ventilated by a respective cooling fan controlled by an electric motor, wherein the electric motors are asynchronous motors, each fan electric motor being powered with three-phase AC by an individual converter connected to the DC for powering the rail vehicle.

Abstract: Apparatus for ventilating electrical equipment on board a rail vehicle, said rail vehicle being powered with DC either directly by an electricity pick-up system connected to a DC source, or indirectly by rectifying and filtering electricity picked up by an electricity pick-up system connected to a single-phase AC source, each piece of electrical equipment being ventilated by means of a respective cooling fan controlled by an electric motor, wherein the electric motors are asynchronous motors, each fan electric motor being powered with three-phase AC by an individual converter connected to the DC for powering the rail vehicle.

Abstract: An outer-rotor type electric rotary machine comprises a shaft fixed to a stationary unit, a motor stator, a motor rotor, a cylindrical rotor frame, and first and second brackets attached to rotary members, respectively. At least one of the first and second brackets includes a plurality of heat-radiating fins mounted on its outer peripheral surface, and a plurality of heat-absorbing fins mounted on its inner peripheral surface.

Abstract: A device for ventilating fluid radiators (5) and/or starting and braking rheostats (15) in a locomotive which is powered electrically, by means of an internal combustion engine, or by a combination thereof, said radiators and/or rheostats being disposed in a layer close to the locomotive roof (4). The device includes at least one tangential fan (8,9) having a horizontal axis which extends longitudinally relative to the locomotive and blowing air towards said radiators and/or said rheostats. The device further includes air intake openings (6,7) located in the side faces (2,3) of the locomotive.

Abstract: A system for articulated bogie-type rail vehicles in which the adjacent ends of the car bodies are pivotally and rotatably supported by supporting arms extending beyond their end trusses on a single-part connecting portal jointed by bellows to the car box ends and mounted on a transverse support. The portal is tightly enclosed by a sealing member on its full perimeter and has a spring mounted platform supported with vertical freedom of movement but with minimum play in all other directions on the bogie. This platform is pivotally arranged by at least one centrally located rotation ball race and by the supporting arms. This rotation ball race has three race rings and two rows of balls. Of these three race rings one race ring is kinematically associated with the front car body while another race ring is kinematically associated with the rear car body, and the third race ring is kinematically associated with the transverse support supporting the portal and the platform.

Abstract: An air-cooling system for electric traction motors of a bogie of a motorized railway vehicle is shown which tends to reduce problems in drawing air through a cooling air channel to the traction motors and helps to reduce the problems encountered by the failure of a cooling fan for such electric traction motors. The air-cooling system is adapted for use with at least two air-cooled electric traction motors where each motor is coupled to an axle of a truck, the system comprising a common cooling air channel in communication with each traction motor and at least two intake channels communicating with the common cooling air channel, each intake channel including an air intake, a separately driven fan and valve means for preventing air from flowing out the intake upon failure of a fan to operate properly.