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  • Operation of an Internal Combustion Engine
    Publication number: 20130333636
    Abstract: An apparatus to use waste heat from an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, wherein the apparatus has an exhaust gas line to remove exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas line is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of a thermoelectric generator, and a latent heat accumulator is thermally connected to the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Geradts, Werner Sonnleitner
  • Automated Ground Handling of Aircraft
    Publication number: 20130184977
    Abstract: In a system and method of navigating a plurality vehicles consisting of one or more standalone tugs, or one or more tug propelled aircraft, or some combination thereof on the grounds of an airport, a virtual safety zone is electronically defined around each vehicle. Movement of each vehicle on the grounds of an airport is controlled based on the virtual safety zones defined around the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian
  • Protection for railway vehicle axle
    Patent number: 6568333
    Abstract: A protecting device for a wheel axle of a rail vehicle is intended to be arranged on the axle (1, 9, 13). The protecting device has the form of a cylindrical pipe with at least one slot (4, 10, 17) extending from one end of the pipe to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Camilla Kontio, Hans Persson, Mats Karlsson
  • Running gear frame for a rail vehicle
    Patent number: 11230303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a running gear frame for a rail vehicle, in particular, a rail vehicle having a nominal speed above 160 km/h, comprising a running gear frame unit (107) defining a longitudinal axis, a transverse axis and a height axis and comprising two longitudinal beams (108) and at least one transverse beam (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Guido Bieker, Adrian Raczko, Paul Bottcher
  • Floor structure of a rail vehicle and method of manufacturing such floor structure
    Patent number: 11787449
    Abstract: A floor structure of a rail vehicle car body includes a supporting structure having a left and a right longitudinal beams and a plurality of transverse structural members using a low-heat welding process. A floor panel is directly and releasably attached atop the supporting structure using and a plurality of non-permanent, pressure interlocking fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Laflamme
  • RAIL VEHICLE WITH FRONTAL CURVED SLIDING DOOR AND METHOD FOR COUPLING AND DECOUPLING RAIL VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20150298711
    Abstract: A rail vehicle with a device for opening and closing a front end of the vehicle. The device includes a turning device with a laterally displaceable curved sliding door that closes the front of the rail vehicle in a first position and allows frontal access to the rail vehicle in a second position, wherein the turning angle is no more than 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Siegemund, Thomas Kuenzel
  • Method for manufacturing a railcar body
    Patent number: 10994377
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a railcar body includes assembling an underframe assembly, side walls, a roof and end walls made from laser cut sheet and plate components where the assemblies made from sheet components are robotically laser welded by solely using melt-through welds and where the assemblies made from plate components are robotically laser welded using solely butt welds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Laflamme
  • Mold made from an additive manufacturing technology
    Patent number: 11040467
    Abstract: An open mold for producing components made of a moldable material such as layered composite materials is made from an additive manufacturing technology. The mold includes at least two compatible mold segments which precisely interlock with and abut against each other. The mold thereby made may be larger than the limited printing area of an additive manufacturing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: Bombardier Transportation GmbH, Bell Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Poirier, Hubert Michaud
  • Car body and a method for producing a beam
    Patent number: 6779465
    Abstract: A car body for a rail vehicle including a plurality of beams (1) arranged to carry one or more wall elements (3-5). At least one of said beams (1) includes an attaching member (6), extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of the beam, for engagement with at least a part of one or more components intended to be supported by the beam (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Conny Sjöbäck
  • Operation of an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 9091203
    Abstract: An apparatus to use waste heat from an internal combustion engine in a vehicle, wherein the apparatus has an exhaust gas line to remove exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas line is thermally connected to a high-temperature side of a thermoelectric generator, and a latent heat accumulator is thermally connected to the high-temperature side of the thermoelectric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Geradts, Werner Sonnleitner
  • Wheel set guidance assembly
    Patent number: 7448329
    Abstract: A wheel set guidance assembly is provided for suspending a wheel set bearing (10) of a wheel set (20) to a bogie frame (30), comprising separate vertical (50), lateral (70) and longitudinal (40) guidance elements for independent guidance of the movement of the wheel set in vertical, lateral and longitudinal directions wherein the stiffness of the guidance elements can be selected independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Muller, Gehard Kampmann, Guido Bieker
  • Automated ground handling of aircraft
    Patent number: 8694238
    Abstract: In a system and method of navigating a plurality vehicles consisting of one or more standalone tugs, or one or more tug propelled aircraft, or some combination thereof on the grounds of an airport, a virtual safety zone is electronically defined around each vehicle. Movement of each vehicle on the grounds of an airport is controlled based on the virtual safety zones defined around the plurality of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian
  • TORSION BAR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD, PARTICULARLY FOR RAIL VEHICLE ANTI-ROLL BAR
    Publication number: 20120304888
    Abstract: A heavy duty torsion bar assembly, particularly an anti-roll bar assembly for a rail vehicle, includes a lever which is mounted on the bar by an oil injection taper fit, the cooperating surfaces having a drainage groove and being formed to a tolerance of IT7 or better, wherein the final assembled position is determined by a pre-defined axial displacement of the lever from an initial position defined by manual engagement of the two parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Duncan Gilmartin, Paul Butler
  • Core for a Primary of a Linear Induction Motor
    Publication number: 20140232210
    Abstract: A core for a primary of a liner induction motor. The core includes a number of laminate sheets positioned between two walls of a frame. Each laminate sheet of the plurality of laminate sheets includes a number of heat dissipating projections positioned in a spaced apart manner along a longitudinal edge of the laminate sheet. The heat dissipating projections of each pair of adjacent laminate sheets are staggered from one another such that the core upper surface includes interleaving heat dissipating projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Alireza Safaee
  • DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20120318624
    Abstract: An arrangement for detecting the presence of a moving vehicle includes an emitting antenna adapted to emit an electromagnetic field in a range of emitting directions and mounted on the vehicle. At least one receiving antenna for receiving the electromagnetic field is mounted on the track of the vehicle. A detector device which is connected to the at least one receiving antenna and is adapted to produce a detection signal depending on a received field intensity of the electromagnetic field that is received by the at least one receiving antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Timothy Russell Dickson, Kurt Vollenwyder, Sidney Berry
  • Passenger cabin of a vehicle and a method of manufacturing a passenger cabin
    Patent number: 10124814
    Abstract: The invention relates to a passenger cabin of a vehicle, in particular a saloon coach of a rail vehicle, wherein the passenger cabin (1) comprises a room divider (10), wherein the room divider (10) is attached to a cabin frame, wherein the room divider (10) comprises at least one backrest surface (11, 12), wherein at least a section of the backrest surface (11, 12) extends along a longitudinal axis (3) of the passenger cabin (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Griggs, Richard Butterfield
  • ASSEMBLY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE FASTENING OF ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20140305335
    Abstract: An assembly device is proposed which permits easy assembly. The assembly device includes at least one hollow profile with at least one longitudinal slot in a longitudinal direction of the hollow profile, and at least one connecting element for insertion into the hollow profile. The connecting element has at least two fastening elements and a carrier for receiving the fastening elements, wherein the fastening elements can be fixed to the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Obst, Heiner Salomo, Ralf Bittner, Thomas Kittelmann, Bernd Reisert
  • INDUCTIVELY RECEIVING ELECTRIC ENERGY FOR A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20120055751
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for providing a vehicle, in particular a track bound vehicle, with electric energy, wherein the arrangement comprises a receiving device (200) adapted to receive an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction. The receiving device (200) comprises a plurality of windings and/or coils (9, 10, 11) of electrically conducting material, wherein each winding or coil (9, 10, 11) is adapted to produce a separate phase of the alternating electric current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Vollenwyder, Jürgen Meins, Carsten Struve
  • Arrangement for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, or for a building and a method of operating the vehicle or the building
    Patent number: 11668122
    Abstract: An arrangement for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, or for a building, has a control system adapted to control a plurality of different devices, a cabinet having a lock that can be locked in order to prevent access to a valuable device within the cabinet, and a control unit of the control system adapted to remotely control unlocking the lock. The control system is adapted to unlock the lock automatically if a predetermined condition is fulfilled or to unlock the lock on demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Jonas Vedholm
  • System and method for modulating a charging rate for charging a battery of a vehicle as a function of an expected passenger load
    Patent number: 11247579
    Abstract: A system and a method for managing a charging station allow charging a battery of a connected autonomous electric vehicle for carrying passengers in a controlled environment. A controller connected to the charging station determines and modulates a charging rate with which the charging station charges the battery based on a duration between a start of charging the vehicle and a forecasted time of start of duty mode of the vehicle. The duration is determined by the controller based on a forecasted passenger load as a function of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Houle
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