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  • Spring arrangement for a vehicle
    Patent number: 8047514
    Abstract: A spring arrangement for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, with a first spring device and a second spring device, wherein the first spring device and the second spring device are mechanically arranged in series, and are designed to support a component of the vehicle on a further component of the vehicle in a support direction, the first spring device has a first transverse rigidity in a transverse direction running transverse to the support direction, the second spring device has a second rigidity in the transverse direction which is smaller than the first transverse rigidity. The first spring device and the second spring device are arranged nested in the support direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Wolf, Michael Wusching, Mario Bonk
  • Undercar assembly for a railcar
    Patent number: 6910428
    Abstract: An undercar assembly for a railroad car. The undercar assembly has a structural member extending longitudinally between the longitudinal sides of the railroad car, where this structural member includes a pair of longitudinally extending beam elements transversely spaced apart from one another. At least one auxiliary equipment bay is defined between the longitudinally extending structural member and one of the longitudinal sides of the railroad car. The auxiliary equipment bay is capable to receive at least one auxiliary equipment, the structural member being operative to support at least in part the auxiliary equipment in the auxiliary equipment bay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation (Technology) Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Laflamme, André Banville
  • Mounting Device and Apparatus For Use With Studs Comprising T-Shaped Channels
    Publication number: 20070257159
    Abstract: An mounting device and apparatus for use with a stud comprising a channel comprises a mount and opposing flanges or an engagement member. The engagement member may geometrically conform to the shape of the channel for engaging the mounting device within the channel. The mount may comprise a socket for receiving and holding a cable management member. The engagement member may comprise an uneven surface to create an interference fit with internal portions of the stud that define the channel. The apparatus may further comprise a cable tie receiving device comprising a plurality of apertures for receipt of cable ties to organize cable bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicants: PANDUIT CORP., BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Kevin Larry Nelson, James Thomas Pykett
  • Front-arrangement for a vehicle, in particular for a rail vehicle, comprising a screen cleaning device
    Patent number: 9027484
    Abstract: A front arrangement for a rail vehicle comprising a crash element with a forward facing crash surface, and a windshield washer device which, in turn, comprises a drive device and a front window wiper device drivable by said drive device. The crash element includes at least one impact absorbing element. The windshield washer device is fastened to the crash element for the vehicle, and is movable relative to a support of the front arrangement and thus, movable relative to the load-bearing construction of the vehicle so as to move backward during the occurrence of the impact forces and to enable absorption of the acting impact energy by the impact absorbing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Petto
  • Pavement slab assembly and method of building a pavement slab assembly
    Patent number: 9745703
    Abstract: A pavement slab assembly for a route for vehicles driving or standing on a surface of the route. The pavement slab assembly consists at least partially of pavement material and has a cable bearing element. Electric line or lines extend(s) along or under the surface of the pavement slab assembly. The cable bearing element is embedded in the pavement material of the pavement slab assembly and is arranged within the pavement slab assembly such that the cable bearing element is enclosed by the pavement material. The invention also relates to a method of building a pavement slab assembly, a route for vehicles, and a method for building a route for vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Éanna Curran, Sergio Pérez, Oliver Vietzke
  • System and method for transferring electric energy to a vehicle
    Patent number: 8360216
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle, in particular to a track bound vehicle such as a light rail vehicle, wherein the system comprises an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle, the electric conductor arrangement comprises at least two lines, wherein each line is adapted to carry a different one of phases of an alternating electric current, the conductor arrangement comprises a plurality of segments, wherein each segment extends along a different section of the path of travel of the vehicle, each segment comprises sections of the at least two lines and each segment can be switched on and off separately of the other segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Meins, Kurt Vollenwyder
  • DYNAMIC DOOR DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120068951
    Abstract: In a system and method of image display, an image projector is positioned to back project (or rear project) an image on one or more platform doors disposed between a passenger platform of a train or people mover station and a pathway of the train or people mover. The image projector is positioned on the pathway side of the one or more platform doors. The image projector back projects the image on the one or more platform doors such that the image is diffusedly transmitted through them for observation by passengers on the platform side of the station. The back projected image is oriented such that characters or words in the image have a proper left-to-right, or right-to-left, orientation for reading by passengers on the platform side of the station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian
  • Semi-enclosed AC motor
    Publication number: 20080042502
    Abstract: A partially enclosed induction motor comprises a rotor assembly, a stator assembly, and a metal frame defining a housing having a generally cylindrical shape with bearing housings at each axial end. The interior of the frame is configured to closely embrace a laminated core and follows the contour of the coil end turns of the stator assembly. A canister seal between the stator assembly and the rotor assembly hermetically seals the rotor assembly from the stator assembly. A heat conductive molding material fills gaps in the stator winding and the space between the stator assembly and the frame. A fan driven by the rotor shaft and a shroud direct the air along the canister seal and through the rotor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Robert V. VanLuik, Eric Prosser, Edward T. Deitt
  • CARRIAGE BODY FOR A RAILROAD VEHICLE WITH A COUPLING FIXING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAID CARRIAGE BODY
    Publication number: 20130319281
    Abstract: A carriage body for a railroad vehicle, said carriage body having the following: a base, two lateral walls, each of which is connected to the base, at least two longitudinal supports, each of which lies in the transitional region of the base to the lateral wall on opposing sides of the carriage body and which extend in the longitudinal direction of the carriage body, and a coupling fixing device for fixing a coupling via which the carriage body can be connected to a carriage body of another carriage. The fixing device is arranged below the base, and a lower face of the fixing device is connected directly to the longitudinal supports via a connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwiegel, Torsten Sohn, Christian Galle, Georg Kussatz
  • Method and device for monitoring an electrical network in a rail vehicle, and rail vehicle
    Patent number: 10153633
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and to a method for monitoring an electrical network in a rail vehicle. The electrical network includes at least one converter, at least one drive motor, at least one first phase line for electrical connection of the at least one converter and the at least one drive motor. A magnitude of a current change of a first phase current is determined. A network error in a partial network on the machine side is detected if at least one criterion based on the current change is met. The criterion based on a current change is met when the magnitude of the current change of the first phase current is greater than a predetermined current change threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Isepponi
  • Vehicle Head
    Publication number: 20130291758
    Abstract: A superstructure module of a front-end section of a vehicle is supported on a chassis and includes a flow guiding device. The front-end section forms a leading, free vehicle end during normal operation of the vehicle. The flow guiding device is mounted on a lower side of the superstructure in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle between the free vehicle end and a leading end of a chassis. The flow guiding device influences air flow that flows during operation of the vehicle along the lower side of the superstructure from the free vehicle end to the chassis section. The flow guiding device via a deflection area confers on the air flow, in the region of a flow separation edge at the leading end of the chassis section, a downwardly directed direction of flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Orellano, Martin Schober, Andreas Tietze
  • Draft sill using a tension cable
    Patent number: 10967886
    Abstract: A rail car includes an elongated floor supporting a rail car body, a draft sill depending from the floor, and a crash energy management (CEM) system. The CEM system includes a coupler plate coupled to the draft sill and depending from the floor between the draft sill and a first end of the floor, a coupler support depending from the floor between the coupler plate and the first end of the floor, an elongated coupler assembly extending from the coupler plate in a direction of the first end of the floor via an opening defined by the coupler support, and at least one cable connected in tension between the coupler support and the coupler plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Simon Vergnaud, Daniel Koudolo, André Gagnon
  • System and method for controlling the speed of a gas turbine engine
    Patent number: 7643928
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling the speed of a turbine engine, the turbine engine being operative to provide power to a primary load. When a decrease in the power requirement of the primary load is detected, at least a portion of the power generated by the turbine engine is redirected to a secondary load, thereby maintaining the speed of the turbine engine below a rated maximum speed. In the example of a turbine-powered train in which the turbine engine provides power to electric traction motors driving the wheels of the train, when a wheel spin is detected, at least a portion of the power generated by the turbine engine is diverted from the respective electric traction motor to rheostats for conversion to heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Soucy
  • RAILWAY POSITIONING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100266005
    Abstract: A railway positioning system provides an on-board speed measurement device (6) inducing eddy currents in the wayside structure at two spots along the travelling direction, measuring the variations of the magnetic field emitted by the wayside structure and determining position and speed by correlating the 2 measured signals known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,825,177 and a wayside coded tag (1) providing a coding recognisable by the onboard speed measurement device (6). The coded tag (1) consists of a bar (4) with several slots (3) in which metal blocks (2) of different sizes are mounted. The block sizes and positions are selected to represent a coding according to Quadrature Amplitude Modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Askell Finnestad, Hakan Lind, Carsten Hasberg, Stefan Hensel
  • Cross-over switch for a monorail
    Patent number: 9644325
    Abstract: A cross-over switch system for switching a monorail vehicle between two fixed guideway beams is provided. The cross-over switch system includes two articulated beams and a median beam. Each one of the two articulated beams, constructed of a chain of pivotably interconnected segments, and is pivotably connected to a different one of the two parallel fixed guideways. The median beam, which is pivotable in its center, is located at a median distance between the two parallel fixed guideway beams. When in a switching mode, the median beam is pivoted and each segment of each articulated beam is also pivoted so that each one of the articulated beam abuts an opposed end of the median beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Aleksandar Mancic, Peter Edward Timan
  • Method for optimizing energy in the manner in which a vehicle or train is driven using kinetic energy
    Patent number: 6668217
    Abstract: A method for power optimization in a vehicle/train is proposed, using time reserves which are included when planning a schedule, an overall route to be traveled between a starting stop and a destination stop being subdivided into a number of steps. In order to achieve a power-saving travel mode, with the aid of an optimization algorithm, the kinetic energy of the vehicle and the time are used as state variables in a vehicle model. The changes in the state variables are considered with respect to the distance in each step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Rudiger Franke, Peter Terwiesch, Markus Meyer, Christian Klose, Karl-Hermann Ketteler
  • Transferring electric energy to a vehicle, using a system which comprises consecutive segments for energy transfer
    Patent number: 8944226
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle, in particular to a track bound vehicle such as a light rail vehicle. The system includes an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle. The electric conductor arrangement includes at least one alternating current line. Each alternating current line carries one phase of an alternating electric current. The conductor arrangement includes a plurality of consecutive segments. The segments extend along the path of travel of the, vehicle. Each segment includes one section of each of the at least one alternating current line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Zengerle
  • Vehicle Having Rolling Compensation
    Publication number: 20120137926
    Abstract: A rail vehicle having a car body, which is supported on a running gear by a spring device, and a rolling compensation device, which is coupled to the running gear and the car body. The rolling compensation device may be arranged kinematically in parallel to the spring device. The rolling compensation device counteracts rolling motions of the car body toward the outside of the curve about a rolling axis during travel in curves. The rolling compensation device, in order to increase the tilting comfort, is designed to impose, in a first frequency range and under a first transverse deflection of the car body, upon the car body, a first rolling angle about the rolling axis, which corresponds to a current curvature of a current section of track being traveled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Richard Schneider
  • Electric system
    Patent number: 11358472
    Abstract: An electric system has an electrical energy source connected to an electrical energy sink by at least one feeding line. Each feeding line (8) is in at least one position therealong between said source and said sink provided with an arrangement configured to interrupt arcing in the feeding line would such arcing reach this position. The arrangement has a temperature dependent member which upon an increase of the temperature thereof above a predetermined level activates an irreversible movement of movable means (24) which by this movement cuts off the arc (a) and/or removes hot ionized gases (28) and by that prevents the arcing to continue in the feeding line past the arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Svante Andersson
  • Electrically contacting an electrical component
    Patent number: 8556665
    Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement for electrically contacting a component, in particular a capacitor for a power converter of a rail vehicle, wherein the component includes a protruding pin for applying and/or positioning parts in order to produce the electrical contact. The arrangement a first element which has a through-bore extending in a longitudinal direction therethrough for inserting the pin, a second element which has a through-bore extending in a longitudinal direction therethrough for inserting the pin, and a contact plate of an electrically conductive material, which comprises a contact plate end region. The contact plate end region has a slot extending from a free end into the contact plate end region and the width of the slot is sufficiently large to accommodate the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Schuppli
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