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  • Railcar body made of mating panels having a predetermined gap there in between
    Patent number: 10773736
    Abstract: A railcar body comprises at least one panel assembly having a first panel and a second panel, both extending longitudinally along the railcar body and adjacently to each other. The inner wall of the first and second panels, which are longer than their outer wall, respectively have at least a first and a second mating interface which are different from each other and compatible so as to be located at a predetermined distance from each other, thereby creating a gap of a predetermined width between two juxtaposed edges of the panels. This panel assembly is designed to be compatible with a laser welding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Gaston Morneau, Michel Smith
  • Rail vehicle unit
    Patent number: 9643626
    Abstract: A rail vehicle unit, having a running gear and a wagon body unit. The wagon body unit is supported on the running gear via a suspension device, a first rotational buffer device and a second rotational buffer device being associated to the running gear and the wagon body unit. The first rotational buffer device and the second rotational buffer device are adapted to damp a rotational motion between the running gear and the wagon body unit about a rotational axis parallel to the height direction. The first rotational buffer device and the second rotational buffer device are configured to form a traction link between the running gear and the wagon body unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Wolf, Michael Wusching, Cedric Zanutti
  • Converter appliance capacitor assembly
    Patent number: 6665195
    Abstract: The invention relates to a capacitor module for a converter. The capacitor module contains a capacitor which can be fastened to a base frame or to a cooling body by means of lateral, mechanical holding devices. In addition, the capacitor comprises at least one additional mechanical holding device for fastening at least one electronic terminal of the converter and of at least one measuring sensor, especially of a current transformer and/or of a voltage transformer. The inventive capacitor module makes it possible to realize a construction of a converter which is compact and has a reduced weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Rodscha Drabon, Manfred Zengerle, Johannes Scholten
  • System and Method for Transferring Electric Energy to a Vehicle
    Publication number: 20110266109
    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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Jurgen Meins, Kurt Vollenwyder
  • Electrically Contacting an Electrical Component
    Publication number: 20120178280
    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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Rudolf Schuppli
  • Modular connector strain relief back shell and wiring method
    Patent number: 6619997
    Abstract: A modular electrical connector back shell apparatus that provides wire strain relief when using pre-wired modules for electrical wiring applications. The apparatus includes a housing, a modular frame insertable into the housing, and a plurality of modular connectors insertable into the modular frame. The housing includes a plurality of wire-tie receiving orifices for fastening the wires in the pre-wired modular connectors to the housing via a wire-tie inserted through at least two wire-tie receiving orifices and fastened around at least one wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation
    Inventors: George A. Wilson, Ronald J. Schmidt
  • Locomotive bogie having an anti-pitching geometry
    Patent number: 11318965
    Abstract: A bogie for a rail vehicle, such as a locomotive, includes a frame, two wheelsets and at least one drive unit. The drive unit is mounted to the frame and to the wheelset. A motor is at least partially supported by the frame while a gearbox to which it is flexibly connected has a main gear mounted on the one wheelset as well as a pinion for driving the main gear. The gearbox is connected to the frame by a reaction rod placed away from the wheel-axle on which the gearbox is mounted. The reaction rod, which defines an axis, is aligned so that its axis extends substantially through a center of the bogie when projected in a longitudinal-vertical plane bisecting the bogie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Cepak, Andreas Bauer, Federic B. Carl, Primoz Neme
  • Suspension Failure Detection in a Rail Vehicle
    Publication number: 20130018535
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rail vehicle, including a wagon body and a suspension system having a running gear supporting the wagon body. A sensor device and a control device are provided. The sensor device capturing an actual value of at least one status variable being representative of a spatial relationship between a first reference part of the sensor device associated to a part of the running gear and a second reference part of the sensor device associated to the wagon body. The control device performs a malfunction analysis using the actual value of the status variable, the malfunction analysis assessing fulfillment of at least one predetermined malfunction criterion. The control device provides a malfunction signal if the malfunction analysis reveals that the malfunction criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Mike Baert
  • Method for Manufacturing a Wire Harness
    Publication number: 20150161781
    Abstract: A method for assembling a wire harness on a display surface, the wire harness comprising bundles, each one of which corresponds to a bundle route selected among possible bundle routes and each one of the possible bundle routes comprising two ends. The method comprises receiving coordinates of a layout of the wire harness; generating at least a portion of all the possible bundle routes by identifying coordinates of portions of each of the two ends from the coordinates of the layout of the wire harness. Then determining which bundle routes among the possible bundle routes correspond to the bundles to be used. Defining, from the coordinates, a sequence in which the bundles are to be routed and generating a plurality of signals. Finally sending each one of the signals for display sequentially on the display surface according to the defined sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Luc Philbert
  • Vehicle having rolling compensation
    Patent number: 8356557
    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 travelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Richard Schneider
  • Vehicle head
    Patent number: 9481377
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Orellano, Martin Schober, Andreas Tietze
  • INSTABILITY MONITORING DEVICE AND SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR FOR A RAIL VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20120046900
    Abstract: An instability monitoring device for a rail vehicle, includes: at least a first accelerometer for delivering a first acceleration signal in response to vibration along a reference axis, at least a first solid-state safety relay, having two main terminals and being switchable between a closed state and an open state, and a programmable logic device connected to the first accelerometer and to the first solid-state relay, the programmable logic device is a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), provided with non-volatile logic blocks running simultaneously in parallel and implementing an instability monitoring algorithm to change the state of the first solid-state relay based on an instability condition of the first acceleration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GmbH
    Inventor: Mike Baert
  • Carriage body for a railroad vehicle with a coupling fixing device and method for producing said carriage body
    Patent number: 9290188
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schwiegel, Torsten Sohn, Christian Galle, Georg Kussatz
  • Actuator Providing Multiple Actuation
    Publication number: 20130032054
    Abstract: Disclosed is an actuator, in particular for a rail vehicle, comprising a fluidic first actuator unit and a control device having a first control unit, wherein the first actuator unit is connected to the first control unit and can be supplied with power from a fluidic power source under the control of the first control unit. Furthermore, a fluidic second actuator unit is provided, and the control device comprises a second control unit, wherein the second actuator unit is connected to the second control unit and can be supplied with power from the fluidic power source under the control of the second control unit. The invention further relates to a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, having an actuator according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicants: LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG GMBH, BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Schneider, Eduard Mesnjak, Anton Gaile, Thomas Kloos
  • Monorail vehicle with shaped interior shell
    Patent number: 10040461
    Abstract: A monorail vehicle includes a chassis supporting a vehicle body, that includes a passenger floor and at least one side wall, and an electrical motor supported by the chassis. A drive wheel is coupled to a rotor of the electric motor with a rotation axis of the drive wheel substantially coaxial with an axis of the rotor. Portions of the drive wheel and the electric motor are positioned on both sides of an imaginary plane extension of the passenger floor. The drive wheel and the electric motor are covered by a shell that is integral to one side of the vehicle body and which defines a space between the other side of the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Edward Timan, Hans Peter Trotsch, Martin Bazant, Daniel Martinez-Anon-Perez, Alexander Bauer
  • Route for Vehicles, in Particular for Road Automobiles
    Publication number: 20140151175
    Abstract: A route for vehicles driving on the route surface wherein the route includes a plurality of shaped blocks adapted to position and/or to hold a plurality of line sections of one or more electric lines. Each shaped block includes recesses forming spaces and/or projections delimiting spaces for receiving at least one of the line sections. At least one electric line extends through the spaces and along the surface of the route in and/or about the travelling direction of vehicles which are driving on the route. The shaped blocks and the at least one electric line are supported by a base layer and are covered by a cover layer of the route. The material of the shaped blocks is also located in side regions of the route sideways of the shaped blocks so that the shaped blocks and the side regions form an integration layer above the base layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Oliver Vietzke
  • Arrangement for Supplying a Rail Vehicle with Electrical Energy
    Publication number: 20160075345
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for supplying a rail vehicle with electrical energy. One electrical machine is allocated to each of at least two internal combustion engines for generating electrical energy. A common controller is designed to start the internal combustion engines individually as required. At least one pre-heating device is designed to pre-heat the internal combustion engines before a start. A temperature detection device is thermally coupled to the internal combustion engines. The controller is designed, during an operation of one of the internal combustion engines, to start another of the internal combustion engines if, due to cooling of the other internal combustion engine, a temperature of the other internal combustion engine detected by a temperature identifying device reaches or exceeds a temperature threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Sonnleitner, Andreas Buchner, Michael Kretz
  • Method for manufacturing a wire harness
    Patent number: 9818179
    Abstract: A method for assembling a wire harness on a display surface, the wire harness comprising bundles, each one of which corresponds to a bundle route selected among possible bundle routes and each one of the possible bundle routes comprising two ends. The method comprises receiving coordinates of a layout of the wire harness; generating at least a portion of all the possible bundle routes by identifying coordinates of portions of each of the two ends from the coordinates of the layout of the wire harness. Then determining which bundle routes among the possible bundle routes correspond to the bundles to be used. Defining, from the coordinates, a sequence in which the bundles are to be routed and generating a plurality of signals. Finally sending each one of the signals for display sequentially on the display surface according to the defined sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Luc Philbert
  • Route for vehicles and method of building the route
    Patent number: 9067496
    Abstract: A route for vehicles driving on a surface of the route includes a plurality of shaped blocks adapted to position and/or to hold a plurality of line sections of one or more electric line. Each shaped block comprises recesses forming spaces and/or projections delimiting spaces for receiving at least one of the line sections. The electric line or lines extend(s) through the spaces and extend(s) along the surface of the route in and/or about the travelling direction of vehicles. The shaped blocks and the electric line or lines are supported by a base layer of the route and are covered by a cover layer of the route. The material of the cover layer is also located in regions of the route sideways of the shaped blocks so that the shaped blocks and the cover layer form an integrated layer on top of the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Czainski, Oliver Vietzke
  • Safety system, a method of operating a safety system and a method of building a safety system
    Patent number: 10059212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety system for an inductive power transfer system for transferring power to a vehicle on a surface of a route, wherein the primary unit comprises at least one primary winding for generating an electromagnetic primary field for the inductive power transfer, wherein a charging surface of the route is assigned to the primary winding. The safety system comprises at least one inductive sensing system, wherein the inductive sensing system comprises multiple detection windings wherein the multiple detection windings are arranged in an array structure, and wherein the array structure covers the charging surface at least partially. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of operating such a safety system and a method of building such a safety system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Czainski
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