US 10,870,438 B2 · Power car for high-speed train with internal overpressure

Abstract

The present invention relates to a power car (10) for a high-speed train, comprising a body (12) and at least one power car of said body, said body comprising a roof (19) and a floor (20); the traction motor being arranged below said floor, the body further comprising an equipment room (24) defined between said roof and said floor, said technical room including: electrical equipment (33) for controlling the traction motor; and at least one fan device (34) of said electrical equipment. The ventilation device comprises: an air intake sheath (36), forming a closed pipe between an inlet (38) and an outlet (40) open on the equipment room; and a fan (42) arranged between the inlet and the outlet, so as to create an overpressure in the technical room.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A power car for a high-speed train, said power car comprising a body and at least one traction motor of said body, a roof and a floor;

the at least one traction motor being arranged under said floor, and an equipment room defined between said roof and said floor,
wherein said equipment room comprises electrical equipments for controlling the at least one traction motor;
and at least a first ventilation device of said electrical equipments, and
wherein the first ventilation device comprises a first air intake sheath, forming a closed pipe between an inlet and an outlet open onto the equipment room;
and a first fan arranged between the inlet and the outlet of said first sheath, so as to create an overpressure in the equipment room.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/117,951Filed 30 Aug 2018

Priority

FR 17 5800430 Aug 2017

Published

US 2019/0061787 A128 Feb 2019

Granted

22 Dec 2020

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B61C 17/04
Arrangement or disposition of parts; Details or accessories not otherwise provided for; Use of control gear and control systems: arrangement or…
B61C 3/00
Electric locomotives or railcars
B61D 27/0018
Heating, cooling, ventilating, or air-conditioning: air-conditioning means, i.e. combining at least two of the following ways of treating or…
B61D 27/009
Heating, cooling, ventilating, or air-conditioning: means for ventilating only

Power car for high-speed train with internal overpressure

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Power car for high-speed train with internal overpressure

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Abstract

Claims9