Level control system for adjusting the level of a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle
AssigneeKnorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
InventorsUlrich Wermund, Mark A. Sterrett, Jurgen Muhr, Eduard Nies
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Abstract
A level control system adjusts the level of a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, and includes at least one level control cylinder and a level control piston. The level control piston is at least partly received in the level control cylinder in a movable manner. The level control cylinder has a collar-shaped shoulder, and the level control system has a first fixing disc which is connected to the level control piston in order to transmit a lifting movement. At least one spacer element is arranged between the collar-shaped shoulder of the level control cylinder and the first fixing disc.
Claims7
A level control system for adjusting the level of a rail vehicle, the system comprising:
- at least one level control cylinder;
- and
- one level control piston,
- wherein the level control piston is at least partially movably received in the level control cylinder,
- wherein the level control cylinder has a collared shoulder,
- wherein the level control system has a first fixing disk which is connected to the level control piston for the purposes of transmitting a lifting movement, wherein the first fixing disk is coupled to a second fixing disk via an interconnecting spring,
- wherein at least one spacer element is arranged between the collared shoulder the level control cylinder and the first fixing disk,
- wherein the at least one spacer element is arranged between the collared shoulder of the level control cylinder and a car body of the rail vehicle,
- wherein the at least one spacer element is a half-segment disk,
- wherein the at least one spacer element is included in at least two spacer elements,
- wherein the level control system has at least one bellows which is arranged between the collared shoulder of the level control cylinder and the first fixing disk and/or the collared shoulder of the level control piston,
- wherein the collared shoulder of the level control cylinder and/or the collared shoulder of the level control piston has a receiving groove for receiving the at least one bellows,
- wherein the at least one bellows has a metal ring and a bead configured such that the bellows is detachably and rotatably fixed in the receiving groove of the level control cylinder and/or of the level control piston.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.