Rail vehicle car for transporting passengers, rail vehicle with a rail vehicle car and method for forming a transition between rail vehicle cars
AssigneeStadler Rail AG
InventorsJoaquim Font, Fadi Khairallah
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Abstract
A rail vehicle car for transporting passengers comprising a car body, a car body floor, a car body ceiling and a front end area. An A-pillar is disposed in the front portion. The car body has a longitudinal extent and a transverse extent, and the longitudinal extent is greater than the transverse extent. The car body includes a height extension transverse to the longitudinal and transverse extensions. The A-pillar is substantially centered in the transverse direction so that the front region is divided into a first side and a second side, and the first side comprises 30-70% of the transverse extent.
Claims20
A rail vehicle car for transporting passengers, comprising:
- a wagon body,
- a wagon body floor,
- a wagon body ceiling,
- a front end region,
- one single A-pillar being arranged in the front region and two side pillars being arranged in the front region,
- the wagon body having a longitudinal extent and a transverse extent, and the longitudinal extent being greater than the transverse extent,
- wherein the car body comprises a height extension transverse to the longitudinal and transverse extension,
- the one single A-pillar is arranged substantially in the middle in a transverse direction so that the front area is divided into a first and a second side, and
- the first side comprises 30-70% of the transverse extension, wherein the rail vehicle car comprises at least one energy absorption element for absorbing crash energy, wherein the at least one energy absorption element is arranged on the A-pillar above an underframe level of the rail vehicle car.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.