3D printed manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle
AssigneeKnorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
InventorsAttila Metal, Barnabas Kekedi
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Abstract
A manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle comprises at least one conduit for guiding a pneumatic fluid and at least one attachment section for attaching a pneumatic device. The manifold is obtained from a blank that is obtained by an additive manufacturing process. A method for producing a manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle, the manifold comprising at least one conduit for guiding a pneumatic fluid and at least one attachment section for attaching a pneumatic device comprises a first step wherein a blank for the manifold is formed by an additive manufacturing process.
Claims13
A manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle, the manifold comprising:
- a plurality of conduits for guiding pneumatic fluid coupled to a blank base;
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- attachment sections each having one or more fixation openings and one or more conduit openings for attaching a pneumatic device, the one or more the conduit openings arranged at varying angles relative each other,
- wherein the manifold is formed from a blank that is manufactured by an additive manufacturing process, and wherein,
- wherein each of the plurality of conduits is located between the attachment sections, and wherein multiple of the plurality of conduits have a reduction in a cross-sectional at an area of the manifold and in an overlapping fashion.
A method for producing a manifold for a pneumatic control panel of a railway vehicle, the manifold including a plurality of conduits for guiding pneumatic fluid and attachment sections each having one or more fixation openings and one or more conduit openings for attaching a pneumatic device, wherein each of the plurality of conduits is located between the attachment sections, wherein the method comprises, in a first operation, a blank for the manifold is formed by an additive manufacturing process,
- wherein the additive manufacturing process comprises an arrangement operation and a manufacturing operation
- wherein the arrangement operation comprises a routing operation comprising determining a cross-section and an arrangement of each of the plurality of conduits between the attachment sections, and
- wherein the routing operation determines whether multiple of the plurality of conduits have a reduction in a cross-sectional at an area of the manifold and in an overlapping fashion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.