Railway vehicle
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsHiromu Ogata, Takahisa Yamamoto, Tadashi Fujii
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Abstract
Provided is a railway vehicle capable of constructing a highly reliable seal for a side hinged door with a small number of manufacturing steps. The railway vehicle includes: a side structure 20; an opening portion 10 provided in the side structure 20; a side hinged door 12 configured to close the opening portion 10; a door pillar 22 provided on a vehicle interior side of a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion 10; a retainer 24 provided on the door pillar 22; and an expandable seal rubber 25 gripped by the retainer 24 and expanded by pumped air. The retainer 24 includes a seal damming portion 24a that protrudes toward the opening portion 10.
Claims7
A railway vehicle comprising:
- a side structure;
- an opening portion provided in the side structure;
- a side hinged door configured to close the opening portion;
- a door pillar provided on a vehicle interior side of a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion;
- a retainer provided on the door pillar;
- and
- an expandable seal rubber gripped by the retainer and expanded by pumped air,
- wherein the retainer includes a seal damming portion protruding toward the opening portion and forming a space filled with a seal material between the seal damming portion and the door pillar,
- wherein the door pillar includes:
- a door pillar inclined portion along a substantially width direction of the railway vehicle;
- and
- a door pillar parallel portion connected to the door pillar inclined portion and extending along a longitudinal direction of the railway vehicle,
- wherein the retainer is fixed to the door pillar parallel portion,
- wherein a seal portion that seals between the door pillar inclined portion and the seal damming portion is provided,
- wherein the retainer includes:
- a bottom portion fixed to the door pillar parallel portion;
- a pair of seal rubber gripping portions connected to both end portions of the bottom portion in the longitudinal direction of the railway vehicle and erected in a width direction of the railway vehicle;
- and
- a pair of protruding portions protruding from the seal rubber gripping portions in the vicinity of the bottom portion so as to face each other along the longitudinal direction of the railway vehicle, and
- wherein the seal damming portion is connected to one of the seal rubber gripping portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.