US 12,697,882 B2 · Rail vehicle comprising an energy storage system having an energy storage device and a transformer, a method of operating such a rail vehicle, and a method of assembling a train composition comprising a rail vehicle carriage

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rail vehicle (22) comprising an energy storage device and a transformer (18) associated with the energy storage device; a rail vehicle carriage (24) comprising an energy storage device and a transformer (18) associated with the energy storage device; a method of operating a rail vehicle having an energy storage system (15); and a method of assembling a train composition. The rail vehicle (22) includes a rail vehicle carriage (24), traction equipment (6), a high-voltage conductor (5), a current collector (1), and an energy storage system (15) having an energy storage device. The traction equipment (6) comprises at least one traction power converter (9) and at least one traction motor (11). The high-voltage conductor (5) electrically connects the traction equipment (6) to the current collector (1). The energy storage device may be a battery (20).

Claims16

Dependent claims

A rail vehicle comprising:

a rail vehicle carriage;
a traction equipment comprising at least one traction converter and at least one traction motor;
a high-voltage conductor and a current collector, the high-voltage conductor electrically connects the traction equipment to the current collector;
and
an energy storage system with an energy storage device
wherein the energy storage system comprises a transformer which is associated with the energy storage device and is electrically connected to the energy storage device and to the high-voltage conductor and wherein the high-voltage conductor can selectively be supplied with high-voltage alternating current via the current collector by an external power supply and/or by means of the energy storage system.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/160,143Filed 26 Jan 2023

Priority

EP 2215375827 Jan 2022

Published

US 2023/0241979 A13 Aug 2023

Granted

4 Aug 2026

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B60L 5/39
For collecting current from conductor rails: from third rail
B61C 9/50
With motors supported on vehicle frames and driving axles, e.g. axle or nose suspension: in bogies
B61C 17/06
Arrangement or disposition of parts; Details or accessories not otherwise provided for; Use of control gear and control systems: power storing devices
B60L 2200/26
Type of vehicles: rail vehicles

Rail vehicle comprising an energy storage system having an energy storage device and a transformer, a method of operating such a rail vehicle, and a method of assembling a train composition comprising a rail vehicle carriage

Life of this patent

Rail vehicle comprising an energy storage system having an energy storage device and a transformer, a method of operating such a rail vehicle, and a method of assembling a train composition comprising a rail vehicle carriage

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims16