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US 2014/0338558 A1Published application
Rail vehicle system
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsEdzard Luebben, Martin Offer, Jurgen Schlaht, Joerg Schneider
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Abstract
A rail vehicle system includes a set of cars for transporting passengers. The set has two end cars, at least one driveless central car and at least one central car constructed as a traction car having at least one drive unit. In order to achieve greater flexibility in assembling a rail vehicle system, in particular with regard to improved scalability of traction power, the traction car includes a power supply unit for the drive unit and has at least one voltage transformation unit and a power converter unit.
Claims8
1-7. (canceled)
A rail vehicle system, comprising:
- a set of cars configured to transport passengers, said set of cars including two end cars, at least one driveless central car and at least one central car being a traction car;
- said traction car having at least one drive unit, a power supply unit for said at least one drive unit, at least one voltage transformation unit and a current converter unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.