Brake System for a Vehicle
AssigneeBombardier Transportation GmbH
InventorClaus-Dieter Postler
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Abstract
A brake system for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, has a braking device, wherein the braking device has a braking apparatus for braking at least one wheel of the vehicle and the braking device has a pneumatic connecting apparatus for connecting to a pneumatic energy supply unit for supplying the braking apparatus with pneumatic braking energy. The braking apparatus is designed as a hydraulic braking apparatus, wherein the braking device has a conversion apparatus connected between the pneumatic connecting apparatus and the braking apparatus for converting the pneumatic braking energy into hydraulic braking energy.
Claims15
A braking system for a rail vehicle comprising
- a braking device, wherein
- the braking device has a braking apparatus for braking at least one wheel of the rail vehicle and
- the braking device has a pneumatic connection device for connection to a pneumatic energy supply unit for supplying the braking apparatus with pneumatic braking energy,
- wherein
- the braking apparatus is a hydraulic braking apparatus and wherein
- the braking device has a converting device inserted between the pneumatic connection device and the braking apparatus for converting the pneumatic braking energy into hydraulic braking energy.
A method for actuating a braking device of a rail vehicle, comprising
- supplying a braking device via a pneumatic energy supply unit with pneumatic brake energy for braking at least one wheel of the rail vehicle,
- converting pneumatic braking energy into hydraulic braking energy via a converting device inserted between the pneumatic energy supply unit and a braking apparatus of the braking device, and
- hydraulically operating the braking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.