Car bridging arrangement for high speed railway vehicles
AssigneeMesserschmidt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
InventorsHelmut Hassel, Reimund Stark
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Abstract
An arrangement for bridging adjacent cars in high speed railway vehicles posed of an inflatable chamber bellows section which extends entirely or partially about the outer structure of the cars wherein the stiffness of the bellows section may be automatically adjusted to respective requirements of high speed travel and travel through curves in such a manner that the internal pressure in the chambers of the bellows section which is produced by inflating the section is controlled in a stepless manner or in individual steps by a control system supplied with fluid pressure through the compressed air system of the vehicle or from a compressor.
Claims17
A system for joining adjacent cars of a railway vehicle to provide an aerodynamically advantageous smooth outer surface therefor comprising:
- inflatable chamber bellows means extending essentially about the outer structure of the vehicle between the ends of adjacent cars, said bellows means being structured to define fluid-tight internal pressure chamber means capable of being pressurized to effect inflation of said bellows means;
- fluid pressure source means for supplying fluid pressure to said chamber means;
- and system control means responsive to operating characteristics of said railway vehicle for controlling the supply of fluid pressure to said internal pressure chamber means from said fluid pressure source means in order to regulate the fluid pressure levels therein thereby to adjust physical characteristics of said inflatable chamber bellows means in accordance with changes in the operating characteristics of said vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.