Railway vehicle with coupling element units between car body and undercarriage
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler Rail Systems GmbH
InventorsUlrich Hachmann, Thomas Benker, Uwe Schüller
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Abstract
A coupling element unit with spring action is located between a car body and an undercarriage of a railway vehicle. To largely relieve the coupling element unit from forces that act at a right angle to the suspension direction, a sliding adapter is provided that has two sliding elements and that can be displaced with respect to one another parallel to a floor of the car body.
Claims18
A railway vehicle, comprising an undercarriage and, located above it, a car body that is supported vertically by means of at least one pair of coupling element units with a spring action of an undercarriage frame of the undercarriage, wherein the coupling element unit has a sliding adapter with two sliding elements, wherein one of the sliding elements can be displaced freely in a plane that lies parallel to the floor of the car body over limited distances with respect to the other sliding element, wherein at least one of the sliding elements has two plates that are connected to one another by means of an insulating layer that lies parallel to the plane of displacement of the sliding adapter, wherein the insulating layer is a ring, and wherein on the plates there are suitable locator depressions in which the insulating layer is engaged.
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