Current collector
AssigneeDaimlerChrysler Rail Systems GmbH
InventorsRené Blaschko, Stefan Pahnke
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Abstract
A current collector is located on a roof cover plate of a car body for a rail vehicle. Mounted on said current collector is an intermediate carrier for a current collector frame which is equipped with two wearing strips. Said intermediate carrier is suspended on oscillating rods. According to the invention, the intermediate carrier is configured in the form of a thin plate so that in its resting position, i.e. in its lowered position, the current collector, including wearing strips, is located within the regulation limitation line of the vehicle. In this way, the construction height is reduced.
Claims9
A current collector for a rail vehicle having an inclinable car body, the current collector comprising:
- a base carrier;
- an intermediate carrier pivotably secured to the base carrier by four symmetrically arranged oscillating rods of equal length;
- four upper oscillating bearings are provided on the base carrier;
- four associated lower oscillating bearings are provided on the intermediate carrier, wherein the four upper oscillating bearings are arranged in a plane above the four associated lower oscillating bearings and wherein the distance between every two upper oscillating bearings being different from the distance between the associated lower oscillating bearings;
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- a current collector frame directly fixed to the intermediate carrier, wherein the intermediate carrier is a plate to which the associated lower oscillating bearings are fixed.
A current collector for a rail vehicle having an inclinable car body comprising:
- a base carrier having at least four attached supports;
- an intermediate carrier, wherein the intermediate carrier is a plate;
- a current collector frame directly fixed to the plate;
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- four symmetrically arranged oscillating rods of equal length used to pivotably secure the plate to the supports of the base carrier, wherein each oscillating rod has an upper oscillating bearing attached to one end of the oscillating rod and an associated lower oscillating bearing attached to an opposite end of the oscillating rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.