Rail vehicle with laterally soft connection of the wagon body to the running gear

A vehicle, in particular rail vehicle, comprising:

• a wagon body and
• a running gear on which the wagon body is supported, wherein
• the wagon body and the running gear define a vehicle longitudinal direction, a vehicle transverse direction and a vehicle height direction;
• a tilting mechanism is arranged between the wagon body and the running gear, which is designed to impose, during a transverse displacement in the vehicle transverse direction, upon the wagon body a rolling motion about a rolling axis parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction,
• the tilting mechanism comprises a transverse decoupling device, and
• the transverse decoupling device is designed to reduce the stiffness of the tilting mechanism against a pure transverse displacement of the wagon body with respect to the running gear, wherein
• the tilting mechanism comprises at least one torsion element, two pivot levers and also two connecting rods,
• the torsion element runs in the vehicle transverse direction,
• the two pivot levers, in a manner spaced apart from one another, are fixed to the torsion element, in particular, in the region of the two ends of the torsion element,
• a connecting rod is coupled to the free end of each one of the pivot levers, and
• the two connecting rods, at their end facing towards the wagon body, are arranged displaced towards a vehicle longitudinal axis mid plane with respect to their ends facing towards the running gear, wherein
• the transverse decoupling unit includes at least one section of the pivot lever resilient in the vehicle transverse direction providing said reduction of the stiffness of the tilting mechanism against a pure transverse displacement of the wagon body with respect to the running gear.

A vehicle, in particular rail vehicle, comprising:

• a wagon body;
• and
• a running gear on which the wagon body is supported, wherein
• the wagon body and the running gear define a vehicle longitudinal direction, a vehicle transverse direction and a vehicle height direction,
• a tilting mechanism is arranged between the wagon body and the running gear, which is designed to impose, during a transverse displacement in the vehicle transverse direction, upon the wagon body a rolling motion about a rolling axis parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction,
• the tilting mechanism comprises a transverse decoupling device, and
• the transverse decoupling device is designed to reduce the stiffness of the tilting mechanism against a pure transverse displacement of the wagon body with respect to the running gear, wherein
• the transverse decoupling device, in the vehicle transverse direction, introduces into the tilting mechanism a transverse displaceability of the wagon body with respect to the running gear,
• the tilting mechanism with uninhibited transverse displaceability of the transverse decoupling device has a first transverse stiffness in the vehicle transverse direction,
• the tilting mechanism with inhibited transverse displaceability of the transverse decoupling device has a second transverse stiffness in the vehicle transverse direction, and
• the first transverse stiffness is at most 95% of the second transverse stiffness.