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US 8,910,992 B2Granted
Bus with a panoramic front window
OwnerEdward P Grechinventor
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Abstract
A bus which enhances the viewing experience of passengers by providing a panoramic front window to enable a passenger to see into a cab section of the bus and through the panoramic front window. The panoramic front window has a predetermined configuration that minimizes drag and includes a cab section window as well as a passenger section window.
Claims16
A bus including
- a forward cab section and a rear passenger section connected to the forward cab section with a partition wall between said sections having an enlarged central opening therein,
- said forward cab section having a driver compartment comprising opposed sides connected by a roof and a front cab window having an upper horizontally oriented edge having a predetermined width,
- said rear passenger section having a passenger compartment and a window cap unit forward of the passenger compartment that overlies the roof of the driver compartment,
- said window cap unit including a rearward slanted, forward-facing window that has a predetermined height of at least 18 inches and a first horizontally oriented edge that has a width dimension that is greater than a second opposed horizontally oriented edge that has a width dimension equal to or at least 90 percent of said predetermined width of said upper horizontally oriented edge of the front cab window,
- said forward-facing window being positioned so that said forward-facing window's second edge is adjacent the upper edge of the front cab window and is aligned centrally along a common central reference line with the front cab window to form a panoramic front window,
- said passenger compartment having a floor supporting seats for the passengers and a doorway on a side of the passenger section with at least one step to assist passengers to enter the passenger section,
- said floor positioned with respect to the panoramic window, and said predetermined height of the forward-facing window and said enlarged opening in the partition wall are all sufficiently large to enable a passenger when seated in a seat or standing on the floor and looking towards the driver compartment to see into the cab section and into the window cap unit and through the panoramic front window.
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A bus including
- a forward cab section and a rear passenger section separated by a partition wall having an enlarged central opening therein,
- said forward cab section having a driver compartment comprising opposed sides connected by a roof and a front cab window that is trapezoidal in shape and is rearward slanting,
- said rear passenger section having a passenger compartment and a window cap unit forward of the passenger compartment that overlies the roof of the driver compartment and has therein a forward-facing window that is trapezoidal in shape and is rearward slanting,
- said cab section window and said window cap unit window positioned with a shortest width dimension of each said windows adjacent each other and said windows aligned centrally along a common central reference line and forming a panoramic front window,
- said passenger compartment including seats for passengers positioned with respect to the panoramic window to enable a passenger when seated in a seat to see simultaneously through the enlarged opening into the cab section and into window cap unit and through the panoramic front window.
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A bus including
- a forward cab section and a rear passenger section including a forward window cap unit that overlies a roof of the forward cab section,
- said sections connected to enable a passenger in the rear passenger section to see into the cab section and into window cap unit and through a panoramic front window form by
- a rearward slanting window in a front of the cab section that has a perimeter including an upper horizontally oriented edge, and
- a rearward slanting window in a front of the window cap unit and located above the cab section window that has a perimeter including a lower horizontally oriented edge,
- said cab section window and said window cap unit window are positioned so their horizontally oriented edges are adjacent each other and said windows are aligned along a common central reference line to form said panoramic front window,
- the horizontally oriented edges being contiguous with or spaced from each other by a distance no greater than 6 inches, and
- said combined perimeters of said windows forming in outline of an hourglass shape.
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