US 8,939,090 B2Granted

Guided vehicle

AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

InventorsTokumitu Tomada, Masahiro Inui

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Abstract

In a guided vehicle of air spring suspension for running along exclusive guideways, decreasing of center distance of the left and right air spring to mount air springs of increased dimension and increased load carrying capacity, which decreasing of the center distance induces decrease in rolling stiffness of the vehicle resulting in deteriorated ride quality and also induces difficulty in adjusting vehicle height resulting in spending long time in height adjusting operation, will not be required even when load carrying capacity of air springs is required to be increased in order to comply with increased vehicle load. A plurality of air spring elements are mounted tandem along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle with the air spring elements connected with each other so that air pressure thereof is always equal.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A guided vehicle having air springs to support a vehicle body on carriages for traveling exclusive guideways, the guided vehicle comprising:

suspension frames projecting downward on a lower side of the vehicle body;
parallel links extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, one end of each parallel link pivotally fixed to the corresponding suspension frame and another end of the parallel link pivotally fixed to the corresponding carriage;
and
an axle housing fixed to the carriages and including an axle,
wherein
each of the air springs includes a plurality of air spring elements that are arranged tandem along the longitudinal direction and symmetrically with respect to a center line of the axle housing,
the plurality of air spring elements arranged at both right and left sides in a width direction of the vehicle body are provided with a common cover-dish, and the common cover dish partially defines communicating inside rooms so that the plurality of air spring elements are connected to one another.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/744,685Filed 18 Jan 2013 · division
Priority: JP 2009-0904902 Apr 2009
Published: US 2013/0125781 A123 May 2013
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B61F 5/24
Guiding of the vehicle underframes with respect to the bogies: means for damping or minimising the canting, skewing, pitching, or plunging…
B61F 5/14
Arrangements permitting limited transverse relative movements between vehicle underframe or bolster and bogie; Connections between underframes…
F16F 15/0232
Using fluid means: with at least one gas spring
B61F
Rail vehicle suspensions