Grounding shoe and vehicle
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsShigeyuki Yamada, Kousuke Katahira, Hiroyuki Andoh
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Abstract
A grounding shoe is provided in a vehicle so as to face a grounding rail provided on a track. The grounding shoe includes a collector unit that has an electroconductive body; and a holding part that fixes the collector unit by holding a first end of the electroconductive body in such a manner that the electroconductive body can be energized as well as attached/detached and that is in contact with the electroconductive body.
Claims20
A grounding shoe that is provided in a vehicle so as to face a grounding rail provided on a track, the grounding shoe comprising:
- a collector unit that has an electroconductive body;
- and
- a holding part that fixes the collector unit by holding a first end of the electroconductive body in such a manner that the collector unit can be energized as well as attached/detached, and that is mounted in the vehicle, and that is in contact with the electroconductive body,
- wherein the collector unit further has a rubber body that covers the electroconductive body while the first end and a second end of the electroconductive body are exposed, and
- wherein the holding part holds a first end of the rubber body as well as the electroconductive body.
A grounding shoe that is provided in a vehicle so as to face a grounding rail provided on a track, the grounding shoe comprising:
- a collector unit that has an electroconductive body;
- and
- a holding part that fixes the collector unit by holding a first end of the electroconductive body in such a manner that the collector unit can be energized as well as attached/detached, and that is mounted in the vehicle, and that is in contact with the electroconductive body,
- wherein the holding part has resistance reducing means that reduces contact resistance between a contact portion and the electroconductive body and that is provided in the contact portion which is in contact with the first end of the electroconductive body, and
- wherein the resistance reducing means is a groove portion that is formed in the contact portion of the holding part, and that has grooves formed in a direction different from a direction from the first end of the electroconductive body to the second end.
A collector unit of a grounding shoe that is provided in a vehicle so as to face a grounding rail provided on a track, the collector unit comprising:
- an electroconductive body which is fixed by a first end thereof being held by a holding part mounted in the vehicle in such a manner that the electroconductive body is capable of being energized as well as attached/detached, and which is in contact with the holding part;
- a rubber body which covers the electroconductive body while the first end and a second end of the electroconductive body are exposed and of which a first end is hold by the holding part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.