Cooling device, and steering bogie and vehicle provided with same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10000190-B2
Application number	US-201415030528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 23, 2014
Priority date	Nov 20, 2013
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

A cooling device provided with cooling fins which: is provided in a wheel of a running wheel which integrally rotates with a axle shaft and has a brake device positioned in the interior thereof; and produces, by rotating in both the forward and reverse directions of the wheel, airflow which flows through the brake device via ventilation holes passing from the inside to the outside of the wheel. Therein, the cooling fins produce an airflow which flows through a plurality of decorative holes serving as the ventilation holes and formed in the wheel along the circumference centered around the rotational axis of the axle shaft.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cooling device comprising:
a plurality of cooling fins provided in a wheel of a running wheel having a brake device disposed therein and rotating integrally with an axle shaft and that are configured to produce an airflow passing through the brake device through a ventilation hole for allowing an inside and outside of the wheel to communicate with each other by the rotation of the wheel in both forward and reverse directions; and
a plate-like member that is provided at an end apart from the axle shaft, in a wheel hub that fixes the axle shaft and the wheel, and rotates together with the axle shaft,
wherein each cooling fin is formed in the plate-like member,
the plurality of the cooling fins is formed on a circumference centered on a rotational axis of the axle shaft on the plate-like member, and
each of the cooling fins extends so as to be inclined toward one side in a circumferential direction of the rotational axis as it becomes closer to a side apart from the axle shaft in the direction of the rotational axis from on the plate-like member, and a through-hole passing through the plate-like member is formed in a region on the plate-like member corresponding to a region where each cooling fin is provided on a side toward which each cooling fin is inclined.

2. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein each cooling fin produces the airflow through a plurality of decorative holes that serve as the ventilation hole and are formed on the circumference centered on a rotational axis of the axle shaft in the wheel.

3. The cooling device according to claim 1 , wherein each cooling fin produces the airflow in a direction along the rotational axis of the axle shaft.

4. The cooling device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a wind guide member that is provided in the wheel, rotates integrally with the wheel, and guides the airflow from each cooling fin, to the ventilation hole.

5. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein the wind guide member has a tubular shape that covers the ventilation hole from an outer side in a radial direction of the rotational axis of the axle shaft and is centered on the rotational axis.

6. The cooling device according to claim 5 , wherein the wind guide member includes
a body part having a tubular shape centered on the rotational axis of the axle shaft, and
a wind guide member fin that extends so as to be inclined toward one side in the circumferential direction of the rotational axis as it becomes closer to an outer side in the radial direction of the rotational axis of the axle shaft from an outer peripheral surface of the body part, and
wherein a through-hole passing through the body part is formed in a region on the outer peripheral surface of the body part corresponding to a region where the wind guide member fin is provided on a side toward which the wind guide member fin is inclined.

7. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein the wind guide member has a tubular shape that surrounds an opening of the ventilation hole from an outer peripheral side thereof.

8. The cooling device according to claim 4 , wherein a rubber member is provided between the wind guide member and the wheel located at an end of the wind guide member in the direction of the rotational axis.

9. A steering bogie comprising:
the axle shaft that rotates with a rotational axis as a center;
a pair of left and right of running wheels each having a wheel and rotating integrally with the axle shaft;
a steering guide device that supports the pair of running wheels and is guided by a guide rail extending along a track; and
the cooling device according to claim 1 provided in each wheel.

10. The steering bogie according to claim 9 , wherein the cooling fins are provided in the cooling devices provided in the respective wheels in the pair of running wheels so as to produce airflows that face the axle shaft from each wheel in both the cooling devices or produce airflows that face the wheel from the axle shaft in both the cooling devices.

11. The steering bogie according to claim 9 , wherein the cooling fins are provided in the cooling devices provided in the respective wheels in the pair of running wheels so as to produce airflows that face one side in the direction of the rotational axis of the axle shaft in both the cooling devices.

12. A vehicle comprising:
a car body having a space formed therein; and
the steering bogie according to claim 9 that is provided in a lower part of the car body.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Katahira Kousuke
• Tamura So
• Hoshi Mitsuaki

Classifications

• F16D65/847

  with open cooling system, e.g. cooled by air · CPC title

• B61H1/00

  Applications or arrangements of brakes with a braking member or members co-operating with the periphery of the wheel rim, a drum or the like · CPC title

• B61D1/00

  Carriages for ordinary railway passenger traffic (mine cars B61D11/00; tramcars B61D13/00) · CPC title

• B61B13/00

  Other railway systems · CPC title

• B61F5/38

  Arrangements or devices for adjusting or allowing self- adjustment of wheel axles or bogies when rounding curves, e.g. sliding axles, swinging axles · CPC title