Anti-rolling device of railcar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10112628-B2
Application number	US-201515307432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2015
Priority date	Apr 28, 2014
Publication date	Oct 30, 2018
Grant date	Oct 30, 2018

Abstract

A first bearing casing accommodates a first spherical bearing while restricting a displacement of the first spherical bearing in an axial direction, and a second bearing casing accommodates a second spherical bearing while allowing a displacement of the second spherical bearing in the axial direction. The second bearing casing includes a protruding portion interposed between each of second oil sealing members and the second spherical bearing so as to be spaced apart from the second spherical bearing in the axial direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An anti-rolling device of a railcar,
the anti-rolling device comprising:
a torsion bar extending in a width direction of a carbody and including both end portions coupled through respective levers to a first attachment target that is one of the carbody or a bogie, the torsion bar being inserted into an internal space formed at a second attachment target that is the other of the carbody and the bogie;
a first bearing device including
a first bearing casing provided at a first end side of the torsion bar and fixed to a portion of the second attachment target, the portion being located at an outer side in the width direction,
a first bearing accommodated in the first bearing casing and rotatably supporting a first end-side supported portion of the torsion bar, and
a pair of first oil sealing members arranged so as to be spaced apart from the first bearing in an axial direction; and

a second bearing device including
a second bearing casing provided at a second end side of the torsion bar and fixed to a portion of the first attachment target, the portion being located at the outer side in the width direction,
a second bearing accommodated in the second bearing casing and rotatably supporting a second end-side supported portion of the torsion bar, and
a pair of second oil sealing members arranged so as to be spaced apart from the second bearing in the axial direction, wherein:

the first bearing casing accommodates the first bearing while restricting a displacement of the first bearing in the axial direction;
the second bearing casing accommodates the second bearing while allowing a displacement of the second bearing in the axial direction; and
the second bearing casing includes a protruding portion interposed between each of the pair of second oil sealing members and the second bearing so as to be spaced apart from the second bearing in the axial direction.

2. The anti-rolling device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the second bearing casing further includes
a small-diameter inner peripheral surface contacting an outer ring of the second bearing and
a large-diameter inner peripheral surface contacting any one of the pair of second oil sealing members;

a radially outer end portion of the second oil sealing member contacting the large-diameter inner peripheral surface is located at a radially outer side of the outer ring of the second bearing; and
the protruding portion is located at a portion of the small-diameter inner peripheral surface and projects toward a radially inner side from the small-diameter inner peripheral surface, the portion being close to the large-diameter inner peripheral surface.

3. The anti-rolling device according to claim 2 , wherein each of the first bearing device and the second bearing device is fixed to the second attachment target so as to close the internal space from an outside in the width direction.

4. The anti-rolling device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the first bearing device and the second bearing device is fixed to the second attachment target so as to close the internal space from an outside in the width direction.

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Isomura Kazuo
• Tojo Takanori
• Sakahira Masahiro
• Shirasaki Jun
• Maeba Tomohide
• Hikosaka Naoki

Classifications

• F16C23/045

  for radial load mainly, e.g. radial spherical plain bearings · CPC title

• F16J15/3224

  capable of accommodating changes in distances or misalignment between the surfaces, e.g. able to compensate for defaults of eccentricity or angular deviations · CPC title

• F16C2326/10

  Railway vehicles · CPC title

• B61F3/02

  with more than one axle · CPC title

• B61F5/24 Primary

  Means for damping or minimising the canting, skewing, pitching, or plunging movements of the underframes · CPC title