Carbody support device and railway vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10464582-B2
Application number	US-201815892916-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 9, 2018
Priority date	Jul 13, 2012
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

A carbody support device of a railway vehicle, including support mechanisms installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies. The support mechanisms regulate both the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody when the railway vehicle travels through a curve, while the support mechanisms permit the front bogie and the rear bogie inclining in different vehicle width directions.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A carbody support device of a railway vehicle comprising support mechanisms respectively installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies,
wherein each of the front and rear bogies has a bogie frame where an air spring is provided on an upper surface of the bogie frame on both sides in the vehicle width directions,
wherein the support mechanisms include:
diagonal beams provided between the air springs and the carbody corresponding to the front bogie and the rear bogie, respectively, and each of the diagonal beams extending in the vehicle width directions and rollably supported by the carbody at a substantially center position in the vehicle width directions, the diagonal beams having a front diagonal beam and a rear diagonal beam;
confinement pipings configured to arrange at both sides in the vehicle width directions, extend in vehicle longitudinal directions, and confine incompressible fluid therein; and
a pair of hydraulic cylinders configured to be disposed between respective both ends of the confinement pipings in the vehicle longitudinal directions and the same ends in width directions of the front and rear bogies, and communicate with the respective confinement pipings,
wherein the hydraulic cylinders configured to be provided at ends of the front and rear diagonal beams in the vehicle width directions, respectively, between the diagonal beam and the carbody,
wherein,
in a state that one of the front and rear bogies is inclined to inclination direction with respect to the carbody, when one diagonal beam related to the one of bogies is inclined to the inclination direction with a force acted from a track to the one of bogies, a compressive force acts on a hydraulic cylinder on the one diagonal beam and makes the other diagonal beam related to the other of bogies be inclined to direction opposite to the inclination direction, whereby the support mechanisms permit the other of bogies inclining to a different direction with respect to the inclination of the one of bogies in the vehicle width directions; and
in a state that a force from the track inclining the front and rear bogies in the same direction in the vehicle width directions with respect to the carbody acts, the front and rear diagonal beams are inclined in the same vehicle width direction, no force acts on the hydraulic cylinders arranged on the same side in the vehicle width direction on both the front and rear bogies, whereby the support mechanisms regulate both the front and the rear bogies inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody.

2. A carbody support device of a railway vehicle comprising support mechanisms respectively installed between a front bogie and a carbody and between a rear bogie and the carbody in a traveling direction, and supporting the carbody against the respective bogies,
wherein the support mechanisms include:
confinement pipings configured to arrange at both sides in the vehicle width directions, extend in vehicle longitudinal directions, and confine incompressible fluid therein; and
a pair of hydraulic cylinders configured to be disposed between respective both ends of the confinement pipings in the vehicle longitudinal directions and the same ends in width directions of the front and rear bogies, and communicate with the respective confinement pipings,
wherein each of the front and rear bogies includes a bogie frame, and a bolster having a center pivot provided at the center in the vehicle width directions and side bearers provided on both sides in the vehicle width directions, the bolster being provided to an upper part of the bogie frame,
wherein each bolster is configured to be rollable with respect to each of the respective bogie frames of the front and rear bogies about at the positions of the center pivots,
wherein,
in a state that one of the front and rear bogies is inclined with respect to the carbody, a compressive force acts on a hydraulic cylinder on the one of bogies, whereby the support mechanisms permit the other of bogies inclining to a different direction with respect to the inclination of the one of bogies in the vehicle width directions; and
in a state that a force from the track inclining the front and rear bogies in the same direction in the vehicle width directions with respect to the carbody acts, no force acts on the hydraulic cylinders arranged on the same side in the vehicle width direction on both the front and rear bogies, whereby the support mechanisms regulate both the front and the rear bogies inclining in the same vehicle width direction with respect to the carbody.

3. The carbody support device of claim 1 , further comprising compensation parts connected with the respective confinement pipings, for compensating abnormal pressures in the respective pipings.

4. A railway vehicle comprising the carbody support device of claim 1 .

5. The carbody support device of claim 2 , further comprising compensation parts connected with the respective confinement pipings, for compensating abnormal pressures in the respective pipings.

6. A railway vehicle comprising the carbody support device of claim 2 .

Assignees

• Kawasaki Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Sato Yoshi
• Taga Yukitaka
• Nakao Shunichi
• Isomura Kazuo
• Tamaki Makoto
• Shirakawa Junichi
• Murata Koichi

Classifications

• B61F5/38 Primary

  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

• B61F5/24

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

• B61F5/245

  by active damping, i.e. with means to vary the damping characteristics in accordance with track or vehicle induced reactions, especially in high speed mode · CPC title

• B61F5/10 Primary

  incorporating fluid springs · CPC title

• B60G99/008

  Other suspension arrangements with fluid springs · CPC title