Inner ceiling assembly of a railway vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016144872-A1
Application number	US-201414901244-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 18, 2014
Priority date	Jun 27, 2013
Publication date	May 26, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A rail-borne vehicle includes an inner ceiling assembly having at least one air duct, a multiplicity of lighting devices and at least one ceiling cladding. The air duct is disposed between an inner surface or face of a roof of the rail-borne vehicle and the ceiling cladding and the air duct is provided with a multiplicity of air outlet openings. The ceiling cladding also has a multiplicity of openings. Both the lighting devices disposed between the inner surface of the roof of the rail-borne vehicle and the ceiling cladding as well as the air outlet openings of the air duct are disposed relative to the openings in the ceiling cladding in such a way that both the air of the air duct and the light of the lighting devices pass through the openings in the ceiling cladding.

First claim

1 - 8 . (canceled)

9 . A rail-borne vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle roof having an inner face; an inner ceiling assembly having components including at least one air duct, a multiplicity of illuminating devices and at least one ceiling cladding; said at least one air duct being disposed between said inner face of said vehicle roof and said at least one ceiling cladding and said at least one air duct having a multiplicity of air outlet openings; said at least one ceiling cladding having a multiplicity of openings; said multiplicity of illuminating devices being disposed between said inner face of said vehicle roof and said at least one ceiling cladding; and both said multiplicity of illuminating devices and also said multiplicity of air outlet openings in said at least one air duct being disposed with respect to said multiplicity of openings in said at least one ceiling cladding to cause both air from said at least one air duct and also light from said multiplicity of illuminating devices to pass through said multiplicity of openings in said at least one ceiling cladding.

10 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , wherein said multiplicity of openings in said at least one ceiling cladding are uniformly distributed over said at least one ceiling cladding.

11 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , which further comprises a carrier plate disposed between said at least one air duct and said at least one ceiling cladding, said carrier plate having openings conveying air from said multiplicity of air outlet openings in said at least one air duct and said carrier plate supporting said multiplicity of illuminating devices.

12 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 11 , wherein said carrier plate and said at least one ceiling cladding are spaced apart by at least 10 mm.

13 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , which further comprises a frosted glass pane disposed between said multiplicity of illuminating devices and said at least one ceiling cladding.

14 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , which further comprises:
a compartment disposed below said at least one ceiling cladding, said compartment being illuminated by said multiplicity of illuminating devices; said multiplicity of illuminating devices being disposed with respect to said multiplicity of openings in said at least one ceiling cladding to predominantly indirectly illuminate said compartment.

15 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , which further comprises:
a vehicle side wall having inner faces; at least one of said inner faces of said vehicle side wall and said at least one ceiling cladding forming a gap therebetween; and both said multiplicity of illuminating devices and also said multiplicity of air outlet openings in said at least one air duct being disposed with respect to said gap to cause both air from said at least one air duct and also light from said multiplicity of illuminating devices to pass through said gap.

16 . The rail-borne vehicle according to claim 9 , wherein said at least one ceiling cladding and said multiplicity of illuminating devices form a mountable unit.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Meergans Ewald
• Stephan Stefan

Classifications

• B61D17/00 Primary

  Construction details of vehicle bodies (for tank wagons B61D5/00; for hopper cars B61D7/00; body details specially adapted for tipping wagons B61D9/06; for mine cars B61D11/00) · CPC title

• B60H1/245

  located in the roof · CPC title

• B61D29/00

  Lighting · CPC title

• B61D27/00

  Heating, cooling, ventilating, or air-conditioning {(heating, cooling or ventilating devices for vehicles in general B60H1/00; devices for moistening air in vehicles B60H3/02; devices for filtering air in vehicles B60H3/06)} · CPC title

• B61D17/18

  Internal lining, e.g. insulating · CPC title