Guide track for track-based vehicle, and traffic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016207422-A1
Application number	US-201615085008-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 30, 2016
Priority date	Feb 28, 2011
Publication date	Jul 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A guide track ( 3 A) includes a guide rail ( 31 ) having a guide groove ( 31 a ) opened upward in which the pair of guide wheels ( 23 ) inserted, and is formed with a pair of guide surfaces ( 31 b ) for causing each of the pair of guide wheels ( 23 ) to roll at both sides of the traveling course in a width direction; conductor rails ( 32 ) that are placed at both sides of the outside of the traveling course in the width direction with respect to the guide groove ( 31 a ) to perform contact electricity supply by pressing a power collection shoe ( 43 ) of a power collector ( 4 ) of the track-based vehicle; a first insulator ( 33 ) that is formed of an insulation material and supports the conductor rails ( 32 ) with respect to the guide rail; and insulation plates ( 34 ) serving as insulation materials that are provided at both sides of the conductor rail ( 32 ) in the width direction, and are provided in parallel to the conductor rail ( 32 ) and in parallel to a pressing direction of the power collection shoe ( 43 ) so as to prevent a short circuit due to contact with the conductor rail ( 32 ) in a vertical direction.

First claim

1 - 5 . (canceled)

6 . A guide track for a track-based vehicle that guides the track-based vehicle to follow a predetermined traveling course by causing a pair of guide wheels provided in the track-based vehicle to roll, the guide track comprising:
a track main body having a guide groove opened upward in which the pair of guide wheels inserted, and is formed with a pair of guide surfaces for causing each of the pair of guide wheels to roll at both sides of the traveling course in a width direction; a conductor rail that is placed on at least one side of the outside of the traveling course in the width direction with respect to the guide groove to perform contact electricity supply by pressing a power collection shoe of a power collector of the track-based vehicle; a support portion that is formed of an insulation material and supports the conductor rail with respect to the track main body portion; and a protection member serving as an insulation material that is provided at least on both sides in the width direction or the upper part of the vertical direction of the conductor rail, and is provided in parallel to the conductor rail and in parallel to a pressing direction of the power collection shoe so as to prevent a short circuit due to contact with the conductor rail in the width direction or the vertical direction, wherein the support portion includes an accommodation concave portion capable of accommodating the conductor rail, and the accommodation concave portion also forms the protection member.

7 . The guide track for a track-based vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein the conductor rail has one of a groove or a convex portion engaged with each other that extends in a front and back direction along the traveling course, and
the support portion has the other of the groove or the convex portion provided on an inner surface that forms the accommodation concave portion.

8 . A transportation system comprising:
the guide track for a track-based vehicle according to claim 6 ; and the track-based vehicle that is guided by the guide track and runs.

9 . The transportation system according to claim 8 , wherein a separation interval of the pair of guide surfaces of the guide track is set to be smaller than the sum of diameters of the pair of guide wheels, and
the pair of guide wheels for a track-based vehicle are provided so that positions thereof in the front and back direction along the traveling course are different from each other.

10 . A transportation system comprising:
the guide track for a track-based vehicle according to claim 7 ; and the track-based vehicle that is guided by the guide track and runs.

11 . The transportation system according to claim 10 , wherein a separation interval of the pair of guide surfaces of the guide track is set to be smaller than the sum of diameters of the pair of guide wheels, and
the pair of guide wheels for a track-based vehicle are provided so that positions thereof in the front and back direction along the traveling course are different from each other.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Kanemori Toru
• Yamamoto Hiromichi
• Katahira Kousuke

Classifications

• B60M1/04

  Mechanical protection of line; Protection against contact by living beings · CPC title

• B60M1/307 Primary

  Supports · CPC title

• B60M1/30 Primary

  Power rails · CPC title

• B60L2200/26

  Rail vehicles · CPC title

• B60M7/00

  Power lines or rails specially adapted for electrically-propelled vehicles of special types, e.g. suspension tramway, ropeway, underground railway · CPC title