Railway vehicle and axle box structure thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9744976-B2
Application number	US-201515112513-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2015
Priority date	Jan 16, 2015
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

A railway vehicle and an axle box structure thereof are provided. The axle box structure includes an axle box body and a positioning joint mounting seat, and a bearing mounting cavity is provided inside the axle box body. The positioning joint mounting seat is provided with a mounting cavity configured to mount a positioning joint, a longitudinal center line of the axle box body is in parallel with a longitudinal center plane of the positioning joint mounting seat, and the longitudinal center plane of the positioning joint mounting seat is outwardly deviated with respect to a longitudinal center plane of the axle box body. In this way, a large space can be left for mounting the brake clamp, and the mounting and replacing of the brake clamp and the wheel set can be facilitated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An axle box structure for a railway vehicle, comprising
an axle box body, and
a positioning joint mounting seat,
wherein

a bearing mounting cavity is provided inside the axle box body, the positioning joint mounting seat is provided with a mounting cavity configured to mount a positioning joint, wherein a longitudinal center line of the axle box body is in parallel with a longitudinal center plane of the positioning joint mounting seat, and the longitudinal center plane of the positioning joint mounting seat is deviated outwardly with respect to a longitudinal center plane of the axle box body;
wherein the axle box body has a separated structure, comprising an upper box body and a lower box body which are in a seal fit with each other, the upper box body and the lower box body enclose to form the bearing mounting cavity, the upper box body and the lower box body are connected by bolting, and the positioning joint mounting seat and the upper box body are integrally formed; and
the positioning joint mounting seat has a separated structure, which comprises a left mounting seat and a right mounting seat, the left mounting seat and the upper box body are integrally formed, each of the left mounting seat and the right mounting seat has an inwardly recessed portion, and the two recessed portions form the mounting cavity for the positioning joint after the left mounting seat and the right mounting seat are matched and fixed with each other.

2. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a lower end surface of the upper box body has a convex portion extending downwardly at each of two outer lateral edges in an axial direction, an upper end surface of the lower box body has a concave portion concaved downwardly at each of two outer lateral edges in the axial direction, center portions of the upper box body and the lower box body are provided with a first semi-circular hole and a second semi-circular hole respectively, and the bearing mounting cavity is formed by the first semi-circular hole and the second semi-circular hole after the convex portion and the concave portion are assembled by covering and sealing.

3. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the convex portion further has a first boss extending outwardly, the concave portion has a second boss extending outwardly, the first boss is provided with an internal threaded hole, the second boss is provided with a through hole, and the upper box body and the lower box body are fixedly connected to each other by a bolt arranged inside both the through hole and the internal threaded hole.

4. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein in the axial direction, each of two ends of the first boss has an extension portion extending outwardly, and each of the two extension portions is provided with a vertical damper mounting seat fitting a vertical damper of the railway vehicle.

5. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 4 , further comprising a positioning pin, wherein the positioning pin comprises a large diameter section at a middle portion and small diameter sections located at two ends of the large diameter section, a countersink is further provided in an upper end surface of the second boss, a height of the large diameter section is larger than a height of a large hole of the countersink, a positioning hole is also provided at a matching position of a lower end surface of the first boss, and the two small diameter sections are respectively arranged inside the small hole of the countersink and the positioning hole when the upper box body and the lower box body are assembled.

6. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 3 , further comprising a positioning pin, wherein the positioning pin comprises a large diameter section at a middle portion and small diameter sections located at two ends of the large diameter section, a countersink is further provided in an upper end surface of the second boss, a height of the large diameter section is larger than a height of a large hole of the countersink, a positioning hole is also provided at a matching position of a lower end surface of the first boss, and the two small diameter sections are respectively arranged inside the small hole of the countersink and the positioning hole when the upper box body and the lower box body are assembled.

7. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 1 , a wheel set hanger bracket is further provided on an outer wall of the upper box body, the wheel set hanger bracket is provided with a vertical hanging hole, and a rail guard mounting seat configured to mount and fix a rail guard of the railway vehicle is further provided at the bottom of an outer wall of the lower box body.

8. The axle box structure for the railway vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a first drainage groove and a second drainage groove are further provided in a circumferential direction of ends of end covers of the upper box body and the lower box body, and the first drainage groove and the second drainage groove form an annular groove after the upper box body and the lower box body are mounted.

9. A railway vehicle, comprising a wheel set, a frame and an axle box structure mounted between the wheel set and the frame, wherein the axle box structure is the axle box structure according to claim 1 , and the frame is provided with a side beam configured to fit the positioning joint.

Assignees

• Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Peidong
• Lv Xiaojun
• Zhou Pingyu
• Zhang Zhenxian
• Li Yingming
• Zou Xiaolong
• Wang Daqiang
• Guan Yihui

Classifications

• B61F15/20 Primary

  Details · CPC title

• B61F5/325 Primary

  The guiding device including swinging arms or the like to ensure the parallelism of the axles · CPC title

• B61F5/28

  Axle-boxes integral with, or directly secured to, vehicle or bogie underframes · CPC title

• B61F15/12

  with roller, needle, or ball bearings · CPC title