Device for counteracting transverse forces acting on a rail vehicle

US5943962A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mannesmann Rexroth AG · DE

Inventors

• Gundolf Birkhahn · Lohr, DE
• Manfred Dusing · Aachen, DE
• Karl Lengl · Lohr, DE
• Yuan-Jui Lu · Herzogenrath, DE
• Wolfgang Schafer · Düren, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 31, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B61F5/245
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for compensating for the transverse forces acting on a rail vehicle whose car body is supported via spring action on at least one undercarriage and which can be displaced via a transverse compensator in transverse direction with respect to the undercarriage, a transverse spring action is associated for the buffering of dynamic oscillations, which can be connected or disconnected optionally as a function of the condition of travel.