161 |
Symmetrical Continuous Multidirectional Ultra-Light Ultra-Strong Structure |
US15165838 |
2016-05-26 |
US20160376783A1 |
2016-12-29 |
Mindaugas Ramaska |
A multidimensional structures that is formed of thirty six interconnecting members in such a manner as to form eight (8) tetrahedrons and six (6) octahedrons thereby providing a structure that is both light weight and strong, the interconnecting members variously intersecting at a central point that may be formed of a single unified structure having fillets in the middle of the multidimensional structure and at twelve (12) external connecting points. |
162 |
Top chord stiffener for enclosed railcar |
US14486611 |
2014-09-15 |
US09505416B2 |
2016-11-29 |
Richard W. Dawson; Ronald P. Sellberg; Frank Andrew Nibouar |
A superstructure for a railcar comprising at least a first side assembly, a roof extending from the first side assembly and being comprised of at least a first top chord extending inwardly and upwardly from the first side assembly and a first top chord stiffener comprised of at least a first leg and a second leg. The first and second legs are disposed at a right angle to each other, and the first top chord stiffener is attached to the first top chord and the first side assembly. |
163 |
Collision energy absorption column and railroad vehicle provided with the collision energy absorption column |
US14351680 |
2013-06-12 |
US09434392B2 |
2016-09-06 |
Toshiyuki Hirashima; Seiichi Hayashi; Hitoshi Nagahara |
A collision energy absorption column is provided on an end side of a railroad vehicle structure and extends from an end beam toward a roof structure. The collision energy absorption column includes a metal outer member having a transverse cross section of a channel shape, and an inner member made of reinforced plastic provided along an inner circumference of the outer member and extending in parallel with the outer member. The outer member is configured by joining two column halves extending along a column axis after arranging the two column halves are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the column axis of the outer member. The joined part of the column halves extends along the column axis. The outer member is coupled to the end beam and roof by a fastener. The inner member extends between the end beam and a part of the roof structure, excluding the fastening parts. |
164 |
Dual-structure storage box of railcar and railcar including same |
US14389155 |
2013-03-26 |
US09393973B2 |
2016-07-19 |
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto; Naoyuki Sanada |
A dual-structure storage box is used in a railcar and stores device units. The dual-structure storage box includes a device receiver case and a storage case. The device receiver case is fixed to a floor of the railcar, and the device units are attached to the device receiver case. The storage case is configured separately from the device receiver case, covers the device receiver case from an outer side of the device receiver case, and stores the device units. |
165 |
Vehicle body |
US14400097 |
2013-04-04 |
US09393971B2 |
2016-07-19 |
Adrian Biadatz; Bernd Gross; Sascha Kirchhoff |
A vehicle body, in particular a rail vehicle body, includes at least one body shell profile and at least one interior fitting connected to the body shell profile. The interior fitting is held on the body shell profile by at least one fastening element which is slipped or pushed onto the body shell profile using a clip section and clamped there. |
166 |
Method for manufacturing vehicle body frame |
US13817255 |
2011-01-11 |
US09327736B2 |
2016-05-03 |
Yoshinori Kato |
A method of manufacturing a vehicle body frame including a roof structure, side structures that face each other, and a floor structure is provided. The method includes a primary joining step of butt-joining only a first set of face plates among inner face plates and outer face plates of a plurality of panel boards that form the side structures, and manufacturing intermediate bodies of the side structures; a structure joining step of joining the roof structure, the floor structure, and the intermediate bodies; and a secondary joining step of joining, after the structure joining step, a second set of face plates among the inner face plates and the outer face plates of the plurality of panel boards that form the intermediate bodies to complete the side structures. |
167 |
Driver's cab and railcar including driver's cab |
US14388390 |
2013-03-26 |
US09315199B2 |
2016-04-19 |
Mitsuhiro Matsumoto; Chihiro Okayama |
A driver's cab of a railcar includes: side bodyshells; a roof bodyshell; and an interior panel unit including a pair of side panels located at an inner side of the side bodyshells, a ceiling panel located at an inner side of the roof bodyshell, and a back-surface panel that separates the driver's cab from a passenger room. At least one of the panels includes an opening portion through which an adjusting member can be inserted, the adjusting member being configured to adjust positions of the one panel and the side bodyshell or positions of the one panel and the roof bodyshell. An interior space of the driver's cab is defined by coupling the adjacent panels to one another. The adjusting member adjusts a position of the driver's cab relative to the side bodyshell or the roof bodyshell. |
168 |
ASSEMBLY DEVICE FOR A SIDE WALL CLADDING ELEMENT OF A RAIL VEHICLE |
US14780621 |
2014-02-28 |
US20160031455A1 |
2016-02-04 |
TOBIAS KEHL |
A rail vehicle includes a side wall cladding element having at least one hook for hooking the side wall cladding element into a guide for securing purposes. The guide is connected in turn to a framework of the rail vehicle. |
169 |
Interior equipment installation structure for railcar |
US13994432 |
2011-12-09 |
US09238469B2 |
2016-01-19 |
Yuichirou Mitani; Takashi Azuma |
In the interior equipment installation structure for a railcar according to the present invention, a first installation member is mounted to a roof body shell along the car longitudinal direction or the car width direction. Second installation members are attached to the first installation member using mechanical fastening tools such as bolts with the positions of the second installation members adjusted in the up-down direction of the car. The second installation members are used for installing lighting appliances such as fluorescent lights, each has a size corresponding to each of the lighting appliances, and are continuously installed. There are portions in which plate members are overlapped with each other between respective adjacent ones of the second installation members, and hand strap receivers are installed in these portions. |
170 |
Railcar including heat-resistant floor |
US14006821 |
2011-03-23 |
US09233694B2 |
2016-01-12 |
Eiichi Kato; Chihiro Okayama; Seiichi Hayashi; Osamu Muragishi; Yuji Kamei; Shuichi Mizuma |
A railcar includes a heat-resistant floor, and the heat-resistant floor includes a floor panel, a heat absorbing layer provided under the floor panel and configured to absorb heat, and a supporting plate configured to support the heat absorbing layer from below. The supporting plate includes contacting portions each configured to contact the heat absorbing layer and separated portions each continuously formed from the contacting portion in a railcar width direction, separated downward from the heat absorbing layer, and extending in a railcar longitudinal direction. |
171 |
EQUIPMENT ENVELOPE FOR HOPPER WAGON |
US14768612 |
2014-02-18 |
US20160001787A1 |
2016-01-07 |
Richard Peter GIBNEY; David Thomas Turner; Paul HODGKINSON |
The present invention relates to an equipment envelope (10) for a hopper wagon. The equipment envelope comprises a housing (11) that is configured to define an enclosed cavity storage space (12) in a bulk commodities storage chamber of a hopper wagon body, in which hopper wagon control means and/or other component parts of the hopper wagon (30) can be housed for use. The equipment envelope may be configured to be arranged in the chamber such that it is located above a hopper wagon bogie (40), preferably adjacent a closable outlet. The equipment envelope may comprise a first end wall (111) that is configured to extend at a predetermined incline angle α towards the outlet. Depending on the configuration of the hopper wagon, the equipment housing may be configured to be located adjacent a further or alternative closable outlet. The equipment envelope may comprise a second end wall (112) that is configured to extend at a predetermined incline angle β towards the further outlet. The first end wall and second end may be configured to meet at an apex (14) such that the equipment envelope has a cross-sectional profile of a triangle, preferably a scalene triangle. A further aspect of the present invention relates to a hopper wagon comprising at least one equipment envelope. |
172 |
RAILROAD GONDOLA CAR STRUCTURE |
US14850260 |
2015-09-10 |
US20150375760A1 |
2015-12-31 |
James W. FORBES |
A gondola car has a body for lading carried on an underframe. The underframe includes a center sill and cross-bearers. The car has deep side beams having top chords, side sills, and side sheets. The lower portion of the car includes tubs that seat between the cross-bearers. The car may have an internal volume of more than 8000 cu. ft. The car may have rotary dump claw sockets. The car has opposed internal and external stiffeners aligned at the longitudinal stations of the cross-bearers. The internal stiffeners may be triangular cantilevers extending upwardly inside the side sheets. The side sheet lies intermediate the stiffeners and their flanges. The top chords may be wider in cross-section than the side sills. The side sills may define torque tubes that co-operate with the sidewall stiffeners and the top chords to resist lateral deflection. The car may include a false deck, or dog-house at one end to accommodate the brake reservoir and brake valve, such that the car is longitudinally asymmetric. |
173 |
Rail Vehicle |
US14764003 |
2014-01-20 |
US20150360702A1 |
2015-12-17 |
Ulrich KLEIN; Klaus PAFFRATH |
A rail vehicle includes at least one boarding area for passengers to board from and/or disembark onto a platform, at least one restroom area and at least one seating area. The floor in the seating area and the floor in the boarding area are raised or at least can be raised to a floor level higher than the floor level in the restroom area. A method of assembling a rail vehicle floor is also provided. |
174 |
SOUND ABSORBING PANEL |
US14646200 |
2013-10-31 |
US20150314794A1 |
2015-11-05 |
Yukio TAKAHASHI; Hiroki TSUNODA; Yuya FUTAMURA; Koichi HAYASHI; Naoya OZAWA; Masaki HASE; Naoyuki MARUYAMA |
Provided is a sound absorbing panel that can satisfy the heat resistance properties and melting/dripping resistance properties required inside of a railway vehicle. A pier sound absorbing panel includes five sheets of first through fifth glass cloths that are stacked on an aluminum base plate. The edge section of the fifth glass cloth is affixed to the rear surface of the base plate using an adhesive, and the first through fourth glass cloths are fastened using staples. In other words, the first glass cloth and the base plate are fixed using an adhesive, and this adhesive is prevented from melting by the five sheets of the first through fifth glass cloths. The adhesive that fixes the edge section of the fifth glass cloth at the other surface of the base plate is prevented from melting by the five sheets of the first through fifth glass cloths and the base plate. |
175 |
Roof structure for a vehicle |
US14228344 |
2014-03-28 |
US09126602B2 |
2015-09-08 |
Martin Bigras; Ross Patrick Myher; Timothy Raymond Smith; Sam Rostami |
There is provided a roof for a vehicle where each one of its right and left side wall has at least a first and a second door opening. The roof structure comprises a lattice structure and an outer shell. The lattice structure has two pairs of longitudinal segments adapted to be located at a top portion of the first and second door openings and two diagonal segments. One diagonal segment extends from a first longitudinal segment adapted to be located at the first door opening in the right wall to a second longitudinal segment adapted to be located at the second door opening in the opposite wall. The other diagonal segment extends from a first longitudinal segment adapted to be located at the first door opening in the left wall to a second longitudinal segment adapted to be located at the second door opening in the opposite wall. The outer shell is placed atop the lattice structure and extends from a region proximate the front end to a region proximate the rear end of the vehicle. |
176 |
Rail vehicle comprising an inner tank |
US14420420 |
2013-07-18 |
US20150210296A1 |
2015-07-30 |
Burkhard Arras |
A rail vehicle has a internal tank installed. A connection opening is provided on a base of the tank into which a tank closure can be inserted from the outside of the tank. The tank closure is mounted on an inner side of an unfolding, sack-shaped container, and an edge of the sack-shaped container is attached to a shaft which lies beneath the tank, in the base of the rail vehicle. |
177 |
Railcar |
US14000271 |
2012-02-17 |
US09067606B2 |
2015-06-30 |
Makoto Taguchi; Jin Kato; Aya Kojima; Keisuke Mizutani; Kenichi Koyama; Tetsuya Asaka; Takashi Ono; Takashi Azuma |
There is provided a railcar including a under frame, paired side bodyshell parts, and a roof bodyshell part. Strap bar receiving parts hanging downward from the roof bodyshell part are fixed to the roof bodyshell part. An upper horizontal member and a lower horizontal member are provided like bridges between the paired side bodyshell parts. The upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member are disposed at an interval in a vertical direction and connected by connection pipes. The upper horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes and the lower horizontal member is formed by a plurality of reinforcement pipes. At least one ends of the plurality of reinforcement pipes are fixed to the strap bar receiving parts. |
178 |
VEHICLE BODY |
US14400097 |
2013-04-04 |
US20150143673A1 |
2015-05-28 |
Adrian Biadatz; Bernd Gross; Sascha Kirchhoff |
A vehicle body, in particular a rail vehicle body, includes at least one body shell profile and at least one interior fitting connected to the body shell profile. The interior fitting is held on the body shell profile by at least one fastening element which is slipped or pushed onto the body shell profile using a clip section and clamped there. |
179 |
Freight car with lifting location and method |
US13745147 |
2013-01-18 |
US08973508B2 |
2015-03-10 |
Mohammed Al-Kaabi; Jamal Hematian; Meysam Safari |
A railroad freight car has lifting apparatus at the body bolsters of the car. In addition it has lifting interface members mounted to underlie the side sills near the wheel-well cut-outs of the side beams. The lifting interface members stand downwardly proud of adjacent structure and fasteners heads, such that when lifting apparatus, such as a hydraulic lift, is brought to bear it contacts the lifting interface member first, rather than damaging adjacent structure, be it the side sills themselves, lateral cross-members such as cross-bearers and cross-ties, or diagonal struts. It may also tend to prevent consequent damage to the end bulkheads. The lifting interface members may permit the replacement of wheelsets in the field. The lifting members may be sacrificial, such that they may be replaced when worn or damaged. |
180 |
FLOOR SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND A VEHICLE HAVING A CABIN AND A FLOOR MADE BY SUCH A FLOOR SYSTEM |
US14472557 |
2014-08-29 |
US20150061380A1 |
2015-03-05 |
Lars SCHOMACKER |
A floor system for a vehicle is provided. The floor system includes at least one floor panel having a top surface, a bottom surface and a first recess extending through the top surface, at least one primary coil device having at least one primary coil and a connection line, and at least one cover plate. The at least one primary coil device is positioned inside the first recess and the at least one cover plate is located in the recess above the at least one primary coil device so as to close the first recess flush with the top surface. It is possible to provide the at least one floor panel made from a carbon fibre reinforced material as it cannot electrically shield the at least one primary coil to a space above the top surface, when the at least one cover plate is made from a non-conductive material. |