10results about "Buffer cars" patented technology

To provide new technology to protect train drivers during collisions. [Solution] The driver's seat 10 of the railway vehicle is equipped with a turning mechanism (e.g., a rotating support mechanism 30) that can change the orientation of the front of the seat from a normal state to an emergency state which is the opposite direction to the normal state, and a deployment part (e.g., a lateral extension frame 27, a coil spring 28, a lateral extension stopper 70) that holds an auxiliary device (e.g., a footrest 80) for reducing injury to the driver 2 in the event of a collision in an unnecessary state in the normal state and deploys in conjunction with the turning mechanism to change to the emergency state.

A railroad car including a plurality of penetration resistant and protective structures including a penetration resistant and protective underframe, penetration resistant and protective first end, second end, and center bulkheads, penetration resistant and protective first, second, third, and fourth side walls, and protective first and second roof hatches, all configured to protect internal cylinder assemblies, the pipes that communicate the gas from the cylinders of the cylinder assemblies, and the safety critical valves, regulators, and other equipment connected to such cylinders and pipes of the railroad car in an accident (such as a derailment, crash and / or roll-over).

A passive safety protective bellows structure for rolling stock, a rolling stock and a method, which solve the problem in the prior art that bellows structures fail to effectively buffer carriages against compression therebetween, and have the beneficial effects of effectively resisting to impact force and avoiding secondary collisions. The specific solution is as follows: the passive safety protective bellows structure for rolling stock comprises a capsule (2); the capsule (2) is mounted on rolling stock by means of a bellows mounting base (18); an empty chamber (1) is formed between the capsule (2) and the bellows mounting base (18); an air curtain (5) is provided in the empty chamber (1); the air curtain (5) is expandable; the air curtain (5) is supported by means of a plurality of fixing devices (3); the fixing devices (3) are arranged in the circumferential direction of the rolling stock; each fixing device (3) comprises a fixing base (14) mounted on the bellows mounting base (18); each side of each fixing base (14) is movably connected to a support member by means of a rotatable member (19); an elastic member (13) is provided between the rotatable member (19) on each side and the fixing base (14); the support members are connected to a fixing cover (7), with a space (20) formed therebetween to limit the air curtain (5) while supporting the air curtain (5).

A railroad car including a plurality of penetration resistant and protective structures including a penetration resistant and protective underframe, penetration resistant and protective first end, second end, and center bulkheads, penetration resistant and protective first, second, third, and fourth side walls, and protective first and second roof hatches, all configured to protect internal cylinder assemblies, the pipes that communicate the gas from the cylinders of the cylinder assemblies, and the safety critical valves, regulators, and other equipment connected to such cylinders and pipes of the railroad car in an accident (such as a derailment, crash and / or roll-over).

A vehicle body collision energy absorption structure, comprising a front end collision energy absorption structure mounted at the front end of a head vehicle and a middle end collision energy absorption structure mounted at an end of a middle vehicle (14); the front end collision energy absorption structure comprises an airtight partition wall (4) connected to both a framework and a skin of driver's cab, a front end coupler (1) arranged below the airtight partition wall (4) along a central line of the vehicle body, front end anti-creepers (2) symmetrically distributed at two sides of the central line of the vehicle body and located below the airtight partition wall (4), and a front end energy absorption module (3), the front end energy absorption module (3) being mounted on the airtight partition wall (4) at a side deviating to the central line of the vehicle body; and the middle end collision energy absorption structure comprises a middle breakable coupler (10) mounted below a chassis, middle energy absorption modules (11) mounted at two sides of an end wall of the middle vehicle (14), and middle anti-creepers (12) located below the middle energy absorption modules (11) and corresponding to positions of side beams, wherein the length of the middle energy absorption modules (11) extends along the height direction of the end wall where the middle energy absorption modules are located. A rail vehicle, comprising a vehicle body collision energy absorption structure mounted at the head end of a vehicle body. Said structure can be used to improve the safety performance during vehicle collision while the existing urban rail vehicle platform remains unchanged.

The invention relates to a rail vehicle (10), in particular a rail vehicle (10) for the carriage of persons, with a car body structure (16) comprising a base structure (18), wherein the base structure (18) comprises a receiving structure (20) for receiving a reinforcement structure (22) and at least one first connecting device (23), wherein the reinforcement structure (22) comprises a plurality of reinforcement elements (82) to which at least one second connecting device (25) is assigned, and wherein the reinforcement structure (22) is modular and comprises a module structure (80), and wherein reinforcement elements (82) are and / or form module elements (84), wherein at least one second connecting device (25) of reinforcement elements (82) is provided for connection with the at least one first connecting device (23) of the base structure (18) and / or with at least one second connecting device (25) of reinforcement elements (82).

An enclosure system attachable to a railway vehicle to protect automobiles in the event of a collision. The enclosure system having an enclosure panel that is actuatable between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. A breakaway mechanism configured to allow certain components of enclosure system to release from the railway vehicle in the event of a collision with another railway vehicle to ensure the anticlimbers engage between the railway vehicles to prevent override. The enclosure system having a coupler centering assembly for maintaining a coupler in a forward position when the enclosure is in the deployed configuration.

A railway vehicle includes a carbody frame which includes a roof, a bottom side opposed to and spaced apart from the roof, two opposite sides, a front end face, and a rear end face opposite to the front end face. The roof, the bottom side, the two opposite sides and the front and rear end faces delimit altogether an inner space. One or more posts are positioned at at least one of the front and rear end faces and extend, along a substantially vertical axis, for at least a portion of a vertical distance existing between the roof and the bottom side. One or more crushable devices are connected to and extend along the substantially vertical axis for at least a predominant portion of the vertical extension of an associated post of the one or more posts.

The present invention relates to a vehicle interception device for capturing and blocking a moving vehicle, comprising: a base member having an upwardly facing first surface for receiving a moving vehicle thereon and an opposing second surface for a frictional engagement arrangement with the ground, the base component is not restrained on the ground; and an engagement member for engaging with a moving vehicle, the engagement member disposed on the first surface of the base member, where the base member and the engagement member are configured to engage with the moving vehicle, combine a mass of the moving vehicle with a mass of an interception device, and engage the mass of the interception device. The momentum is transmitted from the moving vehicle to the interception device, thereby decelerating the moving vehicle.