195results about "Elevated railway without suspended vehicle" patented technology

The invention is hollow structural members, a rail system based thereon and method of manufacturing such hollow structural members. Embodiments of the structural members may be hollow triangular prism-shaped with a cross-section that is triangular, isosceles, hexagonal or otherwise. Embodiments of rail systems based on hollow structural members are also disclosed. Embodiments of the rail systems disclosed herein may also include reaction assemblies for local dissipation of stresses due to thermal expansion of track materials.

The invention provides a trolley bus system and relates to the technical field of public transportation. The trolley bus system comprises a support, a track, a bus body and a power device. The support is erected over the road and extends in the length direction of the road. The track is erected on the upper surface of the support and extends in the extending direction of the support. The bus body is connected with the track and moves along the track relative to the support. The power device is arranged on the support and electrically connected with the bus body. A partition is arranged between the bus body and the road for vehicles on the road to run. According to the trolley bus system, the support is erected and paved with the track so that vehicles can run on the road surface and the space over the road respectively, and the transportation space of the city is developed. A power circuit is integrally fixed, and the disorder condition of the power circuit of a trolley bus is eradicated.

A transportation system is provided that accommodates varying angles of slope along the path of its movement, while maintaining a level transportation platform without the need of mechanical leveling devices or systems. The platform may be connected to the rail by wheels, the closest of which to the platform is above the rail, and the other below the rail. Accordingly, the platform is torqued downward to maintain contact between the wheels and the rail. As the slope of the terrain, and thus the rail, increases, the rail is widened to maintain the platform at level. As the slope decreases, the rail is narrowed to the same effect. The platform also may be tilted for loading or unloading by this rail-widening method, as may be desired.

A mass transit system includes a plurality of pedestal-mounted rings which provide a support through which a vehicle travels. The pedestals are spaced apart on the ground, but no rail or connecting structure on or above ground is required. An underground conduit carries electrical and communications cable that connects the pedestals together. The rings include a plurality of rollers to drive, guide and stabilize the vehicle at lower speeds. For higher speeds flywheels are mounted on the pedestals. The flywheels are preferably driven by an electrical motor, which engages a friction or clutch plate on the vehicle separate from the rings. The friction plate or linear clutch is mounted separate from the rings on the vehicle and is lowered to engage and disengage the flywheel. The flywheel is also mounted on a shock absorber to smooth the travel of the vehicle.

The invention provides a public transport system which adopts an existing advanced technology, and meets the requirements of densely-populated large-sized and medium-sized cities. The public transport system comprises a straddle type single rail, a suspension type single rail and a combined type strip-shaped rail beam body. A straddle type single rail body serves as a template of the straddle type single rail, an air rail train serves as a template of the suspension type single rail, and supporting columns of the combined type strip-shaped rail beam body are reversed-L-shaped. Due to the fact that a rail beam of the straddle type single rail and a rail beam of the suspension type single rail are combined on the same line, the upper-straddle and lower-suspension mode is adopted, the supporting columns on the line are shared, two trains can be supported to travel in the same direction, even the two trains can also be supported to travel on the same single rail in the opposite directions, the usage rate of the rail is increased, the public transport system is a high-efficiency resource type urban rail transport system, and meanwhile the public transport system has the advantages of being small in occupied area and high in use ratio of space, reducing construction cycle and construction cost, being low in influence on sunlight and the like.

An elevator installation includes a guide rail and brake equipment for guiding, holding and braking the elevator installation. The brake equipment has a brake lining which co-operates with a brake surface, advantageously with the brake surface of the guide rail, for the purpose of the braking and holding. The brake surface has at least one longitudinal wedge groove or wedge elevation which is oriented in the braking direction and on which the brake lining acts in case of need. An amplification of the braking force is achieved by the longitudinal wedge groove or wedge elevation.

A guideway system and method of operating a guideway is included comprising a guideway with entrance and exit ramps and vehicles having both a smooth, servo-based primary steering systems based upon proximity sensing of the side of the guideway and a backup mechanical steering system. The backup steering system is selectively engaged and disengaged based on location with respect to the entrance and exit ramps and provides vehicle wheel steering in the event of a failure of the primary servo steering system. The backup steering comprises one or more vertical members affixed to the guideway and one or more steering elements engageable with the member(s). The elements may be pivoted into and out of backup steering engagement.

An apparatus for conveying conveyable material. The apparatus includes a plurality of cars joined together by a plurality of spacers. The spacers couple the cars a fixed distance apart to form a shuttle. The shuttle is guided along a track between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the shuttle is aligned with a first group of supports. The shuttle in the first position receives conveyable material from the supports. The shuttle in the second position is aligned with a second group of supports. The shuttle disposes the conveyable material from each of the cars carrying the conveyable material to the second group of supports. A drive means repeatedly drives the shuttle between the first position and the second position. The cars remain the fixed distance apart during the driving between the first position and the second position.

The invention discloses a transportation vehicle, and particularly relates to a traffic system equipped with tracks. The vehicle of the invention is provided with two sets of track wheels: one set of narrow track wheel and one set of wide track wheel, wherein, the narrow track wheel is suitable for two tracks with a smaller space, and the wide track wheel is suitable for two tracks with a larger smaller space, the position of the narrow track wheel is fixed, the position of the wide track wheel can be axially switched internally and externally. The fork of the used track adopts upper and lower layer structures, the main track generally adopts narrow gauge (wide gauge can also be adopted), the upper fork adopts wide gauge, and the lower layer adopts narrow gauge; the running path at the fork is decided by the vehicle, when the wide track wheel is switched to the inside position, the vehicle selects to run on the lower fork; and when the wide track wheel is switched to the outside position, the vehicle selects to run on the upper fork.

The invention relates to an urban rail transportation mechanism, in particularly a straddle monorail personal fast transportation mechanism. The mechanism comprises a rail girder with a switch beam and a rail car. The rail car is equipped with a travel wheel traveling on the top surface of the rail girder and a guide wheel moving on the two sides of the rail girder. The invention is characterized in that the switch beam is equipped with a vertical guide wheel axle channel and a horizontal guide wheel channel. The rail car is equipped with a rise-and-fall guide wheel axle. The invention relates to a straddle monorail personal fast transportation mechanism, utilizes a prestressed concrete beam as the rail girder, utilizes a miniature rail car such as four seats, adopts the design of special switch and car to enable the car to rapidly pass through the switch, thereby forming the cross-line transportation and the straddle monorail transportation network, enabling passengers to directly arrive the destination without changing car, and realizing the point-to-point service.

A lobed bushing is provided for a track assembly of a track-type machine. The track assembly includes a first chain and a second chain coupled together with a track pin. A bushing, defining a longitudinal axis, includes a central bore oriented along the longitudinal axis and extending from a first end of the bushing to a second end of the bushing for receiving the track pin. The bushing includes a first lobe positioned at a first location about the longitudinal axis and a second lobe positioned at a second location about the longitudinal axis that is less than about 180° from the first location. The first end of the bushing has a substantially cylindrical shape.

An electrically powered vehicle transportation system utilizes a guideway with parallel enclosed rails. Each enclosed rail has an electrical bus bar for supplying power to vehicles on the guideway. The guideway will accommodate dual-mode vehicles that are capable of usage on conventional streets as well as on the guideway. The guideway also accommodates conventional vehicles and ferries that operate only on the guideway. The dual-mode vehicle has a body with axles that are extensible. The axles move from a retracted position, with the wheels recessed within the wheel wells, to an extended position. In the extended position, the wheels locate within the enclosed rails. Conventional vehicles and freight are carried on ferries that move along the guideways.

The invention relates to a banded transportation junction formed by paralleling parallel elevated road stations and elevated railway stations, belonging to the technical field of railway station construction and aiming at solving the problem of inconvenience brought about for people by the conditions that the stations of various transport means of a large-scale integrated transportation junction are excessively concentrated, a scale is excessively huge, and transport is separated from commerce. The parallel elevated road stations are arranged parallel to one or more than one elevated railway station at short distances to form the banded transport hub; stop stations of island platforms of the parallel elevated road stations correspond to entrances/exits of the elevated railway stations, and passengers can take buses which are convenient for positive-direction and reverse-direction transfer on parallel elevated roads to reach and leave the entrances/exits of elevated railway stations on which the passengers need to take; and when the parallel elevated road stations are parallel to the elevated railway stations in an overlapping way, the parallel elevated road stations are positioned below the elevated railway stations.

The present disclosure relates to a transitional mode high speed rail system. The high speed rail infrastructure employed by the system is constructed adjacent a conventional host highway. The infrastructure can be provided adjacent to acceleration/deceleration lanes, or emergency parking/paved shoulder lanes. The vehicles used by the system are individual, self-powered, self-operating, individual mass passenger transport vehicles similar in size and appearance to municipal buses. These are transitional mode vehicles because they operate as railroad vehicles on the high speed rail infrastructure, but transition to automotive vehicle mode traveling on ordinary paved roads. They are mass passenger transport vehicles because many passengers can be accommodated.

The invention relates to an intelligent rail transit system. The intelligent rail transit system includes a track, a terminal device, a cloud, and a plurality of single transport cabins running on the track, wherein the track includes a main track and a The parking station track, the number of the parking station track is at least one; the cloud establishes communication with the single transport cabin through a wireless network; the terminal device controls the single transport cabin via the cloud, the The single transport cabin regularly reports status information to the cloud. The track line of the intelligent rail transit system of the present invention is a three-dimensional intersection without traffic jams. It can run all-time and all-weather, and automatically plans the best running route, realizing point-to-point efficient and accurate transportation, and can quickly transport passengers directly from the starting point It is sent to the destination covered by the rail network; it adopts unmanned driving technology, which makes the operation safer and more efficient. The intelligent rail transit system is small in volume, light in structure, convenient in construction, short in period and low in cost.

The invention discloses a delivery vehicle with an embedded driving-cab connection interface. The delivery vehicle comprises a compartment, a vehicle lamp system, and pneumatic tyres at front-rear rows. The delivery vehicle is characterized by comprising a connection interface of an embedded driving cab, wherein the embedded driving cab comprises a direction control system, a power storage-battery box, the vehicle lamp system, an electrical connection interface of electric wheel groups of the delivery vehicle, and a control-signal connection interface of the electric wheel groups of the delivery vehicle; one hydraulic regulating device is arranged between each of the pneumatic tyres at the front-rear rows and the compartment. The invention provides low-environment-load transportation equipment for food energy which can be provided in vast undeveloped land.

Disclosed is a transportation system with integrated infrastructure. In one embodiment, this infrastructure takes the form of a hollow elevated load bearing guideway structure designed to support the weight of traveling vehicles. The structure supports a backbone beam, or rail, that has multiple functions. These functions may include vehicle control, security, and energy delivery. The structure is bimodal meaning vehicles can have wheels like cars or steel rimmed wheels like a train or any combination thereof.

A tram has a lead vehicle and one or more trailing vehicles coupled to it. Each vehicle has sets of front and rear wheels, both sets being steerable independently of the other. A manual controller provides signals to a processor in the lead vehicle, which in turn steers the front and rear wheels along a desired path. A processor on the first trailing vehicle controls front and rear servos to steer its wheels according to the path of the rear wheels of the leading vehicle. The second trailing vehicle has a processor that steers its front and rear wheels according to information provided by the first leading vehicle. Steering sensors on the vehicles sense distance to a steering rail while the vehicles are on a guideway and provide signals to the processors for automatic steering. While on a guideway, the tram uses power collectors to transfer power from the guideway.

A transportation system includes a vehicle having wings, a propulsion system, a lifting gear coupling the vehicle to an undercarriage, and a guidance assembly movably connecting the undercarriage to guide rails. The wings generate aerodynamic lift when the vehicle exceeds a first speed. The lifting gear supports a load of the vehicle in a first position in relation to the undercarriage when the vehicle travels at less than the first speed, allows the vehicle to lift to a second position in relation to the undercarriage as the vehicle accelerates beyond the first speed, and maintains the vehicle in the second position when the vehicle exceeds the first speed. The guidance assembly shiftingly engages the guide rails through rollers that are in rolling contact with the guide rails when the vehicle is in the first position and are displaced from the guide rails when the vehicle is in the second position.

The invention relates to an urban overhead double-rail wide-body airbus which is composed of overhead rails and a wide-body airbus body. Each overhead rail is composed of an upright 9 and a rail beam 10, each two overhead rails which are parallel are in one group, the wide-body airbus body 1 runs above each group of the overhead rails which are respectively set up on two sides of a middle line of a highway, and the wide-body airbus bodies 1 on two groups of the rails can travel in opposite directions.