350results about "Refuge islands" patented technology

An IC chip and a minute antenna for conducting transmission with a weak radio wave are mounted on a male connector. An auxiliary antenna for amplifying the weak radio wave emitted by the minute antenna and transmitting the amplified radio wave is mounted on a female connector. If the male connector is fitted into the female connector normally, then the distance between the minute antenna and the auxiliary antenna becomes 1.0 mm or less, and consequently the weak radio wave transmitted by the minute antenna is amplified by the auxiliary antenna and transmitted to the outside. Unless fitting is conducted normally, then the distance between the minute antenna and the auxiliary antenna becomes longer than 1.0 mm, and consequently the weak radio wave emitted the minute antenna is not amplified and transmitted. By receiving the information stored on the IC chip, the fitting state of the connectors can be checked.

An autonomous personal transportation system for moving passengers and light freights is constructed with a track network and small vehicles on the track network. There are a number of stations and stops for loading and unloading on side tracks off the mainline of the track network. The vehicle width is limited to a dimension for one seat. The vehicles can be coupled statically or dynamically to form a train. The track has side rails for the rigid wheels of the vehicle and a central rail for centering the vehicle on the guideway and providing additional acceleration and braking capability. The control system for the movement of vehicles is divided into three levels: the central control system, the wayside control system and the vehicle control system.

Branched, amorphous, polyester-based macropolyols having a narrow molecular weight distribution and a process for making the macropolyol.

A transit boarding platform panel comprising a base portion formed from a reinforced composite polymer. The base portion has a top deck and a bottom plate, a first end, a second end, a first side and second side. Between the top deck and bottom plate are a series of internal longitudinal and cross support members. The top deck has a central section and opposite end sections. Detectable warning tiles are mounted to the top surfaces of the end sections. The top surface of the central section has a slip resistant surface. Positive drainage is provided by the top deck to facilitate runoff of any precipitation and prevent standing pools of water. Positive drainage is further provided by the interface between adjacent panels utilizing a ship lap configuration with a drainage channel beneath the joint between adjacent panels.

A vehicular impact absorbing apparatus includes a pair of tubular guide rails having a guide slit longitudinally formed at the upper part of each guide rail fixed to the ground. Sliders are movably mounted in the guide rail at predetermined intervals, the upper part of each slider is laid on the upper part of the guide rail through the guide slit. Cushion units are mounted on the upper part of each slider. Each cushion unit is elastically deformed by vehicular impact while retracting along the guide rail. Cushion pins are mounted across the guide rails at predetermined intervals between the sliders that also absorb the kinetic energy of an impact by being broken by the rearward retracting slider. A stopper is installed around the rear end of the guide rail for stopping the retracting cushion units. A successive cushion and deceleration of the impact is possible in this arrangement.

The invention provides a step device for a platform, capable of shortening a time when the position of linear motion guided is adjusted on site. The step device (1) for the platform comprises a housing (3) imbedded into the platform (100), a frame (4) arranged in the housing (3) in a free advance and retreat way and provided with a step (2) at the top of the advancing direction, a plurality of linear motion guides (5) for guiding the frame (4) in the advancing and retreating direction, a driving mechanism (6) for forcing the frame (4) to advance and retreat and an installing plate (7) fixed with the linear motion guides (5).

A combined wall and door assembly includes a static wall assembly including a segmented support frame with a rectilinear shape. The static wall assembly further includes a plurality of transparent fiberglass panels directly coupled to the support frame and spaced along an entire longitudinal length of the support frame. The assembly further includes a mechanism for automatically biasing the access doors between open and closed positions when the subway train arrives and leaves a train terminal respectively such that passengers are prohibited from premature ingress and egress of the subway train during a schedule stop.

A transit system for individual vehicles includes a substantially enclosed guideway with a transit lane and a transition lane. Disposed along the guideway are selectively actuable portals, configured to allow substantially transverse ingress and egress of vehicles into the transition lane. The vehicles are configured for automatic control within the guideway and during ingress and egress, and may also be configured for independent control by a driver outside the guideway. In the transition lane the vehicles accelerate to a transit speed and merge into the adjacent transit lane. Upon approaching a selected destination portal, an individual vehicle merges back into the transition lane to decelerate for exit. The guidance system allows the vehicles to combine into controllably linked "trains" in the transit lane.

The invention discloses a method for constructing a subway station by enlarging and digging a shield tunnel by adopting a mining method. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) firstly advancing a platform layer tunnel passing through a station by adopting a shield machine; (2) excavating a vertical well to elevation of the platform layer tunnel of the station at one end of the station; (3) constructing along with a tunnel vault and manufacturing a pipe shed, perforating by adopting a large pipe shed advance support and grouting; (4) constructing along with the tunnel vault and manufacturing a sleeve valve pipe, and grouting for complementing and reinforcing; (5) enlarging and digging in the platform layer tunnel by adopting the mining method; (6) dismounting and recovering pipe pieces; and (7) constructing and manufacturing a concrete structure comprising a secondary lining, a platform plate and a rail head wind channel. In the invention, the shield machine participates in construction of the subway station, a cave is firstly excavated, then an underground station is enlarged, excavated and constructed by adopting the mining method, respective advantages of the shield machine and the mining method are fully played, and waste of equipment and underground space resource caused by a special large-diameter shield machine is avoided.

A highway crash barrier includes a collision sensor that detects when a vehicle collides with the crash barrier. A transmitter is coupled with the collision sensor to transmit a radio frequency signal to a remote location when this collision sensor detects a collision. This radio frequency signal includes a fault message that is forwarded automatically to a user responsible for maintenance of the crash barrier. A camera is controlled in response to the collision sensor to store an image of the crash barrier shortly after the collision.

[OBJECT]To greatly reduce the passenger and freight traffic on highways and greatly reduce the consumption of petroleum due to short-distance domestic air traffic by the use of railway, so as to contribute to energy saving and mitigation of air pollution, and reduce the transportation costs through high speed and efficient transportation of people and goods. [SOLUTION MEANS]Railroad are constructed in uninhabited areas to connect a plurality of cities, with no stations constructed on the main tracks and railway interchanges are constructed instead that are provided with side tracks branching out from the main tracks or leading to the main tracks, so that a train bound to a particular town is directed through the railway interchange to a terminal constructed outside the town.

The boarding-alighting port of a train having different door positions is made consistent with the open portion of a platform door according to the type of train to allow passengers to get on and off the train safely and smoothly. The platform door 1 includes a door pocket 5 provided in an end portion of a platform 80 so as to face to a train arriving at the platform 80, and door bodies 7a and 7b advancing and retreating through an opening of the door pocket 5. The opening through which the door bodies 7a and 7b advance and retreat is formed at both ends of the door pocket 5 in the advance/retreat direction of the door bodies 7a and 7b, the length in the advance/retreat direction of the door bodies 7a and 7b is made longer than the length of the door pocket 5 between both ends, and the platform door 1 is arranged so that the opening of the door body 7a, 7b is adjusted so as to correspond to the door opening of the train. The opening of the door body7a, 7b is controlled by a control unit according to the door arrangement information of the train arriving at the platform.

A system for transporting cargo includes a cargo terminal having a pair of longitudinal sides, at least one of the pair of longitudinal sides disposed adjacent to and spaced a predetermined distance from a railway track and at least one railcar positioned at a predetermined acute angle relative to the at least one of the pair of longitudinal sides of the cargo terminal and having one end thereof disposed in close proximity thereto so as to enable loading or unloading such cargo through such one end of such at least one railcar. A network of at least two cargo terminals and a method of intermodal cargo transporting are also provided.

An apparatus that provides selectively deployable worker access with fall protection to at least a portion of the top of a container has a gangway that is configured to be retrofitted to an elevated platform from which the gangway and a fall protection cage is selectively deployable over the top of the container. The fall protection cage is connected to the gangway via a fixed stanchion and an abutment that is adjustably disposed outboard of the fixed stanchion and connected thereto via at least one selectively length adjustable screw member.

An automatic crossbar on a ski chair-lift for containing seated passengers and facilitating dismounting passengers. A vertically elongated bar (20) with a cross (20a) attached at its base is pivotably suspended from a passenger chair, positioning the crossbar in front of passengers. An elastic closure attachment (9), and/or an automatic locking mechanism (60), is attached between the elongated bar and the chair to retain the crossbar in a closed position and contain passengers. A blocking structure (200) is suspended proximal to the aerial cable above the landing platform. The elongated bar has an upper portion (20v) above its pivotal mount (21b) which impacts the blocking structure as the aerial cable moves the chair forward. The impact causes the upper portion to rotate back as the lower portion and crossbar are levered forward and upward. As the crossbar swings forward from the chair, passengers grasp the crossbar to balance with while standing onto the landing platform.