IP Library Granted Patent US 9,994,240
Granted Patent B2
US 9,994,240 · App. 14/770,523 · Granted Jun 12, 2018

Chassis for rail vehicles

Inventors: Andreas Haigermoser (Oberhaag, AT); David Kreuzweger (Graz, AT); Olaf Koerner (Nuremberg, DE); Christian Kueter (Stattegg, AT); Hugo Rackl (Stattegg, AT); Andreas Schaefer-Enkeler (Roettenbach, DE); Peter Seitz (Pommelsbrunn, DE); Martin Teichmann (Graz, AT)
Assignee: Siemens AG Österreich
B61F1/06B61C9/50B61C17/00B61F5/308
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Patent No.
US 9,994,240
App. No.
14/770,523
Granted
Jun 12, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A chassis for rail vehicles, particularly with inside-supported wheelsets, wherein the drive unit is elastically supported transversely to the travel direction via spring devices within the chassis frame, where the vibrational behavior is optimized and the space available for the drive unit is enlarged because the spring devices are supported directly on the housing of the bearing of the wheelset.

Claims (23)

1. A chassis for rail vehicles in which wheelsets with a drive unit are supported in a chassis frame;

wherein at least parts of the drive unit are moveably elastically supported transversely to a travel direction via spring devices which permit lateral movement of the drive unit perpendicularly to the travel direction and in the vertical direction; and

wherein each of the spring devices is fastened to a housing of at least one bearing of the wheelsets.

2. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a damper element is fastened between the housing of the at least one bearing of the wheelsets and the drive unit.

3. The chassis as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the spring device also allows vertically absorbed movements in addition to transverse elastic lateral movements.

4. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a damper element is fastened between the chassis frame and the drive unit.

5. The chassis as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the spring device also allows vertically absorbed movements in addition to transverse elastic lateral movements.

6. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring device also allows vertically absorbed movements in addition to transverse elastic lateral movements.

7. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring device comprises a vertical support fastened to the housing of the wheel bearing, upon which elastic elements are arranged, and against which flange-type lugs connected to the drive unit laterally abut.

8. The chassis as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the vertical support comprises a steel sleeve fastened to a support surface of the housing of the at least one bearing and the lugs have a hole for receiving the steel sleeve and stop surfaces in a region of the hole on the bottom and top sides; and

wherein the lugs are clamped in the region of the hole between two annular elements comprising elastic material and these elastic annular elements rest laterally on the stop surfaces, so that the drive unit can implement elastically lateral transverse and vertical movements via the lugs.

9. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring device comprises a connector fastened in an essentially horizontally arranged hole of the housing of the at least one bearing, in which connector the lugs embodied as bolts and protruding from the drive unit are arranged between elastic elements.

10. The chassis as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the lugs of the drive unit form as bolts are arranged on both sides of a shaft of the wheelset and vertically at a distance.

11. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the drive unit is fastened to the chassis frame via motor support bearings as a torque support.

12. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two lugs of the drive unit are arranged parallel opposite to one another at a height of the shaft of the wheel set or laterally offset with respect to both sides of the shaft of the wheelset.

13. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one lug of the drive unit extends at an angle to the shaft of the shaft of the wheelset.

14. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two lugs are fastened laterally on the drive unit on both sides of the shaft of the wheelset, said lugs being connected to the housing of the at least one bearing of the wheelset via the spring device.

15. The chassis as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the wheelsets are inside-supported wheelsets.

16. A chassis for rail vehicles in which wheelsets with a drive unit are supported in a chassis frame;

wherein at least parts of the drive unit are moveably elastically supported transversely to a travel direction via spring devices comprising a vertical support fastened to a housing of the wheel bearing, upon which elastic elements are arranged, and against which flange-type lugs connected to the drive unit laterally abut; and

wherein each of the spring devices is fastened to a housing of at least one bearing of the wheelsets;

wherein the vertical support comprises a steel sleeve fastened to a support surface of the housing of the at least one bearing and the flange-type lugs have a hole for receiving the steel sleeve and stop surfaces in a region of the hole on the bottom and top sides; and

wherein the flange-type lugs are clamped in the region of the hole between two annular elements comprising elastic material and these elastic annular elements rest laterally on the stop surfaces, so that the drive unit can implement elastically lateral transverse and vertical movements via the flange-type lugs.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 17, 2019
From: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
To: SIEMENS MOBILITY AUSTRIA GMBH
Reel/Frame 051322/0650 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 14, 2019
From: SIEMENS AG OESTERREICH
To: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
Reel/Frame 049178/0989 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2015
From: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
To: SIEMENS AG OESTERREICH
Reel/Frame 036812/0605 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2015
From: KOERNER, OLAF; SCHAEFER-ENKELER, ANDREAS; SEITZ, PETER
To: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 036812/0763 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2015
From: HAIGERMOSER, ANDREAS; KREUZWEGER, DAVID; KUETER, CHRISTIAN; RACKL, HUGO; TEICHMANN, MARTIN
To: SIEMENS AG OESTERREICH
Reel/Frame 036813/0051 →
Priority Claims (1)
AT A 50152/2013 · Mar 6, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160001793A1 · Jan 7, 2016