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US 11,466,411 · App. 16/335,809 · Granted Oct 11, 2022

Machine for track maintenance, manually displaceable on a track

Inventor: Otto Widlroither (Freilassing, DE)
Assignee: ROBEL Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH
E01B31/17B23P19/06E01B29/24E01B29/32E01B2203/141
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Patent No.
US 11,466,411
App. No.
16/335,809
Granted
Oct 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A machine for track maintenance is manually displaceable on a track. The machine has a work module with a handle, a working tool powered by a drive and a machine frame configured to be guided on a rail of the track. The work module is detachably connected to an energy module and the energy module has an electrical energy store and output contacts. The output contacts are detachably connected to input contacts of the work module. The work module has as the drive an electric motor supplied with electrical energy from the energy store. This solution results in a high degree of overall efficiency because the energy available in the energy store serves for the largest part for covering performance peaks.

Claims (16)

1. A machine for track maintenance is manually displaceable on a track, the machine comprising:

a work module having a handle, an electric motor, a working tool powered by said electric motor, input contacts and a machine frame configured for guiding on a rail of the track; and

an energy module detachably connected to said work module, said energy module having an electrical energy store and output contacts, said output contacts detachably connected to said input contacts of said work module and said electric motor being supplied with electrical energy from said electrical energy store;

said energy module having a generator, a charger and a combustion engine coupled to said generator, and said generator being connected to said charger for charging said electrical energy store.

2. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein:

said work module has a first mechanical receiving device and input contacts are integrated in said first mechanical receiving device; and

said energy module has a second mechanical connecting device and said output contacts are integrated in said second mechanical connecting device.

3. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said electrical energy store has a super capacitor.

4. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said electrical energy store has an accumulator.

5. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said work module has a distributing device with an output, said input contacts are connected to said distributing device and to said output of said distributing device said electric motor is connected.

6. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said electric motor is a brushless electric motor.

7. The machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a detachable data cable and said work module is connected to said energy module by said detachable data cable.

8. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said electrical energy store has a capacity with which the electrical energy required for a work cycle of the machine is covered with an approximately constant performance of said combustion engine.

9. The machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a machine controller configured as a memory-programmable controller.

10. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said work module has a grinder for grinding the rail.

11. The machine according to claim 1 , wherein said work module has a screwing-device or a clipping device for detaching and affixing rail fastenings of the track.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 31, 2021
From: WIDLROITHER, OTTO
To: ROBEL BAHNBAUMASCHINEN GMBH
Reel/Frame 055785/0814 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 202016005841.0 · Sep 22, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200024809A1 · Jan 23, 2020