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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7966942 | Flexible steel girder and switch assembly producer therewith for magnetic levitation railways The invention relates to a bending mount (24) for a switch arrangement for magnetically levitated railways. The bending mount comprises at least a box-shaped support element (25) that extends in the longitudinal direction (x) and on which are fixed suc... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7640863 | System for storage and retrieval of warehousable objects A track system for storage and retrieval of materials for use with warehousing vehicle that rides upon tracks in horizontal configuration for storage locations, and that is capable of switching to and riding a sloped track to ascend or descend vertically. A set of t... | 01/05/2010 |
| 6564722 | Transfer system A transport system includes a traveling rail (1) which constitutes a transport route and a transport body (3) which is capable of traveling on the traveling rail in the longitudinal direction of the traveling rail. Flexible drive tubes (5) are arranged on... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6354224 | Conveyor system switch using tubular linear induction motor A conveyor switch for a conveyor track comprising a tubular linear induction motor as the switch drive. A switch tongue is adapted to be pivoted between first and second positions on the conveyor track and has a driving arm extending from one end thereof.... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354225 | Line-changing device for tracks of a magnetic levitation train A track-alternating arrangement for magnetic-levitation roadways, in which one of a series of mutually aligned bearers in each roadway establishes a first junction to join the roadways together. The bearer is inflectable to form the first junction. Each b... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6279484 | Actuating mechanism for a transit vehicle guide beam switch A mechanism is disclosed for actuating a switch guide beam swinging laterally between two or more fixed guide beam ends, in order to make a route selection for a beam guided vehicle. The moving guide beam pivots distantly of the primary fixed guide beam e... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6213269 | Power supply for a longitudinal stator drive A power supply system for a long-stator drive having at least two independent tracks, which each have at least one long-stator section and which can be connected to one another using at least one track-changing device, the long-stator sections being split... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5499583 | Railway switch A railway switch has a rightward switch position for coupling a track with a right track and a leftward switch position for coupling the track with a left track. Each track has a right rail and a left rail. The switch has a first or right rail of the righ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5287811 | Flexible branching apparatus in superconducting magnetically levitated railway having variable cross-section main flexible beam A flexible branching apparatus in a superconducting magnetically levitated railway having a U-shaped guideway includes a flexible main beam, which is integrally disposed along the guideway at the center thereof and has cross-sectional rigidity that gradua... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5199674 | Multi-articulation switch A switch for connecting a main track girder selectively to any of a plurality of branch track girders includes a plurality of movable girders with articulations between adjacent movable track girders and between the main track girder and one of the movabl... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5156092 | Dual track permanent way The invention concerns a dual rail track permanent way for a wheel/rail system and a magnetic rail system whose carriages are of a height which lies within the clearance profile of track, the guiding magnets are situated inside the span of the carrier mag... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5094172 | Rail switch for vehicle tracking systems, particularly for magnetic levitation train tracking systems A rail switch point element for a track system has a longitudinal axis of rotation and is rotatable about the axis to selectively switch between a straight ahead and a turnout position. A first straight track piece has first and second orthogonal planar s... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4870906 | Dual switch system for common use by track guided rail vehicles and magnetic vehicles The invention relates to a dual track system for rail vehicles and magnetic vehicles. To enable this track system to be used in common by conventional wheel-and-track vehicles and magnetic vehicles, switches are needed by which both types of vehicle can b... | 10/03/1989 |
