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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7644664 | Track guided vehicle system Guide tracks 56, 56 projecting in a vertical direction are provided in a right and left of a running track 50 and left and right guide rollers 20, 21 are provided on a track guided vehicle and guided using inner surfaces of the left and right gu... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7360443 | Test bench and method for carrying out aerodynamic measurements on vehicles A test bench for carrying out aerodynamic measurements on vehicles is equipped with at least one contact surface for detecting the vehicle weight, a running belt for simulating the roadway moving under the vehicle, and at least one measuring device for determining f... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7137494 | Device for the contactless transfer of electrical energy A device with which electrical energy can be transferred from a power cable running along a stationary rail of a transport system to a moving element that can be driven along the rail. Each moving element has for this purpose a transfer head which works inductively ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6742458 | Machine for transport of passengers and cargo 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... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6679535 | Safety wheel, method of manufacturing such a wheel and bogie equipped with such a wheel This invention relates to a safety wheel, for a subway coach bogie, or the like, running on pneumatic tires, adapted to be interposed between a chassis of the bogie and a corresponding tire, said wheel presenting an outer peripheral zone having a braking ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6564721 | Rail transport system The rail transport system may generally be an elevated rail system that may be located along existing transportation right of ways such as roads, railroads, rivers, etc. While the system is generally structured for elevated roadways, it may also have surf... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6557676 | Innovia vehicle lock-on device Disclosed is a lock-on device including a member and a grounding pad. A first end of the member is configured to be connected to a guide frame of a rail vehicle. The grounding pad is attached to a second end of the member. The grounding pad may be attache... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6477963 | Apparatus and method for steering a guideway vehicle A steering apparatus is provided for use on a transit vehicle (10) which includes separate steerable drive tires (45, 50) intended to follow the contour of a guide rail (20). An adjustable linkage (80) transmits the motion of a guide frame (65) following ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477964 | Guide system for a forklift A guide system for a forklift includes a single guide rail extending along a path and rollers mounted on the forklift for engagement with opposite sides of the rail. The rollers can move down the rail as the wheels on the forklift become worn.... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6450103 | Monorail system A monorail system for passenger and light freight transportation provides a support structure with an essentially planar top surface and a stabilizer guide rail having a vertical web portion supporting a head portion. The head guides a vehicle along the t... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6431082 | Guide wheel assembly A guide wheel assembly, which can be preassembled as a single unit, is configured to be connectable to a guide frame of a rail guided vehicle. The guide wheel assembly generally includes a fixed component connectable to the guide frame and a rotating comp... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6418855 | Industrial truck An industrial truck (1) is driven by a friction drive (7) acting on a rail (6). For this purpose, the industrial truck (1) stands on the underlying surface by way of a front steering-roller pair (3) and a rear fixed-roller pair (5) and is kept on track by... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6401625 | Machine for transport of passengers and cargo 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... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6374748 | Tracking cart system A guide rail 2 having cables for non-contact power feeding is laid on a floor 22 in a clean room, and the guide rail 2 serves to guide each of guide rollers 60 of a tracking cart 4, and the cable serves to feed electrical power to a pickup coil of a track... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6363860 | Two-way guiding assembly along a rail for a road axle lateral offset A two-way assembly consisting of a chassis-frame (11) formed by two branches (17) and (18) articulated pivoting about two end pins (21) and (22) each bearing two inclined guide rollers (14) along a rail (8). The chassis-frame (11) is longitudinally movabl... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6308640 | Transportation vehicle steering apparatus A guidance apparatus is used on a transit vehicle which includes separate steerable drive tires operated by a central guidance platform having four peripherally mounted wheels follow the contour of a guide rail. The guide wheels are spaced above the roadw... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6308636 | In-vehicle switch mechanism An in-vehicle switch mechanism for guiding a vehicle along a guideway at converging and diverging points of the guide rails in a guided vehicle system includes a support frame; a pivot assembly; a switch arm assembly pivotably mounted at its proximate end... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6298791 | Lateral suspension assembly for a guided vehicle system A lateral suspension assembly for a guided vehicle system includes a pair of lateral wheel housings each including a lateral wheel rotatable about spaced vertical axes for engaging spaced opposing guide rails of the guided system; a lateral limit link for... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6264330 | Self-propelled camera dolly A camera positioning system comprising a track having two parallel outer rails and a center rail, a self-propelled camera positioning device comprising a chassis configured to support a camera, wheels coupled to the chassis for riding on the outer rails o... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6237504 | Guideway transit system and automated vehicle used in this system A guideway transit system which can reduce a scale of an infrastructure while maintaining ride comfort for passengers of a vehicle is provided. The guideway transit system includes a noncontact vehicle guiding system and a contact vehicle guiding system. ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6182576 | Monorail system A monorail system for passenger and light freight transportation provides a support structure with an essentially planar top surface and a stabilizer guide rail having a vertical web portion supporting a head portion. The head guides a vehicle along the t... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6170403 | Boat for spill water raft rides A boat for spillwater raft rides or similar rides having running gear includes running wheels and lateral guide wheels to accept a force exerted by a portion of the track. A safety device is provided that consists of safety wheels or runners. The latter a... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6161484 | Transport installation with optical and mechanical guiding The installation comprises a roadway having at least some segments provided with longitudinal reference marking (10) for a nominal path, and vehicles (18) each carrying an assembly providing guidance by controlling a steering axle, having a module for for... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6129028 | Electrically powered transit car A mechanism for steering a beam guided vehicle having four steerable wheels linked to a centrally located steering trolley guided by an electrified T-shape beam mounted on a structural roadbed. A trolley flexibly propelled by the vehicle follows the guide... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6029579 | Guide system along at least one ground rail for a road vehicle axle The guide system, for a guided road vehicle, having a front directional assembly formed of two pivoting guide arms (2) and (3) which are coupled as well as vertically constrained, each equipped with an inclined guide wheel (12, 13) engaging at least one g... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5845581 | Monorail system A monorail system for passenger and light freight transportation provides a support structure with an essentially planar top surface and a stabilizer guide rail having a vertical web portion supporting an upwardly outwardly extending head. The head guides... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5829357 | Guidance system comprising a rail and a grooved roller A guidance system for a vehicle designed to follow a two-way track and having pneumatically tired steered wheels coupled to a directional arm. The system includes a rail with a rolled steel section having a head supported on a web strengthened by a lower ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5704295 | Arm for automatically guiding a road vehicle along a guide rail An improved automatic guiding arm having a deformable hinged frame like construction controlled by an actuator. The actuator raises and lowers the end of the frame like construction which supports a pair of guide wheels in a "V" shaped arrangement for eng... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5671680 | Guidance device for a track-following vehicle and method of guiding a track-following vehicle The invention is a guidance device for a railway vehicle and, more generally, is a guidance device for any track-following vehicle. The guidance device has a guide wheel which is complementary with a substantially circular guide rail, and which is capable... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5647281 | Semi-rigid, fin-based transportation system A transportation system including a vehicle support structure (21), a vehicle (22) supported thereon, and elongated semi-rigid fin (44) attached to the vehicle (22) and a plurality of drive assemblies (45) positioned along the support structure (21) to fr... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5479862 | Overhead conveyor with supplemental wheel and rail for increasing driving traction A rail conveyor, including an I-shaped main rail, a trolley guided at the I-shaped rail and having lateral guide rollers, a running wheel rolling on the rail, a counter-wheel and an extra rail for the counter-wheel for increasing frictional engagement of ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5461984 | Apparatus and method for enabling a two-wheeled vehicle to travel along a railroad track A track traveling system for enabling a two-wheeled vehicle to travel along a single rail of a railroad track has an elongated guide component (18) having vertically spaced apart guidance surfaces (24, 26) and a stabilizer component (20) that has a proxim... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5443012 | Playground carriage In accordance with the present invention, a playground carriage (10) is provided for moving people (100) from one play area to another. The playground carriage comprises a rotatable support pipe (12) having a first end (14) and a second end (16). The supp... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5410969 | Steering device for a vehicle bogey fitted with wheels having pneumatic tires The invention relates to a steering device for a vehicle bogey fitted with wheels having pneumatic tires that run on a pair of runways forming a track along which the vehicle travels. The device comprises a steering caster whose mean plane is parallel or ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5381737 | Rail truck suspended car transit vehicles A rail truck for use in an elevated closed beam having a slot in the bottom surface for clearance of a car body support member. The passenger car body is hung beneath the beam and elevated above the ground with the trucks running inside the beam. The flan... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5377910 | Railroad system A double-gauge rail system for the rolling stock of railroad trains including pairs of rails of differing gauges, with the rail track sections of each gauge being in axial alignment but separate and not welded together at the section ends. The inner and o... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5365856 | Coil transportation system A coil transportation system includes air cushion vehicles guided for traveling along a travel path comprising straight lines and curves. Each vehicle comprises mechanical side guides at its longitudinal right and left hand sides. The side guides are actu... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5303655 | Automatic stabilizer unit for free trolley having vertically movable wheels resonsive to trackside rails An automatic stabilizing unit for a free trolley and a load carriage in an inverted power and free conveyor system is connected to the free trolley. The stabilizing unit includes a stabilizer actuator which extends above a free track containing the free t... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5263419 | Vehicle with noncontact drive mechanism and transportation system using the same A vehicle with a noncontact drive mechanism includes a magnetic propelling device 7 for generating a propelling force derived from magnetic induction of an eddy current within a reaction plate 4 laid on a road surface, without contact between the magnetic... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5226367 | Apparatus for drive on loading of a railway car A railway loading dock is provided with adjacent trackage having pairs of main rails and stabilizing rails. A modified railway flatbed car is equipped along its sides with stabilizing wheels and associated support structure to retain the car bed coplanar ... | 07/13/1993 |
