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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7540242 | Running gear for rail vehicles This invention comprises a running gear for rail vehicles with at least three wheel sets housed in a bogey frame and at least one steering device that makes possible a transverse displacement of an end wheel set, wherein the bogey frame, seen in longitudinal directi... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7017652 | Method and apparatus for transferring heat from a substrate to a chuck A chuck method of and apparatus (50, 150, 300) for supporting a substrate (W) during processing of the substrate, where the substrate has a lower surface (WL). The apparatus facilitates heat transfer away from the substrate during processing of the... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007611 | Self steering, three-axle bogie A self-steering, three-axle bogie, in particular for a rail vehicle, comprising wheel sets and wheel set bearing housings allocated to the sets. The outer wheel sets are counter-coupled and can be displaced in a longitudinal direction and the central wheel set can b... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6966266 | Device for the radial control of a rail vehicle The invention relates to a device for the radial control of a rail vehicle. According to the invention, at least one wheel set (1) is mounted in a bogie or chassis and the ends of said wheel set(s) can be adjusted in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle,... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6745700 | Radial bogie with steering beam mount unitized brake An arrangement for self-steering, radial bogie, truck or vehicle frame for locomotives and other railroad vehicles, which mount unitized brakes to steering beams located either ahead and/or behind their respective leading and trailing wheelsets. ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 5613444 | Self-steering railway truck A railway truck includes a frame having a pair of side frames and laterally extending transoms therebetween. A plurality of journal boxes are resiliently suspended from the side frames and support a pair of longitudinally spaced apart end axles extending ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5603265 | Angled traction rods A self-steering wheel truck for use with a railway locomotive or powered transit car in which tractive force is transferred from the axle to the frame through angled traction rods and steering beams connecting with the end axles. The steering beams interc... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5555816 | Self steering railway truck A self-steering wheel truck for use with a railway locomotive or powered transit car in which tractive force is transferred from the axles to the frame through traction rods and steering beams connecting with the end axles. The steering beams are intercon... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5488910 | Undercarriage for railway car On truck frames having three wheelsets, the invention teaches that the middle wheelset is in contact on each side with the vehicle frame by means of actuators in the lateral direction. These actuators are used to adjust the middle wheelset when the train ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5375533 | Running gear for rail vehicles with radial control of the wheelsets A running gear for rail vehicles includes a running gear frame having a central axis and pivot points secured to the running gear frame, a middle wheelset, two end wheelsets and pivot points facing the end wheelsets. Oblique guide rods are each pivotably ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5263420 | Radial control three axle running gear for rail vehicles A running gear for rail vehicles includes a bogey, truck or vehicle frame. Three driven wheelsets are elastically supported in the frame. Longitudinal guide rods extend parallel to the longitudinal center of the vehicle for coupling rotary motions about v... | 11/23/1993 |
| 4765250 | Locomotive and motorized self-steering radial truck therefor An arrangement for locomotives and other railway vehicles having steerable or self-steering railway trucks, particularly motorized locomotive trucks, which incorporates axle height transfer of loads from the axles to the frame through connecting rods and ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4679507 | Three-axle railway truck steering linkage A three-axle powered self-steering railway truck is disclosed having a five link steering linkage connected between the axles on either side of the truck and interconnected laterally to provide radial steering action of the end axles linked to lateral tra... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4679506 | Railway truck with improved steering linkage, detachable suspension and traction motor mounted brake A self-steering railway truck is disclosed having a novel axle relating traction linkage connecting with the bearing housings of a separable suspension system having detachable spring seats shimable for height adjustment. The brake mechanism is mounted on... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4542700 | Three axle steered truck A truck for use on a railway vehicle has three axles, one located at each end of the truck and a third located generally centrally between the other two axles. The two outboard axles are pivotable about respective vertical axes so as to be free to move to... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4440094 | Fluid self-steering railway vehicle truck Leading and trailing wheel set assemblies of a railway vehicle truck are interdependently steered while traversing a curve by employing the longitudinal forces generated thereby to reposition rub plates which contact associated wheel set assembly journal ... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4417525 | Fluid self-steering railway vehicle truck Leading and trailing wheel set assemblies of a railway vehicle truck are independently steered while traversing a curve by employing the lateral and longitudinal forces generated thereby to reposition rub plates which contact associated wheel set assembly... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4289075 | Steering articulated car An articulated railroad vehicle having two or more body portions is supported on three or more single wheel set trucks. Each truck is pivotally attached to a vehicle body portion. Sensing elements detect the angle between the articulated body portions. Th... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4164188 | Self steering railway car A railway car includes a chassis supported on two sub-frames which are relatively pivotally movable. The sub-frames support propulsion motors, differentials, and driven flanged wheels. And intermediate steering axle and wheel assembly are transversly mova... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4162653 | Railway vehicle bogies resiliently interconnected axle boxes A railway vehicle or a truck thereof having at least three wheelsets, diagonal elastic bracing being provided between each pair of adjacent wheelsets and additional diagonal elastic bracing being provided between non-adjacent wheelsets.... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4135456 | Powered railway car steering assembly A railway car includes a central steering axle transversely movable on the car body in response to track curvature. Actuating members connected to the transversely movable axle include longitudinally extensible and retractable elements which steer end axl... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4040361 | Railway locomotive truck A six-wheel railway motor truck for swivelly supporting a locomotive body is connected to the same for the effective transmission thereto of draft and braking forces at a level at or near that of the rail whereby the vertical moment arm through which trac... | 08/09/1977 |
