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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4363277 | Stabilizing high speed railway truck safety device A safety device for a banking vehicle includes a pair of cylinders which extend to hold the superstructure in an upright position. The cylinders are hydraulically connected to an accumulator which provides a pressurized fluid reservoir. A valve controls f... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4355582 | Railway car tilt control system A tilt system for a railway car includes mechanism for tilting the car only when lateral acceleration forces exceed preselected minimum levels and to limit the amount of tilting of the car.... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4300454 | Self-steering damping railway truck A railway truck with a load-bearing structure resiliently supported on two live-axle, self-steering wheelsets, axle bearings being provided on the wheelsets and damping elements being connected longitudinally between axle bearings on the same side of the ... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4273055 | Railway vehicle traction and braking force transmitting system The low slung traction means serves to transmit traction or braking forces between the rail vehicle body and the supporting undercarriage. In one embodiment, the traction means has a horizontal intermediate member connected to the undercarriage via inclin... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4271765 | Railway car tilting stabilizing system A tilt control system comprises a roll bar structure having two separate opposite rotatable members attached on the bottom of both sides of the car body between the car body and bolster. A pair of lever arms connect the ends of the rotatable members to th... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4231296 | Three-truck high adhesion locomotive A railway locomotive has three power trucks with the end trucks each having a bolster resiliently supported on the truck frame and connected to the underframe by cooperating vertical axis pivot-forming means, the middle truck bolster being connected to th... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4167143 | Pneumatic bogie pitch stabilizer A rail vehicle having a driving bogie frame and a vehicle frame, in which these frames are interconnected by means of supporting springs and at least one of the end faces of said frames are interconnected by air springs. The air springs communicate with a... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4151801 | Self-steering railway truck A railway truck suspension including a load-bearing member, a pair of wheelsets supporting the load-bearing member, each wheelset being self-steering, and means interconnecting the wheelsets such that they yaw in opposite sense, the interconnecting means ... | 05/01/1979 |
| 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 |
| 4091738 | Stabilized fluid railway car suspension A railway truck employs air springs at either side of the truck to provide a secondary suspension to support a car body, or an intermediate member between the car body and truck which in turn supports the car body. Protection against possible rupture of o... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4069767 | Pneumatically controlled hydromechanical railway car stabilizing apparatus A control system for a stabilizing apparatus for a rail vehicle body, which is tiltable on a bogey by means of jacks, comprises a lateral accelerometer and an angular accelerometer mounted on the vehicle body, two servo-mechanisms respectively responsive ... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4067261 | Damping railway vehicle suspension A damping suspension for a railway truck having load-bearing members supported on at least two live wheelsets which are self-steering and which are directly interconnected to couple their yawing movements in opposite senses. The wheelsets are self-steerin... | 01/10/1978 |
| 3970009 | Fluid railroad passenger car suspension A railroad passenger car suspension system in which a car body is supported on trucks in the running mode through rotary hydraulic actuators. All of the necessary conditions for passenger comfort, increased train speed and safety are met. The level of cen... | 07/20/1976 |
