CA2667415C - Device for mechanically connecting vehicles - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for mechanically connecting vehicles (1, 2), in particular streetcars, wherein the vehicles (1, 2) are connected by means of an articulated rod (3) as a lower articulated connection. Two articulated wings (4a to 4d) are arranged such that they can pivot around vertical axes (5a to 5d) as a separate upper articulated connection on each of the vehicles (1, 2). In the direction of travel (a), the right articulated wing (4a) of the first vehicle (1) is connected to the right articulated wing (4c) of the second vehicle (2), and the left articulated wing (4b) of the first vehicle (1) is connected to the left articulated wing (4d) of the second vehicle (2) such that they can rotate over unpropped supports (6a, 6b). The four articulated wings (4a to 4d) together form a variable parallelogram.
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Description Device for mechanically connecting vehicles The invention relates to a device for mechanically connecting vehicles, in particular streetcar vehicles, wherein the vehicles are connected by means of an articulated rod as a lower articulated connection.
Many rail networks, in particular for streetcars, have bumps and depressions which require raised ground clearance of the vehicles. Low-floor vehicles cannot be used in such rail networks. On the other hand, low-floor vehicles are appropriate because entry and exiting for the passengers is made easier.
If a train composed of at least two vehicles travels over a bump or a depression, an angle, referred to as the pitch angle, is formed at the connection between the two vehicles. It has already been proposed to halve this pitch angle through a suitable connection of the two vehicles. For this purpose, hitherto a lemniscate link, which is known per se, has been used. Said lemniscate link is rotatably mounted on a portal frame which is permanently connected to the lower articulated rod. Two coupling rods which emerge from the lemniscate link are connected in an articulated fashion to, in each case, one of the adjacent bodies of the connected vehicles. With the lemniscate link arrangement, the pitch angle is divided into two halves, with the first component angle occurring between the first vehicle and the portal frame, and the second component angle occurring between the portal frame and the second vehicle.
, , -la -Some embodiments of the invention may provide a simplified device for mechanically connecting vehicles, which device can be manufactured more cost-effectively with equally good halving of the pitch angle and furthermore has a lower weight than a lemniscate link arrangement. In addition, disruptive effects of a raised track are reduced with an advantageous development.
According to some embodiments of the invention two articulated wings are arranged such that they can pivot about perpendicular axes as a separate upper articulated connection on each of the vehicles, and, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, with the result that the four articulated wings together form a variable parallelogram.
According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a device for mechanically connecting a first vehicle to a second vehicle, the device comprising: an articulated rod as a lower articulated connection, the articulated rod connecting the vehicles to each other and permitting pitching and twisting of the vehicles, wherein pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles relative to each other about a pitching axis, the pitching axis being oriented horizontally and perpendicularly with respect to a direction of travel, two pairs of articulated wings as a separate upper articulated connection, the pairs being arranged each on one of the vehicles wherein in each pair of articulated wings: a first articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a right-hand articulated wing and a second articulated wing of this pair is with respect to the direction of travel - a left-hand - 2a -articulated wing, the articulated wings of this pair build an angle of aperture and each articulated wing of this pair is rotatable about an axis being perpendicular with respect to the direction of travel and to the pitching axis, wherein, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, so that a first angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle and a second angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle always have the same size.
The perpendicular axes of the articulated wings are located here virtually vertically above the joints of the lower articulated rod. The arrangement in the form of a parallelogram has the effect that the angles of aperture of the pairs of articulated wings of the two vehicles are always equal in size. As a result, the unsupported bearings are, when viewed in the direction of travel, always in the center between the vehicles. This brings about a situation in which, similarly to the lemniscate link arrangement, the pitch angle between the two vehicles is respectively divided into halves, specifically between the two connections of the lower articulated rod on the connected vehicles.
2b -The advantage is obtained that the pitch angle can be halved with simple, cost-effective means even without a complicated lemniscate link arrangement. It is advantageously possible to dispense with a heavy, complex portal frame which is necessary with the lemniscate link arrangement, and this permits a significant saving in weight. Halving the pitch angle makes it possible to use low-floor vehicles on stretches with bumps and depressions.
The device according to some embodiments of the invention is particularly advantageously suitable for connecting vehicles of a streetcar train, but it can also be used in any other train and even in an articulated bus.
For example, the two articulated wings of a vehicle are arranged such that they can pivot about a common perpendicular axis.
According to another example, the articulated wings of a vehicle are each arranged such that they can pivot about a separate perpendicular axis. The articulated wings may be embodied, for example, as planar components.
Instead of being composed of planar components, at least the articulated wings of a vehicle are respectively composed, for example, of an upper bar and a lower bar which are arranged such that they can pivot about the perpendicular axis. Less material is required for this embodiment, and this reduces the weight further.
For example, the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to the perpendicular axis by means of ball-and-socket joints, and the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to one another by means of a hinge joint which is connected to the perpendicular, unsupported bearing.
This particular device provides the advantage that twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another can be compensated.
The term twisting is meant to refer to the fact that on an elevated part of the track, for example in a bend, the front vehicle is firstly rotated in relation to the rear vehicle about its longitudinal axis. This movement is taken up by the ball-and-socket joints and the hinge joints, with the result that components are not subjected to mechanical loading or even bending. The twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another can advantageously be compensated in a simple way.
, CA 02667415 2009-04-21 PCT/EP2007/059064 - 3a -In order to damp the twisting of the vehicles, rubber buffers, hydraulic cylinders or mechanical springs may be assigned to the ball-and-socket joints.
The device according to some embodiments of the invention provides, in particular, the advantage that compared to a lemniscate link arrangement a portal frame is not necessary.
Neverthless, it is possible to halve the pitch angle. Finally, with one embodiment it is possible to compensate the twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another.
With the articulated wings it is advantageously possible to connect cables which have to be laid from one vehicle to the other. Furthermore, it is possible also to attach folding bellows or corrugated bellows to the articulated wings.
The device for mechanically connecting vehicles is explained in more detail with reference to the drawing:
Figure 1 is a schematic view of two vehicles connected to one another in a side view.
Figure 2 is a schematic view of the same two vehicles connected to one another as in figure 1 but in a plan =
view.
Figure 3 shows a variant of the embodiment in figure 2 in which only the differing part is illustrated.
Figure 4 shows a variant of the embodiment in figure 1 in which only the differing part is illustrated.
Identical components have the same reference numbers in the figures.
According to figure 1, two only partially shown vehicles 1 and 2 are connected at the bottom by means of an articulated rod 3 - 4a -as a lower articulated connection, which articulated rod 3 permits pitching and twisting of the vehicles 1 and 2. The pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles 1 and 2 about a virtual horizontal axis which is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the direction of travel as if the vehicles 1 and 2 which are connected to one another travel over a bump or a depression. Instead of the axis which extends perpendicularly with respect to the plane of the drawing, a rotational movement of the vehicle 1, which is due to the pitching, about a pitching angle p is shown. The twisting is a rotational movement of the vehicles 1 and 2 about a virtual horizontal axis b which is oriented in the direction of travel and it occurs, for example, if the vehicles 1 and 2 which are connected to one another successively reach an elevated bend in the track.
According to figure 2, two articulated wings 4a, 4b and 4c, 4d are arranged in each case such that they can pivot about perpendicular axes 5a and 5b as a separate upper articulated connection on each of the vehicles 1 and 2. In each case, when viewed =in the direction of travel a, the right-hand articulated wings 4a and 4c, and correspondingly the left-hand articulated wings 4b and 4d, are rotatably connected to one another by means of unsupported bearings 6a and 6b. As a result, the four articulated wings 4a to 4d form together a variable parallelogram. Since the angle of aperture y of the articulated wings 4a and 4b of the first vehicle 1 and the angle of aperture y of the articulated wings 4c and 4d of the second vehicle 2 are always the same size in this parallelogram, each pitch angle p which occurs between the vehicles 1 and 2 is distributed uniformly between the two joints of the articulated rod 3, with the result that a pitch angle 0 which is too large for the low-floor vehicle does not occur.
For the sake of simplification of the illustration, the articulated wings 4a and 4c are not illustrated with the bearing 6a in figure 1.
In figure 2, in each case only one perpendicular axis 5a and 5b is provided for the respective two articulated wings 4a and 4b or 4c and 4d of the two vehicles 1 and 2. According to figure 3, each of the articulated wings 4c and 4d on the second PCT/EP2007/059064 - 5a -vehicle 2 is arranged such that it can pivot about a separate perpendicular axis 5c and 5d.
According to figure 4, the articulated wing 4b of the first vehicle 1 and correspondingly also the articulated wing 4a which is not illustrated is respectively composed of an upper bar 7 and a lower bar 8. These bars 7 and 8 are arranged such that they can pivot about joints which are arranged on the perpendicular axis 5a. These joints are ball-and-socket joints 9. Furthermore, the upper bar 7 and the lower bar 8 are connected to one another before the perpendicular, unsupported bearing 6a and respectively 6b by means of a hinge joint 10. The combination of the ball-and-socket joints 9 and hinge joints 10 enables the twisting of the vehicles 1 and 2, for example on an elevated bend in the track, to be compensated.
By dividing the pitch angle p into two half angles, the particular advantage is achieved that even low-floor vehicles can be driven over bumps and depressions without a complex lemniscate link arrangement having to be used. Entering and exiting from a low-floor vehicle is made easier. Overall, the traveling comfort is improved.
Many rail networks, in particular for streetcars, have bumps and depressions which require raised ground clearance of the vehicles. Low-floor vehicles cannot be used in such rail networks. On the other hand, low-floor vehicles are appropriate because entry and exiting for the passengers is made easier.
If a train composed of at least two vehicles travels over a bump or a depression, an angle, referred to as the pitch angle, is formed at the connection between the two vehicles. It has already been proposed to halve this pitch angle through a suitable connection of the two vehicles. For this purpose, hitherto a lemniscate link, which is known per se, has been used. Said lemniscate link is rotatably mounted on a portal frame which is permanently connected to the lower articulated rod. Two coupling rods which emerge from the lemniscate link are connected in an articulated fashion to, in each case, one of the adjacent bodies of the connected vehicles. With the lemniscate link arrangement, the pitch angle is divided into two halves, with the first component angle occurring between the first vehicle and the portal frame, and the second component angle occurring between the portal frame and the second vehicle.
, , -la -Some embodiments of the invention may provide a simplified device for mechanically connecting vehicles, which device can be manufactured more cost-effectively with equally good halving of the pitch angle and furthermore has a lower weight than a lemniscate link arrangement. In addition, disruptive effects of a raised track are reduced with an advantageous development.
According to some embodiments of the invention two articulated wings are arranged such that they can pivot about perpendicular axes as a separate upper articulated connection on each of the vehicles, and, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, with the result that the four articulated wings together form a variable parallelogram.
According to one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a device for mechanically connecting a first vehicle to a second vehicle, the device comprising: an articulated rod as a lower articulated connection, the articulated rod connecting the vehicles to each other and permitting pitching and twisting of the vehicles, wherein pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles relative to each other about a pitching axis, the pitching axis being oriented horizontally and perpendicularly with respect to a direction of travel, two pairs of articulated wings as a separate upper articulated connection, the pairs being arranged each on one of the vehicles wherein in each pair of articulated wings: a first articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a right-hand articulated wing and a second articulated wing of this pair is with respect to the direction of travel - a left-hand - 2a -articulated wing, the articulated wings of this pair build an angle of aperture and each articulated wing of this pair is rotatable about an axis being perpendicular with respect to the direction of travel and to the pitching axis, wherein, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, so that a first angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle and a second angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle always have the same size.
The perpendicular axes of the articulated wings are located here virtually vertically above the joints of the lower articulated rod. The arrangement in the form of a parallelogram has the effect that the angles of aperture of the pairs of articulated wings of the two vehicles are always equal in size. As a result, the unsupported bearings are, when viewed in the direction of travel, always in the center between the vehicles. This brings about a situation in which, similarly to the lemniscate link arrangement, the pitch angle between the two vehicles is respectively divided into halves, specifically between the two connections of the lower articulated rod on the connected vehicles.
2b -The advantage is obtained that the pitch angle can be halved with simple, cost-effective means even without a complicated lemniscate link arrangement. It is advantageously possible to dispense with a heavy, complex portal frame which is necessary with the lemniscate link arrangement, and this permits a significant saving in weight. Halving the pitch angle makes it possible to use low-floor vehicles on stretches with bumps and depressions.
The device according to some embodiments of the invention is particularly advantageously suitable for connecting vehicles of a streetcar train, but it can also be used in any other train and even in an articulated bus.
For example, the two articulated wings of a vehicle are arranged such that they can pivot about a common perpendicular axis.
According to another example, the articulated wings of a vehicle are each arranged such that they can pivot about a separate perpendicular axis. The articulated wings may be embodied, for example, as planar components.
Instead of being composed of planar components, at least the articulated wings of a vehicle are respectively composed, for example, of an upper bar and a lower bar which are arranged such that they can pivot about the perpendicular axis. Less material is required for this embodiment, and this reduces the weight further.
For example, the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to the perpendicular axis by means of ball-and-socket joints, and the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to one another by means of a hinge joint which is connected to the perpendicular, unsupported bearing.
This particular device provides the advantage that twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another can be compensated.
The term twisting is meant to refer to the fact that on an elevated part of the track, for example in a bend, the front vehicle is firstly rotated in relation to the rear vehicle about its longitudinal axis. This movement is taken up by the ball-and-socket joints and the hinge joints, with the result that components are not subjected to mechanical loading or even bending. The twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another can advantageously be compensated in a simple way.
, CA 02667415 2009-04-21 PCT/EP2007/059064 - 3a -In order to damp the twisting of the vehicles, rubber buffers, hydraulic cylinders or mechanical springs may be assigned to the ball-and-socket joints.
The device according to some embodiments of the invention provides, in particular, the advantage that compared to a lemniscate link arrangement a portal frame is not necessary.
Neverthless, it is possible to halve the pitch angle. Finally, with one embodiment it is possible to compensate the twisting of the vehicles with respect to one another.
With the articulated wings it is advantageously possible to connect cables which have to be laid from one vehicle to the other. Furthermore, it is possible also to attach folding bellows or corrugated bellows to the articulated wings.
The device for mechanically connecting vehicles is explained in more detail with reference to the drawing:
Figure 1 is a schematic view of two vehicles connected to one another in a side view.
Figure 2 is a schematic view of the same two vehicles connected to one another as in figure 1 but in a plan =
view.
Figure 3 shows a variant of the embodiment in figure 2 in which only the differing part is illustrated.
Figure 4 shows a variant of the embodiment in figure 1 in which only the differing part is illustrated.
Identical components have the same reference numbers in the figures.
According to figure 1, two only partially shown vehicles 1 and 2 are connected at the bottom by means of an articulated rod 3 - 4a -as a lower articulated connection, which articulated rod 3 permits pitching and twisting of the vehicles 1 and 2. The pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles 1 and 2 about a virtual horizontal axis which is oriented perpendicularly with respect to the direction of travel as if the vehicles 1 and 2 which are connected to one another travel over a bump or a depression. Instead of the axis which extends perpendicularly with respect to the plane of the drawing, a rotational movement of the vehicle 1, which is due to the pitching, about a pitching angle p is shown. The twisting is a rotational movement of the vehicles 1 and 2 about a virtual horizontal axis b which is oriented in the direction of travel and it occurs, for example, if the vehicles 1 and 2 which are connected to one another successively reach an elevated bend in the track.
According to figure 2, two articulated wings 4a, 4b and 4c, 4d are arranged in each case such that they can pivot about perpendicular axes 5a and 5b as a separate upper articulated connection on each of the vehicles 1 and 2. In each case, when viewed =in the direction of travel a, the right-hand articulated wings 4a and 4c, and correspondingly the left-hand articulated wings 4b and 4d, are rotatably connected to one another by means of unsupported bearings 6a and 6b. As a result, the four articulated wings 4a to 4d form together a variable parallelogram. Since the angle of aperture y of the articulated wings 4a and 4b of the first vehicle 1 and the angle of aperture y of the articulated wings 4c and 4d of the second vehicle 2 are always the same size in this parallelogram, each pitch angle p which occurs between the vehicles 1 and 2 is distributed uniformly between the two joints of the articulated rod 3, with the result that a pitch angle 0 which is too large for the low-floor vehicle does not occur.
For the sake of simplification of the illustration, the articulated wings 4a and 4c are not illustrated with the bearing 6a in figure 1.
In figure 2, in each case only one perpendicular axis 5a and 5b is provided for the respective two articulated wings 4a and 4b or 4c and 4d of the two vehicles 1 and 2. According to figure 3, each of the articulated wings 4c and 4d on the second PCT/EP2007/059064 - 5a -vehicle 2 is arranged such that it can pivot about a separate perpendicular axis 5c and 5d.
According to figure 4, the articulated wing 4b of the first vehicle 1 and correspondingly also the articulated wing 4a which is not illustrated is respectively composed of an upper bar 7 and a lower bar 8. These bars 7 and 8 are arranged such that they can pivot about joints which are arranged on the perpendicular axis 5a. These joints are ball-and-socket joints 9. Furthermore, the upper bar 7 and the lower bar 8 are connected to one another before the perpendicular, unsupported bearing 6a and respectively 6b by means of a hinge joint 10. The combination of the ball-and-socket joints 9 and hinge joints 10 enables the twisting of the vehicles 1 and 2, for example on an elevated bend in the track, to be compensated.
By dividing the pitch angle p into two half angles, the particular advantage is achieved that even low-floor vehicles can be driven over bumps and depressions without a complex lemniscate link arrangement having to be used. Entering and exiting from a low-floor vehicle is made easier. Overall, the traveling comfort is improved.
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1. A device for mechanically connecting a first vehicle to a second vehicle, the device comprising:
- an articulated rod as a lower articulated connection, the articulated rod connecting the vehicles to each other and permitting pitching and twisting of the vehicles, wherein pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles relative to each other about a pitching axis, the pitching axis being oriented horizontally and perpendicularly with respect to a direction of travel, - two pairs of articulated wings as a separate upper articulated connection, the pairs being arranged each on one of the vehicles wherein in each pair of articulated wings:
- a first articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a right-hand articulated wing and a second articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a left-hand articulated wing, - the articulated wings of this pair build an angle of aperture and - each articulated wing of this pair is rotatable about an axis being perpendicular with respect to the direction of travel and to the pitching axis, wherein, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, so that a first angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle and a second angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle always have the same size.
- an articulated rod as a lower articulated connection, the articulated rod connecting the vehicles to each other and permitting pitching and twisting of the vehicles, wherein pitching is a rotational movement of the vehicles relative to each other about a pitching axis, the pitching axis being oriented horizontally and perpendicularly with respect to a direction of travel, - two pairs of articulated wings as a separate upper articulated connection, the pairs being arranged each on one of the vehicles wherein in each pair of articulated wings:
- a first articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a right-hand articulated wing and a second articulated wing of this pair is - with respect to the direction of travel - a left-hand articulated wing, - the articulated wings of this pair build an angle of aperture and - each articulated wing of this pair is rotatable about an axis being perpendicular with respect to the direction of travel and to the pitching axis, wherein, in the direction of travel, the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the right-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle, and the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle is rotatably connected to the left-hand articulated wing of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle by means of unsupported bearings, so that a first angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the first vehicle and a second angle of aperture of the pair of articulated wings arranged on the second vehicle always have the same size.
2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein in at least one of the pairs of articulated wings the two articulated wings of the at least one pair are arranged such that they can pivot about a common perpendicular axis.
3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein in at least one of the pairs of articulated wings the articulated wings of the at least one pair are each arranged such that they can pivot about a separate perpendicular axis.
4. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein in at least one of the pairs of articulated wings the articulated wings of the at least one pair are respectively composed of an upper bar and a lower bar which are arranged such that they can pivot about a perpendicular axis.
5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to the perpendicular axis by means of ball-and-socket joints and in that the upper bar and the lower bar are connected to one another by means of a hinge joint which is connected to the respective unsupported bearing.
6. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first and second vehicles are embodied as streetcar vehicles.
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