Abstract:
The lighting management device comprises a variable lighting system which includes: at least one exterior light sensor, that is capable of measuring the characteristics of the exterior light outside the vehicle, and at least one interior image capture device, that is capable of capturing images within the interior of the compartment; and a control unit for controlling the lighting system, configured so as to adjust the lighting in the compartment based on the brightness of the exterior light measured outside the vehicle and the images captured within the interior of the compartment.
Abstract:
A railway vehicle includes two adjacent carriages (6), each including a carriage body (8), each carriage (6) including a lower floor (54) and an upper floor (56), positioned above each other so as to define a lower level (58) and an upper level (60), the bodies (8) being supported by a common bogie (1) and being articulated with each other through an articulation device (2). The carriages (6) are connected to each other through an interconnection passage (62), the passage (62) extending substantially at right angles to the articulation device (2) and including a lower floor connecting the lower floors (54) of both carriages (6) and an upper floor connecting the upper floors (56) of both carriages.
Abstract:
A system includes at least one signal light having at least one lamp. The system further includes a control device electrically connected to the at least one lamp by a conductive cable. The at least one lamp is configured to flash in response to the loss of an audio signal generated by the control device.
Abstract:
A railway bogie includes one or more operative components for the operation of the railway bogie and an impact guard protecting the one or more operative components from flying debris. The impact guard is made of a high density polyethylene (HDPE). The railway bogie can be used in Jacobs bogies of multiple units operating under wintery conditions.
Abstract:
A mounting apparatus includes a back plate, at least one lower receiving channel adjacent to a lower edge of the back plate and configured to receive a lower holding tab of a line-replaceable unit, at least one upper receiving channel adjacent to an upper edge of the back plate and configured to receive an upper holding tab of the line-replaceable unit, and at least one tensioning member configured to urge the lower holding tab and the upper holding tab into the at least one lower receiving channel and the at least one upper receiving channel, respectively.
Abstract:
Systems and methods provide harden wireless intra-vehicular communication against jamming and/or interference. A vehicle comprises a carriage top, an antenna mounted on an outer-vehicle side of the carriage top, and radio frequency absorbing material positioned proximate to the antenna and at least a portion of the carriage top near the antenna.
Abstract:
A bogie includes a chassis, including two beams, two crosspieces, two axle structures, each including two journal boxes, and a transverse axle shaft, extending in the transverse direction between two ends each supporting a respective wheel, the wheels defining an inner space between them, defined in the transverse direction between the wheels of a same axle shaft, and defined in the longitudinal direction between the two axle shafts, at least one motor supported by one of the crosspieces of the chassis, arranged in the inner space defined by the wheels, and including a coupling shaft, and at least one reducer. The bogie includes a primary suspension, including flexible mountings arranged between the crosspieces and the beams of the chassis, the reducer is arranged outside the inner space, the coupling shaft of the motor extending from the motor beyond one of the corresponding beams to the reducer.
Abstract:
An electrically insulating mechanical joint checker for mechanical joints connecting rails of following track segments of a railway line, each track segment forming part of a track circuit. The track segment includes electric signal transmitting units and receiving units for transmitting and receiving train presence detection signals within the track segment and/or relating communication signals between the train and the track segment. The train presence detection signals and communication signals include a further joint detection signal, generated and transmitted by the transmitting units and received by the receiving units belonging to the same track segment, the joint detection signal relating to the track segment being different at least in respect to the one relating to the adjacent track segments. The invention relates also to a method to detect a failure or breakage of a mechanical joint inside a track segment.
Abstract:
A cantilever supports a catenary to supply energy to a vehicle. The cantilever includes a cross-member adapted to be attached to a support structure, the cross-member extending along a longitudinal axis (X-X), and at least one attachment connected to the cross-member. The cross-member includes an outer surface, the outer surface including at least a first side having a non-circular shape in a section plane (II-II) that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X-X). The attachment includes at least one collar encircling the cross-member, and the collar includes at least one contact face in contact with the at least first side.
Abstract:
The damping device (10) according to the invention is designed to damp a shock in a longitudinal direction (X). It includes a central pad (12), designed to be secured with a first member (14A) of the coupling device (14), and two side wings (18), each formed by a thin plate extending in the longitudinal direction (X). Each side wing (18) includes at least one first longitudinal region (20), secured to the central pad (12), at least one second longitudinal region (22), designed to be secured with a railroad vehicle, and at least one line of least resistance (24), separating the first (20) and second (22) longitudinal regions from each other, extending over the side wing (18) in the longitudinal direction (X).