公开(公告)号：US20190168729A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-06

申请号：US16203441

申请日：2018-11-28

Applicant: ALSTOM Transport Technologies

Inventor： Frederic HALLONET

IPC: B60T13/66

Abstract: A railway vehicle, including an emergency braking device including at least one brake module, wherein each module includes a contact element intended to be in contact with the ground at the moment of braking, and movable between a retracted position and a deployed position in which the contact element is in contact with the ground and is able to slow down the moving railway vehicle by applying a pressure force to the ground, and at least one control unit that is capable of communicating commands to the brake module, wherein the control unit is able to communicate to the brake module the command to deploy the contact element to its deployed position when at least a portion of the vehicle leaves the track on which the vehicle is traveling.