公开(公告)号：US20170066486A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-09

申请号：US15357159

申请日：2016-11-21

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Matthew John MALONE ,  Gregory WRIGHT

IPC: B62D35/00 ,  B61D17/02

CPC classification number: B62D35/001 ,  B62D35/004 ,  B62D35/02 ,  B62D37/02

Abstract: An aerodynamic control system includes a skirt assembly configured to be disposed between plural vehicles in a vehicle system formed from the plural vehicles with the vehicles separated by a spatial gap in the vehicle system. The skirt assembly can include a bladder configured to be inflated with a fluid by a fluid source disposed onboard the vehicle system to cause the skirt assembly to expand between the vehicles from a collapsed state to an expanded state such that the skirt assembly at least partially fills the spatial gap between the vehicles. The skirt assembly can reduce aerodynamic drag exerted on the vehicle system during movement of the vehicle system relative to the vehicle system moving without the skirt assembly in the expanded state.

Abstract translation: 一种空气动力学控制系统，包括：裙部组件，其构造成设置在由多个车辆形成的车辆系统中的多个车辆之间，车辆由车辆系统中的空间间隔分开。 裙部组件可以包括构造成通过布置在车辆系统上的流体源与流体一起膨胀的气囊，以使得裙部组件在车辆之间从折叠状态扩展到膨胀状态，使得裙部组件至少部分地填充 车辆之间的空间差距。 裙部组件可以减少在车辆系统相对于车辆系统移动期间运动时车辆系统上的空气动力学阻力，而裙部组件处于展开状态。