Automotive Inspection Robotic Vehicle, Inspection System, and Method for Inspecting a Railway Track and/or a Railway Vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US20240343274A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18576315

    申请日:2021-07-27

    申请人: Servail GmbH

    发明人: Maximilian Steger

    IPC分类号: B61D15/00 B61K9/08

    CPC分类号: B61D15/00 B61K9/08

    摘要: According to various aspects, an automotive inspection robotic vehicle (100) for inspecting a railway track and/or a railway vehicle is described, comprising: an onboard driving device (104) to allow for moving the inspection robotic vehicle (100) to thereby allow the inspection robotic vehicle (100) to drive along and adjacent to a railway track; an onboard control device (106) configured to control the onboard driving device (104); one or more onboard sensors (108) configured to detect parameter data representing at least one railway track parameter and/or railway vehicle parameter, describing a condition of the railway track and/or railway vehicle, respectively; and a holding structure (110) laterally extending on the automotive inspection robotic vehicle (100) and configured to engage with a rail or rails of the railway track to thereby, during use, hold the automotive inspection robotic vehicle (100) on the rail or rails of the railway track.

    CATENARY ARM FABRICATION AND INSTALLATION RAIL CAR CONSIST FOR OVERHEAD CATENARY SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20240227875A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18406024

    申请日:2024-01-05

    发明人: Aaron Q. Neeley

    IPC分类号: B61D15/00

    CPC分类号: B61D15/00

    摘要: A catenary installation consist for construction of an overhead catenary system. The consist includes gondola-style cars with rails mounted along sidewalls thereof to enable wheeled apparatus to move therealong. The cars are configured for fabrication, storage, and installation of catenary arms as well as cable terminations. Wheeled lifting apparatus are disposed on several of the segments and can travel between cars to obtain materials and to reach desired installation locations. Movability longitudinally of the apparatus provides great latitude to crews for completing installation activities without need to move or precisely position the consist as a whole. Fabrication facilities enable construction of catenary arms on the consist as needed to meet design characteristics of particular installations. A crew-segment is also included and provides restrooms, shelter, and other needs for crew members to increase crew member comfort and time on site.

    MAINTENANCE VEHICLE
    5.
    发明申请
    MAINTENANCE VEHICLE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190010666A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-10

    申请号:US16068140

    申请日:2016-12-22

    IPC分类号: E01B29/16

    CPC分类号: E01B29/16 B61D15/00 E01B29/00

    摘要: A maintenance vehicle has a vehicle frame, supported on on-track undercarriages, on which are arranged two side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and adjustable with respect to one another and relative to the vehicle frame in a transverse direction of the vehicle by way of drives. The vehicle is equipped with at least one load crane which is displaceable on a crane guide that extends in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The crane guide, designed to be elongatable in the transverse direction of the vehicle, is connected at each end to a side wall.

    Bi-modal traffic system
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10000218B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-19

    申请号:US14420557

    申请日:2013-08-10

    申请人: Johann Friedrich

    发明人: Johann Friedrich

    摘要: Bi-modal traffic system including an integrated path network for bi-modal vehicles, especially for bi-modal trucks, wherein the bi-modal vehicles are configured so that they run both on rail tracks as well as on road tracks. The integrated path network includes at least one rail network and one road network, wherein the at least one rail network and the at least one road network are coupled by at least one junction. The at least one junction is configured so that bi-modal vehicles may change from rail network to a road network and may adapt their speed so that a change of a bi-modal vehicle from the rail network into the road network does not impair the ongoing traffic on the road network, and/or is configured so that bi-modal vehicles may change from a road network to a rail network and may adapt their speed so that a change of a bi-modal vehicle from the road network into the rail network does not impair the ongoing traffic on the rail network.

    Vehicle for a rail
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09988060B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-05

    申请号:US14768478

    申请日:2014-02-18

    发明人: Oscar Slurink

    IPC分类号: B61B3/00 B61B13/04 B61D15/00

    CPC分类号: B61B3/00 B61B13/04 B61D15/00

    摘要: A vehicle configured to be moved along a rail includes rollers which in use engage the rail such that each roller has a contact area with which the roller is in contact with the rail. The contact areas of the rollers are positioned to define a beam with a longitudinal beam axis, a rectangular form in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal beam axis and a first beam side, a second beam side, a third beam side and a fourth beam side, in which the first and third beam side extend perpendicular to the second and fourth beam side, at least two rollers define the first beam side, two rollers define the second beam side, one roller defines the third beam side, and one roller defines the fourth beam side. An assembly includes the vehicle and a rail.

    HI-RAIL DEVICE
    8.
    发明申请
    HI-RAIL DEVICE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180118236A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-03

    申请号:US15792846

    申请日:2017-10-25

    发明人: Francois AUBE

    IPC分类号: B61K5/02 B60F1/04 B60F1/00

    摘要: There is described a hi-rail device comprising a cam assembly, an axle assembly and a locking pin. The cam assembly comprises a guiding slot which comprises a plurality of contiguous segments extending as a broken line, e.g., in a flattened M shape, wherein a first one and a last one of the contiguous segments extend in a downward slope with respect to a horizon. The locking pin inserted in the guiding slot and movable in translation within the guiding slot in which it is inserted. The axle assembly, in which the locking pin is inserted, has a weight applied on the locking pin which locks the locking pin in the lower end or the upper end of the guiding slot if the locking pin is in the first one or the last one of the four contiguous segments and no other force is applied thereonto.

    Submarine Amusement Ride
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170239581A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15435488

    申请日:2017-02-17

    摘要: An underwater mobile observatory system comprising an aquarium able to hold water and large enough to support fish, coral, and to display artificial objects such as shipwrecks and ruins, a vehicle track extending through the aquarium the track generally being adjacent the bottom of the aquarium, the track having a portion which rises to a loading/unloading position, and a passenger vehicle coupled to the track for movement therealong and unable to leave the track such that changes in inclination of the track causes the vehicle to move up and down through water in the aquarium, the passenger vehicle having a main body portion to seat passengers and which is capable of being submerged, and a top portion which is open to the air, the spacing between the hack and the water level being controlled such that water does not pass over the top portion.