Tilt-compensation system suitable for use in conjunction with high speed vehicles, more particularly rail vehicles
CA 2000648 A1 · Owner: Schneider, Richard · Inventors: Schneider, Richard
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A device suitable for compensating during high speed curve travel for the tilting of a car body of a rail vehicle employs a passive tilting system comprising a tilt compensator which during travel over cambered, curved track compensates for the tendancy of car body to tilt toward the outside of the curve. The proposed tilt compensator features a four-bar linkage which, in concert with an energy storer causes the car body, to tilt to the inside of the curve. In this arrangement the, car body rests on an auxiliary transverse suspension and readily adapts, without any reduction of its contour in response to transverse tilting, to a prescribed boundary profile. The present invention thus …
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- Filed October 13, 1989. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 13, 2009.
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