746results about "Power rails" patented technology

A hybrid locomotive includes at least one traction motor coupled to at least one of a plurality of axles and configured to drive at least one axle. A power converter is coupled to a main engine and to at least one traction motor and configured to supply electrical energy to the at least one traction motor and a secondary energy storage unit. A fuel storage unit is coupled to the main engine and configured to supply a gaseous fuel to the main engine. The main engine is adapted to burn gaseous fuel for reduced emissions, while maintaining excellent power output characteristics, that may be supplemented by secondary power sources.

A delivery system includes a delivery vehicle configured to ride along a flat track. The delivery vehicle includes a guiding pin. The guiding pin is configured to interlock with a guiding groove.

A third rail power insulating system, comprising an insulator assembly and a cover board assembly. The insulator assembly comprises pedestal supporting insulators that are mounted onto a contact rail assembly. The insulator assembly further comprises an insulator anchor bolt assembly, a base shim plate, a bolt assembly, a lubricating shim, and retaining clips. The cover board assembly is also mounted onto the contact rail assembly and it comprises a support bracket assembly, retaining clips, a side cover board, and a top cover board. The support bracket assembly has a general C-shape and comprises a lateral wall, a top wall, a base wall, and a protrusion. The side cover board comprises an elongated plate having at least one hole, and the top cover board comprises an elongated plate having sufficient curvature to contour the support bracket assembly.

The invention relates to a system for supplying very low voltage electrical energy for at least one electric traction vehicle (30) running on a track (20), and comprising: at least one very low voltage electric power system (10) installed directly next to the track (20); two parallel power supply rails (41, 42) or the like, that are adjacent or distant, a first rail (41) being connected to a terminal (11) of said power supply means (10) and the second rail (42) being connected to another terminal (12) of said power supply means (10); at least one onboard means for storing electrical energy (60) in the vehicle; and at least one onboard power supply means (80) that is joined to the means for collecting electrical energy (51, 52), and is connected both to the storage means (60) and the traction chain (70), such that the very low voltage power supply means (10) feeds the onboard power supply means (80) which, in turn, feeds the storage means (60) so that it stores electrical energy, to its full capacity, in the successive rolling phases.

A tramway transit system for allowing a vehicle to travel along a track while automatically steered is proposed, in which the vehicle is provided with guard wheels and the track is provided with a protection track, and simplification in construction and weight saving of the automatic steering mechanism provided to the vehicle and space saving for the installation of the mechanism, can be attained. The vehicle (12) is provided with a steering mechanism (26) for steering the front and rear wheels (20, 22) by means of electrically driven oil hydraulic actuators 36, the protection track (14) is laid down on the road surface (15) of the track (01), the vehicle (12) is provided with guard wheels (40), and the interlocking mechanism (48) for connecting the guard wheels to the right or left wheels, the actuator (36) comprising the hydraulic cylinder (60), the two-way discharge pump (76), the variable speed, reversible rotation motor (78), and the closed circuit (82) provided with relief valves (86).

The invention provides an electric automobile capable of achieving unlimited long-distance endurance and tracked mobile charging and power supplying systems of the electric automobile. According to the technical scheme, guide rails for supplying power are laid on the two sides of a center isolating strip of a highway, the electric automobile with a brush and a navigation control device can be connected with the guide rails for charging and power supplying in the traveling process, and in this way, by means of the guide rails serving as the charging and power supplying systems, the electric automobile can achieve unlimited long-distance endurance on the highway. The method can solve the problems that a current electric automobile is limited in endurance mileage and can only travel locally for the short distance, and the cost of batteries is high, and is beneficial for the development of electric automobile industries and popularization of electric automobiles.

An electrical vehicle transportation system that includes a powered roadway system having electrically conductive roadway segments that are engageable to a roadway surface, and an electrical vehicle having a control system and an energy harvesting system, the vehicle control system being programmed to energize roadway segments disposed within a defined vehicle envelope and de-energize the roadway segments prior to transitioning outside of the vehicle envelope when the vehicle is traversing the roadway.

The invention discloses an electricity consuming and charging method characterized by taking electricity from the ground during an electric automobile's running process, the steps of the method are in that: 1) a charging area is disposed, in the area, a groove is disposed along the ground where the automobile runs, components of bare cables for power supply is paved in the groove; one side of thegroove in front of an outlet and at the outlet is respectively provided with a ground electricity-taking completing signal and a charging billing scanning device; 2) an electric automobile with charging facilities is disposed; 3) the electric automobile drives to an inlet, and the charging facilities search the groove with the bare cables; 4) when the charging facilities align with the groove, the ground electricity-taking device is automatically put down, extends into the ground groove to be attached to the bare cables, and provides power and charge to the electric automobile via the bare cables; and 5) when the electric automobile receives the ground electricity-taking completing signal, the ground electricity-taking device is withdrawn, charging is completed and converted to manual driving; charging information is recorded in the charging billing scanning device. The electricity consuming and charging method is advantaged by overcoming defect that the electric automobile is incapable of running in a long journey and charging is inconvenient due to limit of vehicle-mounted batteries, saving time and protecting environment, and facilitating implementation.

A conductor rail comprising a main body having a facing cap mounted thereon. The main body is comprised of aluminum while the facing cap is comprised of a stainless steel material. The main body of the conductor rail has a head portion which has channels extending into the opposite sides thereof. The facing cap comprises a top portion which is positioned upon the upper part of the head portion and which has side portions welded to plate members positioned in the channels.

A single main steel wheel rides on a single main steel rail of a guideway to support and drive a carrier and to facilitate steering and provide a simplified, more compact and less costly construction. The carrier can support a car through a platform having elements and chocks for locking contact with a front bumper and front wheels of the car Auxiliary wheels and rails cooperate to cause nearly all weight to be carried through the single main wheel. Traction is increased when necessary through application of increased upward forces to undersides of auxiliary rails and / or through developing magnetic forces between the steel wheel and steel rail. An AC induction motor is a main source of drive power. Acceleration and braking are assisted through epicyclic gearing, braking means and a DC motor / generator that is connected to a battery and that drives the carrier if supply of AC fails.

The guideway-based transportation system includes a guideway and a mating vehicle. The guideway includes a main guideway section that may branch at a branch point into two separate branch sections. The guideway has a suitable geometry to support and guide the vehicle at any speed reasonably associated with such a transportation system. The vehicle includes both support and guide wheels to support the weight of the vehicle and to maintain contact between the vehicle and the guideway as it moves along the guideway, and may optionally include a switching wheel assembly for switching the path of travel of the vehicle from the main guideway section to either of the branch sections.

The present invention relates to a transportation system using an electric automobile. The transportation system using the electric automobile comprises the electric automobile and an electricity-supply unit which supplies electricity to the electric automobile. The electric automobile charges a battery included when the electricity is supplied from an external source in motion, using some or all of the electricity and is driven by the electricity of the battery when the electricity supply to the automobile in motion is stopped.

A transport system has a first set of substantially parallel rails supported above ground level by support structures, a trolley having wheels mounted to a frame with the wheels engaging the rails, at least one wheel powered to move the trolley along the set of rails, a portion of the frame depending between the rails to a level below the rails, and a downward-facing latching interface on the depending portion of the frame, and a pod enabled to carry a passenger or parcels, or both, engaged by an upward-facing latching interface to the downward-facing latching interface of the trolley, such that, as the trolley travels along the rail set, the pod is carried along below the rail set.

An exchange station has openings for drones, a passenger check-in / check-out bay for processing passengers, a drone connect / release bay, having apparatus adapted to manage passenger pods mounted on smart chassis, and a computerized control system in wireless communication with control circuitry in the drones and smart chassis, guiding smart chassis with mounted passenger pods and drones, to make the exchange of pods from the smart chassis to drones. A passenger entering the passenger check-in bay is loaded into a pod mounted on a smart chassis, the pod with passenger is transported to the drone-connect / release bay, and the pod is there joined to a bare drone and disconnected from the smart chassis, the drone leaving with the passenger pod to a destination, and the smart chassis traveling away from the drone connect-release bay.

The electric highway includes at least one electrified lane that may be separated from other non-electrified lanes by a non-elevated strip of dividers, a roadside subsystem that includes a system operation monitoring center that monitors system operation; a plurality of roadside conductor assemblies, each of which includes at least one roadside conductor laid within a coaxial pipe made of a non-magnet field shielding material, and its / their housing in the traffic lane; a roadside part of an on-board part of a lateral location sensor; a plurality of roadside controller each of which includes a power supply assembly, at least one communication device housed in a roadside box, and a plurality of roadside posts with a camera affixed to it. The electric highway system is monitored continuously at the system operation monitoring center.

The invention discloses a charging system in the driving state of electric cars, which comprises an external power supply part and a vehicle power-receiving part, wherein the external power supply part consists of rail-style transmission lines and reflow lines which are laid on a charging driveway and insulation tapes between the reflow lines and the ground; the vehicle power-receiving part consists of a pantograph assembled on the car body, a pantograph slide plate, transmission lines and a pantograph lifting control system thereof. When the electric car requires to be charged and drives to the charging driveway, the pantograph is put down under the control of the pantograph lifting control system; the contact surfaces of the slide plate transmission lines on the pantograph slide plate are in electric contact with the contact lines in sliding for receiving the current and charging when a car drives. The charging system charges the running electrical cars and solves the disadvantages that the battery capacity of the electric cars cannot support long-time sustained running.

The invention discloses a track circuit which comprises a main transmitter, a first attenuation redundancy isolator, a first receiver and a track relay, wherein the main transmitter is connected with the first end of a steel track through a first transmission cable, generates mixed frequency-shift pulse signals, and sends the mixed frequency-shift pulse signals out through the steel track; the first attenuation redundancy isolator is connected with the second end of the steel track through a second transmission cable and divides the received mixed frequency-shift pulse signals into frequency-shift signals and pulse signals; the first receiver is connected with the first attenuation redundancy isolator; the track relay is connected with the first receiver; the first receiver is used for receiving the frequency-shift signals and the pulse signals, and performing analytical treatment on the frequency-shift signals and the pulse signals, comparing treated results with the preset condition, and driving the track relay to work according to the compared result. According to the track circuit provided by the invention, the frequency-shift signals and pulse signals are integrated into a whole, and various conditions which possibly occur on the steel track are considered comprehensively, so that safe driving of trains can be ensured.

A process for preparing steel-aluminium composition includes such steps as dipping the deforming Al-alloy in Sn (or Zn) solution for generating a layer of low-smelting-point antioxidizing metal film on its surface, coating a metallic transition layer not reacting on steel and Al on the surface of stainless steel, and hot pressing them in a vacuum hot extruding furnace. Its advantages are high electric conductivity and no generation of FeAl3.

The invention relates to an unmanned intelligent traffic system. The unmanned intelligent traffic system comprises vehicles with intelligent vehicle-mounted systems, a central scheduling control system and exclusive lanes. The central scheduling control system is arranged outside the exclusive lanes, and both sides of every exclusive lane are provided with wall rails; both sides of every vehicle are provided with rail catching guiders, and the vehicle is connected with the wall rails through the rail catching guiders and connected with the central scheduling control system through the corresponding intelligent vehicle-mounted system in a wireless mode. The unmanned intelligent traffic system has the advantages of integrating the advantages of road traffic and rail traffic; under the unified scheduling of the central scheduling control system, the vehicles can flexibly pass through the exclusive lanes and achieve same-speed same-direction no-spacing travelling, so that not only is traveling density improved, but also vehicle accidents can be avoided, further the objects of economy, safety, efficiency and environmental protection can be achieved.

A mobile manipulator robot for retrieving inventory items from a storage system. The robot includes a body, a wheel assembly, a sensor to locate a position of the robot within the storage system, an interface configured to send processor readable data to a remote processor and to an operator interface, and receive processor executable instructions from the remote processor and from the operator interface, an imaging device to capture images of the inventory items, a picking manipulator, first and second pneumatic gripping elements for grasping the inventory items, and a coupler configured to mate with a valve to access a pneumatic supply for operating at least one of the first or second pneumatic gripping elements. The robot is configured to transition the valve from a closed condition to an open condition and selectively place one of the first or the second pneumatic gripping elements in communication with the pneumatic supply.

An induction line cover includes a cylinder-shaped section into which an induction line can be fitted, plate-shaped sections continuously connected outwardly from a pair of ends created by cutting a slit longitudinally in the cylinder-shaped section at a circumferential position of the cylinder-shaped section, and engaging sections formed adjacent outer faces of the plate-shaped sections and being engageable toward the movement track. A cover joining member for connecting the induction line cover has a receiving section which can receive the engaging sections, and is configured to be accommodated within the extent of the outer diameter of the cylinder-shaped section when the engaging sections are engaged toward the movement track. By this, connection between induction line covers can be performed firmly with stability using the cover joining member, and sufficient clearance can be secured between the cover joining member and a pickup coil.

Method and system for autonomously transporting people and / or goods. The method includes requesting conveyance of a payload from a designated area to a destination, autonomously moving at least one module to the designated area, loading the at least one module with a payload within the designated area, and, via the at least one module, autonomously transporting the payload to the destination.

A charging module for an electric vehicle includes an enclosure having a plurality of sides and an at least partially open top, the enclosure defining a hollow interior; a conductor rail disposed in the at least partially open top of the enclosure, the conductor rail being configured to be placed in electric communication with an electrical power source; and at least one external insulator disposed in the at least partially open top of the enclosure adjacent to the conductor rail. The at least one external insulator is disposed between the conductor rail and at least one of the sides of the enclosure. The conductor rail is configured to transmit electrical energy from the electrical power source to the electric vehicle.

A guideway system and method of operating a guideway is included comprising a guideway with entrance and exit ramps and vehicles having both a smooth, servo-based primary steering systems based upon proximity sensing of the side of the guideway and a backup mechanical steering system. The backup steering system is selectively engaged and disengaged based on location with respect to the entrance and exit ramps and provides vehicle wheel steering in the event of a failure of the primary servo steering system. The backup steering comprises one or more vertical members affixed to the guideway and one or more steering elements engageable with the member(s). The elements may be pivoted into and out of backup steering engagement.

This invention concerns a rail structure (70, 71, 72, 73) in a vehicle-related system (S) for driving an electric and by one or more batteries conveyable vehicle (1) along a stretch of a track in a roadway section (2a1) and related to a roadway, comprising (a″) by one or more individual electric motors (5) drivable vehicles (1), and “b” a plurality of roadway sections (2a1, 2a) which may subdivide the stretch of roadway. Said tracks (51, 52) are in a cross section oriented in parallel in a rail structure (70), said rail structure (70) having external, of metal made, wall sections (71, 72) and a partition (73) separating the external wall sections. A first conductor surface ( ), which may be subjected to voltage, is allotted a lower portion for a first track (51). A second conductor surface (4b), which may be subjected to voltage, is allotted a lower portion for a second track (52).