680results about "Rail-engaging wheels" patented technology

A driving wheel of a robot moving along a wire includes an inner wheel in which a rotation axis being driven to rotate by a motor is fitted, an outer wheel formed to surround the inner wheel and seated on the wire, and a shock absorbing support to elastically connect and support the inner wheel and the outer wheel between the inner wheel and the outer wheel, and a shock being transmitted is absorbed by allowing a relative movement of the inner wheel and the outer wheel by the elastic movement of the shock absorbing support. A robot moving includes a robot body, the driving wheel, a motor to drive the driving wheel by rotating the rotation axis, a connecting arm to connect and support the driving wheel and the robot body.

A remote, non-contact system for detecting a defect in a railroad wheel as the wheel is stationary or moving along a railroad track includes; (1) a pulsed, laser light source for generating an ultrasonic wave in the wheel, the ultrasonic wave having a direct portion and reflected and transmitted portions if the direct portion encounters a defect in the wheel, (2) an optical component in the path of the light from the light source for forming the light into a specified illumination pattern so that the generated ultrasonic wave has a specified wavefront, (3) an air-coupled transducer or a group of transducers for sensing the acoustic signal emanating from the wheel that results from the ultrasonic wave traveling through the wheel, and (4) a signal processor, responsive to the sensed acoustic signal, capable of distinguishing whether the sensed signal has a component that indicates the existence of a reflected portion in the ultrasonic wave, wherein the presence of such a component in the acoustic signal indicates the existence of a defect in the railroad wheel.

An idler having an axis of rotation. The idler may include a hub with a flange. A plurality of rim members are positioned along a perimeter of the flange and have generally axially facing, opposite side surfaces. At least one of the side surfaces has a first interlocking formation. A clamping plate is connected to the flange. The clamping plate has a second interlocking formation coupled with the first interlocking formation. A dampening member interposes the first and second interlocking formations.

The invention discloses a variable-track-gauge wheel set and a locking mechanism thereof. The locking mechanism of the variable-track-gauge wheel set is arranged between a wheel hub and a wheel axle and used for locking wheels at different positions of the wheel axle to adjust the distance between the two wheels. A guiding structure for guiding the wheels to move axially is arranged on the wheel axle, and the locking mechanism adjusts the wheels to designated positions and then locks the wheels at the designated positions. On the premise that a variable track gauge is achieved, it is ensured that the wheel set has enough flexibility, reliability and accuracy.

A hollow-shell road wheel for tracked vehicles includes a generally triangular, outer circumferential cavity formed by an outer rim and two wall members that extend radially inward at angles to a generally planar flange at approximately the mid-radius point of the hollow-shell road wheel. A series of hollow-shell road wheels assembled in a back-to-back configuration support the tracked-vehicle and act as guides for the track of the tracked-vehicle.

A roller for supporting an endless track of a track laying tractor is mounted for rotation about a shaft or axle fixed between transversely spaced, parallel rails of a track support frame. The roller is constructed of mirror image halves having axially inner ends welded together, with a pair of thrust bushings being received on the shaft and respectively disposed in supporting relationship the roller halves. Each thrust bushing includes an axially outer end defined by an annular flange having an axially outwardly facing flat bearing surface. A pair of mounting brackets are respectively received on, and fixed to opposite ends of the shaft and fixed to the pair of rails of the support frame. Non-uniform edge loading of the bushings due to minor shaft deformations due to flexure of the track support frame rails is minimized by providing axially inwardly facing ends of the brackets with spherically contoured surfaces, and by locating an annular spacer between each bracket and bushing flat bearing surface, the annular spacer having outer and inner axially facing surfaces respectively shaped complimentary to the spherical contoured surface of the bracket and the flat bearing surface of the bushing

The invention relates to an urban rail operation vehicle and in particular relates to a straddle type monorail operation vehicle with a structure comprising two pairs of wheels. The straddle type monorail operation vehicle comprises a carriage, a steering frame, an engine, a transfer case and a walking pump, wherein the steering frame is connected with an underframe of the carriage through a central pin dragging device; the steering frame comprises a framework, a secondary suspension device and a dragging device; the overall framework is of an II-shaped full-steel installed and welded plate type box structure and comprises a side beam, end beams connected to two ends of the upper part of the side beam and two vertical beams which are connected between the end beams; a motor bracket is fixed between the upper part of the side beam and the corresponding vertical beam; two independently-driven walking wheel assemblies are mounted on two motor brackets; four guide wheel assemblies are mounted on two sides of the middle part of the side beam; two stabilizing wheel assemblies are mounted on two sides of the lower part; the secondary suspension device adopts a secondary steel coil spring assembly. The straddle type monorail operation vehicle can reasonably meet the circuit requirements of monorail PC beams and is high in safety coefficient, excellent in dragging performance, simple and compact in structure, easy to maintain, stable in running and excellent in brake performance.

A wheel for a track assembly of a tracked vehicle, such as, for example, an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), a snowmobile, a construction vehicle or an agricultural vehicle. The wheel in use is one of a plurality of wheels of the track assembly. The track assembly comprises an endless track disposed around the plurality of wheels, comprising an inner side for facing the plurality of wheels and a ground-engaging outer side for engaging the ground. The wheel comprises a wheel body comprising a hub portion, a rim portion, and a radially-extending portion between the hub portion and the rim portion. The wheel also comprises a covering on the body. The covering in use contacts the endless track's inner side. A material of the covering is different from a material of the wheel body. The wheel body and the covering may be mechanically interlocked. The covering may comprise a peripheral portion covering at least part of a peripheral side of the wheel body and a lateral portion covering at least part of a lateral side of the wheel body.

A track-type work machine is provided, including a roller frame and a track extending about the roller frame. A track roller is mounted along the roller frame and rotatable against the track. The track roller is rotatably supported by a bearing that includes a shaft extending in the track roller and at least one sleeve rotatable about the shaft. At least one of the sleeve and the track roller include a load transmitting crown. A method is further provided of reducing edge loading of a track roller bearing, by transmitting selected loads on the bearing toward a center thereof at least in part by crowning a rotatable sleeve of the bearing.

The invention relates to the field of variable gauges for rail vehicles, and discloses a wheel set for a variable gauge bogie and the bogie. The wheel set comprises wheels, an axle and variable gaugemechanisms, and the variable gauge mechanism comprises a fixed sleeve, a locking pin, a mitigation sleeve and an unlocking disc. The wheels are slidably disposed at two ends of the axle, and the variable gauge mechanisms are respectively disposed on the inner side axle of the wheel, and by pushing the unlocking disc to drive the locking pin to move upwards, the fixed sleeve is unlocked with the mitigation sleeve. Therefore, the wheels are locked or unlocked conveniently, to achieve the variable gauge. The wheel set variable gauge process is convenient and reliable.

An all-terrain vehicle is supported and driven by endless track units. Each track unit includes a drive belt with rows of interior drive lugs driven by cogs on multiple sprocket wheels of a common drive wheel assembly having an integrated, one-piece drum and hub. Multiple guide wheel assemblies engaging the lower run of the drive belt distribute the vehicle load across substantially the full width of the belt. Each guide wheel assembly includes a pair of guide wheel units mounted on opposite end portions of a common spindle and on opposite sides of a carrier beam of the track unit. Each guide wheel unit has a wide belt-engaging surface extending to, or close to, an edge portion of the belt and interrupted by an annular groove permitting passage of a row of the belt drive lugs while maintaining alignment of the belt and drive wheel assembly.

The present invention provides a suspension type monorail vehicle bogie, and belongs to the technical field of rail transit. In the prior art, the suspension type train bogie has problems of complex structure, poor safety, poor curve negotiating, and high noise during train running. According to the suspension type monorail vehicle bogie, both ends of a frame are provided with a motor installation base, traction motors are fixed on the motor installation bases through bolts, both ends of a coupler are respectively connected with a traction motor output shaft and a gearbox input shaft, walking wheels are connected with the frame through hollow shafts, both sides below the traction motors are provided with a guide wheel, the guide wheels are connected with the frame through bolts, and walking safety wheels and guide safety wheels are arranged respectively corresponding to the walking wheels and the guide wheels. The suspension type monorail vehicle bogie is mainly used for urban rail train driving.

A compound rim assembly for a rotatable idler in an undercarriage system of a track-type machine includes a one-piece annular base configured for mounting the compound annular rim assembly upon an outer peripheral surface of an idler hub. The one-piece annular base is formed of a relatively lower hardness metallic material, and the compound rim assembly further includes a first annular track contacting rim a second annular track contacting rim positioned upon the one-piece base and being formed of a relatively higher hardness metallic material. The compound rim assembly further includes a track guiding ring trapped axially between the first and second annular track contacting rims and abutting the outer cylindrical surface of the one-piece annular base, the track guiding ring being formed of a non-metallic material and projecting radially outward of the first and second annular track contacting rims.

A method includes shrink fitting a ring member about a railroad wheel body and metallurically bonding the ring member to the railroad wheel body. A wheel assembly includes an inner portion obtained from a worn railroad wheel, a ring member disposed about the inner portion, and suitable electroplating material disposed on at least one of the faying surfaces. The wheel assembly may be heated under suitable conditions to provide diffusion bonding across interfacing faying surfaces to produce an integral wheel structure. Appropriate quenching, tempering, and finishing processes may be utilized to obtain desired properties. An article formed thereby includes an inner body portion obtained from a worn railroad wheel and a metallurically bonded outer circumferential portion. The outer portion may comprise a composition selected for desired wear characteristics.

A drive sprocket assembly includes a hub having an endless chain connected thereto. A plurality of driver members are mounted between the hub and the endless chain to provide sound suppression.

The present invention provides a recovery processing method to restore the substrate processing apparatus to an operating state after correcting an abnormality having occurred in the substrate processing apparatus in operation and having resulted in a stop in the operation, comprising a substrate retrieval step in which substrate salvage processing is first executed for a wafer W left in a chamber in the substrate processing apparatus in correspondence to the extent to which the wafer has been processed at the time of the operation stop and the substrate having undergone the substrate salvage processing is then retrieved into the cassette storage container and an apparatus internal state restoration step in which the states inside the individual chambers of the substrate processing apparatus are restored.

The mid-rollers of an endless track assembly of a track-type vehicle contacting the inner surface of the track as well as drive lugs formed thereon are formed of a solid heat-resisting thermoplastic material having low friction properties in at least areas of the rollers exposed to the drive lugs.

A roller wheel for a track-type travelling vehicle is disposed on a non-ground-engaging side of a track and supported by a vehicle body frame. The roller wheel includes a shaft, a roller assembly and a bearing. The shaft is supported by the vehicle body frame. The roller assembly is disposed on an outer periphery of the shaft. The bearing allows the roller assembly to be rotatably supported by the shaft therethrough. The roller assembly includes a tubular inner roller shell disposed closer to the vehicle body frame, and a tubular outer roller shell disposed outwards of the inner roller, the tubular outer roller shell being coupled to the inner roller shell by a straddle fitting structure.

This invention relates generally to vehicular transportation for humans and freight by roadway and railway. More specifically, this invention relates to a unique combination of a novel roadway wheel and pneumatic tire assembly, incorporating a known automatic inflate-deflate system and a novel lightweight railway wheel; both wheels then coupled and concentrically assembled on a common axle with special provisions for the known automatic inflation and deflation of the pneumatic roadway tire.

An isolated center tread rim idler is disclosed. The isolated center tread rim idler includes an idler body, and a circular rim including a radially outer portion configured to engage track bushings of a track assembly. The circular rim also includes a radially inner portion of less width than the radially outer portion. The radially inner portion is configured to cooperate with an outer circumferential surface of the idler body. The circular rim includes a curved transition portion between the radially outer portion and the radially inner portion. A resilient ring engages the curved transition portion. A side plate is fastened to a side of the idler body, and the side plate includes a portion engaging the resilient ring.

The invention relates to a shear-type elastic wheel for rail transit vehicles. The shear-type elastic wheel for rail transit vehicles comprises a wheel rim, a wheel center, a pressing ring and two elastic discs, wherein the wheel rim is provided with installation annular grooves in the two sides, and the wheel center is provided with a notch. The pressing ring is arranged in the notch of the wheel center and connected with the wheel center through fasteners; each elastic disc is an elastomer with an inner metal plate and an outer metal plate connected to the two sides in an embedded mode, inner protruding blocks on the lateral sides of the two elastic discs are respectively matched with a corresponding inner groove in a connecting disc of the wheel rim in a buckled mode, outer protruding blocks on the lateral sides of the two elastic discs are matched with a corresponding outer groove in the lateral side of the wheel center and a corresponding outer groove in the lateral side of the pressing ring respectively in a buckled mode, then, the two elastic discs are symmetrically connected between the wheel center and the wheel rim in a pressed mode and between the pressing ring and the wheel rim in a pressed mode respectively; outer radial clearances h1 exist between the outer peripheries of the elastic discs and the outer hole walls of the wheel rims, inner radial clearances h2 exist between the inner peripheries of the elastic discs and a shaft neck of the wheel center and between the inner peripheries of the elastic discs and a shaft neck of the pressing ring, and the included angle alpha between the elastic discs and the vertical tangent plane ranges from 0 degree to 20 degrees. The shear-type elastic wheel for rail transit vehicles is reasonable in structure, capable of reducing manufacturing and use cost, convenient to maintain and good in vibration and noise reduction effect.

A structure for standardizing at least one kind of part of a roller assembly for a construction vehicle so that the part can be used for a same size of construction vehicles having different structural specifications of a plurality of construction vehicle makers. The at least one kind of part includes at least one of a shell, a shaft, a floating seal, a bushing and a collar. Structural specifications including the configuration and dimension, the kind of steel or material, and the heat treatment specification or the mechanical property for the at least one kind of part are unified as much as possible over the same size of the construction vehicles of a plurality of construction vehicle makers.

The invention discloses an opposite type rail trolley wheel train set which comprises a bearing plate and a two-character wheel train set, namely an A wheel train set and a B wheel train set. The two-character wheel train set is arranged on the bearing plate in tandem through a translation mechanism, the A and B wheel train sets are hung on a rail in use, when the rail needs to be replaced, the Bwheel train set is derailed firstly and then replaced to the adjacent rail, the A wheel train set changes the rail, and a carriage below the bearing plate is moved to the adjacent rail through the translation mechanism. Therefore, left-right translation of the rail trolley is realized. By arranging the characteristics of wheel ascending, wheel contracting, wheel descending, horizontal moving and the like of a walking wheel train, the rail trolley can achieve rail changing walking. The wheel train set and the method have beneficial effects that the rail trolley can walk back and forth directlywithout bypassing when the rail trolleys walk in opposite directions and miss a destination so that the time is saved, and the efficiency is high.

A rim and disk type wheel which is mechanically reinforced to raise the frequencies of several of the vibration modes of the wheel to attenuate the running noises heard in the passenger space.

The invention discloses a carrying robot for coal mine rescue. The robot comprises a robot body I, a robot storage bin, a bin door switch drive mechanism, a walking mechanism I and a driving mechanism I thereof, an environment information monitoring unit I, an independent navigation unit I, a remote control unit I, a distance measuring unit I, an automatic troubleshooting mechanism on the robot body I and a control system, wherein the bin door switch drive mechanism, the automatic troubleshooting mechanism and the drive mechanism I are controlled by the control system I and connected with the control system I respectively. The carrying robot has the advantages of compact structure, reasonable design, convenient assembly and disassembly, convenient use and operation, high intelligence degree, reliable working performance and strong motion capability, can run along the underground rail of the coal mine automatically or by a manual remote control mode after explosion accidents happens underground of the coal mine. The robot is suitable for conveying detection robots quickly and efficiently between the parking lot of a coal mine shaft and the accident location and detecting the environment in the tunnel.