Monorail Vehicle Apparatus with Gravity-Augmented Contact Load
Monorail Vehicle Apparatus with Gravity-Augmented Contact Load
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Apparatus and method for gravity-augmented preload of drive wheels in a monorail vehicle travelling along a guide rail with bearing and contact surfaces that are non-parallel with the gravity vector. The vehicle defines a pivot location against the bearing surface and a constraint point on the contact surface for engaging the rail on the bearing and contact surfaces, respectively. The vehicle is mounted so its center of gravity is at a rear longitudinal offset rr1 from the pivot location and a vertical offset rvert from the guide rail. A force and moment balance thus created result in a normal load on a drive wheel engaged with the bearing surface at the pivot location, where the load value exceeds a standard normal load generated by the mass of the monorail vehicle alone.
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Monorail Vehicle Apparatus with Gravity-Augmented Contact Load
2015-10-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
| IPC: | B61B RAILWAY SYSTEMS , Eisenbahnanlagen |
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