CA2630194A1 - Device for conveying people or objects - Google Patents

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CA2630194A1
CA2630194A1 CA002630194A CA2630194A CA2630194A1 CA 2630194 A1 CA2630194 A1 CA 2630194A1 CA 002630194 A CA002630194 A CA 002630194A CA 2630194 A CA2630194 A CA 2630194A CA 2630194 A1 CA2630194 A1 CA 2630194A1
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Philipp Erhart
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61BRAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
    • B61B12/002Cabins; Ski-lift seats

Abstract

A device for conveying people or objects, for example a car (7) of an aerial cableway, has a driveless running gear (2), which is pulled along a track cable (4). The car (7) has consumers (15) for electrical energy and an electrical energy store (14). Electrical energy is obtained by friction wheels (11) on the running gear (2), which friction wheels are connected to a generator, said electrical energy being stored in the electrical energy store (14).

Description

DEVICE FOR CONVEYING PEOPLE OR OBJECTS
Field of the Invention The invention relates to a device for conveying people and/or objects with a driveless running gear, which is pushed or pulled along a travel way, with at least one consumer for electrical energy and with an electrical energy store.

Background Art Such devices are, for example, cars of aerial cableways and funicular railways.
Since the running gears of the cars of aerial cableways and funicular railways do not have dedicated drives since they are pulled with the aid of cables, they do not necessarily have an external electrical energy supply. While an electrical energy supply to aerial cableways on the section between the cableway stations is virtually impossible, this would be possible in the case of funicular railways, but is associated with considerable complexity since a busbar would need to be provided along the entire section in order to permanently supply electrical energy externally to electrical consumers.
In the context of the invention, electrical consumers can be multimedia devices, lighting systems, drives for car doors, measuring devices, motors for rotating cars, devices for active pendulum damping, drives for active moving gears for cornering, airconditioning units or heating devices, for example seat heaters or floor heaters, whereby this list is only by way of example and is incomplete.
Although it is known from the prior art to equip cars of cableways with electrical energy stores such as rechargeable batteries in order to supply current to electrical consumers during travel, these energy stores need to be designed to be relatively large in the case of consumers with a relatively high power rating and the charging power in the stations needs to be likewise very great in particular in the case of short stops, which can only be realized in a technically relatively complex manner.

Summary of the Invention The invention is therefore based on the object of providing a device of the type described at the outset with which it is possible to ensure power supply to electrical consumers in a technically simple manner.
This object is achieved in the case of a device of the generic type by an apparatus for obtaining electrical energy from the relative movement between the running gear and the travel way and for storing the obtained energy in the electrical energy store.
The invention makes use of the fact that, as a result of the relative movement between the travel way, i.e. for example the track cables in the case of aerial cableways or the rails of funicular railways, and the running gear, energy can be obtained without any problems.
If, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the running gear runs on the travel way via rollers, a generator can be connected to at least one roller, by means of which generator the electrical energy is obtained. In this case it is only necessary to connect one or more of the rollers which are provided in any case to a generator.
In an alternative, likewise preferred embodiment of the invention, at least one friction wheel is arranged on the running gear, which friction wheel is frictionally connected to the travel way, the friction wheel being connected to a generator. This embodiment provides the advantage that existing and optimized running gear constructions do not need to be altered in terms of the mounting of the running wheels since one or more separate friction wheels are used for driving the generator, which friction wheels are likewise mounted on the running gear.
In the context of the invention, the generator can be a wheel hub generator, which is preferably arranged in the roller or in the friction wheel. Alternatively, the wheel hub generator can also be fitted to the shaft of the roller or the friction wheel.

Brief Description of the Drawings Further features and advantages of the present invention are given in the description below of a preferred exemplary embodiment of the invention with reference to the attached drawing, in which a preferred exemplary embodiment of a device according to the invention in the form of a car of an aerial cableway is illustrated.

Detailed Description The device I according to the invention of the exemplary embodiment in accordance with the attached drawing has, as is conventional in the prior art, a running gear 2, which moves in pendulum fashion or circulates via rollers 3 on a track cable 4 between two cableway stations. In the context of the invention it is naturally also possible for the running gear 2 to run over two track cables 7 which are arranged parallel next to one another since the invention is not restricted to a specific number or arrangement of track cables 4. The running gear 2 is driven by means of a pull cable 5, on which the running gear 2 is fixed by means of a suitable clamping device 6, which has long been known in the prior art.
A car 7 is suspended from the running gear 2 with the aid of suspension arm 8, the suspension arm 8 being connected to the running gear 2 via an articulated joint 9 and to the car 7 via suspension means 10, in order that the car 7 always hangs as straight as possible beneath the running gear 2.
In addition to the running wheels 3, two friction wheels 11 are mounted on the running gear 2, which friction wheels are frictionally connected to the track cable 4. A
wheel hub generator is installed in each of the friction wheels 11, which wheel hub generator converts the rotary movement of the friction wheels 11 into electrical energy. It would naturally also be possible for generators to be attached to the shafts of the friction wheels 11 or for a common generator to be provided for a plurality of friction wheels 11, which common generator is connected to the friction wheels 11 via mechanical joints or gear mechanisms. Depending on the level of the electrical power to be produced, it is also possible for only one friction wheel 11 or more than two friction wheels 11 to be used in order to optimize the mechanical loading and the wear of the friction wheel(s) 11.
Electrical lines 12 run from the wheel hub generators along the suspension arm downwards towards a controller 13, which firstly controls the charging of an energy store 14, for example a rechargeable battery, and secondly controls the supply to an electrical consumer 15. Via the controller 13, either always the energy store 14 can be fed by the generator and the consumers can then be supplied the energy stored in the energy store 14, or one or more consumers 15 can be fed directly. A parallel feed to the energy store 14 and the consumer 15 is also possible. As an alternative or in addition to for example one or more rechargeable batteries 14, one or more capacitors can also be used as energy stores, which capacitors have different properties than rechargeable batteries in terms of the capacity and charging and discharging speed and can therefore have more suitable properties in combination with certain consumers.
Although the energy drawn via the friction wheels 11 additionally needs to be applied by the main drive, which is used to drive the running gear 2 with the aid of the pull cable 5, this additional power is generally very low in comparison with the main drive power, with the result that it is not expected the main drive will be made more expensive, whereas a very simple and effective possibility is provided by the invention for supplying the vehicle I with electrical energy during the entire traveling time.
The present invention has been explained in combination with a car of an aerial cableway, but the invention is not restricted to aerial cableways, but can also be used, for example, in funicular railways, with the friction wheels then being frictionally connected, for example, to the rails of the funicular railways. However, the invention can also be used in other devices for conveying people, such as entertainment devices, which do not have a dedicated drive and are either permanently pushed or pulled or such as, for example, roller coasters are conveyed only temporarily by a drive to a high level and then travel along a path driven by the force of gravity and in the meantime can be supplied with electrical energy in a simple manner by means of the invention.

Claims (25)

1. A device for conveying people or objects, comprising a driveless running gear, for movement along a travel way, at least one consumer of electrical energy; an electrical energy store; and an apparatus for generating electrical energy from the relative movement between the running gear and the travel way and for storing the generated energy in the electrical energy store.
2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein that the travel way is formed by a track cable.
3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the travel way is formed by rails.
4. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the running gear runs on the travel way via rollers.
5. The device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the apparatus for generating electrical energy includes a generator connected to at least one of the rollers.
6. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the apparatus for generating electrical energy includes at least one friction wheel arranged on the running gear, which friction wheel is frictionally connected to the travel way, and in that the friction wheel is connected to a generator for generating the electrical energy.
7. The device as claimed in claim 5 or 6, wherein the generator is a wheel hub generator.
8. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wheel hub generator is arranged in the roller or in the friction wheel.
9. The device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wheel hub generator is fitted onto the shaft of the roller or the friction wheel.
10. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the energy store has rechargeable batteries and/or capacitors.
11. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10, including a car of an aerial cableway.
12. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10, a car of a funicular railway.
13. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10, in the form of a vehicle of an entertainment device.
14. The device of claim 13, wherein the entertainment device is a roller coaster.
15. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 14, wherein the consumer is a heating or cooling device.
16. The device of claim 15, wherein the heat or cooling device is a seat heater, floor heater or car air heater.
17. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 16, wherein the consumer is an airconditioning unit.
18. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 17, wherein the consumer is a multimedia device.
19. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 18, wherein the consumer is a lighting system.
20. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 19, wherein the consumer is a drive for a car door.
21. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 20, wherein the consumer is a measuring device.
22. The device as claimed in any one of claims 11 to 21, wherein the consumer is a motor for rotating the car.
23. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 22, wherein the consumer is a device for active pendulum damping.
24. The device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 23, wherein the consumer is a drive for an active moving gear for cornering.
25. Device for generating electrical energy from a relative movement of a device for conveying people or objects, with a driveless running gear for movement along a travel way, the device for generating comprising an electrical energy store and an apparatus for generating electrical energy from the relative movement between the running gear and the travel way, the apparatus being connectable to the energy store for storage of the electrical energy generated.
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