ES384963A1 - Stabilization system for articulated trains. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Stabilization system for articulated trains, constituted by a succession of rigid sections equipped with a rigid central coupling to traction that allows the relative rotation and that by itself, or with the assistance of additional means, prevents the vertical and transversal translations between sections, whose sections they are also linked by elastic means, characterized in that said elastic means, articulated to the sections, present a high hysteresis, providing a force that when they tend to elongate is a fraction of which they oppose when they have a tendency to shorten, whose elastic means they are assembled precompressed between the rigid sections so that they exert forces tending to separate them from each other, reacted by the rigid coupling to tension, and distributed in such a way that when there is a tendency to a relative rotation between sections from any relative position between said sections, with respect to the transversal or vertical axes of the corresponding engagement, which implies a tendency to the relative rotation between these and the adjacent rigid sections, give rise to longitudinal forces, whose sense always tends to produce tension in the coupling, whose resultant provides adequate stabilizing moments that oppose the disturbing pair that originates the tendency to relative rotation between sections even before said turn has occurred. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)