JP7440058B2 - Power supply device on cableway - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a device for supplying power to a carrier at a cableway facility stop.

Cableway equipment is transportation equipment for transporting people and goods by suspending carriers from cables strung in the air, and is often used as a means of transporting people on mountain slopes, or as a means of transporting skiers and snowboarders at ski resorts. has been done. In addition, cableway equipment has come to be used as public transportation in urban areas, especially overseas, because it does not require laying rails on the ground like railways do, and less land is required for the tracks. There is.

In this way, when operating cableway facilities that operate closed carriages such as gondola lifts and ropeways as daily transportation in urban areas, each carriage must be equipped with air conditioning to improve passenger comfort. It is desirable to have equipment such as equipment and lighting equipment inside passenger cars. However, as is well known in the past, in cableway equipment, it is difficult to supply power to the carriages that move on the track, so in general, the carriages are equipped with small storage batteries, which are charged at the stop after the end of the trip. It was difficult to equip the carrier with equipment that consumes a lot of power, such as an air conditioner.

Charging after the end of a trip like this requires a large number of chargers for gondola lifts, etc. that operate a large number of carriers, which increases costs. It has been proposed in the past to charge a storage battery (for example, see Patent Document 1). The technology described in Patent Document 1 includes a charging connector that is attached to the outer surface of a carriage and connected to a storage battery in an automatic circulation cableway, and a charging connector that is installed in a stop placed in the middle of the cableway, and the carriage moves within the stop. An electric supply element that contacts a charging connector in between and a power supply device connected to the electric supply element are provided, so that the storage battery can be charged even when the carriage is moving within the stop.

In recent years, with the spread of electric vehicles and the like, storage batteries are becoming smaller and larger in capacity, and rapid charging of these storage batteries is also becoming more common. If such a technology is adopted to quickly charge the storage battery inside the carriage moving within the stop as in Patent Document 1, even if the carriage is on the track, the equipment mounted on the carriage will be charged sufficiently. Electric power can be supplied from the storage battery, and the environment inside the carrier can be maintained comfortably.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 7-31063

However, in the automatic circulation cableway shown in the above-mentioned patent document, a problem arises in that a plurality of carriers move simultaneously within the stop. In other words, since multiple carriages are supplied with power from the power supply rail (electricity supply element) provided at the stop in the above patent document, an excessive current flows to the power supply rail (electricity supply element) side. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and is a system for cableways that can prevent excessive current from flowing through the power supply rail when power is supplied to a plurality of carriages at a bus stop. The purpose is to provide a power supply device.

The invention according to claim 1 provides a plurality of power supply rails that are arranged along the movement route of the carrier in a cableway stop and are energized with electricity of the same capacity, and a power source that energizes each of the power supply rails with the same capacity of electricity. and a current collector provided in the carrier and in contact with the power supply rail , each of the power supply rails having a predetermined length, a predetermined position, and a predetermined interval so as to supply power only to one of the carriers. The present invention is characterized in that the carrier is configured to be configured such that it is configured to be configured such that the carrier is supplied with power while moving within the stop, and the power supply to any of the power supply rails can be stopped .

According to the present invention, by arranging a plurality of power supply rails on the movement path of the carrier, it is possible to prevent excessive current from flowing through each power supply rail, and stable power can be supplied to the carrier.

Schematic diagram of a single-track automatic circulation cableway Diagram showing part of the stop Overall layout of power supply rail

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, a single-track automatic circulation cableway will be explained as a representative example of cableway equipment. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a single-track automatic circulation cableway. The single-track automatic circulation cableway 10 has a stop 11 and a stop 12 at the end of the track, and each stop 11 and 12 is rotatably equipped with a driving pulley 13 and a driven pulley 14. A cable 15 is endlessly wound around the driving pulley 13 and the driven pulley 14, and by rotating the driving pulley 13, the cable 15 circulates between the two stops 11 and 12. . A plurality of carriers 18 are suspended from the cables 15 at predetermined intervals on the track.

The carrier 18 is detachably attached to the cable 15, and is attached to the cable 15 and moves together with the cable 15 on the railway, and is separated from the cable 15 within the stops 11 and 12. At the stops 11 and 12, running rails 16 and 17 that are U-shaped in plan view are laid, respectively, and the carrier 18 separated from the cable 15 is moved along the running rails 16 and 17 as follows. Move to. First, the carrier 18 that has arrived at the stops 11 and 12 is separated from the cable 15, transferred to the running rails 16 and 17, and is decelerated by a transfer device provided along the running rails 16 and 17. When the carrier 18 decelerates to a speed at which passengers can board and alight, the vehicle 18 maintains that speed and returns to the departure side within the stops 11 and 12, during which time passengers can board and alight. The carrier 18 that has returned to the departure side is accelerated to the same speed as the cable 15, and then attached to the cable 15 and detached from the running rails 16, 17 to depart onto the track.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a part of the stops 11 and 12. The rope gripping machine 20 of the carrier 18 is equipped with running rollers 21 that roll on the running rails 16 and 17, and is equipped with an end roller 22 at the end opposite to the running rollers 21. A guide rail 19 is provided at the position of the end roller 22 in parallel with the outer periphery of the travel rails 16 and 17, so that the posture of the carrier 18 traveling at the stops 11 and 12 is kept constant. An energized power supply rail 23 is laid along the lower part of the guide rail 19, and the rope gripping machine 20 is equipped with a current collector 24 that contacts the power supply rail 23. An electric wire cable 25 is connected to the collector 24 , and the other end of the electric wire cable 25 is connected to a storage battery 26 in the carrier 18 . Inside the stops 11 and 12, the power supply rail 23 and the current collector 24 move in contact with each other, and during this time, power is supplied to the carriage 18 and the storage battery 26 is charged.

FIG. 3 is an overall layout diagram of the power supply rail. The entire power supply rail 23 is made up of a plurality of power supply rails 23, and adjacent power supply rails 23 are arranged with a certain distance H between them. Electricity of the same capacity is supplied to each power supply rail 23 from the power sources of the stops 11 and 12, respectively. The current collector 24 of the moving carrier 18 comes into contact with each power supply rail 23 arranged along the moving path, and power is supplied to the carrier 18 . The length and position of each power supply rail 23 are set so that a plurality of carriers 18 do not pass through the same power supply rail 23.

With the above configuration, power is supplied to only one carriage 18 for one power supply rail 23, so an excessive current does not flow to each power supply rail 23, and stable power is supplied to the carriage 18. be able to. Further, according to this configuration, even if a specific power supply rail 23 becomes unable to supply power due to a failure, power can be supplied to the carrier 18 using other normal power supply rails 23. Furthermore, when the amount of power supplied to the carrier 18 can be reduced, for example when an air conditioner or heater is not used, the power supply to the power supply rail 23 in a certain section can be stopped, so that the power supply for the cableway equipment can be stopped. Power can be saved.

10 Single-track automatic circulation cableway 11 Stop 12 Stop 13 Driving pulley 14 Driven pulley 15 Cable 16 Running rail 17 Running rail 18 Carriage 19 Guide rail 20 Cable grip machine 21 Running roller 22 End roller 23 Power supply rail 24 Collector 25 Electric wire Cable 26 Storage battery H distance

Claims (1)

A plurality of power supply rails arranged along the moving route of the carrier in a cableway stop and energized with electricity of the same capacity, a power supply for supplying electricity of the same capacity to each of the power supply rails, and a power supply provided in the carrier. A current collector in contact with the power supply rail ,
Each of the power supply rails is arranged to have a predetermined length, a predetermined position, and a predetermined interval so as to supply power to only one of the carriers,
A power supply device for a cableway, characterized in that the carrier is supplied with power while moving within a stop, and is configured to be capable of stopping power supply to any of the power supply rails .

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