WO2003022619A1 - Rail d'alimentation electrique avec chariot collecteur - Google Patents
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- WO2003022619A1 WO2003022619A1 PCT/FR2001/002824 FR0102824W WO03022619A1 WO 2003022619 A1 WO2003022619 A1 WO 2003022619A1 FR 0102824 W FR0102824 W FR 0102824W WO 03022619 A1 WO03022619 A1 WO 03022619A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B61—RAILWAYS
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- B60L5/00—Current collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles
- B60L5/40—Current collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles for collecting current from lines in slotted conduits
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B61—RAILWAYS
- B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
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- B61L23/002—Control or safety means for heart-points and crossings of aerial railways, funicular rack-railway
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B61—RAILWAYS
- B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to an electrical supply rail, shaped as a profile inside which electrically conductive tracks are arranged longitudinally, this rail ensuring the guiding of a current collector carriage, linked to a mobile element to be supplied electrically, the trolley being provided with current-taking trotters, coming into contact with the conductive tracks of the rail, and means being provided for controlling the position of the mobile element.
- a known technical solution consists in using an electrical supply rail with a collecting trolley.
- the supply rail usually arranged horizontally, consists of a profile of electrically insulating material, closed on all sides except a longitudinal slot formed on its underside. Inside the profile are arranged electrically conductive tracks, in particular copper, in variable number, these conductive tracks being distributed over the lateral internal walls and / or the upper wall of the profile.
- the current collecting carriage comprises an upper part housed inside the rail, and a lower part located under the rail, these two parts being connected by an intermediate part which passes through the longitudinal slot of the profile.
- the part of the carriage housed inside the rail may or may not be provided with rollers, which roll on guide tracks formed inside the profile.
- This part of the trolley also carries power outlet trotters, in sliding contact with the conductive tracks of the rail.
- the part of the collecting trolley located under the rail serves as a starting point for an electrical supply cable, directed towards the mobile element to be supplied, which "follows" the trolley in its movements.
- the collector trolley ensures the electrical outlet, and the supply of current to the associated movable element.
- the rail can have straight and / or curved sections, and it possibly describes a closed loop, the current outlet being feasible at any point of the rail.
- the mobile element to be supplied electrically by the device described above is suspended from another carriage, movable along a raceway parallel to the electric supply rail.
- the position and / or movement of the mobile element to be supplied then corresponds to the position and / or movement of the current collector carriage.
- the present invention aims to provide a simpler and more economical solution, making it possible to continuously detect the position and / or the displacement of the mobile element, associated with the current collecting carriage, with a view to transmitting the position information and / or moving to any control device.
- the invention essentially relates to an electrical supply rail with collecting trolley, of the type here concerned, in which, in order to know the instantaneous position occupied by the movable element, it is provided, inside the profile constituting the supply rail, a position and / or displacement detection track extending continuously over the length of the rail, and cooperating with a detector carried by the part of the collecting carriage housed inside said rail , the detector being connected to means for processing the signals from this detector.
- the position and / or displacement detection track is constituted by a continuous element notched at a regular pitch, in particular a notched belt, fixed longitudinally inside the rail, while the detector, carried by the collecting trolley, is an optical type detector, for example with optical fibers, located opposite the notched element.
- the invention provides means for detecting the position and / or displacement of the collecting trolley, therefore of the movable element associated with this trolley and electrically powered by it, which are fully integrated into the supply rail and to the collecting trolley, and which therefore do not require any additional equipment. These means allow position detection at any point, and at any time. The positions and movements of the movable element can thus be perfectly controlled.
- this notched element being of indefinite length and being able to follow, if necessary, a curved path.
- the notched element such as a toothed belt, can be housed in an internal longitudinal groove of the profile constituting the rail, similar to the other longitudinal grooves of this profile which usually receive the conductive tracks, which provides a simple embodiment.
- the position and / or displacement detection track consists of a rule or a magnetic strip, fixed longitudinally inside the rail, and cooperating with a magnetic type detector.
- the position and / or displacement detection track consists of a simple graduated strip, fixed longitudinally inside the rail, and cooperating with an optical type detector.
- the signal processing means coming from the detector carried by the collecting carriage, comprise an electronic processing unit carried by this collecting carriage itself.
- this "on-board" processing unit can communicate, via the conductive tracks of the rail itself, with a fixed control unit, which performs additional processing of the information, to make it usable, which can avoid the addition a wire link or a radio link.
- the device makes it possible to detect the position of the collecting carriage, to recognize its direction of movement, and to measure its speed of movement.
- Figure 1 is a general perspective view of a supply rail, with part broken away, and of the collector carriage guided by this rail;
- Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of the rail and the carriage
- Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the carriage, and of the corresponding area of the rail;
- Figure 4 is a block diagram of the entire device, with the associated movable element
- Figure 5 shows the detail of the detector, and the associated electronic card.
- the reference 1 designates, as a whole, an electrical supply rail
- the reference 2 designates, overall, a current collector carriage, guided along the rail 1.
- the electrical supply rail 1 is constituted by an insulating profile 3, inside of which electrically conductive tracks 4 are arranged longitudinally.
- the insulating profile 3 has a rectangular section, with two lateral faces, an upper face and a lower face, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
- a longitudinal slot 5 is made in the underside of the profile 3.
- the conductive tracks 4 comprise, in the example illustrated, two superimposed conductive tracks 4 placed on one side face of the profile 3, two other superimposed conductive tracks 4 placed on the other side face of the profile 3, and a last conductive track 4 placed on the upper face of the profile 3.
- These five conductive tracks 4 are constituted in particular by copper bars, housed in internal longitudinal grooves 6 of the profile 3.
- the electrical supply rail 1 is fixed, and in particular suspended, to a structure support, by suitable means such as suspension rods, not shown.
- the current collecting carriage 2 comprises an upper part 7 housed inside the rail 1, and a lower part 8 located under the rail 1; these two parts 7 and 8 are interconnected by an intermediate part 9, which passes vertically through the longitudinal slot 5 of the profile 3.
- each walker 11 consists of two copper brushes 12, mounted at the ends of a metal leaf spring 13 fixed, by its central part, to the body of the upper part 7 of the carriage 2.
- the lower part 8 of the carriage 2 is presented as a box, from which an electrical power cable 14 which leads to a mobile element, shown schematically at 15 in FIG. 4, which is associated with the carriage 2.
- the section 3 In the region of its longitudinal slot 5, the section 3 carries two sealing lips 16, applied on either side of the intermediate part 9 of the carriage 2.
- a position and / or displacement detection track constituted by a toothed belt 17.
- the track thus formed cooperates with a detector 18 optical type, carried by the upper part 7 of the current collector carriage 2.
- the toothed belt 17, extending in the longitudinal direction of the rail 1, is housed and retained in an inner longitudinal groove 19 of the profile 3. It is located on a side wall of the profile 3, between the two conductive tracks 4 carried by the same wall.
- the notches or teeth 20 of the toothed belt 17 follow one another at a constant pitch P, for example equal to 1.25 mm - see also FIG. 5.
- the optical detector 18 is carried by the body of the upper part 7 of the carriage 2, so as to be located opposite the toothed belt 17. It is a fiber optic detector 21 and 22, connected to a card 23 "on-board" electronic board, this electronic board 23 being housed in the lower part 8, shaped in a housing, of the carriage 2.
- the electronic card 23 includes several functional sub-assemblies, as shown diagrammatically in FIG. 5:
- An optical processing block 24 ensures, in an analogical manner, the detection of the notches or teeth 20 (rising edges) of the belt 17. It will be noted that this block 24 also performs, by an additional device 25, the detection of the point of origin of 'a section of the rail 1, so as to ensure a reset to zero, for example every four meters, in order to avoid any undesirable drift in the position detection.
- An information processing block 26 ensures the counting, processing and conversion of the rising edges, and performs the calculation of the position, the direction of movement and the speed of the carriage 2.
- a last block 27, serving as a transmitter, ensures the electrical adaptation of the signals, in order to allow their transmission in digital form, by the conductive tracks 4 of the rail 1, to a fixed control box 28.
- the signals received are processed, inside the control unit 28, so as to deliver, on an output 29, a signal of the "incremental encoder" type and, on another output 30, speed information in analog form (electrical voltage proportional to speed).
- toothed belt by replacing the toothed belt with any similar toothed element, such as a rack, or even with a ruler or a magnetic strip, or with a graduated strip, cooperating with an appropriate detector;
- the collector trolley which can have a one-piece structure (instead of several parts), and can also be a sliding trolley, devoid of rollers;
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CA002460383A CA2460383A1 (fr) | 2001-09-11 | 2001-09-11 | Rail d'alimentation electrique avec chariot collecteur |
EP01972145A EP1425197A1 (fr) | 2001-09-11 | 2001-09-11 | Rail d'alimentation electrique avec chariot collecteur |
PCT/FR2001/002824 WO2003022619A1 (fr) | 2001-09-11 | 2001-09-11 | Rail d'alimentation electrique avec chariot collecteur |
US10/489,163 US20050103591A1 (en) | 2001-09-11 | 2001-09-11 | Electric supply rail with collecting carriage |
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EP0425772A2 (fr) * | 1989-11-01 | 1991-05-08 | ELECTROMOTIVE SYSTEMS, Inc. | Dispositif et procédé pour la détermination d'une ou plusieurs données opérationnelles d'un véhicule lié aux rails |
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WO2018041453A1 (fr) * | 2016-09-01 | 2018-03-08 | Conductix-Wampfler Gmbh | Ligne à contact glissant, collecteur de courant, système de ligne à contact glissant et procédé de transmission de données sans contact |
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