Bombardier Transportation Gmbh

Gkn Driveline International Gmbh

Andreas Kelbel

Adrian Chludek

Kurt Müller

Heinz Klamka

Alexey Katsnelson

Oliver Muller

Marcel Neumann

Oliver Müller

The invention relates to a retractable step arrangement for a rail vehicle with a first housing that can be mounted on a body of the rail vehicle and features a first housing opening, with a step that is movably supported in the first housing in an initial position and can be displaced between the initial position and a final position, in which the step at least sectionally protrudes from the first housing, through the first housing opening, and with a drive unit for the step that features a motor and at least one movable connecting means that transmits a motion generated by the motor to the step. The retractable step arrangement provides a separate second housing, in which the drive unit is arranged, wherein the interior of the first housing is spatially separated from the interior of the second housing.

Retractable step arrangement for a rail vehicle

An axial setting device having two discs () which are rotatable relative to one another, which are supported coaxially relative to one another and between which there are guided balls () in pairs of ball grooves () whose depth varies across the circumference. One of the discs () is axially supported and one is axially displaceable against elastic returning forces of first spring (). At least one of the discs can be driven by a motor () via a gear drive. During the return movement of the discs () after the balls () have reached their end position in the ball grooves, which end position is defined by the greatest groove depth, a second spring permits overshooting of the drivable disc () together with the disc () supported with respect to rotation against elastic returning forces of the second spring.

Axial setting device with spring-supported return

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Berlin, Germany

Andreas Kelbel