Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Hiroyuki Mochidome

Hiroyuki Kono

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Yamashita

Katsuaki Morita

Shunji Morichika

Kosuke Katahira

Yoshinori Mitsui

Masahisa Masukawa

Hiroshi Saeki

Shinichi Matsumoto

Shunji Morhichika

Koki Fukuda

Tatsuaki Hayashida

Naofumi Nagaike

Akira Tagaki

The essential feature of the present invention is the provision of a track transportation system in which a vehicle runs on a predetermined track, being automatically steered, having a simplified and lightweight structure so as to surely ensure a safety, and to be capable of carrying out efficient and high-speed operation. The track transportation system according to the present invention incorporates a steering mechanism for automatic steering by means of an M actuator, a protection guide rail laid on the track, protection guide wheels which travel together with the vehicle along the protection guide rail without making contact with the latter, and a control means for controlling automatic steering in accordance with a result of determination by a track data determining means for determining a straight portion, a curved portion, a turnout portion or the like of the track in view of vehicle position data, and steering caused by the protection wheels making contact with the protection guide rail.

Track transportation system

The present invention provides the structure of a bogie for a vehicle in a track type transportation system in which the vehicle runs along a predetermined track, which can be simplified, and lightweight and which can be run at a high speed with the maintainability therefor being enhanced, comprising a guide raillaid on the track, guide wheelscapable of traveling being made into contact with the guide rail, a guide armattached thereto with the guide wheels, and a guide wheel support bracketfor supporting the guide armarranged underneath an axleof the vehicle so that the guide armis pivotable around a pivotal vertical support shat, left and right of the vehicle, and the guide arm, the guide wheelsand the guide wheel support bracketconstitute a unit structure which is attached to the axleor a bogie frameof the vehicle.

Bogie structure for a track vehicle

A rail non-contact vehicle includes wheels, a vehicle main body supported by the wheels, and a steering control system. The steering control system includes a control section configured to control a steering of the wheels in a non-mechanical manner, and a drive section configured to mechanically drive the steering of the wheels. The control section includes a first detector configured to detect 1-dimensional coordinate data of a target route, a steering angle holding section configured to hold a target steering angle corresponding to the 1-dimensional coordinate data, a second detector configured to detect a current deviation between the target route and a current position of the vehicle main body, and a control steering angle calculating section configured to generate a control steering angle corresponding to the current deviation and the target steering angle.

Method and device for steering vehicle having no contact with track

In a front gable portion ( ) of a rubber-tired new traffic vehicle ( ), an outer bumper ( ) is fixed to the exterior of an inner bumper ( ) constituting an underframe ( ), front beams ( ) and side beams ( ) are constructed between a roof frame ( ) and the outer bumper ( ), the front beams ( ) are inclined and curved in harmony with the streamlined design of the vehicle ( ), and straight portions ( ) of predetermined lengths are formed in lower end portions of the front beams ( ) along a vertical direction.

Body structure

Method of automatically controlling traveling of vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroyuki Mochidome