Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hisataka Tamaki

Naoki Wada

Naohiro Hiraoka

Kouichi Tsunoda

Hiroki Kusakabe

Yoshiyuki Andou

Toru Ueda

Yoshikazu Ogura

A coupler system includes: a coupler main body attached to a longitudinal direction end of a carbody of a railcar so as to be rotatable in a yaw direction; a curvature information acquiring portion configured to acquire curvature information of a track, the railcar being located on the track; a control portion configured to determine a target rotation angle of the coupler main body in accordance with the acquired curvature information and output a rotation signal regarding the determined target rotation angle; and a rotation angle changing portion configured to rotate the coupler main body to the target rotation angle based on the output rotation signal. When the railcar is stopped or when the railcar is traveling at a coupling speed, the control portion outputs the rotation signal to start rotating the coupler main body.

Coupler system and railcar

A receiving connectorA and upper and lower guide socketsare mounted on an attachment, and the attachmentis mounted on a casingA by way of a bolt memberso that positioning of the attachmentis adjustable. Guide railsA guide wheelsof the movable trayhaving a connectorB. Upper and lower guide pinsare respectively inserted into the upper and lower guide socketsto be guided. Thereby, the attachmentis moved and connectorsA andB are smoothly connected to each other while being aligned.

Battery box for railway vehicle

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Kobe, Japan

Hisataka Tamaki