Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

West Japan Railway Company

Masayasu Matsuoka

Makoto Taguchi

Yasufumi Minamimoto

Hiroyuki Kido

Taro Hayashi

Naoaki Kawakami

Toshiyuki Yamada

Akira Ukita

Masami Hayashida

Taro Oka

Yoshiyuki Yamada

A bodyshell of a railcar includes side outside plates, end bodyshells, and guiding plates. The side outside plate are located at both end portions of a carbody in a vehicle width direction. The end bodyshell includes an end outside plate and a corner post. The end outside plates are located at both end portions of the carbody in the longitudinal direction. The corner posts are located at four corners of the carbody. The corner post is joined to the adjacent end outside plate and the adjacent side outside plate. The guiding plate is provided at the side outside plate so as to cover the corner post from a vehicle exterior. The guiding plate includes an inclined portion and a joining portion. The inclined portion is provided in front of the corner post and inclined to the rear side toward the side outside plate.

Bodyshell structure of railcar

A bodyshell of a railcar includes side outside plates and end bodyshells. The side outside plates are respectively provided at both end portions of an underframe in a vehicle width direction. The end bodyshell includes end outside plates and corner posts. The end outside plates are respectively provided at front and rear end portions of the underframe. The corner posts are respectively provided at four corners of the underframe and are joined to the end outside plates and the side outside plates. Moreover, the corner post includes a side plate joining portion. The side plate joining portion overlaps a front end portion of the side outside plates from an outer side in the vehicle width direction and is joined to the side outside plate.

A railcar that includes an underframe, a front surface frame located at a front surface portion of a carbody and having a lower end portion coupled to the underframe, and a buffer member coupled to the front surface frame and extending toward a vehicle interior side. Then, the buffer member is provided at a position higher than the underframe.

Railcar

Growing community of inventors

Osaka, Japan

Masayasu Matsuoka