Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

Von Roll Transportsysteme Ag

Peter Tutzer

A rail vehicle, particularly a monorail, has several vehicles or cars, each of two adjacent or neighboring ones of which are connected by way of an associated coupling device. Between each two adjacent vehicles or cars there is mounted a bogie with an axle suspension for supporting wheels and guide wheels running on a track. A guide arrangement is provided between the adjacent vehicles or cars. This guide arrangement together with a connecting joint of the coupling device forms a single substantially vertical steering axis. This single substantially vertical steering axis passes in a vertical median longitudinal plane of the vehicles or cars both through the connecting joint and through bogie-side guide rod bearings and through a wheel axle of the supporting wheels, so that, particularly with regard to quiet travel and straight line passage, the dynamics of vehicle travel or movement are improved.

Rail vehicle, particularly monorail

A drive for vehicles, especially a four-wheel drive for motor vehicles, with an engine installed transversely to the vehicle longitudinal axis whose output shaft is arranged axially parallelly to the input and output shafts of a change-speed transmission. An auxiliary power-divider gear having an intermediate differential gear is connected with the transmission output shaft; the transmission axis of the power-divider gear coincides with a vehicle axis, whereby the intermediate differential gear and the axle differential gear are adapted to be locked up by a clutch. The power-divider gear is constructed as spur gear-planetary gear transmission with an externally toothed planet gear carrier. The latter is operatively connected with a spur gear arranged on an axially parallelly arranged output shaft of the transmission. For the purpose of a power-divided axle drive, the planet gears of the transmission are in driving connection with a ring gear and a sun gear. The axle drive to a first vehicle axle takes place by way of the ring gear, and the further axle drive to a second vehicle axle takes place by way of the sun gear.

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Kornwestheim, Germany

Peter Tutzer