Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited

Abb Daimler-benz Transportation (technology) Gmbh

Bombardier Transportation Gmbh

Wilhelm Kramer

Joachim Grafling

Heinz Flerlage

Andreas Nordhauser

German Hartung

The invention is a converter-fed drive system having at least one drive motor fed by a converter unit. The converter unit has a valve assembly containing semiconductor valves, a cooler for cooling the semiconductor valves and a capacitor assembly are mounted directly on the drive motor. There is also an inductor assembly, that is electrically connected to the converter unit, but is installed such that it is spatially separated from the converter unit and the drive motor. The cooler is simultaneously used to cool the drive motor as well as the converter unit.

Converter-fed drive system

The present invention concerns a contact arrangement with a first contact and a second contact. The second contact has two contact members between which the first contact is received. A contact support resiliently supports one of the first and second contacts so that the supported contact is resiliently mounted relative to the contact support means and movable relative to the other contact.

Contact arrangement

An apparatus and a method for producing dry, compressed air to be used for electrical switchgear, especially for high-tension switchgear, is disclosed in which humidity is extracted from the air in a subsequently arranged sorption dryer, with one portion of the dried air being used to regenerate a drying agent of the drying apparatus. The drying apparatus includes a cylindrical inner housing which is used for the pre-drying of the air, an outer housing which surrounds the former in jacket form for the final drying and a desorption volume. An electric heating rod protrudes concentrically into the inner housing and is covered by either a baffle device or a pipe so that a ring-gap is created between two components, with the ring-gap divided into two halves. The air is pre-dried in the first drying chamber prior to its entry into the compressor, with the temperature of the air being kept above the dew point during compression and cooling. The air is then heated prior to a second or final drying process with the remaining moisture being removed during the course of this drying process so that the entire humidity of the air is extracted in the steam phase.

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Sandhausen, Germany

Wilhelm Kramer