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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Sujay A. Phadke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sujay A. Phadke, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61B 7/00 (2006.01); B61B 1/00 (2006.01); B61B 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61B 7/00 (2013.01); B61B 1/00 (2013.01); B61B 3/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A ropeway vehicle transportation network includes pairs of ropeway cables on which ropeway vehicles travel the network stations. A plurality of network stations are line changer stations connected to at least two ropeway lines. Each line changer station includes shifter rails that rotate around a vertical axis. When a first ropeway vehicle is on the shifter rails, the shifter rails can be rotated to select on which set of the at least two ropeway lines the first ropeway vehicle will traverse when the first ropeway vehicle exits the shifter rails.