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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2015
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Nogami, Takatsuki, JP;
Takahiro Fujimoto, Kobe, JP;
Yuiko Sakayama, Amagasaki, JP;
Atsushi Sakaguchi, Nishinomiya, JP;
Kazutaka Asabe, Sanda, JP;
NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A railway wheel includes: a wheel including a plate portion; and a brake disc including a circular plate portion whose front face side is a sliding surface, and a plurality of fin portions which are radially projected on a back face of the circular plate portion, wherein two of the brake discs are fastened in a region within the sliding surface. Regarding an area of a section crossing a space between the brake disc and the wheel along a circumferential direction, a minimum section portion in which the sectional area is minimum is present in a region formed by an outer peripheral surface of the circular plate portion and an inner peripheral surface of the rim portion, and the outer peripheral surface of the circular plate portion follows the inner peripheral surface of the rim portion in a region extending to the outer side from the minimum section portion.