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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2000
Karl Wilhelm Fichtner, München, DE;
Franz-Xaver Pichlmeier, Taufkirchen, DE;
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Essen, DE;
Abstract
A track-alternating arrangement for magnetic-levitation roadways, in which one of a series of mutually aligned bearers in each roadway establishes a first junction to join the roadways together. The bearer is inflectable to form the first junction. Each bearer, in an inflected state in one roadway, is aligned with another bearer in an adjacent roadway. An abutting one of the bearers adjacent the inflectable bearer is shiftable out beyond a free base of a car traveling over the roadway to provide sufficient space for the car to pass the junction. The abutting bearers are inflected to establish a different second junction. The inflectable bearers are shiftable out beyond a free cross-section of the car when the abutting bearers establish the different second junction.