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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Makoto Taguchi, Akashi, JP;
Atsushi Sano, Kakogawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Kumamoto, Akashi, JP;
Seiichiro Yagi, Akashi, JP;
Masayuki Tomizawa, Akashi, JP;
Makoto Taguchi, Akashi, JP;
Atsushi Sano, Kakogawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Kumamoto, Akashi, JP;
Seiichiro Yagi, Akashi, JP;
Masayuki Tomizawa, Akashi, JP;
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe-Shi, JP;
Abstract
An obstacle deflector provided at a front portion of an underframe of a carbody of a railcar includes an obstacle deflecting plate configured to protect the carbody from an obstacle on a railway track when the railcar is traveling. The obstacle deflecting plate includes a main plate portion provided to receive the obstacle by a surface thereof and having a curved shape that is convex toward a front side in a traveling direction in plan view and a sub plate portion projecting toward a rear side from the main plate portion and is continuously provided along the main plate portion so as to extend from a convex, curved front end portion of the main plate portion toward a pair of left and right side portions of the main plate portion, the left and right side portions being located at the rear side in the traveling direction.