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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Haruo Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kurita, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Mizushima, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Nakajima, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitoshi Satoh, Yokohama, JP;
Haruo Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Kurita, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Mizushima, Tokyo, JP;
Shinji Nakajima, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitoshi Satoh, Yokohama, JP;
East Japan Railway Company, Tokyo, JP;
Toyo Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A slider is slightly moved in a direction in which both side surfaces of the slider come in contact with inclined surfaces of impact mitigating parts of neighboring contact strip pieces. For this reason, the inclined surface of the impact mitigating part of the contact strip piece which the slider approaches is relatively downwardly slid with respect to one side surface of the slider. In addition, the inclined surface of the impact mitigating part of the contact strip piece from which the slider moves away is relatively upwardly slid with respect to the other side surface of the slider. As a result, since an impact generated between the contact strip piece and the slider is mitigated by the impact mitigating part without fitting the slider into a stepped section between the neighboring contact strip pieces, the slider is smoothly transferred from the one contact strip piece of the neighboring contact strip pieces to the other contact strip piece.