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Title:
STEERING APPARATUS FOR PASSENGER TRAIN
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS60104467
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To reduce the abrasion of a tire due to slip when the tire travels on a curved road by allowing some among the axles of the connected passenger trains in multiaxle constitution to be self-steered in accordance with the road-surface resistance.

CONSTITUTION: Each knuckle pins 10 having a tire 7 is axially installed onto the both edges of an axle shaft 8 of a trailer 2 in turnable ways by use of a king pin 9. A roller bracket 16 is connected onto a knuckle arm 11 installed onto the knuckle 10 through a tie rod 15. A roller arm 14 is installed onto the axle shaft 8, permitting to be pressed by a chamber 25, and a roller 17 installed onto the roller bracket 16 is shifted rightward or leftward from the center position on steering, and when a car travels straight, the roller is allowed to contact with the center of the roller arm 14 so as to be returned to the center position.


Inventors:
IWAMOTO RIKUO
Application Number:
JP21100783A
Publication Date:
June 08, 1985
Filing Date:
November 11, 1983
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOKYU CAR CORP
International Classes:
B62D13/00; B62D15/00; (IPC1-7): B62D15/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPS4725821A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Fukuichi Kumagai



 
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