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Title:
TRUCK FOR BOTH CABLE AND FIXED TRACK
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH06183336
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To provide flexibility in the selection of lines due to the possibility of traveling at a curved part, enable mass transportation among many stations, reduce a construction cost by a large amount, and the like by installing a station, a turnout, the curved part of a line, and the like at a fixed track part.

CONSTITUTION: Wheels 4 for a fixed track are used at the time of traveling on the fixed track. In the case of the wheels being tires, the track is provided with guide plates 10, and a truck is provided with guide wheels. Curve travel and branching can be performed by the fixed track and the fixed track wheels 4. Motive power at the time of traveling on the fixed track is furnished through a ground primary linear motor, a chain, a towing cable exclusive for the fixed track part, and the like, or by self-traveling. When the speed of a vehicle or a carrier accelerated by this motive power becomes the same speed as the towing cable in constant travel, the towing cable is qripped by a cable gripper installed on the vehicle or carrier, and the vehicle or carrier is towed by the cable and moved onto cables from the fixed track so as to travel on the cables.


Inventors:
SATOU TAKAMASA
Application Number:
JP29907892A
Publication Date:
July 05, 1994
Filing Date:
September 28, 1992
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SATO TAKAMASA
International Classes:
B61B7/04; B61B12/02; B61B13/08; (IPC1-7): B61B12/02; B61B7/04; B61B13/08