Patent ID: 9738178
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B60L,B60M,B61B,E01B

Claim:
1. A guide track for a track-based vehicle that guides the track-based vehicle to follow a predetermined traveling course by causing a pair of guide wheels in the track-based vehicle to roll, the guide track comprising: a track main body having a guide groove opened upward in which the guide wheels are inserted, and a pair of guide surfaces for causing the pair of guide wheels to roll at both sides of the predetermined traveling course in a width direction; a conductor rail that is positioned on at least one side of an outside of the predetermined traveling course in the width direction with respect to the guide groove to perform contact electricity supply by pressing a power collection shoe of a power collector of the track-based vehicle; a support portion that includes an insulation material and supports the conductor rail with respect to the track main body; and a protection member serving as an insulation material that is at least on both sides in a width direction or an upper part of a vertical direction of the conductor rail, and is in parallel to the conductor rail and in parallel to a pressing direction of the power collection shoe so as to prevent a short circuit due to contact with the conductor rail in the width direction or the vertical direction, wherein the support portion includes an accommodation concave portion capable of accommodating the conductor rail, wherein the conductor rail has concave portions that extend in a front and back direction along the predetermined traveling course, the concave portions being defined on both sides of the conductor rail or on an upper surface of the conductor rail and a lower surface of the conductor rail, respectively, wherein the accommodation concave portion has convex portions on inner surfaces thereof, the convex portions being at positions corresponding to the concave portions, respectively, wherein the convex portions are in direct contact with the concave portions, respectively, and wherein, in a cross-sectional view of the support portion and the conductor rail, gaps are defined at both opposite sides of each of the convex portions.