Patent ID: 6363862
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: B60L

Abstract:
Power pick-up assembly for a railway vehicle, of the type comprising a pantograph and a pantograph support, the pantograph support comprising a stationary chassis for mounting on the roof of a railway vehicle, and a mobile chassis carrying the pantograph and connected to the stationary chassis to tilt laterally with respect thereto on each side of a position of rest, wherein the mobile chassis is connected to the stationary chassis by two tilting rigid lateral supports having a transverse profile with a concave aspect facing towards the inside of the power pick-up assembly, each tilting support comprising a yoke articulated by branches to the stationary chassis at two longitudinally-spaced points, and two clevis mounts which extend the base of the yoke and which are roughly orthogonal to the branches of the yoke, said two clevis mounts being articulated to the mobile chassis at two longitudinally-spaced points.