Patent ID: 6415522
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: B61K

Abstract:
A measuring vehicle (V) for measuring the geometric condition of a railway track (R) in relation to a theoretical geometric configuration of the said track, the vehicle comprising:(a) a rigid chassis (9, 19) forming a measuring base supported by the means of rolling (10, 11, 12; 20, 21) on the rails of the railway track (R); and (b) a probing device (13, 14, 15; 22, 23) for probing the bearings of the geometric configuration of the track, to determine the degradation of the geometric configuration found in relation to the theoretical geometric configuration and to show any possible discrepancies of the said degradation, wherein the chassis (9, 19) is provided with opto-electronic means (21, 22, 23, 24, N; Lâ€²1, Lâ€²2, Lâ€²3, Lâ€²4, Nâ€²) which measures the elastic deformations of the chassis (9, 19) during travel on the said track (R) of the vehicle (V), the said values for deformation of the chassis being transmitted to the probing device to correct the geometric configuration values measured by the probing device for inaccuracies caused by the deformation of the chassis.