Patent ID: 9090266
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: B61D,B61F

Abstract:
1. A railway vehicle which is configured by joining an underframe, side structures, end structures, and a roof structure, so as to form a vehicle body, wherein a crushable zone is disposed at an end portion of the vehicle body, wherein slide bars are respectively projected from both upper end portions of the end structure horizontally along upper portions of the side structures, wherein the side structures are provided at upper portions thereof with guide frames which hold the slide bars so as to be slidable in vehicle body front and back directions, wherein in the crushable zone, there are provided slidably in vehicle body front and back directions a slide center beam configured to project from a center portion of an end beam of the underframe in a horizontal direction toward a direction of a cap beam disposed at the underframe, and a guide center beam configured to horizontally project from the cap beam in a vehicle end direction, wherein there are provided slidably in the vehicle body front and back directions a slide bar configured to project from both end portions of the upper reinforcement beam in a horizontal direction along a side structure upper portion, and a guide frame disposed at the side structure upper portion, wherein the slide center beam and the guide center beam are connected with each other by a lower fuse member, and the slide bar and the guide frame are connected with each other by an upper fuse member, and wherein a strength of each of the fuse members is set such that the fuse member is broken when a load over a preliminary set load is applied to the end structure so that the lower slide portion and the upper slide portion are brought into a slidable state.