Patent ID: 7540242
Filing Date: 2009-06-02
Classification: B61F

Abstract:
1. Running gear for rail vehicles with at least three wheel sets housed in a bogey frame and at least one steering device that makes possible a transverse displacement of an end wheel set, wherein the bogey frame has several sections, and wherein at least the frontmost section, in which a leading wheel set is arranged, is connected horizontally pivotable to a second, rigid section, characterized in that at least the frontmost section, as seen in the direction of travel of the bogey frame in which the leading wheel set is arranged, is formed as a parallelogram that can be displaced transversely to the longitudinal axis of the bogey frame; and wherein said at least one steering device has (i) an adjusting device for aligning the horizontally pivotable section of the bogey frame in longitudinal direction of the rigid bogey frame section, (ii) two wheel set guides which are formed by pivotable parts of the bogey frame, and further wherein the adjusting device has at least two adjusting cylinders operating against each other are each housed movable in rotation to a wheel set guide with one end and connected with their opposite end to the rigid bogey frame section, to a holding element, projecting into the pivotable section of the bogey frame, of the rigid bogey frame section.