Patent ID: 7438000

Claim:
Running gear for rail vehicles, wherein: a running gear frame is supported via primary springs on wheels or wheel sets, and whereon a car body is supported via a cradle, the cradle is supported, in relation to the running gear frame, via secondary springs on at least one spring carrier, the cradle or the car body is connected to the running gear frame by means of shock absorbers damping vertical or rolling movements, the spring carrier is supported on the running gear frame by means of hangers, fixing points of the hangers on the running gear frame, contrary to vertically arranged hangers, are inwardly displaced in such a way that longitudinal axes of the hangers extend obliquely, and at least one active control element is at least partially, arranged in the horizontal direction between the running gear frame and the spring carrier or between the running gear frame and the cradle or car body, in such a way that the at least one active control element supports the effect of centrifugal force on the car body and adjusts an inclination thereof to an optimum value.