Patent ID: 7836830

Claim:
A railway bogie for supporting a car body of a railway vehicle, comprising: two wheel sets, each journalled in a pair of left and right axle boxes; a bogie frame, supported on the axle boxes via a primary suspension and provided with a secondary suspension for supporting the car body; two cross-members, each mounted on one of the pairs of left and right axle boxes via left and right resilient mounting apparatus, the resilient mounting apparatus allowing limited pivoting movement of the cross-member about a transversal axis of rotation of the cross-member, and linking apparatus for connecting a linear induction motor to each cross-member, the linking apparatus being such that the point of application of the resultant force applied by the linking apparatus on each cross-member is located at a centre position on the rotation axis of the cross-member at equal distance from the left and right mounting apparatus: wherein the linking apparatus allows relative displacement between the linear induction motor and cross-members in a transverse direction of the bogie, the bogie further comprising lateral linking apparatus for directly transmitting lateral forces between the linear induction motor and the bogie or the car body of the railway vehicle.