Patent ID: 8371234

Claim:
A bogie for a railway vehicle, the bogie comprising: a chassis; two front wheels and two rear wheels, the two front wheels being offset longitudinally from the two rear wheels; and for each front wheel and each rear wheel, a guide for guiding said wheel in rotation and a primary suspension device of the chassis on said guide; at least the primary suspension devices associated with the front and rear wheels provided on the same first lateral side of the bogie each comprising: two longitudinal connecting rods, each connected to the chassis by a first connection point and to the corresponding guide by a second connection point, and at least one resilient component inserted between the two connecting rods to define at least the vertical stiffness of the primary suspension device, the two connecting rods being offset longitudinally from one another, each second connection point between each of the two longitudinal connecting rods and the corresponding guides being exclusive of the at least one resilient component and the chassis.