Patent ID: 8056482

Claim:
A bogie for a railway vehicle, comprising: two pairs of wheels, the wheels of one pair being connected to one another by a shaft to form a respective axle, the axles being connected to one another by a chassis comprising two half-chasses, each half-chassis having two side members connected to one another by a cross-member, the side members of a respective half chassis resting on a respective one of the axles, the cross-members of the half-chasses being articulated relative to one another by an articulation device so as to permit rotation of one half-chassis relative to the other about a substantially longitudinal axis, each side member of a respective half-chassis being connected to an other side member of the other half-chassis by a connector mounted in an articulated manner by articulated joints about substantially transverse axes on the side members, the connector and articulated joints extending at least partially in a horizontal plane offset in terms of height relative to the horizontal plane passing through the articulation device.