DEVICE STORAGE APPARATUS FOR RAILWAY VEHICLE

• US 20110234070A1
• Filed: 02/11/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kawasaki Railcar Manufacturing Company Limited (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Limited)
• Inventors: TAKAGI, Kunihiko, KITAGAWA, Yutaka, KATAOKA, Shin
• Granted Patent: US 8,376,076 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/319.1
• CPC Class Codes: B61C 17/00 Arrangement or disposition of parts; Details or accessories not otherwise provided for; Use of control gear and control systems

Abstract

An apparatus for storing a device for a railway vehicle, comprises a storage case having an opening at a front side, a tray accommodated into the storage case, the tray being movable forward and backward with the device mounted thereon, a lever disposed at an upper side of the tray to extend along a forward and backward direction, the lever being vertically pivotable around a pivot forward relative to a center of the tray in the forward and backward direction, an operation member coupled to a front end portion of the lever and disposed at a front side of the tray, an engagement portion provided at a rear end portion of the lever and protruding downward outside the tray, and a recess provided in the storage case, the engagement portion being fitted into the recess from above.

Claims

1. An apparatus for storing a device for a railway vehicle comprising:

a storage case having an opening at a front side;

a tray accommodated into the storage case, the tray being movable forward and backward with the device mounted thereon;

a lever disposed at the tray to extend along a forward and backward direction, the lever being vertically pivotable around a pivot forward relative to a center of the tray in the forward and backward direction;

an operation member coupled to a front end portion of the lever and disposed at a front side of the tray;

an engagement portion provided at a rear end portion of the lever and protruding downward outside the tray; and

a recess provided in the storage case, the engagement portion being fitted into the recess from above.

2. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the recess is positioned such that the engagement portion is fitted into the recess from above at least in a state where the tray is in a storage position where the tray is accommodated into the storage case.

3. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the recess is positioned such that the engagement portion is fitted into the recess from above at least in a state where the tray is in an intermediate position in a moving range of the tray.

4. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the recess is positioned such that the engagement portion is fitted into the recess from above at least in a state where the tray is in a pull-out position where the tray is pulled out through the opening and an entire of a device region of the tray is outside the storage case.

5. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the storage case includes an elongate member extending in the forward and backward direction at an upper side of a bottom wall of the storage case and at a lower side of the tray and having an upper end extending in a substantially straight-line shape in the forward and backward direction;

and

the recess extends in a downward direction from the upper end of the elongate member.

6. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the storage case includes a rear wall, a front wall having the opening;

and; and

a rear end of the elongate member is fixed to the rear wall and a front end of the elongate member is fixed to the front wall.

7. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a stopper provided at the tray to inhibit the lever from moving in an upward direction in a state where a rear end portion of the lever is pivoted in the upward direction and the engagement portion disengages from the recess.

8. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 7, wherein

the tray includes a rear plate having an insertion hole into which the rear end portion of the lever is inserted;

and

the stopper is fixed to the rear plate around the insertion hole.

9. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the device is a battery;

and

the lever includes a plurality of levers to sandwich at least one battery region between them, and front end portions of the plurality of levers are coupled to one operation member.

10. The apparatus for storing the device for the railway vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the device is a battery;

the tray has battery regions in which batteries of plural rows are mounted;

the battery regions are defined in such a manner that plural battery groups each including the batteries of two rows or less are arranged with a visual space between them; and

the lever is disposed in the visual space.