PANTOGRAPH CONFIGURATION FOR A VEHICLE AND VEHICLE WITH THE PANTOGRAPH CONFIGURATION

• US 20160090008A1
• Filed: 09/28/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: DIETRICH, KLAUS
• Granted Patent: US 10,065,528 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 5/28 Devices for lifting and resetting the collector
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 1/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 1/12 Trolley lines; Accessories therefor

Abstract

A pantograph configuration for a vehicle has at least one pantograph embodied for at least temporary contact with an electrical network located externally outside the vehicle. The pantograph is movable from a contact position into a rest position. A first electrical network is located internally within the vehicle, which in the contact position is connected to the pantograph. A second electrical network located internally within the vehicle is connected to a ground or mass potential of the vehicle and in the rest position to the pantograph. In order to ensure that the pantograph is voltage-free in the rest position, the pantograph is connected to the first electrical network and the second electrical network in the rest position.

Claims

1. A pantograph configuration for a vehicle, comprising:

at least one pantograph disposed externally outside the vehicle and configured to at least temporarily contact an electrical network, said at least one pantograph being movably mounted between a contact position and a rest position;

a first electrical network located internally within the vehicle and being connected to said pantograph in the contact position thereof; and

a second electrical network located internally within the vehicle and connected to ground potential of the vehicle and to said pantograph in the rest position thereof; and

wherein said pantograph, in the rest position thereof, is connected to said first electrical network and said second electrical network.

2. The pantograph configuration according to claim 1, wherein said pantograph comprises at least one contact device and said second network located internally within the vehicle comprises a mating contact device, and wherein said at least one contact device and said mating contact device are connected to one another in the rest position and isolated from one another in the contact position.

3. The pantograph configuration according to claim 2, wherein said at least one contact device is disposed on a section of said pantograph that moves between the rest position and the contact position.

4. The pantograph configuration according to claim 1, which further comprises at least one switching device configured to assume a first switching state in the contact position of said pantograph and a second switching state in the rest position of said pantograph.

5. The pantograph configuration according to claim 1, which further comprises at least one indicator configured to assume a first indication status in the rest position of said pantograph and to assume a second indication status outside the rest position different from the first indication status.

6. The pantograph configuration according to claim 1, wherein said first network located internally within the vehicle is at least temporarily connected at least to an energy source located internally within the vehicle.

7. The pantograph configuration according to claim 1, which comprises at least two pantographs embodied for contact with mutually different electrical networks located externally outside the vehicle, and which are electrically connected to each other in the rest position.

8. A vehicle, comprising a pantograph configuration according to claim 1.

9. The vehicle according to claim 8, configured as a non rail-borne vehicle.

10. The vehicle according to claim 8, configured as a hybrid vehicle with at least two different energy converters.