Alternating current feeder system for trolley-assisted dump trucks

• US 4,471,231 A
• Filed: 05/26/1983
• Issued: 09/11/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho (Komatsu Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho (Komatsu Ltd.)
• Inventors: Minami, Teruo
• Primary Examiner(s): Goldberg, E. A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jennings, Derek
• Application Number:
  US06/498,288
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 307/17, 307/83, 307/145, 307/147, 104/289, 104/291, 246/249, 246/254, 323/361, 191/2, 191/3, 191/39
• US Class Current: 307/17
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 1/18 Section insulators; Section switches
• CPC Class Codes: B60M 3/00 Feeding power to supply lines in contact with collector on vehicles; Arrangements for consuming regenerative power controlling rail vehicles by varying voltage of power fed to vehicle B60L; power distribution in general H02J

Abstract

An alternating current feeder system for use in trolley assisted dump trucks has a feeder circuit of a.c. system including a Scott connection transformer used as a main substation, main- and T-winding sections having a phase difference of 90 degrees on the secondary side of the transformer and serving to transform three-phase a.c. power into single phase one supplied to feeder substations, single phase transformers respectively installed in the feeder substations, each being adapted to drop the voltage applied on trolley wires to the level required for the latter, and a different phase section provided in a boundary defined between the single phase transformers.

Claims

1. An alternating current feeder system for use in trolley assisted dump trucks, characterized by comprising a Scott connection transformer used as a main substation, a main winding section and a T-winding section which have a phase difference of 90 degrees on the secondary side of said transformer and which serve to transform three-phase a.c. power supplied thereto into single phase a.c. power which is in turn supplied to a plurality of feeder substations, a plurality of single phase transformers installed in said feeder substations, respectively, each being adapted to drop the voltage applied on trolley wires to the level required for the latter, and a different phase section provided in the boundary defined between said single phase transformers.

2. The alternating current feeder system for use in trolley assisted dump trucks as claimed in claim 1, characterized by that each of said different phase sections comprises three short sections, the first and third sections thereof each having a current limiting resistance, and a dead section located between said first and third sections and which is longer than the dimension of the collector shoe of a pantagraph by a necessary amount.

3. The alternating current feeder system for use in trolley assisted dump trucks as claimed in claim 1, characterized by that in each of said different phase sections there is located a section insulator which comprises fiber reinforced plastic body shielded and reinforced by a ceramic protective tube.