Traction drive of a rail vehicle for driving and generative braking with load correction

• US 8,076,878 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Issued: 12/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Original Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Inventors: Hähle, Falk, Friesen, Ulf, Schmucker, Josef
• Primary Examiner(s): Dougherty, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US12/447,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,510 Days
• Field of Search: 318376-381
• US Class Current: 318/376
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/06 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/08 Controlling the braking effect B60L7/04, B60L7/06 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/16 for vehicles comprising converters between the power source and the motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/22 Dynamic electric resistor braking, combined with dynamic electric regenerative braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/24 with additional mechanical or electromagnetic braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1705 for rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/24 Arrangements for stopping
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

The invention relates to a traction drive for the driving and generative braking of a rail vehicle or a combination of rail vehicles, at least one permanent-field synchronous motor and a traction current converter being associated with at least one axle of the rail vehicle or combination of rail vehicles. The traction current converter includes at least one pulse current converter on the engine side, and the clamps of the permanent-field synchronous motor are connected to a change-over switch such that the permanent-field synchronous motor can be connected to a load circuit forming a load, to drive the pulse current converter or for generative braking. According to the invention, the load circuit connected to the permanent-field synchronous motor for generative braking is designed and/or controlled in such a way that the characteristic values of the load circuit can be modified according to the loading of the rail vehicle or combination of rail vehicles.

Claims

1. A traction drive for driving and for performing regenerative braking of a rail vehicle or of a combination of rail vehicles, the traction drive comprising:

at least one permanently excited synchronous motors;

one traction current converter assigned to at least one axle of the rail vehicle or of the combination of rail vehicles, wherein the traction current converter has at least one machine-side pulse current converter; and

a changeover switch connected to the terminals of the permanently excited synchronous motor in such a way that the permanently excited synchronous motor is selectively connected to the pulse current converter to perform driving or to a load circuit containing a load to perform regenerative braking,

wherein the load circuit connected to the permanently excited synchronous motor to perform regenerative braking is configured in such a way that the characteristic variables of the load circuit can be changed as a function of the loading of the rail vehicle or of the combination of rail vehicles.

2. The traction drive of claim 1, wherein the load circuit has resistors and inductors and/or capacitors.

3. The traction drive of claim 2, wherein the changing of the resistance, inductance or capacitance takes place in an incremental or infinitely variable fashion.

4. The traction drive of claim 2, wherein the actuator contains a switching device which connects or disconnects the inductors and/or capacitors with respect to the resistors as a function of the loading.

5. The traction drive of claim 2, wherein the load circuit has inductors which are arranged in series with respect to the resistors, wherein a transmission device or control device controls at least one actuator as a function of the loading in such a way that said actuator reduces the inductance of the load circuit as the loading increases and increases the inductance of the load circuit as the loading decreases.

6. The traction drive of claim 5, wherein the switching device has means for bypassing the inductors.

7. The traction drive of claim 3, wherein the inductors contain magnetic coils, and the actuator adjusts the inductors in an infinitely variable fashion by changing the magnetic circuit as a function of the loading.

8. The traction drive of claim 1, wherein the regenerative brake based on the permanently excited synchronous motor forms a safety brake or emergency brake subordinate to a service brake.

9. A device for correcting loads during the regenerative braking of rail vehicles or combinations of rail vehicles containing an air spring device with at least one air spring bellows, by a traction drive as claimed in claim 1, wherein the actuator is formed by a pneumatic actuator controlled directly by pressure p in at least one air spring bellows, and connects or disconnects or adjusts in an infinitely variable fashion the inductors and/or capacitors with respect to the resistors as a function of this pressure p and as a function of the loading.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the pneumatic actuator is formed by a pressure switch controlled by the pressure pin the at least one air spring bellows.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the pneumatic actuator adjusts the magnetic circuit of the inductors in an infinitely variable fashion as a function of the loading.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the pneumatic actuator adjusts the size of an air gap between coil core parts of coil cores of the inductors in an infinitely variable fashion as a function of the loading.