Brush contact for a vehicle

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1996-07-10

1997-08-19

Merritt, Karen B.

Electricity: transmission to vehicles

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Suspended conveyors

191 591, 310251, B60L 508, B60L 520, C22C 109

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056578423

ABSTRACT:
Brush contact for a vehicle, in particular a vehicle that runs on rails and that has a propulsion unit that is to be supplied with an electric current, with a sliding element for the transferral of the electric current from a live conductor, which is carrying an electric current, into the vehicle, whereby the sliding element contains carbon in at least one part of its contact surface that is turned toward the live conductor, whereby the brush contact is characterized by the feature that the contact surface that is turned toward the live conductor has at least one current-transferral region of a layer that comprises a composite material based on carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon.

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