Electricity: transmission to vehicles – Collectors – Trolley
Patent
1990-08-16
1992-06-23
Spar, Robert J.
Electricity: transmission to vehicles
Collectors
Trolley
191 591, B60L 512
Patent
active
051245108
ABSTRACT:
A pantograph apparatus for an electric locomotive is provided that possess two degrees of freedom, a vertical motion similar to that of the conventional pantograph apparatus and a unique lateral motion without any longitudinal component that permits the collector head to track an overhead conductor independently of the position of the overhead conductor relative to the track centerline. Tracking is accomplished electronically by two laterally-positioned contactors on the collector head that generate an error signal when contacted by the overhead conductor, thus actuating a servomechanism to reposition the collector head so as to maintain the overhead conductor between the lateral contactors. The pantograph apparatus disclosed herein is fully compatible with conventional catenary electrification.
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Lowe Scott L.
Spar Robert J.
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