PASSENGER VEHICLE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; operative vehicles for short-distance trips. SUBSTANCE: vehicle has body with passenger compartment with seats, entrance and exit doors. Body is made spherical and is connected with upper and lower trucks by means of vertical axle-shafts for turning the body in horizontal plane when body is exposed to inertia forces at cornering in movement in space of pipeline main. Single seats are arranged in passenger compartment diametrically opposite to each other. Hermetic containers are placed under seats. Containers are filled with working liquid and are provided with pneumatic spaces in upper parts. Containers are placed in communication through hydraulic main line. Pneumatic spaces are interconnected by pneumatic line passed through space of hydraulic main line. Spherical doors enclose body from outside and are installed for automatically turning around above indicated axle-shafts. Vehicle has electric magnets some of which are mounted on upper truck and others on body preliminary fixing of body relative to trucks before coming to stop and at parking. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 3 cl, 3 dwg