FIELD: transport engineering; city passenger and freight vehicles. SUBSTANCE: proposed articulated vehicle has several modules connected to each other by hinges couplers. Vehicle has head module with guide wheel front axle, tail module with rear spatially oriented steerable wheel axle and, if necessary, one or several intermediate modules. Two modules following each other in proposed articulated vehicle are interconnected by movable support of hinge joint formed by wheel axle and backed by rigid oblique hinge coupling. Orientations of each movable support of hinge joint and rear movable wheel axle are related to provide constant coincidence of middle cross axis of movable support or its wheel axle with bisection line of angle formed by longitudinal axes of two adjoining modules. EFFECT: possibility of keeping relative position of modules at cornering and road irregularities, provision of relative displacement of modules. 12 cl, 10 dwg
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1999-09-10—Published
1994-04-19—Filed