ASYMMETRICAL CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR ELECTRIC ROLLING STOCK Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering. SUBSTANCE: proposed asymmetrical current collector consists of base, double-arm carrying lever with main hinge joint, drive coupled with short arm of carrying lever, upper frame with guide arranged on long lever, pan, carriages with synchrorod coupled with carrying lever, link mechanism whose hinge member is secured on carrying lever and is connected with guide of upper frame, longitudinal axis of link aperture being registered with center of carrying lever main hinge joint. Hinge member of link mechanism is made in form of tie-rod one end of which is hinge connected with guide, and other end is hinge connected with carrying lever. Hinge of guide-to-tie-rod joint is located in link aperture. EFFECT: simplified design of current collector. 2 cl, 3 dwg