TRAILING VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2004 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; railless vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: proposed vehicle has frame, body, roll-under truck with pole, axel with wheels and slewing circle. Slewing circle consists of upper and lower races with solids of revolution in form of balls placed between races, and lockring. Vertical wall of lower race is provided with number of rectangular splines engaging through air gap with mating splines found on upper race, the splines on upper race are made of permanent magnets with increasing induction of homogeneous magnetic field over arcs formed by permanent magnets relative to longitudinal axis of symmetry of trailer.

EFFECT: improved stability of trailing members of tractor-trailer train in motion.

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