BUS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; large-capacity city buses.

SUBSTANCE: proposed bus has body under which front wheel beam with steerable wheels, drive axle, support wheel beam located after drive axle, engine installed in rear part of bus are arranged. Engine shaft is connected with drive axle shaft by propeller shaft drive with center support found of wheel beam. Support wheel beam is furnished with suspension consisting of pneumatic resilient members (bags) and guide arrangement with longitudinal tie-rods hinge-connected with brackets of pneumatic resilient members and oblique tie-rods hinge-connected with beam under center support of propeller shaft drive. Housing of propeller shaft drive support is connected with bracket of hinge joints of oblique tie rods.

EFFECT: simplified arrangement of suspension members and drive axle wheel transmission members of support wheel beam with provision of reliability owing to combined attachment from top and bottom of wheel beam.

4 cl, 7 dwg