LOW-FLOOR BUS Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC B62D47/02 

FIELD: transport engineering; public transport: city buses.

SUBSTANCE: proposed low-floor bus has front wheel drive and elastic damping members. Rear wheels are installed in pairs in tandem in one track on individual axles. Each axle is secured on end of end arms of triangular lever. Axles of lever turning, common for similar lever of wheel of other side, is secured in base of body between wheels of one side lower than their axles. Elastic damping member for each pair of wheels of side is located in their track along upper part of wheelhouse and it connects ends of second arms of triangular levers.

EFFECT: simplified design of rear suspension.

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