TRACK-TRACKLESS VEHICLE WITH COMBINED POWER PLANT Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B60F1/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to transport and can be used in autobuses, trolley-buses and trams. The track-trackless vehicle incorporates a combined power plant operated in three power supply mode, i.e. a circuit-fed, a fuel-fed and an independent mode. The said combined power plant comprises a diesel-generator set and an intermediate electric power source. The bogie allows running on rails, its metal wheels being made to be uplifted. The said vehicle incorporates also a current collector to collect current from the suspended overhead contact system, a traction motor driving the bogie pneumatic wheels, a generator coupled with the traction motor shaft, a storage battery accumulating electric power produced by the generator and traction motor control system. The automatic power supply mode change-over system consists of current-collector position and intermediate power source charge pickups and controls fuel feed into diesel-generator via valves arranged on the fuel feed line connecting the diesel-generator with the fuel tank. The manual control system controls the current collector and bogie metal wheels uplifting and lowering, the diesel-generator anti-autostart fuel line valve opening and closing.

EFFECT: green and safe vehicle.

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