| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 104027000 | TERMINALS AND STATIONS | 21 |
| 20090107356 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A mechanically driven track system designed to transport objects of various sizes and people at rapid speeds over distances. There are stations along the track that both receive and insert objects onto the track system that can operate at constant velocity or at variable speeds. This system can fulfill the same or a similar function to our modern day airplanes, cars, trucks, and trains with greater resource efficiency. | 04-30-2009 |
| 104028000 | Passenger | 6 |
| 20130025491 | FLOATING OMNIMOVER RIDE - A floating omnimover ride with high capacity throughput and enhanced control over speeds of passenger boats. The ride includes a water containment structure with spaced apart sidewalls defining an elongated guide channel that defines a loop-shaped ride path or circuit. The ride includes a volume of liquid contained in the guide channel to a desired depth. The ride also includes a chain of passenger boats floating in the liquid contained in the guide channel. Each of the boats is linked to the two adjacent boats with a connecting link such that the chain of boats is a continuous loop. The chain of boats has a length that is approximately equal to a length of the ride path, and during operation of the ride, the boats in the chain are moved along the loop-shaped ride path at a predefined rate by a pump station moving the liquid in the guide channel. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20120216702 | TEMPORARY RAIL ASSEMBLY - The invention describes a device that enables people with special needs (SEN), namely with mobility impairment of the lower limbs, to access the sea from the beach, without assistance from another person. According to the present invention, independent access is achieved by using a portable, rail-type mechanism which can be assembled easily on the beach. The rail operates as a stable track for a carriage to be drawn along. The starting point of the track is at a distance from the shoreline, in a place with wheelchair access. The end of the track is in the water at an appropriate point where the water's depth is sufficient for the disabled user to swim without problems. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20090013894 | Transport installation by aerial rope comprising a vehicle transfer circuit equipped with a torque motor - A transport installation comprising an aerial rope with continuous running on which vehicles are suspended by detachable grips, comprises a transfer circuit equipped with means for moving the vehicles. The means for moving comprise at least one set of wheels with pneumatic tires one of which wheels is connected to a power take-off derived from running of the rope and equipped with drive means whereby each wheel is made to rotate by one of the adjacent wheels. One of the wheels of said set of wheels is connected by transmission means to the output shaft of an electric torque motor generating a constant turning torque independent from the speed of rotation of said output shaft. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090145325 | PLATFORM SCREEN DOORS - An apparatus and method for controlling the operation of a screen door system. The apparatus includes a first transceiver adapted to be mounted on a train, a second transceiver adapted to be mounted on either a train platform or a portion of the platform screen door system. The first and second transceivers are configured to communicate with each other such that when a train is stopped at the train platform within a predetermined distance of and adjacent to a door of the platform screen door system, a signal is transmitted from the first transceiver to the second transceiver to open the door. When passenger embarkation and debarkation is complete, a signal is transmitted from the first transceiver to the second transceiver to close the door, and when the door is closed and locked, a signal is transmitted to the train to depart. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100132583 | RAILWAY SYSTEM, A RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND A RAILWAY SIDING - A railway carriage to be transported on a railway system includes a living area ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100319563 | TRANSPORATION SYSTEM FOR A SUB-SURFACE ACTIVITY AREA - A transportation system comprising means for evacuating personnel from at least one area of activity ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 104029000 | Freight | 5 |
| 20120097064 | METHOD AND LOADING SYSTEM FOR ORDER-PICKING ARTICLES ONTO DESTINATION LOAD CARRIERS - A method and loading system for order-picking articles in the form of individual articles and/or pack units, in which requested articles are packed, in accordance with the orders, onto destination load carriers and dispatched. The requested articles ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20090095189 | Guideway System to Roadway Interchange System - According to one embodiment, a transport interchange system includes a roadway that intersects a guideway system such that the roadway is discontinuous across the guideway system. A guideway vehicle is provided that transports an intermodal container over the guideway system. The guideway vehicle is operable to rotate the intermodal container from a first position in which the intermodal container is parallel to the roadway to a second position in which the intermodal container is parallel to the guideway vehicle. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090241797 | Ecological Goods Logistics System - A system for transporting goods uses public transportation infrastructure. The public transportation infrastructure includes rolling stock, transportation networks for the rolling stock, and passenger platforms. The goods transporting system includes a plurality of containers that receive the goods for transport, and container space in the rolling stock that is sized to receive the containers. The container space is either additional rolling stock or dedicated space in the existing rolling stock of the transportation infrastructure. Goods platforms are provided separate from the passenger platforms. When the rolling stock comes to a station stop, the container space is positioned near the goods platforms. The system also includes structure for moving the containers on and off the rolling stock, and structure for controlling the loading/unloading assemblies to load/unload the containers on/from the rolling stock according to a desired destination for the goods in the respective containers. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090293756 | SYSTEM, NETWORK AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING CARGO - A system for transporting cargo includes a cargo terminal having a pair of longitudinal sides, at least one of the pair of longitudinal sides disposed adjacent to and spaced a predetermined distance from a railway track and at least one railcar positioned at a predetermined acute angle relative to the at least one of the pair of longitudinal sides of the cargo terminal and having one end thereof disposed in close proximity thereto so as to enable loading or unloading such cargo through such one end of such at least one railcar. A network of at least two cargo terminals and a method of intermodal cargo transporting are also provided. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20110107938 | METHOD AND TRANSFER TERMINAL FOR TRANSFERRING SEMI-TRAILERS FROM RAILWAY TO ROADWAY, AND VICE VERSA AND FOR TRANSPORTING SEMI-TRAILERS BY RAIL, AS WELL AS TRACTION VEHICLE FOR SEMI-TRAILERS AND TRACTOR TRAILER UNIT - The invention relates to a traction vehicle ( | 05-12-2011 |
| 104030000 | Platforms | 9 |
| 20130055920 | URBAN TRANSPORT INSTALLATION USING TRACK ROPES - Overhead public transport installation for urban and peri-urban environment using track ropes with overhead stations, each comprising a platform situated below the level of the boarding/disembarkation platforms and consistent with the overhead clearance of the road transport system in terms of the difference in level that corresponds to the sag in the track ropes. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20090165665 | Safety Entrance Norm (Sen) - The walls in the Unity Platform System are installed all along the platform to match the position of the train doors; on the other hand for different model trains, two new systems which are installed completely free from the train doors have been proposed in the file. The doors with roller bearings move on the seating sledge in the walls. All the doors are attached to one close circle rope, which moves over a pulley set. One drive group activates this rope. The drive group consists of one variable speed reversible motor; one brake and one drive sheave. The rope is pulled to the right or left by the drive sheave. All the doors open or close at the same time, being attached to the same rope. Besides, to bridge the gap between the platform edge and the train, three different Gap Devices have been proposed in the file. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100224097 | SAFETY GAP FILLER FOR RAILWAY PLATFORMS - The present invention provides a safety gap filler which is provided on an edge of a railway platform which is adjacent to tracks so as to minimize a gap between the platform and a train. The safety gap filler of the present invention includes a fastening base body, which is attached to the edge of the platform in a direction parallel to the tracks, and support bars, which protrude predetermined lengths from the surface of the fastening base body towards the tracks at positions spaced apart from each other at regular intervals. Each support bar is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the fastening base body in a direction in which the train travels, so that the support bars are elastically brought into sliding contact with the sidewall of the train. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100180790 | PLATFORM GATE FOR TRAIN STATIONS - A platform screen door system ( | 07-22-2010 |
| 104031000 | Shifting | 5 |
| 20100043664 | Gap-Bridging Device for Train Platforms - A device for the essentially complete bridging of the gap between the car floor of a rail vehicle in the door area and the platform with a gap bridging plate for bridging the gap. The gap bridging plate is mounted to be movable in a linear, horizontal direction at least between a retracted position in which the gap is not bridged and the gap bridging plate essentially does not or only barely projects beyond the front edge of the platform or of the rail vehicle, and an extended position in which the gap is essentially completely bridged. The device is characterized in that the gap bridging plate is mounted movably on two guide rails, and the guide rails are designed as ball bearing linear guides or as roller linear guides. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20090090266 | RAILWAY VEHICLE AND DEVICE FOR ACCESSING SAID VEHICLE - Railway vehicle ( | 04-09-2009 |
| 20110126731 | DEVICE FOR PREVENTING AND DETECTING THE FALLING OF AN OBJECT ON A RAILWAY LINE, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE FALLING OF AN OBJECT ON THE LINE | 06-02-2011 |
| 20100058949 | DEVICE FOR BRIDGING A GAP BETWEEN A PLATFORM AND A RAIL VEHICLE - A device includes a fixed portion permanently integrated in a platform, a mobile portion connected to the fixed portion so as to be capable of displacement between stowed and expanded configurations, and elements for driving the mobile portion. In order to improve the device safety, including in particularly dangerous cases such as the drift of the railway vehicle along the platform, the mobile portion is provided with telemeters for constant time measuring of the horizontal distance between them and the vehicle, while control members connected to the telemeters process the measurements from the telemeters in order to provide real-time driving-elements actuation signals according to the measurements so that, in the expanded configuration, the horizontal distance between the free end of the mobile part and the access threshold ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100282119 | TRAIN-TO-PLATFORM GAP MITIGATOR - An improved gap filler in the form of a single plate or a plurality of plates attached to the train car exterior or emanating from below train car vestibule floor which permits transit line system operator to utilize one device to obtain any desired gap minimization at every train car door in a trainset relative to its corresponding platform edge at all stations on its transit line regardless of platform and/or track configuration while simultaneously adhering to its gap clearance standards pertaining to safe passage of any train within its fleet through any station. | 11-11-2010 |
