US 12,280,677 B2
Current collector for a rail vehicle
Roland Plabst, Alling (DE); and Dieter Wendler, Aschaffenburg (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/638,577
Filed by Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 10, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/069597
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/037431, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 212 826.2 (DE), filed on Aug. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0297543 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B60L 5/19 (2006.01); B60L 5/08 (2006.01); B60L 5/18 (2006.01); B60L 5/20 (2006.01); B60L 5/24 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 5/19 (2013.01) [B60L 5/08 (2013.01); B60L 5/085 (2013.01); B60L 5/18 (2013.01); B60L 5/20 (2013.01); B60L 5/205 (2013.01); B60L 5/24 (2013.01); B60L 2200/26 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A current collector for a rail vehicle intended for cross-border transport, the current collector comprising:
two contact strips each having a first length, ends and contact strip extensions;
each of said contact strip extensions being connected to a respective one of said ends and being rotatably mounted about a vertical axis at said respective one of said ends;
a support configured to orient said two contact strips on a roof of the rail vehicle transversely relative to a direction of travel of the rail vehicle and said support configured to bring said two contact strips into electrically conductive contact with a contact wire;
in a first position, said contact strip extensions each being rotated about a respective vertical axis relative to a respective contact strip resulting in a total length of said contact strip with said respective contact strip extensions corresponding to said first length of said contact strip; and
in a second position, said contact strip extensions each being rotated about a respective vertical axis relative to a respective contact strip resulting in a total length of said contact strip with said respective contact strip extensions corresponding to a second length being greater than said first length.