US 12,030,531 B2
Driver's compartment for an interoperable rail vehicle
Markus Mehlan, Karlsfeld (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 16/972,658
Filed by SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed May 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/061913
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 7, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/233699, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 208 888.8 (DE), filed on Jun. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0261171 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. B61C 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC B61C 17/04 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver's compartment for an interoperable rail vehicle having a front window, the driver's compartment comprising:
a seat arrangement with two seats for operating personnel, each of said two seats having a defined standard field of view;
said two seats including a seat assigned to a vehicle driver and a seat assigned to a driver's assistant;
said standard fields of view intersecting at least partially in a projection onto the front window;
a center console arranged between said two seats, said center console having operator-control elements that are required for operating the rail vehicle, and said operator-control elements of said center console being disposed to be accessible to the vehicle driver and to the driver's assistant;
each of said two seats being spaced from a side wall of the driver's compartment to leave a free spacing distance of more than 50 cm, thus defining an escape route for the operating personnel, in an emergency situation, the escape route enabling an escape to the rear, counter to a direction of travel and away from the front window, along a side corridor formed between said seat and a respectively nearest side wall of the driver's compartment; and
said seats being spaced from one another by a spacing distance that is smaller than the free spacing distance defining the escape route, and said center console substantially occupying a space defined by the spacing distance between said seats.