CPC Definition - Subclass B61B
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Systems in which trains or individual passenger vehicles or load carriers run on or are guided by ground or elevated tracks defined by rails, ropes, cables, chains, racks or other guiding elements for wheels, rollers, or sliding anti-friction devices.
Typical examples are:
- General arrangement of stations or platforms.
- Goods marshalling systems.
- Automatically guided railway vehicles.
- Protection devices for the safety of passengers waiting on or leaving the platform, e.g. gates or video control systems.
- Component parts for rope railways, e.g. cabins, ski-lift seats, cable devices, safety devices for cable fracture, cable lubrification, cable grippers.
- Hybrid personal transport systems.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Electric propulsion | |
Guiding railway trafic, ensuring the safety of railway trafic | |
Conveyors | |
Track, rail and switches |
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General arrangement of the station platform to the transportation system to allow an efficient and safe transport of passengers or goods.
Typical examples are:
- Automatic transportation systems, e.g. self-guided railway vehicles.
- Mass transport systems.
- Pipeline transportation systems.
- Protection devices for passengers waiting on the station platform, e.g. gates or video control devices.
Following drawings show two examples for this group:
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Transportation vehicles of the suspended type that runs on elevated tracks being of the rigid type.
Following drawings show one example for this group:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Electric propulsion therefore | |
Conveyors for loading or tipping | |
Circuit arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks and dc networks |
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Elevated transportation vehicles running on the upperside of the track.
Following drawing shows one example for this group:
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Transportation systems of the suspended type running on flexible tracks, wherein the track can be a cable or a chain.
Following drawing shows one example:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Toy railways | |
Cable cranes | |
Flexible tracks | |
Camera systems for filming |
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Transportation systems moving on a rigid track and being moved by a conveying cable or chain to which the transportation system can be coupled by means of clamping devices arranged thereon.
Following drawing shows one example for this group:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Moving walkways |
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Conveyors of the power-and-free type comprising a power line track and a free line track positioned conventionally below the power line rail. The power line rail is often provided with a driven chain on which the conveyor conventionally is engageable/disengageable.
Typical examples are:
- Railway vehicles of the towing type running on the ground.
- Railway vehicles rolling on the ground and guided by a track.
Following drawings show two examples for this group.
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Transportation systems wherein the load is running trackless and guided/pulled by towing cables.
Following drawing shows one example for this group:
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All devices needed to make the cableway faster, safer and more comfortable.
Typical examples are:
- Ski lift radio.
- Vibration damping devices for the cable.
- Cleaning machines to clean ropes.
- Separators for chair lifts.
- Device for transporting a bicycle using a lift.
- Devices for easy entry to the cable car.
- Clamp force testing for cable grippers.
- Devices for monitoring the rotation of a guiding member in a ski lift.
- Devices to avoid derailment of a cable.
- Safety clamping devices for cableway.
- Guiding means for lateral deflection of the cable, see B61B 12/026.
- Guiding means for vertical deflection of the cable, see B61B 12/02.
Following drawing shows one example for this group:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Acceleration for amusements devices | |
Details of seats for railway vehicle | |
Brakes for ropes | |
Mining-hoist winding devices | |
Ropers for tracks | |
Rope pulleys |
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Other railway systems not provided in the groups B61B 3/00 - B61B 11/00.
Typical examples are:
- Railroad systems utilising multiple tracks.
- Air cushion transportation systems.
- Magnetic levitation propulsion systems.
- Evacuated tube transportation systems.
- Devices for contactless movement of transportation systems.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Toy railways with cable vehicles | |
Propulsions | |
Rails | |
Pipe or tunnel systems | |
Circuit arrangements for transfer of electric power between ac networks and dc networks |
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Transportation systems with vertical/horizontal movement relative to the track and small vehicles for individual transport in cities which are coupled/guided for intercity transport on highways.
The following drawing shows one example for this group: