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Railway rolling stock January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/11

20110017093 - Mounting of drag reducing devices for stacked intermodal rail cards: Disclosed is a series of stacked intermodal containers, being pulled by a locomotive of a train, with aerodynamic drag reducing devices. A first set of containers has an aerodynamic drag reducing device with a drag reducing fairing and an attachment frame attached thereto. The attachment frame includes first and second... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20110017094 - Method of shipping automobiles, railcar for shipping automobiles, and method of manufacturing railcars: A method of shipping automobiles, a railcar for shipping automobiles, and a method of manufacturing railcars for shipping automobiles to enable more efficient shipping of automobiles by increasing load factor.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20110017095 - Railroad freight car: A railroad freight car may have a body for carrying lading. The body may be a gondola car body. The car body may include a decking or floor structure, and may include longitudinally extending side beams bordering the floor structure. The connection of the side beams to the floor structure... Agent: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP

20110011300 - Motor activation circuit for a rail vehicle and method for the operation thereof: A motor drive circuit for a rail vehicle has a step-up converter, which is disposed at the input of the motor drive circuit, and which converts a mains DC voltage, at the input of the motor drive circuit into an intermediate circuit DC voltage. A pulse rectifier, which is downstream... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20110011301 - Railcar constant contact side bearing assembly: A constant contact side bearing assembly for a railcar including a housing with wall structure defining a central axis for the side bearing assembly and a multipiece cap. The cap is arranged in operable combination with the housing and includes a movable first member and a movable second member carried... Agent: Law Office Of John W. Harbst

20110011302 - Crash-resistant front apron for a rail vehicle: A crash-resistant front apron for a rail vehicle is provided. The front apron includes an apron cover, a first support part supporting the apron cover, a second support part attached to a frame of the rail vehicle and a friction coupling release mechanism which connects the first support part to... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20110005424 - Undercarriage cross memeber for a rail vehicle: An undercarriage cross member is disclosed for a rail vehicle. In at least one embodiment, the cross member is constructed solely from aluminium extruded sections.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20110005425 - Increased capacity railcar and method: A railway car includes a railway car underframe having a first longitudinal side sill and a second longitudinal side sill with at least one sidewall assembly disposed along the first longitudinal side sill of the railway car underframe. The sidewall assembly is formed in part from a side sheet, an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20110000394 - Railway vehicle drive unit: A railway vehicle drive unit (12) is a drive unit to rotatably drive a wheel (11) of a railway vehicle. More specifically, it includes a reducer housing (13) held on an inner diameter surface of the wheel (11), and integrally rotating with the wheel (11), an input side rotation member... Agent: Clark & Brody

20110000395 - Apparatus and method for securing a railcar sanitary cover: An apparatus for securing a cover to a bottom outlet valve (BOV) of a railcar, where the apparatus has a bracket attached to the railcar proximate the BOV; a rod extending generally perpendicularly from the bracket; and a cantilevered arm extending from the rod near a distal end thereof, where... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC