US Patent Issued to SCHUNK TRANSIT SYSTEMS on Nov. 4 for "Drive system for a pantograph, and method for raising or lowering" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,367, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SCHUNK TRANSIT SYSTEMS GMBH (Nussdorf am Haunsberg, Austria).

"Drive system for a pantograph, and method for raising or lowering" was invented by Alexander Gruber (Goeming, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for raising or lowering a sliding piece of a current collector for rail vehicles. The sliding piece is disposed on a positioning device of the current collector, and the sliding piece is configured to be brought into contact with an overhead line using contact pressure. The drive system includes a bellows drive which is actuated by compressed air to actuate the positioning ...