公开(公告)号：US12186600B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-07

申请号：US17203185

申请日：2021-03-16

Applicant: B/E Aerospace, Inc.

Inventor： John Terence Barker

IPC: A62B7/02 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B61D27/00

Abstract: A low pressure enclosure (LPE) vehicle can include a hull defining a cabin therein. The hull can be configured to travel within a LPE and the cabin can be configured to be pressurized. The LPE vehicle can include a supplemental oxygen system configured to be activated and/or made accessible to one or more occupants within the cabin in a depressurized state such that a cabin pressure is less than a threshold cabin pressure.

公开(公告)号：US20240425087A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18687154

申请日：2022-09-14

Applicant: POSCO CO., LTD

Inventor： Woo-Yeon Cho

IPC: B61B13/10

Abstract: The present invention provides a tube structure comprising: a tube body having therein a movement path along which a traveling body moves; and a reinforcing block that is made of a different material from the tube body and coupled to the tube body along the longitudinal direction of the tube body to reinforce the tube body, wherein the reinforcing block has a contact surface in surface contact with the outer surface of the tube body, and the contact surface extends along the longitudinal direction of the reinforcing block.

公开(公告)号：US12060795B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US17562368

申请日：2021-12-27

Applicant: Electricwaze LLC

Inventor： Ross Tessien

IPC: E21F1/00 ,  A62C3/02 ,  B61B1/00 ,  B61B13/10 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G08G1/0968

CPC classification number: E21F1/003 ,  A62C3/0221 ,  B61B1/00 ,  B61B13/10 ,  G08G1/22 ,  G08G1/096811

Abstract: A roadway conduit system includes a roadway conduit section that includes a floor portion with roadway surface configured to receive traveling vehicles, a ceiling portion, and at least one sidewall portion coupled to the floor portion and the ceiling portion such that the floor, ceiling, and at least one sidewall portions define a roadway conduit volume through which the traveling vehicles traverse the roadway conduit section. The roadway conduit section includes at least two fixedly connected preformed segments. The roadway conduit system also includes a roadway conduit ingress coupled to a first location of the roadway conduit section; a roadway conduit egress coupled to a second location of the roadway conduit section; and at least one air mover configured to circulate an airflow in the roadway conduit volume in a direction of at least one of the traveling vehicles.

公开(公告)号：US20240075965A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18498309

申请日：2023-10-31

Applicant: Cooley Enterprises, LLC

Inventor： Maryam Cooley

IPC: B61B13/08 ,  B61B1/02 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B61B13/12

CPC classification number: B61B13/08 ,  B61B1/02 ,  B61B13/10 ,  B61B13/12

Abstract: A system for transporting one or more items is provided. The system includes: a transportation tube disposed at least partially underground or at least partially above ground; a transportation pod to secure items therein for transport; a transportation actuator to propel the transportation pod through the transportation tube, the transportation actuator including one or more pumps coupled to the transportation tube and configured to pressurize a fluid medium through the transportation tube such that the pressurized fluid medium propels the transportation pod through the transportation tube; a first access point located proximate a first end of the transportation tube; and a second access point located proximate a second end of the transportation tube. Each of the first and second access points includes an opening configured to allow the transportation pod to be received into or removed from the transportation tube.

公开(公告)号：US20230399030A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-14

申请号：US18032915

申请日：2021-10-26

Applicant: Alexander RUDOLF

Inventor： Alexander RUDOLF ,  Alain-Daniel RUDOLF

IPC: B61B13/10 ,  B61B13/12

CPC classification number: B61B13/10 ,  B61B13/122

Abstract: A method of operating a tube transport system having a tube assembly with an outer tube, one or more inner tubes, and a support structure, and a vehicle having an outer wall surface defining an annular gap between the outer wall surface of the vehicle and the inner wall of the tube assembly. The method includes moving the vehicle along a path toward a first end at a velocity above a choking limit of a flow of gas particles in the annular gap, while releasing gas particles from an inner space of the tube assembly in front of the vehicle, and reversing the direction of motion and moving the vehicle along the path toward a second end at a velocity above the choking limit of the flow of the gas particles in the annular gap while releasing gas particles from the inner space of the tube assembly in front of the vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20230174118A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-08

申请号：US17921848

申请日：2021-02-26

Applicant: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Jett FERM ,  Yuka MATSUYAMA

IPC: B61B1/02 ,  B61B13/10

CPC classification number: B61B1/02 ,  B61B13/10

Abstract: A soft capture system for moving a transportation vehicle to an airdock in a high-speed, low-pressure transportation system, wherein the airdock provides a pathway for off-loading and loading of passengers and/or cargo to the transportation vehicle.
he soft capture system includes a movement system operable to reduce a gap between the transportation vehicle and the airdock and to align the airdock with a door of the transportation vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US11549622B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US16652491

申请日：2018-12-05

Applicant: Korea Railroad Research Institute

Inventor： JaeHeon Choi ,  KwanSup Lee ,  SuYong Choi ,  JinHo Lee ,  YongJun Jang ,  ChangYoung Lee ,  LeeHyeon Kim ,  MinHwan Ok ,  JungYoul Lim ,  JeongMin Jo

IPC: F16L17/10 ,  F16J15/46 ,  F16J15/06 ,  B61B13/10

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sealing apparatus for use in a hypertube, which includes a first tube, a second tube having one end connected to an end of the first tube, and a gasket including a seal made of a fiber structure formed with a space that is filled with a sealing fluid, wherein the gasket is configured to seal a space between the first tube and the second tube.

公开(公告)号：US20220380145A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17723106

申请日：2022-04-18

Applicant: T-Robotics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Soo Jong Lee ,  Myung Jin Kim ,  Chang Seong Lee ,  Seung Young Baek ,  Chang Hyun Jee ,  Sang Hwi Ham ,  Moon Gi Hur ,  Jae Hyun Park ,  Tae Han Lee

IPC: B65G47/90 ,  B61B13/10

Abstract: A travel robot for moving a substrate transfer robot in a vacuum chamber, includes: an elevating part located in a lower outer region of a housing, sealing the vacuum chamber, wherein an elevating drive shaft moves through a vacuum chamber through-hole; a travel arm platform through which coupling holes are formed, wherein the elevating drive shaft is inserted into a lower space of one of the coupling holes; a first travel arm part including a (1_1)-st and a (1_2)-nd travel link arms; a second travel arm part including a (2_1)-st and a (2_2)-nd travel link arms, wherein travel driving motors and speed reducers are installed in the (1_1)-st and the (2_1)-st travel link arms; and a transfer robot coupling part engaged with the (1_2)-nd and the (2_2)-nd travel link arms, wherein a rotation driving motor built thereon is engaged with the substrate transfer robot by a rotation drive shaft.

公开(公告)号：US11492018B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US16643868

申请日：2017-09-15

Applicant: SWISS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE AG

Inventor： Ramon Alexander Bahman ,  Aurelius Christian Bahman

IPC: B61B13/10 ,  B61B1/02 ,  B61D19/02

Abstract: A door system for a vacuum train includes at least one vehicle with at least one vehicle door and a track including at least one evacuated pipe that guides and propels elements within the pipe. The track includes at least one station outside of the pipe with at least one station door arranged within the wall of the pipe to selectively close and open the station towards the pipe. The vehicle door and the station door being arranged in a corresponding position when the vehicle is at rest, so that persons can leave or enter the vehicle when the vehicle door and the station doors are open at the rest position. The door system comprises at least one inflatable ring shaped seal (22) which surrounds both doors when the doors are in their corresponding position and which seals in its inflated position both doors against the vacuum within the pipes.

公开(公告)号：US11319098B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16994948

申请日：2020-08-17

Applicant: The Boeing Company

Inventor： John C. Vassberg ,  Robert Erik Grip

IPC: B61B13/10 ,  B65B31/04 ,  G10H1/46 ,  B65G51/26 ,  B65D19/36 ,  B65D81/20 ,  G21F5/00 ,  G21F5/14 ,  B01D21/24 ,  B29L31/00

Abstract: There is provided a vacuum volume reduction system having a volume reduction assembly of a fluid fill assembly coupled to a station wall of a vacuum tube vehicle station, to reduce a volume, under vacuum, in the vacuum tube vehicle station, when a vacuum transport tube vehicle is positioned in the volume at the vacuum tube vehicle station. The fluid fill assembly includes one or more containers, each containing a fluid, and fluid transport member(s), to transport the fluid from the container(s) to one or more enclosed volume portions formed between an exterior of the vacuum transport tube vehicle and an interior of the station wall. The fluid fill assembly further includes one or more fluid pump assemblies attached to the fluid transport member(s), and a control and power system. The vacuum volume reduction system further includes recessed area(s), a vent-to-vacuum assembly coupled to the recessed area(s), and seal elements.