The performance of a passive-levitation vehicle is improved for moving over a path, wherein the vehicle has a levitation skid slidable on the path and capable of developing a levitation force to support a compartment at a certain distance from the path. For this aim, there is a suspension, connected between the compartment and the skid, comprising a kinematic structure to confer degrees of freedom and relative constraints between the skid and the compartment; a passive elastic element connected between the skid and the compartment; and a controlled-dynamic element able to exert a force having controlled dynamics between the skid and the compartment; wherein the passive elastic element and the controlled-dynamic element being mounted in parallel to each other and connected, e.g. at their ends, respectively to the skid and the compartment. By means of a sensor the distance is detected between the skid and the path, and an electronic circuit, connected to the sensor and to the controlled-dynamics element, carries out a feedback control in order to adjust said distance.


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    Title :

    SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR LEVITATION VEHICLES


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2019-01-31


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B61B RAILWAY SYSTEMS , Eisenbahnanlagen / B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen / B60V Luftkissenfahrzeuge , AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES



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