|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

TRANSPORTING

|  | B60 |
VEHICLES IN GENERAL

|  | B60 |
Note(s) In this class, the following term is used with the meaning indicated: "vehicle" means all vehicles except those restricted to one of the following types of vehicles: rail vehicles, waterborne vessels, aircraft, space vehicles, hand carts, cycles, animal-drawn vehicles, and sledges, which are covered by the relevant subclasses of Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61-B64. Thus the term "vehicle" includes: vehicular characteristics which are common to more than one of the above-listed types; certain characteristics restricted to automobiles, road or cross-country trailers. The following exceptions to the above should be noted: subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60B or Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embrace all vehicle wheels and tyres, except wheels for roller skates Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63C 17/22, wheels for model railway vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A63H 19/22, and special adaptations of wheels or tyres for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64C 25/36; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60C embraces the connection of valves to inflatable elastic bodies in general, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L embraces certain electric equipment of all electrically-propelled vehicles; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60M embraces certain power supply equipment for, but external to, any kind of electrically-propelled vehicle; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60R embraces safety belts or body harnesses used in all types of land vehicles; [4] subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60S relates to all kinds of vehicles, except the servicing of rail locomotives Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61K 11/00, ground equipment for aircraft Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B64F, or cleaning apparatus peculiar to waterborne vessels Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 57/00, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B63B 59/00; subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60T includes brake control systems of general applicability, and in this respect it is not limited to vehicles. It also includes rail-vehicle power-brake systems and some other features of rail-vehicle brake systems.

|  | B60L |
ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60D 1/62; electric heating for vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60H; arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units in vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60K 1/00; arrangements or mounting of electric gearing in vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60K 17/12, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60K 17/14; auxiliary drives on vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60K 25/00; lighting for vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60Q; vehicle brake control systems in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60T; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61C; railway track circuits in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61L; lighting in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F21, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H05B; switches in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01H; coupling devices for electric connections in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01R; dynamo-electric machines Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02K; electric converters Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02M; starting, controlling, braking of electric machines or converters in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02P; electric heating in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H05B) [4]

|  | B60L |
Note(s) This subclass covers, subject to the references following the title of the subclass: feeding of power to auxiliary circuits; current-collectors, arrangements thereof on rail or road vehicles or on vehicles in general; electrodynamic brake systems; electric propulsion of vehicles; control and regulation therefor.

|  | B60L 1/00 |
Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles (charging batteries Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02J)

|  | B60L 1/02 |
· | to electric heating circuits

|  | B60L 1/04 |
· · | fed by the power supply line

|  | B60L 1/06 |
· · · | using only one supply

|  | B60L 1/08 |
· · · · | Methods or devices for control or regulation

|  | B60L 1/10 |
· · · | with provision for using different supplies

|  | B60L 1/12 |
· · · · | Methods or devices for control or regulation

|  | B60L 1/14 |
· | to electric lighting circuits

|  | B60L 1/16 |
· · | fed by the power supply line

|  | B60L 3/00 |
Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration, power consumption (measuring in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G01)

|  | B60L 3/02 |
· | Dead-man's devices

|  | B60L 3/04 |
· | Cutting-off the power supply under fault conditions (protective devices or circuit arrangements in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01H, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02H)

|  | B60L 3/06 |
· | Limiting the traction current under mechanical- overload conditions

|  | B60L 3/08 |
· | Means for preventing excessive speed of the vehicle

|  | B60L 3/10 |
· | Indicating wheel slip

|  | B60L 3/12 |
· | Recording operating variables

|  | B60L 5/00 |
Current-collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles (current-collectors in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01R 41/00)

|  | B60L 5/02 |
· | with ice-removing device

|  | B60L 5/04 |
· | using rollers or sliding shoes in contact with trolley wire (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 5/40 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 5/06 |
· · | Structure of the rollers or their carrying means

|  | B60L 5/08 |
· · | Structure of the sliding shoes or their carrying means

|  | B60L 5/10 |
· · | Devices preventing the collector from jumping off

|  | B60L 5/12 |
· · | Structural features of poles or their bases

|  | B60L 5/14 |
· · · | Devices for automatic lowering of a jumped-off collector

|  | B60L 5/16 |
· · · | Devices for lifting and resetting the collector (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 5/34 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 5/18 |
· | using bow-type collectors in contact with trolley wire

|  | B60L 5/19 |
· · | using arrangements for effecting collector movement transverse to the direction of vehicle motion [3]

|  | B60L 5/20 |
· · | Details of contact bow

|  | B60L 5/22 |
· · | Supporting means for the contact bow

|  | B60L 5/24 |
· · · | Pantographs

|  | B60L 5/26 |
· · · | Half-pantographs, e.g. using counter-rocking beams

|  | B60L 5/28 |
· · · | Devices for lifting and resetting the collector

|  | B60L 5/30 |
· · · · | using springs

|  | B60L 5/32 |
· · · · | using fluid pressure

|  | B60L 5/34 |
· | with devices to enable one vehicle to pass another one using the same power supply line

|  | B60L 5/36 |
· | with means for collecting current simultaneously from more than one conductor, e.g. from more than one phase

|  | B60L 5/38 |
· | for collecting current from conductor rails (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 5/40 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 5/39 |
· · | from third rail [3]

|  | B60L 5/40 |
· | for collecting current from lines in slotted conduits

|  | B60L 5/42 |
· | for collecting current from individual contact pieces connected to the power supply line

|  | B60L 7/00 |
Electrodynamic brake systems for vehicles in general [4]

|  | B60L 7/02 |
· | Dynamic electric resistor braking (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/22 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 7/04 |
· · | for vehicles propelled by dc motors

|  | B60L 7/06 |
· · | for vehicles propelled by ac motors

|  | B60L 7/08 |
· · | Controlling the braking effect (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/04, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/06 take precedence)

|  | B60L 7/10 |
· | Dynamic electric regenerative braking (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/22 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 7/12 |
· · | for vehicles propelled by dc motors

|  | B60L 7/14 |
· · | for vehicles propelled by ac motors

|  | B60L 7/16 |
· · | for vehicles comprising converters between the power source and the motor

|  | B60L 7/18 |
· · | Controlling the braking effect (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/12, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/14, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 7/16 take precedence)

|  | B60L 7/20 |
· | Braking by supplying regenerated power to the prime mover of vehicles comprising engine-driven generators

|  | B60L 7/22 |
· | Dynamic electric resistor braking, combined with dynamic electric regenerative braking

|  | B60L 7/24 |
· | with additional mechanical or electromagnetic braking (electromagnetic brakes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...F16D 65/34)

|  | B60L 7/26 |
· · | Controlling the braking effect

|  | B60L 7/28 |
· | Eddy-current braking

|  | B60L 8/00 |
Electric propulsion with power supply from force of nature, e.g. sun, wind [5]

|  | B60L 9/00 |
Electric propulsion with power supply external to vehicle (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 8/00 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B60L 9/02 |
· | using dc motors

|  | B60L 9/04 |
· · | fed from dc supply lines

|  | B60L 9/06 |
· · · | with conversion by metadyne

|  | B60L 9/08 |
· · | fed from ac supply lines

|  | B60L 9/10 |
· · · | with rotary converters

|  | B60L 9/12 |
· · · | with static converters

|  | B60L 9/14 |
· · | fed from different kinds of power supply lines

|  | B60L 9/16 |
· | using ac induction motors

|  | B60L 9/18 |
· · | fed from dc supply lines

|  | B60L 9/20 |
· · · | single-phase motors

|  | B60L 9/22 |
· · · | polyphase motors

|  | B60L 9/24 |
· · | fed from ac supply lines

|  | B60L 9/26 |
· · · | single-phase motors

|  | B60L 9/28 |
· · · | polyphase motors

|  | B60L 9/30 |
· · | fed from different kinds of power supply lines

|  | B60L 9/32 |
· | using ac brush-displacement motors

|  | B60L 11/00 |
Electric propulsion with power supplied within the vehicle (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 8/00 takes precedence; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60K 6/00) [5]

|  | B60L 11/02 |
· | using engine-driven generators

|  | B60L 11/04 |
· · | using dc generators and motors

|  | B60L 11/06 |
· · | using ac generators and dc motors

|  | B60L 11/08 |
· · | using ac generators and motors

|  | B60L 11/10 |
· · | using dc generators and ac motors

|  | B60L 11/12 |
· · | with additional electric power supply, e.g. accumulator

|  | B60L 11/14 |
· · | with provision for direct mechanical propulsion

|  | B60L 11/16 |
· | using power stored mechanically, e.g. in flywheel

|  | B60L 11/18 |
· | using power supplied from primary cells, secondary cells, or fuel cells

|  | B60L 13/00 |
Other electric propulsion, e.g. specially adapted for monorail vehicles, for rack railways, or for suspension vehicles; Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles (electromagnetics per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H01F 7/06; linear motors per se Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H02K 41/00) [4]

|  | B60L 13/02 |
· | Electric propulsion [4]

|  | B60L 13/04 |
· | Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles [4]

|  | B60L 13/06 |
· · | Means to sense or control vehicle position or attitude with respect to railway [4]

|  | B60L 13/08 |
· · · | for the lateral position [4]

|  | B60L 13/10 |
· | Combination of electric propulsion and magnetic suspension or levitation [4]

|  | B60L 15/00 |
Methods, circuits, or devices for controlling the traction-motor speed of electrically-propelled vehicles

|  | B60L 15/02 |
· | characterised by the form of the current used in the control circuit

|  | B60L 15/04 |
· · | using dc

|  | B60L 15/06 |
· · | using substantially-sinusoidal ac

|  | B60L 15/08 |
· · | using pulses

|  | B60L 15/10 |
· | for automatic control superimposed on human control to limit the acceleration of the vehicle, e.g. to prevent excessive motor current (electric devices for safety purposes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 3/00)

|  | B60L 15/12 |
· · | with circuits controlled by relays or contactors

|  | B60L 15/14 |
· · | with main controller driven by a servomotor (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 15/18 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 15/16 |
· · | with main controller driven through a ratchet mechanism (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 15/18 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 15/18 |
· · | without contact-making and breaking, e.g. using a transductor

|  | B60L 15/20 |
· | for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed

|  | B60L 15/22 |
· · | with sequential operation of interdependent switches, e.g. relays, contactors, programme drum

|  | B60L 15/24 |
· · | with main controller driven by a servomotor (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 15/28 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 15/26 |
· · | with main controller driven through a ratchet mechanism (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 15/28 takes precedence)

|  | B60L 15/28 |
· · | without contact-making and breaking, e.g. using a transductor

|  | B60L 15/30 |
· · | with means to change-over to human control

|  | B60L 15/32 |
· | Control or regulation of multiple-unit electrically-propelled vehicles

|  | B60L 15/34 |
· · | with human control of a setting device

|  | B60L 15/36 |
· · · | with automatic control superimposed, e.g. to prevent excessive motor current

|  | B60L 15/38 |
· · | with automatic control

|  | B60L 15/40 |
· | Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary place (devices along the route for controlling devices on rail vehicles Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61L 3/00; central rail-traffic control systems Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B61L 27/00)

|  | B60L 15/42 |
· | Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for actuation from alternative parts of the vehicle or from alternative vehicles of the same vehicle train (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B60L 15/32 takes precedence)