RTRI REPORT Jun. 2002
PAPERS

Development of the Methods of Improve the Contact Loss between Overhead Rigid Conductor Line and Pantograph

Masatoshi SHIMIZU, Satoshi HARADA, Masumi YAMAKAWA


  Overhead rigid conductor lines require less maintenance when compared with catenary suspension lines. However, the running speed of trains is restricted below 90 km/h, since the contact loss characteristics of overhead rigid conductor lines are generally poor. Therefore, we examined the contact loss characteristics to fined that we can run trains at 160 km/h by smoothing the surface of rigid conductor lines.


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