DRIVER'S COMPARTMENT FOR AN INTEROPERABLE RAIL VEHICLE

Abstract

A driver's cab for an interoperable rail vehicle has a front window and a seat arrangement with two seats for operating personnel. A standard field of view is defined for each of the seats. The standard fields of view overlap at least partially in the projection thereof onto the front window. There is also described a rail vehicle.

Claims

1-8. (canceled)

9. A driver's compartment for an interoperable rail vehicle having a front window, the driver's compartment comprising: a seat arrangement with two seats for operating personnel, each of said two seats having a defined standard field of view; said two seats including a seat assigned to a vehicle driver and a seat assigned to a driver's assistant; said standard fields of view intersecting at least partially in a projection onto the front window; a center console arranged between said two seats, said center console having operator-control elements that are required for operating the rail vehicle, and said operator-control elements of said center console being disposed to be accessible to the vehicle driver and to the driver's assistant; each of said two seats having a seat center plane spaced from a side wall of the driver's compartment by a distance of more than 50 cm, thus defining an escape route for the operating personnel, in an emergency situation, the escape route enabling an escape to the rear, counter to a direction of travel and away from the front window, along a side corridor formed between said seat and a respectively nearest side wall of the driver's compartment.

10. The driver's compartment according to claim 9, wherein a distance between said seat center planes of said two seats is less than 95 cm.

11. The driver's compartment according to claim 10, wherein the distance between said seat center planes is less than 90 cm.

12. The driver's compartment according to claim 10, wherein the distance between said seat center planes is approximately 80 cm.

13. An interoperable rail vehicle, comprising at least one driver's compartment according to claim 9.

14. The interoperable rail vehicle according to claim 13 being a traction vehicle.

Description

[0031] The invention will be once again explained in more detail below with reference to the appended figures on the basis of exemplary embodiments. Here, identical components are provided with identical reference numbers in the various figures. Relative direction indications, such as for example “top”, “bottom”, “front”, “rear”, etc., relate to a rail-guided rail vehicle when used as intended. Here, “front” and “rear” are to be understood in relation to the direction of travel. The figures are as a rule not true to scale. In the figures:

[0032] FIG. 1 shows a schematic sectional illustration of a driver's compartment of a rail vehicle according to the prior art,

[0033] FIG. 2 shows a schematic front view of the driver's compartment from FIG. 1,

[0034] FIG. 3 shows a schematic sectional illustration of an exemplary embodiment of a driver's compartment according to the invention of a rail vehicle, and

[0035] FIG. 4 shows a schematic front view of the driver's compartment from FIG. 3.

[0036] FIG. 1 shows by way of example a schematic sectional illustration of a driver's compartment 20′ for a rail vehicle 40′ according to the prior art. The rail vehicle 40′ has a direction of travel FR in which it usually travels during operation. That is to say that it is driven in the direction of travel FR (x direction) while being guided on rails. Without limiting the generality, a vertical, upwardly pointing direction is referred to as the z direction and a direction perpendicular to the x direction and to the z direction is referred to as the y direction in the description. x, y and z direction together form a right-hand coordinate system.

[0037] The rail vehicle 40′ comprises a driver's compartment 20′. It is surrounded by a front wall 22, which points in the direction of travel FR, a rear wall 23 opposite to the front wall 22, and two mutually opposite side walls 21. The driver's compartment 20′ also has a floor and a ceiling (not shown here). A transparent, substantially rectangular front window 25 is arranged in the front wall 22.

[0038] In the driver's compartment 20′ there are arranged two seats 24 for operating personnel, that is to say for a vehicle driver and a driver's assistant. The seats 24 are positioned here in such a way that operating personnel sitting on them during operation have a view through the front window 25 looking straight ahead in the direction of travel FR. These seats each have a seat center plane which extends vertically and in the direction of travel FR. The seat center plane divides the seat in half in each case. The seat center planes are arranged at a distance d′ of 130 cm. The distance a′ of the seat center planes from the side walls 21 is approximately 35 cm.

[0039] A side console 26′ with operator-control elements and/or indicating elements (not shown here) is arranged obliquely forward from a seat 24 toward the respectively nearest side wall 21. Additionally arranged in front of and centrally between the seats 24 is a center console 27′ which has, facing the vehicle driver and the driver's assistant, different operator-control surfaces which in turn comprise operator-control elements and/or indicating elements.

[0040] FIG. 2 illustrates the rail vehicle 40 from FIG. 1 in a front view, that is to say as viewed toward the front wall 22. The front wall 22 has the customary elements for rail vehicles, such as for example lighting means 30, a window wiper system comprising two window wipers 31 which, being motor-driven, sweep over a wiping region 32, and the like.

[0041] Two projections 33′ of standard fields of view, as are the prior art to date, are illustrated in dashed lines on the front window 25 of the front wall 22. They thus characterize the standard fields of view of the operating personnel for the respectively assigned seat 24. As a result of the distance d′ of the seat center planes from one another being large by comparison with the invention, the projections 33′ of the standard fields of view are spaced apart from one another and thus have no overlapping region. The front window 25 is approximately as large as required in order to provide the space for the standard fields of view.

[0042] FIG. 3 shows, by way of example and schematically, a sectional illustration through an exemplary embodiment of a rail vehicle 40 according to the invention with an exemplary embodiment of a driver's compartment 20 according to the invention which has a seat arrangement 29. Since the driver's compartment 20 is similar in its basic outlines to that illustrated in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, only the differences will be discussed below.

[0043] In the case of the seat arrangement 29 according to the invention, the two seats 24 are arranged closer together. That is to say that the seat center planes are preferably arranged at a distance d which is less than 95 cm, particularly preferably less than 90 cm. With particular preference, the distance d is approximately 80 cm.

[0044] Accordingly, the seats 24 are also further away from the side walls of a 20, with the result that there is a distance a of at least 50 cm between a seat 24 and the nearest side wall 21.

[0045] Between the two seats 24 there is arranged a center console 27 which spatially separates the two seats 24 from one another. The center console 27 here has by way of example two operator-control elements 28 which can equally well be reached by the vehicle driver and by the driver's assistant and can be operated by both of them. It is possible in principle, however, for any desired number of operator-control elements 28 to be arranged on the center console 27. Since according to the invention there is more space available between the seats 24 and the side walls 21, the side consoles 26 arranged obliquely toward the side walls 21 in front of the seats 24 can advantageously be configured to be larger, for example to receive installations such as 19-inch racks.

[0046] A key difference over the prior art illustrated in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 lies in the fact that, by virtue of the more compact seat arrangement 29, the standard fields of view 37 of the vehicle driver and driver's assistant overlap in the projection 32 thereof on the front window 25. An intersecting or overlapping region 35 is formed as a result. As is particularly evident from FIG. 4, it is then no longer the case that almost the entire area of the front window 25 is taken up by the projections 32 of the standard fields of view 37. It is therefore possible for the front window 25 to be made smaller in relation to the prior art while observing the standard requirements (TSI Loc&Pas, EN 16186). This advantageously makes it possible for the front portion of the rail vehicle 40 to be configured in an aerodynamically and/or statically more favorable manner.

[0047] Finally, it should once again be pointed out that the arrangements described in detail above are merely exemplary embodiments which can be modified by a person skilled in the art in a wide variety of ways without departing from the scope of the invention. Furthermore, the use of the indefinite article “a” or “an” does not rule out the possibility that the relevant features can also be present multiply. Nor do the terms “arrangement” and “element” rule out the possibility that the relevant component consists of a plurality of interacting subcomponents which, where appropriate, can also be distributed spatially.