Boarding bridge

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7979937
APP PUB NO 20100162497A1
SERIAL NO

12510721

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It is an object to provide a boarding bridge that can guide passengers to a predetermined gangway at the distal end and in which safety can be improved. A boarding bridge is provided which includes a proximal-end tunnel and a distal-end tunnel telescopically fitted together and capable of relative movement in a longitudinal direction; and a traveling unit mounted at the lower part of a movable leg that supports the distal-end tunnel and moving the movable leg by traveling; wherein the traveling unit includes a pair of traveling devices disposed with a certain distance therebetween in the widthwise direction of the distal-end tunnel, the traveling devices each having an axle rotatable about a vertically extending axis, a plurality of tires rotatably mounted to the axle with a certain distance therebetween, and a traveling motor that rotationally drives the axle; and a rotation synchronizing member that synchronizes the rotation angles of the axles in the pair of traveling devices.

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Patent Owner(s)

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MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES TRANSPORATION EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING & SERVICE CO LTD16-20 HINODE 2-CHOME KAWASAKI-KU KAWASAKI-SHI KANAGAWA 210-0824

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Iwamoto, Kenji Hiroshima, JP 77 596
Shimizu, Yasuaki Hiroshima, JP 5 174
Tomioka, Takashi Hiroshima, JP 3 46

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