Invention Application
- Patent Title: METHOD FOR DETERMINING A STATUS OF A TRACK SECTION OF A RAILROAD; ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
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Application No.: US17316361Application Date: 2021-05-10
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Publication No.: US20220355841A1Publication Date: 2022-11-10
- Inventor: Jeffrey FRIES , Chris SCHUCHMANN , Richard LAWSON , Shawn CLARK , John ROSS
- Applicant: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
- Applicant Address: FR Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine
- Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
- Current Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
- Current Assignee Address: FR Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine
- Main IPC: B61L25/06
- IPC: B61L25/06 ; G01N27/04 ; G01V3/02

Abstract:
A method is for determining a status of a track section of a railroad. Each end of the track section is connected to a respective detector. One of the two detectors transmits a current along the rails of the track section towards the other detector and receives a current transmitted along the rails of the track section from the other detector. The track section is further equipped with a computer in communication with the two detectors. The computer calculates an instant value of the status of the track section as a function of an instant vector based on a measure of an intensity of the current transmitted by a first of the detectors as measured by the first detector (Txl1), a measure of an intensity of the current received by the first detector as measured by the first detector (Rxl1) and a measure of an intensity of the current transmitted by the second detector as measured by the second detector (Txl2).
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