公开(公告)号：US20190106135A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-11

申请号：US16195950

申请日：2018-11-20

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Wolfgang Daum ,  Martin Paget ,  Daniel Rush ,  Sameh Fahmy ,  Brad Thomas Costa ,  Seneca Snyder ,  Jerry Duncan ,  Mark Bradshaw Kraeling ,  Michael Scott Miner ,  Shannon Joseph Clouse ,  Anwarul Azam ,  Matthew Lawrence Blair ,  Nidhi Naithani ,  Dattaraj Jagdish Rao ,  Anju Bind ,  Sreyashi Dey Chaki ,  Scott Daniel Nelson ,  Nikhil Uday Naphade ,  Wing Yeung Chung ,  Daniel Malachi Ballesty ,  Glenn Robert Shaffer ,  Jeffrey James Kisak ,  Dale Martin DiDomenico

IPC: B61L25/02 ,  B61L15/00 ,  B61L27/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  G05D1/00 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04N5/33 ,  B61L23/04

Abstract: A locomotive control system includes a mobile platform that moves under remote and/or autonomous control, a sensor package supported by the mobile platform that obtains information relating to a component of a railroad, and one or more processors that receive the sensor information and analyze the information in combination with other information that is not obtained from the sensor package. The processors also generate an output that displays information relating to one or more of a status, a condition, and/or a state of health of the component of the railroad; initiates an action to change an operational state of the component; identifies a hazard to one or more locomotives traveling within the railroad; and/or collects the information relating to the component. Optionally, the component is not communicatively coupled to an information network and the mobile platform provides the information obtained by the sensor package to the information network.

公开(公告)号：US20190047594A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-14

申请号：US16163225

申请日：2018-10-17

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Sharath Srinivas Deshpande ,  Vishram Vinayak Nandedkar ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

IPC: B61C17/12 ,  B60Q1/40 ,  B60R25/04 ,  B60S1/08

Abstract: A method and system determine, during movement of a vehicle system along a route, a tractive load demanded by the vehicle system to propel the vehicle system along the route. The vehicle system includes a propulsion-generating vehicle having plural individually controllable traction motors. A first selected set of the traction motors for deactivation is identified during the movement of the vehicle system along the route based at least in part on the tractive load demanded by the vehicle system. The traction motors in the first selected set are deactivated while at least one of the traction motors in a first remaining set of the traction motors continues to generate tractive effort to propel the vehicle system. The traction motors that are selected for deactivation may all be on the same vehicle in the vehicle system, or may be on different vehicles of the same vehicle system.

公开(公告)号：US10065665B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-04

申请号：US15352991

申请日：2016-11-16

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Jared Klineman Cooper ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Eugene Smith ,  Nick David Nagrodsky ,  William Cherrick Schoonmaker ,  Todd William Goodermuth

IPC: G06F19/00 ,  G06G7/70 ,  G06G7/76 ,  B61L15/00 ,  B61C17/12 ,  B61L25/02

Abstract: A method includes obtaining data relating to operation of a first vehicle in a vehicle consist that includes the first vehicle and a second vehicle communicatively coupled with each other by a communication channel. The first vehicle includes a first electronic component performing functions for the first vehicle using the first data. The method also includes communicating the first data over the communication channel from the first vehicle to a second electronic component disposed onboard the second vehicle responsive to the first electronic component being unable to perform the one or more functions for the first vehicle using the first data. The method further includes performing the functions of the first electronic component with the second electronic component using the first data that is received from the first vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20180205326A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-19

申请号：US15921299

申请日：2018-03-14

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Subhas Chandra Das

IPC: H02M7/44 ,  H02M1/14

CPC classification number: H02M7/44 ,  H02M1/14 ,  H02M7/5387 ,  H02M7/53875 ,  H02M2001/008 ,  H02M2007/53876

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein relate to electrical circuits. A system (e.g., inverter current system) is provided. The system includes plural inverters connected to a common bus and at least one capacitor. The inverters are configured to convert a direct current (DC) through the common bus to an alternating current (AC), by alternating different switches of the inverters between open and closed states in a respective switching cycle for each of the inverters. The system includes a controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to adjust a current conducted onto the common bus to the inverters so that a root mean square of the current meets one or more designated criteria. The controller circuit controls the inverters to apply a frequency shift to the respective switching cycle of one or more of the inverters.

公开(公告)号：US10008322B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-26

申请号：US14746163

申请日：2015-06-22

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Ravindra Shyam Bhide ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Lionel Durantay ,  Vandana Rallabandi

IPC: H01F27/28 ,  H01F37/00 ,  H01F27/26 ,  H01F41/02

CPC classification number: H01F37/00 ,  H01F27/263 ,  H01F27/28 ,  H01F41/0233

Abstract: An electronic filter assembly includes a magnetically conductive annular body extending around a center axis, a set of magnetically conductive prongs radially extending from the center axis toward the annular body, and conductive windings extending around the prongs. The conductive windings can be disposed around the prongs instead of the annular body to assist in conduction of common mode magnetic flux, to reduce impedance of the filter assembly, and/or to more evenly distribute temperature in the filter assembly. A method for forming an electronic filter assembly includes forming an electronic filter assembly having a magnetically conductive annular body extending around a center axis and a set of magnetically conductive prongs radially extending from the center axis toward the annular body. The annular body and the prongs can be formed by coupling plural layers of magnetically conductive bodies together.

公开(公告)号：US20180065650A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-08

申请号：US15797086

申请日：2017-10-30

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov ,  Brett Alexander Matthews ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Jeffrey Michael Fries ,  Joseph Forrest Noffsinger ,  Samhitha Palanganda Poonacha ,  Tannous Frangieh ,  Frederick Wilson Wheeler ,  Brian Lee Staton ,  Timothy Robert Brown ,  Gregory Boverman ,  Majid Nayeri

IPC: B61L23/04 ,  B61L23/34 ,  B61L3/08

CPC classification number: B61L23/044 ,  B61L3/08 ,  B61L3/10 ,  B61L23/045 ,  B61L23/34 ,  B61L2205/04

Abstract: Systems for examining a route inject one or more electrical examination signals into a conductive route from onboard a vehicle system traveling along the route, detect one or more electrical characteristics of the route based on the one or more electrical examination signals, and detect a break in conductivity of the route responsive to the one or more electrical characteristics decreasing by more than a designated drop threshold for a time period within a designated drop time period. Feature vectors may be determined for the electrical characteristics and compared to one or more patterns in order to distinguish between breaks in the conductivity of the route and other causes for changes in the electrical characteristics.

公开(公告)号：US09862396B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-09

申请号：US14559081

申请日：2014-12-03

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Vishram Vinayak Nandedkar ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

IPC: B61L25/02

CPC classification number: B61L25/021 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L25/026 ,  B61L2205/04

Abstract: A system is provided for determining a quality of a location estimation of a powered system at a location. The system includes a first sensor configured to measure a first parameter of the powered system at the location. The system further includes a second sensor configured to measure a second parameter of the powered system at the location. The system further includes a second controller configured to determine the location estimation of the powered system and the quality of the location estimation, based upon a first location of the powered system based on the first parameter, and a second location of the powered system based on the second parameter of the powered system. A method is also provided for determining a quality of a location estimation of a powered system at a location.

公开(公告)号：US20170363601A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15678403

申请日：2017-08-16

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Bret Dwayne Worden ,  Mahalakshmi Shunmugham Balasubramaniam ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Jingjun Zhang ,  Jennifer Lynn Coyne ,  Sachidananda Chinagudi Jagadeesha

IPC: G01N33/26 ,  G01M13/02 ,  F16N29/00

CPC classification number: G01N33/26 ,  F16N29/00 ,  G01M13/02

Abstract: A system includes a sensor configured to be disposed within a reservoir of a machine having moving parts that are lubricated by a liquid in the reservoir. The sensor is configured to obtain a measurement of the liquid that is representative of at least one of a quantity or quality of the liquid in the reservoir. The system also includes a device body operably coupled to the sensor. The device body has a processing unit that is operably coupled to the sensor and configured to generate first data signals representative of the measurement of the liquid. The device body also includes a transmitter that is configured to wirelessly communicate the first data signals to a remote reader.

公开(公告)号：US20170313196A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15140812

申请日：2016-04-28

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Sarit Ratadiya ,  Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Tharunendra Sekhar ,  Mark Allen Murphy ,  Jacob Alan Hubbell ,  Kevin Ruybal ,  Emil Nikolaev Nikolov

IPC: B60L11/18 ,  H02P27/06 ,  H02B1/20

CPC classification number: B60L11/1803 ,  B60L1/00 ,  B60L50/51 ,  B60L2200/28 ,  H02J1/00 ,  H02J5/00

Abstract: A bus assembly is provided having a bus bar with first and second conductive layers extending along an insulator sheet interposed between the first and second conductive layers. The first and second conductive layers are partially aligned with respect to each other to form a first overlap region of the insulator sheet. The bus assembly includes a first set of arms having a set of diodes and a second set of arms having a set of switches. The bust bar includes a plurality of bus links coupling the plurality of arms to the bus bar forming a plurality of inverters. Each of bus links include a respective first bracket and a respective second bracket aligned with each other forming a second overlap region of the insulator sheet. The first bracket is electrically coupled to the first conductive layer and the second bracket is electrically coupled to the second conductive layer.

公开(公告)号：US09731731B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-15

申请号：US14933659

申请日：2015-11-05

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Ajith Kuttannair Kumar ,  Adam E. Klingbeil

IPC: F02D41/00 ,  B61L3/00 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L27/00 ,  G05B13/02 ,  B61C5/00 ,  F02D41/14 ,  F02D41/26

CPC classification number: B61L3/006 ,  B61C5/00 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L25/026 ,  B61L27/0027 ,  B61L2205/04 ,  F02D41/0025 ,  F02D41/0027 ,  F02D41/1406 ,  F02D41/26 ,  F02D2200/501 ,  F02D2200/701 ,  F02M59/102 ,  F02M59/366 ,  G05B13/021 ,  Y02T10/36 ,  Y02T30/10

Abstract: A system includes an engine and a controller. The engine is capable of multiple operating modes, and each mode has a relatively different fuel ratio such that as the engine is changed from a first operating mode having a first ratio of a first fuel to a second fuel to a second operating mode having a second ratio of the first fuel to the second fuel. The controller is operable to change the engine from one operating mode to another operating mode.