公开(公告)号：US20150158510A1

公开(公告)日：2015-06-11

申请号：US14512729

申请日：2014-10-13

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Jeffrey Michael Fries ,  Joseph Forrest Noffsinger ,  Richard Lee Lawson ,  Aric Albert Weingartner ,  Curtis Doyle Mechling ,  Aaron Richard Mitti ,  Martin Paget ,  William David Shields

IPC: B61L1/18 ,  B61L1/20

CPC classification number: B61L23/041 ,  B61L1/181 ,  B61L1/20 ,  B61L3/10 ,  B61L15/0036 ,  B61L15/0081 ,  B61L23/044 ,  B61L23/047 ,  G01N27/041 ,  G01N27/20 ,  G01V3/02

Abstract: A wayside monitoring method and system monitor a transmitted current that is injected into conductive components of a route traveled by vehicle systems, monitor a received current that represents a portion of the transmitted current that is conducted through the conductive components of the route, examine changes in the transmitted and/or received current over time to determine when the vehicle systems are on the route between a first location where the transmitted current is injected into the conductive components and a second location where the received current is monitored, and examine the changes in the transmitted and/or received currents. The changes are examined to identify (a) a contaminated portion of a surface on which the route is disposed, (b) a foreign object other than the vehicle systems that is contacting the route, and/or (c) a damaged or broken portion of at least one of the conductive components of the route.

Abstract translation: 路边监测方法和系统监测被注入到由车辆系统行驶的路线的导电部件中的传输电流，监视表示通过路线的导电部件传导的传输电流的一部分的接收电流，检查 发射和/或接收的电流，以确定车辆系统何时在传输的电流被注入导电部件的第一位置和被监视接收的电流的第二位置之间的路线上，并且检查 传输和/或接收的电流。 检查变化以识别（a）布置路线的表面的污染部分，（b）除了与路线接触的车辆系统以外的异物和/或（c）损坏或破裂的部分 的路线的至少一个导电组件。