公开(公告)号：US20170349190A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-07

申请号：US15498494

申请日：2017-04-27

Applicant: Andrew Deutchman ,  Rosa Melillo ,  Vincent Anthony Cascella ,  Andy Chau ,  Timothy Choma

Inventor： Andrew Deutchman ,  Rosa Melillo ,  Vincent Anthony Cascella ,  Andy Chau ,  Timothy Choma

IPC: B61K1/00 ,  B61B13/00 ,  B61G5/00 ,  B61L19/00 ,  B61B1/00 ,  B61G5/06 ,  B61K11/00 ,  B61C17/00

CPC classification number: B61K1/00 ,  B61B1/00 ,  B61B13/00 ,  B61C17/00 ,  B61G5/00 ,  B61G5/06 ,  B61K11/00 ,  B61L19/00 ,  B61L27/0077 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  B61L2205/00 ,  B61L2205/04

Abstract: This system utilizes autonomous rail cars that automatically couple and uncouple to and from a primary moving train. The primary train travels along a given route but never needs to stop at intermediate stations. Instead, autonomous rail cars gather passengers or goods at designated station locations and then automatically depart in order to meet up with the primary train. When the autonomous rail cars couple to the primary train, the contents of the autonomous rail car are transferred to the primary train. Likewise, contents that are already aboard the primary train which need to depart will be loaded onto this autonomous rail car. When the primary train approaches the next station, the autonomous rail car will detach and stop at the station while the primary train continues to travel on. This process repeats for each station on the route.

公开(公告)号：US09802632B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-31

申请号：US15315692

申请日：2015-07-23

Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION

Inventor： Nicolas Voyer

IPC: B61L27/00 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L27/04

CPC classification number: B61L27/0022 ,  B61L3/006 ,  B61L3/008 ,  B61L25/021 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for reducing the drive delay of a rolling stock to reach a destination, the rolling stock being driven by a driver to follow a running profile that defines the speeds and positions of the rolling stock at different timings. The method comprises the steps of: —determining a current timing, —getting a nominal acceleration of the rolling stock, the nominal acceleration being determined by the driver of the rolling stock to follow the running profile at the current timing, —determining the speed error of the rolling stock with the rolling profile, —determining the position error of the rolling stock with the rolling profile, —determining an estimate of the time to reach the destination, —determining a marginal acceleration from the speed error, the position error and the estimated time to reach the destination, —accelerating the rolling stock with the sum of nominal and determined marginal accelerations.

公开(公告)号：US20170274916A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15512367

申请日：2015-08-27

Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FÜR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE

Inventor： Marco NOCK ,  Benjamin BEHMANN ,  Martin MOSER ,  Markus HÄBEL

IPC: B61L15/00 ,  B61L27/00 ,  F16D66/02 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L23/04 ,  B60T17/22 ,  B61K9/00 ,  B61L27/04

CPC classification number: B61L15/0081 ,  B60T17/18 ,  B60T17/20 ,  B60T17/22 ,  B60T17/221 ,  B60T17/228 ,  B61K9/00 ,  B61L15/0027 ,  B61L15/0072 ,  B61L23/04 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L27/0005 ,  B61L27/0077 ,  B61L27/0094 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  B61L2205/00 ,  F16D66/027 ,  F16D2066/001

Abstract: A method for monitoring and diagnosing components of a rail vehicle, as a singular rail vehicle or as part of a rail vehicle train consisting of a plurality of rail vehicles, with regard to the necessary repair or maintenance, as appropriate, of at least one component, in which at least one measuring device captures at least one measurement variable, which is relevant to an assessment of a necessary repair or maintenance, as appropriate, of the component, is performed in which supplementation, extension, modification or adaptation of evaluation software implemented in an evaluation device is performed based on instructions, data and/or software modules sent from a control center to the evaluation device.

公开(公告)号：US20170229333A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-10

申请号：US15428496

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Tomotaka Kinugawa ,  Hiroshi Otsuka

IPC: H01L21/677 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61L27/04

CPC classification number: H01L21/67715 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  H01L21/67706 ,  H01L21/67724 ,  H01L21/67727 ,  H01L21/6773 ,  H01L21/67733

Abstract: A controller performs a stop control if a first detector detects that an article transport vehicle traveling in a first path entered a managed area, and a second detector or a third detector detects that another article transport vehicle exists in a selected path. And the controller performs a travel control if the first detector detects that an article transport vehicle traveling in a first path entered the managed area, and presence of another article transport vehicle is not detected in the selected path by the second detector or the third detector.

公开(公告)号：US20170225697A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-10

申请号：US15427756

申请日：2017-02-08

Applicant: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES

Inventor： Frédéric HALLONET

IPC: B61L27/04 ,  B61F99/00 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61K9/02 ,  B61L27/00 ,  B61L23/04

CPC classification number: B61F5/245 ,  B60G17/00 ,  B60G17/016 ,  B60G17/0165 ,  B60G2300/10 ,  B60G2300/102 ,  B61F5/38 ,  B61L23/042 ,  B61L2201/00

Abstract: The vehicle including an active suspension system (22) parameterized by a set of adjustment parameters. The railway track is cut into segments. For each segment (T), the method includes campaigns for optimization of the set of parameters, such that: during the first campaign, to each passage of the suspension system (22) on the segment (T), a first set of parameters, specific to this passage, is predefined and applied to the suspension system (22), and a comfort quality index is calculated, and then a metaheuristic algorithm is applied for determining second sets of parameters, and during each following optimization campaign, at each passage of the suspension system over the segment, one of the determined sets of parameters by the previous optimization campaign is applied to the suspension system, and the comfort quality index is calculated, and then the metaheuristic algorithm is applied in order to determine new sets of parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20170217459A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-03

申请号：US15485697

申请日：2017-04-12

Applicant: General Electric Company

Inventor： Jared Klineman COOPER ,  Mark Bradshaw KRAELING ,  Eugene SMITH ,  James Glen CORRY ,  David Lowell McKAY ,  Brian Joseph McMANUS ,  Keith SZEWCZYK ,  Joseph Forrest NOFFSINGER

IPC: B61L23/04 ,  B61L15/00 ,  B61L25/02 ,  B61K9/10

CPC classification number: B61L23/042 ,  B61K9/08 ,  B61K9/10 ,  B61L3/121 ,  B61L15/0018 ,  B61L15/0036 ,  B61L23/04 ,  B61L23/044 ,  B61L23/045 ,  B61L25/021 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L99/00 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  B61L2205/02 ,  B61L2205/04

Abstract: A sensing system includes a leading sensor, a trailing sensor, and a route examining unit. The leading sensor is onboard a first vehicle of a vehicle system that is traveling along a route. The leading sensor measures first characteristics of the route as the vehicle system moves along the route. The trailing sensor is disposed onboard a second vehicle of the vehicle system. The trailing sensor measures second characteristics of the route as the vehicle system moves along the route. The route examining unit is disposed onboard the vehicle system and receives the first characteristics of the route and the second characteristics of the route to compare the first characteristics with the second characteristics. The route examining unit also identifies a segment of the route as being damaged based on a comparison of the first characteristics with the second characteristics.

公开(公告)号：US20170217457A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-03

申请号：US15328148

申请日：2015-07-16

Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Inventor： HARALD FISCHER

IPC: B61L15/00 ,  G06F13/40 ,  H04L12/40

CPC classification number: B61L15/0036 ,  B61L15/0063 ,  B61L15/0072 ,  B61L15/0081 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  G06F13/4027 ,  G06F13/4068 ,  H04B3/542 ,  H04L12/40 ,  H04L2012/40293

Abstract: A rail vehicle includes a vehicle unit having operating device subsystems and a guide system including a first guide system level in which operating device subsystems are networked with one another by using a digital data bus structure, and at least one second guide system level having at least one line set associated with the analog handling of processes in the operating device subsystems. In order to provide a generic rail vehicle in which a high level of safety can be achieved with little outlay on wiring, the vehicle unit includes a guide system interface device having a first interface unit associated with the data bus structure, at least one second interface unit associated with the line set, and a control unit which, in at least one operating mode, is provided for handling the processes through the second interface unit.

公开(公告)号：US20170197645A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-13

申请号：US15315692

申请日：2015-07-23

Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION

Inventor： Nicolas VOYER

IPC: B61L27/00 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L25/02

CPC classification number: B61L27/0022 ,  B61L3/006 ,  B61L3/008 ,  B61L25/021 ,  B61L25/025 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for reducing the drive delay of a rolling stock to reach a destination, the rolling stock being driven by a driver to follow a running profile that defines the speeds and positions of the rolling stock at different timings. The method comprises the steps of: determining a current timing, getting a nominal acceleration of the rolling stock, the nominal acceleration being determined by the driver of the rolling stock to follow the running profile at the current timing, determining the speed error of the rolling stock with the rolling profile, determining the position error of the rolling stock with the rolling profile, determining an estimate of the time to reach the destination, determining a marginal acceleration from the speed error, the position error and the estimated time to reach the destination, accelerating the rolling stock with the sum of nominal and determined marginal accelerations.

公开(公告)号：US20170129515A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15410143

申请日：2017-01-19

Applicant: Siemens Industry, Inc.

Inventor： Claus Weber ,  Zoltan Egel

IPC: B61L27/04 ,  B61L27/00

CPC classification number: B61L27/04 ,  B61L23/00 ,  B61L27/0038 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  G06F11/0796 ,  G06F11/1479 ,  G06F11/1497

Abstract: A railway safety critical application system substitutes commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and/or software for railway-domain specific product components, yet is validated to conform to railway safety critical system failure-free standards. The safety critical system uses a pair of tasks executed on a controller of a COTS personal computer or within a virtual environment with asymmetric communications capability. Both tasks receive and verify safety critical systems input message data and security code integrity and separately generate output data responsive to the input message. The first task has sole capability to send complete safety critical system output messages, but only the second task has the capability of generating the output security code. A failure of any of systems hardware, software or processing capability results failure to transmit a safety critical system output message or an output message that cannot be verified by other safety critical systems.

公开(公告)号：US20170106886A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-20

申请号：US14886608

申请日：2015-10-19

Applicant: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.

Inventor： Alexander SHUBS, JR.

IPC: B61L27/00 ,  B61L27/04 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: B61L27/0077 ,  B61L15/0027 ,  B61L27/0038 ,  B61L27/0094 ,  B61L27/04 ,  B61L2201/00 ,  G05D1/0022

Abstract: A remote data backup system for a locomotive may include a communication unit on-board the locomotive configured to be communicatively coupled with an off-board server. The communication unit may be configured to transmit data to the off-board server and receive at least one of data, commands, and applications from the off-board server. The remote data backup system may also include a central processing module on-board the locomotive comprising a cab electronics system configured to receive and store on-board equipment operational data from outputs of one or more of machine gauges, indicators, sensors, and controls in an on-board memory, process and integrate the received equipment operational data, receive additional equipment operational data and one or more control command signals from the off-board server, and communicate commands based on the equipment operational data and the received control command signals. The system may also perform a self-check upon startup of the locomotive to determine whether equipment operational data is present in the on-board memory, and request a download of previously uploaded data from the off-board server if the self-check determines that no equipment operational data is present in the on-board memory.