公开(公告)号：US20140358339A1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-04

申请号：US13906533

申请日：2013-05-31

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Jared Klineman COOPER ,  William Cherrick SCHOONMAKER ,  Stephen Craig SHELTON

IPC: B61L27/04

CPC classification number: B61L3/006

Abstract: A method for de-rating propulsion-generating vehicles in a vehicle system includes identifying a feature of interest in a route and identifying one or more propulsion-generating vehicles as de-rating vehicles that are subject to a handling rule associated with the feature of interest. The handling rule dictates that throttle settings be limited to a reduced range when traveling over the feature of interest. The method further includes, when the de-rating vehicles are traveling along the route and outside of the feature of interest, operating the de-rating vehicles using a larger range of throttle settings and, responsive to approaching and/or traveling over the feature of interest, automatically de-rating at least a subset of the propulsion-generating vehicles in the vehicle system by operating the at least a subset of the propulsion-generating vehicles using the smaller range of throttle settings during travel over the feature of interest.

Abstract translation: 一种用于在车辆系统中降低推进发电车辆的方法包括识别路线中的感兴趣特征，并且将一个或多个推进发电车辆识别为经受与感兴趣特征相关联的处理规则的评级车辆 。 处理规则规定，当在感兴趣的特征上行驶时，油门设置被限制在减小的范围。 该方法还包括，当减速车辆沿着路线行进并且在感兴趣的特征之外行驶时，使用更大范围的节气门设置来操作减速车辆，并且响应于接近和/或行驶在 感兴趣，通过在感兴趣的特征行进期间使用较小范围的节气门设置来操作推进发电车辆的至少一个子集，自动降低车辆系统中的推进发电车辆的至少一个子集。