Detection device and method
AssigneeWestinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
InventorMichael Koziol
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Abstract
A brake assembly includes a first assembly component; a second assembly component that is movable with respect to the first assembly component; and a device for determining a status of the brake assembly. The device includes a sensor trigger disposed on the second assembly component; a sensor disposed on the first assembly component, the sensor being configured to detect a proximity of the sensor trigger with respect to the sensor; and a controller in communication with the sensor and configured to determine the status of the brake assembly based on the detected proximity of the sensor trigger with respect to the sensor.
Claims20
A vehicle brake system comprising:
- a status detector including a sensor, a sensor trigger, a carrier, and a housing, the sensor trigger configured to be disposed on the carrier, the carrier configured to be mounted to a first component of a brake assembly, the sensor configured to be disposed at least one of on or in the housing, the housing configured to be mounted to a second component of the brake assembly, at least one of the first component or the second component configured to move relative to the other during engagement or release of the brake assembly, the sensor configured to measure a distance from the sensor to the sensor trigger;
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- a controller configured to be in communication with the sensor and to determine a status or a mode of the brake assembly based at least in part on the distance from the sensor to the sensor trigger.
A vehicle brake system detector, comprising:
- a sensor trigger configured to be disposed on a first component of a brake assembly;
- a sensor configured to be disposed on a second component of the brake assembly, at least one of the first component or the second component movable relative to the other during engagement or release of the brake assembly, the sensor configured to measure a distance from the sensor to the sensor trigger;
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- a controller in communication with the sensor, the controller configured to determine a status or a mode of the brake assembly based at least in part on the distance from the sensor to the sensor trigger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.