Electro-pneumatic emergency and service braking control system, for at least one railway vehicle
AssigneeFaiveley Transport Italia S.P.A.
InventorsRoberto Tione, Angelo Grasso
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Abstract
An electro-pneumatic service and emergency braking control system is described, comprising: a switching device arranged to allow the connection of a first group of control and feedback signals from an emergency braking control module to an electro-pneumatic emergency braking module when a monitoring device determines the correct operation of the emergency braking control module and to allow the connection of a third group of control and feedback signals from the service braking control module to the electro-pneumatic emergency braking module when the monitoring device determines the incorrect operation of the emergency braking control module.
Claims6
A braking control system, for a railway vehicle or a railway bogie, comprising:
- an emergency braking control module configured to generate an emergency braking pressure;
- an electro-pneumatic service braking control module configured to receive said emergency braking pressure to generate at least one service braking pressure;
- a service braking control module configured to control the electro-pneumatic service braking module;
- to generate the at least one service braking pressure with a second group of control signals;
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- a switching device configured to allow the connection of the first group of control signals from the emergency braking control module to the electro-pneumatic emergency braking module responsive to when a monitoring device arranged to monitor the operating state of the emergency braking control module determines a correct operation of said emergency braking control module and to allow the connection of a third group of control signals from the service braking control module to the electro-pneumatic emergency braking module responsive to when when the monitoring device determines an incorrect operation of said emergency braking control module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.