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US 12,203,801 B2Granted
Railway track sensor system for vertical surface pressure
AssigneeGetzner Werkstoffe Holding GmbH
InventorsMichael Sehner, Harald Loy
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Abstract
A railway track (1) including at least two railway rails (2) and at least one measuring apparatus (3), disposed under at least one of the railway rails (2), for measuring vertical contact pressure, wherein the measuring apparatus (3) has at least one mat-shaped or planar carrying body (4) with a multiplicity of measuring sensors (5), disposed at a distance from one another, for measuring the vertical surface pressure at the respective positions of the respective measuring sensors (5).
Claims10
A railway track system, comprising:
- at least two railway rails;
- at least one measuring apparatus arranged below at least one of the railway rails, the measuring apparatus being configured for measurement of vertical surface pressure, the measuring apparatus includes at least one mat-shaped or panel-shaped carrier body with a multiplicity of measuring sensors arranged thereon that are spaced apart from one another for the measurement of the vertical surface pressure at respective positions of respective ones of the measuring sensors;
- wherein the measuring apparatus has on at least one side of the carrier body a multiple-layer protective plate which closes off the measuring apparatus to outside, and the multiple-layer protective plate has on a side of the carrier body facing away from the railway rails, a first layer comprising a steel sheet on which the vertical surface pressures are input into the measuring apparatus, and a second layer which is made from a softer ductile metal that is located between the first layer and the carrier body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.