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AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsTill Foerster, Stefan Hassler, Reiner Heilmann, Jean-Pascal Schwinn, Thorsten Stuetzle, Manfred Wiesand
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A rail vehicle braking device has at least one electrodynamic brake, which comprises a drive unit, which has at least one drive motor and a power supply unit for supplying the drive motor when the drive unit is in a traction mode. The rail vehicle braking device has at least two brake control units in order to increase the safety of the electrodynamic brake. In a first braking mode, a first brake control unit in an active state controls the power supply unit for providing a braking effect, a first brake effect monitoring unit and a switching unit, which serves to switch, depending on a brake effect parameter in the first braking mode, into a second braking mode, in which the second brake control unit in an active state controls the power supply unit for providing a brake effect.
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A rail vehicle braking device, comprising:
The rail vehicle braking device according to claim 10, which comprises a test mode, in which said switching unit is tested.
A method of braking a rail vehicle by way of an electro-dynamic brake having a drive unit with at least one drive motor and a power supply unit for supplying power to the drive motor in a traction mode of the drive unit, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.