# US 2017/0282945 A1 · Method for controlling a land transport vehicle, land transport vehicle, ground equipment and transport system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0282945 A1 - Document ID: US20170282945A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/631,704 - Filed: 2017-06-23 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2014-09-04 - Assignees: Alstom Transport Technologies - Applicants: ALSTOM Transport Technologies - Inventors: Jean-Luc HOURTANE; Denis GAUCHE; David CHEVALLIER; Yann CHAINTRON; Xavier RABEYRIN - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170282945A1 ## CPC - G06F 1/266: {Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips} - B60L 9/00: Electric propulsion with power supply external to the vehicle (electric propulsion for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways B60L13/00; in combination with batteries or fuel cells within the vehicle B60L50/53) - B60L 50/53: in combination with an external power supply, e.g. from overhead contact lines - B60L 50/90: using propulsion power supplied by specific means not covered by groups B60L50/10 - B60L50/50, e.g. by direct conversion of thermal nuclear energy into electricity - B60M 1/10: Arrangements for energising and de-energising power line sections using magnetic actuation by the passing vehicle - B60M 1/30: Power rails - B60M 1/36: Single contact pieces along the line for power supply - B61C 3/00: Electric locomotives or railcars (characterised by power transmission B61C9/00; electrical features B60L; H02) - B61L 3/18: using electric current passing between devices along the route and devices on the vehicle or train - B61L 15/0058: {On-board optimisation of vehicle or vehicle train operation} - B61L 15/0062: {On-board target speed calculation or supervision} - B61L 23/14: automatically operated - B61L 25/021: {Measuring and recording of train speed} - B61L 25/025: {Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates} - B61L 27/04: Automatic systems, e.g. controlled by train; Change-over to manual control - B61L 27/57: for vehicles or trains, e.g. trackside supervision of train conditions - B61L 27/70: Details of trackside communication - G05B 15/02: electric - B60L 2200/26: Rail vehicles - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - B60M: POWER SUPPLY LINES, AND DEVICES ALONG RAILS, FOR ELECTRICALLY- PROPELLED VEHICLES (control of points and safety arrangements along railway lines B61L; construction of rails and points in general E01B) - B61C: LOCOMOTIVES; MOTOR RAILCARS (vehicles in general B60; frames or bogies B61F; special railroad equipment for locomotives B61J, B61K) - B61L: GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC (brakes or auxiliary equipment B61H, B61K; point or crossing construction E01B) - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A ground equipment for a transport system includes a track for a land transport vehicle; an external power supply device including a plurality of power supply segments arranged sequentially along the track, the plurality of power supply segments forming an external power supply zone, at least one end segment being situated in vicinity to one end of the external power supply zone adjacent to a zone with no external power supply, to be traveled with an onboard power supply device, a communication antenna being associated with the or each external power supply segments; and a controller adapted to power on the end segment and adapted to send, using an antenna associated with that end segment, a signal indicating the end of a zone with an external power supply in response to a presence signal of the land transport vehicle received by said antenna. ## Claims ### Claim 1 Ground equipment for a transport system, the equipment comprising: a track for a land transport vehicle; an external power supply device including a plurality of power supply segments arranged sequentially along the track, the plurality of power supply segments forming an external power supply zone, at least one end segment being situated in a vicinity to one end of the external power supply zone adjacent to a zone with no external power supply, to be traveled with an onboard power supply device, a communication antenna being associated with the or each external power supply segments; and a controller adapted to power on the end segment and adapted to send, using an antenna associated with that end segment, a signal indicating the end of a zone with an external power supply in response to a presence signal of the land transport vehicle received by said antenna. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The ground equipment for a transport system according to claim 1, wherein the ground equipment is adapted to receive, from the land transport vehicle, a presence signal of the land transport vehicle to the antenna associated with the power supply segment, the signal indicating the end of a zone with an external power supply being sent by the same antenna in response to the reception of the presence signal of the land transport vehicle. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The ground equipment for a transport system according to claim 2, wherein, in response to the reception of the presence signal of the land transport vehicle, the controller is adapted to power on the power supply segment with which the antenna is associated.