Cable car and method of operating a cable car
AssigneeDoppelmayr Management AG
InventorsJari Hoeck, Gerd Dür
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Abstract
In order to provide a cable car that enables an operation as autonomous as possible with the highest possible safety for persons, it is provided that in at least one cable car station a detection apparatus is provided for detecting a measurement variable of an airborne sound, that a classification unit is provided that is designed for this purpose, to identify at least one defined safety-relevant sound event from the measurement variable or a variable derived therefrom, and in that the control unit is designed to operate the cable car in a defined safety operating mode when a defined safety-relevant sound event is identified.
Claims20
A cable car with a number of cable car stations and with a number of cable car vehicles which can be moved between the number of cable car stations by means of a hoisting rope, wherein a control unit is provided for controlling the cable car, comprising:
- a detection apparatus for detecting a measurement variable of an airborne sound in at least one cable car station;
- a classification unit configured to identify at least one defined safety-relevant sound event from at least one of the measurement variable and a variable derived therefrom;
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- wherein the control unit is configured to operate the cable car in a defined safety operating mode when a defined safety-relevant sound event is identified.
A method for operating a cable car with a number of cable car stations and with a number of cable car vehicles which are moved between the number of cable car stations by means of a hoisting rope, wherein the cable car is controlled by means of a control unit, comprising the steps of:
- detecting a measurement variable of an airborne sound in at least one cable car station;
- identifying at least one defined safety-relevant sound event from at least one of the measurement variable and a variable derived therefrom with a classification unit;
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- operating the cable car in a defined safety operating mode when the at least one defined safety-relevant sound event is identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.