US 2024/0198997 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EVENT SOURCE LOCATION ALONG VEHICLE SYSTEM

Abstract

A system and method include receiver assemblies disposed onboard a vehicle system and spaced apart from each other along a length of the vehicle system. The receiver assemblies are configured to receive a signal responsive to an event occurring on the vehicle system between the receiver assemblies, and to determine times at which the receiver assemblies received the signal. A controller is configured to identify a section of the vehicle system that includes a source of the event based on the times at which the receiver assemblies received the signal and a distance between at least two of the receiver assemblies.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

receiver assemblies configured to be disposed onboard a vehicle system and spaced apart from each other along a length of the vehicle system, the receiver assemblies configured to receive a signal responsive to an event occurring on the vehicle system between the receiver assemblies, the receiver assemblies configured to determine times at which the receiver assemblies received the signal;
and
a controller comprising one or more processors, the controller configured to identify a section of the vehicle system that includes a source of the event based at least on the times at which the receiver assemblies received the signal and a distance between two of the receiver assemblies.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/499,628Filed 1 Nov 2023

Priority

16 Dec 2022

Published

20 Jun 2024

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B60T 17/228
Devices for monitoring or checking brake systems; Signal devices: for railway vehicles
B60T 8/1705
Braking or traction control means specially adapted for particular types of vehicles: for rail vehicles
B60T 13/665
Electrical control in fluid-pressure brake systems: the systems being specially adapted for transferring two or more command signals, e.g. railway…
B61L 15/0018
Indicators provided on the vehicle or train for signalling purposes: communication with or on the vehicle or train

System and method for identifying event source location along vehicle system

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System and method for identifying event source location along vehicle system

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Abstract

Claims20