Door control apparatus
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorGeorge W. Donaldson
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Abstract
Door control apparatus is provided for opening and closing the passenger doors of a transit vehicle and the cooperating doors of a station, which apparatus includes conductors respectively coupled with a station power supply and the station door motors and extending along the station platform where passengers load and unload relative to the vehicle, such that a shunt connection member carried by the vehicle and coupled with the vehicle door motor is operative to energize the vehicle door motor and the station door motor for operating the passenger doors and the station doors when the vehicle is positioned at the station platform to load and unload passengers in relation to the vehicle.
Claims7
In apparatus for controlling at least one passenger door of a transit vehicle movable along a roadway track in relation to at least one passenger door of a station, with the station including a passenger platform and a power supply, the combination of:
- first motor means coupled to move the one station door for opening and closing said station door,
- second motor means coupled to move the one vehicle door for opening and closing said vehicle door,
- first conductor means positioned along said platform and coupled with the power supply,
- second conductor means positioned along said first conductor means and coupled with the first motor means, and
- connection means coupled with the second motor means and carried by said vehicle for providing an electrical connection between the first and second conductor means and energizing the first and second motor means for operating said station door and said vehicle door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.