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AssigneeNew York Air Brake Corporation
InventorsAnthony W. Lumbis, Dale R. Stevens, Arnold W. Knight, Douglas G. Knight, Bryan M. McLaughlin
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A method of serialization including establishing a parameter along a length of the train between a node on one of the cars and one end of the train. The presence of the parameter at each node is determined and the parameter is removed. The sequence is repeated for each node on the train. Finally, serialization of the cars is determined as a function of the number of determined presences of the parameter for each node. The parameter can be established by providing at the individual node, one at a time, an electric load across an electric line running through the length of the train and measuring an electrical property, either current or voltage, at each node. To determine the orientation of a car, each node include two subnodes. The operability of each node is determined by counting the presence and then the absence of a parameter along the whole train.
In a train including at least one locomotive and a plurality of cars, each car being serially connected to an adjacent car and having a local communication node, the local communication node of at least one car including a primary and a secondary node adjacent a respective end of said at least one car, and a controller in said locomotive in a network with said communication nodes, a method of serializing said cars comprising:
In a train including at least one locomotive and a plurality of cars, each car being serially connected to an adjacent car and having a local communication node, and a controller in a network with said communication nodes, a method determining operability of said local node comprising:
In a train including at least one locomotive and a plurality of cars, each car being serially connected to an adjacent car and having local communication node, and a controller in a network with said communication nodes, wherein:
In a train including at least one locomotive and a plurality of cars, each car being serially connected to an adjacent car and having local communication node, and a controller in said locomotive in a network with said communication nodes, wherein:
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