Rail vehicle with sensing of thrown up ballast
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorKaspar Schroeder-Bodenstein
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Abstract
A rail vehicle includes an underbody which is subjected to thrown up ballast when the rail vehicle is operating on a ballasted section of track. In at least one embodiment, the underbody is equipped with at least one acoustic signal pickup which acoustically senses ballast stones striking the underbody; a signal processing device is provided to which a signal is fed from the at least one acoustic signal pickup and which processes the signal in such a way that a thrown up ballast signal is generated which represents the impacting of ballast stones on the underbody; and the thrown up ballast signal from the signal processing device is included in a mode of operation of the rail vehicle.
Claims19
A rail vehicle, comprising:
- an underbody, subjectable to thrown up ballast when the rail vehicle is operating on a ballasted section of track, the underbody including at least one acoustic signal pickup, to acoustically sense ballast stones striking the underbody;
- a signal processing device to receive a signal from the at least one acoustic signal pickup and to process the signal such that a thrown up ballast signal is generated which represents the impacting of ballast stones on the underbody, the thrown up ballast signal from the signal processing device being included in a mode of operation of the rail vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.