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US 8,019,496 B2Granted
Human machine interface for speed and location control with braking distance display
AssigneeNew York Air Brake Corporation
InventorsRichard Matusiak, Jr., Folkert Horst
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a locomotive controller including an input device, a display and a processor for driving the display and receiving inputs from the input device. Software in the processor determines and drives the display to show a location of a train on a track and indicia of the location on the track of stopping distances for one of an emergency brake application, a full service brake application and at least one controlled stop brake application. Creep control is also provided.
Claims13
A locomotive controller comprising:
- an input device configured to receive input information from a user,
- a display configured to provide at least visual output of information to the user, and
- a processor configured to drive the display to output the information to the user and receive input information from the user via the input device,
- wherein the processor includes and is further configured to run software that includes instructions that direct the processor to determine a location of a train on a track and the location on the track of stopping distances relative to the present location of the train on the track for at least two of an emergency brake application, a full service brake application and a controlled stop brake application, and
- wherein the software further includes instructions that direct the processor to drive the display to show the determined, present location of the train on the track and the location on the track of the determined stopping distances relative to the displayed present location of the train on the track for the at least two of the emergency brake application, the full service brake application and the controlled stop brake application.
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A locomotive controller comprising:
- an input device configured to receive input information from a user,
- an output device,
- a display configured to provide at least visual output of information to the user, and
- a processor configured to receive input information from the input device, drive the display and provide output information to the output device,
- wherein the processor includes and is further configured to run software that includes instructions that direct the processor to provide, at the output device, braking and traction signals to achieve a creep speed signal input from the input device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.