US 8,505,855 B2Granted

Train detector and train security device for dual gauge track circuit

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsKenji Kikuchi, Koushirou Sakado, Kentaro Ohkubo

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Abstract

When a prior art track circuit for monitoring an electric signal supplied to a rail via a transmitter and a receiver connected to the rail for detecting a presence of a train using a phenomenon in which the reception level of a signal drops when axles of a train electrically short two rails together and sending a train control signal to the train is applied to a dual gauge track circuit in which two types of trains having different gauges share a rail, mutual induction between rails occurs which is a problem specific to the dual gauge track circuit, and the amount of attenuation of the train detection signal when a train is present on a track drops. The present invention prevents the mutual induction between rails and suppresses the drop of the amount of attenuation of the train detection signal when a train is present on a track by providing a train detector for recognizing two types of trains and detecting the presence of trains on the track via transmitters and receivers respectively connected to three rails, including filters for passing relevant signals and increasing the impedance of signals of other signal bands disposed on input stages of the respective receivers.

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Dependent claims

A train detector for detecting presence of a first train and a second train on a track respectively, by transmitting a train detection signal to a dual gauge track circuit having a first rail, a second rail and a common rail, the first train traveling on the first rail and the common rail, and the second train having a gauge different from the first train and traveling on the second rail and the common rail,

wherein the train detector comprises:
a first transmitter for transmitting a first train detection signal having a predetermined frequency to the first rail;
a first receiver for receiving the first train detection signal from the first rail;
a second transmitter for transmitting a second train detection signal having a frequency different from the first train detection signal to the second rail;
a second receiver for receiving the second train detection signal from the second rail
a first filter connected between the first rail and the first receiver and designed to pass a frequency band of the first train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the second train detection signal so as to suppress a current of the second train detection signal;
and
a second filter connected between the second rail and the second receiver and designed to pass a frequency band of the second train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the first train detection signal so as to suppress a current of the first train detection signal;
so as to prevent deficiency of attenuation of train detection signals when trains are present on the track, the deficiency being caused by mutual induction between the first rail and the second rail, that is specific to the dual gauge track circuit.

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A train detector for detecting presence of a first train and a second train on a track respectively, by transmitting a train detection signal to a dual gauge track circuit having a first rail, a second rail and the common rail, the first train traveling on the first rail and the common rail, and the second train having a gauge different from the first train and traveling on the second rail and the common rail,

wherein the train detector comprises:
a common transmitter for transmitting a first train detection signal having a predetermined frequency and a second train detection signal having a frequency different from the first train detection signal to the first rail and the second rail;
a common receiver for receiving the first train detection signal from the first rail and the second train detection signal from the second rail;
a first filter connected between the first rail and the common receiver and designed to pass a frequency band of the first train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the second train detection signal so as to suppress a current of the second train detection signal;
a second filter connected between the second rail and the common receiver and designed to pass a frequency band of the second train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the first train detection signal so as to suppress a current of the first train detection signal;
a third filter connected between the common transmitter and the first rail and designed to pass a frequency band of the first train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the second train detection signal so as to suppress the current of the second train detection signal;
and
a fourth filter connected between the common transmitter and the second rail and designed to pass a frequency band of the second train detection signal and to increase an impedance at a frequency band of the first train detection signal so as to suppress the current of the first train detection signal,
so as to prevent deficiency of attenuation of train detection signals when trains are present on the track, the deficiency being caused by mutual induction between the first rail and the second rail, that is specific to the dual gauge track circuit.

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