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| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
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| 161 | Method and protection system for trains operating at restricted speed | US14955844 | 2015-12-01 | US09896114B2 | 2018-02-20 | Rebecca W Dreasher; Jeffrey D Kernwein |
| A computer-implemented method for a plurality of trains, at least one of which is operating at a restricted speed, the method including: (a) transmitting, by at least one on-board computer of at least one train to at least one remote server, train location data; (b) requesting, by the at least one on-board computer from the at least one remote server, office polling data; (c) generating at least one poll registration message based at least partially on the office polling data; (d) based at least partially on the office polling data and/or the poll registration message, determining proximity of the at least one train to at least one subdivision; and (e) based at least partially on at least one of the following: train location data, office polling data, the poll registration message, or any combination thereof, transmitting, by the at least one remote server to at least one on-board computer of at least one train, train location data comprising location or position data related to at least one other train. A protection system for a plurality of trains, at least one of which is operating at a restricted speed, is also disclosed. | ||||||
| 162 | Management of a fleet of electrically motorized vehicles | US14679801 | 2015-04-06 | US09878608B2 | 2018-01-30 | Assaf Biderman; Jon Stevens; Ruben Cagnie |
| A system, method, and device for operations of an electrically motorized vehicle. The vehicle can utilize an electrically motorized wheel to convert a non-motorized wheeled vehicle to an electrically motorized wheeled vehicle. A method of analyzing a fleet of vehicles, each of the vehicles including the device of the electrically motorized wheel includes receiving data from each device of the respective plurality of electrically motorized wheels within a fleet of vehicles and utilizing the data to facilitate tracking at least one vehicle within the fleet. | ||||||
| 163 | INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD | US15684123 | 2017-08-23 | US20170352269A1 | 2017-12-07 | Hiroyuki IWASE; Yuki SETO; Masashi GOMPEI; Shota MORIGUCHI; Takahiro IWATA |
| An information provision device transmits, by near field communication, fixed phrase information, of guidance information that guides a user, representative of a fixed phrase and insertion phrase information selected from among a plurality of pieces of insertion phrase information representative of different insertion phrases to be inserted in the fixed phrase, to a terminal device capable of presenting, to the user, presentation information corresponding to the guidance information where the insertion phrase represented by the insertion phrase information is inserted in the fixed phrase represented by the fixed phrase information. | ||||||
| 164 | Train information announcement system | US14227636 | 2014-03-27 | US09821826B2 | 2017-11-21 | Takeshi Yamada |
| A train information announcement system of the present invention includes vehicle radio sets VRS1 and VRS2 which performs wireless communication, and is installed on a train 1 which moves on a railroad track R, wayside radio sets WRS1 to WRS5 arranged along the railroad track R, and an information providing means which provides train information announcements at a station at predetermined timing based on information about a train location obtained by the wireless communication between the vehicle radio sets VRS1 and VRS2 and the wayside radio sets WRS1 to WRS5. | ||||||
| 165 | System for providing temporary speed restrictions to locomotives | US15151615 | 2016-05-11 | US09819781B1 | 2017-11-14 | John Brand; Greg Hrebek; Wade Goforth |
| A system for automatically updating route information to a locomotive that includes a route computer and voice radio encoder that merges data representing temporary changes in a route with a voice radio call placed by a dispatcher to a locomotive engineer. A voice radio decoder coupled to the locomotive cab voice radio extracts the data representing the temporary changes from the voice radio signal and provides the data directed to the energy management system so that there is no need for the engineer to manually enter the temporary data. | ||||||
| 166 | System and method for displaying planned speed values | US14501489 | 2014-09-30 | US09778056B2 | 2017-10-03 | Kevin L. Kapp; Samuel William Golden |
| A method and system are provided to obtain, with one or more processors, a speed profile of a vehicle system for a designated route traveled by the vehicle system. The designated route includes a plurality of segments, and the speed profile includes a planned segment speed for each segment. One or more planned segment speeds are identified that correspond to a point of interest, and respective priorities are assigned to the identified segment speeds based on the point of interest forming prioritized segment speeds. First discrete numeral values are displayed on a display, representing the planned segment speeds of the prioritized segments that are within a predetermined distance forward of a motion of the vehicle system. Second discrete numeral values are displayed on the display, corresponding to remaining segment speeds that are within the predetermined distance, until a predetermined threshold of discrete numeral values is reached. | ||||||
| 167 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AND DIAGNOSING COMPONENTS OF A RAIL VEHICLE BY MEANS OF AN EXTENSIBLE EVALUATION SOFTWARE | US15512367 | 2015-08-27 | US20170274916A1 | 2017-09-28 | Marco NOCK; Benjamin BEHMANN; Martin MOSER; Markus HÄBEL |
| A method for monitoring and diagnosing components of a rail vehicle, as a singular rail vehicle or as part of a rail vehicle train consisting of a plurality of rail vehicles, with regard to the necessary repair or maintenance, as appropriate, of at least one component, in which at least one measuring device captures at least one measurement variable, which is relevant to an assessment of a necessary repair or maintenance, as appropriate, of the component, is performed in which supplementation, extension, modification or adaptation of evaluation software implemented in an evaluation device is performed based on instructions, data and/or software modules sent from a control center to the evaluation device. | ||||||
| 168 | Safety features for an electrically motorized vehicle | US14680319 | 2015-04-07 | US09738151B2 | 2017-08-22 | Assaf Biderman; Jon Stevens; John David Heinzmann |
| A system, method, and device for operations of an electrically motorized vehicle. The vehicle can utilize an electrically motorized wheel to convert a non-motorized wheeled vehicle to an electrically motorized wheeled vehicle. One system to facilitate user safety when using an electrically motorized wheel includes a proximity sensor on the electrically motorized wheel in communication with a user mobile device and a proximity alert module on the mobile device enabled to alert a user when a sensed proximity crosses a threshold. | ||||||
| 169 | Train status presentation based on aggregated tracking information | US14947483 | 2015-11-20 | US09711046B2 | 2017-07-18 | Alexander Shubs, Jr. |
| A control system presents a configurable virtual representation of at least a portion of a train and associated train assets, including a real-time location, configuration, and operational status of the train and associated train assets traveling along a railway. The control system may include a train position determining system, and a train configuration determining system. The control system may further include a train asset operational parameter sensing device, and a controller configured to receive data produced by the train position determining system, the train configuration determining system, and the train asset operational parameter sensing device. The controller may also process and aggregate the received data to provide a real-time virtual representation of the train and the train assets including the actual real-time position and configuration of the train assets relative to each other and to a geographical location, and coordinate a presentation of the aggregated data such that implementation of a select presentation process to the aggregated data results in a simultaneous implementation of the same select presentation process to at least one of electronic map data associated with the real-time location of the train and the train asset operational parameter data. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be configured to display in one or more display areas the real-time virtual representation of the train including a coordinated and configurable presentation of at least a portion of the aggregated data and the train asset operational parameter data. | ||||||
| 170 | User interface for an electrically motorized vehicle | US14679902 | 2015-04-06 | US09701190B2 | 2017-07-11 | Assaf Biderman; Jon Stevens; James Simard |
| A system, method, and device for operations of an electrically motorized vehicle. The vehicle can utilize an electrically motorized wheel to convert a non-motorized wheeled vehicle to an electrically motorized wheeled vehicle. A method includes calculating a set of parameters to control an amount of assistance or resistance generated by the device of the electrically motorized wheel in response to a user input, the set of parameters are calculated in response to a user selecting one of a plurality of operational modes. | ||||||
| 171 | LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEM | US15439090 | 2017-02-22 | US20170158213A1 | 2017-06-08 | Harry Kirk Mathews; James D. Brooks |
| A location determination system includes one or more processors configured to determine a location of a vehicle system based on output from a location determination system onboard the vehicle system. The one or more processors also are configured to determine whether the location of the vehicle system as determined by the location determination system is accurate based on one or more of performance of the vehicle system, communication between two or more vehicles in the vehicle system, one or more other locations determined by one or more other location determination systems onboard the vehicle system, and/or operation of a brake system of the vehicle system. | ||||||
| 172 | Embedded system for generating a rail vehicle location signal | US14381108 | 2013-03-05 | US09663126B2 | 2017-05-30 | Jacques Orion |
| This system (210) comprises an antenna (20) comprising a first loop (22) and a second loop (24) having different radiation patterns, the first and second loops being designed to generate first and second currents (I1, I2) when the antenna passes over a beacon situated on the line and an electronic processing subsystem designed to generate a location signal from said first and second currents.It is characterized by said subsystem being a first subsystem (230) for generating a first location signal (SL1), the system comprises a second subsystem (240) for generating a second location signal (SL2) from said first and second currents, and by said subsystem comprising an arbitration means (250) designed to generate a safety location signal (SLS) according to said first and second location signals. | ||||||
| 173 | Systems, methods and devices for the physical rehabiliation using an electrically motorized vehicle | US14680348 | 2015-04-07 | US09636993B2 | 2017-05-02 | Assaf Biderman |
| A system, method, and device for operations of an electrically motorized vehicle. The vehicle can utilize an electrically motorized wheel to convert a non-motorized wheeled vehicle to an electrically motorized wheeled vehicle. One system is a physical therapy system including a prescription module to prescribe a physical therapy prescription for operation of the device of the electrically motorized wheel and a rehabilitation application in communication with the prescription module to calculate the set of control parameters based on the physical therapy prescription. | ||||||
| 174 | System and method for identifying damaged sections of a route | US14639665 | 2015-03-05 | US09607446B2 | 2017-03-28 | Jared Klineman Cooper; John Charles Hounschell, II; Nick David Nagrodsky; Aaron Mitti; Ajith Kuttannair Kumar; David Michael Peltz; Brian Lawry; Joseph Forrest Noffsinger |
| A method and system for determining rail defects. The method and system receive route performance measurements from a vehicle system traveling along a route and normalize the route performance measurements based on one or more characteristics of the vehicle system. The method and a system also determine a defect for a segment of the route based at least in part on the normalized route performance measurements with respect to a threshold bandwidth corresponding to the segment. The method and system also examine velocity differences in a vehicle speed of a vehicle and the angular speed of the axles and/or wheels of the vehicle system traveling along a route to determine if the route is damaged and/or to identify the location of the potentially damaged section of the route. The differences may represent wheel creeps of the vehicle system. | ||||||
| 175 | ROUTE FEATURE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | US15295300 | 2016-10-17 | US20170043678A1 | 2017-02-16 | Joseph Forrest NOFFSINGER; Jeffrey Michael FRIES |
| A system includes at least one application device, a control unit, and at least one processor. The at least one application device is conductively or inductively coupled with at least one of a first conductive track or a second conductive track. The control unit is configured to control supply of electric current from a power source to the at least one application device to electrically inject at least one examination signal into the conductive tracks. The at least one processor is configured to monitor the one or more electrical characteristics of at least one of the first or second conductive tracks, and to identify a construction feature of the route based on the one or more electrical characteristics, wherein the construction feature corresponds to a man-made aspect of the route. | ||||||
| 176 | System and method for configuring and updating wayside devices | US14514809 | 2014-10-15 | US09522685B2 | 2016-12-20 | Jared Klineman Cooper; Aric Albert Weingartner |
| Methods and systems relate to establishing a communication link with a wayside device, determining whether or not to at least one of update or configure the wayside device in dependence upon at least one update parameter, and when it is determined to update or configure the wayside device, updating or configuring the wayside device from a remote location. | ||||||
| 177 | System and method for aggregation display and analysis of rail vehicle event information | US14592245 | 2015-01-08 | US09487222B2 | 2016-11-08 | Jason Palmer; Slaven Sljivar; Mark Freitas; Daniel A. Deninger; Shahriar Ravari |
| This disclosure relates to a rail vehicle event analysis system configured to facilitate analysis of rail vehicle event records that correspond to rail vehicle events. The system may be configured to visually present a user with information related to operation of a rail vehicle. The user may review the information related to operation of the rail vehicle in real time, responsive to the rail vehicle being involved in a rail vehicle event, and/or at other times. The system may be configured to visually present information based on output signals generated by one or more sensors associated with the rail vehicle. The system may synchronize the presented information such that information from individual sensors may be compared and/or viewed at the same time by the user. The system may be configured to receive observations made by the user based on the user's review of the presented visual information. | ||||||
| 178 | Route feature identification system and method | US14685751 | 2015-04-14 | US09469320B2 | 2016-10-18 | Joseph Forrest Noffsinger; Jeffrey Michael Fries |
| A system includes at least one application device, a control unit, and at least one processor. The at least one application device is conductively or inductively coupled with at least one of a first conductive track or a second conductive track. The control unit is configured to control supply of electric current from a power source to the at least one application device to electrically inject at least one examination signal into the conductive tracks. The at least one processor is configured to monitor the one or more electrical characteristics of at least one of the first or second conductive tracks, and to identify a construction feature of the route based on the one or more electrical characteristics, wherein the construction feature corresponds to a man-made aspect of the route. | ||||||
| 179 | Method and apparatus for locating rail vehicles | US14419001 | 2013-07-23 | US09457819B2 | 2016-10-04 | Horst Ernst; Bernhard Evers |
| A method for operating a locating device having a waveguide laid along a stretch of track to locate a rail vehicle on the stretch of track includes injecting electromagnetic pulses into the waveguide in succession or series and receiving and evaluating backscattering patterns produced by backscattering of the electromagnetic pulse for each emitted pulse. A vibration device located in the region of the stretch of track at a known position is activated at a predefined activation time and a vibration causing backscattering of the electromagnetic pulse is thereby produced at the known position, the duration between the activation time and the receipt of the backscattering pattern indicating the vibration is measured, and the measured duration is used to check the functionality or operation of the locating device or to calibrate the locating device. A locating apparatus for locating a rail vehicle along a stretch of track is also provided. | ||||||
| 180 | Automatic Train Stop Control System | US15175152 | 2016-06-07 | US20160280242A1 | 2016-09-29 | Stefano Di Cairano; Mehmet Alphan Ulusoy; Sohrab Haghighat |
| A method controls a movement of a train to a stop at a stopping position between a first position and a second position. The method determines constraints of a velocity of the train with respect to a position of the train forming a feasible area for a state of the train during the movement, such that an upper curve bounding the feasible area has a zero velocity only at the second position, and a lower curve bounding the feasible region has a zero velocity only at the first position. Next, the method controls the movement of the train subject to the constraints. | ||||||
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