341 patents
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Utility
Line supply arrangement
8 Mar 22
A line supply arrangement for electrically powered motor vehicles includes an electric line on a support arm above the motor vehicle.
Ludger Bünker, Simon Hendrik Evenblij
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
Evaporative cooling system
8 Mar 22
An evaporative cooling system for a radiator and method for retrofitting an existing radiator with an evaporative cooling system is provided.
Joseph Theodore Tapley, Daniel Edward Sikes, Jay S. Korth, Joshua Jared Shoemaker, Carson Mae Brown, Corbin Abel Anderson
Filed: 23 Apr 19
Utility
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3 Mar 22
A brake control system includes one or more processors communicatively connected to at least one sensor configured to output at least one property measurement of air in a brake pipe of a vehicle braking assembly.
William John Potter, Edward W. Gaughan
Filed: 9 Aug 21
Utility
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1 Mar 22
Embodiments of the invention relate to a communication system for vehicles and an associated method.
Charles L. Wolf, Paul Gerard Bender, Richard S. Klemanski
Filed: 20 Sep 19
Utility
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24 Feb 22
A communication system may be provided that includes a lead communication assembly configured to be disposed onboard a lead vehicle in a multi-vehicle system, and a remote communication assembly configured to be disposed onboard a remote vehicle in the multi-vehicle system.
Charles L. Wolf, Benjamin Henniges, Mark Uehling, Michael Silva
Filed: 9 Aug 21
Utility
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22 Feb 22
A rail flaw detector is configured for locating flaws in rails of a railroad track and for use with a vehicle travelling on the railroad track.
Paul Sanders Underwood, David William Giragosian, Ian Wallace McGrath Gage, Phillip Edwards, II, John E. Leonard, Jacob Eisler, Ronald M. Keenan, Joseph Setaro
Filed: 18 Dec 19
Utility
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22 Feb 22
A system for determining a location of a rail vehicle based on a radio frequency (RF) signal includes at least one processor programmed or configured to receive an RF signal transmitted by at least one radio transmitter device, where the RF signal includes location data associated with the location of the at least one radio transmitter device, determine a location of the at least one radio transmitter device based on the location data associated with the location of the at least one radio transmitter included in the RF signal, and determine a location of a rail vehicle based on the location of the at least one radio transmitter device.
Stephen Craven, Ann K. Grimm, Matthew Steven Vrba
Filed: 13 Dec 18
Utility
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22 Feb 22
A system is provided that includes a first communication device located at or associated with a determined zone and can accept field data; a second communication device located on or associated with at least one vehicle approaching or traversing the determined zone; and at least one controller or a control system.
Karen A. Shaw, Thomas Paul Spiegelhalter, Jr.
Filed: 20 Sep 19
Utility
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22 Feb 22
A control apparatus includes a first controller configured to generate control signals for controlling an engine or other machine, a second controller configured to generate the control signals for controlling the machine, a transfer circuit, and an arbiter circuit.
Michael Allen Taylor, Kusuma Kumari Maralla, Scott Christopher Poeppel, Vinodh Kumar Sreenivasan, James Robert Connelly, Atul George Tharakan
Filed: 28 Sep 15
Utility
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15 Feb 22
A pad for disc brakes for railway vehicles is provided.
Vittorio De Soccio
Filed: 20 Mar 20
Utility
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8 Feb 22
A control system and method control release of a braking device from a wheel or disc.
David Lee Williamson, Kenneth Paul Rivard, Zachary Paul Farque
Filed: 27 Sep 19
Utility
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3 Feb 22
A distributed power system includes a communication device and a control device.
Jitendra Gupta
Filed: 19 Jul 21
Utility
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3 Feb 22
A vehicle monitoring device includes a camera or other optical sensor configured to be disposed at a trailing end of a first vehicle system.
Carl L. Haas, Padam D. Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph W. Gorman, James A. Oswald, Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, James Trainor, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne, Robert Hoffman, Tim Gibson, Brian Kurz
Filed: 1 Sep 21
Utility
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27 Jan 22
A method is provided that may include obtaining image data related to a route from a imaging device associated with a vehicle.
Matthew Vrba
Filed: 27 Jul 21
Utility
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27 Jan 22
A method is provided that may include obtaining image data related to a route from a imaging device associated with a vehicle, determining a geometric pattern related to the route based on the image data, and identifying the geometric pattern determined within a route database to determine the route of the vehicle.
Matthew Vrba
Filed: 27 Jul 21
Utility
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25 Jan 22
A system includes a control unit having one or more processors and a communication interface.
Santosh Sambamoorthy Veda, Robert Dean King, Irene Michelle Berry, Zhi Zhou, Matthew Christian Nielsen, Lembit Salasoo
Filed: 25 Jun 19
Utility
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13 Jan 22
A braking system and method control application of brakes disposed onboard vehicles using brake control devices.
Charles L. Wolf, Carl L. Haas
Filed: 14 Jun 21
Utility
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4 Jan 22
A parking verification system and method, a movement verification system and method, and a monitoring system and method for a train, or other transit vehicle.
Frank Huchrowski
Filed: 4 Jan 19
Utility
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30 Dec 21
A system is provided that include at least one positioning system that can detect a location or position of a vehicle or a portion of a vehicle group that includes the vehicle, at least one sensor positioned on or associated with the vehicle that can generate sensor data of a determined parameter or condition, and a controller in communication with the sensor and the positioning system.
Joshua M. Bramucci, Benjamin Henniges, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Michael Bratcher, Kristofer M. Ruhland, Karen A. Shaw, James L. Fenske
Filed: 13 Sep 21
Utility
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28 Dec 21
A switch reporting device including at least one display screen, a high resolution camera, a code reader, at least one memory and one or more processors, the switch reporting device configured to determine a position of an unmonitored switch in a railway by capturing an image of one or more portions associated with the unmonitored switch, generating switch position data based on the image of one or more portions associated with the unmonitored switch, and updating a switch position record for the unmonitored switch with the switch position data.
Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Craig Karl Green, Jerrid D. Chapman, Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian
Filed: 30 Nov 18