Abstract:
A system for detecting and classifying a wheel of a rail vehicle traveling on a railway track includes a plurality of wheel detectors coupled to one rail of the railway track and configured to detect presence of the wheel and to generate signals representative thereof. A processing system is coupled to the wheel detectors and configured to receive and process the signals. The processing system is configured to classify the wheel based on a speed independent classification value calculated based on the signals from the wheel detectors.
Abstract:
A rail-mounted, wheel-sensing system is shown having a wheel sensor and a rail mounting platform. The system includes a rugged steel rail clamp including two blocks mounted on the base of the rail by a pair of bolt extending under the rail. One block is connected to a vertically adjustable mounting bracket for carrying a sensor or other device. The mounting bracket includes a platform for the sensor. Two shields on the platform protecting a sensor mounted between them. An adapter plate may be added between the mounting bracket and the clamp for installation on lighter or heavier rails.
Abstract:
A method of decoding an encoded bitstream. The method includes performing a table lookup. Addresses into the table are generated using selected numbers of bits drawn from the bitstream in response to values stored in the table entries. A table entry may contain an index offset and a number of bits to extract from the bitstream. Alternatively, the table entry may contain the decode result. The value of a result tag in the entry signals which of the alternatives is contained in the entry. The table is recursively accessed until a portion of the bitstream is decoded. Any remaining portion of the bitstream is decoded similarly. An initial index into the table is determined from a number of bits of the bitstream corresponding to the length of the smallest code word in the codetable used to encode the bitstream.
Abstract:
A railroad car wheel transducer includes a coil positioned along a rail of a track. The presence of a wheel proximal to the coil causes basic electrical characteristics of the coil, such as its inductance and Q factor to change, which is sensed and used to generate a coil signal. A calibrating circuit monitors the coil characteristics to compensate for long term drifts.
Abstract:
A variable permeability magnetic object detection device including an electromagnetic sensing coil; a core disposed in the electromagnetic sensing coil having a first permeability when the core is magnetically saturated and a second different permeability when the core is magnetically unsaturated; a magnetic member proximate the electromagnetic sensing coil for providing a magnetic field in the core for operating the core in a magnetically saturated state without a magnetic object to be detected present in the area proximate the electromagnetic sensing coil, interacting with the magnetic field, and for operating the core in a magnetically unsaturated state with the magnetic object to be detected present in the area proximate the magnetic sensing coil, interacting with the field; and a detector responsive to said electromagnetic sensing coil to detect the presence of a magnetic object.
Abstract:
Die Erfindung betrifft ein Zugpositionserfassungssystem, das sich durch universelle Anwendbarkeit bei geringen Kosten auszeichnet. Erfindungsgemäß ist vorgesehen, dass gleisseitig Magnetfeldsensoren (5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4) zur Erfassung einer temporär lokalen Magnetfeldänderung des natürlichen Erdmagnetfeldes infolge einer Zugpassage angeordnet sind.
Abstract:
A passive magnetic detector (10) is provided at or below ground level in between rails of a railroad track at a distance from a level crossing (103) for detecting magnetic field disturbances caused by ferromagnetic objects passing overhead on the track. Magnetic field reversals are detected in the passive detector signal. The reversal signal is analyzed and a train presence output signal is generated for controlling the level crossing gate system. At the crossing, static magnetic field detectors (12) are used to ensure that no equipment remains on the island after detecting that the moving train has left the crossing (103).
Abstract:
Besides a sensor voltage (Us) derived from the current consumption of the oscillator (OSZ), the voltage applied to the oscillator, or the receiving voltage of a receiver, a first and second reference voltages (Uref1, Uref2) are fed alternately to the threshold-value switch (SW) of the wheel sensor; the sensor voltage is evaluated using them. The first reference voltage designates the switching threshold at which the threshold-value switch switches in the event of a vehicle passage, and the second reference voltage (Uref2) lies between the sensor voltage established when no vehicle passes the wheel sensor, and the sensor voltage that is established if the sensor is removed from the rail. By means of the cyclical application of the two reference voltages, in conjunction with a storage capacitor (C) fed by the threshold-value switch (SW), a check is made of whether the sensor has been removed from the rail. In this case, the storage capacitor, which is otherwise recharged via the threshold-value switch, discharges, causing a passage signal to be outputted to an evaluation device if the voltage drops below a pre-set level.