Abstract:
A method and a corresponding device enable monitoring the speed of rail vehicles. In order to enable a reduction and simplification of the required system components and a speed monitoring that is not only intermittent, it is provided that the rail vehicle emits a signal, the propagation time of which is evaluated on the track side with regard to the speed. The evaluated signal is transmitted back to the rail vehicle.
Abstract:
A method of monitoring for radioactive contamination of scrap contained in a railroad car comprises the steps of detecting the presence of a moving railroad car. The railroad car is scanned for radioactive contamination upon being detected, and scanning continues thereafter. The identification of the railroad car is then determined by an RFID system. The scintillator scanning for radiation is deactivated when the vehicle is no longer detected. Once scanning is completed, then a determination is made whether the scanned vehicle is contaminated with radiation, and an indication that the vehicle is contaminated is made in that event.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an automotive driving system for a vehicle including means producing space signals each time it has travelled a section of its path, the length of which is porportional to the desired speed set at the level of this section by a predetermined program, control means operative by said space signals to apply braking or traction orders to the braking and traction equipments of the vehicle, depending on whether the vehicle travels the successive sections of its path within time intervals smaller or greater than a given base time. The safety means include a generator producing a saw teeth signal whose ramps are brought back to zero by said space signals and means substituting an emergency braking order for the orders from said control means to the above equipments as soon as the maximum magnitude of said ramps falls below a threshold related to said base time.
Abstract:
An adjustable scanning range is provided for vehicle-activated measuring equipment of the type which includes receiver coils positioned on opposite sides of a transmitter such that voltages induced in the received coils from the transmitter are altered as the vehicle passes, the measuring occurring through the application of the induced voltages to a comparison circuit. Altering the input(s) to the comparison circuit by a constant voltage value allows the scanning range to be adjusted.
Abstract:
An electronic track zone detecting device for providing a signal representing location and direction of travel of a railway apparatus within the zone. The detecting device comprises two frames, of insulated open conductive loop structures, defining the extremities of the zone.
Abstract:
A vehicle control system in which a vehicle moves along a fixed pathway, a plurality of uniquely identifiable transponder devices are positioned adjacent the trackway means are carried by said vehicle for interrogating each transponder passed by the vehicle to determine its identity and communication means are provided for transmitting this identity to a central control which having determined the location of each vehicle under its control thereafter issues instructions to the vehicles to control their running speed and spacing.
Abstract:
A sensor for sensing movement of a metal object, such as a railway wheel, along a given path, comprising three sensing coils, all tuned to the same operating frequency, spaced along the path with their axes intersecting the path, and connected in series in three consecutive arms of a pentagon bridge. An oscillator, connected to the remaining two bridge arms, excites the coils at their operating frequency. A metal object moving along the path disturbs the fields of the coils in a sequence depending upon its direction of movement; the direction and velocity of the metal object are indicated in output signals derived by additively combining and synchronously detecting the signal voltages developed at the bridge terminals. In the preferred construction, the two end coils each include a few turns encompassing the central coil to reduce mutual coupling between adjacent coils.