| BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH Patent applications |
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| 20120118194 | Vehicle Having Rolling Compensation - A rail vehicle includes a car body, a first chassis, and a second chassis. The car body is supported on the first chassis by a first spring device, the car body is supported on the second chassis by a second spring device, the car body is coupled to the first chassis by a first roll compensation device, and is coupled to the second chassis by a second roll compensation device. The first roll compensation device and the second roll compensation device counteract roll motions of the car body toward the outside of the curve about a roll axis parallel to the vehicle longitudinal axis during curved travel. The first roll compensation device is designed in such a way and/or the first roll compensation device and the second roll compensation device are coupled to each other in such a way that a torsional load on the car body about the vehicle longitudinal axis is counteracted. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117775 | Extraction Stabilizer - A pin extraction stabilizer for an connector housing is disclosed. The housing includes a top surface and a bottom surface and defines one or more connector pin cavities extending therethrough between the top and the bottom surfaces with a plurality of protruding hollow plugs extended around the connector pin cavities at the top surface. The connector housing further includes one or more connector pins pre-disposed within the connector housing that need to be extracted via the pin extraction stabilizer. The pin extraction stabilizer includes a stabilizer housing having a front surface and a back surface and defines a one or more access sockets extending from the stabilizer front surface to the stabilizer back surface defining a plurality of chambers in the stabilizer. Each chamber of the plurality of chambers is dimensioned to receive a protruding hollow plug of the connector housing. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120081065 | OVERCURRENT LIMITING FOR THE CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF CONVERTER-FED THREE-PHASE MACHINES - A method and a structure operate a three-phase machine, which is fed by a three-phase converter, using a stator flux regulator and either a slip frequency regulator or a torque regulator. A torque-forming fundamental-frequency current component of the stator current is limited by limiting a setpoint value that is supplied to the slip frequency regulator or to the torque regulator to a maximum slip frequency value maximum torque value. The flux-forming fundamental-frequency current component of the stator current is limited by limiting the speed at which a setpoint value supplied to the stator flux regulator changes to a maximum value. The maximum slip frequency value or maximum torque value is calculated on the basis of a prescribed maximum current value for a stator current fundamental-frequency magnitude of the stator current and on the basis of a filtered actual value of the flux-forming fundamental-frequency current component of the stator current. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120068951 | DYNAMIC DOOR DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - In a system and method of image display, an image projector is positioned to back project (or rear project) an image on one or more platform doors disposed between a passenger platform of a train or people mover station and a pathway of the train or people mover. The image projector is positioned on the pathway side of the one or more platform doors. The image projector back projects the image on the one or more platform doors such that the image is diffusedly transmitted through them for observation by passengers on the platform side of the station. The back projected image is oriented such that characters or words in the image have a proper left-to-right, or right-to-left, orientation for reading by passengers on the platform side of the station. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120055751 | INDUCTIVELY RECEIVING ELECTRIC ENERGY FOR A VEHICLE - The invention relates to an arrangement for providing a vehicle, in particular a track bound vehicle, with electric energy, wherein the arrangement comprises a receiving device ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120046900 | INSTABILITY MONITORING DEVICE AND SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR FOR A RAIL VEHICLE - An instability monitoring device for a rail vehicle, includes: at least a first accelerometer for delivering a first acceleration signal in response to vibration along a reference axis, at least a first solid-state safety relay, having two main terminals and being switchable between a closed state and an open state, and a programmable logic device connected to the first accelerometer and to the first solid-state relay, the programmable logic device is a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), provided with non-volatile logic blocks running simultaneously in parallel and implementing an instability monitoring algorithm to change the state of the first solid-state relay based on an instability condition of the first acceleration signal. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20110320071 | System and Method of Determining Train Length - A system for determining number of cars within a train consist includes one or more cars, at least one automatic train controller (ATC) for the one or more cars, and a train line spanning the consist. Each car comprises a frequency generator and a frequency modifier. Each frequency modifier in each of the one or more cars is adapted to receive an input signal at an input frequency and generate an output signal at an output frequency different from the input frequency. A frequency generator in at least one of the cars provides a predetermined input signal at a predetermined input frequency to the frequency modifier in the at least one car when the at least one car is designated as a lead car and at least one frequency modifier in at least one of the one or more cars provides its output signal to the train line. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316333 | ARRANGEMENT FOR OPERATING CONSUMERS IN A RAIL VEHICLE WITH ELECTRICAL ENERGY, SELECTIVELY FROM AN ENERGY SUPPLY NETWORK OR FROM A MOTOR-GENERATOR COMBINATION - An arrangement for operating a rail vehicle includes a DC voltage intermediate circuit which is connected to an energy supply network, at least one traction inverter which is connected at its DC voltage side to the DC voltage intermediate circuit and at its AC voltage side which is connected one or more traction motors of the rail vehicle. An auxiliary system inverter is connected at its DC voltage side to the DC voltage intermediate circuit and is connected at its AC voltage side to a primary side of an auxiliary system transformer. Auxiliary systems are connected to a secondary side of the auxiliary system transformer via an auxiliary line. Electrical energy generated by an electrical energy supply unit is transferred via the auxiliary line, the auxiliary system transformer and the auxiliary system inverter into the DC voltage intermediate circuit for operation of the at least one traction motor. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110315040 | Vehicle with Anti-Roll Devices - A vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, having a vehicle longitudinal axis, a first body, a second body which is adjacent to the first body, a third body which is adjacent to the first body, a first anti-roll device which connects the first body and the second body, and a second anti-roll device which connects the first body and the third body. The anti-roll devices each counteract rolling motions between the bodies, which are connected via the anti-roll devices, about a roll axis parallel to the vehicle longitudinal axis. The first anti-roll device and the second anti-roll device are coupled to each other via a coupling device, and are configured along with the coupling device in such a way that at least one first displacement on the first anti-roll device causes at least one second displacement on the second anti-roll device. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110303117 | MONORAIL BOGIE HAVING A TRACTION/PITCHING CONTROL ASSEMBLY - A traction/pitching control assembly for attachment to a body portion of a monorail bogie. The monorail bogie is operative for supporting a monorail car over a monorail track that has a running surface and two side surfaces. The traction/pitching control assembly comprises a first traction link, a second traction link and a linking member that has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first traction link is attached to the first end portion of the linking member, and the second traction link is attached to the second end portion of the linking member. The traction/pitching assembly further comprises a third traction link and a cross link. The cross link joins the third traction link to the first traction link and the linking member. The first traction link and the second traction link are attached to one of the body portion of the monorail bogie and the monorail car, and the linking member is connected to the other one of the body portion of the monorail bogie and the monorail car. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110278401 | Track Worker Safety Information System and Method - In a method of operating a system for announcing the presence of one or more individuals on or near a pathway to an operator of a vehicle traveling on the pathway, each of a number of data readers positioned along the pathway receives data input by the one or more individuals. In response to each data reader receiving the data input, a unique subset of a number of lamps, also positioned along the pathway, is caused to illuminate. The system includes a computer network that controls the operation of the lamps in response to the input of data. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110276203 | Method for Determining a Characteristic of a Track Condition Parameter - A method for determining a characteristic of at least one position parameter, in particular of a disruption in the position parameter, of a track for a vehicle, in which detection values of at least one detection parameter affected by the position parameter are detected on a vehicle driving along a section of the track, and wherein the at least one position parameter for the track section is determined from the detection values. The current value of the position parameter is determined from the detection values as a function of the model data of a previously determined vehicle model of the vehicle, wherein a relationship between the position parameter and the at least one detection parameter affected by the position parameter is generated by way of the vehicle model. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110266109 | System and Method for Transferring Electric Energy to a Vehicle - The invention relates to a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle, in particular to a track bound vehicle such as a light rail vehicle, wherein the system comprises an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle, the electric conductor arrangement comprises at least two lines, wherein each line is adapted to carry a different one of phases of an alternating electric current, the conductor arrangement comprises a plurality of segments, wherein each segment extends along a different section of the path of travel of the vehicle, each segment comprises sections of the at least two lines and each segment can be switched on and off separately of the other segments. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110253495 | PRODUCING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FOR TRANSFERRING ELECTRIC ENERGY TO A VEHICLE - The invention is a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle. The system includes an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle. The electric conductor arrangement includes at least one alternating current line, wherein each alternating current line carries one phase of an alternating electric current. The conductor arrangement includes a plurality of consecutive segments, wherein the segments extend along the path of travel of the vehicle. Each segment includes one section of each of the at least one alternating current line. The system also includes a direct current supply line for supplying electric energy to the segments. Each segment is connected to the supply line via at least one inverter which inverts a direct current carried by the supply line to an alternating current carried by the at least one alternating current line. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110224944 | TESTABLE VIBRATION MONITORING DEVICE AND METHOD - A vibration monitoring device having a reference axis and is provided with two accelerometers fixed to a common support. Each accelerometer includes: an inertia mass movable parallel to the reference axis between an intermediate rest position and two opposite limits, an internal test circuit for moving the inertia mass from a rest position towards a first of the two opposite limits in one testable direction in the absence of vibration of the common support, and sensing means for delivering an acceleration signal corresponding to the motion of the inertia mass parallel to the reference axis, the acceleration signal containing a first signal portion corresponding to the motion of the inertia mass between the intermediate rest position and the first of the two opposite limits, and a second signal portion corresponding to the motion of the inertia mass between the intermediate rest position and the other of the two opposite limits. Remarkably, the testable directions of the two accelerometers are opposite to one another. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222261 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR HOLDING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRIC CAPACITOR ASSEMBLIES - The invention relates to an arrangement for holding a plurality of electric capacitor assemblies, particularly assemblies having live housings. The arrangement has a carrier having a through-passage for introducing one of the assemblies and further has at least one bearing ring for mounting an assembly. The bearing ring is matched to the dimensions of the through-passage and the assembly such that the assembly, when extending through the through-passage, is in contact with the inner edge of the through-passage via the bearing ring, but not in direct contact with the inner edge of the through-passage. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110198176 | Transferring Electric Energy to a Vehicle - The invention relates to a system for transferring electric energy to a track bound vehicle, in particular to a light rail vehicle, such as a tram, wherein the system comprises an electric conductor arrangement ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110191986 | ADJUSTABLE DOOR HANGER - An adjustable door hanger for a sliding door assembly comprises an operator interface and door panel interface connected to the operator interface. The door panel interface is adapted to adjustably engage a door panel such that the door panel is pivotable about the door panel interface. The door panel interface may then be pivoted to a desired resting position. The hanger may include a door panel top rail for receiving the door panel interface. The door panel may be fixed to the door panel interface after pivoting to the desired resting position. A method of hanging a sliding door panel includes providing a door hanger having a door panel interface, attaching a door panel to and pivoting the door panel about the door panel interface to a desired resting position and securing the door panel to the door panel interface. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110184901 | Integrated Security Event Management System - An integrated security event management system (ISEMS) is disclosed and is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and includes one or more computers connected to one or more service-providing devices. At least one of the computers comprises one or more modules that are adapted to perform the following tasks: tasks to dynamically discover the service-providing devices and their services within a transit security domain in about real-time; tasks to acquire asynchronous state information notifications in about real-time from the discovered services; tasks to determine one or more Boolean outcomes from the asynchronous state information in about real-time via a configurable rules engine; and tasks to evaluate the one or more Boolean outcomes in about real-time via a configurable policy engine to determine state changes of one or more security policies. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110162554 | Operating a Synchronous Motor Having a Permanent Magnet Rotor - A method of operating a synchronous motor having a stator that includes a set of electromagnets and a permanent magnet rotor. The synchronous motor is controlled by calculating in a flux controller a measure of a flux magnitude, which is the magnitude of the stator flux of the motor and by calculating in a load angle controller a measure of a load angle. Information about a desired motor torque or a reduced motor torque, which is smaller than the desired motor torque, is input to the load angle controller and the load angle controller calculates the measure of the load angle depending on the input motor torque. The measure of the flux magnitude is combined with the measure of the load angle to obtain commands for controlling electric currents of electromagnets of the stator, thereby directly controlling the stator flux. A flux limit value, which depends on a predetermined maximum value of the stator flux allowed for the motor which depends on a maximum value of an electric voltage, which is used to drive the currents through the stator electromagnets and which depends on the actual rotor speed, is repeatedly calculated. During acceleration of the rotor while the stator flux is smaller than the maximum flux allowed for the motor the measure of the flux magnitude is calculated depending on the output of a predetermined function. The output of the predetermined function depends on the desired motor torque and corresponds to the magnitude of the stator flux. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110100132 | MEASUREMENT BEARING, IN PARTICULAR FOR A WHEEL SET OF A RAIL VEHICLE - The invention relates to a measurement bearing, in particular for a wheel set of a rail vehicle, having a rotational axle and at least one first bearing ring ( | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110088587 | Railway Vehicle with Exhaust Gas Cleaning - A rail vehicle comprising a vehicle body defining a vehicle interior, an internal combustion engine and an exhaust gas system in communication with the internal combustion engine for evacuating the exhaust gases of the internal combustion engine, wherein the exhaust gas system comprises an additive supply unit designed to supply an additive for pollutant reduction to the exhaust gas stream of the internal combustion engine, and the additive supply unit comprises a reservoir for the additive and a supply section connected thereto for supplying the additive to the exhaust gas stream. The reservoir and/or the supply section is arranged in at least one body chamber of the vehicle body, wherein the at least one body chamber is provided with sound insulation and/or thermal insulation at least in the areas adjacent to the vehicle interior and/or the environment of the vehicle, which are frequented by passengers. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110006912 | Track Worker Safety System - A safety system for providing early warning notifications to an authorized track worker performing official duties along a rail road network is disclosed herein. The safety system determines the position of the authorized worker and determines an estimated time to collision between the authorized track worker and an approaching rail vehicle. The result of the safety system is that the track worker has enough time and sufficiently accurate warning that will enable the track worker to move to a point of safety so as to remain unharmed by the approaching rail vehicle. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20100318246 | DETERMINING THE REMAINING SERVICE LIFE OF A VEHICLE COMPONENT - Method for determining the remaining service life of a component of a vehicle, in particular a railway vehicle, operated on at least one predefined track section of a track network, wherein the remaining service life is determined for a vehicle component of the vehicle mechanically stressed by the interaction between the vehicle and the track section, after a usage interval of the at least one track section, wherein the remaining service life of the vehicle component is determined from a prior loss of service life preset at the beginning of the usage interval for the vehicle component and from a current loss of service life of the vehicle component associated with the usage interval, and wherein the current loss of service life is determined using an actual measured usage of the at least one track section by the vehicle and a relative loss of service life related to the actual usage of the at least one track section, wherein the relative loss of service life has been determined in advance for the at least one track section and at least the type of the vehicle. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100266005 | RAILWAY POSITIONING SYSTEM - A railway positioning system provides an on-board speed measurement device ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100204857 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A RAIL SYSTEM - The vehicles ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100198434 | TRACK BRAKE CONTROLLER - A track brake control system for providing braking of a railway vehicle is disclosed. The control system operates upon receipt of an emergency braking command. The control system includes a member for receiving deceleration information from one or more sensing devices. The control system further includes member for comparing the deceleration information with a reference value or reference profile. Further, the control system includes at feast one regulating device for continuously adjusting a braking demand signal to a track brake so as to cause deceleration of the railway vehicle based on the this comparison. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100107922 | Rotation Impeding Device for a Vehicle - A rotation impeding device for a vehicle having a first vehicle component comprising a running gear and a second vehicle component comprising a wagon body supported thereon the rotation impeding device comprising a friction element carrier for a first friction element, wherein the friction element carrier is connectable to the running gear or the wagon body in such a manner torsionally rigid about a height axis of the vehicle that the wagon body is supported on the running gear by means of the friction element, wherein the wagon body is rotatable relative to the running gear under a friction-laden relative movement between the first friction element and a second friction element impeding a rotation about the height axis. There is provided a force generating device with a contact element, wherein the force generating device is connectable to the vehicle component carrying the friction element carrier in such a way that it acts, via the contact element, on the friction element carrier in order to generate a contact force between the first friction element and the second friction element. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100079104 | OPEN-LOOP AND/OR CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL SYSTEM OF A 3-PHASE POWER CONVERTER FOR THE OPERATION OF AN ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINE - An open-loop and/or closed-loop control device for operating an asynchronous machine which is fed by a 3-phase power converter. The open-loop and/or closed-loop control structure has a stator flux controller and a pulse pattern generator for generating pulse signals based on mean values. An output of the stator flux controller is connected to an input of the pulse pattern generator, with the result that the pulse pattern generator can generate the pulse signals as a function of a manipulated variable which is generated by the stator flux controller. The stator flux controller is configured so as to generate the manipulated variable as a function of a desired value of the stator flux of the asynchronous machine and as a function of a desired value of the torque of the asynchronous machine. The stator flux controller has a dead-beat control response. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20090276107 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ACTIVE RUNNING GEAR OF A RAIL VEHICLE - A method for controlling an active running gear of a rail vehicle including at least one first wheel unit with two wheels, wherein by means of at least one first actuator, which acts between the first wheel unit and a vehicle structure supported thereon by means of a first primary spring mechanisms, the turning angle of the first wheel unit about a vertical running gear axis relative to the vehicle structure is adjusted, in a first frequency range, as a function of the actual curvature of the track and/or the turning angle of the first wheel unit about a vertical running gear axis relative to the vehicle structure is adjusted, in a second frequency range, such that transversal movements at least of the first wheel unit, caused by track outlay disturbances or by a sinusoidal course, are counteracted. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090260537 | VEHICLE WITH ANTI-ROLL DEVICES - A vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, having a longitudinal axis, at least one first vehicle component which is supported via at least one first spring device on at least one first wheel unit and at least one second spring device on at least one second wheel unit, and having at least one first anti-roll device and a second anti-roll device which are coupled to one another via a coupling device, are each connected to the first vehicle component and counteract rolling motions of the first vehicle component. The first anti-roll device and the second anti-roll device are articulated to the coupling device at first and second articulation points, respectively. The coupling device is configured such that, caused by a counterforce-free first displacement of the first anti-roll device via the first and second articulation points, an opposing second displacement is introduced into the second anti-roll device. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090008843 | SPRING ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE - A spring arrangement for a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, with a first spring device and a second spring device, wherein the first spring device and the second spring device are mechanically arranged in series, and are designed to support a component of the vehicle on a further component of the vehicle in a support direction, the first spring device has a first transverse rigidity in a transverse direction running transverse to the support direction, the second spring device has a second rigidity in the transverse direction which is smaller than the first transverse rigidity. The first spring device and the second spring device are arranged nested in the support direction. | 01-08-2009 |
