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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Cummins Inc.

Komatsu America Corp.

Henry Todd Young

Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler

Mark Allen Murphy

Jeffrey John Wolff

Sean Patrick Cillessen

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Alvaro Jorge Mari Curbelo

Andrew Louis Krivonak

Timothy Warren Brown

Aiqin Jiang

Edward Thomas Petrak

Zhao Zhang

Kenneth Paul Nedley

Aaron Craig Mellinger

Bertrand Bastien

Theodore Clark Brown

Carlos Vallejo

Lindsay Short

Robert Dean King

Bret Dwayne Worden

Lembit Salasoo

Thomas Alois Zoels

Tiziana Bertoncelli

Sebastian Pedro Rosado

Frederick Gaylord Beach

Nicole Lyann Himmelwright

Larry Bench

Simon Herbert Schramm

Neil Richard Garrigan

Fabio Carastro

Gui He

Justin Chadwell

Michael Wagner

Ronald Fischer

Ihar Tsimashevich

Dongwoo Song

James Price Roman

Randy Michael Kawinski

Bradley Allen Jones

Ord Allen Randolph

Ryan Keith Linker

Sagar Mehta

Wolfgang Daum

Patrick Lee Jansen

Timothy Gerard Richter

James Allen Oswald

Zhihui Yuan

Jacob Alan Hubbell

Timothy F Brown

Jason M Strode

Miguel Garcia Clemente

Laura Cooper

Kevin Michael Jones

Janaki Gadiyaram

Paolo Soldi

James Edward Trainor

Pritamkumar Gangwal

Maksim V Borisenko

Maryam Abdollahi

Joseph Audu Ishaku

Matthias Menzel

Christian Roland Tollefson

Lindsey Dodis

Alan R Hamilton

David John Scott

Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad

Timothy Robert Heller

Sean Cillessen

Venkat Jayaraman

Robert John Zill, Jr

Alexander Antonius Maria Jacobs

Prahlad Bhugra

A Jorge Mari Curbelo

Mark Carter

Shivakumar Katukam

Zachary Brindak

An electric drive system for a vehicle and a method includes determining a headroom target for a drive system of a vehicle that includes an engine. The method includes determining whether a current speed of the engine can be decreased while the engine continues to provide a requested traction output of the drive system, and responsive to determining that the current speed of the engine can be decreased, decreasing the current speed of the engine to a reduced speed while the engine maintains the headroom target determined by the drive system.

Electric drive system for a vehicle

A monitoring system and method determine a consumption metric representative of one or more of an amount of fuel consumed or an amount of energy consumed by a vehicle during travel over a route. The consumption metric is independent of one or more of vehicle load or elevation change over the route. The system and method optionally can determine a route condition metric representative of a condition of a route traveled upon by a vehicle. The route condition metric is based on a comparison between an actual grade of the route at one or more locations along the route and an estimated grade of the route at the one or more locations.

Vehicle consumption monitoring system and method

A vehicle electrical power system includes a phase module assembly of a multi-phase inverter. The phase module assembly includes first and second flat laminated busbars extending in orthogonal planes. The phase module assembly also includes one or more transistors that convert direct current into one phase of a multi-phase alternating current of the multi-phase inverter, and to output the phase of the multi-phase alternating current to the load. The phase module assembly also includes one or more capacitors conductively coupled with the internal positive and negative terminal connectors and with the external positive and negative bushings configured to be conductively coupled with the power source of direct current. The assembly can be useful for vehicles because the components of the system are configured to carry large amounts of current in a more reliable and sustainable manner.

Phase module assembly of a multi-phase inverter

Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for monitoring component wear to prevent premature component failure. A control system for a system having one or more mechanical or electronic components may include a life manager that monitors accumulated wear of the one or more components. The life manager may provide an alert and/or limit system operations when the accumulated wear exceeds a limit. The limit may be dynamically determined based on an operating age of the component. The limit may also be defined as a matrix of limits, each defined for a range of a particular operating condition of the component. Operating conditions may include an applied torque range for a vehicle wheel or a thermal cycle temperature range for an electronic switching component.

Vehicle component monitoring control systems and methods

An assembly may be provided that includes a controller configured to be coupled with at least one blower drive that operates a blower motor to cool resistive elements that dissipate electrical power as heat. The controller may be configured to determine whether the electrical power is no longer received by the resistive elements and operate the at least one blower drive to operate the blower motor to cool the resistive elements responsive to the electrical power no longer being received by the resistive elements.

Cooling system for a vehicle

System and method configured to determine a direction of movement of a vehicle in response to a brake being released or in response to initiating movement of the vehicle from a stopped position along a route. The direction of movement is determined based on a selected travel direction of the vehicle, a grade of the route, and at least one of applied tractive efforts or applied braking efforts.

Vehicle control system and method

Inverter panel

A bus bar includes a load terminal connector comprising a conductive plate that extends from a first edge to an opposite second edge and extends from a third edge to an opposite fourth edge. The third and fourth edges extend from the first edge to the second edge. The plate includes a window opening located between the first and second edges and between the third and fourth edges. The plate also includes a slot extending into the plate from the first edge to the window opening. The plate includes first and second sets of openings configured to receive connections with first and second power terminals of switch packages. The first set of openings and the second set of openings are located on opposite sides of the slot.

Bus bar and power electronic device with current shaping terminal connector and method of making a terminal connector

Inverter direct current busbar

Vertical inverter busbar

A modular rack system and method includes a rack having plural electrical interfaces, and plural module panels configured to mate with the electrical interfaces of the rack. The module panels have one or more of a common exterior size or a common exterior shape. At least two of the module panels have different internal electrical components configured to perform different operations. The rack is configured to be conductively coupled with a power delivery system of a vehicle and the module panels are configured to modify electric current prior to the electric current being supplied to the power delivery system of the vehicle.

Modular rack system and method

Rectifier busbar

A system that may include a rigid bus bar body portion having one or more first conductive pathways, and a flexible bus bar body portion extending from the rigid bus bar body portion and having a lower modulus of elasticity than the rigid bus bar body portion, the flexible bus bar body portion including one or more second conductive pathways. The one or more first conductive pathways and the one or more second conductive pathways may be configured to be conductively coupled with a first electronic device to form a conductive connection between the first electronic device and at least a second electronic device.

Electrical system for bus bar coupling

Inverter alternating current busbar

A vehicle control system determines an upper non-zero limit on deceleration of a vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle down a grade being traveled up on by the vehicle. The upper non-zero limit on deceleration is determined by the controller based on a payload carried by the vehicle, a speed of the vehicle, and a grade of a route being traveled upon by the vehicle. The controller is configured to monitor the deceleration of the vehicle, and to automatically prevent the deceleration of the vehicle from exceeding the upper non-zero limit by controlling one or more of a brake or a motor of the vehicle. The controller also is configured to one or more of actuate the brake or supply current to the motor of the vehicle to prevent rollback of the vehicle while the vehicle is moving up the grade at a non-zero speed.

System and method for controlling a vehicle

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