General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler

Henry Todd Young

Mark Allen Murphy

Sean Patrick Cillessen

Jeffrey John Wolff

Andrew Louis Krivonak

Alvaro Jorge Mari Curbelo

Aiqin Jiang

Zhao Zhang

Aaron Craig Mellinger

Theodore Clark Brown

Edward Thomas Petrak

Tiziana Bertoncelli

Sebastian Pedro Rosado

Nicole Lyann Himmelwright

Simon Herbert Schramm

Fabio Carastro

Gui He

Ihar Tsimashevich

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Thomas Alois Zoels

Lindsay Short

Randy Michael Kawinski

Timothy Warren Brown

Zhihui Yuan

Jacob Alan Hubbell

Jason M Strode

Kenneth Paul Nedley

Janaki Gadiyaram

Paolo Soldi

Pritamkumar Gangwal

Maksim V Borisenko

Lindsey Dodis

Matthias Menzel

Maryam Abdollahi

Joseph Audu Ishaku

Christian Roland Tollefson

Shivakumar Katukam

Robert John Zill, Jr

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

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

Inverter housing

A module panel and method include an exterior housing, at least one heat sink disposed in the housing, a power delivery circuit disposed in the housing and coupled to one side of the at least one heat sink, and a controller circuit disposed in the housing and coupled to an opposite side of the at least one heat sink. The power delivery circuit operates using one or more different voltages than the controller circuit.

Module panel and method for an electrical power delivery system

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Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler