The University of Tokyo

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Koichi Ohtani

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Masaaki Mizuno

Yoshiyuki Shimokawa

Yoshihiro Suda

Takuya Saito

Masuhisa Tanimoto

Jun Kurihara

Hiroshi Obayashi

Masahiko Aki

Yoshifumi Komura

Atsushi Iwamoto

A vehicle abnormality detecting apparatusincludes wheel load sensorsthat are attached to right and left rails R constituting a track to measure wheel loads of wheelsprovided in a vehicle; and a calculation unitthat is connected to the wheel load sensors. An index represented by wheel loads of a pair or more of right and left wheelsprovided in at least one of bogiesand defined according to a type of vehicle abnormality as an index for detecting the vehicle abnormality is previously stored in the calculation unit. The calculation unitcalculates a value of the stored index from the wheel loads measured by the wheel load sensorsand transmitted from the wheel load sensors, and detects the abnormality of a running vehicle based on the calculated value of the index.

Method and apparatus for detecting abnormality of vehicle

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Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Ohtani