Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Schienenfahrzeuge Gmbh

Knorr-Bremse Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Peter Schlager

Henry Lehmann

Bernhard Gross

Josef Datzreiter

Franz Daxecker

Wolfgang Widl

Janusz Mozdzen

A method for controlling a magnetic rail brake device of a rail vehicle, wherein the device contains at least one solenoid of a magnet rail brake, said solenoid being fed from a source of electrical energy via an electrical connection, wherein upon a magnet rail brake activation signal the electrical connection between the source of electrical energy and the at least one solenoid of the magnet rail brake is established and upon a magnet rail brake de-activation signal same is disconnected, in order to excite the at least one solenoid to generate a magnetic force or de-excite said at least one solenoid.

Method for controlling a magnetic rail brake device of a rail vehicle

Operative monitoring of track brakes involves passing an electric current through a winding of a brake magnet, measuring the electric current and comparing the temporal progression of the measured current with a saved temporal progression of a reference current. Comparison is achieved by calculating the difference between the measured current and the reference current. The difference between measured current and reference current may be temporally integrated and compared with a threshold value. To determine a magnetic coupling between track brake and track, a calculation may be made as to whether the measured current has local minima and/or local maxima during the activation of the track brake, only the temporal progression of the measured current as the current increases being subjected to a comparison with the reference current. The current may be activated in pulses, with the comparison of the measured current and the reference current being restarted with each pulse.

Method for the operative monitoring of track brakes

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Kirchberg, Austria

Peter Schlager