General Electric Company

Transportation IP Holdings, LLC

Ge Global Sourcing LLC

Wing Yeung Chung

Glenn Robert Shaffer

Jeffrey James Kisak

Daniel Malachi Ballesty

Mark Bradshaw Kraeling

Nidhi Naithani

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Scott Daniel Nelson

Sreyashi Dey Chaki

Anju Bind

Shannon Joseph Clouse

Michael Scott Miner

Nikhil Uday Naphade

Matthew Lawrence Blair

Anwarul Azam

Neil Patrick Bradley

Neil William Burkell

Dale Martin DiDomenico

Ronald Majewski

Michael Kjelson

Seneca Snyder

Brad Thomas Costa

Jerry Duncan

Ajith Kuttannair Kumar

Robert Louis Steigerwald

Jared Klineman Cooper

Wolfgang Daum

Joseph Forrest Noffsinger

David Michael Peltz

Eugene Andrew Smith

Sethu K Madhavan

Ljubisa Dragoljub Stevanovic

Paul Kenneth Houpt

Daniel Joseph Rush

David Lowell McKay

Richard Hooker

Frederick Gaylord Beach

Brian Edward Celidonia

Shawn Arthur McClintic

Francis M Grabowski

Gerard Michael Cafferty

Martin Paget

Amy D Duke

Suresh Govindappa

Manibabu Pippalla

Prabhu Marimuthu

Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar

David Joseph De Sanzo

John David Walker

Arunachala Karthik Sridharan

Sharon DSouza

Krishna Chaitanya Narra

Daniel Malachi Bellesty

A system and method includes determining, with a sensor assembly disposed onboard a first aerial vehicle, a direction in which a fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle, and determining an orientation of the first aerial vehicle relative to a second aerial vehicle based at least in part on the direction in which the fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle.

System and method for determining vehicle orientation in a vehicle consist

System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.

Vehicle control system and method

System controller enclosure

A camera system and method capture image data with a camera, a data storage device electrically connected to the camera and configured to store the video data and/or a communication device electrically connected to the camera and configured to communicate the image data to a system receiver located remote from the camera. The system receiver may be located onboard a vehicle such that an operator can carry the camera off board the vehicle and communicate the image data back to the vehicle, when performing, for example, work on the vehicle or inspecting the vehicle or the environs of the vehicle.

Video system and method for data communication

An aerial system and method use a distance sensor to measure spatial distances between the distance sensor and plural vehicles in a vehicle system formed from the vehicles operably coupled with each other during relative movement between the distance sensor and the vehicle system. The spatial distances measured by the distance sensor are used to determine a size parameter of the vehicle system based on the spatial distances that are measured.

Aerial camera system and method for determining size parameters of vehicle systems

An aerial camera system includes an aerial device disposed onboard a non-aerial vehicle as the non-aerial vehicle moves along a route. The aerial device also can be configured to fly above the route during movement of the vehicle along the route. The camera unit is configured to be disposed onboard the aerial device and to generate image data during flight of the aerial device. The one or more image analysis processors are configured to examine the image data and to identify a hazard disposed ahead of the non-aerial vehicle along a direction of travel of the non-aerial vehicle based on the image data. A method for identifying route-related hazards using image data obtained from a camera unit on an aerial device.

Aerial camera system and method for identifying route-related hazards

An imaging system for generating images taken from a rail vehicle, the system including a camera configured to generate video data associated with a rail vehicle, and a processor configured to control recording of video data according to at least one of a variable frame rate or a variable resolution based on operating conditions of the rail vehicle. A method and non-transitory computer readable medium with instructions are also included.

Locomotive wireless video recorder and recording system

A system for monitoring a sand reservoir includes: (a) a sand reservoir carried on an off-highway vehicle; and (b) at least one sand level indicator carried by the sand reservoir which provides a visual display external to the sand reservoir indicative of the quantity of sand within the sand reservoir.

Sand level monitoring system

An apparatus for securing electronic equipment. The apparatus includes an electronic device having a first mating portion. The device is removably secured within a shell, which has an open end allowing access to the first mating portion. The apparatus further includes a dock having a second mating portion and an output connector in electrical communication with the second mating portion. The dock removably receives the shell to facilitate electrical communication between the first and second mating portions. The output connector facilitates electrical communication between the electronic device and a device external to the dock. The apparatus also includes a damping mechanism to reduce vibratory forces on the first and second mating portions and relative movement between the portions.

Apparatus for securing electronic equipment

An imaging system () for generating landmark correlated images taken from a railroad locomotive includes a camera () mounted on the locomotive () for imaging an environment in a vicinity of the locomotive and transmitting imaging data indicative of images acquired. The system also includes a location sensor () on-board the locomotive generating signals indicative of a geographic location of the locomotive constituting location data. The system also includes a railroad landmark database () comprising a plurality of railroad landmarks () associated with respective geographic locations constituting landmark tags. The system also includes a processor (e.g.,) receiving the imaging data and location data and communicating with the railroad landmark database to correlate the landmark tags with the imaging data and the location data for generating landmark correlated image data. The system may also include a computer system () for accessing the landmark correlated image data by landmark location.

A rail measurement system () for mounting on a rail vehicle (e.g.,) for travel over a railway () having two spaced apart rails () includes a first collimated light source () mounted on the rail vehicle for providing a first reference marker () relative to a first rail of the railway. The system includes a camera () mounted on the rail vehicle for recording an image of the reference marker relative to the first rail. The system also includes an image processor () coupled to the camera for analyzing the image of the reference marker relative to the first rail to determine a first rail alignment dimension (e.g.,) with respect to the reference marker.

Rail vehicle mounted rail measurement system

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Wing Yeung Chung