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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2019
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, Wilmerding, PA (US);
James A. Oswald, Coggon, IA (US);
Igor Abrosimov, N. Potomac, MD (US);
Brian Kurz, Frederick, MD (US);
WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Wilmerding, PA (US);
Abstract
A system that includes a notification light configured to be coupled with a first vehicle and to emit light to notify an approaching, second vehicle of the location of the first vehicle. A controller is provided that includes one or more processors configured to determine one or more of a direction of movement of the first vehicle, a speed of the movement of the first vehicle, or a distance between the first vehicle and the approaching, second vehicle. The controller is configured to notify the approaching, second vehicle of the one or more of the direction of the movement of the first vehicle, the speed of the movement of the first vehicle, or the distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle by directing the notification light to change a characteristic of the light emitted by the notification light.