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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2018
Transportation Ip Holdings, Llc, Norwalk, CT (US);
Paul Gerard Nistler, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
Michael Altonji, Erie, PA (US);
Glenn Shaffer, Lawrence Park, PA (US);
David Joseph Schroeck, Erie, PA (US);
TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A locomotive inspection system includes sensors that are selectively coupled to a locomotive during an inspection or maintenance event for the locomotive and a controller that is operable to cause a control system of the locomotive that controls plural operations of the locomotive to initiate a first operation and a different, second operation. The controller determines whether the control system has first sensor information indicative of a state of the locomotive during the first operation. The controller sends a command signal to the control system to direct the control system to change locomotive operations from the first operation to the second operation responsive to determining that the control system lacks the first sensor information. The controller obtains second sensor information from the one or more sensors based on the second operation and determines a condition of components of the locomotive based on the first and second sensor information.