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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023
Filed:
May. 10, 2021
Alstom Transport Technologies, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR;
Jeffrey Fries, Grain Valley, MO (US);
Chris Schuchmann, Melbourne, FL (US);
Richard Lawson, Melbourne Beach, FL (US);
Shawn Clark, Melbourne, FL (US);
John Ross, Melbourne, FL (US);
ALSTOM Transport Technologies, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, FR;
Abstract
A method is for determining a status of a track section of a railroad. Each end of the track section is connected to a respective detector. One of the two detectors transmits a current along the rails of the track section towards the other detector and receives a current transmitted along the rails of the track section from the other detector. The track section is further equipped with a computer in communication with the two detectors. The computer calculates an instant value of the status of the track section as a function of an instant vector based on a measure of an intensity of the current transmitted by a first of the detectors as measured by the first detector (Txl), a measure of an intensity of the current received by the first detector as measured by the first detector (Rxl) and a measure of an intensity of the current transmitted by the second detector as measured by the second detector (Txl).