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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Larry W Anderson, West Mifflin, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P / ; H02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318375 ; 318376 ; 318380 ;
Abstract
The heat energy dissipation capacity of the provided dynamic braking resistors for a given transit vehicle is established and then the generated motor current supplied to those resistors by the regenerating propulsion motor of the vehicle during the brake mode of operation is controlled to limit as desired in accordance with that capacity the total energy dissipated by the dynamic braking resistors.