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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:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael P McDonald, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Larry W Anderson, West Mifflin, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364436 ; 364424 ; 364551 ; 246-5 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a passenger vehicle operation control apparatus and method including program microprocessor control apparatus for providing a dynamic output signal when the microprocessor completes a predetermined main computer control program subroutine and this dynamic output signal operates with a hardware logic circuit apparatus including a timing circuit such that a repetition rate in excess of that required to keep the timing circuit reset is required, otherwise the computer control program is reinitialized.