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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:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
David H Halvorson, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Assignee:
WABTEC Railway Electronics, Germantown, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G / ; B61L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340933 ; 34082506 ; 340531 ; 246 / ; 246-6 ; 2461 / ; 2461 / ; 104 8803 ; 701 19 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining railcar order in an ECP equipped train involving the inherent propagation delay of a pneumatic signal propagation in a brake air line as measured by each car and used to determine the car order in the train.