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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Knorr-bremse Systeme Für Schienenfahrzeuge Gmbh, Munich, DE;
Reinhold Mayer, Karlsfeld, DE;
KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A monitor for a brake apparatus of a railway vehicle, wherein the brake apparatus has at least one pressure-actuated brake actuator, upstream of which a control valve device is provided. The monitor performs an estimation of the actuator pressure applied at the brake actuator on the basis of pressure data and actuation data, the pressure data represents at least one pressure present upstream of the control valve device and the actuation data represents an actuation of the control valve device. Further disclosed is a corresponding brake apparatus for a railway vehicle, a railway vehicle and a method for estimating an actuator pressure.