Article transport vehicle
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10766513B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-08

    申请号:US15969126

    申请日:2018-05-02

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    摘要: An article transport vehicle includes an obstacle sensor having a detection area that includes at least the width of the own vehicle and that expands in the advancing direction, controls the travel of the own vehicle, based on as front inter-object distance corresponding to own-vehicle position information indicating a position of the own vehicle and front object position information indicating a position on a track of a front object that is located in front of the own vehicle and whose position on the track is specified, and sets a length of the detection area E along the advancing direction of the obstacle sensor to be variable according to the front inter-object distance such that the length is less than the front inter-object distance.

    Control of rail vehicles
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10086856B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US14429634

    申请日:2013-09-05

    发明人: Manfred Wernicke

    摘要: A decentralized control of rail vehicles that run in alternating directions on a single-track route, e.g., between two train stations by way of an exclusive right (token). A storage device is arranged at each end of the route, for instance an RFID unit. Only a single exclusive right exists for the route. The exclusive right is either stored in one of the two storage units or carried along by a rail vehicle that is traveling on the route. In the latter case, an additional rail vehicle is effectively prevented from traveling on the route, because none of the storage units can provide the exclusive right, which is being transported between the storage units by the rail vehicle and is occupied by the rail vehicle. The novel concept creates an efficient possibility of decentralized train protection and thus can be implemented significantly more economically than existing centralized train safety approaches.

    Anti-collision safety device for a passenger transport system on tracks
    5.
    发明授权
    Anti-collision safety device for a passenger transport system on tracks 失效
    轨道上客运系统的防碰撞安全装置

    公开(公告)号:US3964702A

    公开(公告)日:1976-06-22

    申请号:US544916

    申请日:1975-01-29

    摘要: An anti-collision safety control for vehicles travelling on tracks; the control comprises two safety loops per vehicle, linked to two common loops in a central control station. Each vehicle loop comprises control circuits for determining the distance to the next preceding vehicle, for determining a safe stopping distance for the vehicle, and for stopping the vehicle if the distance to the preceding vehicle becomes smaller than the safe stopping distance or if there is a failure of a safety circuit. The distance control circuit comprises a detector for detecting reference points provided along the track, a counter for calculating the distance of a vehicle from a given zero location, and a delay circuit for converting this distance into a position signal timed to a synchronization pulse received by all vehicles. Position signals from all vehicles are transmitted to the central control and back to the vehicles; the distance to an immediately preceding vehicle is determined by comparing the position pulses.

    摘要翻译: 在轨道上行驶的车辆的防撞安全控制; 该控制包括两个安全环路,每个车辆连接到中央控制站的两个公共环路。 每个车辆回路包括用于确定到下一个前一车辆的距离的控制电路,用于确定车辆的安全停止距离,以及如果与前一车辆的距离变得小于安全停止距离,则停止车辆,或者如果存在 安全电路故障。 距离控制电路包括用于检测沿轨道提供的参考点的检测器,用于计算车辆与给定零位置的距离的计数器,以及延迟电路,用于将该距离转换成定时到由 所有车辆。 来自所有车辆的位置信号被传送到中央控制器并返回车辆; 通过比较位置脉冲来确定与前一车辆的距离。

    Process and device for transmitting data between vehicles moving over a
track
    6.
    发明授权
    Process and device for transmitting data between vehicles moving over a track 失效
    用于在通过轨道移动的车辆之间传送数据的过程和装置

    公开(公告)号:US4723737A

    公开(公告)日:1988-02-09

    申请号:US788721

    申请日:1985-10-17

    申请人: Samuel Mimoun

    发明人: Samuel Mimoun

    CPC分类号: G08G1/163 B61L23/34

    摘要: For data communication in the form of messages between railways vehicles moving over a same track, short identical emissions at random times by modulating a directional microwave beam whose angular opening is sufficient in the horizontal direction for maintaining communication in bends of said track and switches and in the vertical direction for maintaining communication during changes in the profile of the track.

    摘要翻译: 对于在同一轨道上移动的铁路车辆之间的消息形式的数据通信,通过调制在水平方向上的角度开度足以在所述轨道和开关的弯曲处保持通信的定向微波束,随机地进行相同的发射,并且 用于在轨道轮廓变化期间保持通信的垂直方向。

    Vehicle control system
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10246111B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-02

    申请号:US15705752

    申请日:2017-09-15

    摘要: A system includes a locator device and one or more processors operably connected to the locator device. The locator device determines a trailing distance between a trailing vehicle system that travels along a route and a leading vehicle system that travels along the route ahead of the trailing vehicle system in a same direction of travel. The one or more processors compare the trailing distance to a first proximity distance relative to the leading vehicle system. In response to the trailing distance being less than the first proximity distance, the one or more processors set a permitted power output limit for the trailing vehicle system to be less than a maximum achievable power output for the trailing vehicle system, the permitted power output limit being set based on a power-to-weight ratio of the leading vehicle system.