Patents Assigned to Alstom
  • Patent number: 11001168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a seat (20), in particular for a vehicle, comprising a first sensor (32) arranged in order to generate a first electrical signal upon a user seating themselves on a seat (20) and upon the vacating of the seat (20) by the user. The seat (20) also comprises a second sensor (34) that is capable of generating a second electrical signal in a substantially continuous or repeated manner when the user is seated on the seat (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Bastian Simoni, Selim Dagdag
  • Patent number: 10988151
    Abstract: A system controls a level crossing of a railway track installation. The railway track installation includes at least one track. The system includes at least two magnetometers associated with the at least one track and placed at corners of a crossing area between the at least one track and a road. The system also includes a level crossing control unit configured for receiving data from the magnetometers. Each magnetometer is arranged to detect a respective magnetic field vector of the earth's magnetic field and to send data representative of the magnetic field vector to the control unit. The control unit is configured to elaborate the data to detect changes in the magnetic field vectors due to the presence of a train in the crossing area and to control the level crossing as a function of the detected changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: John Hounschell, Jeffrey Fries, James Frisbie, Tony Spagnolia, Brian Isaacson
  • Patent number: 10982946
    Abstract: System for measuring motor bearings consumption of railway vehicles, comprising: a phonic wheel, arranged to be fixed to a shaft of a rotor, having a profile including an alternation of teeth and holes; a sensor, arranged to measure a punctual air-gap between the teeth of the phonic wheel and said sensor during rotation of the shaft, said sensor generating a basic sinusoidal signal function of said profile, wherein the basic sinusoidal signal is superimposed to a modulating wave, representative of a radial motion of the shaft, the basic signal and the modulating wave forming a complete signal; characterized in that the sensor further comprises: a control unit arranged to measure a maximum and a minimum amplitude value of the complete signal, said maximum and minimum amplitude values representing the maximum and minimum air-gap between the phonic wheel and the sensor, and for calculating an air-gap swing value; memory means arranged to store said air-gap swing value; wherein said sensor is arranged to send to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventors: Davide Barlini, Giacomo Maccalli
  • Patent number: 10974618
    Abstract: An insulating track segment for a ground power supply system includes a body made of an electric current insulating material. The insulating track segment constitutes a portion of an insulating track for forming a continuous sliding surface for a pad of a vehicle powered by the ground power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventor: Patrick Duprat
  • Patent number: 10967885
    Abstract: The dining car (10) includes first and second side structures laid out facing each other, and a first lower floor (16), the dining car comprising a first consumption area (Z1), a second preparation area (Z2), and a third technical area (Z3). The first side face includes first supporting portions intended to support a second upper floor (20), and the first (Z1), second (Z2) and third (Z3) areas are all made on the first lower floor (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Emmanuel Kondyra
  • Patent number: 10971968
    Abstract: The self-ventilated motor (10) comprises a casing (12) having an air inlet opening (18) and an air outlet opening (20) and delimiting an air passage between the air inlet opening (18) and the air outlet opening (20), drive means (13) comprising a shaft (22) housed in the casing (12), a ventilation propeller (24) connected to the shaft (22) upon rotation and housed in the air passage, and a noise reduction device (26). The noise reduction device (26) comprises a first noise reduction member (28), attached to the casing (12) at the air inlet opening (18), a second noise reduction member (30) arranged on the ventilation propeller (24), and a third noise reduction member (32) fixed to the casing (12) at the air outlet opening (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventor: Thomas Mas
  • Publication number: 20210098215
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for monitoring an electromechanical relay, wherein the electromechanical relay includes a relay coil for actuating at least one switch, the system comprising: at least one sensor adapted to measure an operating condition of the electromechanical relay, wherein the sensor is arranged adjacent or attached to the electromechanical relay; at least one controller communicatively connected to the at least one sensor and at least one memory, wherein the at least one controller is adapted to store the measured operating condition in the at least one memory; at least one transmitter, operatively connected to the controller, wherein the transmitter is adapted to transmit the stored measured operating condition to a remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventors: John Thomas COMPTON, Jérôme MARTIN, Ian BRODIE, Marine FEER, Yunbo HOU
  • Patent number: 10946883
    Abstract: A train detection system for a railway track defines a first lateral side and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side. Two cameras are arranged along the railway track spaced apart from each other. Each camera is placed on either the first lateral side or the second lateral side. The system includes at least one passive target. Each of the passive targets is placed within the field of view of at least one of the cameras and on the opposite lateral side of the railway track with respect to the at least one of the cameras in whose field of view the respective passive target is placed. The system also includes at least one controller adapted to recognise the passive target in the images provided by at least one of the cameras to the controller to determine whether a train is located on the railway track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Jeffrey Fries, Jared Cooper, Phillip Martin, Seneca Snyder, Nicholas Nagrodsky
  • Patent number: 10951205
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power switching device having at least one transistor of the SiC or GaN MOSFET type able to be traveled by a main current. The power switching device has at least one measuring module configured to indirectly measure the main current of the transistor from the electromagnetic field produced by the transistor and at least one protection circuit configured to detect a short-circuit based on the sign of the temporal drift of the main current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Fisal Al Kayal
  • Patent number: 10940762
    Abstract: This assembly, which includes a ground level power supply system of the type using conduction, including conductive tracks arranged on a roadway, and an electric vehicle, capturing electric energy from said tracks it moves on the roadway, is characterized in that the power supply system includes a ground level antenna, configured so as to have a constant radiation chart along a longitudinal axis of the roadway and emitting a positioning signal, and in that the electric vehicle includes an on board antenna and an on board module, connected to the on board antenna and capable of determining a lateral position of a center of the on board antenna relative to the longitudinal axis from the positioning signal captured by the on board antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Patrick Duprat
  • Patent number: 10933892
    Abstract: A high speed train power unit comprising: carbody that comprises: a roof; a floor; a driver's cab at a front end of the carbody; and a technical compartment that comprises: a low voltage zone that comprises an air conditioning unit designed to condition the driver's cab, wherein the air conditioning unit is on the roof, a traction zone that comprises a rheostatic brake on the roof, and a technical zone, wherein the low voltage zone, the traction zone, and the technical zone of the technical compartment are respectively located next to each other along a longitudinal axis of the power unit; at least two bogies mounted under the floor of the carbody; and a main transformer located under the carbody between the bogies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM Transport Technologies
    Inventors: Pierre Debost, Laurent Bera, Bruno Lempegnat, Pierre Chanal
  • Patent number: 10938159
    Abstract: The disclosed device equips a connection unit including a connector, on the cable side of the recharging station, and a socket, on the electric vehicle side. It includes an active part mounted on an element from among the connector and the socket, and a passive part mounted on the other element, the active part including an actuator and a plurality of rods forming plungers capable of being translated by the actuator to bear on the passive part of the decoupling device so as to generate a force in order to separate the connector from the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Christian Chagny
  • Patent number: 10933688
    Abstract: A noise-absorbing device for a railway vehicle wheel includes: at least one strip extending radially from a connecting end capable of being fastened to the periphery of the wheel, to a free end; and at least one damping mass fastened on a face of the free end of the strip, away from the connecting end. The strip includes at least two metal or composite layers and at least one layer of viscoelastic material gripped between the two or composite metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES, HUTCHINSON
    Inventors: Jean-Yves Guerder, Olivier Tanneau, Benjamin Fays, Pierre-Emmanuel Gautheret, Yves Longueville
  • Patent number: 10923928
    Abstract: The USB interface comprises an electronic member comprising at least one USB jack, and connector elements able to connect each USB jack to cabling, and a support case, configured to be fastened on the handrail of the urban public transport vehicle, and including a housing for the electronic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Alstom Transport Technologies
    Inventors: Thomas Prevost, Sébastien Taillandier
  • Patent number: 10907394
    Abstract: A health status assessment method and system for a transport vehicle automatic or semi-automatic access device is disclosed. The health status assessment system has at least one leaf actuated by a kinematic chain including at least one motor having an associated angular position or rotation speed encoder and at least one switch. The health status assessment method includes steps for analyzing at least one actuating cycle of the kinematic chain between a first and a second position wherein, during one said cycle, information is acquired representative of the electrical energy consumed by the motor, or position or speed information provided by said encoder or binary information indicating positions of switches. The method further includes dividing said cycle into a plurality of functional segments based on said acquired information, calculating at least one descriptor value, and then establishing a health status diagnosis of the health status assessment system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Quentin Thevenet, Benjamin Lamoureux, Frédéric Setan, Laurent Vagner
  • Patent number: 10910977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a state of a bearing of a three phase electric machine, the electric machine having a rotor, which is supported by the bearing, the electric machine being connected to a three phase inverter for supplying the electric machine with electric power, the three phase inverter being controlled to apply a pulse width modulation with a predefined scheme to create three phase currents, the method comprises: —determining a first phase current provided to the electric machine; —determining a second phase current provided to the electric machine, the second phase current being different to the first phase current; —determining the power spectral density of the park's vector based on the first phase current and the second phase current; —determining an amplitude of the power at a predefined frequency of the power spectral density, wherein the predefined frequency depends on the rotational speed of the rotor and the scheme of the pulse width modulation; —comparing t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Davide Barlini
  • Patent number: 10889308
    Abstract: The railway vehicle bogie, comprising a body and two axles, the body comprising two beams extending in a longitudinal direction, each axle comprising a pair of wheels each provided with a tire and a connecting device extending between said wheels, each axle comprising an axle box extending in a transverse direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and at least partially surrounding the connecting device. The beams of the body are connected to each other by the axles, the axle box of each axle being rigidly fixed to each of said beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Alain Rodet
  • Patent number: 10882539
    Abstract: The railway vehicle comprises at least one end car, each arranged at a respective end of the railway vehicle, and, for each end car, a first car adjacent to this end car, and at least one second car, one of which is adjacent to the first car. Each second car comprises a second structural body. Each first car comprises a first structural body substantially identical to the second structural body of each second car, and a structural extension part attached on the first structural body and intended to be connected to the adjacent end car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Fabrice Benizeau, Paul Preiss, Emmanuel Kondyra
  • Patent number: 10875549
    Abstract: A table for vehicle includes a tray, at least one extendible leaf mounted movably on the tray between a deployed position and a withdrawn position. The extendible leaf is mounted translatably on the tray between the deployed position and the withdrawn position. The table further includes at least one rotatable leaf mounted rotatably on the extendible leaf between an idle position and a deployed position, and means for coupling movements of the second and rotatable leafs, which are configured to rotate the rotatable leaf from its idle position to its deployed position when the extendible leaf is translated from its deployed position to its withdrawn position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Alstom Transport Technologies
    Inventor: Dominique Le Corre
  • Patent number: 10875550
    Abstract: A table top is for a vehicle compartment accommodating passengers, in particular a rail vehicle. The table top includes a stationary part connected to the vehicle and a moving tray located across from a passenger chair or seat. The tray is movable along an axis of rotation parallel to a plane of the table top. The table top includes a chassis on which the tray is mounted. The chassis is translatable relative to the stationary part along an axis parallel to the plane of the tray and perpendicular to the axis of rotation. In a deployed configuration, the tray is deployed jointly with the stationary part, with the chassis maximally separated from the stationary part. In a folded configuration, the tray is pivoted along its axis of rotation in an inclined position relative to the stationary part, with the chassis minimally separated from the stationary part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventor: Dominique Le Corre