Patents by Inventor David M. Peltz

David M. Peltz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6862502
    Abstract: Method and communication system for a railroad train having at least one locomotive for automatically adjusting the communication system to provide effective communication of command data to control operation of the locomotive are provided. The system includes a transceiver on the locomotive. The system further includes at least one transceiver remote from the locomotive. A database may be provided for storing data relative to a plurality of communication schemes available to the communication system. A first monitor may be used for sensing a parameter indicative of the quality of the communications between the transceivers when the transceivers are operating under a first one of the available communication schemes and generating data indicative of communications quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Inventors: David M. Peltz, Eugene A. Smith, Mark Kraeling, Robert James Foy, Glen Paul Peltonen, Steven Andrew Kellner, Robert Francis Bryant, Don Keith Johnson, Dale Henry Delaruelle
  • Publication number: 20030214417
    Abstract: Method and communication system for a railroad train having at least one locomotive for automatically adjusting the communication system to provide effective communication of command data to control operation of the locomotive are provided. The system includes a transceiver on the locomotive. The system further includes at least one transceiver remote from the locomotive. A database may be provided for storing data relative to a plurality of communication schemes available to the communication system. A first monitor may be used for sensing a parameter indicative of the quality of the communications between the transceivers when the transceivers are operating under a first one of the available communication schemes and generating data indicative of communications quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: David M. Peltz, Eugene A. Smith, Mark Kraeling, Robert James Foy, Glen Paul Peltonen, Steven Andrew Kellner, Robert Francis Bryant, Don Keith Johnson, Dale Henry Delaruelle
  • Patent number: 6435623
    Abstract: A method for providing brake control for a rail car having a brake cylinder, a reservoir, and an exhaust vent includes steps of fluidly interconnecting four electrically controlled valves between a train brake pipe, the brake cylinder, the reservoir, and the exhaust vent, and controlling air flow between the brake pipe, car brake cylinder, car reservoir, and exhaust vent using the valves. The above described method allows mixing of conventional ABDW rail cars with ECP-equipped cars in an ECP-equipped train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: GE Harris Railway Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: David M. Peltz
  • Patent number: 6407465
    Abstract: A pressurized fluid system provides electrical power to a load and includes a fluid motor, a generator, an energy storage device and a controller. The system supplies fluid to the fluid motor, which provides a generator with power producing a voltage used to supply power to a load and provide energy to the energy storage device. The controller selects which of various sources within the system provides fluid to the fluid motor based on the operating mode of the system. When fluid supplied to the fluid motor is discontinued, the energy storage device discharges providing power to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: GE Harris Railway Electronics LLC
    Inventors: David M. Peltz, Jerome J. Tiemann, Russell S. DeMuth, Robert Steigerwald, Paul Houpt, Roy Malac, Glen Peltonen