Patents by Inventor KYLE RYAN MULLIGAN

KYLE RYAN MULLIGAN 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).

  • Condition based maintenance of railcar roller bearings using predictive wayside alerts based on acoustic bearing detector measurements
    Patent number: 10513279
    Abstract: The invention provides an alarm comprising: (i) a plurality of trackside sensors with known locations each sensor to measure at least one characteristic of each railcar wheelset as it passes that sensor's location; (ii) an information store to receive, store and later provide the railcar wheelset characteristics measured by the track-side sensors; (iii) a preset or predetermined trigger pattern of wheelset characteristics associated with wheelset failure or some other railcar condition requiring alarm or notification action; and (iv) a comparator to compare historical measured characteristics about a particular wheelset from the information store to the trigger pattern. The alarm is triggered responsive to a comparator indication of a suitable match between chronologically contiguous historical measured characteristics about a particular wheelset in the information store with the trigger pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventor: Kyle Ryan Mulligan
  • CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE OF RAILCAR ROLLER BEARINGS USING PREDICTIVE WAYSIDE ALERTS BASED ON ACOUSTIC BEARING DETECTOR MEASUREMENTS
    Publication number: 20180273066
    Abstract: The invention provides an alarm comprising: (i) a plurality of trackside sensors with known locations each sensor to measure at least one characteristic of each railcar wheelset as it passes that sensor's location; (ii) an information store to receive, store and later provide the railcar wheelset characteristics measured by the track-side sensors; (iii) a preset or predetermined trigger pattern of wheelset characteristics associated with wheelset failure or some other railcar condition requiring alarm or notification action; and (iv) a comparator to compare historical measured characteristics about a particular wheelset from the information store to the trigger pattern. The alarm is triggered responsive to a comparator indication of a suitable match between chronologically contiguous historical measured characteristics about a particular wheelset in the information store with the trigger pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventor: KYLE RYAN MULLIGAN