Engineer's Brake-valve Actuation Patents (Class 246/189)
  • Termination of power and communications trainline of electro-pneumatic brakes
    Patent number: 6173849
    Abstract: A leading end termination connector on each locomotive and an EP line termination circuit in the leading end termination connector. The leading end connector of a locomotive not connected to an adjacent locomotive is connected to the leading end termination connector. This provides protection for the non-connected leading end connector as well as providing appropriate electrical termination on the EP line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: New York Air Brake Corporation
    Inventors: Dale R. Stevens, Anthony W. Lumbis