Distant-signal Control Patents (Class 246/60)
  • Human machine interface for speed and location control with braking distance display
    Patent number: 8019496
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a locomotive controller including an input device, a display and a processor for driving the display and receiving inputs from the input device. Software in the processor determines and drives the display to show a location of a train on a track and indicia of the location on the track of stopping distances for one of an emergency brake application, a full service brake application and at least one controlled stop brake application. Creep control is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: New York Air Brake Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Matusiak, Jr., Folkert Horst