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  • Track worker safety information system and method
    Patent number: 8786428
    Abstract: In a method of operating a system for announcing the presence of one or more individuals on or near a pathway to an operator of a vehicle traveling on the pathway, each of a number of data readers positioned along the pathway receives data input by the one or more individuals. In response to each data reader receiving the data input, a unique subset of a number of lamps, also positioned along the pathway, is caused to illuminate. The system includes a computer network that controls the operation of the lamps in response to the input of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Keith Burton Sheardown, Mark Willer, Pankaj Sood, Nerraj Sood, Peter Basl
  • Controlled roof drainage via the bellows
    Patent number: 11718330
    Abstract: A gangway bellow includes an outer bellow presenting corrugations forming a plurality of valleys presenting each a valley top portion facing upwardly and connected at each end to a valley top corner forming a junction between the valley top portion and a respective bellow side. The gangway bellow further includes at least one drainage channel so that liquid accumulating into at least one of the valley top portions flows through the at least one drainage channel along the respective bellow side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Hartmann, Christian Scheibenreif, Maximilian Krapp
  • LIGHT FIXTURE
    Publication number: 20130293128
    Abstract: A light fixture comprising a light emitting device, a first electrical path suitable for connecting the light emitting device to a first power circuit, a second electrical path suitable for connecting the light emitting device to a second power circuit and a connector element for acquiring a selected one of a first configuration and a second configuration. Wherein in the first configuration, the light emitting device is in electrical communication with the first electrical path for being powered by the first power circuit and in the second configuration, the light emitting device is in electrical communication with the second electrical path for being powered by the second power circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Youssef, Lech Adamin, Santo Beltrocco
  • Positioning and/or holding a plurality of line sections of electric lines along a drive way of a vehicle
    Patent number: 9038796
    Abstract: A shaped block for positioning and/or holding a plurality of line sections of one or more electric lines along the track of a vehicle includes a plurality of recesses and/or projections. Edges of the recesses and/or the projections each delimit a space for the line sections into which one of the line sections can be introduced, so that said line section extends through the space in a longitudinal direction of the space. The longitudinal directions of the spaces delimited by the edges of the recesses and/or by the projections extend essentially mutually parallel in a common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Woronowicz, Michael Baade, Kris Siedmiogrodzki
  • Track worker safety system
    Patent number: 8344877
    Abstract: A safety system for providing early warning notifications to an authorized track worker performing official duties along a rail road network is disclosed herein. The safety system determines the position of the authorized worker and determines an estimated time to collision between the authorized track worker and an approaching rail vehicle. The result of the safety system is that the track worker has enough time and sufficiently accurate warning that will enable the track worker to move to a point of safety so as to remain unharmed by the approaching rail vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Keith Burton Sheardown, Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian, Jason John Freebern
  • Circuit arrangement and method of operating a circuit arrangement
    Patent number: 9809124
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement, in particular a circuit arrangement of an electric vehicle for inductive power transfer to the vehicle includes a pick-up arrangement and at least one variable compensating arrangement. The variable compensating arrangement includes a capacitive element, a first switching element and a second switching element. The first switching element and the second switching element are connected in series, and the series connection of the first and the second switching element is connected in parallel to the capacitive element of the variable compensating arrangement. Also disclosed is a method of operating the circuit arrangement and a method of manufacturing the circuit arrangement of the electric vehicle and the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Czainski, Rinaldo Arnold
  • Method for optimizing energy in a vehicle/train with multiple drive units
    Patent number: 6799096
    Abstract: A method for power optimization in a vehicle/train, using time reserves which are included when planning a schedule, is proposed. In order to achieve a power-saving travel mode with the aid of an optimization algorithm, the presence of a number of completely or partially autonomous drive systems is taken into account, the separate functions of efficiency or power loss of each drive system being taken into consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Rudiger Franke, Peter Terwiesch, Markus Meyer, Christian Klose, Karl-Hermann Ketteler
  • TRANSFERRING ELECTRIC ENERGY TO A VEHICLE, USING A SYSTEM WHICH COMPRISES CONSECUTIVE SEGMENTS FOR ENERGY TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20120217112
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle, in particular to a track bound vehicle such as a light rail vehicle. The system includes an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring the energy to the vehicle. The electric conductor arrangement includes at least one alternating current line. Each alternating current line to carry carries one phase of an alternating electric the current. The conductor arrangement includes a plurality of consecutive segments. The segments extend along the path of travel of the vehicle. Each segment includes one section of each of the at least one alternating current line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Manfred Zengerle
  • Rail vehicle having an improved cooling system and method for its internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 11173928
    Abstract: A cooling system for a rail vehicle having an internal combustion engine as a generator of electricity is operative to exchange heat between a cooling fluid circulating in a cooling circuit connected to the internal combustion engine and air located in an underfloor space of the rail vehicle. A heat exchanger and a fan, located in the underfloor space, are fluidly connected to an exhaust in a side skirt depending from a floor of the rail vehicle. The fan is operative to force air from the underfloor space through the heat exchanger and through the exhaust to an ambient space located on an external side of the side skirt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Ben Diedrichs
  • Mounting Device and Apparatus For Use With Studs Comprising T-Shaped Channels
    Publication number: 20080078890
    Abstract: A mounting device and apparatus for use with a stud comprising a channel comprises a mount and opposing flanges or an engagement member. The engagement member may geometrically conform to the shape of the channel for engaging the mounting device within the channel. The mount may comprise a socket for receiving and holding a cable management member. The engagement member may comprise an uneven surface to create an interference fit with internal portions of the stud that define the channel. The apparatus may further comprise a cable tie receiving device comprising a plurality of apertures for receipt of cable ties to organize cable bundles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicants: Panduit Corp., Bombardier Transportation GmBH
    Inventors: Kevin Nelson, James Pykett
  • Track Worker Safety System
    Publication number: 20110006912
    Abstract: A safety system for providing early warning notifications to an authorized track worker performing official duties along a rail road network is disclosed herein. The safety system determines the position of the authorized worker and determines an estimated time to collision between the authorized track worker and an approaching rail vehicle. The result of the safety system is that the track worker has enough time and sufficiently accurate warning that will enable the track worker to move to a point of safety so as to remain unharmed by the approaching rail vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Keith Burton Sheardown, Sathya Vagheeswar Venkatasubramanian, Jason John Freebern
  • Method for Determining a Characteristic of a Track Condition Parameter
    Publication number: 20110276203
    Abstract: A method for determining a characteristic of at least one position parameter, in particular of a disruption in the position parameter, of a track for a vehicle, in which detection values of at least one detection parameter affected by the position parameter are detected on a vehicle driving along a section of the track, and wherein the at least one position parameter for the track section is determined from the detection values. The current value of the position parameter is determined from the detection values as a function of the model data of a previously determined vehicle model of the vehicle, wherein a relationship between the position parameter and the at least one detection parameter affected by the position parameter is generated by way of the vehicle model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Häse
  • Train registry overlay system
    Patent number: 6694231
    Abstract: A train registry system is overlaid upon an existing automatic train protection system and operates simultaneously with the automatic train protection system to collect redundant information that may be utilized in the event that the automatic train protection system computer and backup computer must be restarted or in the event a vehicle no longer communicates with the automatic train protection system computer. The train registry is comprised of a plurality of transponders mounted upon train vehicles and transponder readers mounted at wayside locations to extract information from vehicles and forward the information to the wayside computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Nagy H. Rezk
  • Track brake controller
    Patent number: 8473129
    Abstract: A track brake control system for providing braking of a railway vehicle operates upon receipt of an emergency braking command. The control system includes a member for receiving deceleration information from one or more sensing devices. The control system further includes a member for comparing the deceleration information with a reference value or reference profile. Further, the control system includes at least one regulating device for continuously adjusting a braking demand signal to a track brake so as to cause deceleration of the railway vehicle based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Vollenwyder, Sidney Maxime Berry, Albert D'Amours
  • Arrangement and method for holding a plurality of electric capacitor assemblies
    Patent number: 8654545
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for holding a plurality of electric capacitor assemblies, particularly assemblies having live housings. The arrangement has a carrier having a through-passage for introducing one of the assemblies and further has at least one bearing ring for mounting an assembly. The bearing ring is matched to the dimensions of the through-passage and the assembly such that the assembly when extending through the through-passage, is in contact with the inner edge of the through-passage via the bearing ring, but not in direct contact with the inner edge of the through-passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Zengerle, Tobias Leininger
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ELECTRIC ENERGY TO A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20130057204
    Abstract: A system for transferring electric energy to a vehicle, in particular to a track bound vehicle such as a light rail vehicle, includes an electric conductor arrangement for producing an alternating electromagnetic field and for thereby transferring electromagnetic energy to the vehicle. The vehicle includes at least one receiver for receiving the electromagnetic energy and at least one signal transmitter adapted to repeatedly or continuously emit an enable signal towards the track. The vehicle also includes a transmitter control arrangement adapted to stop transmitting the enable signal if the receiver or if any device combined with the receiver is not to be operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Vollenwyder, Timothy Dickson, Konrad Woronowicz
  • Vehicle with fire protection apparatus
    Patent number: 9839799
    Abstract: A vehicle with a partition area for passengers between two sections of the vehicle, wherein a fire protection apparatus is mounted in the ceiling region of the partition area and has a protective curtain that can be transferred from an idle position, in which the partition area is open, into a closed position in case of a fire. The protective curtain has at least two material webs that adjoin one another and partially overlap one another in the closed position, wherein the lower edge of the material webs that points toward the floor of the partition area is spaced apart from the floor in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Siegemund
  • Electrical system of a rail vehicle, rail vehicle, and process for operating an electrical system
    Patent number: 10857888
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical system of a rail vehicle, the electrical system comprising a first power converter, at least one other power converter, and at least one transformer, an intermediate circuit section of the first power converter being electrically connectable, by at least one intermediate circuit electrical connection, with an intermediate circuit section of the at least one other power converter, the at least one part of the electrical intermediate circuit connection being routed through a transformer case, as well as a rail vehicle and a process for operating the electrical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Falke, André Rickermann
  • Mounting device for studs comprising T-shaped channels
    Patent number: 7661632
    Abstract: A mounting device securable to a structure comprising a channel comprises a plate, a cable management member and an engagement member for securing the device to the structure. The mounting device may be secured to the structure by inserting an installation tool into the geometric opening and rotating the mounting device. The engagement member may comprise opposing retaining tabs extending from a bottom surface of the plate or opposing depressions formed in a top surface of the plate. The cable management member may comprise a pair of bridge arms that form a geometric opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Panduit Corp., Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Jack E Caveney, Kevin Larry Nelson
  • Modular personal protection device under the vehicle
    Patent number: 11097753
    Abstract: An airbag module and a rail vehicle with an airbag module are described herein. The airbag module includes a support flap, which is pivotably mounted on its rear end, such that the airbag module is convertable from a closed state into an open state by pivoting the support flap. The airbag module further includes an airbag, which is folded in the closed state of the airbag module and unfolded in the open state of the airbag module, so that the unfolded airbag and the support flap together form an impact protection for a person on the track. Furthermore, a rail vehicle with one or a plurality of airbag modules is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Landri Fel, Gerald Newesely, Herbert Tuczai
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