Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Railway vehicle
Patent
1997-08-15
1998-07-28
Nguyen, Tan Q.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Railway vehicle
701 20, 701 29, 701 33, 701 35, 246187A, 246187C, B61L 300
Patent
active
057873712
ABSTRACT:
In a locomotive throttle controller having a digital central processor unit and an output driver mechanism for supplying signals to trainlines which control the locomotive engine throttle setting, reverser, and dynamic braking and for sending feedback signals indicative of actual voltages applied to said trainlines back to said central processor unit, of at least one locomotive, an improvement comprises a digital interface through which external digital equipment can communicate with the central processor unit and devices for communicating via the digital interface between the external digital equipment and the central processor unit such that the external digital equipment may be used to control the at least one locomotive.
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Balukin Gregory S.
Wolf Daniel J.
Nguyen Tan Q.
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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