Railway switches and signals – Train dispatching – Central signal control
Patent
1992-03-30
1993-08-17
Huppert, Michael S.
Railway switches and signals
Train dispatching
Central signal control
246122R, 104 88, B61L 2700
Patent
active
052361560
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system has a track network including a main track, a plurality of branch tracks, and respective intersections at which the main track joins the branch tracks. Respective stations at the branch tracks are each associated with a respective target code. A plurality of trucks displaceable along the track network are shuntable by switches at the intersections from the main track into the branch tracks. Each truck is provided with an array of elements settable to correspond to any of the target codes and respective target-code readers associated with the switches read the target codes of the trucks. Controllers connected between the readers and the respective switches direct the trucks to the stations corresponding to the target codes of the trucks. A monitoring system comprises a permanent identification code on each of the trucks associated with the respective truck and not with the station to which the truck is addressed and identification-code readers along the track network responsive to the identification codes on the trucks. A central computer connected to the readers is responsive to the identification-code readers for monitoring positions of the trucks along the track network. An encoder connected to the central computer is disposed along the network for, in response to the central computer, reprogramming a target code of selected trucks passing the encoder.
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Buro Patent AG
Dubno Herbert
Huppert Michael S.
Lowe Scott L.
Wilford Andrew
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