Railway switches and signals – Cab signal or train control – Train defect
Patent
1991-07-10
1992-07-28
Spar, Robert J.
Railway switches and signals
Cab signal or train control
Train defect
246247, B61L 100
Patent
active
051335212
ABSTRACT:
A railroad flat wheel detector having a housing anchored to one side of a railroad rail enclosing an arrayed plurality of light source-photodetector pairs whose respective optic axes are tangent to the locus of the lower rim edge of passing wheels rolling along the track. The photodetector outputs are operatively connected to trigger a flat wheel alarm when the increased wheel flange rim overlap with the supporting rail, caused by a flat sector of a passing wheel, obscures a portion of the light and thereby briefly reduces the light intensity sensed by one or more of the plurality of photodetectors.
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Lowe Scott L.
SEL Division, Alcatel, Canada
Spar Robert J.
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