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US 8,560,198 · App. 12/935,730 · Granted Oct 15, 2013

Train braking device and train braking method

Inventor: Yasuharu Itano (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,560,198
App. No.
12/935,730
Granted
Oct 15, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The train braking device includes an air brake controller in which a plurality of friction coefficients corresponding to a brake command and a brake initial velocity are stored, an electropneumatic conversion valve that converts a pressure control signal transmitted from the air brake controller into a pneumatic signal, a relay valve that generates a predetermined brake cylinder pressure corresponding to the pneumatic signal, and a brake cylinder that controls brake shoes according to the brake cylinder pressure, wherein the air brake controller generates the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake command and the brake initial velocity.

Claims (15)

1. A train braking device for controlling a brake cylinder pressure based on a pressure control signal, the train braking device comprising:

an air brake controller that stores therein a plurality of friction coefficients corresponding to a brake initial velocity and a brake command and generates the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command;

an electropneumatic conversion valve that converts the pressure control signal into a pneumatic signal; and

a relay valve that generates the brake cylinder pressure corresponding to the pneumatic signal.

2. The train braking device according to claim 1 , wherein the air brake controller stores therein the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command for each brake shoe and generates the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficient corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command for each brake shoe.

3. The train braking device according to claim 1 , wherein the air brake controller records therein a period of use of each brake shoe based on a velocity signal and generates the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the period of use and a traveling velocity of a train for each brake shoe.

4. A method employed in a train braking device for controlling a brake cylinder pressure based on a pressure control signal, the method comprising:

storing in the train braking device a plurality of friction coefficients corresponding to a brake initial velocity and a brake command;

generating the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command;

converting the pressure control signal into a pneumatic signal; and

generating the brake cylinder pressure corresponding to the pneumatic signal.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the storing includes storing therein the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command for each brake shoe, and

the generating includes generating the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficient corresponding to the brake initial velocity and the brake command for each brake shoe.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the storing includes storing therein a period of use of each brake shoe based on a velocity signal, and

the generating includes generating the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the period of use and a traveling velocity of a train for each brake shoe.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2010
From: ITANO, YASUHARU
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025071/0305 →
Continuity (1)
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