Power control system for a vehicle system

US11192564B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Transportation IP Holdings, LLC · US

Inventors

• Lucas Vargas · Rio de Janeiro, BR
• Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr. · Clifton Park, US
• Brian Nedward Meyer · Fairview, US
• Gabriel de Albuquerque Gleizer · Rio de Janeiro, BR
• Carlos Gonzaga · Rio de Janeiro, BR

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 2019
• Grant date: Dec 7, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T10/72
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A power control system for a vehicle system identifies coupler nodes in the vehicle system for travel of the vehicle system along a route. The coupler nodes represent slack states of couplers between vehicles in the vehicle system. The system also determines combined driving parameters at locations along the route where a state of the coupler nodes in the vehicle system will change within the vehicle system during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system. The system determines a restriction on operations of the vehicle system to control the coupler nodes during the upcoming movement of the vehicle system and to distribute the combined driving parameters among two or more of the vehicles.