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Process and device for transmitting data between vehicles moving over a track

US4723737A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 17, 1985
Grant dateFeb 9, 1988
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Expiry dateOct 17, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB61L23/34
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

For data communication in the form of messages between railways vehicles moving over a same track, short identical emissions at random times by modulating a directional microwave beam whose angular opening is sufficient in the horizontal direction for maintaining communication in bends of said track and switches and in the vertical direction for maintaining communication during changes in the profile of the track.

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