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Apparatus for continuously measuring the position of a moving rail vehicle

US5791603A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Krupp Fordertechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

Manfred Lucking · Essen, DE
Ulrich P. Vogt · Essen, DE
Roland Borner · Solingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 11, 1997
Grant date	Aug 11, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 11, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB61B1/00
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A device for the precise determination of the position of a moving railroad vehicle on a track in a transloader measurement stretch has a multiplicity of switch elements arrayed along one of the rails and actuators positioned to be engaged either by the felly portion of the wheel or the flange portion of the wheel regardless of where the wheel and the track are and in all positions of the wheel on the rail in its sinusoidal movement back and forth as the wheel travels along the rail.

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