Enhanced recordation device for rail car inspections

US8292172B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Prescott Logan · Satellite Beach, US
• David Michael Davenport · Niskayuna, US
• John Erik Hershey · Ballston Lake, US
• Rahul Bhotika · Albany, US
• Robert James Mitchell, Jr. · Niskayuna, US
• Emad Andarawis Andarawis · Ballston Lake, US
• Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II · Scotia, US
• Robert Alan Wetzel · Melbourne, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 20, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2012
• Expiry date: May 23, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C3/14
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for conducting rail car inspections including an inspection module, an imaging module, a scanner module, a location module, a printer module and a communication module.