Wayside oriented moving block
CA 1094672 A · Owner: General Signal Corporation · Inventors: Auer, John H. Jr.; Svet, Frank A. Jr.
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A control system including apparatus for the transmission of information for the control of vehicles travelling in one direction on a guideway. The guideway is broken down into a plurality of groups of uniquely identified sequential blocks. Each block has at least one vehicle detector for detecting the presence of a vehicle and having an operated condition responsive to vehicle detection. Each block further includes a transmitter for providing to a, vehicle within the block, information concerning the block it is in as well as information regarding the indentity of the next downstream occupied or unavailable block. To this end, each block has associated with it a word generator for …
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- Granted January 27, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 27, 1998.
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