Track monitoring equipment
CA 2373127 A1 · Owner: Wesley, Peter David · Inventors: Wesley, Peter David; Gilbert, David
Overview
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For monitoring railway tracks on a frequent basis instrumentation packages , are installed in service vehicles (18) for example in passenger carriages. , The instrumentation package (16) comprises sensors (35 36, 42) mounted on a , bogie (24) of the vehicle (18) which provide data to a computer (40). The computer (40) processes the data to characterise the track quality and stores , the results tagged with positional information. At intervals these stored results are automatically transferred by radio to a remote base station (12). An operator at the base station can monitor the track quality daily and hence , advise on cost-effective maintenance schedules.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed May 4, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 4, 2020.
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