DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION AT SHUNTING Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; shunting operations at railway stations. SUBSTANCE: invention is designed for exchange of information between locomotive drivers, shunters, station masters on duty and signal boxes at shunting. Proposed device has radio sets of locomotive drives, shunters and station masters on duty. Radio set of driver includes transceiver coupled with communication channel occupation check units. Radio set of shunter is furnished with electronic communicators coupled with control inputs of transceiver. Ratio set of station master on duty is provided with transceiver operation mode control unit. Urgent messages are transmitted out of turn. It this case transceivers of other users of local radio network are changed over for reception to provide additional interference protection. EFFECT: improved reliability, reduced time taken for transmission of messages under emergency conditions. 5 dwg