METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING CONDITION OF RAIL TRACK Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B61K9/08 

FIELD: railway transport.

SUBSTANCE: method comes to measuring vertical and horizontal accelerations of meter body and those of left-hand and right-hand axle boxes of one of its wheelsets, determining values of measured accelerations and components of vertical accelerations of axle boxes for preset fixed running speed, and comparing obtained values with tolerable values and determining minimum value of maximum running speed of meter on particular section of rail track. Proposed device contains covered part transmitter, initial data packet shaper, accumulator, filter unit, operator's panel, acceleration meters, speed meter, board time system, scaling unit, path irregularities detector, wheel out-of-roundness detector, body vibration intensity detector, maximum speed meter and report date packet shaper. Group of inventions provides determination, with high accuracy and reliability, values of accelerations appearing in main members of meter-path system and obtaining complex characteristics of dynamic interaction of rail track and running train.

EFFECT: simple design of device, low cost.

3 cl, 2 dwg