ONBOARD HARDWARE OF LOCOMOTIVE SHUNTING AUTOMATIC SIGNALLNG SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B61L25/00 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to railway automatic, telemetry and communication systems to be used to increase traffic safety in shunting at destination stations. Proposed device comprises onboard controller connected with pulse transducer unit, locomotive pressure transducer, radio channel antenna and radio modem connected in series, satellite antenna, indication unit, control unit and switch unit connected to onboard control. Switch unit is connected with cabin switch, operator vigilance handle, and electropneumatic valve, and actuator circuitry unit. Onboard controller comprises module of speed computation, pressure transducer metre module, control module and safe voltage generator. First port of CAN bridge is connected via CAN outer interface with external devices, while second port is connected via CAN interface internal common bus with control module, with microcomputer, pressure transducer metre module and speed computation module. Additionally, onboard controller comprises coordinate correction module connected with CAN interface internal common bus.

EFFECT: higher reliability.

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