Train position detection device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10640134-B2
Application number	US-201415108710-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2014
Priority date	Jan 9, 2014
Publication date	May 5, 2020
Grant date	May 5, 2020

Abstract

Based on a ratio between Doppler frequencies calculated from a plurality of reception signals outputted by a receiver, a position detector calculates a relative position of a plurality of antennas in a mobile wireless apparatus to a stationary wireless apparatus. A train position detector calculates a position of a train from the calculated relative position, a placement position of the stationary wireless apparatus and placement positions in the train of the plurality of antennas.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A train position detection device mounted on a train, comprising:
a receiver to receive electric waves as reception signals respectively through a first antenna and a second antenna, the first and second antennas placed on the train traveling on a track with a specified fixed interval therebetween, and the electric waves provided from a stationary wireless apparatus that is placed beside the track of the train and radiates, as an electric wave, a transmission signal having a specified frequency, amplitude or phase; and
a position detector to calculate a relative position of the first and second antennas to the stationary wireless apparatus from a ratio between Doppler frequencies calculated respectively from the plural reception signals, the relative position being the distance between the first antenna and an intersection between a perpendicular line drawn from the stationary wireless apparatus to the track and a straight line connecting the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein
when the ratio between the Doppler frequencies calculated from the plural reception signals becomes negative, the position detector detects that the stationary wireless apparatus is between the first and second antennas, to thereby calculate the relative position of the first and second antennas to the stationary wireless apparatus on the basis of a distance between the stationary wireless apparatus and the track, and the interval between the first and second antennas.

2. The train position detection device of claim 1 , wherein
the position detector calculates a traveling speed of the train from a timewise variation of the relative position.

3. The train position detection device of claim 1 , wherein
the position detector calculates an electric-wave reaching angle at which the electric wave radiated from the stationary wireless apparatus reaches the first antenna, from the relative position, a distance between the stationary wireless apparatus and the track, and the interval between the first and second antennas.

4. The train position detection device of claim 3 , wherein
the position detector calculates a traveling speed of the train, using the electric-wave reaching angle, the Doppler frequency and the specified frequency.

5. The train position detection device of claim 1 , further comprising a train position detector to calculate a position of the train from the relative position, a placement position of the stationary wireless apparatus and placement positions in the train of the first and second antennas.

6. The train position detection device of claim 1 , wherein
electric waves from the same stationary wireless apparatus are received through the first and second antennas placed on the train, and the position detector calculates the relative position from a ratio between Doppler frequencies obtained from the electric waves transmitted from the same stationary wireless apparatus.

7. A train position detection device, comprising:
a receiver to receive electric waves as reception signals respectively through three or more antennas, these antennas placed on a train traveling on a track with specified intervals therebetween, and said electric waves provided from a stationary wireless apparatus that is placed beside the track of the train and radiates, as an electric wave, a transmission signal having a specified frequency, amplitude or phase;
a Doppler frequency calculator to calculate three or more Doppler frequencies respectively from the reception signals received by the receiver;
a passage judgement processor to judge, when it detects that a ratio between those among the plural Doppler frequencies becomes −1, that any two of antennas among the three or more antennas is passing through just beside the stationary wireless apparatus, to thereby calculate a plurality of passage judgement signals;
a setting-angle correction calculator to calculate a setting angle of a line that connects the three or more antennas relative to a traveling direction of the train, from the plurality of passage judgement signals and a traveling speed of the train; and
a position calculator to calculate a relative position of the three or more antennas to the stationary wireless apparatus on the basis of the setting angle, a distance between the stationary wireless apparatus and the track, and the intervals between the antennas.

8. The train position detection device of claim 7 , further comprising a train position calculator to calculate a position of the train from a placement position of the stationary wireless apparatus, placement positions of the three or more antennas in the train, and the relative position.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp
• Misubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Tsujita Wataru
• Inomata Kenji
• Nagashima Seiya
• Tahara Kazuhiro

Classifications

• G01S11/12

  using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves · CPC title

• G01S5/08

  Position of single direction-finder fixed by determining direction of a plurality of spaced sources of known location · CPC title

• B61L3/125

  using short-range radio transmission · CPC title

• B61L25/021

  Measuring and recording of train speed · CPC title

• B61L15/0027

  Radio-based, e.g. using GSM-R · CPC title