Onboard communication system for a locomotive consist

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9102338-B2
Application number	US-201313768153-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 15, 2013
Priority date	Feb 15, 2013
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

An onboard communication system for a locomotive consist is disclosed. The communication system may have first and second locomotive communication subsystems. The first communication subsystem may be located on a first locomotive. Each communication subsystem may have a messaging unit communicatively connected to a radio. The first messaging unit may be communicatively connected to the second messaging unit. The second messaging unit may be configured to receive a data communication from the second radio and send the data communication to the first messaging unit. The first messaging unit may be configured to receive the data communication from the second messaging unit, receive a copy of the data communication from the first radio, determine that the data communications are duplicate copies of one another, and send one of the data communications to a locomotive control system based on the determination.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An onboard communication system for a locomotive consist, comprising:
a first locomotive communication subsystem located onboard a first locomotive, including:
an onboard locomotive control system;
a first radio; and
a first messaging unit communicatively connected to the onboard locomotive control system and the first radio; and
a second locomotive communication subsystem, including:
a second radio; and
a second messaging unit communicatively co…

Assignees

• Electro Motive Diesel Inc

Inventors

• Fanara Mark Alan

Classifications

• B61L15/0027

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61L15/0081

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B61C17/12 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic