Brake force detection for dynamic brakes of a rail vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9522667-B2
Application number	US-201214342419-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2012
Priority date	Sep 9, 2011
Publication date	Dec 20, 2016
Grant date	Dec 20, 2016

Abstract

A control device for a rail vehicle, the rail vehicle having a braking system with at least one dynamic braking device and at least one further braking device. The control device determines the brake force exerted by the dynamic braking device during braking based on deceleration data, which represent an overall deceleration of the rail vehicle, tractive resistance data, which represent a tractive resistance of the rail vehicle, and braking data, which represent a brake force exerted by the at least one further braking device. Also disclosed is a braking system having the control device, a rail vehicle, and a corresponding method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control device for a rail vehicle, wherein the rail vehicle has a brake system comprising at least one dynamic brake device and at least one further brake device, the control device determining a braking force, which is exerted during a braking operation by the dynamic brake device, the control device determines the braking force exerted by the dynamic brake device based on deceleration data which represents total deceleration of the rail vehicle, traveling resistance data which represents a traveling resistance of the rail vehicle, and brake data which represents a braking force which is exerted by the at least one further brake device.

2. The control device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one further brake device comprises a friction brake device, in particular a pressure-operated friction brake device.

3. The control device of claim 2 , wherein the friction brake device has an associated braking force sensor device which can detect brake data which represents a braking force which is exerted by the friction brake device.

4. The control device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one further brake device comprises at least one adhesion-independent brake device.

5. The control device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one adhesion-independent brake device has an associated braking force sensor device which detects brake data which represents a braking force which is exerted by the at least one adhesion-independent brake device.

6. The control device of claim 1 , wherein the control device determines total deceleration based on vehicle speed data.

7. The control device of claim 1 , wherein the control device is connected to a sensor device which has at least one acceleration sensor for determining deceleration data.

8. A method for determining, using a control device, a braking force which is exerted by a dynamic brake device of a brake system of a rail vehicle during a braking operation, wherein the brake system has at least one further brake device, the method comprising:
the control device determining the braking force which is exerted by the dynamic brake device during a braking operation based on deceleration data which represents total deceleration of the rail vehicle, traveling resistance data which represents a traveling resistance of the rail vehicle, and brake data which represents a braking force which is exerted by the at least one further brake device during the braking operation, and
at least one sensor configured to sense the braking force exerted by the at least one further brake device.

9. The control device of claim 4 , wherein the at least one adhesion-independent brake device is a magnetic track brake device and/or a linear eddy-current brake device.

Assignees

• Herden Marc-Oliver
• Rau Rainer
• Trinkberger Andreas
• Knorr Bremse Systeme

Inventors

• Herden Marc-Oliver
• Rau Rainer
• Trinkberger Andreas

Classifications

• B60T17/22 Primary

  Devices for monitoring or checking brake systems; Signal devices · CPC title

• B60T17/228 Primary

  for railway vehicles · CPC title