Train control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9642163-B2
Application number	US-201314386627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2013
Priority date	Jun 29, 2012
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A train control device includes an on-vehicle base station mounted on a train, base stations that can communicate with the on-vehicle base station, an on-vehicle control device controlling an operation such that the train can stop before reaching a stop limit before which the train can run safely, and ground control devices that transmit, to the train side, the stop limit calculated based on information on the current position acquired from the train side via the base stations and opening information on a turnout on the ground. The on-vehicle control device calculates a channel-reservation start pattern, which is a pattern determining a reservation start position of a communication channel of a base station as a switching target when the base station as a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station is switched and in which the reservation start position is different according to train speed and train position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A train control apparatus comprising:
an on-vehicle base station that is mounted on a train;
a ground base station that is installed on a ground and is capable of communicating with the on-vehicle base station;
an on-vehicle control device that is mounted on the train, reports a current position of the train to the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station, and controls an operation such that the train is capable of being stopped before reaching a stop limit, which the on-vehicle control device has acquired from the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station and which is a limiting position before which the train is capable of running safely; and
a ground control device that is installed on the ground and transmits the stop limit, which is calculated on a basis of information on the current position acquired from the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, to the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, wherein
the on-vehicle control device, when the ground base station that is a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station is switched, includes
a channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit that calculates a channel releasing pattern that determines a position where a communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching source is released after performing switching of the ground base station that is a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station on a basis of a train speed and a train position, and
a communication-channel releasing unit that, when detecting that the train has passed the channel releasing pattern, releases the communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching source.

2. The train control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when a pattern which determines a reservation start position of a communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching target and in which the reservation start position is different according to the train speed and the train position is a channel-reservation start pattern, the channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit calculates the channel releasing pattern on a basis of a maximum deceleration curve of the train in which a point that is further than a channel-reservation start pattern of a train running in an opposite direction from a communication partner switching point is a position at which the train stops and on a basis of information on the communication partner switching point.

3. The train control apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit calculates the channel releasing pattern at a point further from the communication partner switching point by a total length of the train.

4. A train control apparatus comprising:
an on-vehicle base station that is mounted on a train;
a ground base station that is installed on a ground and is capable of communicating with the on-vehicle base station;
an on-vehicle control device that is mounted on the train, reports a current position of the train to the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station, and controls an operation such that the train is capable of being stopped before reaching a stop limit, which the on-vehicle control device has acquired from the ground base station via the on-vehicle base station and which is a limiting position before which the train is capable of running safely; and
a ground control device that is installed on the ground and transmits the stop limit, which is calculated on a basis of information on the current position acquired from the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, to the on-vehicle control device via the on-vehicle base station and the ground base station, wherein
the ground control device, when the ground base station that is a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station is switched, includes
a channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit that calculates a channel releasing pattern that determines a position where a communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching source is released after performing switching of the ground base station that is a communication partner to the on-vehicle base station on a basis of a train speed and a train position, and
a communication-channel releasing unit that, when detecting that the train has passed the channel releasing pattern, releases the communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching source.

5. The train control apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein when a pattern which determines a reservation start position of a communication channel of the ground base station that is a switching target and in which the reservation start position is different according to the train speed and the train position is a channel-reservation start pattern, the channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit calculates the channel releasing pattern on a basis of a maximum deceleration curve of the train in which a point that is further than a channel-reservation start pattern of a train running in an opposite direction from a communication partner switching point is a position at which the train stops and on a basis of information on the communication partner switching point.

6. The train control apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the channel-releasing-pattern calculation unit calculates the channel releasing pattern at a point further from the communication partner switching point by a total length of the train.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Nagasaki Yusaku
• Asuka Masashi
• Takami Atsushi

Classifications

• B61L15/0027

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

• B61L23/14

  automatically operated · CPC title

• B60L15/40

  Adaptation of control equipment on vehicle for remote actuation from a stationary place (devices along the route for controlling devices on rail vehicles B61L3/00; central rail-traffic control systems B61L27/00) · CPC title

• B60L2200/26

  Rail vehicles · CPC title

• H04W28/26

  Resource reservation · CPC title