Heavy freight train marshalling device and marshalling method, and electronically controlled pneumatic brake system

• US 10,246,110 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2018
• Issued: 04/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co. Ltd (CRRC Corp. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co. Ltd (CRRC Corp. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Xu, Yanfen, Duan, Shengcai, Zhao, Jing
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuhfuss, Zachary L
• Application Number:
  US15/912,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20180194378A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 701 19, 246122 R
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/74 with electrical assistance or drive
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0018 Communication with or on the vehicle or train
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0027 Radio-based, e.g. using GSM-R
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0036 Conductor-based, e.g. using CAN-Bus, train-line or optical fibres
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0054 Train integrity supervision, e.g. end-of-train [EOT] devices
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 2205/02 Global system for mobile communication - railways [GSM-R]
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 2205/04 Satellite based navigation systems, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 25/025 Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 25/028 Determination of vehicle position and orientation within a train consist, e.g. serialisation
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 3/08 controlling electrically
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/10 between terminal device and access point, i.e. wireless air interface

Abstract

The present invention relates to a heavy freight train marshalling device and marshalling method, and an electronically controlled pneumatic brake system; the latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit is acquired by a Beidou positioning module; the first-vehicle state data of the carriage control unit is acquired by detecting a first-vehicle identification terminal; and, the carriage control units only need to transmit the acquired location data and the first-vehicle state data to the HEU via communication modules. Accordingly, the number of communication messages between the carriage control units and the HEU is decreased, the complicated process of connecting the carriage control units to or disconnecting the carriage control units from a switchable load is omitted, the marshalling time is shortened, and the complexity of marshalling is reduced.

Claims

1. A heavy freight train marshalling device, comprising a Head End Unit (HEU) and a plurality of carriage control units, wherein,

the HEU is communicated with each of the carriage control units;

each carriage control unit comprises a carriage control module, and a Beidou positioning module and a communication module respectively connected with the carriage control module;

a first-vehicle identification terminal is further provided in the carriage control unit working as a first vehicle;

the carriage control module acquires first-vehicle state data via the first-vehicle identification terminal;

the Beidou positioning module is configured to acquire latitude and longitude data of the corresponding carriage control unit; and

,

the carriage control mode receives, via the communication module, a command transmitted by the HEU, and transmits, to the HEU and via the communication module, the latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit read from the Beidou positioning module and the first-vehicle state data of the carriage control unit;

wherein a calculation module for calculating the distance between the carriage control units is provided in the HEU.

2. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 1, wherein, the HEU comprises a marshalling processor and a communication module connected to the marshalling processor;

the marshalling processor transmits a command to the carriage control module of each carriage control unit respectively, via the communication module;

upon receiving the command, the carriage control module reads the latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit acquired by the Beidou positioning module, and transmits, to the marshalling processor and via the communication module, the read latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit and the first-vehicle state data of the carriage control unit.

3. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 2, wherein, the calculation module is provided within the marshalling processor, and is configured to calculate the distance between each carriage control unit after the marshalling processor receives the latitude and longitude data and the first-vehicle state data of each carriage control unit.

4. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 3, wherein, the marshalling processor transmits a marshalling command to the carriage control module of each carriage control unit via the communication module.

5. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 4, wherein, wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication module of the HEU and the communication module of each carriage control unit;

and wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication modules of the carriage control units.

6. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 3, wherein, wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication module of the HEU and the communication module of each carriage control unit;

and wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication modules of the carriage control units.

7. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 2, wherein, the marshalling processor transmits a marshalling command to the carriage control module of each carriage control unit via the communication module.

8. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 7, wherein, wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication module of the HEU and the communication module of each carriage control unit;

and wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication modules of the carriage control units.

9. The heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 2, wherein, wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication module of the HEU and the communication module of each carriage control unit;

and wireless communication or wired communication is employed between the communication modules of the carriage control units.

10. An electronically controlled pneumatic brake system, comprising a leading locomotive and a plurality of carriage units, wherein, each carriage unit consists of at least one carriage;

the electronically controlled pneumatic brake system further comprises the heavy freight train marshalling device according to claim 1; and

, the HEU is provided within the leading locomotive, and the carriage control units are provided within the carriage units.

11. The electronically controlled pneumatic brake system according to claim 10, wherein, each carriage unit consists of five carriages.

12. A heavy freight train marshalling method, employing a heavy freight train marshalling device which comprises a Head End Unit (HEU) and a plurality of carriage control units, wherein,

the HEU is communicated with each of the carriage control units;

each carriage control unit comprises a carriage control module, and a Beidou positioning module and a communication module respectively connected with the carriage control module;

a first-vehicle identification terminal is further provided in the carriage control unit working as a first vehicle;

the carriage control module acquires first-vehicle state data via the first-vehicle identification terminal;

the Beidou positioning module is configured to acquire latitude and longitude data of the corresponding carriage control unit and,

the carriage control mode receives, via the communication module, a command transmitted by the HEU, and transmits, to the HEU and via the communication module, the latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit read from the Beidou positioning module and the first-vehicle state data of the carriage control unit;

wherein, the method comprises the following steps of;

(1) recording the total number of carriage control units as M;

the first-vehicle state of a carriage control unit as the first vehicle as TRUE, and the first-vehicle state of the remaining carriage control units as NULL;

(2) transmitting, by a Head End Unit (HEU), marshalling commands to all carriage control units via a communication unit, and switching the HEU to a train marshalling mode;

(3) responding to, for a carriage control module of each carriage control unit, the marshalling command;

acquiring, by a Beidou positioning module, latitude and longitude data of the carriage control unit, and acquiring, by detecting a first-vehicle identification terminal, first-vehicle state data of the carriage control unit;

(4) transmitting, by the M carriage control units, the latitude and longitude data and the first-vehicle state data of the M carriage control units to the HEU via the communication modules, forming an array A[M];

(5) traversing, by the HEU, the array A[M] to search a carriage control unit a[i] the first-vehicle state of which is TRUE;

recording the location of the carriage control unit a[i] the first-vehicle state of which is TRUE as Location=1;

taking out the carriage control unit a[i] from the array A[M] and storing it as FirstUnit;

deleting the carriage control unit a[i] from the array A[M];

rearranging to obtain an array A[M−

1] denoted as BaseOrder;

(6) using the FirstUnit as a starting point, calculating the distance from the FirstUnit to each carriage control unit in the BaseOrder to find a carriage control unit a[i] having a minimum distance from the starting point, and recording a location of the carriage control unit a[i] as Location=Location+1;

(7) using the carriage control unit a[j] as a new FirstUnit, and deleting the carriage control unit a[i] from the BaseOrder; and

(8) repeating the operations in the steps (6) and (7) to successively determine the location of the remaining M−

2 carriage control units until the BaseOrder is empty, thus the marshalling of the heavy freight train is completed.

13. The heavy freight train marshalling method according to claim 12, wherein, the obtained distance from the FirstUnit to each carriage control unit in the BaseOrder forms a distance set, and the carriage control unit having the minimum distance from the starting point is searched from the distance set.