On-Train Information Transmitting/Receiving System

• US 20090042436A1
• Filed: 06/08/2006
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Iga, Kazuhiro, Emoto, Norishige, Eura, Fumiaki, Masubushi, Yoichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,753,720 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/502
• CPC Class Codes: B61G 5/10 for electric cables
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0036 Conductor-based, e.g. using CAN-Bus, train-line or optical fibres

Abstract

An on-train information transmitting/receiving system is provided that can be implemented in an environment with significant external noise and allows high speed transmission to be carried out between transmitter/receivers mounted in vehicles without having to develop a new jumper cable used between the vehicles while cost increase is prevented. A transmission path that connects transmitter/receivers 10 provided in vehicles included in a train to process train-related information in association with one another includes an inside vehicle interconnection cable 20 provided in a vehicle and a jumper cable interconnecting the vehicles. The jumper cable includes a plurality of shield electric wires 33 each produced by coating a conductor 35 with a shield 36, two such shielded electric wires 33 are paired to form the transmission path, the shields 36 of the pair of the shield electric wires 33 are connected with each other at both ends of the shield wires 33, and the shields 36 connected with each other are grounded at one end of the shield wires 33.

Claims

1. An on-train information transmitting/receiving system, comprising:

a plurality of transmitter/receivers provided in a plurality of vehicles included in a train to process train-related information in association with one another; and

a transmission path that connects the transmitter/receivers in adjacent vehicles,

the transmission path including an inside vehicle interconnection cable provided in the vehicles and a jumper cable that extends between the vehicles,

the jumper cable having a plurality of shield wires each produced by coating a conductor with a shield,

the transmission path including two of the shield wires as a pair, the shields of the pair of shield wires being connected with each other at both ends of the shield wires, the shields connected with each other being grounded on one end side of the shield wires.

2. The on-train information transmitting/receiving system according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of electrical couplers provided at both ends of each of the vehicles to electrically connect the vehicles by coupling their coupling parts, wherein the jumper cables are provided in the electrical couplers, and the jumper cables provided in the electrical couplers of adjacent vehicles are connected with one another through the coupling parts of the electrical couplers.