Method for controlling an antislip-regulated friction brake system of a rail vehicle

• US 8,972,144 B2
• Filed: 10/17/2011
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Original Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Inventors: Herden, Marc-Oliver, Englbrecht, Matthaeus, Trinkberger, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEUNG, CALVIN K
• Application Number:
  US13/880,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20130261924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,233 Days
• Field of Search: 701/70, 701/71, 701/81
• US Class Current: 701/71
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/665 the systems being specially adapted for transferring two or more command signals, e.g. railway systems B60T13/662 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/228 for railway vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1705 for rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1761 responsive to wheel or brake dynamics, e.g. wheel slip, wheel acceleration or rate of change of brake fluid pressure
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/17616 Microprocessor-based systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/3235 Systems specially adapted for rail vehicles

Abstract

A method for controlling an antislip-regulated friction brake system of a rail vehicle or rail vehicle train having a number of braked axles which subjects at least two selected axles to a braking pressure exceeding the braking pressure required for braking; measures at least one variable representing the maximum transmittable frictional force in each case between the wheels of the selected axles and the rail; prepares a list associating the selected axles with the respectively transmittable brake friction force; identifies at least one brake-slipping axle from the selected axles in which a brake slip exceeding a predetermined extent occurs; calculates lost braking work; identifies from the list at least one axle in which brake-slipping does not occur or occurs to a permissible extent; and applies the brakes on at least one axle.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an antislip-regulated friction brake system of a rail vehicle or of a rail vehicle train which is composed of a plurality of rail vehicles and which has a number of braked axles, the method comprising:

subjecting at least two selected axles of the number of braked axles during braking to a braking pressure which exceeds a braking pressure corresponding to a braking request for the braking;

measuring at least one variable representing a maximum transmittable frictional force in each case between wheels of the selected axles and a rail;

preparing a list of the selected axles assigned to respectively transmittable frictional force;

identifying at least one axle with brake slip from the list of selected axles, at which axle, during braking, a brake slip which exceeds a predefined extent occurs and, therefore, antislip regulation is activated;

calculating lost braking work at the identified at least one axle from the difference between a braking work which would have been carried out without activation of the antislip regulation and a braking work which is actually performed at this the identified at least one axle;

identifying from the list of selected axles at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip for transmitting a greater frictional force than can be transmitted by the axle with brake slip; and

applying the brakes at the at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip, in such a way that the braking work which is lost at the at least one axle with brake slip is at least partially compensated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the compensation of the braking work which is lost at the at least one axle with brake slip takes place during the braking immediately after the identification of the at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip or during the braking, but a predetermined time period after the identification of the at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a variable representing the braking work is used for the calculation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable is selected from the group consisting of wheel rotational speed, wheel circumferential acceleration, braking force, braking torque or braking pressure.

7. The friction break system of claim 4, wherein the at least one variable is selected from the group consisting of wheel rotational speed, wheel circumferential acceleration, braking force, braking torque or braking pressure.

5. A friction brake system of a railway vehicle or of a rail vehicle train which is composed of a plurality of rail vehicles and which has a number of braked axles, the friction brake system comprising:

an electronic control unit;

brake actuators on at least two selected axles of the number of braked axles which are subjected during braking, under control of the electronic control unit to a braking pressure which exceeds a braking pressure corresponding to the braking requirement for the braking; and

sensors for measuring at least one variable representing the maximum transmittable frictional force in each case between the wheels of the selected axles and the rail, the at least one variable being selected from the group consisting of;

wheel rotational speed, wheel circumferential acceleration, braking force, braking torque and braking pressure, wherein the sensors transfer the measured variable to the electronic control unit,

wherein the electronic control unit

identifies at least one axle with brake slip from a list in which the selected axles are assigned to their respectively transmittable frictional force, wherein the identified at least one axle with brake slip has a brake slip which exceeds a predefined degree and activates antislip regulation,

calculates lost braking work at the at least one axle with brake slip from the difference between the braking work which would have been carried out without activation of the antislip regulation at this at least one axle with brake slip and the actual braking work performed at this at least one axle with brake slip,

identifies, from the list, at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip for transmitting a greater frictional force than can be transmitted by the axle with brake slip,

wherein the brake actuators at the at least one axle without brake slip or with a permissible degree of brake slip are applied under the control of the electronic control unit during the braking, in such a way that the braking work which is lost at the at least one axle with brake slip is at least partially compensated.

6. The friction brake system of claim 5, wherein the electronic control unit performs the calculation using a variable representing the braking work.