Locomotive driver's cab

• US 9,592,844 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Mobility GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Schaeper, Wilhelm, Porsch, Roland
• Primary Examiner(s): McCarry, Jr., R. J.
• Application Number:
  US14/227,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20140209757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• Field of Search: 246/167.R, 246/174, 246/184, 246/185, 246/191
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/009 On-board display devices
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/0138 comprising image capture systems, e.g. camera
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

A locomotive driver'"'"'s cab allows a locomotive driver a comparatively long time for observing a route by providing the locomotive driver'"'"'s cab with a front vision display for displaying rail-vehicle-relevant information in the field of vision of the locomotive driver.

Claims

1. A locomotive driver'"'"'s cab of a railway vehicle, the locomotive driver'"'"'s cab comprising:

a front-view display for displaying information relevant to the railway vehicle;

said front-view display having a projection screen being a windshield of the railway vehicle;

said front-view display having an imaging unit supplied with two similar types of information from different systems and configured to output optical signals of different color for said information from said different systems;

said front-view display having an optical module containing two mirror systems aligned to cause the optical signals relating to different information to be incident at the same point on said projection screen, the optical signals each providing a respective projection on said projection screen having a shape depending on said information to be displayed; and

said optical module superimposing said information from said different systems on said projection screen to permit the driver to check an agreement between said information from said different systems by layering the optical signals over one another such that;

a) if said information from said two systems is the same, a resulting projection of the optical signals on said projection screen

a1) has a shape corresponding to a shape of said projection of each optical signal and

a2) has a color being a mixture of the different colors of the optical signals, and

b) if said information from said two systems is different, a resulting projection has different colors and a different shape.

2. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 1, which further comprises:

a train protection device having an operating system; and

a vehicle controller having an operating system;

said imaging unit being connected to said operating system of said vehicle controller and said operating system of said train protection device.

3. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 1, which further comprises:

a camera system disposed at a front of the railway vehicle and having an evaluation device;

said imaging unit being connected to said evaluation device for displaying a track route on said projection screen.

4. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 3, wherein said evaluation device cooperates with the imaging unit such that the track route displayed on said projection screen is marked with a stopping point, said stopping point corresponding to a point on the track being reached when a full braking of the vehicle is performed.

5. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 3, wherein said evaluation device is configured to display the track route on said projection screen with detection of obstructions.

6. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 1, wherein said two similar types of information are safety-relevant information.

7. The locomotive driver'"'"'s cab according to claim 1, wherein said two similar types of information are speed information, and the optical signals are relevant to different speed information and each produce a seven segment display on the same point of said projection screen.