Method and apparatus for fault diagnosis in a rail vehicle

• US 20120065836A1
• Filed: 09/13/2010
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Heinrichs, Björn, Jungmann, Jörg, Matthias, Norman, Werkmeister, Norbert
• Application Number:
  US12/880,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20120065836A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/33.4
• CPC Class Codes: B61D 19/026 Safety devices for preventing passengers from being injured by movements of doors or variations in air pressure safety devices in passenger lifts for preventing trapping of passengers between closing doors B66B13/26; acting on power-operated mechanisms for wings E05F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0081 On-board diagnosis or maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0094 Recorders on the vehicle

Abstract

An apparatus and a method of diagnosis of a fault in a component of a rail vehicle are provided. A fault which has occurred in a component of the rail vehicle is detected by a diagnosis device, and associated fault data is stored. Further, data which originates from an acoustic and/or optical recording device in the rail vehicle and which contains information relating to the fault is stored and is included in the diagnosis of the fault.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method of diagnosing a fault in a component of a rail vehicle, comprising:

detecting a fault which has occurred in a component of a rail vehicle by a diagnosis device;

storing fault data relating to the fault occurred in the component;

storing data originating from a recording device of the rail vehicle and containing information relating to the fault; and

diagnosing the fault occurred in the component, wherein the data originating from the recording device and containing information relating to the fault are included in the diagnosing.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the recording device is an acoustic recording device.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the recording device is an optical recording device.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein a monitoring camera already provided in the rail vehicle is used as the recording device.

19. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein a camera specifically installed for the component is used as the recording device.

20. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein image data including at least one individual image is used as the fault data with information relating to the fault.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein a video sequence is used as the image data.

22. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the fault data is included manually in the diagnosing the fault.

23. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the fault data is included automatically in the diagnosing the fault.

24. An apparatus for diagnosing a fault in a component of a rail vehicle, comprising:

a diagnosis device for detecting a fault which has occurred in a component of a rail vehicle;

a memory for storing fault data; and

a recording device for detecting and recording data containing information relating to the fault.

25. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the recording device is an acoustic recording device.

26. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the recording device is an optical recording device.

27. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein a monitoring camera already provided in the rail vehicle is used as the recording device.

28. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein a camera specifically installed for the component is used as the recording device.

29. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the recording device provides image data as the fault data, the image data comprising at least one individual image of a faulty component.

30. The apparatus as claimed in claim 29, wherein the image data is a video sequence.

31. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the diagnosis device and the recording device are separate devices.

32. The apparatus as claimed in claim 24, wherein the diagnosis device and the recording device include a signaling connection for diagnosing the fault.