BRAKE BLOCK WEAR DETECTION UNIT OF RAILWAY VEHICLE, AND SET OF THE SAME

• Main Authors: SATO YOSHI, MIYAZAKI TAKASHI, MITSUE MASAYUKI, YOSHIMATSU YUTA, TADA AKIHIKO, IKEDA KAZUTSUNA, NISHIMURA TAKEHIRO, SEKIYA TAKAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 22.03.2019
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS OR DISPOSITIONS OF BRAKES OR OTHER RETARDINGAPPARATUS IN RAIL VEHICLES; BLASTING; BRAKES; BRAKES OR OTHER RETARDING APPARATUS PECULIAR TO RAILVEHICLES; CALCULATING; CLUTCHES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OTHER AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT FOR RAILWAYS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RAILWAYS; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

To provide a constitution which can highly precisely detect wear of a brake block of a railway vehicle.SOLUTION: A brake block wear detection unit includes a wear detection RF tag attached at a wear limit of a brake block of a railway vehicle tread brake or at a position nearer to a brake surface th...