System and Process for Monitoring Railway Tracks
- Summary
- A railway monitoring system firstly includes an optical fiber. A first part of the fiber is attachable to one of a pair of tracks of a rail, and a characteristic of the first part of the fiber is variable in correspondence to variance of a characteristic of said one track where the first part of fiber is attached. The system also includes an optical signal emitter connected to the fiber for emitting an optical signal into the fiber, and the fiber generates at least a first altered optical signal, which contains information relating to the variance of the characteristic of the part of the fiber. The system further includes an optical signal analyzer connected to the fiber for receiving and analyzing the first altered optical signal so as to ascertain the variance of said characteristic of said one track based upon the information contained in the first altered optical signal.
- Supplementary Information
- Patent Number: EP2351680B1
Application Number: EP2010170811A
Inventor: Tam, Hwayaw | Ho, Siu Lau | Liu, Michael Shun
Priority Date: 29 Mar 2004
Priority Number: EP2351680B1
Application Date: 29 Mar 2004
Publication Date: 12 Dec 2012
IPC Current: B61L002304 | B61K000908 | B61L000116 | B61L002502 | G01D000526 | H04B001000
Assignee Applicant: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Title: System and process for monitoring railway tracks | System und Verfahren zur Überwachung von Eisenbahnstrecken | Système et procédé de surveillance d'une voie ferrée
Usefulness: System and process for monitoring railway tracks | System und Verfahren zur Überwachung von Eisenbahnstrecken | Système et procédé de surveillance d'une voie ferrée
Novelty: Railway monitoring system has optical signal analyzer which receives and analyzes altered optical signal to ascertain variance of characteristic of track based upon information in altered optical signal
- Industry
- Optics
- Sub Category
- Optical Fiber
- Application Date
- 26.07.2010
- Application No.
- 10170811.3
- Patent Information
- EP2351680B1
- Others
- TAM Hwa-yaw
- ID No.
- IP-159
- Country/Region
- Hong Kong
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