Disclosed is an apparatus (100) for detecting a failure of a gladhand coupler (10) connecting a towing component (50) and a trailer component (60) of a commercial or railroad vehicle. The towing component (50) is configured with a triggerable mechanism (55) adapted to change, through the gladhand coupler (10), a pressure for braking the trailer component (60). The apparatus (100) is characterized by a triggering module (110), configured to trigger the mechanism (55); and by a detection module (120), configured to detect a reaction of the commercial or railroad vehicle (70) after the triggering module (110) has triggered the mechanism (55), to attribute the reaction to a failure of the gladhand coupler (10), and to issue a warning signal (130) about the failure of the gladhand coupler (10).
APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A FAILURE OF A GLADHAND COUPLER
VORRICHTUNG ZUR ERKENNUNG EINES FEHLERS EINES GLADHAND KUPPLUNG
APPAREIL DE DÉTECTION D'UNE DÉFAILLANCE D'UN COUPLEUR DE TYPE TÊTE D'ACCOUPLEMENT
2024-04-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60T Bremsanlagen für Fahrzeuge oder Teile davon , VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF |
AUTONOMOUS GLADHAND WITH LIGHT ASSIST GLADHAND POSITIONING
European Patent Office | 2025
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