An apparatus for detecting a failure of a gladhand coupler connecting a towing component and a trailer component of a commercial or railroad vehicle. The towing component is configured with a triggerable mechanism adapted to change, through the gladhand coupler, a pressure for braking the trailer component. The apparatus includes a triggering module, configured to trigger the mechanism, and a detection module, configured to detect a reaction of the commercial or railroad vehicle after the triggering module has triggered the mechanism, to attribute the reaction to a failure of the gladhand coupler, and to issue a warning signal about the failure of the gladhand coupler.
APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A FAILURE OF A GLADHAND COUPLER
2024-08-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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