Patent ID: 9533668
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B60L,B60T,B61H

Claim:
1. A rail vehicle braking device, comprising: at least one first electrodynamic brake having a drive unit with at least one drive motor and a power supply unit for supplying power to the drive motor in a traction mode of said drive unit, and having at least one closed-loop braking control unit containing the respective said power supply unit and at least one braking control unit, which, in a first braking mode, controls the respective said power supply unit to provide a braking effect; at least one sensor unit configured to detect at least one braking effect characteristic quantity for the first braking mode of the electrodynamic brake; and at least one first braking monitoring apparatus, assigned to said at least one first electrodynamic brake, and being independent of said closed-loop braking control unit, said at least one first braking monitoring apparatus being configured for taking into consideration the braking effect characteristic quantity for initiating a fallback measure relating to the brake in a first monitoring mode.