Patent ID: 7340329
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: B60L,B60M,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An electrified vehicle for traveling over path having a sectionalized electrified conductor running along the path, the electrified sections being separated by neutral sections, the vehicle including a source collector and a circuit breaker which is opened by a control system when the control system determines that source collector is passing through the neutral section; the vehicle being part of a train of vehicles; another vehicles in the train including a source collector and a circuit breaker which is opened by a control system when the control system determines the source collector of the another vehicle is passing through the neutral section; and the control system on the vehicle and the another vehicle comprising: a memory storing the geographic location of the neutral sections along the path; a GPS system for determining the geographic location of the vehicle; and a program for determining the position of the vehicle relative to the position of the neutral section from the memory device using the GPS determined location of the vehicle and provides controls for maintaining the circuit breaker open as the source collector passes through the neutral section.