Patent ID: 7328872

Claim:
An integrated controller system for railroad model accessories and operating cars, but not the driving engine, remotely programmed and controlled by an existing computer or an existing handheld transmitter, the system comprising: a miniature remote receiving device comprising a built-in antenna, the receiving device attached to model railroad component in the form of an accessory or an operating car, but not the driving engine, in a location which is not readily visible, the receiving device comprising: a pulse recovery circuit sampling and recovering a variety of pulses as recovered pulses in a model railroad environment, the pulses representing various commands used in a variety of different controls in a variety of different model railroad systems; a micro-controller decoder circuit receiving the recovered pulses from the pulse recovery circuit and decoding the recovered pulses into action commands representing key presses on a variety of remote control devices; an output driver circuit determining that a command is appropriate to a model railroad component to which it is attached and providing an action in response to the command; a specialized power distribution circuit providing power noise immunity to keep the micro-controller decoder circuit supplied with voltage and running normally under brief interruptions of power; the remote receiving device remotely programmed wirelessly by an existing remote control device to provide remote assignment of programmable voltage and pulse duration, and ID and class assignment and to provide at least one on/off output at a desired percentage of a supplied voltage for controlling lighting and other appropriate on/off behavior accessories separate from the driving engine, thereby creating an integrated controller system for railroad model accessories and operating cars but not the driving engine, remotely programmed and controlled by an existing computer or an existing handheld transmitter.