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5021778 Capacitance coupled proximity identification system  
A reader section has a reader circuit connected to three parallel metal plates. The center plate is excited by an alternating voltage and the other two plates are excited by an inverse voltage. An...
5019815 Radio frequency controlled interrogator-responder system with passive code generator  
An electronic system for automatically identifying objects employing microminiature electronic circuitry supported by each object and containing three operable subsystems, (a) a means for...
5008666 Traffic measurement equipment  
Traffic measurement equipment has a pair of coaxial cables having barium titanate piezo-electric responsive crystals embedded in the polymer together with a vehicle presence detector to indicate...
4970389 Vehicle identification system  
Vehicle (4) are automatically identified using a specially constructed windshield (8) which carries identifying indicia (10). The window is a layered construction, similar to safety glass, and...
4968979 Vehicle detecting system  
A vehicle detecting system for detecting the number of vehicles which pass the roadway, thereby realizing the smooth flow of vehicles. This system comprises: a transmitting coil and a receiving...
4945356 Strip material for and a surface mounted inductive loop  
A strip material (18) for forming an inductive loop (10) adapted to be applied to the surface of a roadway (12). The strip material (18) consists of and the loop (10) is formed from a ductile,...
4943805 Conduit-enclosed induction loop for a vehicle detector  
An induction loop and a method of making an induction loop having conduit sections connected by a coupling assembly. The coupling assembly includes a passageway-defining body having ends for...
4939512 Modular, non-metallic, hard shell, predimensioned, preformed and sealed induction loop vehicle detection system and method of installation  
An induction loop vehicle detection system and method of making and installing such a system are disclosed wherein the conduit sections containing the induction loop are preformed and prewired...
4920340 Vehicle detecting method and system which can communicate with vehicles  
A vehicle detecting system detects the existence of a vehicle on a roadway and communicates therewith in the following manner. A pair of transmitting and receiving coils are arranged on both sides...
4908615 Traffic light control system and method  
Preferred embodiments include a radar traffic light control system with a transmitter/receiver module including an array (103) of interconnected microstrip patch antennas (38) which also act as the...
4868538 Random signature island circuit  
An island circuit detects the presence of a train on a crossing island, and, in response, de-energizes a normally energized relay to activate a warning. A random signature signal is generated and...
4863123 Process and system for localizing a mobile unit which travels on a system of railroads  
A process for localizing a mobile unit on a railway network, with a system that includes: a sensor (R) in the form of radar having an antenna (A) which is integral to the mobile unit and that...
4862163 Traffic monitoring system  
An improved traffic monitoring system is disclosed in which a microprocessor is connected to an analog to digital converter providing a series of digital samples of the pressure within a road tube...
4855737 Track circuit signalling arrangement  
A digital signal is used for railway track circuit signalling. A digital signal comprises a pseudo-random binary sequence selected from a set of such sequences. The set is chosen to give the lowest...
4839648 Method of determining the trajectory of a body suitable for moving along a portion of a path, and apparatus for implementing the method  
A method of determining the trajectory of a body (1) such as a vehicle body on a relatively plane path portion (2), the method being characterized in that it consists: in forming a main real image...
4789941 Computerized vehicle classification system  
A computerized ultrasonic system is disclosed for classification of vehicular traffic, as at a toll collection booth. An ultrasonic ranging unit is mounted above the traffic lane, facing downward....
4787581 Train detection system operating in accordance with the axle-counting principle  
A train detection system is disclosed which works on the axle-counting principle and in which preprocessing units each containing a two-microprocessor system are associated with the individual...
4670844 Traffic control system for drive-in banks  
A novel drive-in traffic control for a bank which includes a computer for controlling the various signs, teller stations, supervisor's desk panel, sensors and a printer and which has provisions for...
4661799 Loop detector  
An inductive loop detector which includes a detector which is coupled to the loop by means of a parallel tuned circuit and a receiver which is coupled to the loop by means of a parallel tuned...
4603640 Device for incrementally identifying the vehicle position of a magnet levitation vehicle  
The incremental detection of the vehicle position of a magnetic levitation vehicle, particularly having an elongate stator motor, can occur with at least one coded measuring strip which extends in...
4582279 Modulation system for railway track circuits  
A modulation system for railway track circuits in which a modulated signal is applied to a section of track for the purpose of detecting the presence or absence of a train on the section. Such...
4566008 Fault detecting circuit and method for a vehicle detector system  
Apparatus and method for a circuit which is connected in series between the call signal output of a vehicle detector and the call signal input of a traffic controller is disclosed. Under normal...
4549182 System for encouraging the return of vehicles such as trolleys  
Users need to be encouraged to return vehicles such as airport baggage trolleys or supermarket trolleys to a vehicle storage area. The area is equipped with an entrance fitted with a system for...
4532511 Automatic vehicle identification system and method  
An automatic vehicle identification system for use in identifying and routing vehicles, such as railway cars or other vehicles which routinely travel a given track or path. A passive electronic...
4529982 Vehicle locating system  
Location-representative signals are communicated to vehicles (12, 14, 16) by modifying existing traffic detector stations of the type utilizing an inductive coil (20) embedded in the roadway (22)....
4491840 Intervehicle distance control system for vehicles  
An intervehicle distance control system for a vehicle which, when there exists a possibility of collision between the vehicle and an interfering object ahead thereof, generates a control signal and...
4481516 Low visibility runway monitor  
A runway collision avoidance system having warning devices is provided for the safety of aircraft taxiing, taking off, and landing. The system is capable of detecting ground traffic and obstacles...
4438429 Emergency signal transceiver for disabled car  
An emergency signal transceiver for a disabled vehicle for generating a repetitive pulse signal, digital apparatus for producing a pulse signal from such a received repetitive pulse signal for...
4433325 Optical vehicle detection system  
An optical vehicle detection system comprising camera means for catching the image of a vehicle running in a selected roadway lane to generate an output video signal, inquiring means for inquiring...
4430636 Loop detector for traffic signal control  
A circuit used in a traffic control apparatus for detecting changes in the frequency of an oscillator which has an inductive loop-sensor as a resonating element. The circuit comprises a...
4383239 Detector for detecting the passage of heavy objects on a roadway  
A detector for detecting the passage of heavy objects on a roadway, wherein the detector is an elongate strip in the form of nested channel-section members, said members comprising, from the...
4374299 Triboelectric transducer cable  
Two embodiments of a triboelectric transducer cable for generating a signal in response to movement or deformation of the cable each include multiple insulated central conductors, a semi-conductive...
4370718 Responsive traffic light control system and method based on conservation of aggregate momentum  
A system to improve traffic flow on all types of interconnected roadways, which reduces fuel consumption, emissions and trip times, is based on adaptive control of traffic signal timing. The...
4364043 Efficient object identification system  
A system for the remote identification of objects using near-field electromagnetic coupling between an interrogator a transponder and a receiver in which a reply carrier at a subharmonic of the...
4360795 Detection means  
An apparatus for determining the time of the closest point of approach of a taxiing aircraft comprising a microphone means for producing an input signal in response to the sound energy of a taxiing...
4358749 Object detection  
In a vehicle detector installation employing an inductive sensing loop that is a frequency determining element of an oscillator, the oscillator is provided with a voltage controlled capacitor as...
4353054 Stop sign watcher, a device for monitoring vehicles at full stop sign intersections  
A STOP SIGN monitoring device; containing a counter, audible alarm and switching provisions for photographic equipment. An electrical pulse is generated whenever a vehicle fails to make a defined...
4352086 Method and a circuit arrangement for modifying control information in a traffic signal system, particularly a street traffic signal system  
A method and a circuit arrangement for modifying central control information commands forming signal programs in traffic signal systems in particular street traffic signal systems, the central...
4317117 Cross correlated doppler radar/infra red velocity and presence sensor  
A doppler radar and infra red sensor focused by common means onto a region, will, with appropriate cross correlation, provide improved velocity and presence sensing in a complex uncontrolled...
4315242 Device for determining the moment when competitors in a race are passing the finishing line  
Each competitor in a race is provided with a transmitter. At the finishing line, two receiving antennae (10,11) are mounted which, when the finishing line is passed, are responsive to the field of...
4271512 Information collection and storage system with memory test circuit  
An information recording system having an electrical circuit for counting serially occurring pulses, the number of which is indicative of certain information, a memory storage unit adapted to be...
4229726 Portable electronic traffic event recorder  
Apparatus for recording traffic events occurring at a variety of vehicular traffic passageways, such apparatus including a portable housing unit having a keyboard presenting a predetermined pattern...
4219878 Speed measuring device  
A special accessory for traffic radar devices includes two operating routines. These routines are to be used with a programmable microprocessor which comprises a portion of the traffic radar...
4219802 Scanning barrier for the discrimination and counting of objects and more specifically of vehicles in transit through a laminar barrage of electromagnetic microwaves  
A scanning barrier which can detect and discriminate objects which are within the scanned area. A transmitter on one side of the scanned area transmits a laminar barrage of electromagnetic...
4209783 Object identification system  
A transmitting/receiving antenna radiates a sweep frequency signal as an interrogation signal to an answer device. The answer device includes a plurality of resonators which are connected in...
4192394 Alarm system for platform scale  
To prevent inaccurate weighing on a platform scale in the event that a driver of a motor vehicle has purposefully or inadvertently positioned his vehicle with one or more of the vehicle wheels...
4182989 System for establishing a communication link between a ground station and each of vehicle drivers within a limited communication area  
a system for establishing a communication link between a ground station and each of vehicle drivers, wherein information is transferred in a compressed manner with respect to time while a vehicle...
4126856 Scales annunciator  
An annunciator to indicate the presence of a truck on a weighing platform to a weigh station operator is disclosed. The apparatus includes a presence sensor operable in response to the weight of...
4068211 Vehicle identification system having error detection means  
Vehicle identification system comprising a carrier period detector in which, to increase the accuracy of identification signals received, the identification signal is rejected and a new...
4064501 Control system  
By this invention a system for controlling the servicing of customers arriving in a vehicle at a service area is provided, in which system the arrival of the vehicle, the supplying of the services...