US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE on Oct. 6 for "Magnetic track brake having a high-position detecting means installed in or on the actuation cylinder" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,822, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE GmbH (Austria).

"Magnetic track brake having a high-position detecting means installed in or on the actuation cylinder" was invented by Dominik Katzler (Vienna), Michael Kassan (Steinabruckl, Austria), Daniel Tippelt (Wiener Neustadt, Austria) and Volker Joergl (Breitenfurt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic track braking device for a rail vehicle includes at least one pressure-medium-actuated actuation cylinder, which has a cylinder housing and an actuation piston movable relative to the cylinder housing, at least one magnet apparatus, which can be lowered into a low...