Westinghouse Electric

About: Westinghouse Electric is a company organization based out in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Brake & Signal. The organization has 27959 authors who have published 38036 publications receiving 523387 citations.

Railway braking apparatus

Abstract: Apparatus for indicating the condition of hand brakes on railway cars and for applying and releasing railway car parking or hand brakes automatically in response to predetermined conditions including movement of a train, wayside conditioning apparatus, wayside operating mechanism, a signal controlled by an operator and performance of predetermined railway operating procedures, such as completion of an air brake test procedure. The apparatus may respond to mechanical, electrical and electronic signals and may operate on pneumatic or electric power provided from the service air brake system of a train or from a source of power outside of such air brake system.

Electron and Chemical Kinetics in the Low-Pressure RF Discharge Etching of Silicon in SF6

Abstract: Monte Carlo simulation and Boltzmann equation solutions have been used to study the electron kinetics. All electronic excitation of SF6 is assumed to be dissociative in analogy with the known product channels in ionization and multiphoton dissociation. The electric-field-to-gas-density ratios are high (E/n ? 1000 Td, where 1 Td (Townsend) = 1 × 10-17 V . cm2) in low-pressure (p < 0.3 torr) radiofrequency (RF) discharges. At these high E/n values, the electron energy relaxation time is much shorter than the 74-ns period at 13.56 MHz. Furthermore, the time scale of the chemical kinetics is much longer than the period of the applied RF voltage. Therefore the electron energy distribution can "track" the time-varying electric field, and time- and space-averaged rate coefficients can be used in chemical kinetics models. A rate equation model has been used to study the chemical kinetic processes. Electron-impact dissociation and ionization are the dominant sources of chemically active species. An electron density of 1 × 108 cm-3 is estimated from the known average values of E/n and the discharge input power. Two limiting cases are studied for the positive and negative ion diffusion losses: a) trapped negative ions and positive ion loss at the ambipolar diffusion rate; and b) positive and negative ion losses at the free diffusion rates. Neutral particle diffusion losses are estimated by using an effective diffusion length which takes surface reflection into account and increases as the surface reflection probability increases.

Method and apparatus for instrumenting a gas turbine component having a barrier coating

Abstract: A method ( 50 ) of instrumenting a component ( 10 ) having a barrier coating ( 14 ). A sensor ( 76 ) is embedded within or below the coating. Material forming the sensor is deposited within a trench ( 80 ) formed into the barrier coating. The trench is then backfilled with material ( 70 ) to protect the sensor from the environment within which the component is operating. In this manner, the sensor may be embedded at any desired location and any desired depth within a barrier coating on a previously fabricated component. An array of sensors ( 98, 100, 102 ) may be embedded across the depth of the coating to provide signals indicative of operating conditions across the coating. The signals may be conducted to a connection location ( 24 ) by conductors ( 62, 64 ) that are deposited within the trench. The trench may be formed with a laser engraving process ( 54 ) and the material for the sensor and conductors may be deposited with a selective laser melting process ( 58 ).

Active power conditioner system

Abstract: At least two active conditioners are connected in series with a common DC source, and are mounted as a unit between two pairs of AC terminals to act either as a tie-in link between two AC power sources, as a buck/boost regulator between one AC power source and its load, or as VAR compensator as well as active power conditioner between phases of a multiphase AC option.

Method of visually inspecting turbine blades and optical inspection system therefor

Abstract: An optical inspection system is for visually inspecting the blades of a turbine at turning gear operation. The inspection system includes an imager for capturing images of the blades, an optical passage coupled to the imager and structured to provide maximum viewing area of the blades through an inspection port in the turbine and an illuminating assembly adapted to illuminate the blades while the imager captures images thereof. A method wherein the captured blade images are inspected for blade defects, is also disclosed.