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US 11,511,686 B2Granted
Enhanced communication system for vehicle hazard lights
AssigneeESS-Help, Inc.
InventorsDavid M. Tucker, Daniel Anthony Tucker, John Zachariah Cobb, Jonathan Torkelson, Denver Kimberlin, Devender Nath Maurya
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Abstract
A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.
Claims17
A system for implementing strobing illumination on an exterior of a vehicle comprising:
- a set of signal indicator lights visible on the exterior of the vehicle, including a left front signal indicator light, a left rear signal indicator light, a right front signal indicator light, and a right rear signal indicator light;
- an interface to a wiring harness of the vehicle configured to receive input via the wiring harness of the vehicle indicating that a user request for activation of set of signal indicator lights as vehicle hazard lights has been made;
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- a strobing circuit operatively connected to the interface to the wiring harness that responds to the input indicating that the user request for activation of vehicle hazard the set of signal indicator lights has been made by producing a first electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes the set of signal indicator to flash;
- wherein the strobing circuit responds without user request to a strobe activation signal from an automated vehicle safety system by producing a second electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes a strobing of a subset of the set of signal indicator lights, the subset including the left rear signal indicator and the right rear signal indicator;
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- wherein a cycle of the strobing is perceptibly faster than a cycle of flashing;
- and
- wherein the strobing circuit comprises a microcontroller programmed to produce the first electrical output causing the set of signal lights to flash and programmed to produce the second electrical output causing the strobing of the subset of signal lights.
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A system for implementing strobing illumination on an exterior of a vehicle comprising:
- a set of lights visible on the exterior of the vehicle including a left front indicator light element, a right front indicator light element, a left rear indicator light emitting diode (LED), and a right rear indicator LED;
- an interface to a wiring harness of the vehicle configured to receive input via the wiring harness of the vehicle indicating that a user request for activation of set of lights on the exterior of the vehicle as vehicle hazard lights has been made;
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- a strobing circuit operatively connected to the interface to the wiring harness that responds to the input indicating that the user request for activation of vehicle hazard lights has been made by producing a first electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes the set lights to flash;
- wherein the strobing circuit responds without user request to a strobe activation signal from an automated vehicle safety system by producing a second electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes a strobing of a the left rear indicator LED and right rear indicator LED;
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- wherein a cycle of the strobing is perceptibly faster than a cycle of the flashing;
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- wherein the strobing circuit comprises a microcontroller programmed to produce the first electrical output causing the set of lights to flash and programmed to produce the second electrical output causing the strobing of the left rear indicator LED and right rear indicator LED.
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A system for implementing strobing illumination on an exterior of a vehicle comprising:
- a set of light emitting diodes (LEDs) visible on the exterior of the vehicle, including a left front indicator LED, a left rear indicator LED, a right front indicator LED, and a right rear indicator LED;
- an interface to a wiring harness of the vehicle configured to receive input via the wiring harness of the vehicle indicating that a user request for activation of set of LEDs as vehicle hazard lights has been made;
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- a strobing circuit operatively connected to the interface to the wiring harness that responds to the input indicating that the user request for activation of vehicle hazard lights has been made by producing a first electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes the set of LEDs to flash;
- wherein the strobing circuit responds without user request to a strobe activation signal from an automated vehicle safety system by producing a second electrical output through the interface to the wiring harness of the vehicle that causes a strobing of the left rear indicator LED and the right rear indicator LED of the set of LEDs;
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- wherein a cycle of the strobing is perceptibly faster than a cycle of the flashing;
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- wherein the strobing circuit comprises a microcontroller programmed to produce the first electrical output causing the set of LEDs to flash and programmed to produce the second electrical output causing the strobing of the set of LEDs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.