US 12,033,489 B1Granted

Systems and methods for detecting water events in vehicles

AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)

InventorsStefanie Jean Acosta, Carlos J P Chavez, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Michael Joseph Gaeta, Stacy Callaway Huggar, Emily Kathleen Krebs, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Mitzi Ruiz

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Abstract

Systems and methods of the present disclosure include a vehicle water detection system that includes a housing configured to be disposed within a vehicle. The vehicle water detection system also includes a water-activated battery disposed within the housing and configured to produce an electrical voltage upon contact with water. The vehicle water detection system further includes an electronic circuitry disposed within the housing and configured to detect a water event occurring in the vehicle based at least in part on the electrical voltage.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle water detection system, comprising:

a water-activated battery configured to produce an electrical voltage upon contact with water;
one or more sensors configured to detect one or more vehicle condition parameters relating to one or more conditions within a vehicle;
and
circuitry configured to detect a water event occurring in the vehicle based at least in part on the electrical voltage, to at least partially power the circuitry and the one or more sensors using the electrical voltage, to receive data relating to the one or more vehicle condition parameters from the one or more sensors, and to transmit an alert that the water event has occurred to one or more devices external to the vehicle based at least in part on the data relating to the one or more vehicle condition parameters.

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Facts

Application: 18/306,789Filed 25 Apr 2023 · continuation
Priority: 24 Jan 2019
Granted: 9 Jul 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

G07C 5/008
Registering or indicating the working of vehicles: communicating information to a remotely located station
G08B 21/20
Status alarms: responsive to moisture
B60R 16/02
Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits…:…
B60R 21/00
Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants

Family

Application62/796,413Us provisional application · filed 24 Jan 2019
Application16/749,649Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Jan 2020
Application17/736,761Parent of this continuation · filed 4 May 2022
US 11,348,440 B1Parent of this continuation · filed 31 May 2022
US 11,670,155 B1Parent of this continuation
US 12,033,489 B1This patent

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