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US 12,358,420 B2Granted
Display system for use in conjunction with driver protection apparatus
AssigneeImpressive Ideas Limited
InventorsChristopher Taylor, Lucas Di Grassi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a vehicle including driving protection apparatus which is located at or adjacent to the position of the driver when operating the vehicle. There is provided, in location with or adjacent to the driver protection apparatus, visual display means which are selectively operated to provide an indication of the condition of the vehicle and/or driver of the vehicle and/or the environment in which the vehicle is located at a particular instant of time.
Claims10
A vehicle, said vehicle comprising:
- a driver protection apparatus located at or adjacent to a position of a driver's head when operating the vehicle,
- said driver protection apparatus including a plurality of frame members selectively located or formed integrally with a body of the vehicle,
- a visual display system including one or a plurality of light sources located on at least one of said plurality of frame members which are selectively operated to provide an indication of available power of the vehicle, and
- wherein the visual display system and the vehicle interact to allow signals of information relating to the available power of the vehicle to be sent from the vehicle to the visual display system to operate the one or more light sources to indicate an increase of the available power to move the vehicle to a power boost mode at a particular instant of time and to automatically send a signal of information indicating a change to the power boost mode of operation of the vehicle to change the visual display system for a duration of a provision of the power boost mode of the available power of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.