Trailer wiring harness with integrated cellular tracking device
AssigneeR.A. Phillips Industries, Inc.
InventorsDaniel William Forthoffer, Thomas Dale Peterson
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Abstract
A harness tracking system includes a main body, a first connector at a first end of the main body and including a plurality of terminals configured to transmit electrical signals, a plurality of wires at a second end of the main body opposite the first end, the plurality of wires being electrically connected to the plurality of terminals of the first connector, and a tracking circuit embedded within the main body and configured to track a position of the harness tracking system and to communicate the position to an external device.
Claims19
A harness tracking system of a vehicle, the harness tracking system comprising:
- a main body;
- a first connector at a first end of the main body and comprising a plurality of terminals configured to transmit electrical signals;
- a plurality of wires at a second end of the main body opposite the first end, the plurality of wires being electrically connected to the plurality of terminals of the first connector;
- a tracking circuit embedded within the main body and comprising a controller and a cellular transceiver, the tracking circuit being configured to track a position of the harness tracking system and to communicate the position to an external device;
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- a data port at the main body and configured to receive sensor data from an external data interface board and to transmit the sensor data to the controller,
- wherein the controller is configured to receive the sensor data from the external data interface board via the data port, to process the sensor data, and to communicate the processed sensor data to the cellular transceiver for transmission to the external device.
A harness tracking system of a vehicle, the harness tracking system comprising:
- a main body;
- a first connector at a first end of the main body and comprising a plurality of terminals configured to transmit electrical signals, the plurality of terminals comprise a power terminal and a ground terminal;
- a plurality of wires at a second end of the main body opposite the first end, the plurality of wires being electrically connected to the plurality of terminals of the first connector;
- a tracking circuit embedded within the main body and configured to track a position of the harness tracking system and to communicate the position to an external device, the tracking circuit being configured to be powered by the power terminal;
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- a charge port configured to be coupled to an external battery, to supply electrical charge to the external battery in the presence of electrical power at the power terminal, and to receive electrical power from the external battery in the absence of electrical power at the power terminal.
A harness tracking system of a vehicle, the harness tracking system comprising:
- a main body;
- a first connector at a first end of the main body and comprising a plurality of terminals configured to transmit electrical signals;
- a plurality of wires at a second end of the main body opposite the first end, the plurality of wires being electrically connected to the plurality of terminals of the first connector;
- a data port at the main body and configured to receive sensor data from an external data interface board;
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- a tracking circuit embedded within the main body and configured to receive the sensor data from the external data interface board via the data port, to track a position of the harness tracking system, and to communicate the position and the sensor data to an external device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.