Light system for response vehicle
AssigneeOshkosh Corporation
InventorEric Linsmeier
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Abstract
A fire apparatus includes a chassis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a body coupled to the chassis, a light system, and a vehicle controller. The light system includes a lightbar and a plurality of lights. The lightbar is coupled to the cab. The lightbar includes a plurality of lightbar lights and a lightbar controller. The plurality of lights are positioned about at least one of the cab or the body. The plurality of lights are directly coupled to the lightbar controller via a local interconnect network. The vehicle controller is directly coupled to the lightbar controller via a controller area network.
Claims20
A fire apparatus comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cab coupled to the chassis;
- a body coupled to the chassis;
- a local interconnect network;
- a controller area network separate from the local area network;
- a light system including:
- a lightbar coupled to the cab, the lightbar including a plurality of lightbar lights and a lightbar controller;
- and
- a plurality of lights positioned about at least one of the cab or the body, the plurality of lights directly coupled to the lightbar controller via the local interconnect network;
- and
- a vehicle controller directly coupled to the lightbar controller via the controller area network.
A light system for a response vehicle, the light system comprising:
- a lightbar configured to couple to a portion of the response vehicle, the lightbar including a plurality of lightbar lights and a lightbar controller configured to couple to a vehicle controller of the response vehicle via a controller area network;
- and
- a plurality of lights configured to be positioned about the response vehicle, the plurality of lights configured to couple to the lightbar controller via a local interconnect network;
- wherein the lightbar controller is configured to control operation of the plurality of lightbar lights and the plurality of lights.
A response vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cab coupled to the chassis;
- a body coupled to the chassis;
- a vehicle controller;
- and
- a light system including:
- a lightbar coupled to the cab, the lightbar communicably coupled to the vehicle controller, the lightbar including a housing with lightbar lights and a lightbar controller disposed therein;
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- a plurality of lights positioned about at least one of the cab or the body, the plurality of lights communicably coupled to the lightbar controller;
- wherein the vehicle controller is configured to transmit a control signal to the lightbar controller;
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- wherein the lightbar controller is configured to control the lightbar lights and the plurality of lights based on the control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.