Environment Activated Automatic Shut-off Switch System and Method
AssigneeGrote Industries, Inc.
InventorsDon Gramlich, Timothy W. Brooks, Luigi Tavernese, Giovanni Tavernese
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Abstract
An environment-activated automatic shut-off switch is disclosed. The disclosed embodiments allow power to be removed from a trailer auxiliary power circuit when the environment-activated automatic shut-off switch senses that the trailer is being put into motion. The disclosed embodiments of the environment-activated automatic shut-off switch do not require external control signals, such as those received from a vehicle tractor, in order to effectively control the trailer auxiliary power circuit and to ensure that the trailer ABS circuit has dedicated power while the trailer is in motion.
Claims13
An anti-lock brake power circuit for a vehicular trailer, comprising:
- an environmental sensor operative to detect when the trailer has begun moving;
- an auxiliary power circuit;
- a shut-off switch that removes power from the auxiliary power circuit when the environmental sensor detects that the trailer has begun moving.
A method of eliminating potential amperage and voltage drains on an anti-lock braking circuit for a vehicular trailer having an auxiliary power outlet, the method comprising:
- providing an environmental sensor operative to detect when the trailer has begun moving;
- providing a shut-of switch that regulates power from to the anti-lock braking circuit to the auxiliary power outlet;
- opening the shut-of switch when the environmental sensor detects that the vehicular trailer has begun moving, such that power and current to the auxiliary power outlet is turned off.
An anti-lock brake power circuit for a vehicular trailer, comprising:
- an environmental sensor means for detecting when the trailer has begun moving;
- an auxiliary power circuit;
- a shut-off switch that removes power from the auxiliary power circuit when the environmental sensor detects that the trailer has begun moving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.