Wearable safety lighting system
OwnerMark W. Jonesinventor
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Abstract
A wearable lighting system includes a first wireless communications device such as a transmitter disposed within a vehicle, a light-emitting device worn by a user, and a second wireless communications device such as a sensor. The sensor is worn by the user and is in wireless communication with the transmitter. The sensor is adapted to activate the light-emitting device when the sensor is greater than a threshold distance from the transmitter and adapted to deactivate the light-emitting device when the sensor is a less than or equal to the threshold distance from the transmitter, thereby causing the light-emitting device to automatically activate upon the user exiting the vehicle and automatically deactivate when the user returns to the vehicle.
Claims20
A wearable lighting system comprising:
- a first wireless communicator adapted to be disposed within a vehicle;
- a light-emitting device adapted to be worn by a user;
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- a second wireless communicator in wireless communication with said first wireless communicator and adapted to be worn by the user;
- wherein said second wireless communicator is adapted to activate said light-emitting device when one of said first and second wireless communicators detects a distance greater than a threshold distance between said second wireless communicator and said first wireless communicator;
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- wherein said second wireless communicator is adapted to deactivate the light emitting device when one of said first and second wireless communicators detects a distance less than or equal to the threshold distance between said first and second wireless transmitters.
A method for selectively activating a light-emitting device of a wearable lighting system, said method comprising:
- determining a distance between a first wireless communications device disposed within a vehicle and a second wireless communications device, wherein the second wireless communications device and the light-emitting device are worn by a user;
- activating the light-emitting device with the second wireless communications device if the determined distance is above a distance threshold;
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- deactivating the light-emitting device with the second wireless communications device if the determined distance is below the distance threshold.
A wearable lighting system comprising:
- a transmitter adapted to be disposed within a vehicle;
- a wearable portion adapted to be worn by a user, wherein said wearable portion comprises:
- a light-emitting device;
- a sensor in wireless communication with said transmitter;
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- a first switch adapted to selectively connect and disconnect a power supply from said light-emitting device;
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- a manual switch electrically coupled to said light-emitting device and adapted to selectively activate and deactivate said light-emitting device when said manual switch is actuated;
- wherein said sensor is adapted to activate said light-emitting device when said sensor detects a distance greater than a threshold distance between said sensor and said transmitter, wherein said sensor is adapted to activate and deactivate said light-emitting device by outputting at least one actuation signal to the first switch, and wherein activating said light-emitting device connects the power supply to said light-emitting device;
- wherein said sensor is adapted to deactivate said light emitting device when said sensor detects a distance less than or equal to the threshold distance between said sensor and said transmitter, and wherein deactivating said light-emitting device disconnects the power supply from said light-emitting device;
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- wherein said manual switch is actuatable to supersede said sensor from activating and deactivating said light-emitting device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.