Enhanced communication system for vehicle hazard lights
OwnerDavid M. Tucker, Daniel Anthony Tucker +4inventors
InventorsDAVID M. TUCKER, DANIEL ANTHONY TUCKER, JOHN ZACHARIAH COBB, JONATHAN TORKELSON, DENVER KIMBERLIN, DEVENDER NATH MAURYA
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Abstract
A system for implementing strobing of existing vehicle hazard lights including an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to receive input to an existing vehicle flasher module, and a strobing circuit that responds to an activation signal from the vehicle wiring harness that is indicative of a hazard flasher deployment event by producing an electrical output through the interface to the vehicle wiring harness that causes a strobing of existing vehicle hazard lamps.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a microcontroller having operational control over a set of vehicle lights corresponding to left and ride sides of the vehicle;
- a plurality of sensors associated with the vehicle and configured to provide data to the microcontroller indicative of whether the vehicle is nearer the left or right side of a roadway on which the vehicle was travelling;
- wherein, when the microcontroller receives a request to strobe lights associated with the vehicle it strobes the set of vehicles light from right to left if the vehicle is within a first predetermined distance of a right side of the roadway;
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- wherein, when the microcontroller receives a request to strobe lights associated with the vehicle it strobes the set of vehicle lights from left to right if the vehicle is within a second predetermined distance of a left side of the roadway.
The system of claim 2, wherein when the microcontroller receives a request to strobe lights associated with the vehicle it strobes the set of vehicle lights in a non-directional manner if the vehicle is outside of a third predetermined distance of the right or left sides of the roadway.
A system comprising:
- a microcontroller having operational control over a set of vehicle lights corresponding to left and ride sides of the vehicle;
- a plurality of sensors associated with the vehicle and configured to provide data to the microcontroller indicative of an operational state of the vehicle;
- wherein, when the microcontroller receives a request to strobe lights associated with the vehicle it strobes the lights when it determines, based on data from the plurality of sensors, that the vehicle is in a distressed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.