Warning systems
OwnerJoseph E. Carsoninventor
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Abstract
A warning system for warning a user of an approaching vehicle, wherein the approaching vehicle activates a signal transmitter. The system comprising at least one transmitter and at least one receiver. The transmitter includes a member for receiving the signal from a signal transmitter; and a member associated with the receiving means for transmitting at least one signal component. The receiver is positioned remotely from the transmitter and includes a member for receiving the at least one signal component, a member associated with the receiving means for processing the at least one signal component and a member associated with the processing means for alerting a user as to an approaching vehicle.
Claims30
A warning system for warning a user of an approaching vehicle, wherein the approaching vehicle activates a signal transmitter, the system comprising:
- a single transmitter including
- means for receiving the signal from a signal transmitter;
- and
- means associated with the receiving means for transmitting at least one signal component;
- wherein the single transmitter is associated with an existing warning structure and the signal transmitter comprises a signal transmitter associated with an existing warning structure, and
- at least one receiver positioned remotely from the transmitter including
- means for receiving the at least one signal component;
- means associated with the receiving means for processing the at least one signal component;
- and
- means associated with the processing means for alerting a user as to an approaching vehicle.
A receiver for use in association with a vehicle warning system for warning of approaching vehicles having at least one transmitter for transmitting at least one signal component, comprising:
- means for receiving the at least one signal component;
- means associated with the receiving means for processing the at least one signal component;
- means associated with the processing means for alerting a user as to an approaching vehicle;
- and
- a unique identifier associated with the receiver, which unique identifier is input into the transmitter of the vehicle warning system upon use in association therewith, to, in turn, facilitate the transmission by the transmitter of signals to the desired receivers, and to facilitate the maintenance by the transmitter of receivers associated therewith.
A method for warning of an oncoming vehicle, wherein the oncoming vehicle triggers a sensor which activates a vehicle signal transmitter comprising the steps of:
- (a) inputting a unique identifier associated with a receiver in use with the vehicle signal transmitter;
- (b) repeating the step of inputting for each receiver in use with the vehicle signal transmitter;
- (c) receiving the signal by a transmitter triggered by the vehicle;
- (d) forming a signal component for each unique identifier associated with the receiver, each such signal component comprising a warning signal component and the unique identifier;
- (e) transmitting the formed signal components;
- (f) receiving the at least one signal component by each receiver positioned remotely from the transmitter;
- (g) processing only the signal component having the unique identifier corresponding the unique identifier of the receiver for each receiver in use with the vehicle signal transmitter;
- and
- (h) alarming a user utilizing a receiver that has processed the signal component as to the oncoming vehicle, pursuant to the processed signal component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.