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US 6,267,485 B1Granted
Illuminated bag
OwnerNicholas A. Rodgersinventor
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Abstract
A bag which may be carried by hand or over the shoulder has a light controlled by a timing circuit so that the light is only turned on for a set period by an OFF to ON transition of a motion responsive switch occurring outside the set period. A manually operated normally open switch may allow control of the light state independently of the timing circuit.
Claims5
A bag,
- a light to provide illumination exterior thereto,
- an illumination circuit,
- a battery
- a motion responsive switch,
- a timing circuit for timing a power interval,
- a power switch,
- said battery being connectible to said illumination circuit by closure of said power switch,
- said illumination circuit being adapted to cause light to flash at least once during connection to said battery,
- said timing circuit being adapted to close said power switch during said power interval,
- said timing circuit being responsive to an OFF to ON transition of the motion responsive switch, at a time outside a power interval to initiate a power interval,
- a manually closable switch biased to open position.
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A bag,
- means for providing illumination exterior to said bag comprising:
- a battery,
- a light visible exterior to said bag able to assume ON and OFF states,
- an acceleration responsive switch able to assume OPEN and CLOSED states,
- means responsive to said switch achieving CLOSED state when said light is in OFF state to turn said light to ON state,
- a manually operable switch able to assume open and closed states, biased to open position,
- means responsive to said manually operable switch achieving closed state when said light is in OFF state to turn said light to ON state.
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Bag lighting apparatus including
- a battery,
- a light,
- a first circuit including an acceleration responsive switch,
- a second circuit including a normally open manually operable switch between said battery and said light, in parallel with said first circuit,
- said first circuit for connecting said battery to said light responsive to closure of said acceleration responsive switch,
- said second circuit connecting said battery to said light responsive to closure of said manually operable switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.