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US 6,747,550 B2Granted
Leg position indicator for braking
OwnerPaul A. Stoneinventor
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A tactile feedback device such as a bumper or prod located to give the operator of a wheeled vehicle tactile feedback when the leg of the operator is in operable position to depress the brake pedal. Preferably, the feedback device is locatably adjustably fixed to the body of the vehicle in a location causing contact when the leg of the operator is in an ergonomically comfortable and ordinary position for depressing the brake. Illustratively, the device may depend from the steering column of a passenger automobile. In an alternative embodiment, the feedback device is readily removable from the vehicle. In a further alternative embodiment, contact characteristics may be adjusted to be, at one end of a range of adjustment a soft contact, at the other end of a range of adjustment a solid, unyielding contact, or any intermediate between the two ends of the range of adjustment.
In a vehicle having an operator control for controlling a function thereof by a human operator within said vehicle, and wherein said operator control is mechanically engaged and actuated by a body member of said human operator to exercise control of said function of said vehicle by engaging said operator control, the improvement comprising:
In a wheeled vehicle having a body, wheels rotatably connected to said vehicle body, a brake system having brakes disposed to brake said wheels, and a brake operating pedal which activates said brakes to brake said wheels when said brake operating pedal is depressed;
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