Braking control system for a vehicle being towed by another vehicle

An interactive system for remotely controlling the braking system of a towed vehicle, comprising:

• (a) a towing vehicle subsystem positioned in a towing vehicle and including:
• (1) a towing vehicle control mechanism including a monitoring mechanism with a display device,
• (2) a towing vehicle transmitter mechanism having first circuitry connected in communication with the towing vehicle transmitter mechanism that is structured and configured to operatively and wirelessly transmit towing vehicle encoded digital signals,
• (3) a towing vehicle receiver mechanism having second circuitry connected in communication with the towing vehicle control mechanism that is structured and configured to operatively and wirelessly receive and decode towed vehicle encoded digital signals, and
• (4) a towed vehicle multi-position DIP switch, wherein the towed vehicle DIP switch is structured and configured to provide encoding to the modulated digital signals transmitted by the towed vehicle transmitter mechanism;
• (b) a towed vehicle subsystem positioned in a towed vehicle and including:
• (1) a towed vehicle control mechanism,
• (2) a towed vehicle receiver mechanism having third circuitry connected in communication with the towed vehicle control mechanism that is structured and configured to operatively and wirelessly receive and decode the towing vehicle encoded digital signals,
• (3) a linkage mechanism connecting the towed vehicle control mechanism to the braking system of the towed vehicle,
• (4) sensing mechanism connected in communication with the towed vehicle control mechanism, the sensing mechanism having sensors positioned to operatively sense activation of the braking system of the towed vehicle,
• (5) a towed vehicle transmitter mechanism including fourth circuitry and connected to the towed vehicle control mechanism that is structured and configured to operatively and wirelessly transmit towed vehicle encoded digital signals, and
• (6) a towing vehicle multi-position DIP switch, wherein the towing vehicle DIP switch is structured and configured to decode the modulated digital signals received by the towing vehicle receiver mechanism from the towed vehicle transmitter mechanism;
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• (c) at least one power source supplying electrical power to the towing vehicle subsystem and the towed vehicle subsystem;
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• (d) wherein activation of the towing vehicle control mechanism by an operator of the towing vehicle actuates the towed vehicle control mechanism by:
• (1) causing the towing vehicle transmitter mechanism to transmit towing vehicle encoded wireless digital signals to the towed vehicle receiver mechanism,
• (2) activating the towed vehicle control mechanism to cause:
• (A) the linkage mechanism to actuate the braking system of the towed vehicle, and
• (B) the sensing mechanism, upon sensing the activation of the braking system of the towed vehicle, to cause the towed vehicle transmitter mechanism to transmit second encoded wireless digital signals to the towing vehicle receiver mechanism which, in conjunction with the towing vehicle control mechanism, causes the display device to indicate that the braking system of the towed vehicle has been actuated.