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US 7,114,873 B2Granted
Adaptive security and protective barriers and traffic control speed bumps
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorsJahangir S. Rastegar, Thomas Spinelli
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Abstract
A method for at least slowing a vehicle moving along a surface is provided. The method including; providing one or more panels capable of extending above the surface; and deploying the one or more panels from the surface into a position extended from the surface.
Claims8
A method for at least slowing a vehicle moving along a surface in a direction, the method comprising;
- providing two or more panels capable of extending above the surface, the two or more panels being disposed in series along the direction and spaced such that the two or more panels are capable of operatively engaging the vehicle in the direction to at least slow the vehicle, each of the two or more panels being independently deployable from the surface;
- deploying at least one of the two or more panels from the surface into a position extended from the surface;
- detecting at least one of a vehicle speed, vehicle type, and vehicle weight;
- and
- controlling the at least one of the two or more panels based on the detecting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.