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US 9,120,447 B1Granted
Safety system for backing-up a vehicle
AssigneeJon P. Moldestad
InventorJon P. Moldestad
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Abstract
A safety system is provided that will (i) operate automatically, regardless of distraction or error by the driver or the backover victim; (ii) operate unaffected by the blindspots that block the driver's view or background noise that block audible alarms for the driver or the backover victim; (iii) operate through an external activation, intentional or unintentional, by the potential backover victim or passerby; and/or (iv) remove driver discretion by causing the vehicle to stop upon activation of the safety system by the potential backover victim or passerby.
Claims13
A safety mudflap system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a mudflap having a front surface, a back surface, and surface for operably attaching the mudflap to a vehicle with an attachment mechanism;
- an alert device;
- a safety switch configured for an actuation by an application of a force to the back surface of the mudflap, wherein the actuation of the switch powers the alert device to alert a driver of the vehicle of the force applied to the back surface of the mudflap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.