Vehicle control system
AssigneeEmergency Technology, Inc.
InventorsWilliam S. Buehler, Kevin Carpenter, Kyle Israels, Michael Walma
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Abstract
An control system for use in a vehicle includes at least one functional unit adapted to be mounted in the vehicle, each functional unit having an alert device, connector and a remote controller configured to control a desired state of the respective alert device, and a central controller configured to sense a state of the vehicle and generate a desired state of the functional units based at least partially on the sensed state of the vehicle a functional connection between the central controller and the at least one functional unit.
Claims21
A vehicle control system comprising:
- at least one functional warning unit adapted to be mounted to the vehicle, each functional warning unit having an alert device, connector and a remote controller configured to control a desired state of the respective alert device, and wherein the at least one functional warning unit is configured to sense a state of the vehicle and the remote controller is further configured to transmit the sensed state of the vehicle to a central controller;
- the central controller configured to generate a desired state of the functional warning units based at least partially on the sensed state of the vehicle and encode the desired state into an encoded packet;
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- a functional connection between the central controller and the at least one functional warning unit and configured to transmit the encoded packet from the central controller to each of the at least one functional warning unit;
- wherein the remote controller is configured to parse the desired state of the respective alert device in the encoded packet and set the state of the respective alert device based on the parsed encoded packet.
A vehicle control system comprising:
- at least one functional warning unit adapted to be mounted to the vehicle, each functional warning unit having an alert device, connector and a remote controller configured to control a desired state of the respective alert device, and wherein the at least one functional warning unit is configured to sense a state of the vehicle and the remote controller is further configured to transmit the sensed state of the vehicle to a central controller;
- the central controller configured to generate a desired state of the functional warning units based at least partially on the sensed state of the vehicle and encode the desired state into an encoded packet;
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- a functional connection between the central controller and the at least one functional warning unit and configured to transmit the encoded packet from the central controller to each of the at least one functional warning unit;
- wherein the remote controller is configured to parse the desired state of the respective alert device in the encoded packet and set the state of the respective alert device based on the parsed encoded packet, and wherein the cumulative number of at least one functional connections is greater than cumulative number of connections from the central controller to the remote controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.