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US 9,870,653 B1Granted
Vehicle and trailer weight balance and force indication system and method of use
OwnerLarron Fritz, Eric Mercadoinventors
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Abstract
A system includes a vehicle having a rear bumper and a trailer hitch assembly having a hitch trailer ball; a trailer having a tongue adapted to engage with the hitch trailer ball and a platform configured to carry a load; and a monitoring system having a computer, a sensor operably associated with the computer and configured to measure a weight of the load carried by the trailer, and an alarm operably associated with the computer and configured to notify a user as a predetermined weight threshold is reached.
Claims14
A system, comprising:
- a vehicle, having:
- a rear bumper;
- and
- a trailer hitch assembly having a hitch trailer ball;
- a trailer, having:
- a tongue adapted to engage with the hitch trailer ball;
- and
- a platform configured to carry a load;
- and
- a monitoring system, having:
- a computer;
- an external server in wireless communication with the computer, the external server having a database configured to record data associated with the monitoring system and receive vehicle performance data to provide an output relating to a correlation between vehicle performance and load weight;
- a sensor operably associated with the computer and configured to measure a weight of the load carried by the trailer;
- a device mounted within an interior of the vehicle, separate from the computer and in wireless communication with the computer via a transmitter, the device having a display configured to relay the data associated with the monitoring system, the device further having;
- an alarm configured to notify a user as a predetermined weight threshold is reached.
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A load weight monitoring system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a computer;
- an external server in wireless communication with the computer, the external server having a database configured to record data associated with the load weight monitoring system and receive vehicle performance data to provide an output relating to a correlation between vehicle performance and load weight;
- a sensor operably associated with the computer and configured to measure a weight of the load carried by the vehicle;
- a device mounted within an interior of the vehicle, separate from the computer and in wireless communication with the computer via a transmitter, the device having a display configured to relay the data associated with the monitoring system, the device further having;
- an alarm configured to notify a user as a predetermined weight threshold is reached.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.