Portable hand-held reusable vehicle speed limiting device

• US 20060200296A1
• Filed: 03/07/2005
• Published: 09/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dana Stephen Chase
• Original Assignee: Dana Stephen Chase
• Inventors: Chase, Dana Stephen
• Application Number:
  US11/073,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20060200296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/93
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 31/0058 responsive to externally generated signalling
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/12 for automatic initiation; for initiation not subject to will of driver or passenger limiting speed of vehicles other than rail vehicles B60K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/126 Brakes for railway vehicles coming into operation in case of exceeding a predetermined speed self-acting brakes in general F16D59/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0967 Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

The Portable Hand-held Reusable Vehicle Speed Limiting Device (the Invention) is a hand-held, single person portable device intended to allow the user to set the maximum speed of a freight delivery or passenger vehicle that is propelled by an engine powered by a fuel source by means of installing a usage license to the vehicle'"'"'s On-Board Engine Management Computer (OBEMC). After the license has been installed to the vehicle'"'"'s OBEMC by the Invention, the vehicle will not exceed the speed set by the user of the Invention, regardless of who operates the vehicle or what input they give to the vehicle'"'"'s throttle mechanism.

Claims

1. A device enabling the delivery of a usage license to an engine management computer installed in a freight delivery or passenger vehicle having a variable speed engine powered by a fuel source.

2. The license, according to claim 1, appends, modifies or extends the programming code contained within the engine management computer of the vehicle for the purpose of over-riding the physical speed limitation imposed by the manufacturer of the vehicle if the manufacturer-installed speed limitation is greater than the Invention-installed license.

3. The license, according to claim 1, appends, modifies or extends the programming code contained within the engine management computer of the vehicle for the purpose of installing and enforcing a physical speed limitation of the vehicle if none were previously installed by the manufacturer.

4. The enforcement of the license, according to claims 2 and 3, is accomplished by Invention-delivered programming code which appends, modifies or extends the programming code of the vehicle'"'"'s on-board engine management computer which, in turn, interfaces with installed systems and subsystems of the engine and vehicle for the purpose of limiting the physical speed of the vehicle, regardless of engine throttle input by the operator of said vehicle.

5. A device that accepts manual input from the user to communicate with the target vehicle and its engine management computer and deliver a usage license to specify what the maximum speed possible is desired for the vehicle by the user on the Invention.

6. A device that allows the removal of a previously installed usage license thereby removing the speed restriction previously placed on the vehicle and returning the programming instructions in the on-board engine management computer of the target vehicle to its original state as defined by the manufacturer of the vehicle.

7. A device that can be used to interface with the target vehicle and its engine management computer for the purposes of determining what, if any, current licenses and speed restrictions are installed in the target vehicle