VEHICLE IMPACT WARNING DEVICE

• US 20090189754A1
• Filed: 04/13/2007
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hans Edmund Hochrein
• Original Assignee: Hans Edmund Hochrein
• Inventors: Hochrein, Hans Edmund
• Application Number:
  US12/297,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20090189754A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/436
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered

Abstract

A vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle includes a deceleration sensor, for detecting vehicle decelerations in a direction approximately parallel to a carriageway, and a switch that can be activated by the deceleration sensor. The switch, by way of a radio transmitter, is able to initiate an electromagnetic warning signal and a warning signal as a visible warning signal and/or as an acoustic warning signal.

Claims

1-47. -47. (canceled)

48. A vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a deceleration sensor for sensing a deceleration in a direction approximately parallel to a roadway; and

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a switch capable of being activated by said deceleration sensor, said switch including means for initiating a first warning signal via a radio transmitter, said first warning signal being an electromagnetic radio warning signal, and a second warning signal being at least one of a visible warning signal and an acoustic warning signal.

49. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein said radio transmitter for transmitting said first warning signal only emits said first warning signal in a limited angle at a reverse side, as seen in a travel direction, of an impacting motor vehicle.

50. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein said acoustic warning signal includes at least three different acoustic warnings.

51. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 50, wherein said at least three different acoustic warnings includes one different acoustic warning having a volume that is greater than any of said at least three different acoustic warnings and can be initiated free of manual interruption by said deceleration sensor.

52. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein said acoustic warning signal includes at least one acoustic warning that is a uniform tone, a tone having a variable sound and a tone having a variable pitch.

53. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein said second warning signal includes a speech signal.

54. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, further comprising:

means for receiving electromagnetic signals that are convertible into optical signals; and

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means for converting said optical signals received by said means for receiving electromagnetic signals into said optical signals.

55. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, further comprising:

means for receiving electromagnetic signals that are convertible into acoustic signals; and

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means for converting said acoustic signals received by said means for receiving electromagnetic signals into said acoustic signals.

56. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 55, further comprising means for suppressing all said acoustic signals received except for one acoustic signal of said acoustic signals.

57. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein said radio transmitter has a transmission power that is limited to a predetermined threshold value.

58. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, wherein upon reception of said first warning signal by a radio receiver, an additional warning signal, or third warning signal, is transmittable in a time-delayed reaction stage.

59. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 58, wherein said additional warning signal is transmittable via a radio receiver that is propagated in a cascade across a plurality of motor vehicle impact warning apparatuses in a plurality of reaction stages.

60. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, further comprising:

means for registering a real-time speed of a motor vehicle; and

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means for remitting a warning signal when the real-time speed of the motor vehicle exceeds a predetermined minimum speed value.

62. The vehicle impact warning apparatus for installation in a motor vehicle according to claim 48, further comprising:

means for detecting that the motor vehicle has been in an accident; and

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means for dialing an emergency telephone number when said means for detecting that the motor vehicle has been in an accident detects the occurrence of an accident.