Deceleration Brake Light System

• US 20100085180A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Monica Joella Mathis
• Original Assignee: Monica Joella Mathis
• Inventors: Mathis, Monica JoElla
• Application Number:
  US11/969,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20100085180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/467
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/444 with indication of the braking strength or speed changes, e.g. by changing shape or intensity of the indication B60Q1/1407, B60Q1/442, B60Q1/447 take precedence

Abstract

The purpose of the invention is to improve and upgrade the existing automobile brake system. Currently, when a motorist pushes the foot brake in the car to decelerate a Light Emitting Diode (LED) indicator mounted on the trunk and in the rear windows of a vehicle lights up to indicate slowing down and stopping. In most vehicle LED systems, the distinction between a deceleration, hard braking, and a stop cannot be indicated or differentiated. The goal of the invention is to create a braking indication system that will demonstrate how fast a car is decelerating with LED arranged in a fashion to turn on proportional to the amount of pressure applied to the brake. Once pressure is applied, the brakes are applied and the brake light will let the vehicle behind know how quickly the vehicle is slowing down by showing an approximation using the LED display. Therefore if a driver is to lightly tap on his brakes, the brake indicator will light a small amount of LED to symbolize slowing down but not stopping. Adversely, if a driver “slams on the brakes,” an additional complete row of brake lights will illuminate to indicate you need to brake hard or consider an evasive action to avoid collision.

Claims

1. A braking indication system that illuminates proportional to the rate of deceleration

2. Brake lights that turn on in sequence controlled by a digitized voltage determined by how hard the brakes in a vehicle are pressed.

3. A braking indication system which visually shows how fast a car is braking (decelerating)

4. A brake indication system that is controlled that determines the LED indication display proportional to pressure applied to the user controlled brake pedal.

5. A pressure-control brake indication system that is placed through a conditioning system, whose output is a discrete digital electrical signal, which in turn controls the order and amount of indicators that light.

6. A braking indication system that differentiates between slowing, hard braking, and stopping.

7. A brake-pressure-controlled mechanical signal that is then converted to an electrical signal, and run through a system of signal amplifiers and analog to digital (A/D) conversion, then on to the LED lights.

8. A brake indication system designed so when the brakes are pressed, the LED illuminates in order from the outermost at both ends of the linear fixture to the middle of the fixture where the LED touch, which turns on proportional to pressure applied to the brakes.