Brake Light Illumination System

• US 20120293319A1
• Filed: 05/20/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Steven Chew
• Original Assignee: Steven Chew
• Inventors: Chew, Steven
• Application Number:
  US13/112,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20120293319A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/479
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/302 mounted in the vicinity, e.g. in the middle, of a rear window
• 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

A third brake lighting system for indicating the application of brakes in a vehicle comprising: a panic illumination portion, where the panic illumination indicates an urgent depression of the brakes by a driver of the vehicle; and a conventional illumination portion, where the convention illumination portion abuts the panic illumination portion and said conventional illumination indicates a non-urgent depression of the brakes by the driver. The present invention essentially provides mechanisms to indicate an urgent depression of the brakes by a driver of the vehicle; and mechanisms to indicate a non-urgent depression of the brakes by the driver of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A third brake lighting system for indicating the application of brakes in a vehicle comprising:

a. a panic illumination portion, where the panic illumination indicates urgent depression of the brakes by a driver of the vehicle; and

b. a conventional illumination portion, where the convention illumination portion abuts the panic illumination portion and said conventional illumination indicates a non-urgent depression of the brakes by the driver.

2. A third brake lighting system for indicating the application of brakes in a vehicle comprising:

a. a means to indicate a urgent depression of the brakes by a driver of the vehicle; and

b. a means to indicate a non-urgent depression of the brakes by the driver of the vehicle.

3. The third brake lighting system according to claim 2, where the means to indicate the urgent depression includes at least one bulb and the means to indicate the non-urgent depression includes an illuminated panel, where the at least one bulb is positioned on the outer perimeter of the panel.

4. The third brake lighting system according to claim 2, where the means to indicate the urgent depression includes a strip of illuminated lighting and the means to indicate the non-urgent depression includes an illuminated panel, where said strip of illuminated lighting surrounds the outer perimeter of the illuminated panel.

5. The third brake lighting system according to claim 2, where the means to indicate the urgent depression includes illuminating an illumination panel at a first degree of brightness and the means to indicate the non-urgent depression includes illuminating the illumination panel at a second degree of brightness, where the first degree of brightness is greater than the second degree of brightness.