SPEED LIMITATION SYSTEM

• US 20130222175A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Collyer Allen Smith, Collyer Campbell Smith
• Original Assignee: Collyer Allen Smith, Collyer Campbell Smith
• Inventors: Smith, Collyer Allen, Smith, Collyer Campbell
• Application Number:
  US13/405,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222175A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/70
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 31/0058 responsive to externally generated signalling
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2555/60 Traffic rules, e.g. speed limits or right of way
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9321 Velocity regulation, e.g. cruise control
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/93276 in the windshield area
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2013/9329 cooperating with reflectors or transponders
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09623 Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle G08G1/0967 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention is a speed limitation system utilized in combination with a vehicle with a front that includes a speed limit sign that includes a barcode that indicates a predetermined speed limit with number and letter indicia indicating the predetermined speed limit and a radar producing device that is disposed on the vehicle and produces a radar beam that is emitted and directed at the barcode of the speed limit sign. The system also includes a radar receiving device that is disposed on the vehicle and receives the radar signal with the predetermined speed limit and an engine control device that is in communication with the radar receiving device and transmits the received predetermined speed limit and controls the vehicle'"'"'s engine speed so the vehicle travels within or at the predetermined speed limit.

Claims

1. A speed limitation system utilized in combination with a vehicle with a front, comprising:

a speed limit sign with a front facing that includes a barcode that indicates a predetermined speed limit with number and letter indicia indicating said predetermined speed limit;

a radar producing device that is disposed on said front of said vehicle and produces a radar beam that is emitted and directed at said front facing and said barcode of said speed limit sign;

a radar receiving device that is disposed on said front of said vehicle and receives said radar signal with said predetermined speed limit; and

an engine control device that is in communication with said radar receiving device and transmits said received predetermined speed limit and controls said vehicle'"'"'s engine and said vehicle'"'"'s speed so said vehicle travels within or at said predetermined speed limit.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said barcode is disposed on said front facing of said speed limit sign.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said barcode receives said radar beam and emits a radar signal back to said vehicle with said predetermined speed limit.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said radar producing device is approximately 6-½

″

wide by 3-½

″

long.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle is an automobile.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle is vehicle a truck.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said vehicle is a pick-up truck.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said vehicle is a commercial truck.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle is a van.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle is a recreational vehicle.

11. A speed limitation system utilized in combination with a vehicle with a front, comprising:

a speed limit sign with a front facing that includes a barcode disposed on said front facing that indicates a predetermined speed limit with number and letter indicia indicating said predetermined speed limit;

a radar producing device that is disposed on said front of said vehicle and produces a radar beam that is emitted and directed at said front facing and said barcode of said speed limit sign and said barcode receives said radar beam and emits a radar signal back to said vehicle with said predetermined speed limit;

a radar receiving device that is disposed on said front of said vehicle and receives said radar signal with said predetermined speed limit; and

an engine control device that is in communication with said radar receiving device and transmits and controls said received predetermined speed limit to said vehicle'"'"'s engine and said vehicle'"'"'s speed so said vehicle travels within or at said predetermined speed limit.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein said radar producing device is approximately 6-½

″

wide by 3-½

″

long.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein said predetermined speed limit is approximately 10 MPH, 15 MPH, 20 MPH, 25 MPH, 30 MPH, 35 MPH, 40 MPH, 50 MPH, 60 MPH or 65 MPH

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein said engine control device is provided on said vehicle before installation of said speed limitation system.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein said vehicle is an automobile.

16. The system according to claim 11, wherein said vehicle is vehicle a truck.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein said vehicle is a pick-up truck.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein said vehicle is a commercial truck.

19. The system according to claim 11, wherein said vehicle is a van.

20. The system according to claim 11, wherein said vehicle is a recreational vehicle.