Device for taking and recording the performance data of a running motor vehicle

• US 3,160,463 A
• Filed: 04/25/1962
• Issued: 12/08/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Flaviano Moscarini
• Original Assignee: Flaviano Moscarini
• Inventors: FLAVIANO MOSCARINI
• Application Number:
  US04/190,097
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• US Class Current: 346/33.00A
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/06 Steering behaviour; Rolling behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 99/004 Testing the effects of speed or acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/68 using optical means, i.e. using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light G01P3/80 takes precedence ; by reflection of waves G01S17/58

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR RECORDING THE PERFORMANCE DATA OF A RUNNING MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING CONVENTIONAL BRAKE, ACCELERATION AND CLUTCH PEDALS, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION WITH A PLURALITY OF REFLECTING ELEMENTS LOCATED AT KNOWN DISTANCES TRANSVERSALLY TO THE ROAD TO BE TRAVELLED BY THE VEHICLE, A CASING ARRANGED ON THE FRONT PORTION OF THE VEHICLE AND INCLUDING A LIGHT SOURCE EMITTING THE LIGHT IN DIRECTION OF SAID REFLECTING ELEMENTS AND A PHOTOELECTRIC CELL ENERGIZED BY THE LIGHT RAYS REFLECTED FROM SAID REFLECTING UNITS, A RECORDING UNIT WITHIN THE VEHICLE CONNECTED WITH SAID PHOTOELECTRIC CELL AND AT LEAST ONE OF SAID PEDALS, ELECTRONIC CHRONOMETRICAL MEANS FOR PROCESSING THE SIGNALS FURNISHED FROM SAID PHOTOELECTRIC CELL AND TRANSMITTING THEM TO SAID RECORDING UNIT, WHEREBY SAID RECORDING UNIT RECORDS THE TIME SUCCESSION OF SAID REFLECTING ELEMENTS AND THE EFFECTS OF SAID PEDALS ON THE RUN OF THE VEHICLE.