Training apparatus

• US 3,266,174 A
• Filed: 09/22/1964
• Issued: 08/16/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold D. Bechtol, Robert J. Clark
• Original Assignee: Harold D. Bechtol, Robert J. Clark
• Inventors: Bechtol, Harold D., Clark, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US04/398,218
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• US Class Current: 434/65
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/05 the view from a vehicle being simulated G09B9/052, G09B9/058 take precedence

Claims

1. AUTOMOBILE DRIVER TRAINING APPARATUS, COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION:

A PLURALITY OF SIMULATED AUTOMOBILE DRIVER STATIONS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY TRAINING A PLURALITY OF STUDENTS;

EACH OF SAID STATIONS INCLUDING A RESPECTIVE PLURALITY OF SIMULATED CONTROLS OPERABLE BY A STUDENT;

MOTION PICTURE PROJECTION MEANS FOR PROVIDING A SEQUENCE OF SCENES CAPBLE OF BEING VIEWED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM EACH OF SAID STATIONS;

MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A SEQUENCE OF DIFFERENT ELECTRICAL SIGNALS IN TIMED RELATION TO THE PROVISION OF SAID SEQUENCE OF SCENES, EACH OF SAID ELECTRICAL SIGNALS BEING CODED TO CORRESPOND TO A DESIRED OPERATION OF ONE OR MORE OF SAID SIMULATED CONTROLS;

A GROUP OF ERROR-INDICATING MEANS INDIVIDUAL TO EACH OF SAID STATIONS AND VISIBLE BY THE STUDENT AT EACH RESPECTIVE STATION, EACH OF THE ERROR-INDICATING MEANS IN EACH GROUP BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A RESPECTIVE CLASS OF ERROR, EACH SAID CLASS OF ERROR BEING ASSOCIATED WITH MIS-OPERATION OF ONE OR A SELECTED GROUP OF SAID CONTROLS;

COMPARISON MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH STATION, RESPONSIVE TO THE OPERATION OF THE CONTROLS AT SAID STATION AND RESPONSIVE TO THE ONE OF THE ELECTRICAL SIGNALS GENERATED AT A GIVEN TIME FOR COMPARING THE OPERATION OF A SELECTED ONE OR A SELECTED GROUP OF SAID CONTROLS WITH THE DESIRED OPERATION ASSOCIATED WITH SAID CODED ELECTRICAL SIGNAL AND FOR PROVIDING ERROR SIGNALS UPON MIS-OPERATION OF SAID ONE OR SAID SELECTED GROUP OF CONTROLS;

FIRST CIRCUIT MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH STATION FOR APPLYING ERROR SIGNAL GENERATED AT SAID STATION SELECTIVELY TO THE ERROR-INDICATING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID STATION, TO INDICATE THE CLASS OF ERROR BEING COMMITTED TO THE STUDENT AS SAID STATION;

AND RECORDER MEANS INCLUDING A FIRST PLURALITY OF MARKING DEVICES AND A SECOND MARKING MEANS, EACH OF SAID MARKING DEVICES BEING CONNECTED TO BE OPERATED UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF EACH SAID ERROR SIGNAL AT A RESPECTIVE STATION, AND SAID SECOND MARKING MEANS BEING CONNECTED TO BE OPERATED BY SAID CODED ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO RECORD INDICIA INDICATIVE OF THE NATURE OF THE DESIRED OPERATION OF SAID CODED ELECTRICAL SIGNALS.