Signalling device for use in automotive and like vehicles
First Claim
1. A device for use in automotive vehicles for alerting the driver to improper and/or unsafe driving patterns, including a housing adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, a mechanism within said housing sensing driving excesses and signalling the occurrence of such excesses, at least a portion of said mechanism having means in connection therewith for the manipulation thereof to vary the sensitivity of the response of said mechanism to said excesses to suit driving conditions and individual driver requirements, and said manipulating means being exterior to said housing, facilitating its operation.
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Abstract
A device for use in automotive vehicles for alerting the driver to improper and/or unsafe driving patterns comprising means defining a normally open circuit and means for automatic closure of said circuit in response to a relatively abrupt change in a driving pattern, said circuit embodying therein a signalling means energized upon the closure of said circuit.
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13 Claims
- 1. A device for use in automotive vehicles for alerting the driver to improper and/or unsafe driving patterns, including a housing adapted to be mounted on a vehicle, a mechanism within said housing sensing driving excesses and signalling the occurrence of such excesses, at least a portion of said mechanism having means in connection therewith for the manipulation thereof to vary the sensitivity of the response of said mechanism to said excesses to suit driving conditions and individual driver requirements, and said manipulating means being exterior to said housing, facilitating its operation.
- 6. A self-contained device for use in automotive vehicles for alerting the driver to improper and/or unsafe driving patterns, including a housing accommodating an energy source, a signalling means and an inertia responsive means, said inertia responsive means including normally separated electrical conductors and an inertia controlled weighted element for producing a closing of a circuit including said conductors to energize said signalling means, one of said normally separated electrical conductors being connected to a support a portion of which projects inwardly from a wall portion of said housing and has in connection therewith means for the manipulation thereof for selectively changing its position, said manipulating means being located exterior to said housing and the other of said conductors occupying a position in said housing normally spaced from the one said conductor.
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