Remote output indicator for providing output indications from a remotely located radar detector

• US 4,818,997 A
• Filed: 01/12/1987
• Issued: 04/04/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Steven C. Holmes
• Original Assignee: Steven C. Holmes
• Inventors: Holmes, Steven C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gregory, Bernarr E.
• Application Number:
  US07/002,424
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 342/20, 180/16.7, 296/37.1, 296/37.7, 340/74, 340/75, 340/600, 340/901, 340/902, 340/531, 340/76, 340/79, 340/80, 340/352, 340/353, 340/533, 340/904, 455/39, 455/49, 455/57, 455/132, 455/227, 455/229, 455/345, 455/346, 455/349
• US Class Current: 342/20
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/0023 the element being a sensor, e.g. distance sensor, camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/008 for anti-collision purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/022 Road traffic radar detectors

Abstract

A remote indicator for use with an existing radar detector wherein a remote unit is located near the existing radar detector for sensing output indications from the radar detector and for providing output signals in response to and indicative of the radar detector output indications, and a console remotely located from the existing radar detector for receiving the remote unit output signals and for providing output indications indicative thereof and in response thereto.

Claims

1. A remote indicator for use with a radar detector providing a perceivable output indication for detecting signals from an operating radar, the remote indicator comprising:

a remote unit locatable near the radar detector having one portion for sensing the radar detector perceivable output indication and providing an output signal in response to and indicative of the radar detector perceivable output indication; and

a console remotely located from the radar detector and remote unit receiving the output signal from the remote unit indicative of the radar detector perceivable output indication and providing a perceivable output indication in response to receiving the output signal indicative of the radar detector perceivable output indication from the remote unit.

2. The remote output indicator of claim 1 wherein the radar detector is defined further has having a speaker and wherein the perceivable output indication provided by the radar detector is defined further as being a radar detector audibly perceivable output indication provided by the speaker of the radar detector in response to detecting signals from an operating radar, and wherein the remote unit is defined further as having one portion for sensing the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication and providing the output signal in response to and indicative of the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication, and wherein the console is defined further as receiving the output signal indicative of the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication from the remote unit and wherein the output indication provided by the console is defined further as being an audibly perceivable output indication provided in response to receiving the output signal from the remote unit indicative of the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication.

3. The remote output indicator of claim 2 wherein the remote unit is defined further to include:

a microphone for sensing the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication and providing the output signal in response to and indicative of the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication.

4. The remote output indicator of claim 3 wherein the console is defined further to include:

a speaker receiving the output signal from the remote unit indicative of the radar detector audibly perceivable output indication and providing the audibly perceivable output indication from the console.

5. The remote output indicator of claim 4 wherein the console is defined further to include:

a lamp receiving the output signal from the remote unit indicative of the radar detector visibly perceivable output indication and providing the visually perceivable output indication from the console.

6. The remote output indicator of claim 1 wherein the radar detector is defined further as having a lamp and wherein the output indication provided by the radar detector is defined further as being a radar detector visually perceivable output indication provided by the lamp in response to detecting signals from an operating radar, and wherein the remote unit is defined further as having one portion for sensing the radar detector visually perceivable output indication and providing the output signal in response to and indicative of the radar detector visually perceivable output indication, and wherein the console is defined further as receiving the remote unit output signal indicative of the radar detector visually perceivable output indication and wherein the output indication provided by the console is defined further as being a visually perceivably output indication provided in response to and indicative of the output signal received from the remote unit indicative of the radar detector visually perceivable output indication.

7. The remote output indicator of claim 6 wherein the remote unit is defined further to include:

a photocell for sensing the radar detector visually perceivable output indication and providing the output signal in response to and indicative of the radar detector visually perceivable output indication.

8. The remote indicator of claim 1 wherein the radar detector and the remote output indicator each are defined further as being mountable on a automobile having a driver perceivable location located within a portion of the automobile so that the operator of the automobile can perceive visually and audibly perceivable output indications provided within the driver perceivable location and having a protected space which has limited access, and wherein the remote indicator is defined further to include:

means for mounting the radar detector in the protected space;

means for mounting the remote unit in the protected space near the radar detector; and

means for mounting the console in the driver perceivable location, thereby substantially protecting the radar detector and remote unit from unauthorized access while simultaneously providing output indications at the driver perceivable location.