Wireless taillight system
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1. A wireless taillight system comprising:
- a taillight module adapted to be removably mounted on a vehicle, said taillight module including at least one signal lamp selectively illuminable by an electrical power source to provide visual information concerning a particular condition of the vehicle and said taillight module including means for receiving a transmitted wireless control signal and for enabling the power source to illuminate the signal lamp upon receipt thereof;
a portable transmitter module powered by a power source carried thereby independent from the vehicle, said transmitter module selectively operable by an operator to transmit the wireless control signal to the taillight module;
said taillight module including means for transmitting a wireless feedback signal concerning one or more of;
a condition of the taillight module signal lamp;
a condition of the power source; and
whether a function selected by the operator has occurred; and
said transmitter module including means for receiving the feed-back signal and for providing information to the operator derived therefrom.
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Abstract
A wireless taillight system is provided having a taillight module (150) removably mountable on a vehicle such as a wagon (125) being pulled by a farm tractor (100). Module (150) has at least one signal lamp illuminable by a wireless control signal transmitter module (200) having a power source carried thereby that along with module (150) is preferably operable to transmit a feed-back signal to transmitter module (200) to provide the operator with information concerning one or more of: (i) the condition of the signal lamp; (ii) the condition of the power source powering the signal lamp and; (iii) whether a function selected by an operator has in fact occurred.
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18 Claims
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1. A wireless taillight system comprising:
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a taillight module adapted to be removably mounted on a vehicle, said taillight module including at least one signal lamp selectively illuminable by an electrical power source to provide visual information concerning a particular condition of the vehicle and said taillight module including means for receiving a transmitted wireless control signal and for enabling the power source to illuminate the signal lamp upon receipt thereof; a portable transmitter module powered by a power source carried thereby independent from the vehicle, said transmitter module selectively operable by an operator to transmit the wireless control signal to the taillight module; said taillight module including means for transmitting a wireless feedback signal concerning one or more of;
a condition of the taillight module signal lamp;
a condition of the power source; and
whether a function selected by the operator has occurred; andsaid transmitter module including means for receiving the feed-back signal and for providing information to the operator derived therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18)
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14. A wireless taillight system comprising:
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a taillight module adapted to be removably mounted on a vehicle, said taillight module including at least one signal lamp selectively illuminable by an electrical power source to provide visual information concerning a particular condition of the vehicle, said taillight module including means for receiving a transmitted wireless control signal and for enabling the power source to illuminate the signal lamp upon receipt thereof, and said taillight module including means for transmitting a wireless feed-back signal concerning one or more of;
a condition of the signal lamp;
a condition of the power source; and
whether a selected function has ocurred; anda portable transmitter module powered by a power source carried thereby independent from the vehicle, said transmitter module selectively operable by an operator to transmit the wireless control signal to the taillight module, and said transmitter module including means for receiving the feed-back signal and for providing information to the operator concerning the condition of the signal lamp, the condition of the power source, and whether the selected function has been activated. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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15. A wireless taillight system comprising:
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a taillight module adapted to be removably mounted on a vehicle, said taillight module including; a left turn signal lamp and a right signal lamp respectively disposed near opposite ends of the module, an additional signal lamp disposed adjacent the right turn signal lamp and an additional signal lamp disposed adjacent the left turn signal lamp, said signal lamps selectively illuminable singularly or in predetermined combinations by an electrical power source to provide visual information concerning a condition of the vehicle, said taillight module including means for receiving a transmitted wireless control signal and for enabling the power source to illuminate the signal lamps upon receipt thereof, said taillight module including means for transmitting a wireless feed-back signal concerning a condition of the signal lamps;
a condition of the power source; and
whether the selected function has been activated,a portable transmitter module powered by a power source carried thereby independent from the vehicle, said transmitter module selectively operable by an operator to transmit the wireless control signal to the taillight module, and said transmitter module including means for receiving the feed-back signal from the taillight module and for providing information concerning the condition of the signal lamps, the condition of the power source, and whether the selected function has occurred.
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