License plate having reverse alarm device

• US 6,433,680 B1
• Filed: 07/06/2001
• Issued: 08/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Photic Electronics Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Photic Electronics Company Limited
• Inventors: Ho, Chao-Ting
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS
• Application Number:
  US09/899,144
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 340/435, 340/436, 340/901, 340/903, 340/904, 180/169, 348/118, 348/148, 307/10.1
• US Class Current: 340/435
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/22 for reverse drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/56 for illuminating registrations or the like , e.g. for licence plates

Abstract

The present invention relates to a license plate having reverse alarm device, more particularly to a license plate frame comprising a reverse alarm device with reverse alarm radar and a vehicle reverse monitoring camera mechanism to improve the safety when the user reverses a motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A license plate having a reverse alarm device, comprising a license plate frame, at least one reverse radar, at least one fixed monitoring camera mechanism, at least one adjustable monitoring camera mechanism and a support module,

wherein the license plate frame is a whole framework having a cylindrical support protruded from both lateral ends on the upper edge of the cylindrical support, and a sectional hole being disposed inside the cylindrical support;

a hollow long groove hole being disposed in the middle of the upper edge of the license plate frame, and the lower edge of the license plate frame being a hemispherical casing having a hollow space in its interior, and a circular hole groove being disposed at one side of the front edge of the hemispherical casing and an elliptical hole groove on the other side;

the reverse radar being installed in the hole groove of the support at the upper edge on at least one end of the license plate frame for electromagnetic monitoring;

the fixed monitoring camera mechanism being installed and coupled to the hemispherical casing, and a front end of the fixed monitoring camera mechanism being screwed onto the circular hole groove at one side of the front edge of the hemispherical casing;

the adjustable monitoring camera mechanism being cylindrical in shape and installed to an elliptical hole groove on another side of the front edge of the hemispherical casing;

the support module comprising a license plate support component and a car body support component, and the license plate support component having a penetrating circular hole frame at each lateral side of the upper edge on the license plate support component, and the car body support component also having a penetrating circular hole on each corresponding side of the upper edge;

a plurality of mutually embedded axial holes being disposed at a bottom side, and an axle passing through the axial holes and being adjustable to shift and extend to an appropriate angle;

the license plate support component and car body support component of the support module each having an adjusting washer at a lateral side, and two screws fixing the license plate support component and the car body support component, and the support module being mounted onto the license plate frame by two screws engaging the circular hole frames on the lateral sides of the upper edge of the license plate support component.

2. A license plate supporting apparatus comprising:

a support module including a car body support component and a license plate support component adjustably coupled to said car body support component, said license plate support component being adjustable in angular orientation relative to said car body support component;

a frame coupled to said support module, said frame including a laterally extended upper portion and a lower portion extending longitudinally therefrom, said upper portion having a pair of supports extending axially therefrom to each define a sectional hole, said supports being laterally displaced one from the other, said lower portion including a hemispherical casing having formed therethrough a circular hole groove and an elliptical hole groove;

a pair of reverse radar monitoring devices coupled respectively to said sectional holes of said supports;

a fixed camera monitoring mechanism disposed at least partially in said hemispherical casing of said frame lower portion, at least a portion of said fixed camera monitoring mechanism extending through said circular hole groove; and

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an adjustable camera monitoring mechanism disposed at least partially in said hemispherical casing of said frame lower portion, at least a portion of said adjustable camera monitoring mechanism extending through said elliptical hole groove.

3. The license plate supporting apparatus as recited in claim 2 wherein said supports of said frame upper portion is substantially tubular in contour.

4. The license plate supporting apparatus as recited in claim 2 wherein said license plate support component is hingedly coupled to said car body support component of said support module along an edge portion thereof, said license plate support component being pivotally adjustable substantially about said edge portion.