Adapter for car audio equipment

• US 7,303,430 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2005
• Issued: 12/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scosche Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Scosche Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Butcher, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KHIEM M
• Application Number:
  US11/313,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20060183353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 439/34, 439/502, 439/505, 174/72.A
• US Class Current: 439/502
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/26 for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 27/00 Coupling parts adapted for co-operation with two or more dissimilar counterparts for dissimilar contact members H01R13/35; supported only by co-operation with a counterpart H01R31/00; with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/90

Abstract

An adapter for installing an aftermarket audio device in a vehicle. The adapter includes a first and second connectors electrically connected together, the first connector being suitable for connecting to a wiring harness in the vehicle and the second connector being unsuitable for connection to the wiring harness in the vehicle, the second connector being further suitable for connection in a different wiring harness in a different vehicle. The adapter also includes a plurality of wires electrically connected to the first and second connectors, the wires being adapted to connect to the aftermarket audio device.

Claims

1. An adapter for installing an aftermarket audio device in a vehicle, comprising:

first and second connectors electrically connected together, the first connector being suitable for connecting to a wiring harness in the vehicle and the second connector being unsuitable for connection to the wiring harness in the vehicle; and

a plurality of wires, each of the wires having one end electrically connected to the first and second connectors and an opposite stripped end for connecting to one of a plurality of wires extending from the aftermarket audio device.

2. The adapter of claim 1 wherein each of the wires are physically connected at one end to the same connector.

3. The adapter of claim 1 wherein the wires are color-coded according to EIA standards.

4. The adapter of claim 1 wherein the first and second connectors have a different number of pins.

5. The adapter of claim 1 wherein the first and second connectors have different physical dimensions.

6. The adapter of claim 1 wherein the first and second connectors are electrically connected together by jumper wires, and wherein at least one of the jumper wires extends from a pin in the first connector to a pin having a different location in the second connector.

7. An adapter for installing an aftermarket audio device in a vehicle, comprising:

first and second connectors electrically connected together, the second connector being adapted for a different wiring harness in a different vehicle; and

a plurality of wires, each of the wires having one end electrically connected to the first and second connectors and an opposite stripped end for connecting to one of a plurality of wires extending from the aftermarket audio device.

8. The adapter of claim 7 wherein each of the wires are physically connected at one end to the same connector.

9. The adapter of claim 7 wherein the wires are color-coded according to EIA standards.

10. The adapter of claim 7 wherein the first and second connectors have a different number of pins.

11. The adapter of claim 7 wherein the first and second connectors have different physical dimensions.

12. The adapter of claim 7 wherein the first and second connectors are electrically connected together by jumper wires, and wherein at least one of the jumper wires extends from a pin in the first connector to a pin having a different location in the second connector.