Device and method for preventing speeding

• US 7,394,401 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2003
• Issued: 07/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Stichting Noble House
• Original Assignee: Stichting Noble House
• Inventors: De Wilde, Tom Marnix Alexander, De Wilde, Jim Sven Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Pope; Daryl C
• Application Number:
  US10/509,169
• Publication Number:
  US 20060058938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,925 Days
• Field of Search: 340/905, 340/901, 340/936, 701/93, 701/117, 701/119
• US Class Current: 340/936
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/52 Determining velocity
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/4806 Road traffic laser detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/495 Counter-measures or counter-counter-measures using electronic or electro-optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element

Abstract

A device for preventing a vehicle from speeding, which device comprises a switching device, a speedometer present in the vehicle, which is connected to said switching device and which measures the speed of the vehicle, as well as a transmitter connected thereto, wherein the switching device is so arranged that the transmitter will only transmit a signal mainly if and as long as the speed measured by the speedometer is higher than a predetermined limiting value.

Claims

1. A device for preventing a vehicle from speeding, which device comprises a switching device, a speedometer present in the vehicle, which is connected to said switching device and which measures the speed of the vehicle, as well as a transmitter connected thereto, wherein the switching device is so arranged that the transmitter will transmit a signal only if and as long as the speed measured by the speedometer is higher than a predetermined limiting value, wherein the speedometer also comprises a GPS position finding device, and wherein the speed is determined in that the distance between two positions as found is divided by the time required for covering said distance.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device comprises inputting means, by means of which a user can adjust the limiting value at his own discretion.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the limiting value is adjusted in dependence on the geographic position of the vehicle as found.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitted signal comprises an acoustic signal.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitted signal comprises one of light and laser pulses.

6. A device for preventing a vehicle from speeding, which device comprises a switching device, a speedometer present in the vehicle, which is connected to said switching device and which measures the speed of the vehicle, as well as a transmitter connected thereto, wherein the switching device is so arranged that the transmitter will transmit a signal only if and as long as the speed measured by the speedometer is higher than a predetermined limiting value, wherein the device furthermore comprises a detector for detecting external measuring equipment for measuring the speed of a vehicle, wherein the switching device is furthermore so arranged that the signal will only be transmitted upon detection of said external measuring equipment.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein the device comprises inputting means, by means of which a user can adjust the limiting value at his own discretion.

8. The device according to claim 6, wherein the limiting value is adjusted in dependence on the geographic position of the vehicle as found.

9. The device according to claim 6, wherein the transmitted signal comprises an acoustic signal.

10. The device according to claim 6, wherein the transmitted signal comprises one of light and laser pulses.