Parking alarm of a towing connector

• US 7,534,108 B1
• Filed: 04/30/2007
• Issued: 05/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jen-Ching Wang
• Original Assignee: Jen-Ching Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Jen-Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Hyeon; Hae Moon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Imas; Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US11/797,099
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 439/35, 439/489, 439/490, 439/340
• US Class Current: 439/35
• CPC Class Codes: B60D 1/58 Auxiliary devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60D 1/64 Couplings or joints therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6691 with built-in signalling means H01R13/717 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/065 with built-in electric apparatus

Abstract

A parking alarm of a towing connector having a buzzer mounted in the housing thereof and electrically connected with the positive terminal and negative terminal of the buzzer to the terminal for parking light and grounding terminal of the male connector at one end of the housing such that the buzzer is electrically to produce an audio warning signal when the parking light is turned on during a backward movement of the truck and the trailer.

Claims

1. A parking alarm of a towing connector comprising:

a housing, said housing having an accommodation chamber located on a first end thereof for accommodating a buzzer;

a female connector fixedly mounted in the first one end of said housing, said female connector comprising a grounding terminal, a plurality of terminal holes, and a plurality of terminals including a terminal for tail light, a terminal for left directional light, a terminal for right directional light and a terminal for parking light respectively mounted in the terminal holes of said female connector;

a male connector fixedly mounted in a second end of said housing remote from said female connector, said male connector comprising a plurality of terminal holes and a plurality of terminals including a grounding terminal, a terminal for tail light, a terminal for left directional light, a terminal for right directional light, and a terminal for parking light respectively mounted in the terminal holes of said male connector; and

said buzzer having a positive terminal electrically connected to the terminal for parking light of said male connector by a first electric wire and a negative terminal electrically connected to the grounding terminal of said male connector by a second electric wire,

wherein the female connector and the buzzer are located in the first end of the housing and the male connector is located in a second end of the housing,

wherein said housing comprises a first cover shell, a second over shell, and a plurality of fastening members fastened to said first cover shell and said second cover shell to fixedly secure said first cover shell and said second cover shell together, said first cover shell and said second cover shell each having a front locating groove and a rear locating groove for accommodating said female connector and said male connector,

wherein the accommodation chamber is located in a front end of the second cover shell.

2. The parking alarm of a towing connector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of terminal electric wires, said terminal electric wires each having a first end respectively electrically connected to the grounding terminal, terminal for tail light, terminal for left directional light, terminal for right directional light and terminal for parking light of said female connector that is positioned in the front locating grooves of said first cover shell and said second cover shell and a second end respectively electrically connected to the grounding terminal, terminal for tail light, terminal for left directional light, terminal for right directional light and terminal for parking light of said male connector that is positioned in the rear locating grooves of said first cover shell and said second cover shell.