Adapter for car audio

• US 7,553,184 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2007
• Issued: 06/30/2009
• 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:
  US11/841,177
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 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, 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;

a first plurality of wires between the first and second connectors; and

a second plurality of wires each having one end connected to the rear of the first or second connector and an opposite end for connecting to the aftermarket audio device.

2. The adapter of claim 1 wherein each of the second plurality of wires is connected at said one end to the same connector.

3. The adapter of claim 1 wherein the opposite end of each of the second plurality of wires is stripped for connecting to one of a third plurality of wires extending from the aftermarket audio device.

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

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

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

7. The adapter of claim 1 wherein one of the first plurality of wires extends from a pin in the first connector to a pin having a different location in the second connector.

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

first and second connectors electrically connected together; and

a plurality of wires electrically connected to the first and second connectors, the wires being adapted to connect the aftermarket audio device to at least one speaker in the vehicle with the first connector plugged into a wiring harness and the second connector unplugged.

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

10. The adapter of claim 8 wherein each of the wires has 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.

11. The adapter of claim 8 wherein the wires are color-coded according to ETA standards.

12. The adapter of claim 8 wherein the first and second connectors have a different numb of pins.

13. The adapter of claim 8 wherein the first and second connectors have different physical dimensions.

14. The adapter of claim 8 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.