Emergency response steering wheel device

• US 8,405,245 B1
• Filed: 09/09/2010
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Emergency Response Steering Wheel, LLC
• Original Assignee: Jimmy Ray Ii Clay
• Inventors: Clay, Jimmy Ray II
• Primary Examiner(s): Amaya, Carlos
• Application Number:
  US12/878,300
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 307/10.1, 200/61.54, 701/36, 701/41
• US Class Current: 307/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/782 on the steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/782 on the steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/10 Input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle, associated with vehicle functions or specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/60 Instruments characterised by their location or relative disposition in or on vehicles arrangements of lighting devices on dashboards B60Q3/10
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 37/06 of controls, e.g. controls knobs

Abstract

An emergency response steering wheel device featuring a plurality of push-to-talk (PTT) buttons and control buttons disposed on a steering wheel including a radio button, a volume button, a camera button, a spotlight button, an emergency flasher light button, a siren button, and a public address (PA) system button; wiring and a break-out box each housed in the steering wheel for operatively connecting the control buttons to a radio, a volume system, a camera, a spotlight, an emergency flasher light, a siren, and a public address (PA) system, respectively; and a center console comprising a plurality of console controls, the consol controls include a radio button, a volume button, a camera button, a spotlight button, an emergency flasher light button, a siren button, and a public address (PA) system button.

Claims

1. An emergency response steering wheel device comprising:

(a) a steering wheel and steering wheel column attached to a dash of a vehicle;

(b) a plurality of push-to-talk (PTT) buttons disposed on the steering wheel;

(c) a plurality of control buttons disposed on the steering wheel, the control buttons include a radio change button, a volume control button, a camera activation button, a spotlight activation button, an emergency flasher light activation button, a siren activation button, and a public address (PA) system activation button;

(d) wiring and a break-out box each housed in the steering wheel and steering wheel column for operatively connecting the control buttons of the steering wheel to a radio, a volume system, a camera, a spotlight, an emergency flasher light, a siren, and a public address (PA) system, respectively;

(e) a speaker-microphone module disposed on the steering wheel or the steering wheel column, the speaker-microphone module being operatively connected to the PTT buttons, to the volume control buttons, and to the PA system activation button;

(f) a center console comprising a plurality of console controls, the consol controls include a radio change button, a volume control button, a camera activation button, a spotlight activation button, an emergency flasher light activation button, a siren activation button, and a public address (PA) system activation button; and

(g) wiring and a break-out box housed in the center console for operatively connecting the consol controls to the radio, the volume system, the camera, the spotlight, the emergency flasher light, the siren, and the public address (PA) system, respectively.

2. The steering wheel device of claim 1, wherein the PTT buttons include a first PTT button is disposed at a 10 o'"'"'clock position on the steering wheel, a second PTT button disposed at a 2 o'"'"'clock position on the steering wheel, a third PTT button disposed at a 8 o'"'"'clock position on the steering wheel, and a fourth PTT button disposed at a 4 o'"'"'clock position on the steering wheel.

3. The steering wheel device of claim 1, wherein one or more control buttons of the steering wheel comprise illumination labels that can be illuminated for night time use.

4. The steering wheel device of claim 1 further comprising a laptop operatively connected to the center console.

5. The steering wheel device of claim 1, wherein the console comprises a monitor.

6. The steering wheel device of claim 1, wherein the console comprises a USB port or a connection for a music player.