Apparatus for marking guideline for transportation vehicle

• US 8,769,837 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2010
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Comet Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Comet Bicycle Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Min, Byung Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennett, G. Bradley
• Application Number:
  US13/519,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20120285026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,483 Days
• Field of Search: 332/62, 332/63, 332/64, 332/75.R, 332/86, 33D/IG.21
• US Class Current: 33/264
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/10 Parts, details or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/50 for indicating other intentions or conditions, e.g. request for waiting or overtaking
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 2400/50 Projected symbol or information, e.g. onto the road or car body
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 27/00 Safety equipment
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 6/26 warning or informing other road users, e.g. police flash lights

Abstract

The device relates to a device for marking, during nighttime riding through a transport vehicle such as bicycles, two-wheeled vehicles, electric wheelchairs, etc., a rider'"'"'s temporary dedicated road lines by laser-emitting means mounted at the rear side of the transport vehicle, thereby ensuring the safety of the rider of the transport vehicle. The device includes: laser-emitting modules adapted to form luminous lines spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance on the road beside or behind the transport vehicle; a power supply module adapted to supply power to the laser-emitting modules; an external housing adapted to accommodate the laser-emitting modules thereinto; and a fixing module adapted to fix the external housing to the transport vehicle.

Claims

1. A device for marking riding lines for a transport vehicle, comprising:

laser-emitting modules 300 adapted to form luminous lines spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance on the road beside or behind the transport vehicle 100, each laser-emitting module 300 has a light source-producing unit 310 adapted to produce the luminous line therefrom and a light-guiding unit 320 adapted to adjust the direction of the light produced from the light source-producing unit 310 to induce the formation of the luminous line, the light-guiding unit 320 being formed of a line-forming module adapted to diffuse or collect the light emitted from the light source-producing unit 310 in such a manner as to allow the diffused or collected light to be formed in a shape of the line having a given length along the road;

a power supply module 500 adapted to supply power to the laser-emitting modules 300;

an external housing A adapted to accommodate the laser-emitting modules 300 thereinto; and

a fixing module 200 adapted to fix the external housing A to the transport vehicle 100 and having a gripping part 210 fixed to a given position of the transport vehicle and a fixing part 220 insertedly fixed into the gripping part 210 by means of a fixing member 230, so that the external housing A is moved up and down around the fixing member 230.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein each laser-emitting module 300 has the light source-producing unit 310 adapted to produce the luminous line therefrom and the light-guiding unit 320 adapted to adjust the direction of the light produced from the light source-producing unit 310 to induce the formation of the luminous line.

3. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the laser-emitting modules 300 are disposed correspondingly on both sides of the lower portion of the external housing A, and the external housing A has a warn-indicating module 400 mounted thereinto, the warn-indicating module 400 being formed of at least one or more LED lamps.

4. The device as defined in claim 3, wherein a portion of the external housing A, in which the warn-indicating module 400 is mounted to emit the light of LED lamps to the outside, is formed of a cover member made of a light permeable material.

5. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the power supply module 500 is formed of a lithium-ion battery, a rechargeable battery, or a self generating module, which applies the power to the laser-emitting module 300 or the LED lamps.

6. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the laser-emitting modules 300 are disposed correspondingly on both sides of the lower portion of the external housing A, and the external housing A has a warn-indicating module 400 in which at least one or more LED lamps are disposed mounted thereinto.