Add brake lamps to vehicle front end

• US 20080079556A1
• Filed: 10/02/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ruth E. Pratt
• Original Assignee: Ruth E. Pratt
• Inventors: Pratt, Ruth E.
• Application Number:
  US11/542,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20080079556A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/479
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/442 visible on the front side of the vehicle, e.g. for pedestrians

Abstract

For new car design, a second brake wire must be routed through the headlamp junction block to two red lamps located on the vehicle front that will be visible to oncoming drivers and pedestrians from the left, center and right of the vehicle. For retrofitting vehicles, brake wires, found in the lamp junction block in the trunk, may be split, adding 16 to 20 feet of new wire which is run, under vehicle flooring, through the firewall to the headlamp junction box, thence through the grill to be attached to bulbs that are the inserted into red housing and bonded to the exterior so as to be visible to oncoming drivers and pedestrians, left, center and right.

Claims

1. This is a new utility using old art to expand braking information in a new vehicular front end configuration that creates a new source of highway safety by providing brake status information to oncoming traffic, left, center and right to address new information that only 5% of 42,636 traffic fatalities in 2004 were due to rear-end collisions.