Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – External signal light system
Patent
1996-07-25
1998-06-02
Hofsass, Jeffery
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
External signal light system
340458, 340457, 340474, 307 108, B60Q 126
Patent
active
057606854
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for and a method of controlling tail lamps of a vehicles capable of giving an alarm to the driver when the door of the vehicle is opened in ON state of the tail lamps, thereby ensuring the driver to recognize the ON state of the tail lamps. The apparatus includes a tail lamp switch unit provided with a tail lamp switch adapted to manually turn on/off the tail lamps, the tail lamp switch unit serving to convert a switched state of the tail lamp switch into an electrical signal, a door opening/closing switch unit provided with a door opening/closing switch operatively connected to a door of the vehicle, the door opening/closing switch unit serving to convert a switched state of the door opening/closing switch into an electrical signal, a control unit for generating a control signal to generate an alarm when the door is opened in a turned-on state of the tail lamps, based on the electrical signals respectively received from the tail lamp switch unit and the door opening/closing switch unit, a tail lamp unit provided with the tail lamps, the tail lamp unit being turned on or off under a control of the control unit, and an alarming unit for generating an alarm in accordance with the control signal from the control unit. The apparatus is designed by use of digital circuits so that it can have a simple circuit arrangement.
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patent: 4435648 (1984-03-01), Goode, III
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Hofsass Jeffery
Kia Motors Corporation
Lieu Julie
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