Data communication device for a vehicle towed by a motor vehicle

Details Data communication device for a vehicle towed by a motor vehicle Data communication device for a vehicle towed by a motor vehicle

1997-05-21

1999-05-04

Tong, Nina

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

340441, 340445, 34082554, 34082572, B60Q 100

Patent

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059008032

ABSTRACT:
The data communication device is designed for a towed vehicle having wheels rear lights, brake lights, turn signal lights and an anti-lock braking system, that is drawn by a motor vehicle. This data communication device includes an electrical cable connection (19) for supplying electrical power from the towing vehicle to the rear, brake and turn signal lights; an electrical pulse generator and electrical power supply circuit (14) for producing direct current from wheel motion of the towed vehicle; a rechargeable battery (15) to provide a supplementary direct current in addition to this direct current, when necessary; a controller (10) for the anti-lock braking system including a data producing unit (7) for producing data including mileage covered by the towed vehicle and a wireless transponder (6) operating the gigahertz range for transmission and reception of data from the data producing unit to and from an external data transmitting and receiving station (1).

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patent: 5500637 (1996-03-01), Kokubu
patent: 5673018 (1997-09-01), Lowe et al.

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