Communications: electrical – Land vehicle alarms or indicators – Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...
Patent
1999-05-26
2000-07-18
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Communications: electrical
Land vehicle alarms or indicators
Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...
34030915, 340457, 340571, 340572, 368 10, 368278, B60Q 100
Patent
active
060913266
ABSTRACT:
A device for reminding a driver of a vehicle of the expiration date of the associated inspection sticker. The device includes a housing, a microprocessor, a LCD, a calendar chip for generating a date, a clock chip for generating a time, an alarm chip the provides a visible alarm and an audible alarm, a select button that selects either the clock chip, the calendar chip, or the alarm chip, and a value button that sets either the clock chip, the calendar chip, or the alarm chip that was selected by the select button. The device further includes a piece of two-sided tape that is attached to the rear wall of the housing and attaches the housing to the windshield of the vehicle, behind the inspection sticker. The audible and visible alarms have duty cycles with frequencies and durations that are selected by a menu brought up on the LCD display by the select button and set by the value button. The duty cycles are intermittent as opposed to constant for preventing drain on the battery. The alarm chip is set to activate at a predetermined time prior to the expiration date of the inspection sticker so as to remind the driver of the vehicle that the expiration date of the inspection sticker is approaching.
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Hofsass Jeffery A.
Miller P.E. Richard L.
Nguyen Hung
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