Hitch system using a video camera to facilitate hitch alignment

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2007-02-06

2007-02-06

Beach, Thomas A (Department: 3671)

Excavating

Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device

With specific means to facilitate connection to, or...

C037S906000, C172S272000, C348S119000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10777824

ABSTRACT:
A video monitoring system is disclosed which may be used by the operator of a vehicle to guide the approach of the vehicle to an implement or a trailer or the like to bring connecting members of a hitch mechanism respectively located on the vehicle and on the implement or trailer into alignment and engagement with each other. A video camera is installed onto either the vehicle in the closest possible proximity to the hitch latching mechanism and is directed toward an alignment indicia located on the implement or trailer. A video monitor in the cab of the vehicle displays the video image “seen” by the video camera of the alignment indicia, allowing the vehicle to be driven into a position in which the implement or trailer may be hitched to the vehicle.

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