Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Vehicle diagnosis or maintenance indication
Reexamination Certificate
2001-08-17
2002-08-06
Camby, Richard M. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Vehicle diagnosis or maintenance indication
C701S207000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06430487
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to velocity and position recording systems and more particularly pertains to a new satellite tracking velocity recorder for allowing a user to accurately monitor the speed and position of vehicles.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of velocity and position recording systems is known in the prior art. More specifically, velocity and position recording systems heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 4,853,856; U.S. Pat. No. 5,610,815; U.S. Pat. No. 5,684,476; U.S. Pat. No. 5,383,127; U.S. Pat. No. 5,539,645; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 366,220.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new satellite tracking velocity recorder. The inventive device includes a housing that has a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall is adapted for coupling to the vehicle. The housing is adapted for coupling to the vehicle. A plurality of ports is coupled to the perimeter wall of the housing. Each of the ports is adapted for coupling to one of a plurality of external devices. A processor assembly is positioned within the housing. The processor assembly is operationally coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is adapted for processing information from at least one of the external devices when the external devices are coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is adapted for transmitting information to at least one of the external devices when the external devices are coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is for recording location, speed, date and time of the vehicle. A power supply is operationally coupled to the processor assembly. The power supply is for supplying power to the processor assembly.
In these respects, the satellite tracking velocity recorder according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing a user to accurately monitor the speed and position of vehicles.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of velocity and position recording systems now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new satellite tracking velocity recorder construction wherein the same can be utilized for allowing a user to accurately monitor the speed and position of vehicles.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the velocity and position recording systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new satellite tracking velocity recorder which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art velocity and position recording systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a housing that has a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall is adapted for coupling to the vehicle. The housing is adapted for coupling to the vehicle. A plurality of ports is coupled to the perimeter wall of the housing. Each of the ports is adapted for coupling to one of a plurality of external devices. A processor assembly is positioned within the housing. The processor assembly is operationally coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is adapted for processing information from at least one of the external devices when the external devices are coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is adapted for transmitting information to at least one of the external devices when the external devices are coupled to the ports. The processor assembly is for recording location, speed, date and time of the vehicle. A power supply is operationally coupled to the processor assembly. The power supply is for supplying power to the processor assembly.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the velocity and position recording systems mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new satellite tracking velocity recorder which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art velocity and position recording systems, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder, which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder, which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such satellite tracking velocity recorder economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder, which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder for allowing a user to accurately monitor the speed and position of vehicles.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new satellite tracking velocity recorder, which includes a housing that has a perimeter wall. The pe
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