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Anthony Dechiara

William J Herbert

Larry Lietzow

Stephen McFarland

The present invention provides parking curb detection devices and methods for alerting a motor vehicle driver when a predetermined distance from a parking curb has been reached to prevent vehicle damage. An audio and/or a visible signal device alerts the vehicle driver when the correct stopping point has been reached. The present invention utilizes a triangulation led infrared sensor, a control box with digital algorithm filtering, long wave length and bandpass optical filters, and also electronic filters to largely prevent false alerts during bright sunshine conditions.

Curb detection device for motor vehicles

A vehicle guidance and parking system that continuously guides the operator of a vehicle to a pre-determined parking position by using two laser beams impinging on a forward or rearward surface. The two lasers beams project to a substantially vertical surface to which a vertical line has been applied and the vehicle is guided by the operator such that the two laser beams are kept equidistantly horizontally centered around the line during the vehicle approach to maintain the correct lateral position in the pre-determined parking position. When the two laser beams converge on the vertical line, the vehicle is longitudinally positioned to the pre-determined parking position. Temperature compensation, due to the wide temperature of potential use range, is provided by the laser emitting device used in the vehicle guidance and parking system. A light blocking shroud is used around the vertical line in bright sunlight conditions when necessary to improve the visibility of the two laser beam outputs for vehicle maneuvering.

Dual laser beam guidance and parking device

A wireless taillight system is provided having a taillight module (150) removably mountable on a vehicle such as a wagon (125) being pulled by a farm tractor (100). Module (150) has at least one signal lamp illuminable by a wireless control signal transmitter module (200) having a power source carried thereby that, along with module (150), is preferably operable to transmit a feed-back signal to transmitter module (200) to provide the operator with information concerning one or more of: (i) the condition of the signal lamp; (ii) the condition of the power source powering the signal lamp and; (iii) whether the function selected by an operator has in fact occurred. In another embodiment a taillight module (250) is provided without feed-back capability and includes an adaptive logic mode for providing a visual and/or audible signal upon the occurrence of an event such as when the taillight module battery power falls below a predetermined value and/or an absence in receipt of the transmitter control signal has exceeded a predetermined period of time or in yet another embodiment reduces the power being delivered to the signal lamps by a predetermined amount or selectively reduces the number of signal lamps being illuminated by the power source or automatically provides a visual signal upon deceleration of the vehicle.

Wireless taillight system

A wireless taillight system is provided having a taillight module (150) removably mountable on a vehicle such as a wagon (125) being pulled by a farm tractor (100). Module (150) has at least one signal lamp illuminable by a wireless control signal transmitter module (200) having a power source carried thereby that along with module (150) is preferably operable to transmit a feed-back signal to transmitter module (200) to provide the operator with information concerning one or more of: (i) the condition of the signal lamp; (ii) the condition of the power source powering the signal lamp and; (iii) whether a function selected by an operator has in fact occurred.

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Wadsworth, OH, United States of America

Anthony Dechiara