Horizon Global Americas Inc.

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Marvin Hoot

Dennis Michael Morse

Yilong Chen

Srikanth Kadudula

Nicholas Albert Cekola

Chandrakumar Kulkarni

Larry Eccleston

Mark William Austin

Jason Reichard

Steve Zavodny

Pat Burgess

Jerald Prater

Marcia S Albright

Kirk Englert

Doug Marsden

Marcia Albright

George Moore

Leon Bogdanov

A towed vehicle controller combines a trailer brake controller and lighting driver. The towed vehicle controller can include a trailer battery charging circuit. The towed vehicle controller operates towed vehicle braking, towed vehicle lighting and towed vehicle battery charge functions.

Combination of trailer braking and lighting functions

A brake control unit includes a processor, a first high side driver and a second high side driver. The processor sends signals to the first high side driver and the second high side driver. The first and second high side drivers process the signals independent of each other. The processor diagnoses faults and locations of faults based on feedback from the high side drivers. The first high side driver controls the braking of a first trailer brake. The second high side driver controls the braking of a second trailer brake.

Driver and diagnostic system for a brake controller

Towed vehicles can be extremely heavy. Accordingly, it is too much of a burden to the braking system of a towing vehicle to not have brakes on the towed vehicle. Controlling the brakes of the towed vehicle must be accurately applied otherwise undesirable conditions can be created. There is a need for a method for controlling braking of a towed vehicle. This method comprises receiving a first signal via a communication bus of a towing vehicle, the first signal relating to at least one operating condition of at least one the towing vehicle and a towed vehicle, sending a second signal to brakes of the towed vehicle, the second signal based on said first signal.

Brake control unit

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Woodburn, IN, United States of America

Marvin Hoot