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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2021
Adac Plastics, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Anne Adamczyk, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
ADAC Plastics, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
A trailer hitch detection system may include a sensor mounted in or over an opening defined through a wall of a trailer hitch receiver mounted to a motor vehicle, the sensor configured to be responsive to receipt of a trailer hitch assembly in the trailer hitch receiver to exhibit at least a first sensor characteristic, and to absence of the trailer hitch assembly in the trailer hitch receiver to exhibit at least a second sensor characteristic discernably different from the first sensor characteristic, and signal processing circuitry operatively coupled to the sensor and configured to produce at least one trailer hitch detection signal indicating receipt of the trailer assembly in the trailer hitch receiver in response to the first sensor characteristic and indicating absence of the trailer hitch assembly in the trailer hitch receiver in response to the second sensor characteristic.