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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2007
Hanz Werner Herrig, Aurora, IL (US);
Dean Craig Holle, St. Charles, IL (US);
Hanz Werner Herrig, Aurora, IL (US);
Dean Craig Holle, St. Charles, IL (US);
Xtreme Engineered Solutions Inc., St. Charles, IL (US);
Abstract
In one illustrative example, a vehicular flasher unit is operative to provide a heartbeat flasher scheme in vehicle flasher lights. One illustrative technique in the vehicular flasher unit involves monitoring a flasher enable input to identify a flasher enable signal and producing, at a light illumination output in response to identifying the flasher enable signal, a heartbeat flashing scheme in the vehicle flasher lights. The heartbeat flashing scheme has a repeating sequence of two heartbeat pulse flashes in the vehicle flasher lights which include a first heartbeat pulse flash and a second heartbeat flash. Each first heartbeat pulse flash has a first peak intensity in the vehicle flasher lights and each second heartbeat pulse flash has a second peak intensity in the vehicle flasher lights that is preferably different from the first peak intensity. Further, each first heartbeat pulse flash is separated from its following second heartbeat pulse flash by a first duration, and each second heartbeat pulse flash is separated from its following first heartbeat pulse by a second duration that is greater than the first.