The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Dräger Safety Ag & Co. Kgaa, Lübeck, DE;
Stefan Morley, Lübeck, DE;
Martin Zimmermann, Hamburg, DE;
Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, DE;
Abstract
A device for preventing a vehicle from being started includes a breath gas analyzer (), which is arranged within the vehicle and is designed to detect the breath alcohol content of an operator. A repeated test can be performed, without compromising the operator, with a control unit (), which is connected to the breath gas analyzer (), a motion sensor () and an ignition system () of the vehicle, to request a breath alcohol test at presettable times tin such a way that the breath alcohol test is performed with the vehicle stopped. The control unit () is also designed to preset, beginning from the time t, a time interval as a latency period twithin which the vehicle must be stopped.