106 results about "Vehicular accident" patented technology

Vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur unless a corrective action is taken based on data obtained prior to the impact and determining whether the potential impact requires activation of a reactive system which controls operation of the vehicle. The anticipatory sensor system includes a receiver for receiving waves or energy and a pattern recognition system for analyzing the received waves or energy, or data representative thereof, to determine that an impact is about to occur if corrective action is not taken and whether the potential impact requires activation of the reactive system. The pattern recognition system ascertains the identity of an object from which the waves or energy have been emitted, reflected or generated, so that the determination whether the impact requires activation of the reactive system is based on identification of the object.

Vehicle including an anticipatory sensor system for determining that an impact involving the vehicle is about to occur unless a corrective action is taken based on data obtained prior to the impact and determining whether the potential impact requires activation of a reactive system which controls operation of the vehicle. The anticipatory sensor system includes a receiver for receiving waves or energy and a pattern recognition system for analyzing the received waves or energy, or data representative thereof, to determine that an impact is about to occur if corrective action is not taken and whether the potential impact requires activation of the reactive system. The pattern recognition system ascertains the identity of an object from which the waves or energy have been emitted, reflected or generated, so that the determination whether the impact requires activation of the reactive system is based on identification of the object.

Method and system for notifying a remote facility of a vehicular accident includes obtaining information about the accident using a crash sensor system on the vehicle, obtaining information about position of the vehicle using a position determining system, obtaining information about occupancy of the vehicle by animate occupants using an occupant sensing system on the vehicle, generating at least one data packet derived from information obtained by the crash sensor system and information obtained by the occupant sensing system and directing the data packet(s), using a communications system on the vehicle, from the vehicle directly to the remote facility without involving an intermediary. The information about position of the vehicle obtained by the position determining system is provided to the remote facility to be associated with the data packet(s).

This invention relates to the use and proper placement in a vehicle of a mobile wireless phone having cellular or GPS positioning capability and an impact sensor, e.g. triaxial accelerometer. Said sensor instantly detects a serious vehicular accident or theft, then and without driver or passenger intervention, automatically transmits an emergency appeal for assistance to appropriate Police / Emergency Medical Services (PEMS), or Fire Rescue units, apprizing the PEMS of said exigency and location. Otherwise, the integrated mobile phone system will function in a manner that is similar to a conventional wireless mobile phone. Optionally, the integrated mobile wireless phone may include means for receiving an emergency medical signal and automatically communicates an appeal for emergency assistance when the user having said unit and having a predisposed life threatening medical condition, encounters a life threatening anomaly, e.g., heart attack. System provides means to mitigate multi-vehicle collisions that are normally associated with environmental road hazards fog, ice, etc., by instantly alerting authorities and / or drivers in the region of the location of said hazard when an accident occurs.

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for using black box data to analyze vehicular accidents. The methods include obtaining information from an event data recorder associated with a vehicle and using the data obtained therefrom in determining and analyzing the vehicular accident. Attributes to be analyzed include impact severity, change in velocity, and other desired parameters. Further disclosed are methods to securely communicate the downloaded black box information to a secure location for later analysis and processing.

A crash detection system is disclosed that utilizes a mobile computing device to detect a vehicular accident via one or more sensors integrated into the mobile computing device. The system monitors the sensor metrics measured by one or more sensors and generates an event sensor profile that may include the plurality of sensor metrics and additional status data, such as an indication of whether the mobile computing device was located within a vehicle when the event occurred. By comparing the plurality of sensor metrics to other crash sensor metrics, a determination may be made whether the event requires emergency assistance, which may be confirmed by determining whether the data included in the event sensor profile meets one or more exception conditions. If the event requires emergency assistance and an exception condition is not met, the mobile computing device may place a call to the appropriate emergency response personnel.

Disclosed are methods and apparatus for using black box data to analyze vehicular accidents. The methods include obtaining information from an event data recorder associated with a vehicle and using the data obtained therefrom in determining and analyzing the vehicular accident. Attributes to be analyzed include impact severity, change in velocity, and other desired parameters. Further disclosed are methods to securely communicate the downloaded black box information to a secure location for later analysis and processing.

The invention discloses a protective fence for a highway and a mounting method thereof, whichrelate to the technical field of protective fences. The protective fence comprises two supports and a connecting mechanism, sliding seats are fixedly installed at the bottom ends of the two supports, an upper cross beam, a lower cross beam and a warning buffer mechanism are fixedly installed between the two supports, a solar cell panel is fixedly installed at the top of the upper cross beam, a distance sensor is fixedly installed at the front end of the left support, and an alarm is fixedly installed at the front end of the right support. The distance between a vehicle and the protective fencecan be monitored in real time through the distance sensor, and when the warning range is reached, a drivercan be reminded to keep a safe distance. And when the possible collision range is reached, the air bag is controlled to pop up, so that the impact force onthe vehicle is buffered, the deformation quantity of the collision vehicle can be effectively reduced, the recoil force caused by collision is minimized, secondary damage caused by the fact that the vehicle rushes out of the fenceis avoided, thecollision force in the vehicle during a traffic accident is reduced, and the safety of personnel in the vehicle is protected.

The invention discloses a brake disc assembly based on an air cooling system, and relates to the technical field of brake discs. The brake disc assembly comprises a boss, two disc bodies are fixedly connected to the circumferential side face of the boss, a circular ring is rotationally connected to the circumferential side face of the boss through a bearing, a plug pin penetrates through the innerwall of an annular cavity, a limiting disc is fixedly connected to the end, located in the annular cavity, of the plug pin, a limiting spring and an expansion air bag are fixedly connected to one side face of the limiting disc, one side face of the expansion air bag is fixedly connected with the inner wall of the annular cavity, and arc-shaped clamping grooves are formed in the two side faces ofthe circular ring. Through the design of the circular ring, the plug pin, the expansion air bag, the arc-shaped clamping grooves, an annular gear and fan blades, the disc bodies and the circular ringrotate differentially, automatic air cooling can be achieved, the heat dissipation effect is good, and the problems that an existing brake disc is poor in heat dissipation effect, the performance of the brake disc can be affected after long-time braking, safety is poor, brake failure is likely to happen, and traffic accidents are caused are solved.

Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory media are described for submitting an insurance claim. The described techniques include receiving one or more forms (and / or remote electronic access to such) from an external computing device to facilitate filing of an insurance claim associated with a vehicular accident. The forms may include one or more data fields corresponding to data used to process an insurance claim. To fill in the insurance form data, the mobile computing device may capture of one or more images associated with the vehicular accident. One or more object recognition and / or optical character recognition (OCR) processes may be applied to the one or more images to extract image data, which may be used to populate one or more insurance claim form fields. Once completed, the insurance claim form may be sent to an insurer from the mobile computing device to facilitate submission of the insurance claim.

An apparatus includes a first memory device, a second memory device and a controller. The first memory device stores vehicular data in accident. The second memory device has control data area for storing control data in nonvolatile manner. The controller records the vehicular data stored in the first memory device into the control data area of the second memory device by overwriting the control data in response to vehicular accident. It is possible to increase a recordable amount of vehicular data in vehicular accident without increasing recording capacity exclusively preserved to vehicular data.

A microprocessor-based video and audio data recorder configured to store vehicular related data arising from a vehicular accident or incident in a format retrievable from the device.

The invention discloses a car accident escape method and device. The method includes: if it is detected that the vehicle is subjected to an external impact, then detecting the ground pressure on the tires of the vehicle; if the ground pressure is less than a preset ground pressure threshold, then determining whether the vehicle is in a state of falling into water; if the vehicle is in a state of falling into water, Then start the doors and windows, close the safety belt and control the seat to break away from the seat frame. The invention improves the survival rate of escaping in water and avoids unnecessary casualties.

The invention discloses an intersection blind area early warning control method and system based on roadside crowd-sourcing calculation. The system comprises data acquisition, information analysis, track prediction, an early warning module and road condition transmission, motor vehicle information is acquired through a crowd-sourcing calculation system, and meanwhile, pedestrians and non-motor vehicles are maintained and analyzed after being displayed and recorded; each intersection is collected, data comprehensiveness is guaranteed, traffic accidents caused by blind areas of the intersections are avoided, display tracks of pedestrians and vehicles are predicted according to the collected information, prediction results are displayed at the two ends of the zebra crossing through the warning lamps, the pedestrians are reminded when the vehicles pass by, meanwhile, the signal lamps flicker at high frequency, and traffic accidents are avoided. And the information processing module processes the information and then transmits the road conditions to the crowd-sourcing computing system in the vehicle, so that the driver can receive the road condition information of different intersections in real time, avoid traffic jam intersections in time and reduce the driving time.

The car collision global positioning system transmits an emergency alert signal to emergency authorities upon detection of a collision or other vehicular accident. A plurality of collision sensors are mounted in a body of a vehicle for detecting a vehicle collision. Preferably, each collision sensor further measures a velocity of the vehicle at a time of a collision. A collision signal is generated when at least one of the plurality of collision sensors detects the collision and the measured velocity exceeds a pre-set velocity threshold. Additionally, at least one overturn sensor is provided for generating an overturn signal when the vehicle overturns, and a deployment sensor is also provided for generating a deployment signal when an airbag of the vehicle is deployed. When at least one of the collision signal, the overturn signal or the deployment signal are generated, an emergency alert signal is generated and transmitted.

Body restraint systems for vehicles that include buckles for latching and retaining latch plates associated with safety belts. The buckle of each system includes a pair of oppositely biased latching mechanisms that are operative in such a manner that a force applied to release one latching mechanism from a latch plate inserted within the buckle creates an opposite and equal force against the opposite latching mechanism to thereby positively retain the latch plate within the buckle in a locked position. Release of a latch plate can only occur upon the simultaneous movement of both of the oppositely biased latching mechanisms toward one another by application of manual force and thus release of the latch plate cannot occur by inertial forces that may be encountered in a vehicular accident.

The invention belongs to the technical field of classified garbage information processing and discloses a classified garbage disposal system and a classified garbage disposal method with garbage classifying boxes. The classified garbage disposal system with garbage classifying boxes comprises a video monitoring module, a center control module, a weight adjusting module, a distributing module, a voice prompting module, a peculiar smell purifying module, a gravity separating module, a compression module, a cleaning module and a display module. Garbage in areas are uniformly distributed and controlled in the garbage boxes effectively through the weight adjusting module, and the probability of occurrence of car accidents caused by non-uniform garbage distribution is reduced. Meanwhile, the utilization ratio of each garbage box is improved, so that the probability that garbage is scattered everywhere is further reduced, and meanwhile, waste of resources as the garbage boxes are not used isalso avoided.

The invention discloses a belt used for escape and life saving in accident. The invention is characterized in that the belt is provided with a non-closed belt buckle; one end of the belt buckle is provided with a glass cutter; the rear end of the glass cutter is provided with a clamp; the glass cutter is fixedly connected with the belt buckle by virtue of the clamp; the front end of the glass cutter is provided with a hammer pick made by steel; the hammer pick is fixedly connected with the glass cutter; when the vertical line of gravity center of the glass cutter is found by taking the center of the clamp as top, the vertice of the hammer pick is arranged on the vertical line of the gravity center of the glass cutter, and the hammer pick and a balance weight or the inner cavity of the glass cutter are longitudinally distributed along the vertical line of the gravity center of the glass cutter, and the hammer pick is arranged at the front end of the balance weight or the inner cavity of the glass cutter; a non-hamming surface at the front end of the glass cutter is provided with a glass cutting device; the glass cutter is provided with a rope cutting device; the other end of the belt buckle is provided with a glass cutter sheath; the belt buckle is a locking mechanism which is used for being inserted into the glass cutter sheath by virtue of the glass cutter to complete locking or is a locking mechanism provided with a special movable buckle; the belt buckle is provided with a whistle used for life saving; and the belt buckle is provided with a moistureproof fire starting device. The invention has the beneficial effects that the original functions of known belt buckle are remained, small volume is adopted to design a belt buckle which can be worn by common people in to a life saving tool, so that the belt buckle can be used for escape timely when a traffic accident happens and has good decoration function at ordinary time.

Accident location data and present vehicle feature data may be obtained, wherein the accident location data indicates one or more locations associated with one or more vehicular accidents, and the present vehicle feature data indicates one or more sets of vehicle features. A set of prediction model parameters of a prediction model may be configured based on the accident location data and the present vehicle feature data for prediction of damage-reduction-related values associated with a set of available vehicle features. The prediction model may be used to determine one or more damage-reduction-related values based on first vehicle data indicating a first vehicle, a set of vehicle features available to the first vehicle, and a first geospatial location. A first set of features for the first vehicle may be generated based on the damage-reduction-related values.

Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may be used to direct vehicle traffic in response to a vehicular accident. For example, an unmanned vehicle may analyze information about the accident scene and based on the information direct traffic near the accident scene.

The invention discloses a first-aid quick bandage-fixing device for destructive injury of limbs and open fractures and relates to the technical field of fracture bandage-fixing. The device of the invention includes functional steel plates, an elastic bandage, a fixing rope belt and a tourniquet, wherein the functional steel plate is attached to and fixed on the elastic bandage; the tourniquet penetrating the elastic bandage is installed at the lower end of the elastic bandage; and two ends of the elastic bandage are provided with the fixing rope belt and sewn with velcro. According to the first-aid quick bandage-fixing device for destructive injury of limbs and open fracture, the functional steel plate is attached to the elastic bandage with the assistance of aseptic dressing, thus realizing quick bandage-fixing and improving the curative effect of destructive injury of limbs; and quick hemostasis bandage-fixing can be achieved by one-time operation, thus greatly facilitating and improving the treatment of destructive injury of limbs. The device is especially suitable for promotion and application of high-risk operations such as fire lines, demining, explosive disposal, etc. and injury rescues such as earthquakes, car accidents, machine operating injuries, etc.

The present invention discloses a traffic method by adopting super plane cross technology, and is a high-effective technology for raising traffic flow by using flow change and automatic control program as basis. Said invention utilizes traffic indicator lamp and automatic control system to change vehicle flow into same-direction running array and make unified control. It can make general intersection greatly increase traffic flow, can substitute overpass with plane crossing so as to form super plane crossing network capable of eliminating traffic impedance and friction, and can completely eliminate traffic accident.

A system for selectively disabling use of at least selected features of a stand-alone electronic device under a predetermined set of conditions. The system establishes a state of the set of conditions as being satisfied or unsatisfied, communicates the state to the electronic device, and disables the selected features if the state is satisfied. In one embodiment, the system may be advantageously be used to prevent vehicular accidents by at least partially disabling non-emergency use of a wireless telephone in a moving vehicle. In another embodiment, the system may be used to disable features of an electronic device within a predetermined area having a boundary that is independent of a communications network cell.

The invention discloses a tunnel entrance and exit safety control system based on a video sensing technology. The system comprises a road monitoring center, a tunnel entrance and exit safety controller, a video monitoring camera, a lane indicating lamp, a variable information board, a flash warning lamp, and a communication system; the road monitoring center comprises a video event detection server; and the tunnel entrance and exit safety controller is in real-time communication with the video monitoring camera, the lane indicating lamp, the variable information board and the explosion flashing warning lamp. According to the present invention, the traffic and event conditions of a tunnel entrance and exit section are automatically analyzed, traffic accidents caused by the fact that a driver cannot find the traffic barriers accidentally existing at the tunnel entrance and exit in time due to black hole and white hole effects generated when the driver enters and exits the tunnel are avoided, and the tunnel operation management level is improved; by automatically finding the traffic events and obstacles at the tunnel entrance and exit, passing vehicles are automatically early warned and informed, and traffic accidents at the tunnel entrance and exit and serious life and property loss are avoided; under the existing technical conditions, the system is easy to popularize and implement.

The invention discloses an anti-remote light type new energy road reflector. The anti-remote light type new energy road reflector comprises a spherical shell, the shell is provided with a circular notch and is glued and fixed with a spherical crown-shaped protective film, the protective film is made of a transparent material, a spherical crown-shaped bidirectional mirror is fixed at the notch of the shell, a photovoltaic panel is fixed to the inner wall of the bidirectional mirror by using a hard connecting rod, at least one photoresistor is fixed to the side, close to the protective film, ofthe photovoltaic panel, an outer ring is slidably connected with the inner wall of the shell, and an inner ring is slidably connected with the inner wall of the outer ring. The anti-remote light typenew energy road reflector has the advantages that light of a high beam irradiates on the bidirectional mirror, the inner ring and the outer ring generate relative rotation, the light detection anglesare different after two polarizing plates generate relative rotation, at the moment, the light reflected by the bidirectional mirror is obviously weakened, the danger of other drivers is avoided afterthe light of the automobile high beam is reflected by the reflector, and the occurrence of danger such as car accident caused by high beams in road turning position at night is effectively avoided.

The invention discloses a left foot braking and left-hand driving automatic-transmission automobile. The left foot braking and left-hand driving automatic-transmission automobile mainly comprises an automatic-transmission automobile main body, a braking pedal, an accelerating pedal and a claw clutch, wherein the braking pedal is positioned on the left side of a steering wheel and controlled by the left foot of a driver; whether the accelerating pedal works or not is controlled by the claw clutch; after being separated, the claw clutch is recombined only when the braking pedal and the accelerating pedal simultaneously return; and any one of the braking pedal and the accelerating pedal does not return, the claw clutch cannot be combined. According to the invention, as the traditional braking pedal on the right side is moved to the left side and the clutch is additionally arranged between the braking pedal and the accelerating pedal so as to form linkage under a specific condition, a contradiction problem that acceleration may be caused during braking is solved, accidents caused by problems of response time, hurry and confusion, uneven loads and the like are greatly reduced, and driving experience is also improved. The left foot braking and left-hand driving automatic-transmission automobile is inevitably convenient for most drivers to safely and comfortably drive the automobiles today and tomorrow with automatic-transmission automobiles as mainstream.

The invention discloses a compound reagent for portable occult blood trace appearing as well as a preparation method and a using method of the compound reagent. The compound reagent comprises a solution A and a solution B. The solution A comprises the following components in percentage by mass, 0.8-2.0% of triarylmethane dye, 0.1-0.9% of lactic acid, 0.8-10% of calcium chloride or sodium chloride, 0.02-0.5% of citric acid, 0.02-1.5% of sodium sulfite and the balance of water; and the solution B comprises 0.5-10% of calcium chloride or sodium chloride, 3-30% of hydrogen peroxide and the balance of water. The solution A and the solution B are mixed, the occult blood trace can be displayed by using the mixed reagent without additional equipment under the naked eye condition, operation is simple and rapid, the display effect is not influenced by the background color of the object, and the method can be suitable for displaying permeable and non-permeable object surfaces. The method is safe and non-toxic to human bodies, and can be suitable for appearing occult blood of tires and vehicle bodies during car accident escape and finding occult blood traces in crime scenes.

The invention discloses a bicycle safety monitoring and alarming system having a function of illuminating and a control method. The bicycle safety monitoring and alarming system mainly comprises a control unit, a speed measuring unit, an illuminating unit, a weight sensing unit, an Internet of Things communication module, a GPS positioning module, an alarming module, a server and a client. Through the adoption of the bicycle safety monitoring and alarming system disclosed by the invention, the defects that in the prior art, monitoring means for bicycles are lacking, so that the bicycles break the traffic rules and the occurrence rate of accidents is obviously increased can be overcome; the bicycle speed monitoring of the bicycle in traffic is perfected; and according to the concentrated overspeed periods and concentrated overspeed sites of the bicycles, a corresponding plan is established, so that potential safety hazards in traffic are reduced, and the defect that dangerous accidents occur frequently caused by that the riding speed of the bicycles is not limited or the maximum speed limit of the bicycle speed is unreasonably set is overcome; and besides, the probability of the occurrence of the bicycle accidents caused by dark light is also reduced.