Motorcycle Lighting System with Vehicle Detection Warning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Operators of vehicles often fail to notice motorcycles in their vicinity, leading to potential collisions, especially during lane changes or when backing out of driveways, due to blind spots.
Innovation Solution
A motorcycle equipped with a lighting system and imaging assemblies that capture and analyze external environment data to detect nearby vehicles, activating lamps to provide a visual warning to the vehicle operators, ensuring they are aware of the motorcycle's presence.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a motorcycle operates without additional warning systems, then the device complexity remains low, but the safety and visibility to other vehicles deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of nearby vehicles using imaging assemblies before potential collisions occur. The controller continuously monitors the environment and activates warning lamps in advance when vehicles are detected in dangerous positions, allowing vehicle operators to take corrective action before unsafe maneuvers happen.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary warning system consisting of imaging assemblies, a controller, and lamps. This intermediary system mediates between the motorcycle and other vehicles by detecting vehicle positions and transmitting visual warning signals to alert operators of nearby motorcycles, thereby preventing collisions without requiring direct communication between vehicles.
2Reliability
If lamps are activated to provide visual warning, then the visibility and safety improve, but the energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller activates warning lamps periodically or intermittently based on detection cycles rather than continuously. The system captures images at specific intervals, analyzes them for vehicle presence, and activates lamps only when vehicles are detected in dangerous positions, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining safety effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system activates specific lamps localized to the direction where vehicles are detected rather than illuminating all lamps simultaneously. The controller determines which lamp(s) are most effective for warning the detected vehicle based on its position relative to the motorcycle, concentrating energy usage only where needed.
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If multiple imaging assemblies are used to cover all regions, then the detection capability improves, but the device complexity and cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the monitoring environment into multiple regions (first region, second region, third region, fourth region) and assigns specific imaging assemblies to detect vehicles in particular regions. This segmentation allows comprehensive coverage while managing system complexity by organizing detection responsibilities across multiple specialized sensors rather than requiring a single omnidirectional system.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively increases the visibility of the motorcycle to approaching vehicle operators, reducing the likelihood of unsafe maneuvers and potential collisions by providing targeted visual warnings based on real-time vehicle detection and positioning.
Implementation Method 1
an image sensor configured to generate image data
Implementation Method 2
a lighting system including a plurality of lamps, each of which is configured to illuminate a different region
Data Source
AI summary
A motorcycle comprising: a lighting system including a plurality of lamps, each of which is configured to illuminate a different region of a plurality of regions relative to the motorcycle; one or more imaging assemblies, each of which includes an image sensor configured to generate image data; and a controller in communication with each of the plurality of lamps that receives as input the image data that the image sensor from each of the one or more imaging assemblies generates, analyzes the image data, detects a vehicle from the image data, and activates whichever lamp of the plurality of lamps that illuminates the region of the plurality of regions that is closest to the vehicle to provide a visual warning to the vehicle of the motorcycle.