Patent Application
20210046916
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The disclosure relates to braking devices and more particularly pertains to a new braking device for facilitating a passenger to apply brakes in a vehicle.
The prior art relates to braking devices.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a roller unit that is coupled to a floorboard of a vehicle. The roller unit is aligned with a brake pedal of the vehicle. A handle is movably positioned within the vehicle. The handle is directed toward a passenger seat of the vehicle such that the handle is accessible to a passenger in the vehicle. A cable is coupled between the handle and the brake pedal of the vehicle. The cable draws the brake pedal into a depressed position when the handle is urged into a braking position. In this way the passenger can remotely apply the brakes of the vehicle.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The upright portion 24 is hollow and the upright portion 24 has a first opening 26 extending into an interior of the upright portion 24. The upright portion 24 has a second opening 28 extending into the interior of the upright portion 24. The second opening 28 is directed toward the brake pedal 18 and the first opening 26 is directed toward the floorboard 14. A pulley 30 is rotatably coupled to the bracket 20 and the pulley 30 is positioned within the upright portion 24 of the bracket 20.
A handle 32 is movably positioned within the vehicle 16 and the handle 32 is directed toward a passenger seat of the vehicle 16. In this way the handle 32 is accessible to a passenger in the vehicle 16. The passenger may be a driver's education teacher, a parent teaching a child to drive or any other passenger that may need to remotely engage the brakes of the vehicle 16. The handle 32 has a stem 34 and a head 36 extending along an axis that is oriented perpendicular to the stem 34. The stem 34 has a distal end 38 with respect to the head 36 and the handle 32 is urgeable into a braking position.
A cable 40 is coupled between the handle 32 and the brake pedal 18 of the vehicle 16. The cable 40 draws the brake pedal 18 into a depressed position when the handle 32 is urged into the braking position. In this way the handle 32 facilitates the passenger to remotely apply the brakes of the vehicle 16. The cable 40 has a first end 42 and a second end 44. The first end 42 is coupled to the distal end 38 of the handle 32 and the second end 44 is coupled to the brake pedal 18. The cable 40 extends into the first opening 26 in the upright portion 24 of the bracket 20 and the cable 40 extends around the pulley 30. Additionally, the cable 40 extends outwardly through the second opening 28 in the upright portion 24.
The cable 40 may be a sheathed cable or the like and the cable 40 is routed along a strategic route in the vehicle 16 for hiding the cable 40. A plurality of cable retainers 46 is provided and each of the cable retainers 46 is coupled to the vehicle 16. The cable 40 extends through each of the cable retainers 46 to retain the cable 40 along the strategic route. The cable retainers 46 may be cable clamps, cable clips or any other type of retainer that is commonly used to attach a cable to a surface.
In use, the roller unit 12, the cable 40 and the handle 32 are retrofitted into a vehicle 16 that will be driven by a student driver. The passenger who is supervising the student driver can grab the handle 32 at any time to urge the handle 32 into the braking position. In this way the passenger can remotely engage the brakes of the vehicle 16 when the student driver is driving the vehicle 16 into a potentially dangerous situation. The roller unit 12, the cable 40 and the handle 32 can be removed from the vehicle 16 when the student driver has sufficient skill to drive unsupervised.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
