Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle approach notification device
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Application No.: US16060992Application Date: 2016-11-22
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Publication No.: US10363868B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Chikara Yamamoto , Kazushi Yokota
- Applicant: ANDEN CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Anjo, Aichi-pref.
- Assignee: ANDEN CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: ANDEN CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Anjo, Aichi-pref.
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2015-243494 20151214
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/084543 WO 20161122
- International Announcement: WO2017/104358 WO 20170622
- Main IPC: B60Q5/00
- IPC: B60Q5/00 ; H04R3/00 ; B60R16/023 ; H04R3/04 ; H04R29/00

Abstract:
A vehicle approach notification device includes a speaker disposed between push-pull circuits. The push-pull circuits amplify power of a notification sound signal by their push-pull outputs, and output the amplified notification sound signal to the speaker so that the speaker emits a notification sound for notification of an approach of a vehicle. When the push-pull outputs of the push-pull circuits are stopped, and the microcomputer outputs a high-level signal between a common connection terminal and ground, the microcomputer determines that there is a wire-discontinuity failure in the speaker when a voltage between common connection terminals is equal to or higher than a predetermined value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180334096A1 VEHICLE APPROACH NOTIFICATION DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-11-22
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