Road safety communication system for increasing the road safety of pedestrians

US8928496B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Stählin · Eschborn, DE
• Sighard Schräbler · Frankfurt, DE
• Alfred Eckert · Mainz, DE
• Peter Rieth · Eltville am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 8, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 6, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A road safety communication device for protecting pedestrians in road traffic, which includes a transponder which is integrated into a shoe, wherein the supply of electrical power to the device is activated only in selected situations.