Trailer voltage adapter
CA 2212764 C · Owner: Mack Trucks, Inc. · Inventors: Groeller, Charles J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A trailer voltage adapter includes a voltage converter which can be powered by the electrical system of a tractor and provide electrical power at a second voltage required by the electrical lighting system of the trailer. A plurality of relays are controlled by trailer lamp signals from the tractor and provide electrical power to the electrical lighting system of the trailer at the second voltage in accordance with the trailer lamp signals from the tractor.
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- Filed August 12, 1997 and granted December 14, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 12, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 12, 2019.
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