Patent ID: 7656283
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: B60Q,B62J

Abstract:
1. A motorcycle recognizing apparatus allowing a presence of a motorcycle to be recognized by other vehicles, comprising: at least three infrared markers; and a drive circuit causing each of the infrared markers to emit light, wherein a first infrared marker and a second infrared marker and a third infrared marker are placed at respective vertices of a virtual triangle and are viewable from both front and rear views of the motorcycle, and the first and second infrared markers are distributed and placed at right and left side mirrors, the first and second infrared markers being on opposite sides of one of a headlight and a tail light, wherein the infrared markers are easily recognized by searching around said one of the headlight and the tail light, and wherein the headlight is placed within the virtual triangle having vertices at the first infrared marker, the second infrared marker, and the third infrared marker.