Patent ID: 7400971

Claim:
A reconfigurable cargo door/tailgate position indicator assembly adapted to indicate a position of a cargo door and/or a tailgate comprising: a processor adapted to: receive input from a door/gate monitoring mode input device; receive input from a door/gate position input device; and control a door/gate position indicator to indicate that the door/gate is ajar and control the door/gate position indicator to indicate that the door/gate is not ajar; wherein the processor includes logic to: analyze the input from the door/gate position input device and determine whether the door/gate is ajar based on the input from the door/gate position input device; analyze, only if the processor determines that the door/gate is ajar based on the input from the door/gate position input device, input from the door/gate monitoring mode input device, wherein the analysis of the input from the door/gate monitoring mode input device includes a determination that output from the door/gate monitoring mode input device is indicative of input into the door/gate monitoring mode input device to reconfigure the reconfigurable cargo door/tailgate position indicator assembly; output, only if the processor determines that output from the door/gate monitoring mode input device is indicative of input into the door/gate monitoring mode input device to reconfigure the reconfigurable cargo door/tailgate position indicator assembly, a signal to the door/gate position indicator to: control the door/gate position indicator to indicate that the door/gate is not ajar; place the door/gate position indicator in a mode to indicate that the door/gate is not ajar if the processor determines that the door/gate is not ajar based on the input from the door/gate position input device; and place the door/gate position indicator in a mode to indicate that the door/gate is ajar if the processor has determined that the door/gate is ajar based on the input from the door/gate position input device and if the processor has not determined that output from the door/gate monitoring mode input device is indicative of input into the door/gate monitoring mode input device to reconfigure the reconfigurable cargo door/tailgate position indicator assembly.