Patent ID: 7681903

Claim:
A trailer backup alignment guide apparatus for aligning a vehicle hitch ball to a trailer coupler for attachment therebetween, wherein the apparatus comprises; a vehicle ball mount for attachment to the hitch ball of a vehicle, said vehicle ball mount incorporates a resilient ball mount base block with the ball mount base block having a hitch ball mast bore therein, a flexible ball mounting strap attached to and circumventing the ball mount base block, said ball mounting strap configured to encompass the vehicle ball mount and attach to itself thereabout, a spring loaded telescoping vehicle mast disposed within the hitch ball mast bore in a vertical position permitting the mast to be removably secured therein, wherein said vehicle mast further having a visual exterior surface selected from the group consisting of a fluorescent surface and a reflective surface, a trailer hitch coupler mount for attachment to the trailer coupler, said trailer hitch coupler mount incorporates a resilient coupler base block having a coupler mast bore therein, a telescoping trailer mast disposed within the coupler mast bore in a vertical position parallel with the vehicle mast permitting the trailer mast to be removably secured therein, a flexible coupler mounting strap attached to and circumventing the coupler base block, said coupler mounting strap configured to encompass the coupler base block and attach to itself thereabout with means for securing said coupler mounting strap to said coupler base block, and a trailer mast stop removably attached to a distal end of the telescoping trailer mast such that when the vehicle ball mount and trailer hitch coupler mount are attached to the vehicle and a trailer, and the vehicle is maneuverably backed toward the trailer, the masts may be visually aligned to guide the vehicle in a straight line until the vehicle mast engages the trailer mast stop on the trailer mast advising a vehicle driver that alignment has been achieved.