- Daytime Running Lights (DRLs) with the freedom of turning the lights on or off, day or night. With a LightGenie™ installed on a vehicle, customers can enjoy the added safety of reduced-glare DRLs, and still have the option of enabling or disabling them in a semi-permanent manner. As a bonus, the LightGenie™ provides flash-to-pass for cars not originally equipped with them.
- Automatic turn-on of evening lights. The device senses when the ambient lights are low by a light sensor placed in a gap of the vehicles body; this sensor also enables the LightGenie™ to sense daylight, and enable DRLs instead.
- Battery Protection. If you've ever left your lights on, only to return to a car with a dead battery, this feature is for you! The LightGenie™ provides a delay turn off of all lights, Head, Tail and Dome, which means no more jump-starting after forgetting to turn off your lights. Furthermore, the device also allows the customer to manually activate the lights without the ignition key, unlike other circuits on the market.
The LightGenie™ is also a Daytime Running Lights solution to current consumer
complaints about the inflexibility of DRLs. In the US, a customer who wants to purchase a vehicle equipped with the LightGenie™ but
emphatically dislikes DRLs will have the choice to disable them instantly. Unlike some other devices, the LightGenie™ gives you complete control over your lights; you can turn on or off your lights at any time, and you can enable or disable the DRLs whenever you want. The LightGenie™ senses whether to turn on the DRLs or the evening lights, and when it is time to park the car, it will automatically turn the lights off as you walk away. The LightGenie™ insures that you will never drive in the evening without lights; you'll never have to turn your lights on or off again!Never before have these benefits been available in a single package; each of the individual solutions provided by the LightGenie™ can be
shown to be superior to the devices used in the industry now. The design of the invention facilitates integration to automobile mass production. About the size of a pack of cigarettes, the LightGenie™ can be installed without wire cutting, wire splicing, or hole drilling. Instead, the unit is first secured by a preselected bolt already on the chassis of the vehicle; it is then connected by removing
specified fuses and/or relays from the underhood or instrumentation panel fusebox and plugging it into the vacant slots. The light sensor is then fastened in a non-critical manner in a gap of the auto body. Because of this unique method of installation, retail customers can install it themselves, an auto sales representative can sell it as a factory-certified option, and automobile manufacturers can
incorporate it into production easily. Since the LightGenie™ is designed to perform all of its tasks using only the standard main light switch, there is no other hardware to install!The LightGenie™ senses remotely whether the engine is running, the main light switch is in the HEAD, PARK, or OFF position, and whether it's day or night; it then acts as an intact fuse when lights are requested, and as an open circuit when it is time to turn them off. It protects the vehicles circuits by monitoring them several thousand times a second; if it finds an overvoltage or overcurrent, it disconnects them immediately. It even reconnects the circuit if the fault is removed.The
inventor,
Tom L. Ricca can
demonstrate the LightGenie™ at OEM site by arrangement. Marketing, Sales, or Purchasing Executives can read a
summary letter of the merits of the LightGenie
