Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled

• US 20030193428A1
• Filed: 06/03/2003
• Published: 10/16/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Charles Moransais
• Original Assignee: Charles Moransais
• Inventors: Moransais, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 6,940,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/176
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00

Abstract

The invention concerns a remote control comprising a microprocessor with a first storage zone containing a file (2) of trademarks of the main appliances available on the market, and a storage zone containing code files (3) corresponding to various appliances of the different trade marks stored in the first file, means being provided to for first selecting the trade mark of the appliance to be controlled, the for selecting from the code files (3) of said trademark appliances, the file containing the control codes for the appliance concerned.

Claims

1. Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled, characterized in that it comprises a microprocessor possessing a first memory area containing a file (2) of the makes of the main appliances on the market, and a memory area containing the files (3) of the codes corresponding to the various appliances belonging to the various makes stored in the first file, means being provided so as to allow firstly the selecting of the make of the appliance to be controlled, then the selecting, within the files (3) of codes of the appliances of this make, of the file containing the control codes for the relevant appliance.

2. Adaptable remote control according to claim 1, characterized in that the selecting of the make of the appliance is achieved by pressing a predetermined button and simultaneously one or more other buttons, such as the programme numbering buttons (1, 2, 3 . . . ), which each correspond to the identification of a make.

3. Adaptable remote control according to claim 2, characterized in that the selecting of the codes corresponding to the type of appliance is achieved, after selecting the make, by pressing a second predetermined button and simultaneously one or more other buttons successively, such as the programme numbering buttons (1, 2, 3 . . . ), until the selecting of the codes of the relevant appliance is achieved.

4. Adaptable remote control according to claim 2, characterized in that after selecting a make from the file of the memory containing the makes of the main appliances on the market, the microprocessor automatically selects from the file of control codes, the most frequent code for the appliances of the relevant make.