Person-individual emergency recognition system

• US 20030197608A1
• Filed: 03/12/2003
• Published: 10/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Rudhard, Joachim, Heyers, Klaus
• Application Number:
  US10/387,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20030197608A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.18
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 3/046 Means for detecting hazards or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

A person-individual emergency recognition system, having at least one sensor for detecting at least one mechanical or other physical event having an effect on the person and for triggering a safety function, in which the at least one sensor is connected to a transmitter with which the safety function may be triggered at a predefinable or arbitrarily selectable distance with respect to the event location. The transmitter is preferably a component of a conventional mobile radio-communication system, and a device is provided for determining and transmitting the event location, for example, using a conventional global positioning system.

Claims

1. A person-individual emergency recognition system comprising:

at least one sensor for detecting at least one mechanical or other physical event having an effect on a person and for triggering a safety function; and

at least one transmitter connected to the at least one sensor for triggering the safety function at a distance with respect to an event location.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the distance is a predefined distance.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the distance is an arbitrarily selected distance.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter includes a component of a radio-communication system for transmitting and evaluating emergency calls.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a device for determining the event location situated with the person, and wherein the data concerning the event location is co-transmitted via the transmitter.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the radio-communication system is a conventional mobile radio-communication system for at least one of speech and data traffic.

7. The system according to claim 5, wherein the device for determining the event location ascertains coordinates of the event location using a conventional global positioning system.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein, prior to transmitting event-related data, sensor signals are compared to predefined limiting values, and, if a deviation from the limiting values in a predefined direction occurs during a predetermined time span, a transmission for triggering the safety function is carried out.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein after a transmission of event-related data, the triggering of the safety function is prevented by manual resetting with a predefined time span.

10. The system according to claim 1, further comprising further sensors for detecting conditions for an emergency situation.

11. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an electronic circuit for networked evaluation and transmission of sensor signals situated in a safety helmet, the at least one sensor being situated in the safety helmet, the at least one sensor including, at least partially, at least one of:

movement sensors, strain gauges for recording mechanical deformations, thermal sensors for monitoring a contact with a person using the helmet, and optical sensors.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the helmet is one of a motorcyclist helmet and a mountain climber helmet.

13. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an electronic circuit for networked evaluation and transmission of sensor signals situated in a region of the at least one sensor, the at least one sensor being situated, directly or indirectly, on at least one person to be monitored from a medical standpoint, the at least one sensor including, at least partially, at least one of:

movement sensors, strain gauges for recording mechanical deformations, thermal sensors for monitoring a contact with a utilizing person, and optical sensors.