System for providing a tactile stimulation in response to a predetermined alarm condition
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Abstract
There is provided a tactile alarm system for use in environments having a plurality of audio and/or visual alarms each in communication with a detector measuring a predetermined physical property. The system includes one or more tactile alarms each connected to a different person and each configured to provide tactile stimulation to the person when one or more predetermined physical property falls outside a predetermined range.
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53 Claims
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1-25. -25. (canceled)
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26. A tactile alarm system for use in environments having a plurality of audible and/or visual alarms, the tactile alarm system including:
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a plurality of detectors receiving input representative of a plurality of predetermined physical properties, each detector having an output to actuate one or more of the plurality of audible and/or visual alarms when one or more of the detected physical properties falls outside a predetermined range, the alarm system being characterized by a tactile alarm connected to the skin of a person and being in communication with the output of one or more detectors, the tactile alarm being actuated in response to selected ones of the plurality of predetermined physical properties falling outside their respective predetermined ranges; and
wherein the tactile alarm is divided into segments wherein each segment corresponds to a different predetermined property to provide a tactile alarm signal to the person when an activation signal provided in one segment corresponds to a particular predetermined property falling outside its predetermined range. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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27. A tactile alarm system for use in environments having a plurality of audible and/or visual alarms, the tactile alarm system including:
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a plurality of detectors receiving input representative of a plurality of predetermined physical properties, each detector having an output to actuate one or more of the plurality of audible and/or visual alarms when one or more of the detected physical properties falls outside a predetermined range, the alarm system being characterized by a tactile alarm connected to the skin of a person and being in communication with the output of one or more detectors, the tactile alarm being actuated in response to selected ones of the plurality of predetermined physical properties falling outside their respective predetermined ranges; and
wherein the tactile alarm provides pulses that are coded such that a particular coding corresponds to a predetermined physical property and wherein coding of the pulses varies in intensity or spatially proportionally with a predetermined property as it falls outside its predetermined range.
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