Monitoring apparatus for housing

• US 20070222616A1
• Filed: 03/23/2007
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,567,175 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.800
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/00 Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/36 Auditing of activities
• CPC Class Codes: G07D 11/40 Device architecture, e.g. modular construction
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/08 by opening, e.g. of door, of window, of drawer, of shutter, of curtain, of blind

Abstract

A monitoring apparatus for a housing includes: an opening/closing section provided to the housing; a detection section provided to the housing, having a wireless IC chip in which alarm information is pre-stored, and an antenna driving the wireless IC chip with a driving electric power induced by receiving a predetermined radio wave and wirelessly transmitting the alarm information outputted from the wireless IC chip; a reader provided independently outside the housing, and outputting the predetermined radio wave and receiving the alarm information transmitted from the detection section; and a restriction section restricting a transmission of the alarm information when the opening/closing section is in a closed state.

Claims

1. A monitoring apparatus for a housing, comprising:

an opening/closing section provided to the housing;

a detection section provided to the housing, having a wireless IC chip in which alarm information is pre-stored, and an antenna driving the wireless IC chip with a driving electric power induced by receiving a predetermined radio wave and wirelessly transmitting the alarm information outputted from the wireless IC chip;

a reader provided independently outside the housing, and outputting the predetermined radio wave and receiving the alarm information transmitted from the detection section; and

a restriction section restricting a transmission of the alarm information when the opening/closing section is in a closed state.

2. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the alarm information includes ID data of an occurrence position of an opening/closing operation for identifying the occurrence position of the opening/closing operation of the opening/closing section, and the ID data of the occurrence position of the opening/closing operation includes ID data assigned to every housing for identifying the housing or ID data assigned for every opening/closing section for identifying the opening/closing section.

3. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the opening/closing section is a drawer, and the alarm information includes information indicating that the drawer is in a pulled-out state.

4. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the opening/closing section is a door, and the alarm information includes information indicating that the door is in an open state.

5. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the reader includes a storage section that, in receiving the alarm information, stores the alarm information and an occurrence time of an opening/closing operation when the reader received the alarm information.

6. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the restriction section is made of a shielding material that shields the predetermined radio wave.

7. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the restriction section is a switch that is in a conductive state only when the opening/closing section is in an open state, and the switch is arranged between the wireless IC chip and the antenna.

8. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 7, wherein

at least the antenna of the detection section is provided on a backside of the housing.

9. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 8, wherein

the reader is located at a position facing the backside of the housing.

10. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, further comprising

an alarm system connected to the reader, including an alarm section that raise an alarm, and controlling the alarm section based on the alarm information received by the reader.

11. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, further comprising

an alarm system connected to the reader, and including a controller that transmits a detection signal to a monitoring center when the alarm information is received from the reader.

12. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

a plurality of the readers is provided.

13. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 1, wherein

the housing is a housing of a bill and coin processing device.

14. The monitoring apparatus for a housing according to claim 13, wherein

the reader is set so as to be activated upon shut-off of electric power for the bill and coin processing device.