Alarm Device for Preventing Cot Death
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device comprising means for the remote transmission of an active control signal for triggering alarm means (2, 10), for a person looking after a child. Said alarm control signal is generated by the control of sensor means which are sensitive to the spatial orientation of a plate mounted in a support (1) to be fixed to the clothing of the child to be watched. The support (1) is fixed to the navel of the child in such a way that the signal triggering the alarm means is automatically generated when the sensor means detect a variation in the orientation of the plate which is higher than a pre-determined threshold. The support (1) is arranged in a remote unit which paralyses the alarm means.
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1-10. -10. (canceled)
- 11. A cot death prevention device, comprising two units that are movable independently of one another, detector means responsive to the orientation in space of a plate mounted in a support provided in a first one of said units that attaches in a predetermined arrangement to the clothing of the infant to be supervised, means of remote transmission for an alarm control signal that is produced under the control of said detector means and that triggers alarm means incorporated in the second of said units for triggering said alarm means in the event of detection of an orientation variation of said plate that is greater than a predetermined threshold, and further comprising means to hinder the operation of said detector means in producing said alarm control signal when said first unit is in a position of storage in the first unit.
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