Security film

• US 20090189763A1
• Filed: 01/27/2009
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kenneth Brinkley, Robert Ufer
• Original Assignee: Kenneth Brinkley, Robert Ufer
• Inventors: Ufer, Robert, Brinkley, Kenneth
• Application Number:
  US12/321,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20090189763A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/126 for a housing, e.g. a box, a safe, or a room
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence

Abstract

A tamper indication device has a film attached and connected within the circuit that generates a signal in response to a tamper event. The signal is received by a micro-controller which generates an output signal to a display or data collection device and transceiver. More particularly, the tamper indication device has a printed circuit in a specialized pattern to make entry without breaking the circuit near impossible. When the circuit is broken a signal is counted by the micro controller which generates an output signal for delivery to a display or other data collection device. The output signal can be transmitted by RF device such as a passive or active RFID Tag, or by an IR communications device or by any other communication variant.

Claims

1. A device for monitoring and indicating when a flexible film has been tampered or penetrated by an unauthorized individual at a time of the tampering, comprising:

a tamper indication device having a tamper indication film attached thereto and connected within a circuit that generates a signal in response to a tamper event, and

a transponder for receiving said signal which generates an output signal to a display or data collection device and transceiver.

2. The device according to claim 1 wherein said transponder is a microcontroller.

3. The device according to claim 1 wherein said transponder is an RFID Tag.

4. The device according to claim 3 wherein said RFID Tag is an active RFID Tag.

5. The device according to claim 3 wherein said RFID Tag is a passive RFID Tag.

6. The device according to claim 1 wherein said device is incorporated into a bullet proof vest.

7. The device according to claim 1 wherein said device is located in goods on a pallet.

8. The device according to claim 1 wherein the device is located at least in one of a one or more corners, a ceiling or a floor of a building floor.