Door alarm system

• US 20090195383A1
• Filed: 02/06/2008
• Published: 08/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chih-Hung Hsu
• Original Assignee: Chih-Hung Hsu
• Inventors: Hsu, Chih-Hung
• Granted Patent: US 7,714,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/545.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/08 by opening, e.g. of door, of window, of drawer, of shutter, of curtain, of blind

Abstract

A door alarm system comprises a door having a doorframe, a door body and a door alarm device mounted in the doorframe or door body. The door alarm device comprises a housing, a cover mounted on the housing and having a rear surface, a push button hole and four guideposts formed on and protruding from the rear surface, a battery compartment, a push button and a controller. The push button is mounted slidably in and protrudes from the push button hole and has a cap with a neck, an electrical pad mounted on the guideposts and having a through hole, a metallic plug and a resilient member. The metallic plug is mounted through the through hole in the electrical pad, connects to the neck and selectively makes contact with the electrical pad when the door is open. The controller mounted in the housing and provides an audible warning when the door body is open.

Claims

1. A door alarm system comprising:

a door having

a doorframe; and

a door body mounted pivotally in the doorframe and having a proximal edge attached pivotally to the doorframe; and

at least one hinge attached to the proximal edge of the door body and the doorframe;

a door alarm device mounted on the door and comprising;

a housing having

a top;

a bottom;

an upper edge;

a lower edge;

two sides;

an open front;

two clamps formed respectively on the upper edge and the lower edge of the housing, protruding out respectively from the top and bottom and hook respectively the door; and

two notches formed respectively on the two sides of the housing;

a cover mounted detachedly on and closes the open front of the housing and having

two ends;

a rear surface;

two sides;

a push button hole formed through the cover near one end of the cover and having an edge;

four guideposts formed on and protruding from the rear surface of the cover at the edge of the push button hole of the cover, and each guidepost having a distal end;

a battery compartment hole is formed through the cover toward an end of the cover away from the push button hole; and

two latches formed on and protruding out from the rear surface of the cover respectively near the two sides of the cover and corresponding to and engaging the notches in the housing;

a battery compartment mounted on the rear surface of the cover, corresponding to the battery compartment hole through the cover and having a battery compartment cover mounted in the batter compartment hole flush with the cover;

a push button mounted slidably in and protruding out from the push button hole of the cover and having

a cap being hollow, slidably mounted in the push button hole in the cover and having

a closed outer end having

 

an outer surface; and

 

an inner surface;

an open inner end;

a neck formed on and protruding from the inner surface of the cap and having a distal end; and

two tabs formed on and protruding from the inner surface of the closed outer end of the cap respectively on opposite sides of the neck, and each tab having

 

a distal end mounted slidably between two guideposts; and

 

a hook defined on the end of the tab and hooking the edge of the push button hole in the cover;

an electrical pad mounted on the distal ends of the guideposts and having a through hole;

a metallic plug mounted through the through hole in the electrical pad, mounted in and protruding from the distal end of the neck, selectively presses against the electrical pad and has

a distal end; and

a head formed on the distal end of the metallic plug, being larger than the through hole in the electrical pad and selectively pressing against the electrical pad;

a resilient member mounted around the metallic plug between the neck and the electrical pad to press the push button out of the push button hole and cause the metallic plug to press against the electrical pad;

a controller mounted in the housing, selectively activating and deactivating the door alarm device and having

a circuit board mounted in the housing and being connected electrically to the metallic plus;

a audio unit mounted in the housing, connected electrically to the circuit board and emitting an audible warning when the door body is open;

a power source connected electrically to the circuit board through the electrical pad to supply electricity to the door alarm device.

2. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the audio unit has a buzzer and an audio IC connected electrically to the buzzer, the push button and the power source.

3. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the audio unit comprises:

an audio controller IC connected electrically to the push button and the power source and having a recording and broadcasting audio signal functions;

a buzzer connected to an output of the audio controller IC to broadcasting audio signal from the audio controller IC;

a microphone connected electrically to an input of the audio controller IC and the power source; and

a switch mounted on the cover, connected electrically to the audio controller IC and the power source to select the recording audio signal function.

4. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the battery compartment cover further comprises a fingernail recess.

5. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a recess defined in the doorframe, adjacent to the proximal edge of the door body and having an upper edge and a lower edge.

6. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the door alarm device is mounted in the recess of the doorframe and the two clamps of the housing of the door alarm device respectively hook on the upper and lower edges of the recess in the doorframe.

7. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a recess defined in the door body, adjacent to the doorframe and having an upper edge and a lower edge.

8. The door alarm system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the door alarm device is mounted in the recess of the door body and the two clamps of the housing of the door alarm device respectively hook on the upper and lower edges of the recess in the door body.