Driver Alarm for Preventing Children from being Left in Car

• US 20110025486A1
• Filed: 07/19/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Benyu Qian, Davy Zide Qian, Lequn Lu, Nicole Minhui Lu
• Original Assignee: Benyu Qian, Davy Zide Qian, Lequn Lu, Nicole Minhui Lu
• Inventors: Qian, Davy Zide, Qian, Benyu, Lu, Lequn, Lu, Nicole Minhui
• Granted Patent: US 8,432,271 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/438
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/00 Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling

Abstract

A driver alarm for preventing children from being left in a car comprises a power device, a voltage measuring device, an inputting device, a prompting device and a controlling device. The power apparatus has a plug, which can be inserted into a cigarette-lighter socket in the car to become a power source for the driver alarm. The voltage measuring device is used to measure voltage of the cigarette-lighter in the car, the voltage rises when the car is started up and the voltage declines when the engine is turned off. The voltage measuring device reports to the controlling device about voltage rising or voltage declining. The inputting device is designed for a driver to report to the controlling device about whether children are in the cars or not. The promoting device is used to warn driver that there are children inside of the car when the car are started up or when the engines are turned off. Based on information provided by the voltage measuring device and the inputting device, the controlling device follows designed program to control the prompting device to warn the drivers that there are children inside of the cars when starting up car and when turning off engines.

Claims

1. A driver alarm for preventing children from being left inside of a car includes:

a power device for providing electrical power to the driver alarm;

a voltage measuring device for measuring voltage change of a cigarette-lighter in the car and reporting the voltage change to a controlling device, rising of the voltage change indicating the car being started up, declining indicating the car engine being turned off;

the controlling device for controlling a prompting device to issue a warning relating to children in the car when rising or declining of the voltage change of the cigarette-lighter;

the prompting device for issuing a warning relating to children in the car.

2. The driver alarm of claim 1, wherein further includes:

an inputting device for deepening driver'"'"'s impression whether any children is inside of the car or not and reporting it to the controlling device

3. The driver alarm of claim 1, wherein the working program is:

when the car starts up and the voltage of cigarette-lighter rises, the measuring device reports rising of the voltage of cigarette-lighter to the controlling device, which sends warning instruction to the promoting device to issue warning relating to children in the car;

when the car engine is tuned off and the voltage of cigarette-lighter declines, the measuring device reports declining of the voltage of cigarette-lighter to the controlling device, which sends warning instruction to the promoting device to issue warning relating to children in the car.

4. The driver alarm of claim 2, wherein the working program is:

when the car starts up and the voltage of cigarette-lighter rises, the measuring device reports rising of the voltage of cigarette-lighter to the controlling device, which sends a query instruction to the inputting device, as well as a prompting instruction to the prompting device to ask the driver for an answer;

the inputting device reports driver'"'"'s answer to the controlling device, the controlling device sends a warning instruction to the promoting device to issue a warning relating to children in the car if the driver'"'"'s answer is “

Yes”

(having children);

when the car engine stops up and the voltage of cigarette-lighter declines, the measuring device reports declining of the voltage of cigarette-lighter to the controlling device, which sends a warning instruction to the promoting device to issue a warning relating to children in the car if the driver'"'"'s answer is “

Yes”

(having children).

5. The driver alarm of claim 1, wherein said power device has a plug, which can be inserted into a cigarette-lighter socket in a car, and the cigarette-lighter socket in the car becomes a power source of the driver alarm.

6. The driver alarm of claim 1, wherein the power device has a battery box, said power device becomes an independent electronic power source for said driver alarm by inserting batteries or rechargeable batteries into the battery box.

7. The driver alarm that of claim 1, wherein said prompting device has a power switch to cut off the power, and to stop the prompting device to work.

8. The driver alarm of claim 1, wherein said inputting device has two push-buttons, one is YES push-button (having children), another is NO push-button (no children).

9. The driver alarm that of claim 8, wherein a stop button can be added to said inputting device, if the driver push the stop button down, the prompting device stops giving out prompting sound.

10. The driver alarm that of claim 1 further has a power socket for supplying power to electric equipments in the car, during working time of said driver alarm, the power socket can be used as a power supplying apparatus for other electric equipments in the car too.