INVISIBLE FENCE FOR A CHILD

• US 20120326875A1
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Published: 12/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deborah Coppola
• Original Assignee: Deborah Coppola
• Inventors: Coppola, Deborah
• Application Number:
  US13/169,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20120326875A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.4
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0219 Circuit arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0252 System arrangements wherein the child unit emits, i.e. the child unit incorporates the emitter
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0261 System arrangements wherein the object is to detect trespassing over a fixed physical boundary, e.g. the end of a garden
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0275 Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS] tag technology used for parent or child unit, e.g. same transmission technology, magnetic tag, RF tag, RFID

Abstract

A system and method for alerting a parent or guardian when a child has crossed a threshold of a room or other area is provided. The system includes positioning an alarm module at a desired threshold, with the alarm module creating an invisible plane at a selected angle. A transmitting module is place on a child. The transmitting device emits a signal, such as an RFID signal, that can be read by the alarm module if the transmitter crosses through the plane. Once the signal is read, an alarm is set off to emit a noise that will alert the parent or guardian that the child has passed through the predetermined threshold and that the parent or guardian should check to see where the child has gone.

Claims

1. A buzzer system for creating an invisible fence for knowing when a child has crossed a threshold, comprising:

a transmitting module positioned on the child, the transmitting module emitting a signal;

an alarm module affixed to a surface, the alarm module configured read the signal of the transmitting module;

the alarm module adapted to emit a noise when the child has crossed the threshold.

2. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the alarm module comprises a reader circuitry, an alarm operatively connected to the reader circuitry, and an enclosure for housing the reader circuitry and alarm.

3. The buzzer system of claim 2 wherein the alarm is a piezoelectric buzzer.

4. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the surface is a doorway.

5. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the surface is a wall.

6. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the surface is a trim.

7. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the signal is a radio frequency identification (RFID) signal.

8. The buzzer system of claim 7 wherein the alarm module is an RFID reader.

9. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the transmitting module is affixed to the child.

10. The buzzer system of claim 1 wherein the alarm module emits a plane from the module, the plane comprising a zone of RFID readability by the alarm module.

11. The buzzer system of claim 10 wherein the plane is emitted at a selected angle from the alarm module.

12. A buzzer system for creating an invisible fence for allowing a guardian to know when a child has crossed a threshold even when the child is out of sight, comprising:

a transmitting module positioned at the child, the transmitting module comprising a circuit configured to emit a signal;

at least one alarm module affixed to a surface, the at least one alarm module comprising a reader circuitry for reading the signal and an alarm operatively connected to the reader circuitry;

the at least one alarm module configured to emit a noise from the alarm when the reader circuitry has read the signal from the transmitting module on the child.

13. The buzzer system of claim 12 wherein the at least one alarm module further comprises an enclosure for housing the reader circuitry and the alarm.

14. The buzzer system of claim 12 wherein the surface is a doorway.

15. The buzzer system of claim 12 wherein the alarm module creates the threshold and the noise is emitted from the alarm when the transmitting module crosses the threshold.

16. The buzzer system of claim 12 wherein the alarm module is affixed to the surface by an adhesive.

17. The buzzer system of claim 12 wherein the signal is an RFID signal.

18. A method of alerting a parent or guardian that a child has crossed a threshold of a room or area, comprising:

creating a threshold by affixing an alarm module to a surface, the alarm module emitting a signal-reading plane therefrom;

positioning a transmitting module on a child, the transmitting module emitting a signal; and

emitting a noise from the alarm module if the transmitting module crosses the threshold created by the plane, the noise alerting the parent or guardian that the child has crossed the threshold.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising reading the signal emitted by the transmitting module as the transmitting module crosses the plane before emitting the noise from the alarm module.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising selecting an angle that the signal-reading plane is emitted from the alarm module to create the threshold.