DEVICE FOR SWITCHING ON AND OFF LIGHTING SYSTEMS OF A HOUSE OR A ROOM, OFFICES OR BUILDINGS, INTELLIGENTLY AND AUTOMATICALLY BY MEANS OF DETECTION, WITHOUT MANUAL INTERVENTION

• US 20140035467A1
• Filed: 03/03/2011
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carlos Antonio Carreno Vargas
• Original Assignee: Carlos Antonio Carreno Vargas
• Inventors: Vargas, Carlos Antonio Carreo
• Granted Patent: US 9,155,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/152
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, offices or buildings, intelligently and automatically by detection without people manual intervention, more specifically, this device is provided with means for detect people entry and exit, media controllers or people quantifiers for entering or leaving a place or a room, allowing in a way to avoid unintentional lights on neglect, and in other way obtain efficiency and power saving, which does not occur with current on and off systems.

Claims

1. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, offices or buildings, intelligently and automatically by detection without people manual intervention, more specifically, this device is provided with means for detect people entry and exit, media controllers or people quantifiers for entering or leaving a place or a room, allowing in a way to avoid unintentional ligths on neglect, and in other way obtain efficiency and power saving. CHARACTERIZED because the device is formed with at least one proximity sensor set (1), to detect the entry or exit of persons, made with a phototransistor (2) with an emitter (IR Tx) (3) that constantly emits a infrared signal, which when is interrupted for an object generates a reflex detected by a receiver (Rx IR) (4), upon this is lit LED (5), then it'"'"'s coupled to a counter circuit (17) that discriminate the people'"'"'s movement direction, both by an opto coupler or replacing LED (5), to connect directly to counter circuit (17) also has an infrared filter to prevent external interference with infrared signals, said proximity sensors (1) consist of a Tx and Rx to operating frequency given by the oscillator “

LM567 (25)”

as well as a semiconductors set to provide for the integrated circuit and generally, of the voltages required for correct operation of proximity sensors (1), these also have transistors (26), which are responsible for generating the information firing for given voltage in order to have concrete information black and white (yes or no), and it is embedded to an integrated circuit 7447 (18) corresponds to a converting driver responsible for converting and displaying information on a display (27).

2. A device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because the counter circuit (17) is provided with phototransistors convex lenses (2) which expands the detection range.

3. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because the people sensor (6) is formed with two proximity sensors (1), a counter of sensors (8), an out persons signal (9) and an input persons signal (10), the output signal (9) and input signal (10) depends on the direction at the time of device installation, if it were installed backwards, the output signal would be (10) and the input would be the (9).

4. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because the counter circuit consists of two stages, the logic circuit (11) which is responsible for counting, display and discriminate whether to turn on or off lights, and a power stage (12) which can be adjusted depending on the amount of light (3a) or automatically powered devices, depending on the number of watts to be provided, because the small size of both elements, both can be contained inside the same “

box”

.

5. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because the quantifier is formed by a digital counter circuit, which is formed with an inlet (13), a discriminator (14), inlets DOWN (15) and UP (16) and connects to the 74193 integrated circuit (17).

6. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claims 1 and 3, CHARACTERIZED because the discriminator (14) consists of a PIC (14a) or micro counter that haves a program that identifies if one person enters or leaves depending on the order of proximity sensors activation.

7. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claims 1 and 3, CHARACTERIZED because 7447 integrated circuit (18) is a responsible driver to convert and display information on a display (27).

8. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED because to emit the “

there are people”

signal with a score bigger than zero, have installed in the counter output 74193 (17) a logic gate OR type (20) into the connectors, in this case, QA, QB, QC and QD (21) (see FIG. 5), which should have as many inputs as outputs has the counter circuit (17) (it will depend on how many bits is the counter) and in this way a logic gate (20) will have a positive output when the persons count is different to zero.

9. Device that allows to turn on and off the lights of a house or room, according to claims 1 and 8 CHARACTERIZED because logic gate (20) is connected to a circuit (22) for power delivery, only responsible for delivering or not delivering power using a relay (23), said circuit (22) as logic gates (20) have low power outputs as its function to provide information delivering power, it connects to a small amplifier circuit using the BC548 transistor for common use (24), which raises the power to be capable of triggering the relay and high voltage (23), which is voltage and amperage as needed depending on the amount of watts to consume.