Sleep inhibiting device and method

• US 3,082,414 A
• Filed: 06/13/1960
• Issued: 03/19/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andrew A. Papaminas
• Original Assignee: Andrew A. Papaminas
• Inventors: Papaminas, Andrew A.
• Application Number:
  US04/035,800
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• US Class Current: 340/575
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 28/06 responsive to incapacity of driver
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/06 indicating a condition of sleep, e.g. anti-dozing alarms
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2093 Slot closers and lever guards

Claims

1. APPARATUS FOR INHIBITING THE SLEEP OF THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE, COMPRISING MEANS ATTACHED TO THE BODY OF THE DRIVER FOR SENSING THE NATURAL PULSATIONS OF THE BLOOD CIRCULATORY SYSTEM OF THE DRIVER AND FOR TRANSMITTING INTO THE SPACE WITHIN SAID VEHICLE A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SUCH PULSATIONS, MEANS ISOLATED FROM SAID TRANSMITTING MEANS AND LOCATED IN THE VEHICLE REMOTE FROM THE DRIVER FOR RECEIVING SAID SIGNAL FROM THE SPACE WITHIN SAID VEHICLE, SAID RECEIVING MEANS HAVING MEANS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER THE RATE OF SUCH PULSATIONS IS LESS THAN A PREDETERMINED STANDARD RATE AND HAVING MEANS FOR ACTUATING AN ALARM DISCENIBLE BY SAID DRIVER IF THE PULSATION RATE IS LESS THAN SAID STANDARD.

7. THE METHOD OF INHIBITING THE SLEEP OF THE DRIVER OF A VEHICLE, WHICH COMPRISES TRANSMITTING FROM THE DRIVER INTO THE SPACE WITHIN THE VEHICLE A SIGNAL CORRESPONDING TO THE NATURAL PULSATIONS OF THE DRIVER'"'"''"'"'S BLOOD CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, RECEIVING SAID SIGNAL FROM SAID SPACE, DETERMINING THE PULSATION RATE OF THE RECEIVED SIGNAL, AND ALARMING SAID DRIVER WHEN THE PULSATION RATE IS LESS THAN A PREDETERMINED VALUE.