Robbery-repelling alarm system

• US 4,646,343 A
• Filed: 04/14/1983
• Issued: 02/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chen, Yung-Shen
• Original Assignee: Chen, Yung-Shen
• Inventors: Chen, Yung-Shen
• Primary Examiner(s): George, Keith E.
• Application Number:
  US06/484,861
• Time in Patent Office: 1,412 Days
• Field of Search: 179/5 R, 179/5 P, 179/6.02, 179/90 BD, 340/63, 340/64, 340/65, 340/692
• US Class Current: 379/40
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/045 by limiting or cutting the electrical supply to the propulsion unit
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/045 using recorded signals, e.g. speech

Abstract

A robbery-repelling alarm system includes a shouting alarm which will produce a human warning speech prerecorded in a first cassette tape for efficiently repelling intruders; a car lock which will be actuated by intruder to ground the current of the engine ignition coil to prevent the car starting; and a telephone dialing alarm including both a pulse dialer and a prerecorded message alarm operated by a second cassette tape for easier operation and minor cost.

Claims

1. A robbery-repelling alarm system for an automobile comprising:

theft sensing means composed of a group of sensing switches connected in parallel, a group of sensing switches connected in series, a silicon-controlled rectifier connected between a power source and both groups of sensing switches;

a shouting alarm which comprises a driving motor for driving a prerecorded cassette tape, a magnetic head receiving signals from said cassette tape, first amplifying transistors and a final amplifier amplifying singals from the magnetic head and a pair of loudspeakers for producing human warning speech from signals from the final amplifier;

several distributing switches connected to the power source and means for locking the engine of the automobile in response to operation of said distributing switches, wherein the locking means comprises a relay and a contactor breaker actuating an ignition coil of the engine ignition system; and

a telephone dialing alarm which comprises a prerecorded alarming unit, a pulse dialing means and means for connecting the prerecorded alarming unit and the pulse dialing means to a telephone line, wherein the prerecorded alarming unit and pulse dialing means both use a second cassette tape of which one end is transparent with several opaque zones thereon to produce dialing pulses for an emergency call and the remaining tape is prerecorded with an alarm message for reporting an intrusion or asking for help from relevant sources;

wherein the shouting alarm, locking means and telephone dialing alarm are triggered by said theft sensing means.

2. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 1, wherein said locking means relay is connected to one distributing switch connected to the power source so that, any intrusion energizes said relay, and contacts of said relay close to ground the electric current of the ignition coil to prevent the engine from starting;

when the relay is not energized, starting is actuated by said contactor-breaker.

3. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 1, wherein said prerecorded alarming unit comprises a second driving motor wherein said second cassette tape is driven by said second motor, a second magnetic head receiving signals from said second cassette tape, several amplifying transistors and an output transformer coupled to said connecting means.

4. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 3 wherein said pulse dialing means comprises an infrared-emitting diode, a phototransistor facing said diode, an amplifying transistor connected to said phototransistor, a reed switch connected between the power source and said phototransistor, said reed switch having contacts operable for coupling said output transformer of said prerecorded alarming unit to said connecting means and said second cassette tape being movably inserted between said infrared-emitting diode and said photo transistor to generate dialing pulses in response to passage of the opaque zones.

5. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 3, wherein the transparent end of said second cassette tape has several opaque zones separately formed on said transparent end, said opaque zones cause the pulse dialing means to generate break pulses and each zone has a length on tape which is obtained by multiplying the constant running speed of said second cassette tape with the standard time duration of a breaking pulse, each opaque zone being followed with a transparent zone of half the length of said opaque zone so the pulse dialing means generates a corresponding make pulse.

6. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 5, wherein said second cassette tape is formed with a sensor which is located after said transparent end and frictionally connected to the power source;

and a silicon-controlled rectifier triggered by said sensor turns on to energize a relay which closes contacts coupling the output transformer to the telephone line.

7. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 6, wherein said sensor on said second cassette tape is made with aluminum foil adhered on said tape.

8. A robbery-repelling alarm system according to claim 1, wherein said connecting means comprises a double-pole and double-throw relay which may shift its contacts from a telephone set to said telephone dialing alarm once an intrusion is sensed.