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Apparatus and method of testing a portable held button for emergency response system

  • US 4,908,602 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1989
  • Issued: 03/13/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for testing the functioning and operating limitations of a personal emergency response system including a subscriber station capable of transmitting messages over a communications link to a central station, comprising:

  • portable help button means selectively operable for generating an activating signal at the subscriber station;

    subscriber unit means disposed within the subscriber station and normally operative in response to said activating signal for transmitting one or more messages over the communications link to the central station;

    annunciator means coupled to said subscriber unitmeans and operative in response to said activating signal received by said subscriber unit means for generating a perceptible signal indicative of functioning of said subscriber unit means and said portable help button means; and

    momentary action button means coupled to said subscriber unit means and selectively actuatable for alternately operating said subscriber unit means in a test mode and a normal mode; and

    whereinoperation of said subscriber unit means in said normal mode causes said subscriber unit means to activate said annunciator means to generate said perceptible signal and to transmit one or more messages over the communications link to the central station in response to said activating signal generated by selective operation of said portable help button means; and

    whereinoperation of said subscriber unit means in said test mode causes said subscriber unit means to activate said annunciator means to generate said perceptible signal in response to said activating signal generated by selective operation of said portable help button means, said subscriber unit means being inoperative in said test mode to transmit messages to the central station.

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