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Compact power detacher

  • US 5,535,606 A
  • Filed: 09/27/1994
  • Issued: 07/16/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In combination:

  • an electronic surveillance tag andan apparatus for detaching an electronic surveillance tag from an article to which it is attached, said tag having a locking means therein and defining an exteriorly accessible passage to said locking means, said apparatus comprising;

    (a) a motor;

    (b) a probe rotatable by said motor for movement in said passage into and from unlocking relation with said locking means; and

    (c) drive means for said motor including circuit means for(1) establishing a time period for energization of said motor,(2) effecting first sense excitation of said motor and attendant first sense movement of said probe during a first portion of said time period,(3) discontinuing movement of said probe during a second portion of said time period; and

    (4) effecting second sense excitation of said motor and attendant second sense movement of said probe following expiration of said second portion during a third portion of said time period; and

    (d) a cover for said apparatus, said cover defining a nest for receipt of said tag; and

    said tag resident in said cover nest.

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