Intrusion detector

• US 5,565,844 A
• Filed: 03/28/1995
• Issued: 10/15/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Guard-Tech Industries, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Guard-Tech Industries, Inc.
• Inventors: Bedrosian, Bert S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C.
• Application Number:
  US08/411,457
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 340/567, 340/565, 340/531, 340/539, 340/552, 340/693, 340/533, 340/691, 340/528, 340/825.1, 340/825.17, 340/825.18
• US Class Current: 340/567
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/193 using focusing means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system

Abstract

An intrusion detector system employing a remote, 360° infrared detector. The system includes a base unit with a receiver, controller, and phone jack, a remote sensor which is adjustable along a vertical axis and includes a 360° infrared motion sensor, and a central monitoring station in communication with the base unit via a telephone network. The remote sensor may be selectively positioned to detect movement in a surrounding area definable by the user. The base unit may be programmed to contact the monitoring station when the sensor detects motion, and also to receive test signals from the monitoring station and verify that the system is operational.

Claims

1. An intrusion detector comprising:

a base unit including an electromagnetic wave receiver programmable controller in communication with said receiver; and

means for indicating an alarm condition; and

at least one remote sensor including a base and a sensor head vertically displaced upwardly from said base, said remote sensor further including an electromagnetic wave transmitter for communication with said base unit, a 360°

infrared motion sensor disposed in said spherical sensor head and in communication with said transmitter, and means for adjustably fixing the relative positions of said base and said sensor head such that the height of said sensor head may be adjusted along a vertical axis, wherein, upon sensing of motion by said infrared sensor, said transmitter transmits alarm signals to said receiver, said controller being programmed to activate said alarm indicating means when said alarm signals are received.

2. A remote sensor for use with an intrusion detection system of the type including a base unit having an electromagnetic wave receiver, a phone jack and a dialer, and a programmable controller in communication with said receiver, said jack and said dialer, said remote sensor comprising:

a base having a sensor head vertically displaced upwardly from said base, said remote sensor head further including an electromagnetic wave transmitter for communication with said base unit, a 360°

infrared motion sensor disposed in said sensor head and in communication with said transmitter, and means for adjustably fixing the relative positions of said base and said sensor head such that the height of said sensor head may be adjusted along a vertical axis.

3. An intrusion detector comprising:

a base unit including an electromagnetic wave receiver, a phone jack and a dialer, and a programmable controller in communication with said receiver;

at least one remote sensor including a base and a sensor head vertically displaced upwardly from said base, said remote sensor further including an electromagnetic wave transmitter for communication with said base unit, a 360°

infrared motion sensor disposed in said sensor head and in communication with said transmitter, and means for adjustably fixing the relative positions of said base and said sensor head such that the height of said sensor head may be adjusted along a vertical axis; and

a hand held remote control unit having an electromagnetic wave transmitter for communication with said base unit, wherein, upon sensing of motion by said infrared sensor, said remote sensor transmitter transmits electromagnetic alarm signals to said receiver, said controller being programmed to dial a preselected phone number upon receipt of said signals.

4. The detector of claim 3 wherein the transmitter of the remote sensor is operative, upon the detection of motion by the infrared sensor, to transmit electromagnetic alarm signals, and the controller of the base unit is operative, upon the receipt of said alarm signals by said electromagnetic receiver, to activate said dialer to dial said preselected number.

5. The detector of claim 3 wherein said remote control unit further includes digitally depressible arming and disarming switches, said arming switch being operative to transmit an activation signal to said base unit to cause said controller to begin operation, and said disarming switches operative to send a deactivation signal to said base unit to cause said controller to cease operation.

6. The detector of claim 3 wherein said base unit further includes audible alarm means, said controller being further programmed to activate said audible alarm means upon the activation of said infrared sensor.

7. The detector of claim 6 wherein said remote control unit further includes a digitally operable switch for transmitting an emergency signal to said base unit for activating said audible alarm means and causing said digital dialer to dial said preselected number.

8. The detector of claim 3 further comprising a plurality of remote sensor, each including an electromagnetic wave transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic radiation of a preselected frequency, the transmitter of each of said plurality of sensors transmitting at a different frequency, said receiver including a plurality of channels to identify each of said plurality of remote sensors by its characteristic frequency.

9. The detector of claim 8 wherein said base unit further includes a display unit including a plurality of LEDs, each of said plurality of remote sensors being associated with one of said plurality of LEDs, said controller being further programmed to energize the corresponding LED upon the receipt of electromagnetic radiation at the characteristic frequency from any of said plurality of remote sensors.

10. The detector of claim 3 wherein said base unit further includes a digitally operable, two position switch for switching said unit between a first, install mode, and a second, run mode.

11. The detector of claim 10 wherein said controller is further programmed, when switched to said install mode, to operate said digital dialer to dial an installation number, said controller being programmable via signals received from said installation number via said phone jack to dial said preselected number upon the activation of said infrared sensor.

12. The detector of claim 3 wherein said infrared motion sensor further comprises a frustoconical mirror having a plurality of planar reflection surfaces radially arranged on the surface thereof, a concave mirror disposed above said frustoconical mirror such that infrared radiation incident on said planar surfaces is reflected therefrom to fall onto said concave mirror and be concentrated thereby, and a sensor element disposed below said concave mirror such that concentrated radiation reflected from said concave mirror is reflected onto said sensor element.

13. The detector of claim 12 wherein said sensor head is spherical in configuration and further includes an infrared transmissive band extending around the circumference of said sensor head at a location thereon proximate said frustoconical mirror such that infrared radiation entering said transmissive band will strike the planar surfaces of said frustoconical mirror.

14. The detector of claim 13 wherein said sensor head further includes a collar of infrared transmissive material disposed to overlie said transmissive band and enclose said sensor head.

15. The detector of claim 13 further including a plurality of infrared-opaque masking elements, each of said masking elements being mountable on said transmissive band so as to block infrared radiation from a selected portion of space surrounding said sensor head from striking a segment of said frustoconical mirror.