Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled

• US 6,940,419 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2003
• Issued: 09/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Charles Moransais
• Original Assignee: Charles Moransais
• Inventors: Moransais, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Etienne, Ario
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US10/454,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20030193428A1
• Time in Patent Office: 826 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.22, 340/825.37, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 348/734, 348/164, 348/6, 341/176, 398/106, 398/112, 398/111
• US Class Current: 340/12.28
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00

Abstract

A remote control including a microprossesor with a first storage zone containing a file of trademarks of the main appliances available on the market, and a storage zone containing code files corresponding to various appliances of the different trade-marks stored in the first file, a system being provided for first selecting the trade-mark of the appliance to be controlled, for selecting from the code file of the trademark appliances, the file containing the control codes of the appliance concerned.

Claims

1. Adaptable remote control for electrical appliances having several functions to be controlled, comprising:

a microprocessor possessing a first memory area containing a file of the makes of the main appliances on the market, and a memory area containing the files of the codes corresponding to the various appliances belonging to the various makes stored in the first file, means being provided so as to allow firstly the selecting of the make of the appliance to be controlled, then the selecting, within the files of codes of the appliances of this make, of the file containing the control codes for the relevant appliance;

wherein the selecting of the make of the appliance is achieved by pressing a predetermined button and simultaneously one or more other buttons, including the programmed numbering buttons, which each correspond to the identification of a make;

wherein after selecting a make from the file of the memory containing the makes of the main appliances on the market, the microprocessor automatically selects from the file of control codes, the most frequent code for the appliances of the relevant make.

2. Adaptable remote control according to claim 1, wherein the selecting of the codes corresponding to the type of appliance is achieved, after selecting the make, by pressing a second predetermined button and simultaneously one or more other buttons successively, including the programme numbering buttons, until the selecting of the codes of the relevant appliance is achieved.