Remotely locatable pacifier aparatus

• US 9,125,799 B1
• Filed: 10/07/2013
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kerrie Rae Freeman
• Original Assignee: Kerrie Rae Freeman
• Inventors: Freeman, Kerrie Rae
• Primary Examiner(s): McNally, Kerri
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dorsey, Renee
• Application Number:
  US14/047,138
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/001 Baby-comforters
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/10 Details; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/1012 Emitting light
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 2205/70 Audible labels, e.g. for pre-recorded info or messages

Abstract

A remotely locatable pacifier apparatus that includes a handheld control unit disposed in wireless communication with a pacifier unit, said control unit having a plurality of control unit Light Emitting Diodes (“LEDs”) disposed thereon, each of said control unit LEDs illuminable sequentially to signal a direction and proximity of the pacifier unit relative the control unit, whereby a user is able to locate the pacifier unit without causing an audible or visible signal from the pacifier unit.

Claims

1. A remotely locatable pacifier apparatus comprising:

a pacifier unit comprising;

a polymeric nipple for suckling, said nipple disposed perpendicularly from a circular surface disposed at a first end of a module unit;

a speaker disposed upon the module unit;

a battery compartment disposed within the module unit, said battery compartment wired in circuit with the speaker;

a ring member disposed endwise at a second end of the module unit;

a plurality of LEDs disposed upon the ring, each of said LEDs disposed in circuit with the battery compartment;

a pacifier unit transceiver disposed within the module unit;

a handheld control unit disposed in wireless communication with the pacifier unit and usable to issue each of a visual and an audible alarm signal from the pacifier unit, said handheld control unit comprising;

a first button depressible to issue the visual alarm from the pacifier unit;

a second button depressible to issue the audible alarm from the pacifier unit; and

a third button depressible to signal directional proximity to the pacifier unit by effecting illumination of each of a plurality of LEDs disposed upon the top surface each of said plurality of LEDs illuminable to indicate a relative direction and proximity to the pacifier unit;

wherein each of the plurality of LEDs disposed upon the ring are illuminable when the first button is depressed upon the control unit and the speaker signals an audible signal when the second button is depressed upon the control unit.

2. The remotely locatable pacifier apparatus of claim 1 wherein the handheld control unit further comprises:

a control unit transceiver disposed interiorly within the handheld control unit, said transceiver disposed in wireless communication with the transceiver disposed within the pacifier unit.

3. The remotely locatable pacifier apparatus of claim 2 wherein the plurality of LEDs is disposed upon a top surface of the control unit, each of said plurality of LEDs situated along radii of the top surface whereby illumination of each of said plurality of LEDs is indicative of a direction relative the handheld control unit.

4. A remotely locatable pacifier apparatus comprising:

a pacifier unit comprising;

a polymeric nipple for suckling, said nipple disposed perpendicularly from a circular surface disposed at a first end of a module unit;

a speaker disposed upon the module unit;

a battery compartment disposed within the module unit, said battery compartment wired in circuit with the speaker;

a ring member disposed endwise at a second end of the module unit;

a plurality of LEDs disposed upon the ring, each of said LEDs disposed in circuit with the battery compartment;

a pacifier unit transceiver disposed within the module unit;

a handheld control unit disposed in wireless communication with the pacifier unit, said handheld control unit comprising;

a top surface;

a first button disposed upon the top surface depressible to illuminate the plurality of LEDs disposed upon the pacifier unit;

a second button disposed upon the top surface depressible to signal an audible tone from the pacifier unit;

a third button disposed upon the top surface depressible to initiate location of the pacifier unit;

a plurality of LEDs disposed upon the top surface, each of said plurality of LEDs situated along radii of the top surface whereby illumination of each of said plurality of LEDs is indicative of a direction relative the handheld control unit; and

a control unit transceiver disposed interiorly within the handheld control unit, said control unit transceiver disposed in wireless communication with the pacifier unit transceiver disposed within the pacifier unit;

wherein depression of the third button issues a wireless signal from the control unit and wireless communication between the control unit and the pacifier unit enables directional locating of the pacifier unit relative the control unit by illumination of each of the plurality of control unit LEDs disposed upon the control unit top surface whereby the proximity and relative direction of the pacifier unit is signaled to a user manipulating the control unit.