Employee hygiene assurance system

• US 9,558,647 B1
• Filed: 06/26/2014
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sheikh Moussa Drammeh
• Original Assignee: Sheikh Moussa Drammeh
• Inventors: Drammeh, Sheikh Moussa
• Primary Examiner(s): Flores, Leon
• Application Number:
  US14/316,077
• Time in Patent Office: 950 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/245 Reminder of hygiene compliance policies, e.g. of washing hands
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 using visible light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

A hygiene assurance system utilizing a plurality of individual sensors having a correlating fixture or entrance, a keypad for identifying the user and a plurality of audible signals to ensure a user of a bathroom facility washes ones hands before leaving the area. Additionally the present invention provides sensors having individual controls for what predetermined parameters must be met to activate said sensor.

Claims

1. An apparatus for monitoring hygiene of a person in a restroom, comprising:

a lock for a door for preventing entry into a restroom without identification of a person seeking entry into the restroom;

means for identifying the person seeking entry into the restroom including a keypad for entry of a code for identifying the person;

means for unlocking said lock of the door for permitting entry of the person into the restroom upon identification of the person seeking entry;

means for recording entry of the person into the restroom including a first sensor for sensing use of sink water by the person and a second sensor for sensing use of soap by the person;

means for producing a written record evidencing the use of sink water by the person as sensed by said first sensor and the use of soap by the person as sensed by said second sensor; and

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means for dispensing the written record to the person evidencing the use of sink water and the use of soap by the person upon exiting the restroom via the door of the restroom.

2. The apparatus for monitoring hygiene of a person in a restroom according to claim 1, wherein said means for dispensing the written record evidencing the use of sink water and the use of soap by the person includes said keypad for use by the person for identifying the person and for permitting the person to exit the restroom via the door and for initiating the dispensing of the written record to the person.

3. The apparatus for monitoring hygiene of a person in a restroom according to claim 1, further comprising an alarm actuated by said first sensor in an absence of said first sensor sensing use of sink water by the person.

4. The apparatus for monitoring hygiene of a person in a restroom according to claim 1, further comprising an alarm actuated by said second sensor in an absence of said second sensor sensing use of soap by the person.