Home emergency alert light system

• US 10,083,597 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nader Nowzari
• Original Assignee: Nader Nowzari
• Inventors: Nowzari, Nader
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/448,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20170221346A1
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 34053911, 3408154, 34081545, 3406911, 3406914, 34053912, 34053914, 34053926
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/0065 by solar energy
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00896 specially adapted for particular uses
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/08 using communication transmission lines G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/064 indicating houses needing emergency help, e.g. with a flashing light or sound

Abstract

A personally installable home emergency alert system, for alerting aid responders and to guide them to a residence where an individual has suffered a personal incident, and having a bulb having a globe portion containing a plurality of low voltage response lights, a base portion attached to the globe containing a plurality of response circuits and connectable to a domestic conventional power supply and adapted to activate the response lights, fastening means on the base portion whereby it is adapted to be received in a conventional domestic electrical lamp receptacle, and, a radio frequency remote controller adapted to communicate with the response circuits in the base portion operable to activate the low voltage response lights.

Claims

1. A personally installable alert system, adapted to be installed in a residence and located on the exterior of the residence in a conventional domestic exterior light receptacle and operable to alert aid responders and to guide said aid responders to the residence where an individual within the residence has suffered a personal incident, and comprising;

an alert bulb having a globe portion containing a plurality of low voltage response lights;

a bulb base portion attached to the globe and personally installable and connectable to said conventional domestic light receptacle;

wireless response circuits contained in said bulb base portion and operable to supply low voltage power to said low voltage response lights to activate said response lights upon receipt of a wireless signal from a remote within the residence;

a personally installable fastening means on the bulb base portion for installing the bulb base in said conventional domestic exterior electrical lamp receptacle and receive domestic power;

a radio frequency remote activator personally operable in the event of a personal incident to an individual within the residence to communicate from within the residence with said response circuits in said bulb base portion on the exterior of the residence and activate said low voltage response fights in said alert bulb on the exterior of said residence to direct aid responders to said residence and including an installable door lock having a wireless responsive circuit operable to open the lock, upon receipt of an activation signal from said remote.

2. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 1 and including an audible sound device in said bulb base powered by said response circuits and operable to emit a sound when said response lights are activated by said remote from within the residence.

3. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 2 and including a heat sink, extending between said bulb base and said globe of said alert bulb.

4. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 3 including a personally installable telephone lard line master unit in said residence operable in responsive to activation of said remote to connect with a telephone land line system, and personally installable and connectable to an aid responder, to provide verbal communication, response to activation of said remote.

5. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 4 and including a radio signal transmitter in said master unit, responsive to activation of said alert response lights by said remote, to send a radio signal to a satellite.

6. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 4 and including a smoke detector in the residence, and a wireless connection between the smoke detector and said master unit operable to send an alarm signal to said master unit in the event of the detection of smoke in said residence.

7. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said alert bulb incorporates a rechargeable electrical storage battery, and solar power panels, adapted to respond to solar energy, and recharge said battery, and said battery in turn supplying power to said response circuits.

8. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 7 including a porch light unit personally installable and attachable to the exterior of said residence, said porch light incorporating low voltage response lights, and solar panels for powering said response lights.

9. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 1 including a

personally installable adapter having an adapter base personally installable it said domestic lighting socket on the exterior of said residence, and having a body portion supporting said response circuits, and having a lighting socket member, to receive a domestic bulb and an alert socket member to receive said alert bulb.

10. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 9 and incorporating a personally installable switch control, for controlling an interior domestic porch light switch, whereby to prevent disconnecting of power to said porch light receptacle.

11. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 9 and including a personally installable integral adapter housing supporting said domestic bulb socket, and said alert bulb socket, and an adapter base screw in portion personally installable in a conventional exterior bulb socket and containing said wireless response circuits.

12. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 11 wherein said wireless response circuits are contained in said integral housing and supply low voltage power to said alert light socket, and domestic voltage power to said domestic bulb socket, and being responsive to said remote to switch power on or off to said domestic bulb socket, without affecting power supply to said alert bulb socket.

13. The personally installable alert system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said conventional exterior domestic light receptacle is connected to a switch with conventional domestic power connections thereon, inside the residence and including a personally installable connector plate secured to said switch and to receive domestic power from said power connections on said switch, and a personally installable cover body attachable to said connector plate, and receiving power from said connector plate and a siren and a speaker receiver system for communication with aid responders, and a panic switch operable to activate the system, if the remote is not available, response circuit in said body.