Personnel security system

• US 4,682,155 A
• Filed: 01/13/1986
• Issued: 07/21/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stanley Works Limited (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Central Security Manufacturing Corporation
• Inventors: Shirley, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Application Number:
  US06/818,260
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573, 340/572, 340/545, 340/522
• US Class Current: 340/573.4
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence

Abstract

A security sensing system monitors the passage of persons through a door or like opening. A transmitter module having means for transmitting an omnidirectional signal is installed on persons to be monitored and a sensing module for installing adjacent to a door opening to be monitored. The sensing module operates an alarm, but only when the door is opened by a person equipped with a trigger module on his person.

Claims

1. A security sensing system for monitoring the passage of persons through a door or like opening comprising:

a transmitter module for installing on persons to be monitored, a sensing module for installing adjacent to a door opening to be monitored, and means responsive to the opening of the door to enable the sensing module to respond to the signal transmitted by the transmitter module to produce an output response, and alarm means energizable in response to the production of the output response to produce an alarm condition,

the transmitter module including a housing having a transmitter circuit, a source of power for the transmitter circuit and transmitter antenna means installed therein,

the sensing module including a receiving circuit and associated sensing means located adjacent to the door opening to be monitored, and

said means responsive to the opening of the door including means to enable the receiving circuit in the sensing module whereby the receiving circuit can respond to signals transmitted by the transmitter module to produce a response for energizing the alarm means.

2. The security sensing system of claim 1 wherein the transmitter antenna means includes a pair of inductors mounted in the housing at substantially right angles.

3. The security sensing system of claim 1 wherein the housing for the transmitter module is a sealed housing.

4. The security sensing system of claim 1 wherein the door opening accommodates two door members and the sensing module is located adjacent to the door opening and includes an elongated sensing member mounted extending transversely across at least one of the door members in the door opening.

5. The security sensing system of claim 1 wherein the sensing module includes a radio frequency receiver having an input connected to the sensing means, an output including signal limiting and filtering means and relay means energizeable when a signal is received from the transmitter module to energize the alarm means.

6. Means to monitor a doorway of a nursing home or other institution in order to produce an alarm when certain residnets try to pass therethrough comprising

a transmitter device including a mounting band therefor to be worn on the wrist of the residents to be monitored, said transmitter device having a housing with a modulating circuit, a transmitter radiator and a battery source located therein,

a receiving device for mounting adjacent to the doorway including a housing and a receiving circuit therein, a signal sensor operatively connected to the receiving circuit, means for supplying power to the receiving circuit, means to enable the receiving circuit, and an output for the receiving circuit,

an alarm producing device operatively connected to the output of the receiving circuit, and

said means to enable including switch means operatively connected to the receiving circuit, said switch means being mounted in association with the doorway and having a first condition when the doorway is open and a second condition when the doorway is closed, the first condition of the switch means operating to enable the receiving circuit.

7. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the transmitter device includes a weathertight housing having a severable loop of wire extending therefrom, the loop having an operative connection to the modulating circuit therein such that when unsevered the loop prevents energizing of the transmitter device, severing of the loop operating to energize the transmitter device.

8. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the radiator in the transmitter device includes a pair of angularly related inductor elements.

9. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the modulating circuit is tuned to transmit a signal from the radiator at a radio frequency that is outside of the broadcast band.

10. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the transmitter device produces a radio frequency output audio modulated at a frequency between about 770 to 990 hertz.

11. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the receiving circuit includes a radio frequency receiver circuit portion.

12. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the signal sensor includes a pair of angularly oriented inductor elements.

13. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the receiving circuit includes signal limiting and signal filtering means, and an output circuit stage, and means including relay means operatively connected to the output circuit stage, said alarm producing means being energizable under control of the relay means.

14. The means to monitor of claim 13 including a radio transmitter operatively connected to the relay means and energizable with the alarm producing means to transmit a signal to remote locations.

15. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the doorway being monitored has two adjacent door members, the receiving device being mounted adjacent one of the door members and the switch means being mounted having a switch portion mounted on one of the door members and a switch actuator portion mounted on the other of said door members, said switch portion and said switch actuator portion being adjacent one another when the two adjacent door members are closed.

16. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the modulating circuit includes transistor elements.

17. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the receiving circuit includes transistor elements.

18. The means to monitor of claim 6 wherein the doorway being monitored is a relatively wide doorway and a separate receiving device is mounted adjacent each opposite side thereof, and means connecting the separate receiving devices on opposite sides of the doorway whereby one of the receiving devices operates as a master and the other as a slave receiving device.