Alarm system

• US 6,025,779 A
• Filed: 11/18/1998
• Issued: 02/15/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dennis Huang
• Original Assignee: Dennis Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieu, Julie
• Application Number:
  US09/193,416
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539, 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/534, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/537, 340/531, 340/825.36, 340/527, 340/529, 109/38, 455/404, 455/38.2, 455/507
• US Class Current: 340/539.11
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/001 Alarm cancelling procedures or alarm forwarding decisions, e.g. based on absence of alarm confirmation
• 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 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/22 Provisions facilitating manual calibration, e.g. input or output provisions for testing; Holding of intermittent values to permit measurement

Abstract

An alarm system includes a trigger unit, a recognition unit, and an alarm unit. The trigger unit is operated by the user to output a radio wave to the recognition unit upon an emergency, causing the recognition unit to output a radio signal in triggering the alarm unit to output an alarm signal to the outside, asking for help.

Claims

1. An alarm system including an alarm apparatus activated selectively by a user, comprising:

(A) a trigger unit, said trigger unit comprising;

(a) an inductor operated by the user to produce an electronic signal, wherein said inductor comprises a first inductor mounted on a left leg of the user and a second inductor mounted on a right leg of the user and arranged so that when the user moves the left and right legs together so that the first inductor and second inductor are within a predetermined distance from each other, said electronic signal is produced;

(b) a control circuit arranged to output a start signal after receipt of the electronic signal from said inductor continuously for a predetermined time;

(c) an encoder arranged to receive and encode the start signal from the control circuit of said trigger unit into a triggering signal;

(d) a modulating and transmitting circuit arranged to modulate said triggering signal from said encoder;

(e) an antenna arranged to transmit said modulated triggering signal;

(B) a recognition unit, said recognition unit comprising;

(a) an antenna arranged to receive said modulated triggering signal from said trigger unit;

(b) a receiving and demodulating circuit arranged to receive and demodulate said modulated triggering signal from said antenna of said recognition unit;

(c) a decoder arranged to receive and decode signals from said receiving and demodulating circuit of said recognition unit and to output an electronic triggering recognition signal upon recognition of triggering signal from said recognition unit;

(d) a vibrator arranged to produce vibrations after the electronic triggering recognition signal from said decoder of said recognition unit is produced;

(e) a cancel key arranged to stop said vibrator from vibration when depressed by the user;

(f) a control circuit connected to said decoder, said cancel key and said vibrator of said recognition unit, said control circuit being arranged to output a start signal after said vibrator has been activated for a predetermined length of time;

(g) an encoder connected to said control circuit of said recognition unit to receive and recognize said start signal from said control circuit of said recognition unit and to output a start recognition signal corresponding to said start signal received; and

(h) a modulating and transmitting circuit connected to said encoder of said recognition unit to modulate said start recognition signal into a radio signal and then to transmit the modulated radio signal through the antenna of said recognition unit; and

(C) an alarm unit, said alarm unit comprising;

(a) an antenna arranged to receive said radio signal transmitted through the antenna of said recognition unit;

(b) a receiving and demodulating circuit arranged to receive and demodulate said radio signal received through the antenna of said alarm unit;

(c) a decoder arranged to decode and recognize the signal received from the receiving and demodulating circuit of said alarm unit and to output an alarm unit decoder electronic signal upon recognition of the start recognition signal from said recognition unit; and

(d) an alarm output interface arranged to output an alarm signal to said alarm apparatus when receiving the alarm unit decoder electronic signal from the decoder of said alarm unit.

2. The alarm system of claim 1 wherein said inductor is a solenoid switch.