Animal control system

• US 6,684,820 B1
• Filed: 10/01/2002
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: James Ellis Davis
• Original Assignee: James Ellis Davis
• Inventors: Davis, James E.
• Primary Examiner(s): ABBOTT, YVONNE RENEE
• Application Number:
  US10/261,103
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 119/721, 119/719, 119/720, 119/908, 340/573.1
• US Class Current: 119/721
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/023 Anti-evasion devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 119/908 Electrical animal control or handling

Abstract

An animal control system and method generates an on-off correction stimulus using a small transformer and rectifies the high voltage output to give an unfiltered unipolar voltage applied to electrodes as a correction stimulus. A small, efficient power isolation system is disclosed. An omnidirectional antenna is disclosed that reduces authentication time.

Claims

1. An animal control system to contain within or exclude from a region comprising:

a receiver to receive a boundary signal having a carrier frequency and to control the animal, the receiver comprising;

(a) a plurality of substantially physically orthogonal antenna systems for receiving the boundary signal,

(b) each antenna system having a different electrical phase,

(c) a combiner for combining the received boundary signals, and

(d) a stimulus generator to control the animal.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein:

each antenna system comprises;

an inductor and a capacitor tuned to receive to the boundary signal and each antenna outputting a different electrical phase.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein a first inductor and a first capacitor are tuned above the carrier frequency and a second inductor and a second capacitor are tuned to the carrier frequency and a third inductor and a third capacitor are tuned below the carrier frequency to cause the electrical phases to be different.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the first inductor and the first capacitor are tuned above the carrier frequency by an electrical phase of 60 degrees and the third inductor and the third capacitor are tuned below the carrier frequency by a phase of 60 degrees.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein a first inductor and a first capacitor are tuned above the carrier frequency and a second inductor and a second capacitor are tuned below the carrier frequency to cause the electrical phases to be different each from the other.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the first inductor and the first capacitor are tuned above the carrier frequency by an electrical phase of 45 degrees and the second inductor and the second capacitor are tuned below the carrier frequency by a phase of 45 degrees.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the each antenna system having a different electrical phase comprises

(a) an inductor coupled to an amplifier,

(b) each amplifier having a different phase.