System for repelling a pet from a predetermined area

• US 9,293,027 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jason Wilson
• Original Assignee: Jason Wilson
• Inventors: Wilson, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): DARAMOLA, ISRAEL O
• Application Number:
  US13/721,143
• Publication Number:
  US 20130169441A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,188 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.13, 340/573.3, 367/139, 455/456.1, 89/11.1, 119/56.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/021 Electronic training devices specially adapted for dogs or cats
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/023 Anti-evasion devices
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/006 with light-emitting or ornamental devices
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/009 with electric-shock, sound, magnetic- or radio-waves emitting devices
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 29/10 using light sources, e.g. lasers or flashing lights
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 29/18 using ultrasonic signals
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/002 Detecting animals in a given area
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A system for repelling a pet from at least one predetermined area includes a first device adapted for positioning at the predetermined area. The first device includes at least one of a first receiver and a first transmitter. A second device is adapted for placement on the pet. The second device includes at least one of a second receiver and a second transmitter. At least one of the first device and the second device is configured to warn the pet when the second device approaches the at least one predetermined area, and thereby train the pet to stay away from the predetermined area.

Claims

1. A system for repelling a pet from at least one predetermined area, comprising:

a first device including at least one of a first receiver and a first transmitter, the first device configured to selectively provide a first warning and a second warning to the pet, wherein the first device has a housing with a front portion, a rear portion, and a perimeter portion disposed between the front portion and the rear portion, the first warning provided by warning lights emitted from a warning light system, the warning light system including a plurality of minor lights distributed substantially evenly around the perimeter portion of the housing and a major light disposed on the top portion of the housing, and the second warning provided by a speaker system, the speaker system including at least one auditory alarm disposed on the perimeter portion of the housing and configured to emit a high frequency sound that is outside a range of human hearing frequencies, the first device further having a mounting bracket with an inner surface and an outer surface, the mounting bracket rotatably coupled to the rear portion of the housing with a hinge to selectively permit an opening and a closing of the housing, and the outer surface of the mounting bracket having an adhesive configured to securely affix the first device to a hard surface of the at least one predetermined area; and

a second device for placement on a collar of the pet, the second device including at least one of a second receiver and a second transmitter for communication with said at least one of a first receiver and a first transmitter of said first device,

wherein an outer wanting zone and an inner off-limits zone at the predetermined area are defined by transmitter-receiver communication between the first device and the second device, the inner off-limits zone disposed entirely within the outer warning zone, the first device providing the first wanting to the pet when the second device enters the outer warning zone, and the first device providing the second warning to the pet when the second device enters the inner off-limits zone.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the warning lights is also activated on a periodic basis outside of the first warning and the second warning to communicate to the pet that the at least one predetermined area is being guarded.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the high frequency sound is 27 kHz or greater.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the speaker system is on a timer and ceases to emit the auditory alarm after a predetermined period of time.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device and the second device are paired so that only the paired second device approaching the first devices causes the at least one of the first device and the second device to warn the pet.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device includes vibration means which causes a clicking sound and a vibration of the first device when in a training mode, the training mode configured to train the pet to avoid the first device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the vibration means includes a pair of flexible arms rotatable connected to a motor that cooperate with projections on an inside of the first device to create the clicking sound and the vibration.

8. The system of claim 1, a radius of each of the warning zone and the off-limits zone may be adjusted.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the radius of each of the warning zone and the off-limits zone are adjusted by a dual radius adjusting dial disposed on the first device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device has a camera configured to take a photograph of the pet when the pet enters at least one of the warning zone and the off limits zone.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device has a motion sensor that detects movement and triggers the first receiver of the first device to be active for receiving a signal from the second transmitter of the second device upon detecting the movement, the first receiver remaining activated until the motion sensor no longer detects the movement.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the second transmitter of the second device transmits a warning radius signal and an off limits signal, the warning radius signal having a greater strength than a strength of the off limits signal, a receipt of the warning radius signal by the first receiver of the first device causing the first warning, and a receipt of the off limits signal by the first receiver of the first device causing the second warning, wherein the warning signal is received by the first receiver of the first device upon the pet entering the warning zone, and the off limits signal is only received by the first receiver of the first device upon the pet entering the off limits zone.

13. A first device for a system for repelling a pet from at least one predetermined area, comprising:

a main body having at least one of a first receiver and a first transmitter for communication with a second device having at least one of a second receiver and a second transmitter that is for placement on the pet, the first device configured to selectively provide a first warning and a second warning to the pet, wherein the main body of the first device includes a housing with a front portion, a rear portion, and a

perimeter portion disposed between the front portion and the rear portion, the first warning provided by warning lights emitted from a warning light system, the warning light system including a plurality of minor lights distributed substantially evenly around the perimeter portion of the housing and a major light disposed on the top portion of the housing, and the second warning provided by a speaker system, the speaker system including at least one auditory alarm disposed on the perimeter portion of the housing and configured to emit a high frequency sound that is outside a range of human hearing frequencies, and

a mounting bracket with an inner surface and an outer surface, the mounting bracket rotatably coupled to the rear portion of the housing with a hinge to selectively permit an opening and a closing of the housing, and the outer surface of the mounting bracket having an adhesive configured to securely affix the first device to a hard surface of the at least one predetermined area,

wherein an outer warning zone and an inner off-limits zone at the predetermined area are defined by transmitter-receiver communication between the first device and the second device, the second device including at least one of a second receiver and a second transmitter, the inner off-limits zone disposed entirely within the outer warning zone, the first device configured to provide the first warning to the pet when the second device enters the outer warning zone, and of the first device configured to provide the second weaning to the pet when the second device enters the inner off-limits zone.