Patent Application
20210156195
This invention relates to windows. More particularly, it relates to a security device for protecting break-in from a window.
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and sometimes air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. Many glazed windows may be opened, to allow ventilation, or closed, to exclude inclement weather. Windows often have a latch or similar mechanism to lock the window shut or to hold it open by various amounts.
Types include the eyebrow window, fixed windows, single-hung and double-hung sash windows, horizontal sliding sash windows, casement windows, awning windows, hopper windows, tilt and slide windows (often door-sized), tilt and turn windows, transom windows, sidelight windows, jalousie or louvered windows, clerestory windows, skylights, roof windows, roof lanterns, bay windows, oriel windows, thermal, or Diocletian, windows, picture windows, emergency exit windows, stained glass windows, French windows, panel windows, and double and triple paned windows.
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems or any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change.
Security mostly refers to protection from hostile forces, but it has a wide range of other senses: for example, as the absence of harm (e.g. freedom from want); as the presence of an essential good (e.g. food security); as resilience against potential damage or harm (e.g. secure foundations); as secrecy (e.g. a secure telephone line); as containment (e.g. a secure room or cell); and as a state of mind (e.g. emotional security).
Intruders often come into houses through the window as the window is the weakest link in a protection of a home. Security systems for windows are usually a bar or an electronic monitor coupled to the window. Once these devices are installed they are difficult to remove or to place back onto the window once removed. They often block the pleasure of looking out the window and can be costly when it is an electronic monitoring system.
In light of the foregoing, it would be desirable to devise an improved window security shield device that would be removable or retractable to allow a use of the window by the owner or to secure the window during night time when most crime occurs. It would be further advantageous if the device were remotely operable such that a user would not have to go to the window to actuate the security shield device.
The phrases “in one embodiment,” “in various embodiments,” “in some embodiments,” and the like are used repeatedly. Such phrases do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment. The terms “comprising,” “having,” and “including” are synonymous, unless the context dictates otherwise. Such terms do not generally signify a closed list.
“Above,” “adhesive,” “affixing,” “any,” “around,” “both,” “bottom,” “by,” “comprising,” “consistent,” “customized,” “enclosing,” “friction,” “in,” “labeled,” “lower,” “magnetic,” “marked,” “new,” “nominal,” “not,” “of,” “other,” “outside,” “outwardly,” “particular,” “permanently,” “preventing,” “raised,” “respectively,” “reversibly,” “round,” “square,” “substantial,” “supporting,” “surrounded,” “surrounding,” “threaded,” “to,” “top,” “using,” “wherein,” “with,” or other such descriptors herein are used in their normal yes-or-no sense, not as terms of degree, unless context dictates otherwise.
Reference is now made in detail to the description of the embodiments as illustrated in the drawings. While embodiments are described in connection with the drawings and related descriptions, there is no intent to limit the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications and equivalents. In alternate embodiments, additional devices, or combinations of illustrated devices, may be added to, or combined, without limiting the scope to the embodiments disclosed herein.
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The security shield device 100 has a plurality of vertical bars 200, a plurality of horizontal bars 300, a plurality of locking tabs 400, a storage unit 500 and a controller 600. The plurality of vertical bars of the security shield device 100 is preferably a height of one of: 24 inches, 36 inches, 48 inches and 60 inches, however any other heights are hereby contemplated for custom made window sizes.
The controller 600 is preferably a cellular phone, however other types of controllers are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, remote control device, computing device, etc. The controller 600 has an app 601. The app 601 is a portal for a person to enter commands, such as by pressing an icon, or showing a status of the security shield device 100. The controller 600 further has a transceiver 602. The transceiver 602 can send and receive a wireless signaling 506. The wireless signaling 506 is preferably IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), however other signaling is hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, IEEE 802.15)(Bluetooth®, cellular signaling, etc.
The storage unit 500 of the security shield device 100 has an outside 501 and an inside 502. The storage unit 500 is useful for storing the security shield device 100 when in a retracted configuration. The inside 502 of the storage unit 500 has a computing device 503, a power source 504 and a transceiver 505. The transceiver 505 can send and receive the wireless signaling 506. The transceiver 505 is communicatively coupled to the controller 600 by the wireless signaling 506.
The computing device 503 encodes and decodes the wireless signaling 506 received via the transceiver 505. The computing device 503 sends status messages to the controller 600 for display. The computing device 503 receives commands from the controller 600 for operation of the security shield 100. When a command from the controller 600 is received the computing device 503 performs the operation corresponding to the command. The operation is preferably one of: open and close. The open command expands the security shield device 100 for use and the close command retracts the security shield device 100 for storage into the inside 502 of the storage unit 500.
The computing device 503 is electrically coupled to the power source 504. The transceiver 505 is further communicatively coupled to the computing device 503 and electrically coupled to the power source 504. The power source 504 is preferably a rechargeable battery, however other power sources are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, disposable battery, AC/DC current, Nicad battery, etc.
The plurality of vertical bars 200 are preferably made of a metal material, such as steel, aluminum, titanium, etc., however other materials are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, poly-vinyl chloride (PVC), hard plastic, etc. Each of the vertical bars 200 are substantially the same height. The vertical bars 200 have a front 201 and a back 202.
The plurality of horizontal bars 300 are preferably telescopic, such that the horizontal bars 300 are retractable and expandable. The plurality of horizontal bars 300 are preferably made of a metal material, such as steel, aluminum, titanium, etc., however other materials are hereby contemplated, including, but not limited to, poly-vinyl chloride (PVC), hard plastic, etc.
Each of the plurality of horizontal bars 300 are coupled to the back 202 of at least one of the vertical bars 200. Each of the vertical bars 200 are equally spaced and perpendicular to each of the horizontal bars 300, thus the security shield device 100 is configured to a grid formation. The horizontal bars 300 are hollow tubes. The horizontal bars 300 preferably allow the device 100 to slide together to a compact style and retract into the storage unit 500 when not in use. The horizontal bars 300 are configured to align the vertical bars 200 such that the vertical bars 200 remain vertical and are remain aligned to be equally spaced.
The plurality of locking tabs 400 are coupled to a window frame 701 (See
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The app 601 of the controller 600 is actuated and the security shield device 100 is expanded or closed. The wireless signal 506 is sent to instruct the security shield device 100 to expand. The horizontal bars 300 are configured to telescope outward thus expanding the horizontal bars 300 and equally distancing the vertical bars 200. When fully expanded, the security shield device 100 engages the locking devices 600.
A command is sent via wireless signaling 506 from the app 601 of the controller 600 to the security shield device 100. The locking mechanism 601 is actuated and the security shield device 100 is locked into an expanded condition.
In the numbered clauses below, specific combinations of aspects and embodiments are articulated in a shorthand form such that (1) according to respective embodiments, for each instance in which a “component” or other such identifiers appear to be introduced (with “a” or “an,” e.g.) more than once in a given chain of clauses, such designations may either identify the same entity or distinct entities; and (2) what might be called “dependent” clauses below may or may not incorporate, in respective embodiments, the features of “independent” clauses to which they refer or other features described above.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the foregoing specific exemplary processes and/or devices and/or technologies are representative of more general processes and/or devices and/or technologies taught elsewhere herein, such as in the claims filed herewith and/or elsewhere in the present application.
The features described with respect to one embodiment may be applied to other embodiments or combined with or interchanged with the features of other embodiments, as appropriate, without departing from the scope of the present invention.
Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.
