Patent Application
20220068103
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The disclosure relates to alarm assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new alarm assembly for preventing leaving of a child in a vehicle.
The prior art relates to alarm assemblies, which may comprise proximity sensors, transmitters, and receivers.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a transmitter, which is configured to be couplable to an object and for radio frequency transmission. Alert programming code positioned on an electronic device of a user enables the electronic device to receive transmissions from the transmitter, to determine a distance between the transmitter and the electronic device, and to alert the user should the distance exceed a preset value.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
Alert programming code 18 positioned on an electronic device 20 of a user enables the electronic device 20 to receive transmissions from the transmitter 12, to determine a distance between the transmitter 12 and the electronic device 20, and to alert the user should the distance exceed a preset value. The alert programming code 18 may alert the user when the distance between the transmitter 12 and the electronic device 20 exceeds 4.57 meters, or other preset distance.
The assembly 10 also may comprise a monitoring unit 22, which is configured to be mountable to a rear face of a front seat of a vehicle, to capture an image of an object positioned on a rear seat of the vehicle and to transmit the image to the electronic device 20 of the user.
The monitoring unit 22 comprises a housing 24, which defines an interior space 26. A battery 28, a microprocessor 30, and a transceiver 32 are engaged to the housing 24 and are positioned in the interior space 26. The microprocessor 30 is operationally engaged to the battery 28 and the transceiver 32.
A camera 34, a microphone 36, and a speaker 38 are engaged to the housing 24 and are operationally engaged to the microprocessor 30. The microprocessor 30 is positioned to selectively actuate the camera 34 and the microphone 36 to capture the image of and sounds produced by the object positioned on the rear seat of the vehicle, respectively.
The microprocessor 30 is positioned to selectively actuate the transceiver 32 to transmit the image captured by the camera 34 and the sounds received by the microphone 36 to the electronic device 20 of the user. The microprocessor 30 also is positioned to selectively actuate the speaker 38 to broadcast a transmission received from the electronic device 20 via the transceiver 32.
A fan 40 is engaged to the housing 24 and is operationally engaged to the microprocessor 30. The microprocessor 30 is positioned to selectively actuate the fan 40. The fan 40 is configured to blow air on the object, such as the child or the pet, positioned on the rear seat of the vehicle.
A fastener 42 is engaged to the housing 24 and is configured to selectively engage the front seat of the vehicle. The fastener 42 may comprise a pair of clips 44, as shown in
The present invention also anticipates safety programming code 46 positioned on one or both of the microprocessor 30 and the electronic device 20. The safety programming code 46 would enable one or both of the microprocessor 30 and the electronic device 20 to interface with an electronic control unit of the vehicle to actuate an alarm and air conditioning unit of the vehicle, and to assure that doors of the vehicle are unlocked.
In use, the wristband 14 or the bracelet 16 is positioned around the wrist of the child positioned on the back seat of the vehicle. Should the user depart the vehicle and travel further than the preset distance, the alert programming code 18 would alert the user that the child still is in the vehicle.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the elements is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
