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Measuring and/or security system

Patent 6404338 Issued on June 11, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject April 26, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Application

No. 297154 filed on 04/26/1999

US Classes:

340/571, Alarm on protected article340/10.1, Interrogation response340/568.1, Article placement or removal (e.g., anti-theft)340/573.1, Human or animal340/573.4, House arrest system, wandering, or wrong place340/825.57, Pulse responsive actuation340/825.69Radio link

Examiners

Primary: Tong, Nina

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 36 18 416 DE. 03/24/1987
  • 39 28 571 DE. 03/24/1990
  • 32 16 666 DE. 11/24/1992
  • WO 96/18913 DE. 06/24/1996
  • 196 01 866 DE. 08/24/1996
  • 223 554 EP. 05/24/1987
  • WO 95/20277 WO. 07/24/1995

International Class

G08B 013/14

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-11-01 DE

Abstract

Measuring and/or control system (1) for detection of the distance of an object (2) or of a person from a predetermined reference point, with a first transmitting/receiving device (10) for generation and wireless transmission of a control signal to a separate second transmitting and/receiving device (30), as well as for receipt of an acknowledgment signal generated from the second transmitting/receiving device (30) upon receipt of the control signal, whereby both of the transmitting/receiving devices display on the transmitting side a signal source (23, 24, 25, 26) that generates as a control and/or as an acknowledgment signal, pulses that display during the duration of the pulse a monotonically falling or rising frequency, or that consists of a super-position of these types of pulses in pairs, the other current transmitting/receiving device (10, 30) displaying on the receiving side for time compression of the received pulses, at least one dispersion filter (11) having a predetermined frequency-dependent signal transit time, which is matchedadapted to the transmitting side modulation such that the spectral signal portions of the control and/or acknowledgment signal, because of the frequency-dependent different signal transit time through the dispersion filter (11), appears at its output essentially coincidentally and, therewith, with little temporal imprecision.

Other References

  • Kowatsch et al., "Spread-Spectrum-ubertragung analoger Signale mit Chirp-Modulation", Archiv Fur Electronic und Ubertragungstechnik, vol. 36, No. 7, Jul. 1982, pp. 299-304 (Document XP002061685)
  • Utlaut, W.F., "Spread-spectrum principles and possible application to spectrum utilization and allication", telecommunciation journal, vol. 43, 1978, pp. 20-3
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