Childrens Car Seat Alarm System
Summary:Attach the sensor/transmitter to the child’s safety harness. When the harness is latched, the transmitter sends out a signal to a receiver attached to a key chain. When the receiver loses the transmitter’s signal, this engages the audible and visual alarm. This alerts the parent to return to the vehicle.
Full Description:
The “Car Seat Alarm System” is an innovative automotive safety product that has been designed to improve the safety of the child strapped into the child’s safety seat.
Leaving the child in the safety seat can be very injurious to the child, resulting in incapacitating injury, death or a kidnapping. Each of us has read about a parent or care giver walking away from the vehicle and inadvertently leaving the child strapped into the safety seat. This has occurred to people who are ordinarily very attuned to the child’s health and well being and just happen to be thinking about something else at the time. If the child is sleeping, it is easy miss the typical audible and visible cues that normally remind the caregiver/parent to retrieve the child.
The “Car Seat Alarm System” solves this problem by attaching a sensor/transmitter to the child’s safety harness. When the harness is latched, the transmitter sends out a signal every few seconds to a receiver attached to the driver’s key chain. If the safety harness remains latched and the driver walks more than 25 feet from the vehicle, the receiver loses the transmitter’s signal, engaging an audible and visual alarm. This alerts the driver to return to the vehicle to inspect it and insure the child is retrieved. This dramatically improves the safety of the child and can eliminate injuries or deaths, which should dramatically improve the market adoption curve of the product.
The transmitter housing and receiver housing are injection molded from polycarbonate-ABS plastic. This plastic is very durable and is typically used in this type of application. The plastic can be supplied in almost any color, so a distinctive color may be chosen to enhance the product recognition factor, which can dramatically improve the market adoption of the product. The transmitter and receiver operate on a 418MHz carrier frequency and are encoded with serial numbers to ensure adjacent vehicle’s systems are not activated inadvertently. The transmitter is powered with 2 AA batteries and meets all NHTSA safety regulations regarding latch robustness and release standards. A position sensor determines when the tongue is latched. The LEDs indicate the operational conditions.
The receiver housing has a key ring slot in its base to allow the driver to attach it to their key set for the vehicle. The receiver looks for a signal every few seconds to conserve power and goes to sleep in between wake cycles. The unit is powered with a replaceable coin cell battery. The LEDs indicate the operation conditions and the audible alarm is loud enough to be heard in a typical parking lot environment.
The product is designed to be aesthetic and effective in the application. The ease of manufacture and the relatively inexpensive components provide good marketability for the manufacturer. The parent/caregiver benefits from dramatically improved child safety and this should provide considerable market interest in the product.
Although a single embodiment of the invention has been described in the above detailed description, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiment developed herein, but is capable of numerous rearrangements, modifications, substitutions of parts and elements without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
Problem this idea/invention addresses:
The leaving of children in their car seats in a hot or closed car.
Auxiliary products or services for sale:
Business plan, marketing and research binder
Attached files:
35151-DI_Freeman V2.pdf
Asking price: [CONTACT SELLER]
Available for consultation? Yes
Invention #10830
Date posted: 2008-06-12
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