US 10,918,100 B2Granted

Rabbit and squirrel call device

AssigneeInnovative Sportsmen, LLC

InventorsPerry Jay Madl, William Cokeley

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Abstract

A portable electronic animal call device comprising a housing, a memory, a plurality of user inputs, a speaker, an amplifier, a power source, a status indicator, and a controller for controlling the electronic components. The housing encloses the electronic components and includes a plurality of sound openings near the speaker. The housing also includes a plurality of ridges and recesses for gripping the device. The memory stores animal sound files therein. The inputs include a power button, a plurality of animal sound selection buttons, and one or more volume inputs. The user holds or presses the power button to turn on and off the device and to resume and pause an animal sound. The user presses one of the animal sound selection buttons to select and play a desired animal sound. The status indicator communicates a power or animal sound status via LED light or similar alert.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A portable electronic animal call device comprising:

a housing forming an internal chamber, the housing having a plurality of sound openings;
a memory for storing an animal sound emulation therein, the animal sound emulation comprising a person sucking air over his or her lips to emulate a small animal in distress;
a plurality of inputs for receiving a user's commands to control the device, the inputs comprising:
a power input configured to turn on and off the portable electronic animal call device;
at least one volume button for changing a volume of the animal sound emulation of the portable electronic call device;
a speaker for outputting the animal sound emulation, the speaker being positioned in the internal chamber near the sound openings;
a power source for powering the device;
a controller for receiving the user's commands via the plurality of inputs, the controller being configured to:
set the volume at a zero volume level and begin playing the animal sound emulation stored in the memory when the power input turns the portable electronic animal call device on;
and
stop playing the animal sound emulation when the power input turns the portable electronic animal call device off so that the speaker stops outputting the animal sound emulation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/995,197Filed 1 Jun 2018 · continuation in part
Priority: 21 Feb 2014
Published: US 2018/0279603 A14 Oct 2018
Granted: 16 Feb 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

A01M 31/004
Hunting appliances: game callers
G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
H04R 1/025
Casings; Cabinets ; Supports therefor; Mountings therein: arrangements for fixing loudspeaker transducers, e.g. in a box, furniture
H04R 3/00
Circuits for transducers

Family

Application61/943,164Us provisional application · filed 21 Feb 2014
Application14/628,807Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 Feb 2015
US 2018/0279603 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 Oct 2018
US 9,986,730 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2015/0237847 A1Published application
US 10,918,100 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.