Apparatus for protecting a home appliance from false activation
OwnerGavriel Coheninventor
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Abstract
Home appliances have operation switches and buttons and also sensors which can be activated by the user. It is possible that the user will cause and an undesired operation to take place by pressing a switch or activating a sensor by a certain action. This can be small children of dementing old people left alone, or any person in the household which can do things by mistake. This invention will describe an apparatus serving as an appliance accessory which can force the voltage value at the appropriate timing and time frame to be put on the appropriate control lines coming in the appliance control board thus maintaining a proper appliance operation.
Claims7
An apparatus serving as an accessory to a home appliance with sensors and switches comprising input control lines coming from a home appliance, a sampler per control line, an MCU (Micro Controller Unit), a driver/amplifier per control line and forcing lines outputs to the appliance where the apparatus can force a desired value of voltage on each of the forcing lines thus forcing connected control lines coming out of the appliance sensors and switches to a desired value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.