Animal collar with programmable modular electronic components
OwnerJohn Kennedy, Lisa Tamayoinventors
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Abstract
Disclosed modular animal collar systems include a D ring exoskeleton system, a breakaway latch tongue system and other systems. Disclosed collars include auto release systems to ensure that collars do not choke or otherwise injure a pet. Collars include sophisticated electronics to commutate with a pet owner's smart phone but also include means of communication not requiring the use of a smart phone. Collars may include a base collar containing a micro controller and other computer related components. Surrounding modular components may contain additional equipment and may be added as needed by a pet owner. Disclosed collar functions are executed by the disclosed collars and facilitate the retrieval, care and training of a pet.
Claims14
A modular break-a-way collar system with integrated electronic modular collar components used for pet tracking and pet training, the system comprising:
- a) machine readable instructions stored upon non-volatile memory, the machine readable instructions read by a CPU or MCU, the CPU or MCU in communication with a display system, a speaker system, a motion detection system, a microphone system, a radio communication system, a GPS and a detachable battery system;
- b) a collar detachment system comprising a collar body having a first end attached to a latch tongue body, the latch tongue body attached to a latch tongue base, the latch tongue base attached to a latch tongue (610), the latch tongue comprising teeth, the collar body having a second end comprising a female void the female void defined by a lower lip and an upper arch, the second end of the collar body containing a ratcheting mechanism the ratcheting mechanism comporting to the teeth of the latch tongue;
- c) a communication system communicating between the modular collar components, the communication system comprising an open software and open hardware bus protocols;
- wherein the microphone system comprises a pet microphone and an ambient sound microphone;
- wherein the ambient sound microphone is located at a top of the collar and the pet microphone is located within an inside surface of the collar upon an animal throat area.
- wherein the display system comprises a display of images and text to comprise a human interface output and wherein the speaker system comprises audio messages to further comprise the human interface output.
An exoskeleton collar comprising:
- a) a plurality of connected outer shell components, one or more modules, one or more speakers and one or more display screens;
- b) a load cell assembly comprising a D-ring connected to the load cell assembly, with the load cell assembly measuring forces exerted upon the D-ring with the measured forces reported to a main module, the main module comprising machine readable instructions stored upon non-volatile memory, the machine readable instructions read by a CPU or MCU, the CPU or MCU in communication with a display system, speaker system, a motion detection system, microphone system, radio communication system, GPS and a detachable battery system;
- c) the machine readable instructions further including a force pull trigger function using the measured forces upon the D ring to trigger collar actions to discourage a pet's pulling upon the collar, the collar actions comprising vibration, sound, and electric shock;
- d) a communication system for communication between one of the one or more modules and/or the main module, the communication system comprising an open software and open hardware bus protocols;
- wherein the microphone system comprises a pet microphone and an ambient sound microphone;
- wherein the ambient sound microphone is located at the top of a collar and the pet microphone is located within an inside surface of the collar upon an animal throat area;
- and wherein a display system comprises the display of images and text to comprise a human interface output and wherein the speaker system comprises audio messages to further comprise the human interface output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.