Tamper deterrent attachment for external door locks on vehicles
OwnerVincent A Dobbinsinventor
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Abstract
A tamper deterrent attachment for external door locks like a puck lock on vehicles, comprising a set of plastic accessories with molded wire conductors placed within proximity of the door brackets of a vehicle such as a truck or a van with the wire conductors of the accessories connected to the reed switches next to the door brackets and the wire conductors on the accessories also connected to a wired or wireless alarm within the vehicle. If an attempt is made to pry open the puck lock, cut the lock brackets or cut through the sheet metal around the lock to remove it, the wire conductors molded in the accessories will also be cut to trigger an alarm to notify the owner of the vehicle of the attempted break-in of the vehicle.
Claims6
A tamper deterrent attachment for external door locks on vehicles comprising:
- a set of plastic accessories placed one on either side of a set of brackets on said vehicles doors;
- said set of plastic accessories attached under a set of reed switches installed on said brackets of said vehicles doors;
- said reed switches having reed switch contacts;
- said reed switch contacts in proximity with a set of magnets on said external door locks on said vehicles to form a closed circuit to lock said doors of said vehicles;
- said plastic accessories having wire conductors molded into said plastic accessories;
- said wire conductors molded into said plastic accessories in contact with said reed switch contacts;
- said wire conductors molded into said plastic accessories in contact with said magnets on said external door locks;
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- said wire conductors on said plastic accessories connected to an alarm system inside said vehicles to set off an alarm when said brackets of said external door locks are cut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.