High security balanced magnetic switch
AssigneeRoyne Industries, LLC
InventorWarren Greenway
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Abstract
An embodiment is a magnetic switch assembly generally comprising a switch base coupled to a switch housing. The switch base and switch housing may be coupled to, for example, a door frame or other substantially fixed location. Adjacent the switch base and switch housing may be an actuating magnet base including a plurality of actuating magnets. The proximity to or distance from the actuating magnets in the actuating magnet base may actuate magnets within the switch housing to open and/or close a circuit and/or otherwise generate a signal that may be communicated by an interface cable to, for example, a security system. The magnetic switch assembly of an embodiment may include one or more features that impede and/or substantially prevent tampering to defeat the magnetic switch assembly.
Claims18
A magnetic switch assembly comprising:
- a switch base including a plurality of switch base magnets;
- a switch housing including an armature block, the armature block defining a plurality of cavities, each of the cavities to include an armature block magnet substantially freely rotatable therein;
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- a switch circuit coupled to the switch housing to interact with the armature block magnets to detect between an un-actuated and an actuated configuration of the magnetic switch assembly.
A magnetic switch assembly comprising:
- a switch housing including an armature block, the armature block defining one or more armature block cavities;
- one or more armature block magnets provided in the one or more armature block cavities and substantially freely rotatable therein;
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- a switch circuit coupled to the switch housing to interact with the armature block magnets to detect between an un-actuated configuration and an actuated configuration of the magnetic switch assembly based on the rotation of the one or more armature block magnets within the one or more armature block cavities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.