Garage door opener transmitter with status reporting
OwnerKenneth J. Grevesinventor
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Abstract
An improved garage door opener transmitter has a housing with a manually actuable member outside the housing. The transmitter actuating circuitry disposed in the housing. The transmitter circuit is adapted to send a signal to a receiver of a garage mounted opener unit to move a garage door having an open position and a closed position from a current position thereof to the other position. The improvement is a visually-observable indicium having first and second conditions. The indicium is connected to the actuable member and actuation thereof toggles the indicium from a current position thereof to the other position. In some embodiments, a non-visual indicium is also used.
Claims16
An improved garage door opener transmitter having a housing with a manually actuable member that is accessible from outside the housing for actuating a transmitter circuitry disposed within the housing, the transmitter circuit adapted to send a signal to a receiver of a garage mounted opener unit to move a garage door having an open position and a closed position from a current position thereof to the other position, the improvement comprising:
- a visually-observable indicium, disposed on the housing, the indicium having a first and a second condition and being connected to the actuable member, such that each actuation of the member toggles the indicium from a current position thereof to the other position.
An improved garage door opener transmitter having a housing with a manually actuable member that is accessible from outside the housing for actuating a transmitter circuitry disposed within the housing, the transmitter circuit adapted to send a signal to a receiver of a garage mounted opener unit to move a garage door having an open position and a closed position from a current position thereof to the other position, the improvement comprising:
- a signal receiving means;
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- a visually-observable indicium, disposed on the housing, the indicium having a first and a second condition, the indicium in electrical communication with the signal receiving means such that, the signal receiving means toggles the indicium from a current position thereof to the other position upon receiving a signal.
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