Animal training apparatus and control method thereof
OwnerHo Yun SOinventor
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Abstract
A spray deterrent application type animal training apparatus and its control method is disclosed. The apparatus affixed to the collar of a dog provides a vibration stimulus, stimulus to olfactory sense and visual sense. The transparent spray deterrent reservoir case of the apparatus allows a trainer or an animal owner to simply identify level of spray substance. A light emitting diode (LED) is secured to the vicinity of a spraying nozzle of the spray unit and indicates a spray path by flashing a light on the spray path. Also, an animal is trained using stronger stimulus for a rapid learning at the beginning of training and is warned against an undesired behavior of an animal using light stimulus after being well trained.
Claims11
An animal training apparatus including a transmitter and a receiver, wherein:
- the transmitter includes:
- a key input unit including a spray function selecting key, a vibration function selecting key, and a spray and vibration selecting key configured to allow a combination of spray and vibration and levels indicating the intensities of spray to be selected;
- a transmitter controlling unit for performing control so that a signal corresponding to a function selected and input by the key input unit is transmitted;
- and
- a radio transmitting unit for transmitting the radio signal corresponding to the selected function under the control of the transmitter controlling unit.
- the receiver includes:
- a radio receiving unit for receiving the radio signal from the transmitter;
- a spray unit for emitting spray substance in response to a spray operation command included in the signal received by the radio receiving unit;
- a vibration unit for generating vibrations in response to a vibration operation command in the signal received by the radio receiving unit;
- a light emitting unit including a light emitting diode installed near the spraying nozzle of the spray unit and configured to display a spray path by illuminating the path of the emitted spray substance;
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- a receiver controlling unit for controlling the above units.
A method for controlling animal training apparatus comprising:
- receiving a selected function data from the transmitter;
- determining whether any of a vibration mode, a spray mod and a mode spraying with vibration function is selected;
- if the vibration mode is selected, generating vibration by activating the vibration unit of the receiver;
- if the spraying and vibration mode is selected, activating the spray unit of the receiver for spraying spray substance after generating vibration with first level;
- if the spray mode is selected, activating the spray unit of the receiver for spraying spray substance by operating the spray unit for time varied according to a received level;
- if the spraying and vibration mode or the spray mode is selected, activating a light emitting diode to radiate light such that the light emitted from the light emitting diode illuminates the spray path;
- increasing a level of the vibration by one level and returning to the step of receiving data from the transmitter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.