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US 2023/0419755 A1Published application
Storage safe with remote palm reader
AssigneeHornady Manufacturing Company
InventorsNick Wing On So, Thomas Delattre, Matthew Mack
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Abstract
A safe for the storage of a valuable such as a firearm. The safe has an imaging system that is used to scan a portion of a human in the near infrared spectrum to image blood vessels and determine if the image matches a stored image and thereafter effect unlocking of the safe. A manual override lock system is provided to manually effect unlocking of the safe.
Claims24
A bio-metric safe assembly comprising:
- a housing base comprised of first and second side walls, respectively, a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, the walls secured together leaving a top portion open and forming a cavity inside of the housing base;
- a cover member for covering the top open portion, the cover moveable between a closed position which prevents access to the cavity and an open position which allows access to the cavity,
- a latch mechanism constructed and arranged to engage at least one catch member to lock the cover member in the closed position and release the catch member upon receiving an electrical signal from a receiver positioned within the safe, the receiver in wireless communication with a controller,
- the controller constructed and arranged to utilize biometric blood vessel information to identify a user, wherein the controller sends a wireless signal to the receiver to operate the latch mechanism when the user is positively identified.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.