Back to results
US 8,542,107 B2Granted
Vapor alarm in flotation fob
OwnerPatrick Dolaninventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An apparatus includes an alarm device, enclosed in a water tight container adapted to buoyantly support the alarm device and a wireless receiver, the water tight container adapted to couple with a key ring, including hardware logic and-or logic embodied in machine readable memory to receive information from a remote vapor sensor and to activate the alarm if the information indicates a hazardous vapor condition.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising:
- an alarm device, enclosed in a water tight container adapted to buoyantly support the alarm device and a wireless receiver, the water tight container adapted to couple with a key ring, comprising hardware logic and-or logic embodied in machine readable memory to receive information from a remote vapor sensor and to activate the alarm if the information indicates a hazardous vapor condition.
A system comprising:
- a vapor sensor mounted in an engine compartment of a powered vehicle;
- an alarm device adapted to couple with a key ring, the alarm comprising hardware logic and-or logic embodied in machine readable memory devices to communicate with the vapor sensor and to provide an alarm when a hazardous vapor condition exists in the engine compartment.
A key fob comprising:
- a water tight container comprising an alarm device, the alarm device comprising hardware logic and-or logic embodied in machine readable memory to attempt to maintain constant radio contact with a vapor sensor in an engine compartment of a vehicle, and to activate the alarm if information received from the vapor sensor indicates a hazardous vapor condition in the engine compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.