Mobile EAS deactivator
AssigneeTyco Fire & Security GmbH
InventorsRonald B. Easter, Douglas A. Drew
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Abstract
A deactivator device for a mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) systems includes a pair of spaced apart, fixed position electromagnets positioned and configured such that magnetic fields generated by the electromagnets aid one another to form a combined magnetic field; a battery; a capacitor; and an electronics assembly including a microcontroller configured to control storage of energy from the battery in the capacitor and to selectively provide a deactivation or activation pulse from the capacitor to the electromagnets. The components may be positioned in a housing configured for attachment to a mPOS mobile device.
Claims17
A deactivator device for a mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) system, comprising:
- a pair of spaced apart, fixed position electromagnets positioned and configured such that magnetic fields generated by the electromagnets aid one another to form a combined magnetic field that is of sufficient strength to deactivate a security tag in proximity to the mPOS system;
- a battery;
- a capacitor;
- an electronics assembly including a microcontroller configured to control storage of energy from the battery in the capacitor and to selectively provide a deactivation or activation pulse from the capacitor to the electromagnets;
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- a housing having a mechanical coupling mechanism configured to mechanically attach the deactivator device to an exterior surface of a mPOS device, the housing having a multi-dimensional form factor which is approximately equal to or smaller than a multi-dimensional form factor of the mPOS mobile device.
A mobile Point of Sale (mPOS) assembly comprising:
- a mPOS device configured to carry out at least one point of sale transaction;
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- a deactivator device including:
- a pair of spaced apart, fixed position electromagnets positioned and configured such that magnetic fields generated by the electromagnets aid one another to form a combined magnetic field;
- a battery;
- a capacitor;
- an electronics assembly including a microcontroller configured to control storage of energy from the battery in the capacitor and to selectively provide a deactivation or activation pulse from the capacitor to the electromagnets;
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- a housing having (1) a mechanical coupling mechanism configured to mechanically attach the deactivator device to an exterior surface of the mPOS device and (2) a multi-dimensional form factor which is approximately equal to or smaller than a multi-dimensional form factor of the mPOS device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.