BURGLAR DETERRENT TIMING SWITCH

A burglar deterrent switch for installation in a conventional manual switch box for controlling room lights. An electronic sound responsive timing switch illuminates the room lights for a selected period of time in response to the occurrence of a sound and then turns the lights off for another selec...

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Main Authors STETTNER J,US, OTT J,US
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 25.09.1973
Subjects
ALARM SYSTEMS
ORDER TELEGRAPHS
PHYSICS
SIGNALLING
SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS
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Summary:A burglar deterrent switch for installation in a conventional manual switch box for controlling room lights. An electronic sound responsive timing switch illuminates the room lights for a selected period of time in response to the occurrence of a sound and then turns the lights off for another selected period of time. The timing switch has a triac which is shunted across the manual light switch. The gate of the triac is controlled by an SCR connected in a bridge rectifier for controlling the triac gate current. The gate of the SCR is connected to the output of an amplifier and is switched on by sound incident upon a sound transducer connected to the input of the amplifier. A timing circuit means is also connected across the SCR and comprises a pair of voltage reference diodes connected parallel to a capacitance for fixing the voltage to which the capacitance may charge and having a resistance series connected to the parallel diodes and capacitance.
Bibliography:Application Number: USD3761912