Standardized Alarm Device with Interchangeable Extensions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing alarm systems lack versatility and efficiency in detecting electrical interruptions and changes across various applications, often requiring customized components for different types of devices, which increases complexity and costs.
Innovation Solution
A standardized alarm device with interchangeable extensions that can detect electrical changes using a protrusion and switch mechanism, allowing for adaptable protection across different devices and contexts, including USB plugs, adhesively attached items, and other electrical sources, with remote control deactivation options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If customized components are used for different types of alarm devices, then detection accuracy for specific applications is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal alarm device platform that can detect electrical interruptions across multiple applications (laptops, tablets, USB drives, adhesively attached items) through a single standardized design. The alarm device uses a common detection mechanism that works across different electrical sources and configurations, eliminating the need for application-specific customized components while maintaining detection accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The alarm device is segmented into modular components: a standardized alarm unit with detection circuitry and interchangeable extensions. Each extension can be configured for specific applications (USB plug extension, adhesively attached extension) while sharing the same core detection mechanism, allowing versatility without increasing overall system complexity.
2Reliability
If customized components are used for different applications, then application-specific performance is improved, but manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The alarm device employs a universal detection platform that maintains reliable performance across diverse applications through standardized electrical interruption detection. The same core alarm unit and detection circuitry serve multiple purposes (protecting laptops, tablets, USB drives, and adhesively attached items), significantly reducing per-unit manufacturing costs compared to producing separate customized alarm devices for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The alarm device adapts to different applications by changing operational parameters rather than hardware architecture. The detection sensitivity, electrical threshold settings, and extension configurations can be adjusted to match specific application requirements while using the same underlying detection technology, maintaining reliability across applications without increasing manufacturing complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple specialized alarm devices are produced for different devices, then detection coverage is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alarm device achieves comprehensive detection coverage across multiple devices and electrical sources through a single universal platform. The standardized detection mechanism can identify electrical interruptions whether caused by wire cutting, USB disconnection, or removal of adhesively attached items, providing broad protection without requiring multiple specialized alarm systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into a universal alarm core with interchangeable extensions tailored to specific devices. This modular approach allows the same detection engine to protect different devices by simply changing the extension component, reducing system complexity while maintaining comprehensive detection coverage across laptops, tablets, USB drives, and other protected items.
Data Source
AI summary
An electrical device, processes for using and making the device, and products produced thereby. There can be an alarm device and an extension which includes a protrusion. The extension can have wiring, and the alarm device can detect for a change in electricity running through the wiring, such as a change that would occur when the electricity is interrupted when the wiring is cut. The protrusion is located adjacent to the extension, distant from the alarm device, and can include a key, switch, connector, or the like. The protrusion, in some cases, can be releasably connectable to a housing that is in turn connected to the extension, so as to form a loop in which an item can be secured for protection, e.g., from theft.