Patent · US Expired

Security system

US6087939A · kind A · utility

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21Claims
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Filing dateSep 22, 1998
Grant dateJul 11, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 22, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08B13/1463
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A security assembly for an article to be monitored has a housing to be mounted to an article to be monitored, a fastener that extends into the housing and that is capable of being secured to an article to be monitored to maintain the housing in an operative position on an article to be monitored, and a switch on the housing and having first and second states. The fastener is movable relative to the housing between first and second positions. The switch is in the first state with the fastener in the first position. The switch is changed from the first state into the second state as an incident of the fastener being moved from the first position into the second position.

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