GB2459464A

GB2459464A - Mobile Phone with smoke alarm

Info

Publication number: GB2459464A
Application number: GB0807362A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Gary Philip Doyle; Paul Phillip Taylor
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2008-04-23
Filing date: 2008-04-23
Publication date: 2009-10-28
Also published as: GB0807362D0

Abstract

A cellular telephone is connected to a smoke detector means (1, fig 1) which is either integrated within the telephone handset or contained in a separate housing 2 that has a plug 3 that may be connected directly to a socket 4 on the handset (fig 2). The separate detector housing 2 may also be indirectly connected via a charging lead so that a plug 7 of the lead is connected to the handset socket 4 and a secondary socket 6 of the lead accepts the plug 3 of the detector 2. The audible tones of the telephone handset may be used to alert a user of detected smoke, and the handset controls may arm or disarm the alarm and may allow testing of the smoke detector connection.

Description

I Title

Mobile Phone Smoke Detector

Background

Health and Safety is paramount in the progressive civilised world in an age whereby, stringent legality protects and guards by introducing and enforcing protective measures against unforeseeable events.

It is unequivocal that protective devices or systems fail from time to time either from technical malfunction or failure caused by human error. Subsequently, the recognition and awareness of personal safety is realised and ever prevalent in the mind of an individual as an extra precaution. An individual can be as vigilant and tread with trepidation all day long but as night draws ever closer, that individual needs to sleep.

One worry of an individual is the oerilous danger of fire. Fire destroys indiscriminately and its smoky by-product suffocates before the destructive flames devour and envelop unsuspecting individuals as they sleep sound in their beds. Smoke alarms are the most effective safety devices, which are early warning devices that alert individuals of a potential fire.

What happens if a smoke alarm fails or batteries are not replaced for new ones but neglected after being reminded by such a device? What happens if owners of establishments such as hotels, do not uphold the duty of care that they are obligated to offer to paying customers by continually using badly maintained smoke alarms? How would you know? Would you bother to check? Why would you bother to check? Individuals on the whole tend to trust establishments that offer all safety aspects and offer a duty of care regarding fire safety. Some establishments across the globe do not provide such safety. Individuals need reassurance wherever they are in the world so that they can be alerted of a fire and wake from their sleep. Individuals who are extra vigilant take extra precautions and make provision for their own safety, as they believe that they are solely responsible for their own duty of care and always find ways to provide a higher degree of safety.

Individuals would need to carry that safety with them wherever they go. It would need to be mobile. "Mobile", being the key word, which leads to the idea of using an individual's mobile cell phone as the vehicle to carry the appropriate safety device, which would be a smoke detector built into or attached to a mobile phone.

Statement of invention

A smoke detector and its electronic circuitry would be built into or attached to a mobile phone.

From the mobile phone menu, the smoke detector would be switched on to be on standby and guard to alert an individual of a fire.

When the smoke detector, detects smoke it would switch on an audible tone on the mobile phone to alert an individual and make them aware of a fire.

A smoke detector that works on a mobile phone provides individuals protection wherever they go in the world, regardless of whether smoke alarms are fitted in establishments or not.

The mobile phone smoke detector relieves the worry of faulty smoke detectors or dead batteries that are not replaced for new ones.

A fully charged mobile phone assures an individual of the optimum electrical supply for their smoke detector.

There could be a test facility on the mobile phone to prove connectivity of the smoke detector to the audible and the battery supply or charging supply.

Advantages The mobile phone smoke detector would guard and be an early warning system against fire whilst an individual sleeps as an extra safety precaution or albeit the only safety precaution. The mobile phone smoke detector would be portable and convenieudy mobile by being built into or attached to a mobile phone.

Individuals will have that protection with them at all times, as mobile phones become an ever-prevalent tool that has become part of human life globally.

A constant electrical supply is provided when the mobile phone charges up from a mains supply.

Introduction to drawings

Drawings of the Mobile Phone Smoke Detector are shown on the following pages, which are on pages 5, 6 and 7.

Figure 1 on page 5: Shows a Smoke Detector 1, built into a mobile phone.

Figure 2 on page 6: Shows a Smoke Detector 2 that could be attached to a mobile phone by plugging 3 into socket 4 on the mobile phone.

Figure 3 on page 7: Shows a Smoke Detector 2 that can be attached to a mobile phone by plugging 3 into the socket 6 of the network communication cable, which is attached to the plug 7 that also connects the cable from the mobile phone charger 5. Plug 7 is plugged into socket 4 on the mobile phone, thus attaching the Smoke Detector to the mobile phone. The mobile phone chargerS can then be plugged into a mains supply to charge the phone.

Claims

CLAIMS1. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector is a smoke detector that is built into a mobile phone along with the electronic circuitry to alert an individual when it detects the smoke from a fire.
2. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector is a smoke detector along with the electronic circuitry as a separately contained unit that is attached to a mobile phone by plugging the unit directly into a socket on the mobile phone so to alert an individual when it detects the smoke from a fire.
3. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector is a smoke detector along with the electronic circuitry as a separately contained unit that is attached to a mobile phone by plugging the unit into a socket of a network lead connected to a plug at the other end, which also connects the lead from a mobile phone charger and is plugged into the mobile phone so to alert an individual when it detects the smoke from a fire.
4. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector as defmed in claims 1, 2 and 3 will utilise the audibie tones of the mobile phone to alert an individual when the smoke detector, detects the smoke from a fire.
5. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector as defined in claims i, 2 and 3 could be switched on from the mobile phone menu to be on standby and guard to alert an individual when it detects the smoke from a fire.
6. A Mobile Phone Smoke Detector as defmed in claims 1, 2 and 3 could have a test facility on the mobile phone to prove connectivity of the smoke detector to the audible and the battery supply or charging supply.