US 7,567,175 B2
Monitoring apparatus for housing
Masahiro Takahashi, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/727,076.
Claims priority of application No. P2006-084351 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0222616 A1, Sep. 27, 2007
Int. Cl. G08B 13/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 340—545.6  [340/545.4; 340/546; 340/566; 340/693.9; 340/572.1; 340/572.4; 340/572.7] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring apparatus for a housing, comprising:
an opening/closing section provided to the housing;
a detection section provided to the housing, having a wireless IC chip in which alarm information is pre-stored, and an antenna driving the wireless IC chip with a driving electric power induced by receiving a predetermined radio wave and wirelessly transmitting the alarm information outputted from the wireless IC chip;
a reader provided independently outside the housing, and outputting the predetermined radio wave and receiving the alarm information transmitted from the detection section; and
a restriction section restricting a transmission of the alarm information when the opening/closing section is in a closed state.