Patent ID: 6522258
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: E05F,E05Y,G08B

Abstract:
A garage door status light system for providing an indoor light signal when a garage door is open comprising, in combination:a house having a plurality of rooms including a kitchen and a bedroom and a garage, each room having a ceiling and a plurality of walls, the garage having an enlarged garage door opening with a horizontal upper edge and a horizontal lower edge and with a pair of vertical side edges there between; a garage door having a horizontal upper edge and a horizontal lower edge and with a pair of vertical side edges there between, the garage door being movable between a raised open orientation remote from the garage door opening and a lowered closed orientation filling garage door opening; a garage door opener mounted to the ceiling of the garage with a driver coupled to the garage door for selectively moving the door between the open orientation and the closed orientation; an electrical outlet in the ceiling of the garage adjacent to the opener with the opener electrically powered through the outlet; a magnetic sensor having a fixed component and a movable component, the fixed component being coupled to the garage on a vertical edge of the opening adjacent to the top edge, the movable component being coupled to the garage door on a vertical edge adjacent to the top edge, the magnetic sensor constituting a normally open switch adapted to allow current to pass there through when the fixed and movable components are not adjacent to each other and not magnetically coupled as when the garage door is open, the magnetic sensor adapted to preclude current from passing there through when the fixed and movable components are adjacent to each other and magnetically coupled as when the garage door is closed; a pair of light emitting diodes at locations remote from the garage door, one light emitting diode being mounted in a wall of the kitchen adjacent to the ceiling and one light emitting diode being mounted in the ceiling of the bedroom adjacent to a wall; an electrical line constituting an electrical connection between the electrical outlet and the magnetic sensor and light emitting diodes, such line being 22-gauge electrical bell wire allowing for the activation of the system with a 6-volt current; and a power transformer operatively associated with the garage door opener and the electrical outlet to transform 110-volt power from the outlet to 6-volt power for powering the light emitting diodes as well as the entire system.