Patent ID: 8653974
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. An alarm or monitoring system interface for firearms, the alarm or monitoring system interface including: (a) a base which provides a support surface on which a firearm to be monitored rests when the firearm is in a monitored position, the support surface defining a lifting direction in which the firearm in the monitored position must be lifted to lift the firearm from the monitored position; (b) an elongated sensor strap having a secured end and an elongated unsecured end opposite to the secured end, the elongated unsecured end of the sensor strap comprising a first sensor half and the secured end of the sensor strap being secured to the base; (c) a second sensor half mounted on the base and spaced apart from the secured end of the sensor strap to removeably receive the first sensor half in a received position to form a sensor link with the first sensor half, the elongated unsecured end of the sensor strap which comprises the first sensor half extending in the lifting direction when the sensor link is formed between the first sensor half and the second sensor half; (d) a deployment sensor switch adapted to reside in an armed state when the first sensor half and second sensor half form the sensor link, and to move to an alarm state when the first sensor half is moved with respect to the second sensor half so as to break the sensor link, the deployment sensor switch including an alarm/monitoring system connection for providing an input for an alarm/monitoring system; and (e) wherein the elongated sensor strap has a length sufficient to form a closed loop around a portion of the firearm resting on the support surface of the base in the monitored position with the first sensor half in the received position to form the sensor link with the second sensor half, so that a triggering movement of the firearm in the lifting direction from the monitored position resting on the support surface of the base produces contact between a portion of the firearm and the sensor strap and causes the first sensor half to move from the received position beyond an operational tolerance with respect to the second sensor half so as to break the sensor link between the first sensor half and second sensor half.