Abstract:
This invention is an algorithm and method and apparatus for communication in emergency situations and for persons who are disabled. The invention features unique telephone actuation means including overt and covert means both by wired devices and wireless transmission to detect unwanted intruders or the like and to communicate the need for assistance or the existence of emergency or dangerous conditions. Communication activation methods and apparatus usable by disabled or endangered persons and/or unknowingly operable by reason of unauthorized intrusion and the like is provided. Unique motion activated notification devices utilizing disc magnets in tracks associated with magnetic switches are also disclosed.

Description:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS 
   This application is related to my application Ser. No. 09/898,112, filed Jul. 2, 2001, now abandoned. 
   BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   I. Field of the Invention 
   This invention is titled “Emergency and Disabled Persons Communication Business Model Algorithm and Method and Apparatus”. This title was selected as this invention is an Algorithm involving a step by step method as explained and defined by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in State Street Bank &amp; Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. in which the Court stated “—every step-by-step process, be it electronic or chemical or mechanical involves an algorithm in the broad sense of the term—”. It is also a method and a means or apparatus. 
   This invention is in the general fields of alarms and communications monitoring and activation systems and equipment;
         The invention is more particularly in the fields of silent alarms, emergency and invalid monitoring, and silent activation of telephones and the like;   The invention is even more particularly directed to the field of activation of alarms or monitoring or communication devices which are activated overtly, or covertly, by merely disturbing or imparting motion to an article or communication circuitry.       

   II. Description of the Prior Art 
   There are many emergency alarm and monitoring systems and communication devices, too numerous to detail here. All heretofore available emergency alarm and monitoring systems require installation of elaborate telephone or other equipment. 
   Additionally, all heretofore known or available alarm or monitoring systems required a reasonable degree of mental/physical coordination for the pressing of buttons, or the like. 
   The present invention requires only a minute ability to contact, or move, an object in order to sound an alarm or monitor a location, give the location, enable one at a distance from the location to know the location, and obtain knowledge of activities at the location sending the alarm or being monitored. The manner in which the present invention works is that a telephone or the like is activated by means of an impact or motion-sensing switch or the like. 
   The prior art known to me is contained in the following U.S. Pat. Nos.: 4,237,344; 4,453,043; 4,137,429; 5,465,296; 5,475,750; 5,475,751; 5,742,666; 5,896,565; 6,100,811; and Re. 34,677. Importantly, the prior art includes my U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,259,787 B1 AND 6,263,069 B1. This statement of the prior art is not intended as an information disclosure document, but merely a series of references from which one interested in this field may get a general understanding of the art. 
   While the prior art shows various methods of activating telephones and the like, the present invention is novel, unique and useful in a variety of applications. Particularly, but not necessarily exclusively, the following are novel, unique and useful elements:
         1. The use of switching devices such as the mercury-free switches as produced by Select Controls of Oceanside, N.Y., magnetic reed switches such as are available from Aleph International of San Fernando, Calif., and the novel, unique and useful new disturbance activated switches which I have conceived and developed in connection with the other features of this overall algorithm, method and apparatus;   2. The use of multiple motion activator elements to activate a single, or multiple, emergency telephone(s);   3. A latching relay circuit which prevents deactivation of an activated circuit for a predetermined time;   4. The ability to activate a telephone by a variety of contact means;   5. The ability to activate and use emergency telephones and the like when engaged in another activity without any distraction from the other activity;   6. The revolutionary novel, useful, and unique wireless signaling and emergency messaging system completely disclosed below; and   7. The use of a customary household telephone for general telephone communication purposes with the added feature of an emergency line which automatically dials to an emergency response center upon disturbance of a remote household item or other device and with a multiplicity of such items, all of which may be either overtly or covertly activated resulting in an algorithm for complete surveillance.       

   BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   There are many uses for hands free telephones and other signaling and messaging systems for monitoring, emergency, informational, and other uses. There are many so-called “hands free” emergency telephones. Some examples of such uses are elevator, parking lot, emergency tower, hotel locator, and the like telephones. In general such telephones are not truly “hands free” in that it is generally necessary to push a button, lift a receiver, or take some other such precise action to activate such telephones. 
   Heretofore systems for satisfying these needs all require expensive installation of equipment and they all require that a person activating the device must have some reasonable muscular ability and coordination, and must devote some direct attention to the system. 
   Frequently the ability to be unnoticed and/or imprecise in sending an alarm is important. For example, in banks, convenience stores, service stations, homes, and the like, the triggering of an alarm may well be easily detected by an alert intruder, thus causing a person who could otherwise activate an alarm to fail to activate an alarm. 
   I have found that even the most severely handicapped quadriplegic can generally move his/her head slightly, or make other simple movements such as involuntary or reactive movement such as striking out with a hand, arm, leg, or the like. Also, blind or injured persons who may have difficulty finding a precise button to push, or the like, may have no problem locating a large bar, a common household item such as a floor lamp, ornament, toy, or the like and causing it to be jarred or disturbed in order to activate an emergency telephone or the like. 
   I have studied this situation and all of the previously available equipment and systems. Nothing, even including my afore mentioned patents, has heretofore been completely capable of satisfying many requirements for emergency communication and the like. 
   I have now conceived and developed what I believe to be proper solutions to the situations outlined above. 
   I have accomplished this by activating emergency or other telephones or the like by means of impact or motion sensing device such as resiliently mounted rails, beams, toys, decorative ornaments, modules, or the like incorporating means to transmit an activation impulse to an emergency telephone or the like by hard wired means, and more importantly, by my newly conceived and developed wireless systems. The users of my algorithms, methods and apparatuses need merely to jar or come in contact with an easily contacted object such as a hanging bar, a module, a toy, a door or window, a floor lamp or the like. Such contact then commences an automatic series of steps and activities resulting in proper communication to a receiving telephone or other communication device without the necessity of cooperation of a person who may be incapacitated or incapable of full cooperation. A person at a receiving telephone or the like may then receive the communication and take appropriate action. 
   These same principles and items can be used for such situations as hospital bathroom alarms, nurse call systems, monitoring services, and the like. 
   It is common to have a means to summon help to a hospital bathroom by a string or the like hanging from a nurse call activation device, a local telephone or the like. Such means are generally unreliable, subject to frequent breakage or failure, or difficult to manipulate by disabled persons. 
   The receiving telephone or the like may have caller identification capability so that the phone number and/or location of the activated phone can be immediately identified. 
   The transmitting phone or device or the like may be programed in a manner known to those skilled in the art so that it will remain activated until it is reset (turned off) by disconnecting the receiving phone or by other means. Thus, it will be possible that any noise in the location of the activated phone may be heard through the receiving telephone even though an injured or disabled person or the like may be unable to speak. 
   Telephone monitoring systems for disabled or infirm persons are common. Such systems are generally expensive and require special installation and use of monitoring services or the like. As a part of my present algorithm, method and apparatus I have conceived and developed a superior monitoring system which may, also, be a burglar alarm system and may be a security system for the safety of persons at risk of intruder attack and the like. In this system I have combined the principles of my new motion activated switching devices with multiple alarm transmission capabilities including a very economical use of inexpensive telephones or the like for transmission of requests for assistance, warnings, messages, and the like. The system includes multiple inexpensive and non conspicuous motion sensors to insure that unwanted intruders and the like are unaware of the activation of the systems. 
   Throughout this patent application I may have used, and/or may use, the terms “cordless telephone”, “cordless phone”, “telephone”, “phone”, “cordless phone handset”, and the like. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that “cellular telephones”, “pagers”, “radios” and other communication devices, the practical equivalent of, or substitute for, the specific devices described and illustrated, are intended to be included. 
   It is an object of this invention to provide a business model algorithm for emergencies and disabled persons which includes steps of: associating unseen unique motion detecting switching/transmitting equipment suitable to transmit a normally undetectable activation signal with at least one common article; associating at least one emergency telephone with receiving/switching equipment suitable to receive a transmission of an activation signal suitable to activate the emergency telephone into communication with at least one other telephone; causing motion to be imparted to the common article; causing the motion to activate the switching/transmitting equipment and transmit a telephone activation signal; causing the receiving/switching equipment to receive the activation signal and activate the emergency telephone; causing the activated telephone to transmit a communication to a preselected receiving telephone; causing the communication to be received by the pre-selected receiving telephone; causing the communication to be acted upon; and resetting the emergency telephone to enable it to be able to receive a new activation signal. 
   It is another object of this invention to provide a method for incapacitated, injured, ill, handicapped, and the like persons to give notice that they require attention;
         It is another object of this invention to provide an emergency notification system which will not be recognized as existing or being activated by persons in the area where and when activated;   Another object of this invention is to provide a monitoring system by which persons can give notice of an emergency or other requirement without the necessity of speaking;   Another object of this invention is to provide an impact or other motion sensing operated communication activation method and apparatus;   Another object of this invention is to provide a method and means of communication by telephone or the like between severely handicapped persons and/or other persons;   Another object of this invention is to provide a method and means for enhanced safety in the use of cellular telephones and the like;   Another object of this invention is to provide method and means for communication by individuals under conditions preventing or limiting ability to visually locate emergency communication devices or the like;   Another object of this invention is to provide unique new, novel, and useful motion or contact detecting switching devices and the like;   Another object of this invention is to provide an inexpensive and superior monitoring and communication system.       

   The foregoing and other objects and advantages of this invention will become clear to those skilled in the art upon reading the description of a preferred embodiment, which follows, in conjunction with a review of the appended drawings. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS 
       FIG. 1  is a schematic perspective of a disabled person in a wheel chair practicing a method of this invention in activating an emergency telephone; 
       FIG. 2  is a schematic perspective of a child kicking a toy in a method of this invention to activate an alarm in a remote location; 
       FIG. 3  is a schematic perspective of a person who has fallen in a bathroom using an apparatus of this invention to practice a method of this invention to communicate a need for help; 
       FIG. 4  is a schematic perspective of an automobile driver using an apparatus of this invention in practicing a method of this invention; 
       FIG. 5  is a schematic perspective of a person practicing a method of this invention in conditions of fire or the like preventing full vision or access to emergency communication device; 
       FIG. 6  is a schematic diagram of a home having multiple apparatuses of this invention suitable to practice methods of this invention; 
       FIG. 7  is a schematic diagram of circuitry and elements of an apparatus of this invention suitable for practicing methods of this invention; 
       FIG. 8  is a schematic diagram of circuitry and elements of an alternate apparatus of this invention suitable for practicing methods of this invention; 
       FIG. 9  is a schematic perspective of a motion or contact detecting electrical switch suitable to practice methods of this invention; 
       FIG. 9A  is a schematic side elevation of the device of  FIG. 9  and with a top enclosure and items in phantom; 
       FIG. 10  is a schematic top elevation of an alternate motion or contact detecting electrical switch suitable to practice methods of this invention; 
       FIG. 11  is schematic front elevation of the device of  FIG. 10 ; 
       FIG. 12  is a schematic diagram of elements and operation of an embodiment of this invention; 
       FIG. 12A  is an enlarged schematic diagram of relay  128  encircled and labeled “A” on  FIG. 12 ; and 
       FIG. 13  is a schematic diagram of elements and circuitry of a telephone activation and monitoring method of this invention. 
   

   DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
   Inventory of Items Identified by Numeral: 
   Numeral Item 
   
       
         10  emergency phone tower 
         11  emergency telephone 
         12  phone activation button 
         13  strobe light 
         14  base surface 
         15  emergency phone tower activator bar 
         15   a  transmitter/switch 
         16  resilient mounting 
         17  invalid 
         18  wheelchair 
         19  wheelchair foot rest 
         20  wall surface 
         21  toy snake head 
         22  snake 
         23  snake mounting to wall 
         24  child 
         25  foot kicking snake head 
         26  base surface 
         27  switch/transmitter 
         30  bathroom area 
         31  bathtub 
         32  bathroom activator bar 
         33  motion detector switch/transmitter 
         34  person 
         35  elbow striking activator bar 
         36  mounting of activator bar to wall 
         37  nurse call device 
         40  automobile 
         41  automobile seat back 
         42  automobile seat 
         43  cell phone equipped with activator switch 
         44  automobile driver 
         45  driver&#39;s left hand on steering wheel 
         46  driver&#39;s right hand hitting seat 
         47  steering wheel 
         48  activation switch 
         50  portion of building 
         51  wall 
         52  wall 
         53  floor 
         54  fire 
         54   a  smoke 
         55  emergency phone 
         56  emergency phone activation button 
         56   a  receiver/switch 
         57  phone activator bar 
         57   a  transmitter/switch 
         58  phone activator mounting to wall 
         59  employee 
         59   a  employee hand hitting activator 
         60  house layout generally 
         61  living room 
         61   a  front door 
         61   b  window 
         61   c  table 
         61   d  telephone 
         61   e  floor lamp 
         62  bedroom 
         62   a  door 
         62   b  window 
         62   c  door 
         63  bedroom 
         63   a  door 
         63   b  window 
         63   c  door 
         63   d  toy 
         64  kitchen 
         64   a  door 
         64   b  door 
         64   c  picture in frame 
         65  bathroom 
         65   a  activator bar 
         66  utility room 
         66   a  door 
         70  emergency phone 
         71  phone activator button 
         72  wire 
         73  wire 
         74  activator bar 
         75  resilient mounting 
         76  bracket 
         77  motion activated switch 
         78  wire connected to first phone button contact 
         79  wire connected to second phone button contact 
         80  emergency phone 
         81  phone activator button 
         81   a  push button contact 
         81   b  push button contact 
         82  lamp 
         83  wireless transmitter/switch 
         84  transmitted signal 
         85  wireless receiver/switch 
         86  wire 
         87  wire 
         88  receiver/switch contact 
         89  receiver/switch contact 
         90  disc magnet 
         91  side 
         92  side 
         93  end 
         94  end 
         95  bottom 
         95   a  top 
         96  magnetic reed switch 
         97  wires 
         98  hollow track 
         99  horizontal base line 
         99   a  angular relation of track to horizontal 
         100  multi-directional switch generally 
         101  hollow track 
         102  hollow track 
         103  hollow track 
         104  magnetic reed switch 
         105  magnetic disc 
         106  magnetic disc 
         107  magnetic disc 
         120  motion activated switch 
         121  wires 
         122  wireless transmitter 
         123  battery 
         124  transmitter activation switch 
         125  wireless signal 
         126  wireless receiver 
         127  wire 
         127   a  wire 
         128  relay 
         128   a  coil 
         128   b  switch 
         129  battery 
         130  telephone 
         131  push button phone activator switch 
         131   a  push button phone switch contact 
         131   b  push button phone switch contact 
         140  telephone 
         141  handset cradle contact 
         142  handset cradle contact 
         143  handset cradle switch 
         144  phone line 
         145  hot-line dialer 
         146  modular cord to telephone network 
         150  latching relay 
         151  latch switch 
         151   a  contact 
         151   b  switch 
         151   c  contact 
         152  battery 
         152   a  terminal 
         153  battery connection to coil contacts 
         153   a  wire 
         153   b  wire 
         154  reset coil 
         154   a  reset coil terminal 
         154   b  reset coil terminal 
         155  latch coil 
         155   a  latch coil terminal 
         155   b  latch coil terminal 
         156  reset switch 
         157  latch activation receiver/switch 
         158  motion activated transmitter/switch 
         159  signal 
     
  
     FIG. 1  illustrates a common type emergency phone tower  10  upon a base surface  14 . An emergency phone  11  known to those skilled in the art is mounted in connection with the tower. Frequently such a phone tower will have a strobe light  13  which normally activates when the phone is activated. A push button switch  12  is used to activate emergency phones. Many invalids are unable to reach up to push a button. In this case, an invalid  17  in a wheelchair  18  has approached the tower. An activator bar  15 , which may be a hollow tubular member, a solid member, or an article of almost any shape carries within it a motion activated switch  15   a . The activator bar is preferably resiliently mounted to the tower at  16 . In this case, the invalid is able to activate the phone without pushing the button by contacting the activator bar with his wheelchair foot rest  19 . This disturbs the switch which closes for a short period of time and activates the phone. The activation may be by hard wire through the activator bar and into the phone and connected in parallel with the push button switch contacts in a manner as illustrated and described in connection with  FIG. 7  below, or it may preferably be by my new, unique, novel and useful wireless circuitry described in connection with  FIG. 8 , below, and otherwise described and illustrated in this patent application. 
     FIG. 2  illustrates a situation which can be very important for safety of children and others. A child  24  is shown standing on a surface  26  which could be a floor in a child&#39;s room. The child is using his/her foot  25  to kick the enlarged head  21  of a toy snake  22  suspended adjacent a wall  20  by a bracket or the like  23 . The snake head carries a switch/transmitter such as the one shown and described in  FIG. 12  below. There have been many child abductions in recent times. Most young children are incapable of resisting abduction or fighting against an adult abductor. However, a child will understand that if he/she is in trouble, in his/her room, help will come if he/she kicks a toy snake or other object. The transmitter sends a signal activating an emergency phone, alarm, or the like as described and shown ( FIG. 12  for example) in this patent application. 
     FIG. 3  illustrates a portion of a bathroom  30 . This could be any bathroom, but it is particularly important for hospitals and the like. In hospitals it is quite common for bathrooms to have a cord or the like hanging down someplace so that when a patient falls the patient can pull the cord to summon a nurse for help. A cord frequently breaks and becomes useless. Also, many patients are unable to grasp a cord. This is particularly true of patients who have suffered severe strokes and the like. In the illustration here the patient or person  34  has fallen and is unable to stand after getting out of the tub  31 . A bathroom activator bar  32  is resiliently mounted  36  to wall  30   a  and carries motion detector transmitter/switch  33 . The patient, while perhaps unable to use his/her hands, will probably be able to strike the activator with his/her arm or elbow  35  thus causing transmission of a signal to activate a nurse call device  37  located outside the bathroom. 
   It is important to note that many patients in hospitals or otherwise are unable properly to activate nurse call push buttons or the like. However, such patients are usually able to strike out with an arm or leg and hit an activator device carrying a motion detecting switch/transmitter (either wireless or hard wired), thus obtaining assistance when needed. This makes the present invention valuable for normal nurse call and other communication purposes in hospitals and the like. 
     FIG. 4  shows an important use of this invention in connection with cellular telephones in automobiles and the like. At present there is much attention given to the dangers of cellular telephone users while driving automobiles. There are hands-free devices available. However, the activation of cellular phones, even with hands-free accessories, is still somewhat distracting. In my present invention, a cellular phone can be activated with no distraction, since an ordinary cellular phone equipped with motion sensing means can be activated (placed in off-hook mode) with no distraction (as one example—by merely pressing down on a passenger seat on which the phone may be resting, cellular phone can be activated). This can be done with no diversion from full attention to driving and no diversion of the eyes of the driver from the road and vehicles in the vicinity. In  FIG. 3  a driver  44  of automobile  40  is seated on automobile seat  42  which has a customary back  41 . A cellular phone  43 , equipped with activation switch  48  is resting on the seat  42 . If the phone rings, the driver, without removing hand  45  from the steering wheel  47  and without even diverting his eyes from the road can press on, or hit, the seat with the driver&#39;s left hand  46  which will give enough motion to activate the phone so that the driver can receive the call with no diversion of attention from driving. 
     FIG. 5  illustrates a portion of a building  50 . An emergency phone  55  or the like with activation button  56  and receiver/switch  56   a  is located on wall  51 . A fire  54  is burning on the floor  53  and wall  51 . The entire building is filled with smoke  54   a . An employee  59  in the building is unable to stand and walk due to the smoke but is able to crawl along the floor  53  where there is normally a small layer of relatively clear air. An activator bar or the like  57  carrying transmitter/switch  57   a  is resiliently mounted at  58  by a hinge or the like to wall  52 . The employee can crawl on the floor along the wall  52  until he/she comes in contact with the activator bar. The contact with the activator bar will cause transmission of a signal (as is explained in connection with  FIG. 12 ) to receiver/switch  56   a  thus activating the phone. The employee can then shout information concerning the situation to someone at a phone receiving the transmission from the phone  55 . 
     FIG. 6  shows a house layout  60  generally. A main living room  61  has door  61   a , window  61   b , table  61   c , telephone  61   d  and a floor lamp  61   e . Bedroom  62  has doors  62   a  and  62   c , and window  62   b . Bedroom  63  has doors  63   a  and  63   c , window  63   b , and a floor lamp  63   d . Bathroom  65  has an emergency activator  65   a  which is similar in purpose to the activator bar of  FIG. 3 . Kitchen  64  has doors  64   a  and  64   b  and a picture in a large frame  64   c . Utility room  66  has a door  66   a  leading to the kitchen. Security of a house or other building to prevent entry by unwanted intruders is normally expensive and difficult. Utilizing the activator transmitter/switch and receiver/switch systems of this invention very economical and comprehensive building security can be achieved. The floor lamp  61   a , activator  65   a , toy  63   d , and picture frame  64   c  can each carry a concealed motion switch/transmitter as described in  FIG. 12 . The telephone  61   d  will be equipped for activation by a receiver/switch. If an intruder, even an armed and deranged one, bursts into the room  61 , a home occupant need only apparently innocently bump into the lamp  61   e , the picture frame  64   c , the toy  63   d , or the activator  65   a  and the phone will alert someone at a receiving phone. In this manner, a home or other building can be provided with unobtrusive articles which will silently activate an emergency or other telephone or other communication device. Additionally, where desired the same arrangements may sound an audible alarm or activate flood lights or the like, as will be understood by those skilled in the art. Windows can be fitted with transmitter/switches to accomplish the desired ends. 
     FIG. 7  illustrates an emergency phone activator system which is a hard wire system. Emergency phone  70  has activator push button  71  which has two contacts  78  and  79 . When the push button is pushed, the contacts  78  and  79  are connected momentarily which activates the phone and calls a pre-programmed receiving telephone as will be understood by those skilled in the art. The phone may be programmed so that the connection to another phone will remain active until the receiving phone disconnects. Thus, if there is an emergency requiring the line to be kept open an extended time this will be accomplished and the communication will not be terminated until it is desired to do so by disconnecting the receiving phone. The contacts  78  and  79  are connected by wires  72  and  73  to motion activated switch  77  carried by activator bar  74  which may be a tubular member or the like which is resiliently mounted at  75  to a bracket or the like  76  which can be mounted to a building structure, and article of furniture, or the like. The motion activated switch may be an impact switch of the mercury free type available from Select Controls of Oceanside, N.Y. or the impact switches of Aleph International or San Fernando, Calif. Preferably, however, the motion activated switch will be of the type of my new invention as shown and described in connection with  FIGS. 9 ,  10  and  11  below. 
     FIG. 8  illustrates the features of the wireless version of this invention. An emergency phone or the like  80  has a customary push button activator  81 . A wireless receiver/switch  85  is mounted within (or without) the emergency phone housing. Two wires  86  and  87  connect from the wireless receiver/switch contacts  88  and  89  to the two push button contacts  81   a  and  81   b . An object, in this case a lamp  82 , carries a motion activated transmitter/switch  83 . The signal  84  from the transmitter/switch is received by receiver/switch  85  and closes the contact between receiver/switch contacts  88  and  89 . This has the same effect as would pushing the push button and thus activates the phone by shorting across  81   a  and  81   b.    
   In experimenting with the wireless version of this invention I found that I can modify existing and previously known radio frequency devices to accomplish new, novel, useful, unusual, and unexpected results for my purposes. I have discovered that I can modify the existing “Trine” wireless door chime model SL-6140-A available from Desa International of Bowling Green, Ky. and on retail sale at Wal-Mart stores to be satisfactory transmitters and receivers for the purposes set forth in this patent application. I modify the transmitter by removing the push button and connecting the two push button contacts to the two wire contacts of my new motion detecting switches which are shown and described in  FIGS. 9 ,  9 A,  10  and  11  below. When the switch is activated the transmitter sends its signal to the receiver. The receiver of the same Trine door chime unit is modified by disconnecting the two output leads from the speaker and connecting these leads to the coil of a magnetic reed relay (known to those skilled in the art). A specific example of such a relay which is suitable is Radio Shack catalog number 275-232 5 volt DC reed relay. The two relay output contacts are then connected to the two push button contacts on an emergency phone or the like. In operation, the transmitter is activated by the motion switch as explained below. The transmitted signal is received by the receiver/switch. The receiver output instead of going to activate the speaker and sound a chime is now diverted to the coil of a reed relay and thus closes the relay which activates the telephone (or other device). I did find one interesting problem. In all of the commercially available impact switches I have experimented with, the results have been satisfactory in general when using a hard wire version of the invention. However, the adjustability of the amount or degree of motion or impact for proper activation has been wanting. In fact, most impact type switches I have found are not adjustable at all. Additionally, I found that the commercially available impact switches would generally fail to provide sufficient time of electrical contact for proper activation of the wireless transmitters. The wireless units I have found and worked with generally require more than an instantaneous contact to duplicate the relatively lengthy contact provided by a push button switch. After considerable thought and experimentation I conceived and developed a motion detection switch which is infinitely adjustable as to force and/or degree of motion or contact required for activation. My important developments, discoveries, teachings, and inventions related to motion detecting, impact, and like switches are revealed in the teachings and disclosures throughout this patent application as well as particularly in the discussion of  FIGS. 9 through 12A  below. 
     FIG. 9  shows the first and most fundamental principle of my new, novel, unique, and useful motion detecting switch.  FIGS. 10 and 11  reveal a more complex and infinitely alterable version of my new motion detecting switch.  FIGS. 12 and 12A  show the sequencing of the actions in the wireless activation of telephone and the like from a motion detecting switch. 
     FIGS. 9 and 9A  show a hollow track  98  formed by two sides  91  and  92 , two ends  93  and  94 , a bottom  95 , and a top  95   a  (the top is removed in  FIG. 9 ). The hollow track is formed of non-magnetic material. A magnetic reed switch  96  (known to those skilled in the art) is adjacent track end  94 . The reed switch may be either in the track as shown or it may be exterior the track. A round disc magnet  90  is within the track. The track will be mounted in association with an object in such a manner as to be normally at an angular relationship  99   a  to the horizontal  99  as indicated in  FIG. 9A . As shown in  FIG. 9A , the disc magnet will be held by force of gravity as shown. If the track, or an object with which it associated is disturbed by an impact against track end  93  or by track end  94  rising, the disc magnet will roll toward track end  93 . The disc will come to a position where its magnetic field activates the reed relay. The wires  97  which will have the effect of closing the contacts of a transmitter or phone push button or the like. The rolling of the disc magnet into and out of the zone in which the reed relay is activated takes enough time to simulate the pressing of a push button and thus provides the necessary time properly to activate. Also, the amount of tilt for the at rest position can be infinitely adjustable to accommodate for any force or amount of movement to be required for activation. 
     FIGS. 10 and 11  show a multi-directional motion detecting switch  100 . There are three hollow tracks  101 ,  102 , and  103  (each is similar to the track of  FIGS. 9 and 9A ). The three tracks are joined by means known to those skilled in the art in such manner that each track is at approximately 120 degree horizontal angular relation to each of the other tracks and the three are each at an angular relationship to the vertical with their joined ends elevated above their non-joined ends. Each track contains a disc magnet  105 ,  106 , and  107 . A magnetic reed switch  104  is adjacent the joined ends of the tracks. Thus, if the switch is subjected to pressure or angular disturbance sufficient to move at least one of the disc magnets into the activation field of the reed switch, the switch will be closed. As with the switch of  FIGS. 9 and 9A , the amount of force and/or movement required to move the disc magnets can be virtually infinitely adjustable by varying the angular relationship  109  of the tracks to the horizontal  108  (the angular relationship  109  as only been shown for track  103 , but it will be understood this will apply to all tracks). 
   I have found that the switches utilizing disc magnets have many important uses other than those described here. For example, a magnetic disc switch as described here can be utilized to detect infinitesimal changes in the attitude of a building or the like. A minute change of the horizontal or vertical alignment of a building or the like can be detected and appropriate signals by wireless devices can alert persons to possible dangerous changes in the earth, or a foundation, or a piece of machinery, or the like can be detected and recorded by my new disc magnet motion detecting switch. 
     FIGS. 12 and 12A  illustrate the elements and the sequencing of the operation of a system of this invention. A motion activated switch  120  is connected by wires  121  or the like to wireless transmitter  122 . The transmitter is powered by battery  123 . When the switch  120  is activated by motion or the like it causes wireless transmitter/switch  124  to transmit signal  125  which is received by receiver  126  which is powered by battery  129 . The receiver causes electrical current to flow, as previously explained, through the output leads and into the coil  128   a  of relay  128 . This causes the relay switch  128   b  to close. Wires  127  and  127   a  are connected to telephone  130  push button  131  contacts  131   a  and  131   b . This action is the same as though the telephone push button  131  had been pushed, and the telephone  130  is activated. It is to be understood that other devices such as alarms, lights, and the like can be activated in the same manner. 
     FIG. 13  is a schematic diagram showing the elements and circuitry of a common telephone and its activation by motion sensing and the like. A telephone of virtually any type  140  (an example of an inexpensive telephone which can be modified as shown and described here is Lennox Sound model MAC PH-301 available from Lenoxx Electronics of Carteret, N.J.) having a handset cradle switch  143  with handset cradle activating contacts  141  and  142  which become connected and the phone activated when the handset is lifted from the cradle. The telephone is connected by modular cord  144  to an automatic dialer  145  (for example Viking Electronics programmable tone dialer model K-1900-5 available from Viking Electronics of Hudson, Wis.). The dialer is connected to telephone network by modular cord  146 . A latching relay  150  or the like (known to those skilled in the art) is utilized to activate switch  143  to close a contact between the cradle switch contacts  141  and  142 . The switch element  151  of the latching relay is activated as described below so that contact element  151   b  closes between contacts  151   a  and  151   c  which makes a contact between cradle contacts  141  and  142  through wires  141   a  and  142   a . The latching relay is powered by battery  152  which is connected at terminal  152   a  by wiring  153  to terminals  154   a  and  155   a  of reset coil  154  and latching coil  155  respectively. Battery terminal  152   b  is connected to receiver/switch  157  (normally open but will close on receiving signal  159  from motion activated transmitter/switch  158 ) by wires  153   a  and  153   b ). Motion activated transmitter/switch  158  and receiver/switch  157  will be similar to the transmitter/switch and receiver/switch arrangement shown and described in connection with  FIG. 12 , as will be understood by those skilled in the art. 
   The monitoring/alarm/emergency/phone activation system described and illustrated in connection with  FIG. 13  could also be modified to utilize a common telephone which has the capability of being programmed (known to those skilled in the art) in such manner that one, or a series of, number(s) will be called when the telephone is activated by the receiving/switch circuit. In all cases, the telephone can be manually operated in a customary manner as will be understood by those skilled in the art. 
   Some of the terms used in this patent application are defined as follows: “motion detection”, “motion detecting” or the like means a device such as an electrical switch or the like which is activated by sensing motion to itself or an article with which it is associated; “transmitter/switch” or “switch/transmitter” and the like means a device which will transmit a signal or message or communication to another device or location or to a person or the like; “receiver/switch” or “switch/receiver” or the like means a device which will receive a signal or message or communication from another device, location, or person; “common article” means any type of generally recognizable nature such as furniture, toys, windows, doors, lamps, utensils, and the like; “common telephone” means any type household telephone or the like. 
   By this reference I incorporate the claims and abstract which follow within this detailed description of the invention the same as though they were fully set forth here. 
   In the event I shall fail to claim a patentable feature of this invention, such failure to claim shall be due to inadvertence and not due to any intention to dedicate or abandon such feature. In such event, upon discovering the same I shall take any appropriate action to rectify the same. 
   While the embodiments of this invention shown and described are fully capable of achieve the objects and advantages desired it is to be understood that such embodiments are for purposes of illustration only and not for purposes of limitation.