Registers – Systems controlled by data bearing records – Credit or identification card systems
Patent
1986-07-22
1988-01-05
Trafton, David L.
Registers
Systems controlled by data bearing records
Credit or identification card systems
235449, 235493, 34082531, G06K 701
Patent
active
047178167
ABSTRACT:
An electronic key and lock system is provided which is particularly suited for use in hotels and motels to control access to the rooms of the establishment. The system includes a battery energized microcomputer controlled unit in each door which is capable of activating an electromechanical deadbolt mechanism when a magnetically encoded card bearing a selected code is inserted into a slot in that particular door, and which includes a non-contact proximity magnetic sensor for the cards. The microcomputer controlled unit has five levels of response, namely, guests, maid, master, grand master and emergency. In addition to responding to the selected code, the microcomputer is programmed also to respond to cards bearing a new code when a new guest inserts his card into the slot in the door, and of adjusting the unit to respond to the new code and not to the previous code. The microcomputer is capable not only of reading a magnetically encoded card inserted into the corresponding slot and of releasing the deadbolt mechanism of the door when the card bears the proper code, but it is also capable of recording the time and identity of all hotel personnel gaining access to the room, and of responding to a particular guest card only for a particular time period, corresponding to the duration of the guest's intended occupancy of the room.
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Millet James A.
Raymond James W.
Beecher Keith D.
Trafton David L.
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