Mobile machine hazardous working zone warning system

Patent · 01 January 1999

OSTI ID:872459

Schiffbauer, William H ^[1]; Ganoe, Carl W ^[2]

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1. Connellsville, PA
2. Pittsburgh, PA

A warning system is provided for a mobile working machine to alert an individual of a potentially dangerous condition in the event the individual strays into a hazardous working zone of the machine. The warning system includes a transmitter mounted on the machine and operable to generate a uniform magnetic field projecting beyond an outer periphery of the machine in defining a hazardous working zone around the machine during operation thereof. A receiver, carried by the individual and activated by the magnetic field, provides an alarm signal to alert the individual when he enters the hazardous working zone of the machine.

• Research Organization: Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 5939986
• OSTI ID: 872459
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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