Sensormatic Electronics Corporation

Tyco Fire + Security Gmbh

Franklin H Valade, Jr

Dennis L Hogan

Thang Tat Nguyen

Pedro Lopez

Paul Griffiths, Legal Representative

Gilbert Fernandez

Dale W Raymond

Craig R Szklany

Jon D Buzzard

Charles T Turgeon

John R Chamberlain

Krystyna E Cwik

Wayne H Martin

Mark D Krom

John L Lynch

John R B Chamberlain

Mark Tryer

Firas H Faham

Qiuxia Hu

Bradley P Kane

A security tag is provided that includes a housing, an electronic sensor held within the housing, an accessory pin provided with the housing and a lock assembly held within the housing. The accessory is pin provided with the tag housing and may be moveable with respect to the housing between locked and unlocked positions. When the accessory pin is in the locked position, the tag housing is secured to the accessory. When the accessory pin is in the unlocked position, the tag housing is disengaged from the accessory. The lock assembly may include a magnetically influenced (MI) member which is movable from a biased position to a relaxed position in the absence of the selected magnetic field to lock the accessory pins.

Magnetically releasable security tag

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for a detacher for a security device are disclosed. The detacher () includes a magnet () that can be moved relative to a housing () by a motor (). Magnet and motor are mounted inside the housing.

Detacher for a security device

An EAS/expulsion detrimental substance tag () in which the tag is held to an article by an attaching assembly, a part of which may be releasably prevented from being withdrawn from the body of the tag. The tag body may be provided with one or more sensors, that are disposed in the body. The sensors are positioned adjacent the detrimental substance. The Benefit Denial (Ink portion) of this tag may feature an ink vial. When the tag and its ink vial are attacked, the tag will expel the detrimental substance out and onto the article being protected.

Electronic article surveillance tag having a detrimental substance expulsion system with breakable vial

Systems and apparatus for a security device for an article having a constrained elongate member are disclosed.

Security device for constraining an article having an elongate element

Systems and apparatuses for a security device for a bottle are disclosed.

Security device for a bottle

Systems and apparatuses for a magnetically actuable locking mechanism and a security device having a magnetically actuable locking mechanism are disclosed.

Optical disk security device having a magnetically actuable locking mechanism

A system, apparatus and method are described for an electronic article surveillance security tag having a magnetically releasable tack retaining system, and a magnetic detaching device for use with the electronic article surveillance tag. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Magnetically releasable electronic article surveillance tag

Techniques for linear release for a security tag are described.

Security tag having a linear clamp

Techniques to release a security tag are described. One embodiment may comprise a tag housing, a tack body, and a linear clamp disposed within the tag housing to retain the tack body. The linear clamp may move in a substantially linear direction in response to force to release the tack body from the linear clamp. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Release techniques for a security tag

An EAS antenna having uniform antenna thickness along the antenna height is provided. The antenna is contains at least two overlapping coils where the individual coil cross-sections are variable with respect to the circumference. If the individual coil thickness is halved at the overlap, the antenna will have uniform thickness along the antenna height. This is accomplished by reducing the number of wire turns per layer along one or more sections of the coil, and simultaneously increasing the number of wire layers on the same sections.

Electronic article surveillance antenna coils with variable wind geometry

An apparatus for capturing data from indicia associated with an article and for deactivating an electronic article surveillance tag associated with the article comprising a housing defining a volume in which a bag can be placed for packaging the article, a scanner positioned adjacent the upper portion of the volume to capture data from the indicia associated with the article as the article is placed into the bag; and deactivation means positioned below the scanner to deactivate the electronic article surveillance tag when the article is in the bag.

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Fort Walton Beach, FL, United States of America

Franklin H Valade, Jr