Key Systems Corp.

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George H Eckerdt

George Mastrodonato

A method for storing new harvestable energy with excess or unutilized energy includes providing an object configured to be transitioned between at least a depleted energy state and a stored energy state. Obtained excess or unutilized energy which is utilized to transition the object to the stored energy state. At least a portion of this stored energy is harvested for use when the object is released from the stored energy state and transitions towards the depleted energy state.

Methods for storing harvestable energy with excess or unutilized energy and systems thereof

A storage system for material containers provides a readable ID distinguishing each container, and includes a scale that weighs containers, so that the system can distinguish between containers that are sufficiently loaded to be effective and containers that are insufficiently loaded. The system preferably includes storage for containers held in contact with readers of the container IDs. This allows a controller to keep track of containers checked out for use and returned for storage, and to identify containers that have been discharged.

Security system for containers

A mounting spring coil is made to grip and releasably hold a cylindrical periphery of a memory button while transmitting an ID effectively. A memory button held in a coil of the mounting spring can support objects such as tags and keys that are identified by the memory button to account for removal and replacement of the objects being secured.

Memory button mount

A web accessed security box includes a web server that can communicate with a web browser to control access and account for asset events that occur when the box is used. A personal identifier must be satisfied to open a drawer of the box. A latching system uses both an access solenoid for normal opening and closing in response to the personal identifier, and an emergency release solenoid having a separate power supply to open the box when the access solenoid is disabled. Several features make the box secure against weather and tampering.

Secure web accessed box

Disclosed is a method of providing a compact, tamper-evident means of combining individual keys with unique electronic memory identifiers. The disclosure involves a holder that is manufactured to attach some form of electronic identification, such as a touch memory button, to the head of a key. Once attached, the assembly can be mounted and read electronically to continually account for the identification, presence, access rights, and removal or replacement of the assembly from storage. Application of the key holder would not require alteration of the key in any manner, and thus could occur when the individual keys are either ready for distribution or already distributed and in regular use. The key holder would preferably be tamper-evident and prevent removal of the touch memory button without destruction of the holder, and possibly even the key itself.

Key combination with electronic memory identifier

Weight is used to help identify key and ring combinations authorized to certain persons. This is done by associating a weigh scale with each storage box for key and ring combinations, all of which have different total weights. The weights of all the key and ring combinations are registered with a computer, along with authentication and storage information. Then as key and ring combinations are removed from or returned to a storage box, they are weighed on scaleso that a computer can compare the scale weight with a registered weight. For any discrepancy, the computer can initiate one of many security actions.

Authorization system and method using a weighing scale to control access based on a registered weight of a key and key ring combination

A key destroyer preferably deploys an angle grinder fitted with a grinding chamber, cover, and insertion tube through which a key can be inserted to be destroyed. The key is gripped in a holder that can slide key foremost through the support tube so that the coded portion of the key can pass through a safety wall at the inner end of the support tube and engage a rotating abrasive disk that grinds away the coded portion of the key. The head of the destroyed key can then be retained as evidence that a particular copy of a key no longer exists.

Key destroyer

This disengageable strike has a strike annexed to a strike member that is slideably mounted to a strike base. The strike member and strike base are, in turn, mounted to a door frame or door opposite a slam latch. In a first position, the strike engages the latch to prevent the door from opening. An electrically disengageable inhibitor prevents manual movement of the sliding strike from the first position. However, when the inhibitor is disengaged, the strike can be manually moved/slid using an actuator (in the form of a handle annexed to the strike member) to a second position where it does not engage the latch to prevent the door from opening. A biasing spring biasing the strike and strike member towards the first position helps to return it to the first position after the actuator is released. Further, one portion of a sensor for a signal generator is mounted to the strike member such that it is opposite the other portion in the door or frame only when the strike is in the first position. Thus, the signal generator will indicate the door is close only when the door is closed and the strike has been returned to the first position.

Sliding slam latch strike

This Door Key Retention Security System guarantees that a key used to enable operation of a powered door is retained or locked in the invention until the door is, once again, closed. Thus, it requires a person who has authorized access to the key to insert the key and properly turn it in order for a door to be opened. Then, while the door is open, the key is locked in the mechanism and cannot be removed. When the need for the door to be open is ended, the door can be closed and the key removed.

Door key retention security system

A tamper-evident ring is made from a split ring made of a strong resilient material and terminated by male and female fittings. The two fittings can be connected to form a continuous ring of the type that allows keys to slide entirely around the ring. One of the two fittings is breakable to prevent the ring from being reclosed and to provide a visual indication that the ring has been reopened.

Tamper-evident ring

A mount for several keys is secured in a convenient place to support the keys in a row dependent from tags that identify the keys. A support strip long enough to mount all the keys has the hook part of a two-part hook-and-loop pile fastener on a front face and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a rear face, with a manually removable release sheet covering the adhesive layer. The key tags are each cut from resin material joined to the loop part of the two-part hook-and-loop fastener so that the loop part is arranged on a rear face of each of the key tags, and the front faces of the key tags have a front surface suitable for indicia to identify the keys. Each of the key tags has a die-cut hole near an edge and a key ring in the hole to support keys connectable to the rings to be dependent from the tags. The tags are releasably attachable to the support strip to mount the keys in a way that makes the front surfaces of the tags visible, and the keys are usable while connected to the tags.

Key mount

A key holder uses a resin support sheet or body, preferably in the form of a molded resin case having two portions hingedly joined together. Several strips each formed as one part of a two-part hook-and-loop pile fastener are secured to the inside of the case or to the resin support sheet to be approximately perpendicular to the hinge line and parallel with each other. A substantial number of key tags are cut from a strip of extruded resin joined to the other part of the two-part hook-and-loop fastener, and the key tags are preferably die cut to have a hole for receiving a key ring to support a key. Several of the key tags are attachable to each of the strips to support a number of keys in a row along each of the strips. The key tags are preferably formed from the loop portion of the fastener, and resilient foamed resin material is preferably used in the case to hold the keys in place when the case is closed.

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Victor, NY, United States of America

George H Eckerdt