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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Arthur J Minasy, Woodbury, NY (US);
Peter A Pokalsky, East Meadow, NY (US);
Assignee:
Knogo Corporation, Hicksville, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340551 ; 335284 ; 340572 ;
Abstract
A deactivator for deactivating targets used in electromagnetic article surveillance systems comprises a solid element with a convexly curved outer surface, e.g., a cylinder and a plurality of permanent magnets which form a patter of variously directed magnetic fields is a plane adjacent the surface. The curved surface of the deactivator is rolled over a target to be deactivated. The magnets are also arranged in adjacent layers with the magnets of one layer extending in a different direction from the magnets of the other layer to form a composite magnetic pattern which is discontinuous in all directions.