DE29515779U1 - Device for destroying electronic or similar data - Google Patents

Description

DEVICE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF ELECTRONIC OR

SIMILAR DATA

The invention relates to a device for destroying electronic or similar data, with an electrical high-voltage converter or high-voltage generator, switch and an electromagnetic coil.

Data destruction often takes place individually. A data storage medium is destroyed, for example an outdated price label by removing it or manually scratching it or something else, whereby each label has to be processed individually. This is time-consuming and costly.

Of the numerous types of data carriers that are attached to objects for the purpose of securing goods, some can be disabled by simply removing them and some can be destroyed with a sharp-edged object. The commercially available security labels are often price or advertising media and their purpose is impaired if they are removed or scratched.

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The data carriers are often produced as labels, as well as coding stickers or security strips, transparent or in metallic versions or as buttons with electromagnetic content, which are measured at the store exits with a radio frequency or electromagnetic or acoustomagnetic measuring device, or another sensitive recording device, or their data status is recorded, activated according to an alarm or counting process or other, or passed through ineffectively.

Data carriers with electromagnetic, radio frequency or acoustomagnetic, similar systems are read, measured or detected by changing their antenna area or by losing or absorbing their electronic charge. When an item with an anti-theft label is paid for at the checkout, it is deactivated.

It is the object of the invention to destroy the data carriers described above without individual treatment with a device in a cost-effective process.

The solution is to deactivate the active surface with a high voltage. This is done by briefly switching on an electrical high-voltage converter or high-voltage generator at a relatively close distance to a data storage device.
The high-voltage converter is housed in a housing. The housing contains a battery compartment with one or more batteries or a rechargeable accumulator. When activated, a switch directs the low voltage into the high-voltage converter. Part of the high voltage is diverted directly to the outside by a high-voltage generator and another part is diverted briefly to a magnetic coil.

The electromagnetic wave emitted from the device is an electronic and electromagnetic charge with a specific dosage that has a destructive effect on the label attached to the goods, but is ineffectively absorbed by the person using it due to its conductivity, albeit low.

The voltage converter or high-voltage generator and the electromagnetic coil and the power supply device are housed in a relatively small, transportable housing.

The device can advantageously be additionally equipped with a light and sound signal generator.

A preferred embodiment is shown in Fig. 1-4,

Fig. 1 shows a horizontal cross section of a device;

Fig. 2 shows a vertical cross section of the device;

Fig. 3 shows a front view of the device;

Fig. 4 shows a view of the rear of the device.

Fig. 1 shows a horizontal cross-section of a device. The housing (1) of the device contains an electrical voltage converter (2) which is connected on one side to an output point or high-voltage generator (3) and on the other side to an electromagnetic coil (4).

The electromagnetic coil is advantageously leaning against an iron (5) so that the magnetic mass or the magnetic field is increased. The device is put into operation by a switch, shown here as a pressure switch (6).

When the switch (6) is operated, the device's circuit is opened. The device is supplied with electrical power via a direct mains connection or rechargeable accumulators or batteries (8).

The start-up of the device can also be indicated by a light signal transmitter (7).

Fig. 2 shows a vertical cross section of the device.

In this figure, the housing (1) of the device is shown with the eyelet slots (11) which are arranged above the output point of the magnetic and electromagnetic wave sensor.

The electrical voltage converter (2) and the coil (4) as well as the iron mass (5) and a switch (6) are also shown here. The battery (8) shown here can be designed as a rechargeable accumulator.

Fig. 3 shows a front view and Figure 4 a view of the rear of the device.
The housing (1) has a recess on the front that prevents the switch

(6) does not protrude beyond the top edge of the housing when not pressed. Next to the switch, also in the recessed area, is the light signal generator

(7) arranged.

The opening slots (11) are shown in figure (3).

The batteries or accumulators can be replaced by opening the opening flap provided for this purpose (12). This flap (12) is located on the back of the housing (1) of the device.

Claims (3)

claims DEVICE FOR DESTROYING ELECTRONIC OR SIMILAR DATA, . 1. Device for destroying electronic or similar data, with an electrical high-voltage converter (2), high-voltage generator (3), an electromagnetic coil (4), a switch (6), connection to an electrical power supply and/or an accumulator (8), characterized in that the voltage converter (2) or high-voltage generator briefly generates an increased voltage when the device is started up, part of which is diverted as high voltage and the other part to an electromagnetic coil (4). 2. Device for destroying electronic or similar data according to claim 1, characterized in that the electromagnetic coil (4) connected to the voltage converter (2) is leaning against an iron mass (5). 3. Device for destroying electronic or similar data according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the device is accommodated in a housing (1) which can be transported with one hand.