FIRE DETECTOR FOR MONITORING A ROOM BY MEANS OF A COMBINATION OF SMOKE DENSITY MEASUREMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

• US 20130033377A1
• Filed: 04/14/2011
• Published: 02/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Winrich Hoseit
• Original Assignee: Winrich Hoseit
• Inventors: Hoseit, Winrich
• Application Number:
  US13/641,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20130033377A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.22
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/06 Electric actuation of the alarm, e.g. using a thermally-operated switch
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/10 Actuation by presence of smoke or gases , e.g. automatic alarm devices for analysing flowing fluid materials by the use of optical means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/004 Alarm propagated along alternative communication path or using alternative communication medium according to a hierarchy of available ways to communicate, e.g. if Wi-Fi not available use GSM

Abstract

A fire detector monitors a room and triggers a fire alarm. The fire detector has a smoke sensor and a temperature sensor for measuring a smoke density and a temperature. When a temperature threshold value and/or a smoke density threshold value is exceeded an alarm is triggered. The temperature threshold value is dependent on the smoke density and/or the smoke density threshold value is dependent on the temperature. The fire detector contains a memory. A complicated evaluation as to whether the temperature or smoke density threshold value has been exceeded is avoided and the risk of false alarms is reduced due to a stored matrix. The matrix contains combination values, and one of the combination values is assigned to the measured temperature and the measured smoke density. The combination value indicates whether the temperature threshold value and/or the smoke density threshold value has been exceeded or fallen below.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A fire detector for monitoring a room and for triggering a fire alarm, the fire detector comprising:

a smoke sensor for measuring a smoke density;

a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature;

an alarm, wherein, if a temperature threshold value is exceeded and/or a smoke density threshold value is exceeded, said alarm is triggerable, the temperature threshold value being dependent on the smoke density and/or the smoke density threshold value is dependent on the temperature; and

a memory storing a matrix, the matrix containing combination values, wherein one of the combination values can be allocated by means of the matrix to the temperature measured and to the smoke density measured, wherein a combination value indicates an exceeding or an under-stepping of the temperature threshold value and/or the smoke density threshold value.

16. The fire detector according to claim 15, wherein the temperature threshold value is dependent on the smoke density in such a way that, a higher the temperature measured, a lower the smoke densities must be which are sufficient to trigger said alarm.

17. The fire detector according to claim 15, wherein the smoke density threshold value is dependent on the temperature in such a way that, a higher the smoke density measured, a lower the measured temperatures must be which are sufficient to trigger said alarm.

18. The fire detector according to claim 15, further comprising a first radio means, wherein, following an initial commissioning, the fire detector is configurable with further fire detectors via said first radio means to form a radio network.

19. The fire detector according to claim 18, further comprising a second radio means, wherein a message is transmittable via said second radio means to at least one destination address.

20. The fire detector according to claim 18, wherein said first radio means is a short-range radio means.

21. The fire detector according to claim 19, wherein said second radio means is configured for communication with a base station of a mobile radio network.

22. The fire detector according to claim 18, wherein said memory stores a unique identification feature allocated to the fire detector, wherein identification features are exchangeable with further fire detectors within an initialization time span via said first radio means, wherein a routing table is creatable and stored in said memory.

23. The fire detector according to claim 19, wherein the fire detector is configured to receive messages from other fire detectors via said first radio means, and the messages are forwardable via said second radio means to the destination address.

24. The fire detector according to claim 21, wherein a connection quality is verifiable via said second radio means, wherein it can be verified whether a possibility for direct connection to the base station of the mobile radio network exists.

25. The fire detector according to claim 15, further comprising a gas sensor.

26. The fire detector according to claim 15, further comprising a loudspeaker and a microphone.

27. The fire detector according to claim 15, further comprising a two-way voice connection set up to a monitoring control center or to another destination address.

28. The fire detector according to claim 15, further comprising a light source, wherein said light source being activated by a triggering of said alarm.

29. The fire detector according to claim 18, wherein said short-range radio means is an industrial scientific and medical band (ISM) module.

30. The fire detector according to claim 19, wherein said second radio means is selected from the group consisting of a global system for mobile communications (GSM) module and a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) module.

31. The fire detector according to claim 28, wherein said light source is a light emitting diode.