Repeater for smoke and similar alarms

• US 4,189,720 A
• Filed: 10/07/1977
• Issued: 02/19/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas M. Lott
• Original Assignee: Thomas M. Lott
• Inventors: Lott, Thomas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Waring, Alvin H.
• Application Number:
  US05/840,320
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 340/213 R, 340/224, 340/274 R, 340/276, 340/305, 340/306, 340/412, 340/416, 340/421, 340/500, 340/517, 340/531, 340/532, 340/539, 340/540, 340/545, 340/628, 340/629 , 340/630
• US Class Current: 340/539.26
• 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 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12

Abstract

A repeater is provided for a smoke alarm or similar alarm device which picks up the sound from the alarm device and transmits a coded radio signal to a receiver at a remote location. This receiver includes an integrator set for some convenient time interval to prevent false triggering. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the receiver may incorporate a location indicator and be used with a plurality of transmitters.

Claims

1. A remote alarm indicator system for a smoke detector alarm and similar alarms which produce, upon actuation, an audible alarm signal for a substantial period of time, said remote alarm indicator system comprising:

(a) transmitter means located near each said smoke detector alarm and including microphone means responsive to said audible alarm signal produced by said smoke detector alarm, amplifier means operatively connected to the output of said microphone means, said amplifier means including band pass filter means having a band pass characteristic compatible with the frequency range of the said audible alarm signal produced by said smoke detector alarm, and R. F. signal transmitting means operatively connected to the output of said amplifier means;

(b) radio receiver means, remotely located from said transmitter means, for receiving the signal transmitted by said R. F. signal transmitting means, said radio receiver means including integrator means for integrating the signal received from said R. F. signal transmitting means over a predetermined time interval and further including alarm warning means, connected to the output of said integrator means, which is activated by the said integrator means to render an alarm indication when the said signal received from said R. F. signal transmitting means persists for the predetermined time interval of said integrator means;

(c) said transmitter means further including signal encoding means and said radio receiver means further including signal decoding means; and

wherein,

(d) said radio receiver means further includes means to indicate the location of each transmitter means.

2. The remote alarm indicator system of claim 1 wherein said predetermined time interval is substantially one minute.

3. The remote alarm indicator system of claim 2 wherein the frequency of the signal generated by said R. F. signal transmitting means and received by said radio receiver means is 49 MHz.

4. The remote alarm indicator system of claim 3 wherein the audible frequency range of said audible alarm signal produced by said smoke detector alarm is 2500-3500 MHz.