Optical system for intruder detecting device

• US 4,514,630 A
• Filed: 09/14/1982
• Issued: 04/30/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Takenaka Engineering Co., Ltd. (Tomo Shoji KK)
• Original Assignee: Takenaka Engineering Co., Ltd. (Tomo Shoji KK)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Toshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Alfred E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hannaher, Constantine
• Application Number:
  US06/420,222
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 250/342, 250/353, 350/299, 350/292, 362/327
• US Class Current: 250/342
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/193 using focusing means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 250/01 Passive intrusion detectors

Abstract

An optical system for an intruder detector which employs an infrared ray detecting element and a parabolic mirror above the infrared detecting element for collecting infrared rays from a detection region and directing them onto the infrared ray detecting element, and which has a detecting range through a wide visual field of 360°. Reflecting mirrors 3 having the visual field of 360° are disposed around the outside of a parabolic mirror and confront the parabolic mirror 1 around the outer periphery of the infrared ray detecting element 2. A window 5 which transmits infrared rays and does not shield the visual field of the mirror 3 mounts the parabolic mirror 1 at a prescribed position with respect to a base 6. A convex lens 15 located at the conical axis of the parabolic mirror 1 forms another detection region directly under the intruder detecting device. The intruder detector using this optical system is mainly for mounting on the ceiling of a house.

Claims

1. An optical system for an intruder detector device including a parabolic mirror and an infrared detecting element positioned at the focal point of said parabolic mirror for detecting the entry of an intruder and generating an output signal in response to said entry, comprising:

a conical reflecting mirror positioned at the periphery of said infrared detecting element and facing the parabolic surface of said parabolic mirror, the visual field of said reflecting mirror covering said parabolic mirror up to its periphery, said reflecting mirror being an assembly comprised of a plurality of divided plane mirrors separated into an inner group and an outer group circularly displaced from said inner group; and

a convex lens disposed at the center of the parabolic mirror, and being perpendicular to the optical axis thereof, said lens having substantially the same diameter as the outer diameter of the detecting element, and focussing infrared rays from immediately below the detector device onto the activation surface of the detecting element.

2. An optical system for an intruder detector device as recited in claim 1 wherein said divided plane mirrors of said reflecting mirror have a predetermined plurality of angles relative to the optical axis of the parabolic mirror.

3. An optical system for an intruder detector device as recited in claim 1 wherein said parabolic mirror is mounted on and supported by an infrared transparent window so that the detection region covered by said detector is extended in all directions, said window being attached to a base member mounting said detecting element and acting as a cover for said parabolic mirror.