Fire alarm system
First Claim
1. A fire alarm system which comprises:
- n (two or more) detecting sections for detecting changes in n different physical phenomena in the surroundings, said changes being due to the occurrence of a fire, said detecting sections respectively, outputting analog data corresponding to the changes;
a data sampling section for sampling the data from each of said detecting sections at predetermined periods;
a storing section for storing said sampled data outputs from said data sampling section corresponding respectively to the n-detecting sections;
a first computing section for extracting said sampled data from said storing section and computing rates of change of such data;
a second computing section for computing vectors representing the present and future conditions of said n different physical phenomena in combination from the rates of changes of the sampled data computed by said first computing section and said data stored in said storing section;
a comparing section for comparing the vectors computed by said second computing section with predetermined data corresponding to hazardous fire conditions, and generating an output when the relation therebetween is not within a predetermined range; and
an alarming section for giving an alarm in response to the output from said comparing section.
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Abstract
A fire alarm system which makes fire determination based on a novel idea which considers various changes of the physical phenomena in the surroundings caused in relation with the occurrence of a fire in terms of changes of vectors. These changes in the physical phenomena are detected by the detecting section in the form of analog data and processed by a data sampling section as sampled data and stored in a storing section in such a manner as discriminating them by the detecting sections. The tendencies of the changes are computed in a first computing section and the vectors representing the present or future conditions of the physical phenomena are computed from the sampled data. The vector is compared in a comparing section with a preliminarily set data related to the fire detection and when the relation therebetween is not a predetermined one, an alarm is given through an alarming section.
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20 Claims
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1. A fire alarm system which comprises:
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n (two or more) detecting sections for detecting changes in n different physical phenomena in the surroundings, said changes being due to the occurrence of a fire, said detecting sections respectively, outputting analog data corresponding to the changes; a data sampling section for sampling the data from each of said detecting sections at predetermined periods; a storing section for storing said sampled data outputs from said data sampling section corresponding respectively to the n-detecting sections; a first computing section for extracting said sampled data from said storing section and computing rates of change of such data; a second computing section for computing vectors representing the present and future conditions of said n different physical phenomena in combination from the rates of changes of the sampled data computed by said first computing section and said data stored in said storing section; a comparing section for comparing the vectors computed by said second computing section with predetermined data corresponding to hazardous fire conditions, and generating an output when the relation therebetween is not within a predetermined range; and an alarming section for giving an alarm in response to the output from said comparing section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A fire alarm system comprising:
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n (two or more) detecting means for respectively detecting changes in n different physical phenomena in the surroundings, said phenomena changes being due to occurrence of a fire, and respectively outputting data corresponding to said changes; first computing means for computing vectors representing said respective data of said n different physical phenomena in combination, wherein each said vector results from vectorial addition of said respective data in n-dimensional space; comparison means for comparing said vectors computed by said first computing means with predetermined data corresponding to hazardous fire conditions, said comparison means generating an output indicating hazardous conditions when the relationship between said predetermined data and said vector is not within a predetermined range of acceptable conditions; and alarm means for giving an alarm in response to said output from said comparison means. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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