Intruder perceiving apparatus by means of infrared detection

• US 4,849,635 A
• Filed: 12/13/1988
• Issued: 07/18/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GEC Plessey Telecommunications Limited
• Original Assignee: Optex Company Limited (OPTEX GROUP Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sugimoto, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Howell, Janice A.
• Application Number:
  US07/285,326
• Time in Patent Office: 217 Days
• Field of Search: 250/342, 377/6, 340/567
• US Class Current: 250/342
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19 using infrared-radiation detection systems G08B13/194 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 250/01 Passive intrusion detectors

Abstract

An apparatus for perceiving an intruder by means of detecting infrared rays radiated from the intruder through a plurality of detectable infrared flux enveloping spaces spanned supposedly between the infrared receiving portion of the apparatus and a plurality of sub-domains supposed on the ground, the detectable infrared flux enveloping spaces being arranged densely so that at least two of them may always be crossed by an intruder, and such a dense arrangement of the detectable infrared flux enveloping spaces being effected with a multi-lens system molded in one body so as to have on its surface a plurality of infrared converging lenses having their respective principal axes differently directed providing the detectable infrared flux enveloping spaces.

Claims

1. An infrared detecting apparatus for perceiving an intruder into a predetermined region on the ground or on a floor by detecting infrared rays radiated from said intruder, said apparatus comprising:

a lens assembly provided higher than a predetermined height above said ground or floor and said predetermined region, said lens assembly having a plurality of differently angled non-overlapping visual fields directed to said predetermined region, said visual fields distributed so that an intruder having a stature taller than said predetermined height simultaneously crosses more than one of said visual fields of said lens assembly at a time and an intruder of a stature less than said predetermined height only crosses one of said visual fields at a time;

a single infrared radiation detecting element for converting infrared rays converted by said lens assembly to an electric signal; and

an amplifier means for amplifying said electric signal;

whereby an output of said amplifier is a continuous electric signal if said intruder is of a stature greater than said predetermined height and pulse electric signal if said intruder is of a stature less than said predetermined height.

2. An apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein said lens assembly consists of a plurality of convex lenses.

3. An apparatus defined in claim 2, wherein said lenses are Fresnel lenses.

4. An apparatus defined in claim 2, wherein said convex lenses are molded in one body.

5. An apparatus defined in claim 4, wherein said Fresnel lenses are molded in one body.

6. An apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein said lens assembly is replaced with an assembly of reflectors.