Fire alarm system

• US 5,128,653 A
• Filed: 11/22/1991
• Issued: 07/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hochiki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hochiki Corporation
• Inventors: Yuchi, Sadataka
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US07/798,826
• Time in Patent Office: 228 Days
• Field of Search: 340/506, 340/505, 340/514, 340/510, 340/511, 340/517, 340/521, 340/588, 340/589, 340/825.06, 340/825.08, 340/825.54, 340/870.16, 340/870.17 , 340/870.21, 364/141, 364/138, 364/139, 364/140
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/00 Fire alarms; Alarms responsive to explosion
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/002 only replying the state of the sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/188 Data fusion; cooperative systems, e.g. voting among different detectors

Abstract

A fire alarm system in which an analog type sensor (3) is connected to a transmission line (2) from a receiver (1) and in which one or more on-off type sensor (7) located in the same monitor area (14, 15, 16) as that in which the analog type sensor (3) is provided is connected to a signal line (6) led out from the analog type sensor (3). The analog type sensor (3) is provided with a fire detection circuit (12) for detecting a fire signal from the on-off type sensor (7) and a transmission control circuit (11) for transmitting its own analog detection data and fire detection data from the fire detection circuit (12) to the receiver (1).

Claims

1. A fire alarm system for detecting a fire condition in a plurality of monitor areas, comprising:

a plurality of sensor combinations respectively located in said monitor areas and each of which includes an analog type sensor adapted to produce analog detection data corresponding to changes in a surrounding physical phenomenon caused by the fire in response to a polling signal received thereby and one or more on-off type sensors connected to said analog type sensor and adapted to produce a fire signal when the changes in the surrounding physical phenomenon exceed a preset threshold value;

a receiver adapted to poll said analog type sensor in each of said sensor combinations sequentially and to detect a fire based on said analog detection data contained in a response signal from said analog type sensor;

a transmission line interconnecting said receiver and said analog sensor in each of said sensor combinations for transmitting said polling signal and said response signal; and

said analog type sensor including analog detection means for producing said analog detection data, fire detection means for detecting said fire signal from said on-off type sensor connected thereto and transmission control means for transmitting said response signal containing said analog detection data from said analog detection means and the data concerning the presence or absence of said fire signal from said fire detection means in response to said polling signal from said receiver.

2. A fire alarm system according to claim 1 wherein said analog type sensor includes a mounting base section fixedly provided on a ceiling or wall surface of a building and a detection head section detachably mounted to said mounting base section, said fire detection means and said transmission control means being provided in said mounting base section and said analog detection means being provided in said detection head section.

3. A fire alarm system according to claim 1 wherein said analog type sensor further includes disconnection detection means detecting disconnection of a signal line, interconnecting said analog type sensor and said on-off type sensor said transmission control means being adapted to transmit said response signal containing data relating to the presence or absence of disconnection detection signals from said disconnection detection means over said transmission line to said receiver.