Intrusion detector having a sabotage surveillance device

• US 6,377,174 B1
• Filed: 06/06/2000
• Issued: 04/23/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vanderbilt International GmbH
• Original Assignee: Siemens Technologies AG Cerberus Division
• Inventors: Siegwart, David, Stierli, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/587,812
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 340/541, 340/567, 340/522, 340/545, 340/555, 367/94
• US Class Current: 340/541
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1645 using ultrasonic detection means and other detection means, e.g. microwave or infrared radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/181 using active radiation detection systems
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19 using infrared-radiation detection systems G08B13/194 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/046 prevention of tampering with detection circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 29/183 Single detectors using dual technologies G08B13/1672, G08B13/2448, G08B13/2494 take precedence

Abstract

An intrusion detector has a housing with an infrared device disposed therein, an infrared sensor, a detector window provided in the housing wall for the passage of infrared radiation from the external space onto the infrared sensor, an element for focusing the infrared radiation incident through the detector window onto the infrared sensor and having a sabotage surveillance device including an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver. The infrared transmitter and the infrared receiver are disposed inside the housing and the detector window is substantially transparent to radiation emitted by the infrared transmitter. The sabotage surveillance of the detector takes place by measuring the proportion of the radiation reflected onto the infrared receiver from the inside of the detector window and the radiation transmitted onto the infrared receiver from the surrounding space. The detector may also contain an ancillary detector device such as an ultrasonic device with an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver. The signal of the ultrasonic receiver preferably has two frequency ranges; one range which is typical of movements in the space under surveillance and the other which is typical of sabotage of the detector. A common evaluation circuit is provided for the ultrasonic section and the infrared section.

Claims

1. An intrusion detector having a housing, an infrared sensor, a detector window formed in the housing for the passage of infrared radiation from an external space to the infrared sensor, an element for focusing infrared radiation onto the infrared sensor and a sabotage surveillance device comprising:

an infrared transmitter;

and an infrared receiver, the infrared transmitter and the infrared receiver being located inside the housing and the infrared transmitter is directed toward the window such that at least a portion of infrared radiation transmitted by said transmitter is reflected by said window onto said receiver.

2. The intrusion detector according to claim 1, wherein the sabotage of the detector is determined by measuring the amount of radiation reflected by the detector window onto the infrared receiver.

3. The intrusion detector according to claim 1, wherein the infrared receiver is capable of compensating for extraneous light coming from the external space.

4. An intrusion detector according to claim 1, is capable of compensating for the temperature dependence of the optical output of the infrared transmitter.

5. An intrusion detector according to claim 1, wherein the element for focusing includes a base layer of dark material and a reflecting layer applied to the base layer, the reflecting layer being substantially transparent to interfering radiation substantially below the wavelength range of human thermal radiation and capable of reflecting radiation substantially within the wavelength range of human thermal radiation.

6. An intrusion detector according to claim 1, wherein the sabotage surveillance device has two infrared transmitters angularly arranged relative to the detector window, and wherein the infrared receiver is disposed between the two infrared transmitters.

7. An intrusion detector according to claim 1, further comprising an ancillary detector device comprising an ancillary transmitter and an ancillary receiver and wherein the signal of the ancillary receiver has two detection ranges, one of which is typical of movements in the space under surveillance and the other is typical of a masking of the detector, and further comprising a common evaluation circuit for the respective detector devices.

8. An intrusion detector according to claim 7, wherein the ancillary transmitter and the ancillary receiver of the ancillary detector device are proximate to the periphery of the detector window.

9. An intrusion detector according to claim 7, wherein the evaluation circuit has a PIR channel connected downstream of the infrared sensor, an anti-mask channel connected downstream of the infrared receiver and a US channel having a US anti-mask channel that is connected downstream of the additional receiver and the evaluation circuit having a combining stage connected to said channels for the combined evaluation of the signals of said channels.

10. An intrusion detector according to claim 9, wherein for combined evaluation, the ancillary detector device compliments the sabotage surveillance device in the detection of materials that are poorly detected by infrared radiation and the sabotage surveillance device compliments the ancillary detector device in the detection of materials that are poorly detectable by the ancillary detector.

11. An intrusion detector according to claim 7, wherein the ancillary detector is an ultrasonic device comprising an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic receiver.

12. An intrusion detector according to claim 7, wherein the ancillary detector is a microwave device comprising a microwave transmitter and a microwave receiver.

13. An intrusion detector according to claim 9, wherein the anti-masking channel contains a high-resolution A/D converter for the digitization of the signal of the infrared receiver.