Emergency alarm system

• US 7,158,025 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2005
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ryouzou Matoba
• Original Assignee: Miyoji Matoba
• Inventors: Matoba, Miyoji
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass; Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Walk; Samuel J.
• Application Number:
  US11/086,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20050248451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 340/517, 340/539.1, 340/540, 340/573.1, 340/539.11, 340/574, 379/37, 379/38, 379/45
• US Class Current: 340/517
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/009 Signalling of the alarm condition to a substation whose identity is signalled to a central station, e.g. relaying alarm signals in order to extend communication range
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 7/062 indicating emergency exits

Abstract

An emergency alarm system is disclosed as including a base unit 9, adapted to be installed in an architectural structure at an area attracting public attention, which incorporates a temperature sensor 29, a gas sensor 31, a sound sensor 33 and a vibration sensor 35 and includes a transmitter 39, a receiver 41, a sound generator 37 and a display board 27; a mobile handset 23, carried by a person for self-defense, which incorporates a temperature sensor 51 and a gas sensor 53 and includes a transmitter 59, a receiver 61, a sound generator 55 and a light source 57; and infrared ray sensors 13, installed in respective rooms in the architectural structure, which incorporates a temperature sensor 69 and a gas sensor 71 and includes a transmitter 73; wherein when one of the sensors of the base unit 9, the mobile handset 23 and the infrared ray sensors 13 detects an abnormal signal under an emergency condition, the base unit 9, the mobile handset 23 and the infrared ray sensors 13 mutually communicate with each other through the associated transmitters and receivers.

Claims

1. An emergency alarm system comprising:

a base unit, adapted to be installed in an architectural structure at an area attracting public attention, which includes a temperature sensor, a gas sensor, a sound sensor, a vibration sensor, a transmitter, a receiver, a sound generator and a display board;

a mobile handset carried by a person for self-defense and having a temperature sensor, a gas sensor, a transmitter, a receiver, a sound generator and a light source; and

infrared ray sensors installed in respective rooms in the architectural structure and each having a temperature sensor, a gas sensor, a transmitter and a receiver;

wherein

when one of the sensors of the base unit, the mobile handset and the infrared ray sensors detects an abnormal signal under an emergency condition, the base unit, the mobile handset and the infrared ray sensors mutually communicate with each other through the transmitters and the receivers of the base unit, the mobile handset and the infrared ray sensors, respectively.

2. The emergency alarm system according to claim 1, wherein:

the base unit includes a laser beam oscillator that oscillates a laser beam.

3. The emergency alarm system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display unit including a light emitting plate, incorporating a receiver that receives the laser beam oscillated from the laser beam oscillator to allow a character of “

EMERGENCY EXIT”

to be displayed in an emergency doorway of the architectural structure, and a sound generator.

4. The emergency alarm system according to claim 1, wherein:

the display board of the base unit normally provides a display of time of a clock and is operative to display a location in which the mobile handset or the infrared ray sensor generating the abnormal signal are present in the presence of the abnormal signal detected under the emergency condition.

5. The emergency alarm system according to claim 4, wherein:

the display board of the base unit is operative to display a location, in which the mobile handset or the infrared ray sensor generating the abnormal signal are present, by flashing a light.

6. The emergency alarm system according to claim 1, wherein:

the mobile handset includes a retractable frame on which an infrared ray sensor button and a rescue transmission button are mounted.

7. The emergency alarm system according to claim 6, wherein:

after a predetermined time interval has elapsed, the mobile handset is disenabled to output an abnormal signal caused by operating the rescue transmission button.