Disaster prevention system

• US 8,134,925 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2007
• Issued: 03/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nohmi Bosai Limited (Secom Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Nohmi Bosai Limited (Secom Company Limited)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Moe, Aung S
• Assistant Examiner(s): PASIA, REDENTOR M
• Application Number:
  US11/652,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20070159980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,888 Days
• Field of Search: 370/229, 370/230, 370/235, 370/236, 370/359, 370/360, 370/386, 370/390, 370/395.53, 370/445, 709223-224, 709/232, 709/235, 709/240, 709/244
• US Class Current: 370/235
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 17/00 Fire alarms; Alarms responsive to explosion
• 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 25/085 using central distribution transmission lines
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Each terminal devices (1, 4) connected to one another via a LAN (11) includes: a main control portion (e.g. 31) performing operational control, a transmission LAN unit (34) performing transmission control regarding transmission and reception of disaster prevention information. The unit (34) includes: a transmitting and receiving circuit (36) connected to the portion (31); a transmission control portion (35) performing communication control; an arrival order determining and retransmitting circuit portion (37) connected to the portion (35) and to at least three of transmitting and receiving ports (38) which are capable of connecting to the LAN. Upon receiving an incoming signal of disaster prevention information from one of the portion (35) and the ports (38), the portion (37) outputs the received signal to the rest of them while shutting out for a predetermined period of time an incoming signal from the rest of the ports (38) that has sent the signal.

Claims

1. A disaster prevention system, comprising:

a LAN; and

a plurality of terminal devices connected to one another via said LAN and including at least one fire receiver,

each of said plurality of terminal devices comprising;

a main control portion for performing operational control; and

a transmission LAN unit for performing transmission control regarding transmission and reception of disaster prevention information;

said transmission LAN unit comprises;

a transmitting and receiving circuit directly connected to said main control portion;

a transmission control portion for performing communication control; and

an arrival order determining and retransmitting circuit portion connected to said transmission control portion and to at least three of transmitting and receiving ports which are capable of connecting to said LAN,

wherein

each of said transmitting and receiving ports includes at least one input port and at least one output port;

when a signal relating to the disaster prevention information is inputted to one of said transmitting and receiving ports, said one of said transmitting and receiving ports outputs the signal to the arrival order determining and retransmitting circuit portion via the output port of said one of said transmitting and receiving ports, and

the arrival order determining and retransmitting circuit portion substantially simultaneously (i) closes the input port of said one of said transmitting and receiving ports, (ii) closes the output ports of said transmitting and receiving ports other than said one of said transmitting and receiving ports, and (iii) sends the signal to said transmitting and receiving ports other than said one of said transmitting and receiving ports, via the input ports of said transmitting and receiving ports other than said one of said transmitting and receiving ports.

2. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein

said main control portion, of said terminal device, is provided with a control unit through a bus, and said main control portion exchanges signals with the control unit via the bus;

and

said transmission LAN unit is connected to said main control portion via a signal line for directly exchanging signals.

3. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said terminal device includes four transmitting and receiving ports.

4. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said main control portion connected to a line monitoring and control portion for monitoring and controlling, for each line, a connected device including a plurality of fire detectors connected to a plurality of lines.

5. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said main control portion connected to a transmission processing portion for performing a process of transmitting the disaster prevention information to a different network, the disaster prevention information being based on a signal on the LAN.

6. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said transmission control portion connected to a voice circuit for performing AD/DA processes on voice data and outputting the processed voice data.

7. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said main control portion connected to a display operation portion, via a bus, for displaying the disaster prevention information and performing operational input relating to fire monitoring/control.

8. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said main control portion connected to a terminal transmission portion, via a bus, for transmitting and receiving terminal information from a connected devices group.

9. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of terminal devices has said main control portion connected to a storage portion, via a bus, for storing the disaster prevention information.

10. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said arrival order determining and retransmitting circuit portion substantially simultaneously (i) outputs the signal relating to the disaster prevention information, and (ii) shuts out any other incoming signals from said transmitting and receiving ports other than said one of said transmitting and receiving ports, so that the disaster information flows uniformly in one direction in the disaster prevention system as a whole.

11. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of terminal devices is an HTTP server and further comprises:

a storage portion for storing the disaster prevention information; and

a transmission processing portion for distributing the disaster prevention information onto other networks.

12. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of terminal devices are interconnected in a loop connection.

13. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of terminal devices are interconnected in a star connection.

14. The disaster prevention system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of terminal devices are interconnected via a bus.