System for evacuating persons from a vehicle

• US 8,952,828 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2013
• Issued: 02/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: Kohlmeier-Beckmann, Carsten, Niemeyer, Anja, Raszpir, Fred
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tang, Son M
• Application Number:
  US13/924,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 340/628, 340/332, 340/425.5, 340/468, 340/691.1, 340/691.6
• US Class Current: 340/691.6
• CPC Class Codes: A62B 3/00 Devices or single parts for facilitating escape from buildings or the like, e.g. protection shields, protection screens; Portable devices for preventing smoke penetrating into distinct parts of buildings A62B1/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 25/14 Inflatable escape chutes

Abstract

A system for evacuating persons from a vehicle includes a light signal generating device, which is adapted to emit at least one visual light signal that indicates at least one preset escape route for at least one person to be evacuated.

Claims

1. A system for evacuating persons in a vehicle, comprising

a light signal generator structured to emit at least one visual light signal that indicates at least one preset escape route for at least one person to be evacuated, wherein the light signal generator is structured to display a first light signal on a sliding surface of an emergency chute, via which a first escape route leads, wherein the first light signal has a form, which is configured to mark a first landing point on the sliding surface of the emergency chute, where a person is to land upon jumping on the emergency chute the emergency chute.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to display the light signal in the form of an arrow, a target and/or a dotted line.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to generate the light signal by converting electric power to light output.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to generate the light signal on the basis of chemical luminescence.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to generate the light signal by projecting at least one object or at least one object image onto an image plane.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator comprises a control device structured to change at least one of the shape, colour, signal strength and output direction of the light signal in a time rhythm that is adjusted to a preset flow rate of persons to be evacuated via the escape route.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to emit a light signal in the region of a dividing device structured to divide an emergency chute into a first slideway and a second slideway and to extend substantially over the length of the emergency chute.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to display the first light signal further in a region of a lintel and/or a sill of an evacuation door, through which the first escape route leads, wherein the first light signal indicates a first direction that is adjusted to the direction of the course of the first escape route.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the light signal generator is structured to display a second light signal in at least one of:

a region of a lintel and/or a sill of an evacuation door, through which a second escape route leads, wherein the second light signal indicates a second direction that is adjusted to the direction of the course of the second escape route,

a region of a top end of an emergency chute, via which a second escape route leads, wherein the second light signal indicates a second position that is adjusted to a preset second entry point of the emergency chute, and

a region extending from the bottom end of the emergency chute in a direction leading away from the emergency chute, wherein the second light signal indicates a second direction that is adjusted to the direction of the course of the second escape route.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the light signal generator is structured to display the first light signal and the second light signal side by side, wherein the first escape route indicated by the first light signal and the escape route indicated by the second light signal lead through the same evacuation door and/or via the same emergency chute and are usable independently of one another.

11. The system according to claim 9, wherein the control device is further structured to change the intensities of the first and second light signal synchronously or asynchronously relative to one another.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the first light signal also marks a region extending from the bottom end of the emergency chute in a direction leading away from the emergency chute, wherein the light signal generating device is disposed in a region of the bottom end of the emergency chute and the first light signal has a form, which is adapted to indicate a first direction that points in the direction of the course of the first escape route.