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Modular emergency exit route illumination system and method

  • US 8,998,438 B1
  • Filed: 02/08/2013
  • Issued: 04/07/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system and method for enabling visual orientation and providing illumination to evacuees in the event of an emergency requiring evacuation of a residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, vehicular or marine structure or enclosure having portals such as doorways, passageways and/or egress windows, wherein there is a planned path of safe emergency egress from an interior space such as a room, quarters or hallway of said residential, commercial, industrial, institutional or marine structure or enclosure, and wherein said path passes through a portal such as an interior or exterior doorway or window of said structure or enclosure, said system comprising:

  • a first linear illuminator section positioned along a wall of said interior space in an orientation that is generally parallel to a floor of said space and that is generally near and along the base of a wall of said space, such as along the top or bottom edge of a baseboard of the wall;

    a second linear illuminator section that is positioned in a generally vertical orientation along said wall in a location adjacent said portal in said planned emergency egress path;

    at least one energizer for energizing said first and second illuminator sections, said energizer(s) being associated with said sections in a manner that causes said sections to illuminate when said energizer(s) is actuated;

    said energizer(s) being actuated in response to a signal such as an electrical, electromagnetic or audible or visual signal that is present when emergency conditions are detected by a system-integrated sensor or detector or a single-station detector such as a fire detector, smoke detector, carbon dioxide detector, radon gas detector or a light emission;

    a length of said first linear illuminator section being adapted and positioned to provide illumination along a line leading generally toward said second linear illuminator section, to lead evacuees toward said second section when said first section is energized to provide illumination.

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