Danger alarm system

• US 4,222,041 A
• Filed: 04/12/1979
• Issued: 09/09/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Moser, Otto W., Von Tomkewitsch, Romuald
• Primary Examiner(s): Waring, Alvin H.
• Application Number:
  US06/029,392
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 340/500, 340/505, 340/506, 340/517, 340/518, 340/519, 340/521, 340/524
• US Class Current: 340/517
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/006 with substations connected to an individual line, e.g. star configuration

Abstract

A danger alarm system, for example, fire alarm system, utilizing a plurality of detectors which are connected to a central exchange over respective call circuits, the central exchange is provided with a memory in which characteristic data for each connectable detector can be stored. Data is cyclically sampled from the respective individual detectors and simultaneously therewith rated values for the corresponding detector are formed from the stored data and compared with the sampled data and, if necessary, alarm or trouble signals are derived from the comparison results.

Claims

1. In a danger alarm system utilizing a plurality of alarm devices connected to a central exchange by means of call circuits, in which the data of the individual alarm devices can be monitored in the central exchange by means of test control units and can be evaluated by means of an evaluation installation for the formation of alarm or trouble signals, the combination of a memory, provided in the central exchange, in which there is stored seizure as well as various characteristic data for each alarm device connectable in the system, an evaluation installation, a line sampling installation for cyclically sampling the individual call circuits and supplying the evaluation installation with alarm data arriving from the individual lines, memory sampling means operatively connecting the memory and evaluation installation for sampling, upon each step of the line sampling installation, the storage locations for all alarm devices connected to the line involved, whereby the memory content is supplied to the evaluation installation for the formation of set values, said evaluation installation including means for comparing the data arriving from the individual call circuits with the set values formed from the stored data, and means responsive to predetermined comparison results for the formation of interference or alarm signals.

2. An alarm system according to claim 1, wherein an input device is provided for programming the individual memory locations in the memory.

3. An alarm system according to claim 1, comprising in further combination, means including a display installation, for monitoring the content of said memory.

4. An alarm system according to claim 1, comprising in further combination, means connecting said evaluation installation to said member for effecting entry of data therefrom into the memory, whereby, upon placing the system in operation, the seizure of the individual call circuits can be determined over the line sampling installation and can be entered into the memory.

5. An alarm system according to claim 4, comprising in further combination, a change-over installation for switching off the evaluation installation during write-in into the memory, and which can only be switched on after the monitoring of the memory content.

6. An alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the individual alarms are operationally grouped in the memory according to their alarm type.

7. An alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the individual alarms are operationally grouped in the memory according to their sensitivity.

8. An alarm system according to claim 1, wherein the individual alarm devices are operationally grouped in the memory according to their response retardation.

9. An alarm system according to claim 1, wherein said evaluation installation comprises a microprocessor.

10. An alarm system according to claim 1, comprising in further combination, means including a display installation, for monitoring the content of said memory.

11. An alarm system according to claim 10, comprising in further combination, means connecting said evaluation installation to said member for effecting entry of data therefrom into the memory, whereby, upon placing the system in operation, the seizure of the individual call circuits can be determined over the line sampling installation and can be entered into the memory.

12. An alarm system according to claim 11, comprising in further combination of a change-over installation for switching off the evaluation installation during write-in into the memory, and which can only be switched on after the monitoring of the memory content.

13. An alarm system according to claim 12, wherein the individual alarms are operationally grouped in the memory according to their alarm type.

14. An alarm system according to claim 12, wherein the individual alarms are operationally grouped in the memory according to their sensitivity.

15. An alarm according to claim 12, wherein the individual alarm devices are operationally grouped in the memory according to their response retardation.

16. An alarm system according to claim 12, wherein said evaluation installation comprises a microprocessor.