Hochiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hochiki Corporation

Seiko Epson Corporation

Other

Hiromitsu Ishii

Takashi Ono

Kazuhiko Amano

Kazuo Kodama

Shigeru Ohtani

Yukio Yamauchi

Yasuo Torikoshi

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Shigeru Otani

A pulse wave analysis device for analyzing the condition of a human body is disclosed. A cuff band is wrapped around the tip of the second finger of a subject's hand. When the operator depresses the beginning-of-measurement key, the finger tip is pressed at various pressures by means of an air pump and a pressure sensor. Pulse wave signals at different pressure values are automatically measured by an optical fingertip plethysmogram sensor. The signals are transmitted to a CPU through a BPF, an amplifier, and an ADC. The CPU performs FFT analyses on the signals and determines to which pattern from among the patterns stored in a ROM the pattern level of the pulse wave spectrum for a given pressure value is closest, and displays the result on a display unit as a test result indicating the viscoelasticity of the subject's peripheral circulation tissue.

Pulse wave analysis device

In a fire alarm device for detecting the physical quantities of substances arising from the outbreak of a fire and giving a fire alarm, membership functions showing the correlation between an arising quantities calculated by the detected physical quantities and the danger degree which a man would feel with respect to the physical quantities are preset, the danger degree with respect to the arising value calculated by the physical quantities actually detected by a detection means is obtained by using the membership functions, and an alarm and control in accordance with the danger degree is given. Therefore, there is provided a fire alarm device capable of judging the outbreak of a fire based on an actual fire situation and giving an alarm and control in accordance with the degree of danger which a man would feel with respect to the scale, situation and so on of the fire.

Fire alarm device

A thermal analog fire detector which is excellent in measurement precision and resolution in both the high and low temperature ranges and which has a wide range of measuring temperatures. A constant voltage E from a constant voltage circuit is supplied to a CPU, an A/D converter and a constant current circuit. The constant current circuit is connected in series to a thermistor. The constant current circuit is constructed to supply a constant current, the value of which being variable in a plurality of stages, to the thermistor controlled by the CPU. The CPU switches the constant current of the constant current circuit according to the measured temperature data. A voltage V across the thermistor is converted into digital data by the A/D converter, and then the converted data is supplied to the CPU.

Thermal analog fire detector

By using the ratio of the G component to the R component G/R, or the ratio of the B component to the R component B/R, from a television monitor image, and referring to a conversion table for converting to distribution temperature, a surface temperature of a flame is found for each pixel. An area in which luminance signals included in an image of a surveillance area exceed a prescribed level is sampled as a flame outline, and at least the distribution temperature of a sampled flame region is detected, and distance to a radiant energy source is measured. The amount of radiant energy from the radiant energy source is estimated by computation, based on the sampled flame area and its distribution temperature and the distance to the source of radiant energy. The system is provided with a fire image recognition section for recognizing a fire from radiant energy itself and from change in radiant energy over time and outputting fire detection information and an intruder entity recognition section which, from monitor images from the same camera, recognizes an intruder entity and outputs burglary detection information. Processing modes are provided enabling fire and/or intruder entity image processing to be selected. If abnormality detection information is received using fire image or intruder entity recognition processing, a pre-alarm is outputted in the central monitor room, and also the monitor image in the central monitor room is switched to the image of the location where the abnormality has been detected.

Surveillance monitor system using image processing for monitoring fires

A fire alarm system, sensor and method for determining a fire by detecting a change in a temperature, smoke density and/or gas concentration due to a fire. The detection data values of the respective analog sensors are corrected based on areas of supervisory regions of the respective analog sensors which are defined by walls, beams or inwardly extending projections surrounding the respective analog sensors, and/or heights from the floor of the respective analog sensors. The fire determination is carried out based on the corrected data.

Fire alarm system, sensor and method

An extinct type detector which detects and determines a concentration or density of a gas or vapor in a space on the basis of an attenuation of light due to the gas or vapor present within the space. The detector of this feature of the invention operates in such a way that the light emitting device is periodically driven to effect light emission, the first and the second photodetector devices receive the light from said light emitting device, the first and second storage means corresponding to the first and the second photodetector devices, respectively, cumulatively store the outputs from the respective photodetector devices, a difference in cumulative storage values between the first and the second storage means is detected to determine a concentration and density of the gas or vapor within the detecting space based on the detected difference.

Extinction type detector

A fire alarm system which makes fire determination based on a novel idea which considers various changes of the physical phenomena in the surroundings caused in relation with the occurrence of a fire in terms of changes of vectors. These changes in the physical phenomena are detected by the detecting section in the form of analog data and processed by a data sampling section as sampled data and stored in a storing section in such a manner as discriminating them by the detecting sections. The tendencies of the changes are computed in a first computing section and the vectors representing the present or future conditions of the physical phenomena are computed from the sampled data. The vector is compared in a comparing section with a preliminarily set data related to the fire detection and when the relation therebetween is not a predetermined one, an alarm is given through an alarming section.

Fire alarm system

An analog fire detector which comprises sensor means for detecting, in analog form, one or more kinds of quantity of state which change due to fire; a sampling means for sampling the detection outputs from the sensor means with a predetermined period; and fire determining means which predicts future fire data changes from the sampling data and generates a fire determination output signal when the prediction data satisfies predetermined fire conditions. The invention also provides an analog fire alarm system which comprises a central signal station; a plurality of on-off type fire detectors connected to a pair of power supply/signal lines connected to said central signal station in such a manner that the signal lines are short-circuited into low impedance when the value of a quantity of state changed due to a fire exceeds a threshold value; and an intelligent fire detector installed in specific areas, where the signal lines are extended, such as an important supervisory area or an area where a false alarm is liable to occur, and adapted to short-circuit the signal lines into low impedance when a predicted value of a future quantity of state changing due to a fire satisfies predetermined fire conditions; such intelligent fire detector being the analog fire detector mentioned above.

Analog fire detector and analog fire alarm system using the same

A process for detecting a change in the physical phenomena caused by a fire in an analog form, periodically sampling the analog detection data, calculating moving average values of the time series sampling data for filtering, and establishing the sampling period and the number of smoothing data provided for the moving average calculation so that a cut-off frequency of the filtering is established which is coincident with the maximum frequency of the main frequency components of the analog detection data. The invention also relates to a fire detector and a fire alarm system for carrying out such a process.

Collecting process of fire data and fire detector using the process and

A light-attenuation type fire detector assembly of the present invention comprises a light emission drive section including a light emitter for radiating light having an intensity corresponding to an input signal level; a smoke detecting section including a light receiver which directly receives the light radiated from the light emission drive section and is adapted to output a detection signal corresponding to the received light amount of the light receiver; a smoke amount computing section for computing the amount of smoke based on the detection signal from the smoke detecting section; a delay circuit for retarding input of the detection signal from the smoke detecting section to the light emission drive section for a predetermined time; and a control section for repeating the operations of the light emission drive section, the smoke detecting section and the delay circuit and generating a control signal after a predetermined period of time has been passed or a predetermined times of operation has been done to drive the smoke amount computing section, and wherein the amount of smoke is computed during a time when said smoke amount computing section is driven based on the smoke detection signal input to said smoke amount computing section to detect if there is attenuation in the radiated light due to smoke between the light emitter and the light receiver.

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Chiba, Japan

Hiromitsu Ishii