Esser Sicherheitstechnik Gmbh

Horst Berger

Heiner Politze

Tido Krippendorf

Michael Pastors

Georg Pollmann

Mario Pussin

Peter Ungemach

A danger alarm system includes a plurality of detectors, each of which having a microprocessor, a current drain controllable by the microprocessor for data exchange with a central station, an address register, and a nonvolatile memory for containing an individual binary serial number. In order to allow with few exceptions the use of relayless detectors, the configuration of the detectors is determined by providing each detector with a unique binary serial number at the manufacturer's end, identifying and storing in an initialization routine the serial numbers, setting all detectors through a collective command in a discrete addressing mode and response mode for allowing each detector after being addressed by its own binary serial number to respond with a current pulse and subsequently after being addressed with the binary serial number of another detector to check the occurrence or absence of a current pulse and to store the test result as binary pattern, polling the stored binary pattern from each detector and forming from this pattern and from the binary serial numbers of the respective detectors a first matrix and a second matrix which is defined by the column sums and line sums of the first matrix, and by evaluating the first and second matrices in accordance with a given algorithm for determining the system configuration.

Method for determining the configuration of detectors of a danger alarm

A fire detector includes a scattered light detector unit and an ionization detector unit which are arranged upon a common base at each side of the center axis of a compartment defined by the base and a peripheral wall extending from the base. The scattered light detector includes a light source and a receiver, with their principal axes intersecting in a point of intersection which is positioned at one side of the center axis of the compartment and thus extends eccentric to the center axis. The ionization detector unit includes a holder for a preparation to be ionized, with the holder being arranged at the other side of the center axis. Suitably, a heat detector is further provided in the center axis.

Fire detector

An ionization fire detector of the type including a measuring chamber and a reference chamber having a common electrode which is connected to the gate terminal of a field-effect transistor by a profile piece of conductive caoutchouc having one end contacting the gate terminal and another end contacting the common electrode.

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Horst Berger