Walter Kidde Portable Equipment, Inc.

Carrier Corporation

Stanley D Burnette

Anis Zribi

Travis Silver

Larry R Ratzlaff

Vipul H Patel

Valeriy V Miagkov

Ken Fasen

Anthony Joseph Santistevan

Charles Edmund Murphy, Jr

Kenneth J Mott

Matthew J Buchholz

John J Andres

Richard Kwor

David A Bush

Matthew J Bucholz

A method for detecting smoke via a chamber-less smoke sensor includes applying one or more filters to eliminate a flooding of ambient light upon the smoke sensor and emitting, by a source, light. At least one detector detects at least a portion of the emitted light and a processor processes the detected light to signal an alarm condition when one or more threshold levels are reached. A chamber-less smoke sensor includes a light source configured to emit light and at least one detector configured to detect at least a portion of the emitted light. An electronic filter and/or a processor is configured to apply one or more filters to eliminate a flooding of ambient light upon the smoke sensor and process the detected light to signal an alarm condition when a threshold level is reached.

Chamber-less smoke sensor

Embodiments are directed to a system comprising: a first device, and a second device coupled to the first device via an interface that provides a handshaking algorithm that ensures that only one of the first device and the second device initiates communication over the interface at a given point in time.

Bi-directional communication between electronic components

A life safety device includes a smoke sensor and a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor. Smoke sensitivity of the device is adaptively adjusted based upon the smoke sensor signal and the CO sensor signal.

Alarm with CO and smoke sensors

A flame detector system includes an ultraviolet sensor to detect ultraviolet radiation, and a microcontroller coupled to the ultraviolet sensor. The microcontroller processes output from the ultraviolet sensor to identify a flame. The system can also include a HV supply circuit to constantly refresh a drive voltage of the sensor. The microcontroller can sense when the sensor discharges and thereupon immediately refresh the sensor. The microcontroller can also monitor a run time for the sensor and adjust a drive voltage for the sensor accordingly. Further, a background count can be monitored to determine the health of the sensor. A memory can also be provided to store data associated with the detector, and a communications module can communicate the data stored in the memory to an external device. The microcontroller calculates a filtered event count and compares the filtered event count to a threshold to determine if a flame is present.

Flame detector with UV sensor

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Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

Stanley D Burnette