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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2023
Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Jennifer Alexander, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Peter Harris, Jupiter, FL (US);
KIDDE FIRE PROTECTION, LLC, Bradenton, FL (US);
Abstract
A smoke detector is provided and includes a housing defining a chamber for receiving ambient materials, a single receiver, first and second emitters configured to emit light into the chamber to be respectively scattered from the ambient materials toward the single receiver with back scatter and forward scatter effects, respectively, and a controller. The single receiver generates first and second output signals in accordance with the light respectively scattered toward the single receiver with the back and forward scatter effects, respectively. The controller is receptive of the first and second output signals and determines whether a condition is appropriate to trigger an alarm.