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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1990
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1988
Shigeru Ohtani, Hiratsuka, JP;
Yukio Yamauchi, Atsugi, JP;
Hochiki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fire discriminating apparatus for determining whether there is the outbreak of fire in an area under surveillance in accordance with the temperature difference between a temperature detection value of the area and a reference temperature. The apparatus includes a temperature sensor for detecting an ambient temperature; sampling means for sampling the detected temperature of the temperature sensor at a given period, temperature difference detecting means for computing a temperature difference between the detected temperature and a reference temperature each time the detected temperature is sampled by the sampling means, fire discriminating means whereby when the temperature difference is greater than a predetermined threshold value the outbreak of a fire is determined and an alarm command signal is generated, and reference temperature correcting means whereby a correction value obtained by multiplying the temperature difference obtained upon each sampling by a given factor smaller than 1 is added to the reference temperature to correct the reference temperature for the detection of temperature difference during the next sampling.