Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices and methods and, more particularly, to an explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device and method for effectuating explicit warning to effectively enhance the efficiency of life rescue, with each apartment having its own device to thereby enhance effectiveness and variety of the device and broaden its application scope.
Description of the Prior Art
Most conventional disaster warning indicators (hereinafter exemplified by fire warning indicators) focus on reporting life-threatening incidents, creating e-maps, and planning escape routes.
However, fires often cause injuries and claim lives, because the casualties are not rescued until after the golden hour has expired. It is because, after arriving at a fire scene, rescuers are unable to determine, quickly from outside a building 93, which apartment (or room) has a trapped person 931 (as shown in
Accordingly, it is imperative to overcome the aforesaid drawbacks of the conventional disaster warning indicators.
It is an objective of the present invention to provide an explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device and method for effectuating explicit warning to effectively enhance the efficiency of life rescue, with each apartment having its own device to thereby enhance effectiveness and variety of the device and broaden its application scope. In particular, the problems to be solved in the present invention is that the conventional disaster warning indicators can not indicate whether there are any trapped persons in the building from outside of the building.
In order to achieve the above and other objectives, the present invention provides an explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device which comprises at least a fire disaster detector, at least a human body detector, at least an outdoor light displaying portion and a controller.
The at least a fire disaster detector is disposed inside a predetermined space to send out a fire signal upon detection of a fire inside the predetermined space.
The at least a human body detector is disposed inside the predetermined space to send out a YES signal and a NO signal upon detection that a human is present in and absent from the predetermined space, respectively.
The at least an outdoor light displaying portion is disposed outside the predetermined space, capable of changing between a storing form and an extending form, and adapted to face outward to display one of a YES light and a NO light while being in the extending form.
The controller connects with the fire disaster detector, the human body detector and the outdoor light displaying portion and receives the fire signal, the YES signal and the NO signal.
Therefore, after receiving the fire signal, the controller controls the outdoor light displaying portion to change from the storing form to the extending form. After receiving the YES signal, the controller controls the outdoor light displaying portion to display the YES light. After receiving the NO signal, the controller controls the outdoor light displaying portion to display the NO light. The YES light provides external rescuers with a priority reference for use in life detection and rescue operations.
The present invention further provides an explicit real-time fire disaster alarming method which comprises:
A. preparing step;
B. detecting step; and
C. explicit warning step.
The aforesaid objectives and advantages of the present invention are illustrated with preferred embodiments and depicted with accompanying drawings.
The present invention is illustrated with preferred embodiments, depicted with accompanying drawings, and described below.
Referring to
The at least a fire disaster detector 10 is disposed inside a predetermined space 91 to send out a fire signal 10A upon detection of a fire inside the predetermined space 91.
The at least a human body detector 20 is disposed inside the predetermined space 91 to send out a YES signal 20A and a NO signal 20B upon detection that a human is present in and absent from the predetermined space 91, respectively, as shown in
The at least an outdoor light displaying portion 30 is disposed outside the predetermined space 91, capable of changing between a storing form P1 and an extending form P2 (as shown in
The controller 40 connects with the fire disaster detector 10, the human body detector 20 and the outdoor light displaying portion 30 and receives the fire signal 10A, the YES signal 20A and the NO signal 20B.
After receiving the fire signal 10A, the controller 40 controls the outdoor light displaying portion 30 to change from the storing form P1 to the extending form P2. After receiving the YES signal 30A, the controller 40 controls the outdoor light displaying portion 30 to display the YES light 30A. After receiving the NO signal 20B, the controller 40 controls the outdoor light displaying portion 30 to display the NO light 30B. The YES light 30A provides external rescuers with a priority reference for use in life detection and rescue operations.
In practice, the fire disaster detector 10 includes a well-known smoke detector and/or a rate-of-rise heat detector (for example, the rate-of-rise heat detector starts as soon as the room temperature increases by about 20° C. in 30 seconds.)
The human body detector 20 includes an infrared thermograph and/or an infrared passerby traffic counter. The infrared passerby traffic counter measures passerby traffic by transmitting and receiving infrared signals or through an infrared human body detector.
Referring to
The first counting unit 21 is disposed at the first end of the doorway 911 of the predetermined space 91, and adapted to comprise a first transmitter 21A and a first receiver 21B corresponding in position to the first transmitter 21A. The first transmitter 21A transmits a first infrared 210 to the first receiver 21B. The first receiver 21B connects with the controller 40.
The second counting unit 22 is disposed at the second end of the doorway 911 of the predetermined space 91. The second counting unit 22 includes a second transmitter 22A and a second receiver 22B corresponding in position to the second transmitter 22A. The second transmitter 22A transmits a second infrared 220 to the second receiver 22B. The second receiver 22B connects with the controller 40.
A human body 92 entering the predetermined space 91 through the doorway 911 blocks the first infrared 210 and then blocks the second infrared 220, thereby allowing the controller 40 to calculate the number of arrivals and accordingly compute the cumulative number of arrivals. Similarly, the human body 92 exiting the predetermined space 91 through the doorway 911 (shown in
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The outdoor light displaying portion 30 is a lamp curtain.
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When the outdoor light displaying 30 starts, the controller 40 controls how the flickering of the YES lamp elements 341 of the outdoor light displaying 30 to indicate the number of trapped persons, for example, flashing thrice (indicative of three persons), continuous lighting for three seconds, . . . , flashing thrice (indicative of three persons), continuous lighting for three seconds.
Each predetermined space 91 has its own explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device of the present invention. For instance, assuming that an apartment building with elevators has nine floors, five apartments per floor (assuming that each apartment has only one window), and thus 45 apartments in total; hence, 45 explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices of the present invention are independently installed in the 45 apartments, respectively. Therefore, if the explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device of any one apartment malfunctions, the 44 other explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices of the 44 other apartments will remain unaffected.
Referring to
A. preparing step 81: providing a fire disaster detector 10, at least a human body detector 20, at least an outdoor light displaying portion 30 and a controller 40 (shown in
B. detecting step 82: sending out a fire signal 10A from the fire disaster detector 10 as soon as the fire disaster detector 10 detects a fire inside the predetermined space 91, and sending out a YES signal 20A and a NO signal 20B from the human body detector 20 as soon as the human body detector 20 detects that a human is present in and absent from the predetermined space 91, respectively (shown in
C. explicit warning step 83: controlling, by the controller 40, the outdoor light displaying portion 30 to change from the storing form P1 to the extending form P2 as soon as the controller 40 receives the fire signal 10A, and controlling, by the controller 40, the outdoor light displaying portion 30 to display one of a YES light 30A and a NO light 30B in response to the YES signal 20A and the NO signal 20B, respectively, with the YES light 30A providing external rescuers with a priority reference for use in life detection and rescue operations.
The fire disaster detector 10 includes a well-known smoke detector and/or a rate-of-rise heat detector (for example, the rate-of-rise heat detector starts as soon as the room temperature increases by about 20° C. in 30 seconds.)
The human body detector 20 includes an infrared thermograph and/or an infrared passerby traffic counter. The infrared passerby traffic counter measures passerby traffic by transmitting and receiving infrared signals or through an infrared human body detector.
Referring to
The first counting unit 21 is disposed at the first end of the doorway 911 of the predetermined space 91. The first counting unit 21 includes a first transmitter 21A and a first receiver 21B corresponding in position to the first transmitter 21A. The first transmitter 21A transmits a first infrared 210 to the first receiver 21B. The first receiver 21B connects with the controller 40.
The second counting unit 22 is disposed at the second end of the doorway 911 of the predetermined space 91. The second counting unit 22 includes a second transmitter 22A and a second receiver 22B corresponding in position to the second transmitter 22A. The second transmitter 22A transmits a second infrared 220 to the second receiver 22B. The second receiver 22B connects with the controller 40.
A human body 92 entering the predetermined space 91 through the doorway 911 blocks the first infrared 210 and then blocks the second infrared 220, thereby allowing the controller 40 to calculate the number of arrivals and accordingly compute the cumulative number of arrivals. Similarly, the human body 92 exiting the predetermined space 91 through the doorway 911 (as shown in
Referring to
The outdoor light displaying portion 30 is a lamp curtain.
Referring to
When the outdoor light displaying 30 starts, the controller 40 controls how the flickering of the YES lamp elements 341 of the outdoor light displaying 30 to indicate the number of trapped persons, for example, flashing thrice (indicative of three persons), continuous lighting for three seconds, . . . , flashing thrice (indicative of three persons), continuous lighting for three seconds.
A single explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device of the present invention is dedicated to each predetermined space 91 and optionally coupled to a collective electric power supply or central system of an apartment building with elevators (so as for the controller 40 in each apartment to send a warning to the central system.) For instance, assuming that an apartment building with elevators has nine floors, five apartments per floor, and thus 45 apartments in total; hence, 45 explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices of the present invention are independently installed in the 45 apartments, respectively. Therefore, the 44 other explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices of the 44 other apartments remain unaffected in any of the following circumstances: the explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device of any one apartment malfunctions; an interruption happens to collective electric power supply to an apartment building with elevators; and the central system malfunctions.
The advantages and effects of an explicit real-time fire disaster alarming device of the present invention are as follows:
[1] Explicit warning is effective in enhancing the efficiency of life rescue. As soon as a fire breaks out at an apartment building, one of the explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices mounted on the apartment building and facing outward displays conspicuously a YES light indicative of a trapped person and thus dispenses rescuers with the need to search apartments of the apartment building one by one for the trapped person. Hence, explicit warning enhances the efficiency of life rescue effectively.
[2] Each apartment has its own device to therefore enhance the effectiveness of the devices. The devices disposed in the apartments, respectively, are independent of each other; hence, the devices of the apartment building with elevators will still be operating, even if the apartment building with elevators has its collective electric power supply interrupted or central system damaged. Therefore, each apartment has its own device to therefore enhance the effectiveness of the devices.
[3] Great Variety and Wide Application Scope. The outdoor light displaying portion of the present invention is a lamp curtain, which can be combined with conventional curtains of apartment buildings. Therefore, the explicit real-time fire disaster alarming devices have great variety and wide application scope.
The aforesaid preferred embodiments illustrate the present invention. No simple amendment and change made to the embodiments departs from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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104123140 | Jul 2015 | TW | national |