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Granted Patent B2
US 12,260,725 · App. 18/237,460 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Fire detection apparatus

Inventors: Keisuke Washizu (Tokyo, JP); Hiroki Masuzawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HOCHIKI Corporation
G08B17/107G08B17/113
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Patent No.
US 12,260,725
App. No.
18/237,460
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a sensor 100 provided with a detection element 700 for detecting heat of a heat air current generated in association with a fire in a monitoring area, in which the detection element 700 is disposed so that a detector protrudes from a predetermined base portion of the sensor 100 , the sensor 100 includes a control structure that has a stepped portion higher than the predetermined base portion, the control structure being configured to guide the heat air current to the detector of the detection element 700 along an outer peripheral wall of the stepped portion, at least a part of the detector of the detection element 700 is located on a base portion side lower than the uppermost step of the stepped portion, a labyrinth portion guides the heat air current to the detector of the detection element 700 along a side end portion corresponding to an outer peripheral side of the stepped portion of a plurality of partition walls, and the heat air current containing smoke introduced into the labyrinth portion is introduced to the smoke detector disposed in a lower part of the control structure via an opening penetrating the stepped portion of the control structure from an upper surface to a lower surface side.

Claims (18)

1. A fire detection apparatus comprising:

a heat detection element configured to detect heat of a heat air current generated in association with a fire in a monitoring area, the heat detection element being disposed so that a detector protrudes from a predetermined base portion of the fire detection apparatus; and

a control structure that has a stepped portion higher than the predetermined base portion, the control structure being configured to guide the heat air current to the detector of the heat detection element along an outer peripheral wall of the stepped portion,

wherein at least a part of the detector of the heat detection element is located on a base portion side lower than the uppermost part of the stepped portion;

the fire detection apparatus further comprising a smoke detector configured to detect smoke in association with the fire,

wherein

the control structure has a labyrinth portion in which a plurality of partition walls is disposed to be erected with a gap therebetween from an upper surface of the stepped portion along an outer periphery of the stepped portion,

the labyrinth portion guides the heat air current to the smoke detector provided inside the fire detection apparatus through the gap, and supplies particles of the smoke contained in an introduced heat air current to the smoke detector, and

the labyrinth portion guides the heat air current to the detector of the heat detection element along a side end portion corresponding to an outer peripheral side of the stepped portion of the plurality of partition walls.

2. The fire detection apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the heat air current containing smoke introduced into the labyrinth portion is introduced to the smoke detector disposed in a lower part of the control structure via an opening penetrating the stepped portion of the control structure from an upper surface to a lower surface side.

3. The fire detection apparatus according claim 1 , wherein

the heat air current is supplied from an outer peripheral side of the fire detection apparatus toward an inside thereof, and

a peripheral shape of the outer peripheral wall of the stepped portion of the control structure is an ellipse or an oval.

4. The fire detection apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the detector of the heat detection element is disposed on a major axis of an ellipse or an oval of the stepped portion of the control structure and on an outside of the outer peripheral wall of the stepped portion.

5. The fire detection apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein two detectors of the heat detection element are disposed to face each other with the control structure interposed therebetween on the outside of the outer peripheral wall of the stepped portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 16, 2023
From: WASHIZU, KEISUKE; MASUZAWA, HIROKI
To: HOCHIKI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 065891/0296 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part PCTJP2022000541 · Jan 11, 2022
Related Publication 20230401947A1 · Dec 14, 2023
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