US 10,118,059 B2 · Automatic fire extinguishing equipment

Abstract

The present invention provides a compact automatic fire extinguishing equipment that can be installed near an object of fire extinguishing for which there is limited space therearound for a long term in a state of maintenance-free and that can extinguish a fire immediately on the occasion of a fire. The fire extinguishing equipment consists of a fire extinguishing agent 14 and a sealed container 12 filled with the fire extinguishing agent 14. And the fire extinguishing agent 14 is comprised with a compound that is liquid at 25 degrees Celsius (room temperature) at least and that has a boiling point of at least 75 degrees Celsius or less, having fire extinguishing effect. The container 12 is formed with lamination of gas barrier layer 16 and the thermoplastic resin layer 20, and the gas barrier layer 16 consists of ethylene-vinyl-alcohol copolymer resin (ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer: EVOH).

Claims15

Dependent claims

An automatic fire extinguishing equipment, comprising:

a fire extinguishing agent;
and
a sealed container filled with the fire extinguishing agent;
wherein the fire extinguishing agent is made of a compound having a fire extinguishing effect, the compound having a boiling point of 75 degrees Celsius or less, the compound being a liquid at 25 degrees Celsius or higher;
wherein the sealed container comprises a gas barrier layer laminated with at least one thermoplastic resin layer;
wherein the gas barrier layer comprises an ethylene—vinyl alcohol copolymer resin;
wherein the thickness of the gas barrier layer is 0.01 mm to 1 mm;
and
wherein a thickness of the at least one thermoplastic resin layer is 0.5 mm to 2.5 mm.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/423,630Filed 25 Dec 2013

Priority

JP 2013-20112227 Sep 2013

Published

US 2016/0193489 A17 Jul 2016

Granted

6 Nov 2018

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

A62C 3/16
Fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for particular objects or places: in electrical installations, e.g. cableways
A62C 3/07
Fire prevention, containment or extinguishing specially adapted for particular objects or places: in vehicles, e.g. in road vehicles
A62C 35/10
With containers for delivering the extinguishing substance: containers destroyed or opened by flames or heat
A62C 35/023
With containers for delivering the extinguishing substance: the extinguishing material being expelled by compressed gas, taken from storage tanks,…

Automatic fire extinguishing equipment

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Automatic fire extinguishing equipment

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Abstract

Claims15