US 8,905,633 B2Granted

Fire sensor, fire detection system, fire suppression system, and combinations thereof

AssigneeFederal Express Corporation

InventorsJames B. Popp, Arthur J. Benjamin

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Abstract

A combination fire detection and fire suppression system may include a fire detection system configured to detect an undesirably high temperature associated with an area. The fire detection system may include a temperature sensor including a temperature sensor array and a fire alerting system associated with the temperature sensor. The fire alerting system may be configured to receive information from the temperature sensor and generate a warning signal based on an undesirably high temperature associated with the area. The fire detection system may include a fire control panel configured to receive the warning signal. The system may also include a fire suppression system including a fire suppressant delivery system configured to provide at least one fire suppressant agent to the area associated with the undesirably high temperature.

Claims2

Dependent claims

A temperature sensor array configured to receive temperature information associated with an area, the temperature sensor array comprising:

a base, and
a plurality of temperature sensing devices associated with the base such that the temperature sensing devices are arranged to monitor the temperature of the area,
wherein at least one of the temperature sensing devices is oriented at an angle with respect to the base that differs from an angle with respect to the base at which at least one other temperature sensing device is oriented;
at least two of the temperature sensing devices are oriented at respective angles with respect to the base such that an area monitored by one of the at least two temperature sensing devices does not overlap an area monitored by the other of the at least two temperature sensing devices;
and the base defines a plurality of apertures configured to receive at least one temperature sensing device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/548,489Filed 27 Aug 2009 · division
Priority: 30 Aug 2005
Published: US 2009/0084561 A124 Dec 2009
Granted: 9 Dec 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A62C 37/44
An actuating signal being generated by a sensor separate from an outlet device: only the sensor being in the danger zone
A62C 3/08
In vehicles, e.g. in road vehicles: in aircraft
G01J 5/0014
Radiation pyrometry, e.g. infrared or optical thermometry: for sensing the radiation from gases, flames
G01J 5/0066
Radiation pyrometry, e.g. infrared or optical thermometry: for hot spots detection

Family

Application11/213,940Parent of this division · filed 30 Aug 2005
Application12/267,033Parent of this division · filed 7 Nov 2008
US 2009/0315726 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Dec 2009
US 7,806,195 B2Parent of this division
US 7,810,577 B2Parent of this division
US 2007/0044979 A1Published application
US 2009/0084561 A1Published application
US 8,905,633 B2This patent

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