JP2009288865A - Alarm device - Google Patents

Abstract

In an alarm device such as a fire alarm device 100, the occurrence of a failure can be easily recognized by a failure warning sound from a speaker 5a when an abnormality is detected and a light emission display of a green display portion 4G.
An abnormality such as a failure of a fire sensor 11 or a CO sensor 12 or a battery voltage drop is detected. When an abnormality is detected, the green display section 4G blinks three times or turns on once, and this blinking or lighting operation is repeated at 10 second intervals. Immediately before the blinking or lighting operation (before 1.65 seconds), a failure warning sound “beep” or “beep” is generated by the speaker 5a. A time difference corresponding to a predetermined time during which a person operates is provided between the failure warning sound and the blinking or lighting operation of the green display portion 4G. When the failure alarm sound is heard and the fire alarm 100 is viewed, the blinking and lighting of the green display portion 4G can be visually recognized.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an alarm device that detects and warns of occurrence of an abnormality in a monitoring area, such as a fire alarm or a gas leak alarm.

  When the alarm device is installed in the monitoring area, the alarm device detects the occurrence of various abnormalities such as the occurrence of leakage of gas, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc. and the occurrence of a fire in the monitoring area.

  In such an alarm device, it is conceivable that an abnormality occurs in the device, such as a failure of a fire sensor that detects a fire, a gas sensor that detects a gas leak, or a decrease in battery voltage. If such an abnormality occurs, it is necessary to notify the fact of the device abnormality using the alarm device.

Therefore, as an alarm device for notifying such an apparatus abnormality, for example, there are those disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2002-42268 (Patent Document 1) and Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-288874 (Patent Document 2). The thing of patent document 1 produces | generates a failure warning sound from an audio | voice main part while it displays with LED when a failure generate | occur | produces. In Patent Document 2, an alarm lamp such as an LED is blinked to display the occurrence of a failure, and the type of failure is displayed according to the lighting state of the alarm lamp.
JP 2002-42268 A Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-287441

  When the LEDs are turned on as in Patent Documents 1 and 2, there are problems such as expediting battery consumption if the LEDs are turned on in various ways. Therefore, this LED is usually turned on every certain time (fixed period). Usually, it flashes once or lights up once. In addition, when an abnormal alarm sound (failure warning sound) is generated as in Patent Document 1, it is possible to know the occurrence of the failure without visually recognizing the LED or the like by this abnormal alarm sound. It is made to occur regularly in consideration of wear and noise.

  However, since the lighting of the LED, that is, the abnormality alarm display and the abnormality alarm sound are performed only at a limited timing, there is a problem that it is difficult to notice the abnormality alarm display and the abnormality alarm sound even at home. In particular, the abnormal alarm display is not noticed unless the alarm is viewed. Further, when the abnormality alarm display and the generation of the abnormality alarm sound are performed at the same time as in Patent Document 1, even if it is noticed that the abnormality alarm sound is sounded, it is difficult to think of the sound immediately. In particular, even if the abnormality alarm sound is heard, the abnormality alarm display is already extinguished, so it is difficult to notice that the alarm device is abnormal.

  It is an object of the present invention to enable a home resident to quickly recognize an abnormality such as a failure of an alarm device in an alarm device that performs an abnormal alarm sound and an abnormal alarm display.

  The alarm device according to claim 1 detects an occurrence of an abnormality in the monitoring region and alerts the occurrence of the abnormality, and detects an abnormality occurrence of the device and performs an abnormality alarm sound and an abnormality alarm display when the device abnormality occurs. When the apparatus abnormality occurs, the abnormality alarm display is performed with a predetermined time delay after the occurrence of the abnormality alarm sound.

  An alarm device according to a second aspect is the alarm device according to the first aspect, wherein the abnormality alarm display is performed by blinking of an LED.

  The alarm device according to claim 3 is the alarm device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the predetermined time is a predetermined time in a range of 0.5 seconds to 5 seconds.

  According to the alarm device of claim 1, when a device abnormality such as a sensor failure or a battery voltage drop is detected, an abnormality alarm sound is first generated, and then an abnormality alarm display is performed with a predetermined time delay. When you hear an abnormal alarm sound and turn to the direction of the alarm device, that is, turn to the alarm device, it is very likely that the abnormal alarm will be displayed at that timing or immediately after turning around Since the cost is high, the resident can easily recognize that the alarm device is abnormal. The predetermined time is a time that is assumed to be an operation in which an abnormality alarm display is viewed after hearing an abnormality alarm sound.

  According to the alarm device of claim 2, the abnormality alarm display by the LED becomes a low current and high luminance.

  According to the alarm device of the third aspect, since the predetermined time is the predetermined time in the range of 0.5 seconds to 5 seconds, there is a high possibility that the operation of many people can be handled.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external front view of a fire alarm as an embodiment of the alarm device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the main part of the fire alarm. This fire alarm is made of carbon monoxide (CO). It has a function to detect.

  1 and 2, the fire alarm 100 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and is installed on the wall or ceiling of the monitoring area. In addition, the monitoring area | region has shown the room, range, etc. which are the installation locations which can monitor the fire alarm device 1. FIG.

  The fire alarm 100 has a hollow box-shaped case body 1, a fire sensor case 2 formed integrally with the case body 1, and a panel 3 that is disposed away from the case body 1. . The fire sensor case 2 has a large number of gaps that allow ventilation, and a fire sensor 11 that detects smoke with a known photoelectric sensor or the like is disposed in the fire sensor case 2. The fire sensor 11 detects smoke flowing into the fire sensor case 2 from between the case body 1 and the panel 3. An electrochemical CO sensor 12 is disposed in the case body 1, and the CO sensor 12 detects carbon monoxide flowing in through holes (not shown) formed in the case body 1. The fire alarm 100 gives an alarm with an alarm sound, an alarm display, or the like when the sensor output output by at least one of the fire sensor 11 or the CO sensor 12 reaches a predetermined alarm level.

  An alarm display unit 4 and an alarm output unit 5 are provided at the lower front of the case body 1. The alarm display unit 4 emits light by each transmitted light when the green LED 4g, the yellow LED 4y, and the red LED 4r (see FIG. 2) in the case main body 1 are turned on. It has a yellow light emitting portion 4Y marked “CO” and a red light emitting portion 4R marked “fire”. The alarm output unit 5 is formed with a plurality of sound emission holes 5b for outputting an alarm sound from a speaker 5a (see FIG. 2) in the case body 1 to the outside.

  An inspection button 7 for turning on / off an inspection switch 7a (see FIG. 2) for stopping an alarm or performing an inspection operation is disposed between the alarm display unit 4 and the alarm output unit 5. . An inspection string 8 having a knob 8a for turning on / off the inspection switch 7a is attached to the lower portion of the case body 1.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the fire alarm device 100 includes a control unit 10, and the control unit 10 includes a microcomputer including a CPU 10 a, a ROM 10 b, a RAM 10 c, and the like. The control unit 10 is connected to the fire sensor 11, the CO sensor 12, the green LED 4g, the yellow LED 4y, the red LED 4r, and the inspection switch 7a, and further outputs a sound from the battery voltage detection circuit 20 for detecting the battery voltage and the speaker 5a. An audio output circuit 30 for detecting the temperature, a thermistor 40 for detecting the temperature of the CO sensor and the power supply circuit, an EEPROM 50 for storing various setting data, and an interface for communicating with a personal computer before shipment or interlocking with other devices ( I / F) section 60 and the like are connected.

  As is well known, the CPU 10a of the control unit 10 performs various processes and controls according to a predetermined program, and the ROM 10b stores a control program and the like for the CPU 10a described later. The CPU 10a performs various processes using the working area of the RAM.

  With the above configuration, during normal monitoring, when a fire occurrence is detected by the fire sensor 11, the control unit 10 performs lighting control of the red LED 4r and audio output by the audio output circuit 30 and the speaker 5a to notify an alarm. To do. When the CO sensor 12 detects the occurrence of CO gas leakage, the lighting control of the yellow LED 4y and the sound output by the sound output circuit 30 and the speaker 5a are performed to notify the alarm.

  Further, the control unit 10 outputs test signals to the fire sensor 11, the CO sensor 12, the thermistor 40 and the EEPROM 50 at the time of abnormality inspection of the sensor and the EEPROM, respectively. A failure (abnormal state) is detected by the response.

  Further, when the battery voltage is inspected, the control unit 10 samples the battery voltage by a pseudo load resistor (not shown) of the battery voltage detection circuit 20. Then, in consideration of the latest temperature value obtained by the thermistor 40, the battery voltage drop is determined. The battery voltage is inspected at regular intervals such as 25 hours.

  Next, the operation of the main part of the fire alarm 100 will be described based on the flowchart of FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the main process in the monitoring mode. First, in step S1, the detection signals of the fire sensor 11 and the CO sensor 12 are monitored, the respective signal levels are compared with the alarm level, and a fire or CO gas is detected. When occurrence is detected, alarm sound, alarm display, etc. are performed.

  Next, in steps S2 to S6, it is determined whether it is the inspection time of the fire sensor 11, the inspection time of the CO sensor 12, the inspection time of the thermistor 40, the inspection time of the battery voltage, or the inspection time of the EEPROM 50. If it is the inspection time of the fire sensor 11, a failure of the fire sensor 11 is inspected in step S21, and it is determined whether a failure is detected in step S22. If it is not a failure, the process proceeds to step S3. If it is a failure, a process at the time of a fire sensor failure described later is performed in step S23. If it is the inspection time of the CO sensor 12, a failure of the CO sensor 12 is inspected in step S31, and it is determined whether a failure is detected in step S32. If it is not a failure, the process proceeds to step S4, and if it is a failure, a process at the time of a CO sensor failure described later is performed in step S33.

  If it is the inspection time of the thermistor 40, a failure of the thermistor 40 is inspected in step S41, and it is determined whether a failure is detected in step S42. If it is not a failure, the process proceeds to step S5, and if it is a failure, a process for thermistor failure described later is performed in step S43. If it is the inspection time of the battery voltage, the battery voltage is inspected in step S51, and it is determined in step S52 whether the battery voltage drop is detected. If it is not a voltage drop, the process proceeds to step S6, and if it is a voltage drop, a process at the time of voltage drop described later is performed in step S53. If it is the inspection time of the EEPROM 50, a failure of the EEPROM 50 is inspected in step S61, and it is determined whether a failure is detected in step S62. If it is not a failure, the process proceeds to step S7, and if it is a failure, a process at the time of EEPROM failure described later is performed in step S63. In step S7, other processing is performed and the process returns to step S1, but in this other processing, failure processing of other parts is performed.

  As described above, the fire alarm device 100 inspects each part, and when an abnormal state such as a failure or a battery voltage drop is detected, the process at the time of the fire sensor failure, the process at the time of the CO sensor failure, Corresponding to the processing, the processing at the time of voltage drop, and the processing at the time of EEPROM failure, as shown in Table 1 below, a failure warning sound is output as an “abnormal alarm sound” from the audio output circuit 30 and the speaker 5a. Further, as will be described later, the green LED 4g is controlled to be turned on in order to perform “abnormal alarm display” together with the failure warning sound.

  FIG. 4 is a timing chart showing an example of failure warning sound and lighting control of the green LED 4g. This timing chart is an example when the fire sensor 11 is in failure. As shown in FIG. 4A, when a failure of the fire sensor 11 is detected, for example, blinking is performed three times within one second, and the three blinks are repeated at intervals of 10 seconds. And just before the second 3 flashes (1.65 seconds before), “Pipi, alarm, failure. Pipi, alarm, failure. Pipi, alarm, failure. Contact the dealer. Please generate a failure warning sound and message. Also, 60 seconds after the occurrence of the failure warning sound (1.65 seconds before the third flashing of the eighth time), a “buzzy” and a warning warning sound are generated. It is generated at 1.60 seconds before 3 blinks at 60 second intervals. Further, the failure warning sound and the message are generated at one hour intervals. Then, as shown in FIG. 4B, when the inspection switch 7a is turned on, the failure warning sound and the message are generated, and thereafter the sound output (ringing) is stopped.

  FIG. 3A is a diagram showing the details of the above-mentioned three blinking intervals and the timing of the failure warning sound. The interval between the three blinks is 10 seconds, and after 5 seconds from the previous blinking, 0.35 seconds. “Failure check” processing is performed, and “buzzy” and a failure warning sound are generated. That is, the failure warning sound is 1.65 seconds before the next three blinks, and the next three blinks are delayed from the failure warning sound. The above example is an example when the fire sensor 11 is out of order, but when the battery voltage drops, it is as shown in FIG. That is, when a battery voltage drop is detected, one blinking is repeated at 10 second intervals. Then, every 60 seconds, a “pi” and a failure warning sound are generated immediately before blinking (before 1.65 seconds). The “failure check” process for 0.35 seconds is a process for reconfirming the presence or absence of a failure.

  In this way, since the flashing is performed three times or the lighting is performed once after 1.65 seconds from the occurrence of the failure warning sound, the fire alarm device 100 that has heard the failure warning sound (abnormal alarm sound) and has sounded the alarm sound. When turning around, the display of the green LED can be seen at that timing, and it can be easily recognized that the fire alarm 100 is abnormal.

  In the embodiment, the green LED is turned on with a delay of 1.65 seconds from the abnormal alarm sound. However, the delay time, that is, the predetermined time may be another time. In particular, a time between 0.5 seconds and 5 seconds is suitable. Further, the predetermined time may be set and changed.

  In the embodiment, the fire alarm is described as an example, but it goes without saying that other alarm devices may be used.

It is an external appearance front view of the fire alarm which is one embodiment of the alarm device of the present invention. It is a principal part block diagram of the fire alarm. It is a figure which shows the detail of the lighting interval and the timing of a failure warning sound in embodiment. It is a timing chart which shows the example of lighting of LED in the embodiment, and a failure warning sound. It is a flowchart concerning an embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

4g green LED
5a Speaker 10 Control unit 11 Fire sensor 12 CO sensor 30 Audio output circuit 20 Battery voltage detection circuit 40 Thermistor 50 EEPROM
100 Fire alarm (alarm device)

Claims (3)

In the alarm device that detects the occurrence of abnormality in the monitoring area and alarms the occurrence of abnormality, detects the occurrence of abnormality of the device, and displays the abnormality alarm sound and the abnormality alarm display when the device abnormality occurs,
An alarm device characterized in that, when the device abnormality occurs, the abnormality alarm display is performed with a predetermined time delay after the occurrence of the abnormality alarm sound.   The alarm device according to claim 1, wherein the abnormality alarm display is performed by blinking of an LED.   The alarm device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the predetermined time is a predetermined time in a range of 0.5 seconds to 5 seconds.

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