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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120050030 | Detectors A detector (101) for detecting smoke from a fire and generating an alarm has a detection chamber (105) in which a light source (111) and a light detector (113) are arranged. In normal use, the light detector (113) only receives light f... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120032794 | SYSTEM FOR TESTING NAC OPERABILITY USING REDUCED OPERATING VOLTAGE A monitoring system for a NAC (Notification Appliance Circuit) is provided. The monitoring system includes a system controller, and a NAC comprised of one or more notification appliances that may be in a series. The NAC and its appliances may be operatively coupled to t... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110285526 | LIGHTING APPARATUS A lighting apparatus of the present invention includes: a light source; a power source unit arranged to power the light source; a detector unit arranged to detect the deterioration of ability of the power source unit to power the light source; and a determination unit a... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110241869 | ROBUST ALARM SYSTEM A robust alarm system has an alarm controller adapted to input an alarm trigger and to generate at least one alarm drive signal in response. Alarm subsystems input the alarm drive signal and activate one or more of multiple alarms accordingly. A subsystem function signa... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110148620 | TEST MODE CIRCUITRY FOR A PROGRAMMABLE TAMPER DETECTION CIRCUIT An integrated circuit includes an output pad, an alarm output pad, and a test mode output pad. A first multi-bit register is programmable to store programmable data such as data that identifies a customer for whom the integrated circuit has been manufactured. A second m... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110054334 | Alarm testing and backup for implanted medical devices with vibration alerts Alarm tests are disclosed which use alarm test signals to assess alarms provided by medical devices. Especially relevant are implanted devices that monitor cardiac activity and provide notification in response to medically relevant events. Alarm tests can occur periodic... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110025490 | ALARM DEVICE An alarm device includes: a wireless circuit section which wirelessly exchanges event signals with an other alarm device; an alert section which outputs an alarm; an operation section which accepts predetermined operations; a sensor section which issues an abnormal cond... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100277302 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ACTIVATION OF A HOME SECURITY, MONITORING AND AUTOMATION CONTROLLER Embodiments of the present invention provide a single platform that provides controller functionality for each of security, monitoring and automation, as well as providing a capacity to function as a bidirectional Internet gateway. Embodiments of the present invention p... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100225466 | System architecture and apparatus for programmable automatic power supply testing A cost-effective system architecture and apparatus for programmable automatic power supply testing. The system utilizes board level interface between various system testing modules and an Automatic Test Controller (ATC). The ATC receives coded test requests from the sof... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100127849 | SYSTEM FOR TESTING NAC OPERABILITY USING REDUCED OPERATING VOLTAGE A monitoring system for a NAC (Notification Appliance Circuit) is provided. The monitoring system includes a system controller, and a NAC comprised of one or more notification appliances that may be in a series. The NAC and its appliances may be operatively coupled to t... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100026480 | FIRE GAS DETECTOR-CODING A detector comprises a detector base and a sensor, first and second resistors connected in series, a DC voltage source (Vref) connected to the resistors, and means for monitoring the voltage at the midpoint of a potential divider constituted by the series-connected resi... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090303032 | METHOD AND OPERATOR CONTROL UNIT FOR CONFIGURING AND MONITORING A DEVICE WITH FUNCTIONAL SAFETY The present invention relates to a method for configuring a safety sensor such as a application-specific basis, wherein an operator control unit equipped with input means is provided, which operator control unit is connected to the safety sensor under automatic interfac... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090278680 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING THE ALARM CONFIGURATION The disclosure relates to a method and device suitable in which historical process measurement values are evaluated and used for the generation of alarm suppression rules. In connection with predetermined requirements, alarm configuration parameters are tested, evaluate... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090273463 | EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION An emergency warning system includes a plurality of emergency annunciators for installation in a physical zone, a zone controller and a master controller. Each emergency annunciator is operable to independently and periodically perform a self-test for verifying its capa... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090267755 | Method and warning alarm device, smoke detector in particular A method for testing the free entrance of gas into a measuring cavity of a warning alarm device via at least one opening, wherein an acoustic signal is generated in the measuring cavity and the change of the resonance behaviour of the measuring cavity is measured in ord... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090184816 | ALARM SYSTEM WALK TEST A system and method for performing a walk test for an alarm system having an alarm panel and at least one zone, each zone having at least one sensor, having steps of placing the alarm panel in an engineering mode, establishing a communications channel between the alarm ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090045938 | Effectively documenting irregularities in a responsive user's environment A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for accepting user-response-indicative data and environmental-regularity-indicative data from an environment and configuring a distillation recording of the environmental-regularity-indicative data an... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090002148 | LEARNING AND REASONING ABOUT THE CONTEXT-SENSITIVE RELIABILITY OF SENSORS A sensor monitoring system is described that identifies inaccurate or degraded sensor data and corresponding sensors. The system analyzes a plurality of sensors to determine reliable sensors and isolate or reinterpret unreliable sensor data. An analysis component analyz... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080320541 | Method and apparatus for locating network impairments A system for locating an impairment in a coaxial cable network comprises an encoder, an impairment detector, and a decoder. The encoder couples to the network at a predetermined encoding point, upstream of the impairment. The encoder automatically encodes an identificat... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080252441 | Method and apparatus for performing a real-time root-cause analysis by analyzing degrading telemetry signals One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs a real-time root-cause-analysis for a degradation event associated with a component under test. During operation, the system monitors a telemetry signal collected from the component, and while doing... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080231437 | BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS A monitoring system, including an interface configured to communicate with a building device, a sensor, and a memory. The monitoring system includes a processor configured to communicate with the memory and the interface. The processor is configured to transmit a test s... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080224847 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Fire Detectors A hazard detector monitoring system comprises one or more smoke detectors each provided with an electronic device containing information unique to the detector so as to identify the detector. A testing device is located at the end of a pole and held adjacent the detecto... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080211660 | Field device system and field device system diagnosing method A field device system having a transmission line, includes a diagnostic module that detects whether or not a failure of the transmission line is present. Also, the diagnostic module has at least one measuring portion for measuring electric ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080189009 | Method and apparatus to monitor ambient sensing devices A method is provided to monitor operation of a sensing system for a motor vehicle equipped with inter-vehicle communications capability. The method comprises comparing analogous signals communicated from a plurality of vehicles in close proximity thereto.... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080174418 | Emergency Transmission Monitoring and Reporting A method, apparatus and system for monitoring an emergency frequency at a ground station for detection of an emergency signal and, upon detecting an emergency signal, determining whether the emergency signal represents an emergency event. If an emergency event is detect... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080162071 | Communication of a diagnostic signal and a functional signal by an integrated circuit An integrated circuit 300 includes a functional circuit 320 and a diagnostic circuit 330. The integrated circuit comprises a signal interface controller 320 operable to monitor a signal associated with at least one of the functional circuit a... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080100464 | Position sensitive indicator detection A detector for a test system having multiple indicators uses position sensitive light detection by multiple light detecting elements to produce a measured signal vector. The measured signal vector, which may include fewer components than there are indicators, has a magn... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080084291 | Method and apparatus for authenicated on-site testing, inspection, servicing and control of life-safety equipment and reporting of same using a remote accessory A method, apparatus, remote accessory and authentication server are provided for facilitating operations such as an authenticated test of life safety equipment having components including a control panel and sensors. The life safety equipment requires testing according ... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20070279212 | System and method for testing RFID devices A system for testing RFID devices is introduced. The system includes a carrier plate configured for carrying an RFID device, a cable configured for supporting the carrier plate, a pulley apparatus configured for transporting the carrier plate along the cable, and a cont... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070273540 | GAS SENSOR SYSTEM WITH FAILURE DIAGNOSTIC FUNCTION AND FAILURE DIAGNOSIS METHOD FOR GAS SENSOR SYSTEM A gas sensor system includes a gas sensor capable of producing an output signal responsive to the concentration of a specific gas component in measurement gas, a gas concentration determination device that makes electrical connections to the gas sensor and determines th... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070241876 | Wireless linking of smoke/CO detection units A wireless detector and alarm system, such as for example a smoke detector and/or carbon monoxide (CO) detector, operable to be linked and unlinked with one or more like detectors thereby forming a network of detectors. A detector sensing the presence of an environmenta... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070208525 | Light source of testing light sensor, test apparatus and method A light source of testing a sensor, a test apparatus and a method are disclosed. The test apparatus includes a light source, a photo-mask and a sensor bearing area. The light source includes a plurality of light emitting diodes with parallel connection for emitting a te... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070194907 | Method and apparatus for audio assisted testing A cell phone based test capability enables a tester to audibly communicate with a fire alarm control unit. A detector can be selected and tested. Test results can be audibly communicated to the tester via the cell phone. The tester can initiate the next test via the cel... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070182542 | BATTERY BACKED SERVICE INDICATOR AIDS FOR FIELD MAINTENANCE A self-contained backup power source such as a battery is provided for components within an electrically powered device such as a storage controller, photocopier or the like, to maintain diagnostic status data and to power a service indicator aid, or diagnostic indicato... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070162245 | REMOTE REMEDIATION MONITORING SYSTEM Systems and methods for remotely testing the operational status of a remediation system installed within a building or structure are disclosed. An illustrative remote monitoring system can include a sensor adapted to sense at least one characteristic of the remediation ... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070145069 | Method and apparatus for generating consistent simulated smoke A simulated smoke generator method and apparatus is provided for generating a consistent smoke plume. By using a closed loop controller to maintain at least one property, affecting one or more characteristics of the oil, at a desired level, a consistent type of simulate... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070115111 | Method and apparatus for indicating a power condition at a notification appliance A notification appliance and an alarm system are provided. The notification appliance comprises an alarm indicator and a control module, which is configured to perform notification applications by turning on/off the alarm indicator. The control module receives at least ... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070100572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TESTING A BUZZER ASSOCIATED WITH A COMPUTER An exemplary system for testing a buzzer (110) associated with a computer (100) includes a buzzing module (122) for controlling the buzzer to sound continuously according to a reference frequency value and a reference amplitude value; a recording mo... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070096894 | Event communication system for providing user alerts An event communication system involves facilitating entry by a user of one or more device addresses via a network accessible user interface of the event communication system. The device addresses are associated with alerts provided by the event communication system. Tes... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070085670 | Industrial process sensor with sensor coating detection An industrial process sensor having a sensor component exposed to process fluid detects when the sensor performance has been degraded by a sensor coating buildup from the process fluid. A baseline statistical metric, such as standard deviation of the process parameter s... | 04/19/2007 |
