Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-10
2007-07-10
Hofsass, Jeffery (Department: 2612)
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
C340S628000, C073S001060
Reexamination Certificate
active
11070460
ABSTRACT:
A gas detection system capable of suppressing the power consumption of the system using gas sensors required for heating for measurement at high accuracy, comprising a server and a plurality of gas sensors connected by way of wireless communication with the server, in which each of the gas sensors is provided with a heater, a controller for controlling the ON-OFF for the power supply to the heater and a comparator for comparing the detected gas concentration with a predetermined threshold value. In the gas detection system, electric power is not usually supplied to the heater in each of the gas sensors and the gas sensor measures the gas concentration at a low accuracy and always compares it with the threshold value. In a case where the gas concentration exceeds the threshold value in one of the gas sensors, it turns the heater of its own to ON thereby switching the measurement to that at high accuracy and turns the heater to OFF upon completing the measurement. At the same time, it informs the detection for the excess of threshold value to the server and the server lowers the threshold value of the gas sensors in the vicinity of the gas sensor that has informed the detection for the excess of threshold value to make the monitoring level severer.
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Goto Yasushi
Nakano Sadaki
Yokosawa Koichi
A. Marquez, Esq. Juan Carlos
Fisher Esq. Stanley P.
Hitachi , Ltd.
Hofsass Jeffery
Lai Anne V.
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