EP0323601A2 - Détecteur à radiations - Google Patents

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EP0323601A2
EP0323601A2 EP88121211A EP88121211A EP0323601A2 EP 0323601 A2 EP0323601 A2 EP 0323601A2 EP 88121211 A EP88121211 A EP 88121211A EP 88121211 A EP88121211 A EP 88121211A EP 0323601 A2 EP0323601 A2 EP 0323601A2
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Adalbert Neumann
Heinrich Stumpf
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ABB AG Germany
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/18—Actuation by interference with heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength; Actuation by intruding sources of heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength
    • G08B13/189—Actuation by interference with heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength; Actuation by intruding sources of heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength using passive radiation detection systems
    • G08B13/19—Actuation by interference with heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength; Actuation by intruding sources of heat, light, or radiation of shorter wavelength using passive radiation detection systems using infrared-radiation detection systems
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S250/00—Radiant energy
    • Y10S250/01—Passive intrusion detectors

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  • the invention relates to a radiation detector of the type mentioned in the preamble of claim 1.
  • Infrared detectors are used as motion detectors in room surveillance both inside and outside of buildings. As passive detectors, they respond directly to radiation objects that emit thermal radiation. Such a radiation object is e.g. also a person who enters a room to be monitored. No additional transmitter is required for monitoring, as is required for other types of motion detectors.
  • a detector of the type described is mounted on a wall in such a way that the axis of the cylindrical collecting optics is aligned vertically, it can, depending on its range, the plane that extends horizontally in front of it to the wall on which it is located attached, monitor.
  • the adjustment of the detection area should be carried out effortlessly and without damaging the lens.
  • the frame provided with a guide channel has no effect on the mounting angle of the optics without inserting a cover element.
  • the insertion of a cover element can therefore be omitted or removed or be placed in a position in which it does not restrict the detection range of the optics.
  • a cover element that can be pushed over the optics on one side will generally be sufficient. This applies particularly to those cases in which the detector is arranged at an angle in a rectangular room to be monitored. In this case, facing the room, a detection angle of approximately 90 ° is required, which means with a 180 ° detector that approximately half of its optics must be covered.
  • the cover frame is designed in such a way that a guide channel is formed on both sides of the optics, so that a cover element can also be inserted on both sides and can be displaced towards the optics.
  • the detection angle can be restricted either from one side or the other, but it can also be limited symmetrically to the optical axis.
  • An opening for introducing the cover element is preferably located at the end of the guide channel remote from the window, this or a second opening allowing access to the cover element.
  • the cover element can thus be brought into the desired position in front of a partial area of the optics in a simple manner.
  • the cover element designed as a strip can protrude with its end facing away from the window of the detector from one of the openings. If the end channel of the guide channel is designed like a pocket, the end of the cover element that remains after the adjustment can be inserted into the pocket that is open on one side, where it remains, but can also be removed if necessary.
  • the cover element has a handle on its end facing away from the window, which can consist, for example, of a web projecting at a right angle.
  • This bridge must protrude from the guide channel so that it can be gripped by hand. So that the cover element can be moved, a slot is provided along the guide channel which is just wide enough that the handle can move therein, but the guide channel for the wider cover element is not impaired.
  • the optics of the detector are usually designed so that there is a correspondingly different recording angle in both the horizontal and vertical planes. With the means of the invention it is possible to limit both recording angles. However, the focus is on a limitation of the recording angle lying in the horizontal plane.
  • the frame can be molded directly onto the housing. This option will be used when it comes to designing a new housing.
  • the frame it is advantageous to design the frame as a separate part that can be placed on the housing.
  • Such a frame provided with flexible clamping elements is expediently designed such that it is anchored to the housing. The area of the window and mounting elements provided for mounting the housing, and possibly also external supply lines, must remain free.
  • the preferably film-like, strip-shaped cover element can be adapted to the respective needs of the user.
  • it consists of infrared-opaque material.
  • it is also possible not to abruptly limit the detection angle, but only to reduce the sensitivity of the detector in a partial area. In this case, an infrared-damping film will be used.
  • this film can be used to use a film, which has areas of different infrared attenuation. This is achieved by stacking several foils of different damping on top of each other, so that partial areas are formed which are each formed by only one, by two or more foils. Possibly. you can of course also do without these steps, and achieve the desired total attenuation by congruently superimposing several infrared-damping foils.
  • an infrared-transparent support can be used, onto which the foils are glued in the desired formation.
  • this carrier is a transparent adhesive film, but it can also consist of a strong, transparent film and be provided with the handle described above in order to enable the cover element to be adjusted.
  • the radiation detector has a housing 1 which is provided with a window 2 towards the front, in which there is an optic 3 designed as a fixed lens.
  • the optics 3 has a detection angle ⁇ 1, which in this case is somewhat less than 180 °.
  • the infrared radiation recorded in the area of the detection angle ⁇ 1 is focused by the optics 3 on a sensor 4.
  • a frame 5 is glued onto the housing 1, which could also be molded on in the same material.
  • the frame 5 with the optics 3 forms a guide channel 7 into which a cover element 6 can be inserted.
  • the cover element 6, which is preferably designed as a strip-shaped film, is pushed into a partial area 8 in front of the optics 3, which is covered in an angular range ⁇ 3. If the cover element 6 is opaque to infrared radiation, the sensor 4 in the range of the angle ⁇ 3 no radiation is supplied. However, if the cover element 6 only has a damping effect, the one received by the sensor 4 is reduced Infrared radiation. The actual detection angle with which the infrared detector receives the infrared radiation undiminished is thus reduced to an angle ⁇ 2.
  • the detector is provided on both sides with openings 9 which lie in the end region of the optics 3 and which allow the cover element 6 to be inserted. This makes it possible to selectively limit the detection angle ⁇ extending horizontally on one side by a cover element 6 or on both sides by two cover elements 6.
  • FIGS. 5 to 8 A second variant for designing a guide channel 7 with the aid of a frame 5 is shown in FIGS. 5 to 8.
  • the frame 5 is integrally formed on the housing 1 material.
  • the guide channel 7 which can be seen particularly well in FIG. 7
  • the frame 5 surrounding it is extended over the front of the housing 1 into the region of its two side walls.
  • the part of the guide channel 7 which extends into the region of the side walls can accommodate the cover element 6 over its entire length.
  • the detector can therefore in principle be provided with a cover element 6, which, however, is only pushed into the area of the optics when required.
  • the cover element 6 is provided at its end away from the window with a handle 11 on which the hand or a tool can engage.
  • a web serves as a handle, which extends approximately at a right angle from the plane of the cover element protrudes.
  • the handle 11 is narrower than the cover element 6, so that a correspondingly narrow slot 10 is sufficient to ensure the mobility of the web 11 when moving the cover element, but on the other hand to prevent the cover element 6 from falling out.
  • the handle 11 can also be arranged in the area of the window or at any other point, provided that only its free mobility is ensured.
  • the radiation detector can be adapted even more universally to its respective application by appropriately designing the cover element 6. So it may be desirable that the cover element 6 in the partial area ⁇ 3 of the detection angle for the infrared radiation is completely opaque, or possibly only attenuates it. To achieve a certain attenuation, it may be necessary to work with foils that absorb infrared radiation in very different ways. In addition, it is by no means always in the entire sub-area 8 an equal absorption must be required. In order to meet the possibly very different requirements, a wide range of different cover elements 6 would have to be available, which would result in corresponding storage.
  • this object can be achieved relatively simply by storing only one film of relatively low absorption, and then obtaining the cover element 6 by superimposing several films with the desired infrared transmission.
  • individual foils 12 can be superimposed congruently, or, as shown in FIG. 4, staggered in relation to one another.
  • the strip-shaped foils 12 can have the same length, and can thus be graded as desired. So that the foils 12 do not shift relative to one another, it is possible to glue them onto a transparent carrier 13.
  • the carrier can be an infrared-permeable adhesive film or can also be provided with a handle at its end as a custom-made product.
  • the individual stages of different infrared transmission can be adapted to the width of the individual zones of the lens. In this way, different sensitivities in the edge area of the optics can also be compensated.

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EP88121211A 1987-12-24 1988-12-19 Détecteur à radiations Expired - Lifetime EP0323601B1 (fr)

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AT88121211T ATE89092T1 (de) 1987-12-24 1988-12-19 Strahlungsdetektor.

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DE3744182A DE3744182C2 (de) 1987-12-24 1987-12-24 Infrarotdetektor
DE3744182 1987-12-24

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EP0323601A2 true EP0323601A2 (fr) 1989-07-12
EP0323601A3 EP0323601A3 (en) 1990-05-30
EP0323601B1 EP0323601B1 (fr) 1993-05-05

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DE (3) DE3744182C2 (fr)
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NO (1) NO175693C (fr)

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NO175693B (no) 1994-08-08
DK705688A (da) 1989-06-25
DE3744182C2 (de) 1994-06-30
NO885746L (no) 1989-06-26
DK172323B1 (da) 1998-03-16
EP0323601B1 (fr) 1993-05-05
US4960995A (en) 1990-10-02
DE3744182A1 (de) 1989-07-06
EP0323601A3 (en) 1990-05-30
ATE89092T1 (de) 1993-05-15
NO175693C (no) 1994-11-16
DE8717763U1 (de) 1990-01-11
DE3880813D1 (de) 1993-06-09
DK705688D0 (da) 1988-12-19

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