Smoke detector with sensor having improved mounting configuration

US6377182B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BRK Brands, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark A. Devine · Shorewood, US
• Mark Watson · Laramie, US
• Andrew J. Ivanecky · Aurora, US
• Lulzim Osmani · Glen Ellyn, US
• Kenneth L. Venzant · Bolingbrook, US
• Samuel Lopez · Oswego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2000
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B17/113
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A smoke detector has a geometry that locates a sensor or sensors at or near a boundary layer of smoke movement thus facilitating smoke entry into the sensor and/or sensors. The sensors are mounted so as to protrude from the bottom of a cover instead of into the cover of the detector.