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A conventional warning device of a transport system, additional warning lights and an audible device are assembled together to form a visible and audible warning system, thus saving costs, decreasing the failure rate and increasing the reliability. In an event of accident and/or fire this system automatically turns on the warning lights to warn drivers or pilots of oncoming transport systems and assist passengers in finding the doors and door-release levers. That system delivers via the loudspeakers helpful information, based on a multi-lingual text data, of how to behave, how to operate the door-release levers for detaching the jammed and/or locked doors from the vehicle body and how to egress out of the transport system therethrough. The system is equipped with a minor current circuit and rechargeable batteries to ensure the power supply when the car battery must be disconnected or the conventional power supply fails in an accident.
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VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE WARNING SYSTEM FOR A TRANSPORT SYSTEM
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
s 1. Field of the Invention:
The present invention relates generally to a visible and audible warning system, provided for a transport system and activated in an accident and/or on fire, - to immediately warn drivers of the oncoming transport systems (trains, commuter trains, motor vehicles, ships or aeroplanes);
- to help users (see Chap. "Definition") find the door-release levers of a door-detachment device, the doors and emergency exists in the accident, particularly when it is dark; and - to instruct them of how to behave, how to operate the door-release levers and how to egress out of the transport system through the door openings of the detached doors.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
s 1. Field of the Invention:
The present invention relates generally to a visible and audible warning system, provided for a transport system and activated in an accident and/or on fire, - to immediately warn drivers of the oncoming transport systems (trains, commuter trains, motor vehicles, ships or aeroplanes);
- to help users (see Chap. "Definition") find the door-release levers of a door-detachment device, the doors and emergency exists in the accident, particularly when it is dark; and - to instruct them of how to behave, how to operate the door-release levers and how to egress out of the transport system through the door openings of the detached doors.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art:
In order to formulate in single terminology a generalized definition is presented for the proper term:
Definition; Proper Term:
"vehicle door" train- or vehicle door 8, 8S, tailgate door 8T (not drawn), revolving door 8V (not drawn), double cargo door SW (not drawn), sliding door 8X (not drawn) or any vehicular member (not drawn) which is rotatably and/or movably connected to the vehicle body 10 by at least two hinges.
"accident" front-, side-, rear collision, rollover or multi-crash of transport system and/or transport system is on fire.
"jammed vehicle door" vehicle door, jammed in the vehicle body in an accident, cannot be opened even by great force, in contrary to a clamped vehicle door.
"vehicle body" train- or vehicle body comprising a passenger compartment, vehicle floor, front section- and rear section of the vehicle body.
"rescue workers" aide personnel such as doctors, medical personnel, paramedics, firefighters etc.
"users" passengers, drivers or pilots of oncoming transport systems, crew members, rescue workers and/or third parties (nonparticipants) "aggressively driven vehicle is aggressively driven into the vehicles, which are in a vehicle" traffic-congestion or involved in an accident. Particularly, when it is dark at night, the lives of the rescue workers and passengers at the accident site are endangered by aggressively driven vehicles.
"door detachment ref. to detachment of the jammed, locked and/or unlocked vehicle CA 2,373,040" door from the vehicle body.
"door detachment door detachment is operated when the transport system is on occurring after the fire or after the accident is over or when the transport system accident" comes to a halt. In order to prevent the ejection of the passengers from the motor vehicle, train or aeroplane, when it rolls over, the door detachment has to be operated only when the transport system comes to a halt.
"door-release lever" hand-brake lever, release button of buckle assembly, press button of buckle assembly, handle, shown in Figs. I to 5.
"audible device" cell phone, radio or navigator, each having at least one loudspeaker and at least one storage medium.
"helpful information" a sound and/or spoken message "rescue of passengers salvage and rescue of passengers out of a vehicle or a out of vehicle involved in transport system involved in an accident an accident"
Injury severity of passengers in the ICE (high-speed) train accident in the German city Eschede was increased due to the time consumed for the rescue, which was hampered due to - cutting discs, which were suited for cutting steel, but unsuited for aluminium;
- time-consuming operation to detach the jammed, very stiff aluminium-doors of the carriages; and - lack of visible and audible warning systems to give helpful information to the passengers, who, being under great shock, no longer had the full power of perception or orientation to find the emergency exits.
I0 Having crashed into a centre-barrier, a six-year old BMW 525 rolled over on to the opposite side of the carriageway of a highway and lay on its roof. In the darkness this BMW was rammed by a truck.
Both vehicles burst into flames. This fire-inferno could have been averted if the warning device of the luxury car could have been automatically turned on by the sensors of the airbags. In general, many crashes and fire-infernos could be prevented if the warning devices of the vehicles, involved in an accident, were automatically turned on.
Ref. to USA TODAY issued July 13, 1999, which is incorporated herein, an MD-82 of American Airlines, carrying 145 passengers, when landing at Little Rock National Airport, careened past the end of the runway, skidded over an embankment, broke apart, after having hit runway's light poles, and caught fire. Panic and chaos dominated the process of self-evacuation.
Passengers clambered past one another, screamed at others to move out of the way to the emergency exits and cracks on the fuselage and/or fought over who would leave first therethrough. In panic they froze at the emergency exits and/or were afraid of opening them or jumping through the door openings or cracks. According to NTSB and FAA experts, with whom the inventor of this application was discussing, panic and chaos always hamper self-evacuation of passengers. In the future such tragedies can be averted by the visible and audible device which gives the passengers as well as crew members helpful information in several languages of how to behave and encourages them to follow the rules and guiding lights to the emergency exits.
In order to formulate in single terminology a generalized definition is presented for the proper term:
Definition; Proper Term:
"vehicle door" train- or vehicle door 8, 8S, tailgate door 8T (not drawn), revolving door 8V (not drawn), double cargo door SW (not drawn), sliding door 8X (not drawn) or any vehicular member (not drawn) which is rotatably and/or movably connected to the vehicle body 10 by at least two hinges.
"accident" front-, side-, rear collision, rollover or multi-crash of transport system and/or transport system is on fire.
"jammed vehicle door" vehicle door, jammed in the vehicle body in an accident, cannot be opened even by great force, in contrary to a clamped vehicle door.
"vehicle body" train- or vehicle body comprising a passenger compartment, vehicle floor, front section- and rear section of the vehicle body.
"rescue workers" aide personnel such as doctors, medical personnel, paramedics, firefighters etc.
"users" passengers, drivers or pilots of oncoming transport systems, crew members, rescue workers and/or third parties (nonparticipants) "aggressively driven vehicle is aggressively driven into the vehicles, which are in a vehicle" traffic-congestion or involved in an accident. Particularly, when it is dark at night, the lives of the rescue workers and passengers at the accident site are endangered by aggressively driven vehicles.
"door detachment ref. to detachment of the jammed, locked and/or unlocked vehicle CA 2,373,040" door from the vehicle body.
"door detachment door detachment is operated when the transport system is on occurring after the fire or after the accident is over or when the transport system accident" comes to a halt. In order to prevent the ejection of the passengers from the motor vehicle, train or aeroplane, when it rolls over, the door detachment has to be operated only when the transport system comes to a halt.
"door-release lever" hand-brake lever, release button of buckle assembly, press button of buckle assembly, handle, shown in Figs. I to 5.
"audible device" cell phone, radio or navigator, each having at least one loudspeaker and at least one storage medium.
"helpful information" a sound and/or spoken message "rescue of passengers salvage and rescue of passengers out of a vehicle or a out of vehicle involved in transport system involved in an accident an accident"
Injury severity of passengers in the ICE (high-speed) train accident in the German city Eschede was increased due to the time consumed for the rescue, which was hampered due to - cutting discs, which were suited for cutting steel, but unsuited for aluminium;
- time-consuming operation to detach the jammed, very stiff aluminium-doors of the carriages; and - lack of visible and audible warning systems to give helpful information to the passengers, who, being under great shock, no longer had the full power of perception or orientation to find the emergency exits.
I0 Having crashed into a centre-barrier, a six-year old BMW 525 rolled over on to the opposite side of the carriageway of a highway and lay on its roof. In the darkness this BMW was rammed by a truck.
Both vehicles burst into flames. This fire-inferno could have been averted if the warning device of the luxury car could have been automatically turned on by the sensors of the airbags. In general, many crashes and fire-infernos could be prevented if the warning devices of the vehicles, involved in an accident, were automatically turned on.
Ref. to USA TODAY issued July 13, 1999, which is incorporated herein, an MD-82 of American Airlines, carrying 145 passengers, when landing at Little Rock National Airport, careened past the end of the runway, skidded over an embankment, broke apart, after having hit runway's light poles, and caught fire. Panic and chaos dominated the process of self-evacuation.
Passengers clambered past one another, screamed at others to move out of the way to the emergency exits and cracks on the fuselage and/or fought over who would leave first therethrough. In panic they froze at the emergency exits and/or were afraid of opening them or jumping through the door openings or cracks. According to NTSB and FAA experts, with whom the inventor of this application was discussing, panic and chaos always hamper self-evacuation of passengers. In the future such tragedies can be averted by the visible and audible device which gives the passengers as well as crew members helpful information in several languages of how to behave and encourages them to follow the rules and guiding lights to the emergency exits.
Ref. to a German Newspaper, issued Jan. 14, 2002, In a pile-up on the highway from Nuremberg to Munich, covered by fog, 13 of 28 vehicles burst into flames, two passengers were burnt alive and two others in critical condition, were subjected, presumably, to bum and toxic smoke, Drivers of oncoming 3 motor-vehicles have to be warned by warning lights of the vehicles at the accident site, in particular, when hidden by fog. Imagine the total loss, which, resulting from the severelfatal injuries, all 28 vehicles, piling up, and the environmental pollution linked to nearly 50 % of the piling up vehicles, bursting into flames, could, to a great extent be averted by the visible and audible device!
EP 0786 378 A2 teaches an emergency automatic lighting system, which, equipped with a piston-activator, comprising a piston and a cylinder, and installed in vehicles, automatically operates in the event of collision, sudden stoppage (emergency braking), overturning or skidding off a road. Because the piston is moved in the cylinder by its inertia force in longitudinal direction of the vehicle, exerted only in a front collision, the following problems arises;
1. Taken as given, the threshold value is set for an emergency braking about 1 g. When "safety' cars, equipped with the emergency automatic lighting systems, travel on bumpy roads, all warning lights flash. How many times the car manufacturer must recall hundreds of thousands of "safety" cars? When a three-month old BMW 328 crashed into another BMW, both front airbags were properly inflated while two side airbags of co-driver side and a roof airbag thereof were falsely inflated due to the low threshold value. Upon receiving an investigation report of the inventor of this application the Board of Directors of the BMW Group recalled 280,000 BMW 3s, as reported by the German newspapers and the ZDF (Second Broadcasting Corporation). In 2002, three years later, the US Administration NHSTA
requested the BMW
Group to recall 200,400 BMW 3s in USA by presenting solid evidence of falsely inflated side-and roof airbags of BMW 3s, while driving on bumpy roads, as reported by two German magazines Auto Motor and Sport and Capital, both issue 20/2002. The reports are incorporated herein.
2. Taken as given, the threshold value is set for front collisions about 5 or 6 g, The system falls in the event of emergency braking or skidding off.
3. In the event of overturning or skidding off the road the "safety" car and the system, both are subjected to a roll- or yaw-acceleration dependant force. Hence, the piston remains unmoved in the cylinder.
EP 0786 378 A2 teaches an emergency automatic lighting system, which, equipped with a piston-activator, comprising a piston and a cylinder, and installed in vehicles, automatically operates in the event of collision, sudden stoppage (emergency braking), overturning or skidding off a road. Because the piston is moved in the cylinder by its inertia force in longitudinal direction of the vehicle, exerted only in a front collision, the following problems arises;
1. Taken as given, the threshold value is set for an emergency braking about 1 g. When "safety' cars, equipped with the emergency automatic lighting systems, travel on bumpy roads, all warning lights flash. How many times the car manufacturer must recall hundreds of thousands of "safety" cars? When a three-month old BMW 328 crashed into another BMW, both front airbags were properly inflated while two side airbags of co-driver side and a roof airbag thereof were falsely inflated due to the low threshold value. Upon receiving an investigation report of the inventor of this application the Board of Directors of the BMW Group recalled 280,000 BMW 3s, as reported by the German newspapers and the ZDF (Second Broadcasting Corporation). In 2002, three years later, the US Administration NHSTA
requested the BMW
Group to recall 200,400 BMW 3s in USA by presenting solid evidence of falsely inflated side-and roof airbags of BMW 3s, while driving on bumpy roads, as reported by two German magazines Auto Motor and Sport and Capital, both issue 20/2002. The reports are incorporated herein.
2. Taken as given, the threshold value is set for front collisions about 5 or 6 g, The system falls in the event of emergency braking or skidding off.
3. In the event of overturning or skidding off the road the "safety" car and the system, both are subjected to a roll- or yaw-acceleration dependant force. Hence, the piston remains unmoved in the cylinder.
4. For sure, drivers of the oncoming conventional cars get confused when all warning lights of the "safety" car, equipped with the system, flash every time the driver brakes hard or it skids off.
Administrations worldwide won't give permission for its use.
5. When the angle to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in a front collision is larger than 350, a Coriolis-acceleration dependant force presses the ball, coated with gold, into the cylinder, also coated with gold. As a result, the ball remains unmoved and the sensor does not work. Because the piston and cylinder are not coated with gold and the contact area of the piston on its cylinder is bigger than that of the ball on the gold-coated cylinder, the friction of the piston, moving along the non gold-coated cylinder, is far larger than the ball, moving along the gold-coated cylinder. As a result, the piston-activator doesn't work in front collisions with an angle, larger than, I assume 100.
Administrations worldwide won't give permission for its use.
5. When the angle to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in a front collision is larger than 350, a Coriolis-acceleration dependant force presses the ball, coated with gold, into the cylinder, also coated with gold. As a result, the ball remains unmoved and the sensor does not work. Because the piston and cylinder are not coated with gold and the contact area of the piston on its cylinder is bigger than that of the ball on the gold-coated cylinder, the friction of the piston, moving along the non gold-coated cylinder, is far larger than the ball, moving along the gold-coated cylinder. As a result, the piston-activator doesn't work in front collisions with an angle, larger than, I assume 100.
6. In a rear or side collision the system does not work at all.
7. Both inventors recommend not conventional sensors, but mercury switches as piston- activator substitutes (see column 2/lines 55-57), which pollute the environment!!
Beyond doubt, the description and drawings are poor. Ref. to Fig. 1 of EP 0786 378 three components (devices), such as an electronic component 9 and a pair of remote controlled switches 5, have the same intermittent function for the warning lights 4a-4d. Two devices are redundant! To persons skilled in the art and/or science it is obvious that any conventional warning device 78a comprises, a single device 120a for intermittent lighting, provided with an emergency-switch light 4xa, warning (emergency) lights 4a to 4d, an emergency switch 78.1a and a current warning-lights circuit 79.12a, wired to a main current circuit 79.1a, wired to the plus pole 89.1a of a battery 89b and to the minus pole 89.2a, as shown in Fig. 1C. Upon switching on the emergency switch 78.1a the warning lights 4a to 4d as well as the emergency-switch light 4xa flash.
Ref to US 5,874,892 and Fig. 6 a vehicle warning system for a,,safety" vehicle 210-218 comprises a) a receiver 202, b) a sound generator, c) an airbag of co-driver, d) warning lights 4a-4d, e) a receiver 202 and f) a pressure-activated switch, which, arranged in a steering wheel and provided with a transmitter 200, is activated by the driver of an initiating õsafety" vehicle 210, when facing a hazardous situation, instinctively gripping the steering wheel harder.
In contrast standard vehicles 220-232 are not equipped with warning systems.
As a result of the strong pressure, larger than the threshold value, the transmitter 200 transmits a radio frequency signal 201, acting as first signal, to all the receivers 202 in the warning units of the initiating ,,safety" vehicle 210 and the other õsafety" vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind that initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 within the range of transmitted signal 201 for a specified radial distance of 50 to 75 feet. The warning units of the õsafety" vehicles 210-217 cause their warning lights 4a-4d to flash, while the warning units of the õsafety" vehicles 211-218 generate a warning sound to alert all the drivers thereof.
Ref. to Fig. 6, claim 5 of US 5,874,892 and column 5/lines 5-19 a second circuit, installed in the steering wheel, is wired to the co-driver airbag of the initiating õsafety"
vehicle 210 and transmitter 200.
When the inflating co-driver airbag cracks the co-driver's airbag housing in a front collision, the transmitter 200 transmits a second signal 203, = recognized by the receiver 202 in the warning unit of the initiating "safety" vehicle 210, which activates the warning lights 4a-4d to flash, and = intercepted by the receivers 202 in the warning units of the other,,safety"
vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind the initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 within the range of transmitted signal 203, the distance of which is not specified, hence, unlimited, where all the warning units activate 1. their warning lights 4a-4d to flash and 2. their warning chips to repetitively issue a warning "An accident has occurred ... Proceed with caution" to all their drivers.
Administrations worldwide won't give permission for its use due to the following deficiencies of the vehicle warning system:
1) Taken as given, the threshold value is set for fragile beauties from Hollywood about 0.5 kg. No data regarding gripping pressures are available. When millions of obese people and millions of strong drivers in USA start driving by only touching the steering wheels of õsafety"
vehicles 210.218, the warning lights 4a-4d of their cars and the other õsafety" vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind their respective cars, immediately flash, thus resulting in traffic-congestion across the US states, chaos in the traffic, irritation among all passengers and great loss in economy.
2) Taken as given, the threshold value is set for over 150 kg heavy wrestlers about 20 kg. Every fragile beauty from Hollywood can grip the steering wheel of õsafety" vehicle 210.218 as hard as possible, no signals are transmitted. Thus, the system fails.
3) Ref. to Fig. 6 the õsafety" vehicles 210-218 and standard vehicles 220-232 on two highways 250, 260, each of which is divided into two carriageways, on which 250S, 250N; NOW, 260E the traffic flows in opposite direction, come to a halt because the signal 201 of the initiating õsafety" vehicle 210, involved in a side collision, is intercepted by the receivers 202 of 1. the oncoming õsafety" vehicles 211, 214 and 2. the safety" vehicles 212, 213, 215-218, approaching from behind that initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 and travelling on the accident-free lanes of the carriageways 250S, 260W
and 260E. The system causes traffic-congestion and irritation among all passengers of the õsafety" vehicles 212, 213, 215-218, anticipating the warning "An accident has occurred ... ", searching for it in vain, getting diverted from the traffic and finding out there is no accident!
Being subjected to the repetition of the warning the drivers start again the searching operation and get irritated.
The repetition of misleading warning and irritation can result in a crash!
4) The driver of the standard vehicle 228 gets irritated, when watching through his window the flashing of the warning lights of the õsafety" vehicle 218, adjacent to his vehicle 228, and the emergency braking. The repetition of misleading warning and irritation can result in a crash!
5) The rupture of the co-driver's airbag housing is exploited to transmit the second signal 203. In compliance with the rules, issued by administrations worldwide to protect children and babies, seated on the co-driver seats, from being killed by co-driver airbags, a weight sensor, built in the co-driver seat, senses the weight of the co-driver. It automatically switches off the co-driver airbag, when a child or baby is using the seat. Hence, the system fails in front collisions because no second signal 203 is transmitted. The system fails too in side-, rear- or rollover crashes.
Beyond doubt, the transmitter 200 is incapable of transmitting radio frequency signal 201 as well as second signal 203 to the receivers 202 in the warning units of all õsafety"
vehicles 210-218 in the following accidents, the reports of which are incorporated herein:
1. Both a VW Golf IV, travelling at 120 km/h on the highway A60, and the driver were engulfed in flames, because, I assume, the fastening sleeve of injection pump was shorn off while the injection pump injected gasoline to hot parts of the diesel engine, just like two Volvos, listed hereinafter. The VW Golf, uncontrolled, crashed into the left barrier.
2. A four year old Volvo S80, travelling on a highway to Frankfurt and losing power, caught fire.
After having parked his burnt car on the hard shoulder the driver stepped out.
Upon investigation the inventor of this application found out that the fastening sleeve of injection pump was shorn off due to fatigue failure. A brand-new Volvo V70 caught fire while travelling.
Both cars were equipped with diesel engines, made by AUDI. After having evaluated the inventor's accident report not Volvo Corp., but Volkswagen and AUDI Corp., feeling responsible for preserving the environment and, particularly, ensuring the safety of the customers, recalled 290,000 cars, equipped with diesel engines, worldwide.
3. In Toronto a jeep crashed into the side wall of Innocon Gravel Haulage. As a result, a natural gas meter was shorn off and both the 39 year old driver and his jeep were engulfed in flames.
4. When the driver lost control over a four-year old MB C230 Turbocharger due to the icy road condition the MB C230 crashed at the rear section into a stiff traffic-sign post. As a result of the deformation of about 250 mm, all the doors were jammed, fire linked to the total deformation of the tank broke out and all five young passengers, trapped therein, were burnt alive while inhaling toxic smoke. Note, there are no mandatory requirements for rear-end crashing cars. If that MB C230 were equipped with the rescue system ref. to CA 2,373,040 as well as the visible and audible warning system those youngsters under shock could perceive the life-saving and helpful information, below-mentioned, of how to evacuate themselves out thereof and third parties, being alerted by the warning lights and help calls blared out of the loudspeakers, would run to the accident site and try to extinguish the fire.
Although the accident, occurring in a central area of the big city Ludwigshafen, was immediately communicated to the Police- and Fire Stations it was too late for the paramedics, firefighters and police when they arrived at the accident site. The accident report is incorporated herein.
5. GDV, an Association of German Insurers, registered 31,682 vehicles, which, caught fire in 2003, were parked in multi-storey carparks or parking lots or on roadsides etc. due to short circuit, plastic reflectors, wrong layout of electrical devices such as seat heaters, cooling fans, etc., as reported by the German magazine Auto Motor and Sport. A short circuit in a BMW Z3 caught fire, engulfing the BMW itself, the carport of the BMW owner, in which the BMW was parked, and the house of his neighbour.
6. An increase of vehicles, catching fire in accidents or while travelling or while parked, is expected due to failure of electrical parts of hybrid cars, the increasing number of electrical devices, installed in every vehicle, and the lack of methods for detecting fire!
See the third object of the present invention serving as countermeasures in Chapter "SUMMARY OF
THE INVENTION".
PCT W099/07600 teaches an emergency exit system, comprising a. a frame, defining a closable opening and including a plurality of locking means, spaced apart, b. a closure panel to close the closable opening and to be secured therein by the plurality of spaced apart locking means, c. a release mechanism, having a plurality of release means, each being independently operable, d. an actuation mechanism, which, upon actuation, operates to translate activation of any release means to release the closure panel from the frame to facilitate jettisoning of that closure panel, and e. a plurality of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) 110.
The plurality of LEDs, arranged on the plurality of release means, helps an operator monitor the state of the closure panel, being secured in a closable opening or having been jettisoned. Steady lighting of LEDs indicates that the closure panel is in a locked position, whereas strobe lighting of LEDs indicates that the closure panel has been jettisoned. Four rows of LEDs 110 are located on the top, bottom and both sides regions of the opening frame (see Fig. 6 of PCT W099/07600). The steady-lighting of LEDs with strong illumination helps the crew survive in the darkness, when their ship or helicopter sinks, particularly, in an inverted position.
When this invention regarding strong illumination and the release mechanism is applied to the vehicle doors, the following problems arise:
1. Because cars and passengers are permanently strongly illuminated by the LEDs during the journey, the passengers get irritated and, in worst case, sick.
2. Nobody, being permanently strongly illuminated by the LEDs during the journey, is able to drive a car the whole day or, for sure, at night. In contrast, the guiding lights 4e to 4n of the visible and audible warning system are switched on only in accidents.
3. Moreover, the invention endangers the passengers. In accidents the jettisoned doors hit and, in worst case, kill persons and damage other cars and buildings and some passengers are ejected while the status of the light changes from steady- to strobe-lighting.
In contrast, the detached vehicle doors, loaded by great energy, are secured by catch bands ref. to CA
2,373,040 to prevent them from flying off, killing persons and/or damaging cars/buildings.
The principle object of the emergency exit system to enable the passengers to rescue themselves out of a transport system, involved in accidents in water (see page 1 of PCT
W099/07600), for example a helicopter sinking in water (see page 14), differs wholly from that of the visible and audible warning system of transport system, involved in accidents, occurring only on the r und.
Beyond doubt, the description and drawings are poor. Ref. to Fig. 1 of EP 0786 378 three components (devices), such as an electronic component 9 and a pair of remote controlled switches 5, have the same intermittent function for the warning lights 4a-4d. Two devices are redundant! To persons skilled in the art and/or science it is obvious that any conventional warning device 78a comprises, a single device 120a for intermittent lighting, provided with an emergency-switch light 4xa, warning (emergency) lights 4a to 4d, an emergency switch 78.1a and a current warning-lights circuit 79.12a, wired to a main current circuit 79.1a, wired to the plus pole 89.1a of a battery 89b and to the minus pole 89.2a, as shown in Fig. 1C. Upon switching on the emergency switch 78.1a the warning lights 4a to 4d as well as the emergency-switch light 4xa flash.
Ref to US 5,874,892 and Fig. 6 a vehicle warning system for a,,safety" vehicle 210-218 comprises a) a receiver 202, b) a sound generator, c) an airbag of co-driver, d) warning lights 4a-4d, e) a receiver 202 and f) a pressure-activated switch, which, arranged in a steering wheel and provided with a transmitter 200, is activated by the driver of an initiating õsafety" vehicle 210, when facing a hazardous situation, instinctively gripping the steering wheel harder.
In contrast standard vehicles 220-232 are not equipped with warning systems.
As a result of the strong pressure, larger than the threshold value, the transmitter 200 transmits a radio frequency signal 201, acting as first signal, to all the receivers 202 in the warning units of the initiating ,,safety" vehicle 210 and the other õsafety" vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind that initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 within the range of transmitted signal 201 for a specified radial distance of 50 to 75 feet. The warning units of the õsafety" vehicles 210-217 cause their warning lights 4a-4d to flash, while the warning units of the õsafety" vehicles 211-218 generate a warning sound to alert all the drivers thereof.
Ref. to Fig. 6, claim 5 of US 5,874,892 and column 5/lines 5-19 a second circuit, installed in the steering wheel, is wired to the co-driver airbag of the initiating õsafety"
vehicle 210 and transmitter 200.
When the inflating co-driver airbag cracks the co-driver's airbag housing in a front collision, the transmitter 200 transmits a second signal 203, = recognized by the receiver 202 in the warning unit of the initiating "safety" vehicle 210, which activates the warning lights 4a-4d to flash, and = intercepted by the receivers 202 in the warning units of the other,,safety"
vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind the initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 within the range of transmitted signal 203, the distance of which is not specified, hence, unlimited, where all the warning units activate 1. their warning lights 4a-4d to flash and 2. their warning chips to repetitively issue a warning "An accident has occurred ... Proceed with caution" to all their drivers.
Administrations worldwide won't give permission for its use due to the following deficiencies of the vehicle warning system:
1) Taken as given, the threshold value is set for fragile beauties from Hollywood about 0.5 kg. No data regarding gripping pressures are available. When millions of obese people and millions of strong drivers in USA start driving by only touching the steering wheels of õsafety"
vehicles 210.218, the warning lights 4a-4d of their cars and the other õsafety" vehicles 211-218, both oncoming and approaching from behind their respective cars, immediately flash, thus resulting in traffic-congestion across the US states, chaos in the traffic, irritation among all passengers and great loss in economy.
2) Taken as given, the threshold value is set for over 150 kg heavy wrestlers about 20 kg. Every fragile beauty from Hollywood can grip the steering wheel of õsafety" vehicle 210.218 as hard as possible, no signals are transmitted. Thus, the system fails.
3) Ref. to Fig. 6 the õsafety" vehicles 210-218 and standard vehicles 220-232 on two highways 250, 260, each of which is divided into two carriageways, on which 250S, 250N; NOW, 260E the traffic flows in opposite direction, come to a halt because the signal 201 of the initiating õsafety" vehicle 210, involved in a side collision, is intercepted by the receivers 202 of 1. the oncoming õsafety" vehicles 211, 214 and 2. the safety" vehicles 212, 213, 215-218, approaching from behind that initiating õsafety" vehicle 210 and travelling on the accident-free lanes of the carriageways 250S, 260W
and 260E. The system causes traffic-congestion and irritation among all passengers of the õsafety" vehicles 212, 213, 215-218, anticipating the warning "An accident has occurred ... ", searching for it in vain, getting diverted from the traffic and finding out there is no accident!
Being subjected to the repetition of the warning the drivers start again the searching operation and get irritated.
The repetition of misleading warning and irritation can result in a crash!
4) The driver of the standard vehicle 228 gets irritated, when watching through his window the flashing of the warning lights of the õsafety" vehicle 218, adjacent to his vehicle 228, and the emergency braking. The repetition of misleading warning and irritation can result in a crash!
5) The rupture of the co-driver's airbag housing is exploited to transmit the second signal 203. In compliance with the rules, issued by administrations worldwide to protect children and babies, seated on the co-driver seats, from being killed by co-driver airbags, a weight sensor, built in the co-driver seat, senses the weight of the co-driver. It automatically switches off the co-driver airbag, when a child or baby is using the seat. Hence, the system fails in front collisions because no second signal 203 is transmitted. The system fails too in side-, rear- or rollover crashes.
Beyond doubt, the transmitter 200 is incapable of transmitting radio frequency signal 201 as well as second signal 203 to the receivers 202 in the warning units of all õsafety"
vehicles 210-218 in the following accidents, the reports of which are incorporated herein:
1. Both a VW Golf IV, travelling at 120 km/h on the highway A60, and the driver were engulfed in flames, because, I assume, the fastening sleeve of injection pump was shorn off while the injection pump injected gasoline to hot parts of the diesel engine, just like two Volvos, listed hereinafter. The VW Golf, uncontrolled, crashed into the left barrier.
2. A four year old Volvo S80, travelling on a highway to Frankfurt and losing power, caught fire.
After having parked his burnt car on the hard shoulder the driver stepped out.
Upon investigation the inventor of this application found out that the fastening sleeve of injection pump was shorn off due to fatigue failure. A brand-new Volvo V70 caught fire while travelling.
Both cars were equipped with diesel engines, made by AUDI. After having evaluated the inventor's accident report not Volvo Corp., but Volkswagen and AUDI Corp., feeling responsible for preserving the environment and, particularly, ensuring the safety of the customers, recalled 290,000 cars, equipped with diesel engines, worldwide.
3. In Toronto a jeep crashed into the side wall of Innocon Gravel Haulage. As a result, a natural gas meter was shorn off and both the 39 year old driver and his jeep were engulfed in flames.
4. When the driver lost control over a four-year old MB C230 Turbocharger due to the icy road condition the MB C230 crashed at the rear section into a stiff traffic-sign post. As a result of the deformation of about 250 mm, all the doors were jammed, fire linked to the total deformation of the tank broke out and all five young passengers, trapped therein, were burnt alive while inhaling toxic smoke. Note, there are no mandatory requirements for rear-end crashing cars. If that MB C230 were equipped with the rescue system ref. to CA 2,373,040 as well as the visible and audible warning system those youngsters under shock could perceive the life-saving and helpful information, below-mentioned, of how to evacuate themselves out thereof and third parties, being alerted by the warning lights and help calls blared out of the loudspeakers, would run to the accident site and try to extinguish the fire.
Although the accident, occurring in a central area of the big city Ludwigshafen, was immediately communicated to the Police- and Fire Stations it was too late for the paramedics, firefighters and police when they arrived at the accident site. The accident report is incorporated herein.
5. GDV, an Association of German Insurers, registered 31,682 vehicles, which, caught fire in 2003, were parked in multi-storey carparks or parking lots or on roadsides etc. due to short circuit, plastic reflectors, wrong layout of electrical devices such as seat heaters, cooling fans, etc., as reported by the German magazine Auto Motor and Sport. A short circuit in a BMW Z3 caught fire, engulfing the BMW itself, the carport of the BMW owner, in which the BMW was parked, and the house of his neighbour.
6. An increase of vehicles, catching fire in accidents or while travelling or while parked, is expected due to failure of electrical parts of hybrid cars, the increasing number of electrical devices, installed in every vehicle, and the lack of methods for detecting fire!
See the third object of the present invention serving as countermeasures in Chapter "SUMMARY OF
THE INVENTION".
PCT W099/07600 teaches an emergency exit system, comprising a. a frame, defining a closable opening and including a plurality of locking means, spaced apart, b. a closure panel to close the closable opening and to be secured therein by the plurality of spaced apart locking means, c. a release mechanism, having a plurality of release means, each being independently operable, d. an actuation mechanism, which, upon actuation, operates to translate activation of any release means to release the closure panel from the frame to facilitate jettisoning of that closure panel, and e. a plurality of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) 110.
The plurality of LEDs, arranged on the plurality of release means, helps an operator monitor the state of the closure panel, being secured in a closable opening or having been jettisoned. Steady lighting of LEDs indicates that the closure panel is in a locked position, whereas strobe lighting of LEDs indicates that the closure panel has been jettisoned. Four rows of LEDs 110 are located on the top, bottom and both sides regions of the opening frame (see Fig. 6 of PCT W099/07600). The steady-lighting of LEDs with strong illumination helps the crew survive in the darkness, when their ship or helicopter sinks, particularly, in an inverted position.
When this invention regarding strong illumination and the release mechanism is applied to the vehicle doors, the following problems arise:
1. Because cars and passengers are permanently strongly illuminated by the LEDs during the journey, the passengers get irritated and, in worst case, sick.
2. Nobody, being permanently strongly illuminated by the LEDs during the journey, is able to drive a car the whole day or, for sure, at night. In contrast, the guiding lights 4e to 4n of the visible and audible warning system are switched on only in accidents.
3. Moreover, the invention endangers the passengers. In accidents the jettisoned doors hit and, in worst case, kill persons and damage other cars and buildings and some passengers are ejected while the status of the light changes from steady- to strobe-lighting.
In contrast, the detached vehicle doors, loaded by great energy, are secured by catch bands ref. to CA
2,373,040 to prevent them from flying off, killing persons and/or damaging cars/buildings.
The principle object of the emergency exit system to enable the passengers to rescue themselves out of a transport system, involved in accidents in water (see page 1 of PCT
W099/07600), for example a helicopter sinking in water (see page 14), differs wholly from that of the visible and audible warning system of transport system, involved in accidents, occurring only on the r und.
In view of foregoing shortcomings, deficiencies, shock and instant death linked to fire and inhaling toxic smoke, there is a need 1. to detach the doors and/or emergency exits of the transport system by means of the door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040;
II. to give the users, particularly passengers, life-saving and helpful information by means of visible and audible warning system;
Ill. to warn passengers and/or third parties of fire breaking out in the transport system;
IV. to inform nonparticipants, staying near the accident site, about the accident, particularly when fire breaks out in a transport system, and V. to solve the above-mentioned and following problems:
- To regain the power of perception or orientation passengers have to overcome the shock, resulting from high impact acceleration in a real-world accident and fire breaking out in the transport system.
Before the fire engulfs them, owing to the power of perception drivers of oncoming motor-vehicles can evacuate them or they can evacuate themselves.
- When drivers of oncoming motor-vehicles can be warned by warning lights of visible and audible warning systems of the vehicles, involved in any accident or the aforementioned mass-accident, at the accident site, in particular, when hidden by fog, post accidents are avoided. In particular, those drivers, stepping out thereof and listening the life-saving and helpful information, blared out of the loudspeakers of those warning systems can accomplish the first aid and rescue work before the rescue workers and police arrive at the accident site and, if lucky, before the fire breaks out.
- Due to the darkness at the accident site in Dec. 2002 two oncoming cars, grazing along two front-end colliding cars, VW Polo and Daewoo, came to rest. After stepping out of their oncoming cars the drivers walked to the accident site. During which the VW Polo and Daewoo burst into flames engulfing all four passengers of Daewoo and the driver of VW Polo. Given, the warning lights are flashing there is much time left for those drivers, stepping out thereof at the accident site and being guided by the life-saving and helpful information, to rescue the victims. The accident report is incorporated herein.
- The shorter the self evacuation time, the greater the survival chance, which is the principle goal of all agencies and governments worldwide as well as the rescue system ref. to CA
2,373,040.
II. to give the users, particularly passengers, life-saving and helpful information by means of visible and audible warning system;
Ill. to warn passengers and/or third parties of fire breaking out in the transport system;
IV. to inform nonparticipants, staying near the accident site, about the accident, particularly when fire breaks out in a transport system, and V. to solve the above-mentioned and following problems:
- To regain the power of perception or orientation passengers have to overcome the shock, resulting from high impact acceleration in a real-world accident and fire breaking out in the transport system.
Before the fire engulfs them, owing to the power of perception drivers of oncoming motor-vehicles can evacuate them or they can evacuate themselves.
- When drivers of oncoming motor-vehicles can be warned by warning lights of visible and audible warning systems of the vehicles, involved in any accident or the aforementioned mass-accident, at the accident site, in particular, when hidden by fog, post accidents are avoided. In particular, those drivers, stepping out thereof and listening the life-saving and helpful information, blared out of the loudspeakers of those warning systems can accomplish the first aid and rescue work before the rescue workers and police arrive at the accident site and, if lucky, before the fire breaks out.
- Due to the darkness at the accident site in Dec. 2002 two oncoming cars, grazing along two front-end colliding cars, VW Polo and Daewoo, came to rest. After stepping out of their oncoming cars the drivers walked to the accident site. During which the VW Polo and Daewoo burst into flames engulfing all four passengers of Daewoo and the driver of VW Polo. Given, the warning lights are flashing there is much time left for those drivers, stepping out thereof at the accident site and being guided by the life-saving and helpful information, to rescue the victims. The accident report is incorporated herein.
- The shorter the self evacuation time, the greater the survival chance, which is the principle goal of all agencies and governments worldwide as well as the rescue system ref. to CA
2,373,040.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the principle object of the present invention is to provide for a transport system a visible and audible warning system which helps users find, particularly when it is dark at the accident site, the doors and/or emergency exits and the door-release levers of a door-detachment device ref. to CA
2,373,040 and operate the door-release levers and gives them helpful information of how to behave, how to operate the door-release levers, how to egress out of the transport system through the door openings of the detached doors, how to treat injured passengers, etc.
A second object of the present invention resides in warning drivers or pilots of oncoming transport systems in order to avoid post accidents.
A third object of the present invention resides in informing third parties, for example the drivers of oncoming cars ref. to Chap. V, of how to help passengers evacuate out of the vehicle as fast as possible at the accident site, particularly about fire, sensed by a temperature sensor and just breaking out in the transport system. They and/or crew members, when stepping out thereof, needs to listen the life-saving and helpful information, above-mentioned, in order to perform the first aid and rescue work before policemen and rescue workers arrive at the accident site.
To resolve all the fire-related shortcomings of the vehicle warning system ref. to US 5,874,892, above mentioned, and others, fire must steadily be monitored by at least one temperature sensor 84D, which, provided for any visible and audible warning system (Fig. 5) and capable of sensing the temperature of fire (the start of fire) when fire breaks out in the transport system, releases current to 1. the warning lights 4a to 4d which flash, and 2. the audible device, which transmits a text data in several languages to the users via loudspeakers, independent of whether the emergency switch 78.1 and the audible device were turned on or off.
Thanks to the temperature sensor 84D for detecting fire at its outbreak, passengers have a chance to escape an inferno. A reckless driver rammed his AUDI A4 at high speed into the rear section of a VW
Golf III on a highway. Despite being severely injured the female VW driver, scrambling out of her car and crawling on her hands and knees over the carriageway to the hard shoulder, witnessed an explosion of the tank and ensuing inferno. The accident report is incorporated herein. Logically, a helpful information about the operation of the door-release levers and a warning to immediately step out to the passengers, despite being severely injured, increase the survival chance in the accident, particularly, when fire breaks out in the vehicle.
Accordingly, the principle object of the present invention is to provide for a transport system a visible and audible warning system which helps users find, particularly when it is dark at the accident site, the doors and/or emergency exits and the door-release levers of a door-detachment device ref. to CA
2,373,040 and operate the door-release levers and gives them helpful information of how to behave, how to operate the door-release levers, how to egress out of the transport system through the door openings of the detached doors, how to treat injured passengers, etc.
A second object of the present invention resides in warning drivers or pilots of oncoming transport systems in order to avoid post accidents.
A third object of the present invention resides in informing third parties, for example the drivers of oncoming cars ref. to Chap. V, of how to help passengers evacuate out of the vehicle as fast as possible at the accident site, particularly about fire, sensed by a temperature sensor and just breaking out in the transport system. They and/or crew members, when stepping out thereof, needs to listen the life-saving and helpful information, above-mentioned, in order to perform the first aid and rescue work before policemen and rescue workers arrive at the accident site.
To resolve all the fire-related shortcomings of the vehicle warning system ref. to US 5,874,892, above mentioned, and others, fire must steadily be monitored by at least one temperature sensor 84D, which, provided for any visible and audible warning system (Fig. 5) and capable of sensing the temperature of fire (the start of fire) when fire breaks out in the transport system, releases current to 1. the warning lights 4a to 4d which flash, and 2. the audible device, which transmits a text data in several languages to the users via loudspeakers, independent of whether the emergency switch 78.1 and the audible device were turned on or off.
Thanks to the temperature sensor 84D for detecting fire at its outbreak, passengers have a chance to escape an inferno. A reckless driver rammed his AUDI A4 at high speed into the rear section of a VW
Golf III on a highway. Despite being severely injured the female VW driver, scrambling out of her car and crawling on her hands and knees over the carriageway to the hard shoulder, witnessed an explosion of the tank and ensuing inferno. The accident report is incorporated herein. Logically, a helpful information about the operation of the door-release levers and a warning to immediately step out to the passengers, despite being severely injured, increase the survival chance in the accident, particularly, when fire breaks out in the vehicle.
A fourth object of the present invention resides in exploiting existing parts of transport systems, which are already put into use in motor vehicles or aeroplanes, for further application in order to avoid recalls, save R&D (Research- and Development) work and manufacturing costs as well as to increase the reliability of the visible and audible warning systems.
This principle and other objects of the present invention and the aforementioned problem cases as well as requirements therefor are accomplished by the following features (proposals):
If for safety reasons the power supply of a car battery 89, shown in Figs. 1 and 1A, must be cut off in an accident, an alternative power supply can be ensured, for example, by first rechargeable batteries 89a (not drawn), connected to the minor current circuit. The power to operate the device can be ensured either by the car battery 89 or by the rechargeable batteries.
Despite the label, showing that the vehicle, involved in an accident, is equipped with a door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040, rescue workers encounter the problem, when it is dark, of finding the vehicle and its door-release levers and of operating them. If the warning device is not switched on, aggressively driven vehicles pose a threat to the passengers, being rescued, to third parties, willing to help the passengers, and/or to the rescue workers.
When the vehicle bursts into flames due to a crack in the fuel supply and/or explosion of the fuel tank there is a danger of panic among the passengers who no longer have the full power of perception to find and operate the door-release levers and therefore in despair attempt to open the doors in the usual way. Due to great consumption of oxygen by the fire there is little time left for the rescue operation by the passengers themselves or by the rescue workers. The door-detachment device remains unused. Consequently, there is a need for a visible and audible warning system 70, 70a to 70c, shown in Figs. I to 5, to give the users - information about the location of the door-release levers and door openings by guiding lights 4e to 4n and the location of the vehicle, involved in an accident, by warning lights 4a to 4d and - instruction of how to operate the door-release levers and how to behave by loudspeakers 7a to 7n and/or loudspeakers of cell phone (cellular phone or phone) and/or radio.
The flashing of the warning lights 4a to 4d draws the attention of the drivers of oncoming motor vehicles. The car-, train- and aeroplane manufacturer can make its own decision for switching on the warning device during the accident, at the onset thereof or when the accident is over. Preferably, the warning device is switched on at the onset of the accident because the passengers have the full power of perception or orientation, giving the drivers of oncoming vehicles more time.
Cell phone, radio and/or navigator, serving as reliable audible device, is automatically switched on by - current, supplied in the second current circuit in the accident, or - self-activating a switch, connected to a minor current circuit 79.2, in the accident.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
A number of embodiments, other advantages and features of the present invention will be described in the accompanying drawings with reference to the xyz global coordinate system:
Fig.1 is a perspective view of a 1st embodiment of a visible and audible warning system 70.
Fig. 1A is a section of Fig. 1, in which the 1st embodiment of the visible and audible warning system 70 is provided with a major current circuit 79.1 and a minor current circuit 79.2.
Fig. 1C is a perspective view of a conventional warning device, provided with a single device for intermittent lighting instead of three devices ref. to EP 0786 378 A2.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a 2nd embodiment of members 71a, 72a of an audible warning system 70a.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a 3rd embodiment of members 71b, 72b, 83 of an audible warning system 70b.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of embodiments of a door-release lever 86, 91.1, 91.2S, 88A to 88D, an embodiment of a rescue system 55, equipped with sensors 84A to 84G, a gear G1, a freewheeling device 50, a door-detachment device 15, 15a to 15j ref. to CA 2,373,040 and the visible and audible warning system 70 and of a vehicle, whose contour is defined by the doors 8, 8S, 8U, 8Y, a front bumper 12V, rear bumper 12H and warning lights 4a to 4d.
Fig. 5 is a view of an embodiment of an independent rescue system 55c of a transport system, equipped with a 4th embodiment of a visible and audible warning system 70c.
Fig. 6 is a top view of "safety" vehicles, each equipped with a vehicle warning system ref. to US
5,874,892, and standard vehicles on two highways, one of which is located above the other, on which an accident occurs.
This principle and other objects of the present invention and the aforementioned problem cases as well as requirements therefor are accomplished by the following features (proposals):
If for safety reasons the power supply of a car battery 89, shown in Figs. 1 and 1A, must be cut off in an accident, an alternative power supply can be ensured, for example, by first rechargeable batteries 89a (not drawn), connected to the minor current circuit. The power to operate the device can be ensured either by the car battery 89 or by the rechargeable batteries.
Despite the label, showing that the vehicle, involved in an accident, is equipped with a door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040, rescue workers encounter the problem, when it is dark, of finding the vehicle and its door-release levers and of operating them. If the warning device is not switched on, aggressively driven vehicles pose a threat to the passengers, being rescued, to third parties, willing to help the passengers, and/or to the rescue workers.
When the vehicle bursts into flames due to a crack in the fuel supply and/or explosion of the fuel tank there is a danger of panic among the passengers who no longer have the full power of perception to find and operate the door-release levers and therefore in despair attempt to open the doors in the usual way. Due to great consumption of oxygen by the fire there is little time left for the rescue operation by the passengers themselves or by the rescue workers. The door-detachment device remains unused. Consequently, there is a need for a visible and audible warning system 70, 70a to 70c, shown in Figs. I to 5, to give the users - information about the location of the door-release levers and door openings by guiding lights 4e to 4n and the location of the vehicle, involved in an accident, by warning lights 4a to 4d and - instruction of how to operate the door-release levers and how to behave by loudspeakers 7a to 7n and/or loudspeakers of cell phone (cellular phone or phone) and/or radio.
The flashing of the warning lights 4a to 4d draws the attention of the drivers of oncoming motor vehicles. The car-, train- and aeroplane manufacturer can make its own decision for switching on the warning device during the accident, at the onset thereof or when the accident is over. Preferably, the warning device is switched on at the onset of the accident because the passengers have the full power of perception or orientation, giving the drivers of oncoming vehicles more time.
Cell phone, radio and/or navigator, serving as reliable audible device, is automatically switched on by - current, supplied in the second current circuit in the accident, or - self-activating a switch, connected to a minor current circuit 79.2, in the accident.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
A number of embodiments, other advantages and features of the present invention will be described in the accompanying drawings with reference to the xyz global coordinate system:
Fig.1 is a perspective view of a 1st embodiment of a visible and audible warning system 70.
Fig. 1A is a section of Fig. 1, in which the 1st embodiment of the visible and audible warning system 70 is provided with a major current circuit 79.1 and a minor current circuit 79.2.
Fig. 1C is a perspective view of a conventional warning device, provided with a single device for intermittent lighting instead of three devices ref. to EP 0786 378 A2.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a 2nd embodiment of members 71a, 72a of an audible warning system 70a.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a 3rd embodiment of members 71b, 72b, 83 of an audible warning system 70b.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of embodiments of a door-release lever 86, 91.1, 91.2S, 88A to 88D, an embodiment of a rescue system 55, equipped with sensors 84A to 84G, a gear G1, a freewheeling device 50, a door-detachment device 15, 15a to 15j ref. to CA 2,373,040 and the visible and audible warning system 70 and of a vehicle, whose contour is defined by the doors 8, 8S, 8U, 8Y, a front bumper 12V, rear bumper 12H and warning lights 4a to 4d.
Fig. 5 is a view of an embodiment of an independent rescue system 55c of a transport system, equipped with a 4th embodiment of a visible and audible warning system 70c.
Fig. 6 is a top view of "safety" vehicles, each equipped with a vehicle warning system ref. to US
5,874,892, and standard vehicles on two highways, one of which is located above the other, on which an accident occurs.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Beyond doubt, the function of the inventions is always well described in the preferred embodiments of the US patent docs. However, in the scope thereof explanation of how to manufacture and assemble the parts of the preferred embodiments in the transport system is omitted, hence, the aforementioned problems related thereto remain undetected. One of the objects of the present invention, aforementioned, is to use the existing parts of transport systems. Hence, all subjects regarding assembling, manufacturing and using parts thereof must be taken into account when the function of the visible and audible warning systems and process to assemble them are described in order to give the reader a better understanding thereabout and avoid recalls and failure in assembling, manufacturing and real-world accidents.
All the features are applicable for trains, commuter trains, ships, boats, aeroplanes and motor-vehicles.
In order to describe the underlying principle of the invention of how to bypass an emergency switch 78.1 of a warning device 78 or any conventional emergency switch 78.1a (Fig.
1C) in accidents, a section of Fig. 1 is drawn in Fig. 1A.
There are different types of conventional sensors such as the sensors 84A to 84C of airbags and sensors 84F to 84H of belt pretensioners (only 84G shown in Fig. 4). The sensor, when put into use for the visible warning system, is wired to a minor current circuit 79.2 and serves in accidents as a switch to allow current to flow to the airbag/s or belt pretensioner/s as well as to an emergency-switch light 4x (not drawn), warning lights 4a to 4d and guiding lights 4e to 4n as well as to cell phone, radio etc. However, the temperature sensor 84D, wired to the minor current circuit 79.2 and having a first current circuit 79.1e (Fig. 5), wired to a main current circuit 79.1, is supplied with current of the main current circuit in order to sense the start of a fire, when breaking out in the transport system (Figs. 4 and 5). For the purpose of steadily monitoring fire, when breaking out in the transport system in accidents or while travelling or stationary for example in a carpark, the temperature sensor 84D must be permanently supplied with current of the main current circuit 79.1 or a battery 89 or second rechargeable batteries 89c (not drawn) independent of whether the ignition key is turned on or off.
Beyond doubt, the function of the inventions is always well described in the preferred embodiments of the US patent docs. However, in the scope thereof explanation of how to manufacture and assemble the parts of the preferred embodiments in the transport system is omitted, hence, the aforementioned problems related thereto remain undetected. One of the objects of the present invention, aforementioned, is to use the existing parts of transport systems. Hence, all subjects regarding assembling, manufacturing and using parts thereof must be taken into account when the function of the visible and audible warning systems and process to assemble them are described in order to give the reader a better understanding thereabout and avoid recalls and failure in assembling, manufacturing and real-world accidents.
All the features are applicable for trains, commuter trains, ships, boats, aeroplanes and motor-vehicles.
In order to describe the underlying principle of the invention of how to bypass an emergency switch 78.1 of a warning device 78 or any conventional emergency switch 78.1a (Fig.
1C) in accidents, a section of Fig. 1 is drawn in Fig. 1A.
There are different types of conventional sensors such as the sensors 84A to 84C of airbags and sensors 84F to 84H of belt pretensioners (only 84G shown in Fig. 4). The sensor, when put into use for the visible warning system, is wired to a minor current circuit 79.2 and serves in accidents as a switch to allow current to flow to the airbag/s or belt pretensioner/s as well as to an emergency-switch light 4x (not drawn), warning lights 4a to 4d and guiding lights 4e to 4n as well as to cell phone, radio etc. However, the temperature sensor 84D, wired to the minor current circuit 79.2 and having a first current circuit 79.1e (Fig. 5), wired to a main current circuit 79.1, is supplied with current of the main current circuit in order to sense the start of a fire, when breaking out in the transport system (Figs. 4 and 5). For the purpose of steadily monitoring fire, when breaking out in the transport system in accidents or while travelling or stationary for example in a carpark, the temperature sensor 84D must be permanently supplied with current of the main current circuit 79.1 or a battery 89 or second rechargeable batteries 89c (not drawn) independent of whether the ignition key is turned on or off.
In order to bypass the emergency switch 78.1 and facilitate the warning lights 4a to 4d and guiding lights 4e to 4n to flash in accidents (Fig. 1A) 1) a first current warning-lights circuit 79.12 is wired to a first contact site 89.5 and a second contact site 89.3 of the main current circuit 79.1, connected to the plus pole 89.1 of the battery 89 and to the minus pole 89.2;
2) that emergency switch 78.1 and a common contact site 89.4, connected to those warning lights 4a to 4d by warning-light current lines (not drawn), are wired to that first current warning-lights circuit 79.12;
3) the minor current circuit 79.2, shown by dotted lines, is connected to the plus pole 89.1 and the second contact site 89.3;
4) all the audible devices (radio, cell phone and/or navigator), wired to the main current circuit 79.1, at least one sensor 84A-84H, the guiding lights 4e to 4n and a second current warning-lights circuit 79.22, which, shown by dotted lines, connects a contact minor site 89.6 on the minor current circuit 79.2 to those warning lights 4a to 4d.
Upon the activation of the sensor 84E and/or the temperature sensor 84D in the event of accident (collision and/or fire according to the definition of "accident") current automatically flows 1. in the second current warning-lights circuit 79.22 to the warning lights 4a to 4d, all of which flash to warn drivers of oncoming transport systems, rescue workers as well as third parties, and 2. in the minor current circuit 79.2 a. to the guiding lights 4e to 4n, all of which flash to guide them to the door-release levers, and b. to all the audible devices, via loudspeakers of all of which helpful information of how to operate the door-release levers etc, is played back to them.
Accordingly, each electrical part of the visible and audible warning system, for example the radio 83 shown in Figs. 1, 1 A and 3, is provided with a. a first current circuit 79.1n, wired to the main current circuit 79.1, and b. a second current circuit 79.2n, drawn with dotted lines and wired to the minor current circuit 79.2.
2) that emergency switch 78.1 and a common contact site 89.4, connected to those warning lights 4a to 4d by warning-light current lines (not drawn), are wired to that first current warning-lights circuit 79.12;
3) the minor current circuit 79.2, shown by dotted lines, is connected to the plus pole 89.1 and the second contact site 89.3;
4) all the audible devices (radio, cell phone and/or navigator), wired to the main current circuit 79.1, at least one sensor 84A-84H, the guiding lights 4e to 4n and a second current warning-lights circuit 79.22, which, shown by dotted lines, connects a contact minor site 89.6 on the minor current circuit 79.2 to those warning lights 4a to 4d.
Upon the activation of the sensor 84E and/or the temperature sensor 84D in the event of accident (collision and/or fire according to the definition of "accident") current automatically flows 1. in the second current warning-lights circuit 79.22 to the warning lights 4a to 4d, all of which flash to warn drivers of oncoming transport systems, rescue workers as well as third parties, and 2. in the minor current circuit 79.2 a. to the guiding lights 4e to 4n, all of which flash to guide them to the door-release levers, and b. to all the audible devices, via loudspeakers of all of which helpful information of how to operate the door-release levers etc, is played back to them.
Accordingly, each electrical part of the visible and audible warning system, for example the radio 83 shown in Figs. 1, 1 A and 3, is provided with a. a first current circuit 79.1n, wired to the main current circuit 79.1, and b. a second current circuit 79.2n, drawn with dotted lines and wired to the minor current circuit 79.2.
In the 1st to 3rd embodiment of a visible and audible warning system 70, 70a, 70b, shown in Figs.
1A, 1 to 4, the functions of the standard parts of transport system, such as radio, warning device, navigator and cell phone, are supplemented and adapted to the system in order to save costs and R&D work, to lower failure rate and to increase the reliability.
All current circuits are protected against overload by fuses (not drawn), stored in a fuse box (not drawn).
The minor current circuit 79.2, the first current circuits 79.11 to 79.14 of radio 83, warning device 78, cell phone 72, navigator (navigational device) 71, the first current circuit 79.1e (Fig. 5) as well as other first current circuits (not drawn) are wired to the main current circuit 79.1, shown in Figs. 1 and 1A. The power supply for the second current circuits 79.21 to 79.26 of radio 83, warning device 78, cell phone 72, navigator 71, motor 91.7 of the door-detachment device ref. to CA
2,373,040 and guiding lights 4e to 4n in the minor current circuit 79.2 is ensured by current, which is released when at least one sensor 84A to 84H is activated in an accident and/or due to fire, breaking out in the transport system.
In case, the power supply to the pump of the fuel tank and fuel injection apparatus must be cut off in real-world accidents in order to prevent fire, when breaking out in transport systems, the first rechargeable batteries 89a (not drawn), wired to the minor current circuit 79.2, are provided for the power supply. In order to ensure the operation the first rechargeable batteries 89a, when empty, are always charged by the battery 89 during the journey or when the transport system stays idle.
Independent of whether both switches 83.1 of radio 83 and 78.1 of warning device 78 are turned on or off in an accident, a text data 69, stored in a storage medium 76, 76.1, is played back via the loudspeakers 7a to 7j of radio 83 and the other loudspeakers of cell phone, navigator etc. and all warning lights 4a to 4d and all guiding lights 4e to 4n flash, thus helping the passengers and/or rescue workers find the door-release levers and the transport system, particularly when it is dark, and to operate the door-release levers. The success of rescue passengers out of the transport system, when catching fire, depends on time, available to operate the door-release levers.
Therefore, it is highly recommended to install many door-release levers, to which guiding lights and loudspeakers are arranged. Costs are very little upon using loudspeakers, already installed, and installing a few ones:
1. loudspeakers 7a, 7b, located in the dash board (not drawn), 2. loudspeakers 7c, 7d in the wall (not drawn), separating the passenger compartment from the trunk compartment, 3. loudspeakers 7e in the vehicle doors 8, 8S, 4. loudspeakers if in the head rests (not drawn), 5. loudspeakers 7g, 7h in the tank-spaces 77L, 77R, 6. loudspeaker 7i on the vehicle floor 13, 7. loudspeaker 7j on the trunk compartment; and/or.
8. loudspeakers 7o to 7s of other devices such as cell phone 72, 72a, 72b, navigator 71, 71a, 71b and dictaphone (not drawn) Foreign passengers and/or foreign rescue workers can perceive the text data 69, containing "position and operation (pulling or depressing) of the door-release levers", "how to behave, how to perform the first aid and rescue work, how to operate the door-release levers, how to find the way to the doors and/or emergency doors of car, aeroplane or ship", etc.
only in their respective languages. Hence, the text data is coded in several languages, stored in a storage medium 76, 76.1, 76.2 (Figs. 1A, 1 - 4). The basic text data 69 can be supplemented and amended. This storage medium, prefabricated, can be offered for sale. The repetition of the text data 69 can be terminated by operation of a switch (not drawn) or in excess of a time limit (a time relay).
Because the storage medium 76, 76.2 is a part of navigator 71 b or cell phone 72, 72a, 72b extra costs for enlarging the storage capacity and for programming are low. The space-saving storage medium 76.2 of cell phone 72b offers sufficient storage capacity for the text information (data).
In the 1st embodiment of the audible warning system 70, 70c, shown in Figs. 1, 1A, 4 the sensor 84A-84C, 84E-84H, supplied with current of the minor current circuit 79.2, or the sensor 84D is activated in an accident so that the current flows in the second current circuits 79.21 to 79.24 of radio 83, cell phone 72, put into a holder 72.2, navigator 71 and warning device 78.
The text data 69, stored in the storage medium 76, 76.1 to 76.2, is played back by the radio 83 via its own loudspeakers 7a to 7f and/or by the cell phone 72 via its own loudspeaker. Independent of whether the emergency switch 78.1 is turned on or off, all warning lights 4a to 4n of warning device 78 are supplied with current of the second current warning-lights circuit 79.22.
The conventional warning lights 4a to 4d (Fig. 4) are located at the four outer edges of the vehicle or transport system and the detecting and guiding lights 4e to 4n are positioned adjacent to the hand-brake lever 86, door-release levers 88A to 88E and door openings, shown in Figs. 4 to 5.
In the 2nd embodiment of the audible warning system 70a, equipped with the radio 83, shown in Fig.
2, the first current circuit 79.13a of cell phone 72a, put into a holder 72.2a, as well as the first current circuit 79.14a of navigator 71a are connected to the main current circuit 79.1 and the second current circuit 79.23a of cell phone 72a is wired to the minor current circuit 79.2.
1A, 1 to 4, the functions of the standard parts of transport system, such as radio, warning device, navigator and cell phone, are supplemented and adapted to the system in order to save costs and R&D work, to lower failure rate and to increase the reliability.
All current circuits are protected against overload by fuses (not drawn), stored in a fuse box (not drawn).
The minor current circuit 79.2, the first current circuits 79.11 to 79.14 of radio 83, warning device 78, cell phone 72, navigator (navigational device) 71, the first current circuit 79.1e (Fig. 5) as well as other first current circuits (not drawn) are wired to the main current circuit 79.1, shown in Figs. 1 and 1A. The power supply for the second current circuits 79.21 to 79.26 of radio 83, warning device 78, cell phone 72, navigator 71, motor 91.7 of the door-detachment device ref. to CA
2,373,040 and guiding lights 4e to 4n in the minor current circuit 79.2 is ensured by current, which is released when at least one sensor 84A to 84H is activated in an accident and/or due to fire, breaking out in the transport system.
In case, the power supply to the pump of the fuel tank and fuel injection apparatus must be cut off in real-world accidents in order to prevent fire, when breaking out in transport systems, the first rechargeable batteries 89a (not drawn), wired to the minor current circuit 79.2, are provided for the power supply. In order to ensure the operation the first rechargeable batteries 89a, when empty, are always charged by the battery 89 during the journey or when the transport system stays idle.
Independent of whether both switches 83.1 of radio 83 and 78.1 of warning device 78 are turned on or off in an accident, a text data 69, stored in a storage medium 76, 76.1, is played back via the loudspeakers 7a to 7j of radio 83 and the other loudspeakers of cell phone, navigator etc. and all warning lights 4a to 4d and all guiding lights 4e to 4n flash, thus helping the passengers and/or rescue workers find the door-release levers and the transport system, particularly when it is dark, and to operate the door-release levers. The success of rescue passengers out of the transport system, when catching fire, depends on time, available to operate the door-release levers.
Therefore, it is highly recommended to install many door-release levers, to which guiding lights and loudspeakers are arranged. Costs are very little upon using loudspeakers, already installed, and installing a few ones:
1. loudspeakers 7a, 7b, located in the dash board (not drawn), 2. loudspeakers 7c, 7d in the wall (not drawn), separating the passenger compartment from the trunk compartment, 3. loudspeakers 7e in the vehicle doors 8, 8S, 4. loudspeakers if in the head rests (not drawn), 5. loudspeakers 7g, 7h in the tank-spaces 77L, 77R, 6. loudspeaker 7i on the vehicle floor 13, 7. loudspeaker 7j on the trunk compartment; and/or.
8. loudspeakers 7o to 7s of other devices such as cell phone 72, 72a, 72b, navigator 71, 71a, 71b and dictaphone (not drawn) Foreign passengers and/or foreign rescue workers can perceive the text data 69, containing "position and operation (pulling or depressing) of the door-release levers", "how to behave, how to perform the first aid and rescue work, how to operate the door-release levers, how to find the way to the doors and/or emergency doors of car, aeroplane or ship", etc.
only in their respective languages. Hence, the text data is coded in several languages, stored in a storage medium 76, 76.1, 76.2 (Figs. 1A, 1 - 4). The basic text data 69 can be supplemented and amended. This storage medium, prefabricated, can be offered for sale. The repetition of the text data 69 can be terminated by operation of a switch (not drawn) or in excess of a time limit (a time relay).
Because the storage medium 76, 76.2 is a part of navigator 71 b or cell phone 72, 72a, 72b extra costs for enlarging the storage capacity and for programming are low. The space-saving storage medium 76.2 of cell phone 72b offers sufficient storage capacity for the text information (data).
In the 1st embodiment of the audible warning system 70, 70c, shown in Figs. 1, 1A, 4 the sensor 84A-84C, 84E-84H, supplied with current of the minor current circuit 79.2, or the sensor 84D is activated in an accident so that the current flows in the second current circuits 79.21 to 79.24 of radio 83, cell phone 72, put into a holder 72.2, navigator 71 and warning device 78.
The text data 69, stored in the storage medium 76, 76.1 to 76.2, is played back by the radio 83 via its own loudspeakers 7a to 7f and/or by the cell phone 72 via its own loudspeaker. Independent of whether the emergency switch 78.1 is turned on or off, all warning lights 4a to 4n of warning device 78 are supplied with current of the second current warning-lights circuit 79.22.
The conventional warning lights 4a to 4d (Fig. 4) are located at the four outer edges of the vehicle or transport system and the detecting and guiding lights 4e to 4n are positioned adjacent to the hand-brake lever 86, door-release levers 88A to 88E and door openings, shown in Figs. 4 to 5.
In the 2nd embodiment of the audible warning system 70a, equipped with the radio 83, shown in Fig.
2, the first current circuit 79.13a of cell phone 72a, put into a holder 72.2a, as well as the first current circuit 79.14a of navigator 71a are connected to the main current circuit 79.1 and the second current circuit 79.23a of cell phone 72a is wired to the minor current circuit 79.2.
To cut costs the radio 83 has usually no storage medium, but it can be supplied with a storage medium 76.1 (Figs. 1, 1A). In an accident an electromagnetic (solenoid) switch 72.1a of cell phone 72a is activated to enable data transmission via the wire 71.2a. Hence, the cell phone 72a receives the text data 69 from the storage medium 76 of navigator 71 and plays it back via its own loudspeaker.
Alternatively, the cell phone 72a can immediately play back the text data 69 from its own storage medium 76.2 via its own loudspeaker.
In the 3rd embodiment of the audible warning system 70b, shown in Fig. 3, the first current circuit 79.14b of navigator 71b and the second current circuit 79.24b thereof are connected to the main current circuit 79.1 and the minor current circuit 79.2. In an accident an electromagnetic switch 72.1b of navigator 71b is activated to enable data transmission to the cell phone 72b and to the radio 83 via the wire 71.3b. Hence, the transmitted text data 69 from the storage medium 76 of navigator 71b is played back via its loudspeaker, the loudspeaker of cell phone 72b and/or the loudspeakers 7a to 7f of radio 83.
In the rescue system 55 in co-operation with a door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040, shown in Fig. 4, a united wire 2n is defined by the wires 2, 2S, 2U, 2Y of vehicle doors 8, 8S, hood 8U, trunk cover 8Y in association with the respective pivots 34, 34S, 33T, 34Y, 41, 35 and brackets.
This wire 2n is wound about the deflecting pulley 9 of gear G1 where the exit wire 2n of which serves as an entrance wire of the freewheeling device 50. The exit wire 2nn of the freewheeling device 50 is branched from the bracket 2.9 to the following wires of door-detachment device 15, 15a to 15j of transport system ref. to CA 2,373,040 such as - wire 2n1 of hand-brake lever 86 upon the use of pivots 36, 40 and swinging arm 73, - wire 2n2 of door-release lever 88B upon the use of pivots 36, 42, - wire 2n3 of door-release lever 88C on the vehicle floor, - wire 2n4 of door-release lever 88D upon the use of swinging arm 74 and pivot 43, - wire 2n5 of door-release lever 88A upon the use of pivots 37, 42 and - wire 2n6 of release buttons 91.1 and/or push buttons 91.2S upon the use of pivots 37, 38, 44 and belt pulley 91.8 driven by motor 91.7.
Particularly, when it is dark at night, the guiding lights 4e to 4n, arranged adjacent to those door-release levers 86, 88A to 88D, help the passengers properly operate them.
Passengers, guided and instructed by the visible and audible warning system, can escape through the door openings.
Alternatively, the cell phone 72a can immediately play back the text data 69 from its own storage medium 76.2 via its own loudspeaker.
In the 3rd embodiment of the audible warning system 70b, shown in Fig. 3, the first current circuit 79.14b of navigator 71b and the second current circuit 79.24b thereof are connected to the main current circuit 79.1 and the minor current circuit 79.2. In an accident an electromagnetic switch 72.1b of navigator 71b is activated to enable data transmission to the cell phone 72b and to the radio 83 via the wire 71.3b. Hence, the transmitted text data 69 from the storage medium 76 of navigator 71b is played back via its loudspeaker, the loudspeaker of cell phone 72b and/or the loudspeakers 7a to 7f of radio 83.
In the rescue system 55 in co-operation with a door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040, shown in Fig. 4, a united wire 2n is defined by the wires 2, 2S, 2U, 2Y of vehicle doors 8, 8S, hood 8U, trunk cover 8Y in association with the respective pivots 34, 34S, 33T, 34Y, 41, 35 and brackets.
This wire 2n is wound about the deflecting pulley 9 of gear G1 where the exit wire 2n of which serves as an entrance wire of the freewheeling device 50. The exit wire 2nn of the freewheeling device 50 is branched from the bracket 2.9 to the following wires of door-detachment device 15, 15a to 15j of transport system ref. to CA 2,373,040 such as - wire 2n1 of hand-brake lever 86 upon the use of pivots 36, 40 and swinging arm 73, - wire 2n2 of door-release lever 88B upon the use of pivots 36, 42, - wire 2n3 of door-release lever 88C on the vehicle floor, - wire 2n4 of door-release lever 88D upon the use of swinging arm 74 and pivot 43, - wire 2n5 of door-release lever 88A upon the use of pivots 37, 42 and - wire 2n6 of release buttons 91.1 and/or push buttons 91.2S upon the use of pivots 37, 38, 44 and belt pulley 91.8 driven by motor 91.7.
Particularly, when it is dark at night, the guiding lights 4e to 4n, arranged adjacent to those door-release levers 86, 88A to 88D, help the passengers properly operate them.
Passengers, guided and instructed by the visible and audible warning system, can escape through the door openings.
In the rescue system 55c without freewheeling device independent door-detachments, equipped with visible and audible warning systems, are mounted to the doors 8, 8S and emergency doors of ship, train carriages, bus or aeroplane due to the long distance of the doors to each other (Fig. 5). If the wires 102, to operate and/or to open the doors, are destroyed by fire, the door locks 103 of the doors 8, 8S remain locked and the passengers cannot escape the fire. Such tragedies can be prevented by an independent door-detachment, comprising a door-release lever 88E, the entrance wire 2n of door hinges 51 and 52, gear G2, motor 91.7 equipped with belt pulley 91.8, the exit wires 2n6, 2n7 and a fire-control unit 110, which consists of the temperature sensor 84D to sense the start of a fire 66 and a speedometer (tachometer) 105 (not drawn) or a time-lag relay 101. When the transport system comes to a halt after the accident is over, the speedometer 105 in co-operation with the sensor 84D releases current so that the belt pulley 91.8 of motor 91.7 pulls the exit wire 2n6.
The speedometer 105 can be replaced by time-lag relay 101. The battery 89 or first rechargeable batteries 89a are provided for power supply.
The door-release lever 88E cannot be operated when the current wires 79.1 e, 79.2, 79.25 are also destroyed by the fire 66. A protective cover 106 protects the door-release lever 88E from misuse. The cover 106 is opened by a motor 104 (not drawn), activated by temperature sensor 84D, or by pulling a wire 107 or by a tool (plug-in tool) 108. If it fails to work in case of emergency it can be shattered with a hammer or similar.
Via the guiding lights 4k to 4n and the loudspeakers 7k to 7n of the visible and audible warning system 70c the passengers are instructed to hurry to the doors and operate the door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040 and to leave through the door openings.
This embodiment is also suited for aeroplanes, trains and motor vehicles such as buses.
Although the present invention has been described and illustrated in detail, it is clearly understood that the terminology used is intended to describe rather than limit. Many more objects, embodiments, features and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above-mentioned teachings.
Therefore, within the spirit and scope of the appended claims, the present invention may be practised otherwise than as specifically described and illustrated.
The speedometer 105 can be replaced by time-lag relay 101. The battery 89 or first rechargeable batteries 89a are provided for power supply.
The door-release lever 88E cannot be operated when the current wires 79.1 e, 79.2, 79.25 are also destroyed by the fire 66. A protective cover 106 protects the door-release lever 88E from misuse. The cover 106 is opened by a motor 104 (not drawn), activated by temperature sensor 84D, or by pulling a wire 107 or by a tool (plug-in tool) 108. If it fails to work in case of emergency it can be shattered with a hammer or similar.
Via the guiding lights 4k to 4n and the loudspeakers 7k to 7n of the visible and audible warning system 70c the passengers are instructed to hurry to the doors and operate the door-detachment device ref. to CA 2,373,040 and to leave through the door openings.
This embodiment is also suited for aeroplanes, trains and motor vehicles such as buses.
Although the present invention has been described and illustrated in detail, it is clearly understood that the terminology used is intended to describe rather than limit. Many more objects, embodiments, features and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above-mentioned teachings.
Therefore, within the spirit and scope of the appended claims, the present invention may be practised otherwise than as specifically described and illustrated.
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IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A visible warning system for a transport system comprising at least one battery (89) ensuring a power supply in a main current circuit (79.1), having a first contact site (89.5) and a second contact site (89.3), and connected to a plus pole (89.1) thereof and a minus pole (89.2) thereof;
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency; and a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one sensor (84A to 84C, 84E to 84H) a) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and b) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) in an event of accident;
where in the event of accident the sensor is activated, allowing a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency; and a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one sensor (84A to 84C, 84E to 84H) a) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and b) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) in an event of accident;
where in the event of accident the sensor is activated, allowing a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
2. The visible warning system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one temperature sensor (84D), which, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e), is supplied with the battery (89), when an ignition key is turned on, in order to sense a start of a fire, when breaking out in the transport system.
3. The visible warning system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one temperature sensor (84D), which, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e), is supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c) in order to sense a start of a fire, when breaking out in the transport system, independent of whether an ignition key was turned on or off.
4. A visible warning system for a transport system comprising at least one battery (89) ensuring a power supply in a main current circuit (79.1), having a first contact site (89.5) and a second contact site (89.3), and connected to a plus pole (89.1) thereof and a minus pole (89.2) thereof;
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency;
a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one temperature sensor (84D) a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1 e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) on a fire and d) supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c), when an ignition key is turned on;
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency;
a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one temperature sensor (84D) a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1 e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) on a fire and d) supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c), when an ignition key is turned on;
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
5. A visible warning system for a transport system comprising at least one battery (89) ensuring a power supply in a main current circuit (79.1), having a first contact site (89.5) and a second contact site (89.3), and connected to a plus pole (89.1) thereof and a minus pole (89.2) thereof;
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency;
a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one temperature sensor (84D) a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) on a fire and d) permanently supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c);
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
a warning device (78) comprising an emergency switch (78.1) and warning lights (4a to 4d);
a first current warning-lights circuit (79.12), to which the emergency switch (78.1) is wired and which, connected to the first contact site (89.5) and the second contact site (89.3), has a common contact site (89.4) wired to the warning lights (4a to 4d) by warning-light current lines, where the warning lights (4a to 4d) flash, when the emergency switch (78.1) is switched on for safety reasons in an emergency;
a minor current circuit (79.2), which, connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3), has a contact minor site (89.6) wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22); and at least one temperature sensor (84D) a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the warning lights (4a to 4d) on a fire and d) permanently supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c);
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow to the warning lights (4a to 4d), all of which flash, independent of whether the emergency switch (78.1) was switched on or off.
6. The visible warning system according to one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising guiding lights (4e to 4n), which, arranged adjacent to door-release levers (86, 88A to 88E), are wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) by a second current guiding-light circuit (79.26), where in the event of accident or on the fire a flashing of the guiding lights help users detect the door-release levers and door openings of the transport system.
7. An audible warning system for a transport system comprising at least one battery (89) ensuring a power supply in a main current circuit (79.1), having a first contact site (89.5) and a second contact site (89.3), and connected to a plus pole (89.1) thereof and to a minus pole (89.2) thereof;
a minor current circuit (79.2) connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3); or a minor current circuit (79.2), a first end of which is connected to the plus pole (89.1) and a second end of which, which is a contact minor site (89.6), is wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22);
at least one audible device provided with at least one loudspeaker (7a to 7n), at least one storage medium (76, 76.1, 76.2), a first current audible-device circuit, wired to the main current circuit (79.1), and a second current audible-device circuit, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
a text data stored in the storage medium; and at least one sensor (84A to 84C, 84E to 84H), a) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and b) serving as a switch to the audible device in an event of accident;
where in the event of accident the sensor is activated, allowing a current to flow in the second current audible-device circuit to the audible device, which is turned on, irrespectively of whether it was turned on or off, and a helpful information, based on the text data, is played back via the loudspeaker for users.
a minor current circuit (79.2) connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3); or a minor current circuit (79.2), a first end of which is connected to the plus pole (89.1) and a second end of which, which is a contact minor site (89.6), is wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22);
at least one audible device provided with at least one loudspeaker (7a to 7n), at least one storage medium (76, 76.1, 76.2), a first current audible-device circuit, wired to the main current circuit (79.1), and a second current audible-device circuit, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
a text data stored in the storage medium; and at least one sensor (84A to 84C, 84E to 84H), a) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and b) serving as a switch to the audible device in an event of accident;
where in the event of accident the sensor is activated, allowing a current to flow in the second current audible-device circuit to the audible device, which is turned on, irrespectively of whether it was turned on or off, and a helpful information, based on the text data, is played back via the loudspeaker for users.
8. An audible warning system for a transport system comprising at least one battery (89), ensuring a power supply in a main current circuit (79.1), having a first contact site (89.5) and a second contact site (89.3), and connected to a plus pole (89.1) thereof and to a minus pole (89.2) thereof;
a minor current circuit (79.2) connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3); or a minor current circuit (79.2), a first end of which is connected to the plus pole (89.1) and a second end of which, which is a contact minor site (89.6), is wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22);
at least one audible device provided with at least one loudspeaker (7a to 7n), at least one storage medium (76, 76.1, 76.2), a first current audible-device circuit, wired to the main current circuit (79.1), and a second current audible-device circuit, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
a text data stored in the storage medium; and at least one temperature sensor (84D), a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the audible device on a fire and d) permanently supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c);
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow in the second current audible-device circuit to the audible device, which is turned on, irrespectively of whether it was turned on or off, and a helpful information, based on the text data, is played back via the loudspeaker for users.
a minor current circuit (79.2) connected to the plus pole (89.1) and the second contact site (89.3); or a minor current circuit (79.2), a first end of which is connected to the plus pole (89.1) and a second end of which, which is a contact minor site (89.6), is wired to the common contact site (89.4) by a second current warning-lights circuit (79.22);
at least one audible device provided with at least one loudspeaker (7a to 7n), at least one storage medium (76, 76.1, 76.2), a first current audible-device circuit, wired to the main current circuit (79.1), and a second current audible-device circuit, wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
a text data stored in the storage medium; and at least one temperature sensor (84D), a) wired to the main current circuit (79.1) by a first current temperature-sensor circuit (79.1e);
b) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2);
c) serving as a switch to the audible device on a fire and d) permanently supplied with the battery (89) or second rechargeable batteries (89c);
where the temperature sensor, sensing a start of the fire, when breaking out in the transport system, allows a current to flow in the second current audible-device circuit to the audible device, which is turned on, irrespectively of whether it was turned on or off, and a helpful information, based on the text data, is played back via the loudspeaker for users.
9. The audible warning system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the audible device is provided with an electromagnetic switch (72.1, 72.1a, 72.1b), supplied with the current, when the sensor is activated in the event of accident or on the fire, and turned on thereby.
10. The audible warning system according to one of claims 7 to 9, wherein a repetition of the helpful information occurs.
11. The audible warning system according to claim 10, wherein the repetition of the helpful information is terminated by switching off a text-data switch or in excess of a time limit.
12. The visible and audible warning system according to one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the text data is a sound and a spoken message.
13. The visible and audible warning system according to one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the text data is a sound or a spoken message.
14. The visible and audible warning system according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the text data is coded in several languages.
15. The visible and audible warning system according to one of claims 1 to 14, further comprising first rechargeable batteries (89a) wired to the minor current circuit (79.2) and ensuring an emergency power supply therein, when the battery (89) is disconnected or the power supply in the main current circuit (79.1) fails in the event of accident or on the fire.
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