JP2011138399A - Electronic circuit housing casing including tampering detection function - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic circuit housing casing including a tamper switch in a magnetic force detection system for reliably detecting abnormality in a casing without using high-performance sensors, such as a roll-over detection sensor and a vibration detection sensor, together. <P>SOLUTION: The electronic circuit housing casing 1 comprises: a base unit 10 stuck to a wall surface, or the like by a fixing means, such as a mount screw; and a case unit 20 detachably installed to the base unit by a prescribed attaching means. The electronic circuit housing casing 1 includes a tampering detection function of detecting removal when at least one of the base unit and the case unit is removed from the installation position and outputting a prescribed warning signal. In the electronic circuit housing casing 1, the base unit includes a magnetic force generation unit 11 that includes structure easily separable from a body of the base unit and is held firmly to a wall surface, or the like by using a fixing means, such as a mount screw, and the case unit includes a magnetic force detection unit 22 provided adjacent to the magnetic force generation unit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a housing containing various sensor circuits and various control / communication circuits used in a machine security system, and more specifically, when such a housing is illegally opened or removed. The present invention relates to an electronic circuit housing having a tamper detection function for detecting this.

  In the security system for crime prevention and fire prevention, many sensor circuits and control / communication circuits are built in the system, and these electronic circuits are housed in various cases, large and small, in various parts of the system. Has been placed. Usually, the enclosure containing these electronic circuits is illegally opened or removed from its installation location due to destruction by intruders such as thieves or mischief of illegal persons. In addition, a so-called tamper detection function for detecting this and reporting a predetermined alarm signal is provided.

  For example, Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2 disclose prior art using a switch based on a mechanical contact as a tamper switch as the tamper detection function. That is, in these prior arts, when the casing is removed from a predetermined installation location such as a wall surface, a mechanical contact such as a limit switch provided on the back surface of the casing is operated, and a predetermined alarm signal is transmitted to the machine guard. The system is informed to the system monitoring center.

  On the other hand, mechanical contacts such as limit switches have problems in their operation mode, reliability, or durability, and therefore, in order to improve reliability and convenience by eliminating contacts, magnets and magnetic forces such as reed switches or hall elements are used. Patent Documents 3 and 4 disclose tamper switches that combine detection means.

  For example, in the prior art disclosed in Patent Document 3, the reed switch 2a is normally turned off by the synergistic effect of the magnetic force of the magnet 2c attached to the base 1B of the sensor housing and the magnet 2b attached to the main body 1A. However, when the main body 1A is detached from the base 1B, the effect of canceling the magnetic force by the magnet 2c disappears, and the reed switch 2a is turned on to generate an alarm signal.

  In the prior art disclosed in Patent Document 4, a magnet 25 is provided on the inner surface of the body cover 20 of the housing, and a reed switch is provided in the tamper switch circuit of the device body 10. Normally, the reed switch is turned on by the magnetic force of the magnet 25, and when the main body cover 20 is stripped from the device main body 10, the reed switch of the tamper switch circuit is turned off, and an alarm signal indicating an abnormality of the housing is generated. Will be generated.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-05269 JP 2003-187340 A JP-A-6-111153 JP 2007-079873 A

  However, in the tamper switch using magnetic force as shown in Patent Document 3 or Patent Document 4, for example, a predetermined wall surface or the like in a state where the sensor main body 1A and the base 1B or the device main body 10 and the main body cover 20 are combined. When it is removed from the position, the contact state of the reed switch does not change, so that there is a problem that the tamper detection function provided in the housing does not operate normally.

  In order to solve such a problem, for example, as shown in FIG. 6A, in addition to a tamper switch circuit composed of a magnet 100 and a hall element 200, a fall detection sensor, a vibration detection sensor, etc. A conventional technique in which a sensor 300 is added is known. According to the related art, when the cover of the casing is pry open, the abnormality of the casing is detected by the tamper switch circuit from the magnet 100 and the hall element 200 as shown in FIG. When removed from the position, as shown in FIG. 6C, another sensor 300 can detect the abnormality of the casing (inclination or vibration of the casing).

  However, in the prior art shown in FIG. 6, in addition to an extremely simple and inexpensive sensor element such as a magnet and a hall element constituting a normal tamper switch, an acceleration sensor such as a fall detection sensor or a vibration detection sensor is used. Since it is necessary to provide another highly functional sensor, there was a problem that the manufacturing cost of the casing increased. In addition, when some kind of impact is applied to the wall surface or the like to which the housing is attached, the problem that these high-function sensors malfunction and erroneously report an alarm signal has also been derived.

  The present invention aims to solve such problems in the prior art, and more specifically, magnetic force detection that can reliably detect abnormalities in a housing without using another high-performance sensor together. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic circuit housing with a tamper switch circuit of the type.

In order to solve the above-described problem, an electronic circuit housing case having a tamper detection function according to the first aspect of the present invention is provided.
A base portion fixed to a wall surface or the like by fixing means such as a mounting screw, and a case portion that is detachably mounted on the base portion by predetermined attaching means,
The base portion includes a magnetic force generation portion that has a structure that can be easily separated from the main body of the base portion and is firmly fixed to a wall surface or the like by the fixing means,
The case portion includes a magnetic force detector provided in proximity to the magnetic force generator,
At least one of the cases occurred when the case part was removed from the base part or the base part excluding the magnetic force generating part was removed from the installation site regardless of the mounting state of the case part. In this case, a tamper detection function for outputting a predetermined alarm signal is provided.

  Therefore, according to such a configuration, even when the case portion and the base portion of the housing are integrated and removed from a predetermined installation site such as a wall surface, the magnetic force generating portion provided in the base portion is It is easily separated from the main body and remains on the installation site by fixing means such as a mounting screw. For this reason, the magnetic force detection part provided in the case part can detect the disappearance of the magnetic force from the magnetic force generation part easily and reliably.

An electronic circuit housing case provided with a tamper detection function according to the second aspect of the present invention is the first aspect,
The magnetic force generator is mounted with a predetermined magnetic force generator, and is separated from the main body of the base by a breakable portion having a structure that can be easily crushed provided in a part of the base.

  Therefore, according to such a configuration, when an external force that removes the entire casing including the base portion is applied, the ruptured portion having a weak structure is first crushed by the external force. Therefore, the magnetic force generating portion is the main body of the base portion. And is left on the installation site such as the wall surface by fixing means such as mounting screws.

An electronic circuit housing having a tamper detection function according to the third aspect of the present invention is the above second aspect.
At least a part of the magnetic force generation part is separated from the main body of the base part by a notch part.
Therefore, according to such a configuration, since the base body and the magnetic force generation part are already partly separated by the notch, it is attempted to remove the housing from the electronic circuit housing. When an external force is applied, the breakage / separation of the magnetic force generating portion from the main body of the base portion is further facilitated.

An electronic circuit housing with a tamper detection function according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the above second or third aspect.
The magnetic force generating means is a permanent magnet or an electromagnet.
Therefore, according to such a structure, the permanent magnet or the electromagnet provided on the base portion can affect the magnetic force detection portion provided on the case portion due to the magnetic force.

An electronic circuit housing with a tamper detection function according to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the fourth aspect,
Excitation signal generating means for generating an excitation signal of a predetermined pattern for exciting the electromagnet of the magnetic force generating means;
Signal comparison means for comparing each pattern of the excitation signal and the detection signal detected by the magnetic force detection unit;
The signal comparison means determines that the state of the housing is abnormal when the patterns of the excitation signal and the detection signal are different.

  Therefore, according to such a configuration, when the excitation signal and the detection signal have different patterns, the state of the housing is determined to be abnormal. For example, an intruder uses a dummy magnet to attach to the housing. Even when the tamper detection function provided is held, this can be easily avoided and an alarm signal can be reported.

  According to the present invention, only a simple tamper switch combining a magnet and a reed switch or a hall element is used without using a mechanical contact sensor such as a limit switch or other high-performance sensor such as a fall detection sensor or a vibration detection sensor. By using this, it is possible to realize an electronic circuit housing case having a tamper detection function with high safety and reliability that can detect not only opening the case but also removing it.

  In the following description, a plurality of embodiments that are the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  First, a schematic structural diagram shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 relating to an electronic circuit housing case 1 (hereinafter simply referred to as “housing 1”) having a tamper detection function according to one embodiment (Example 1) of the present invention. An explanation will be given based on the above. Incidentally, FIG. 1 (a) shows a perspective view of the housing 1, and FIG. 1 (b) shows a schematic cross-sectional view of the housing 1 in the A-A ′ direction. As shown in FIG. 1, the housing 1 according to the first embodiment mainly includes a base portion 10 and a case portion 20.

  As shown in FIG. 1B, the base portion 10 is fixed to a predetermined position such as a wall surface by a fixing means such as a mounting screw. In the bottom surface portion of the base portion 10, a magnetic force generating portion 11 is provided in a peripheral portion such as the mounting screw, and a magnetic force generating means 12 is mounted on the magnetic force generating portion 11. The magnetic force generation means 12 may be a normal permanent magnet or an electromagnet.

  The magnetic force generation part 11 is the same member as the base part 10 and is a part of the base part 10, but is separated from the main body of the base part 10 by the breaking part 13. The detailed structure of the fracture portion 13 will be described with reference to FIG.

  On the other hand, the case portion 20 is mounted on the base portion 10 by various locking methods (not shown) such as screwing or fitting locking using the flexibility of the constituent members. It is assumed that an electronic circuit board 21 including various sensor circuits, communication / control circuits, and the like is mounted on the case unit 20.

  In addition, the case portion 20 is provided with a magnetic force detection means 22 in the vicinity of the magnetic force generation means 12 mounted on the magnetic force generation section 11 described above. Incidentally, in view of practical convenience such as mounting convenience and certainty of magnetic force detection, the magnetic force detection means 22 is preferably provided on the back surface of the electronic circuit board 21 facing the magnetic force generation means 12.

  As the magnetic force detection element of the magnetic force detection means 22, a reed switch that can open and close a sealed contact by magnetic force, or a Hall element semiconductor whose output voltage (current) changes by magnetic force can be used. In order to function as an actual tamper switch, a tamper signal generation circuit or the like that generates a predetermined alarm signal from the output of the magnetic force detection means 22 is required. However, such a part is not directly related to the gist of the present invention. Since there is no relation, the description and explanation are omitted.

  Next, a plan view when the base portion 10 of the housing 1 is fixed to a predetermined position such as a wall surface is shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, the magnetic force generation part 11 is separated from the main body of the base part 10 by a breaking part 13. The fracture portion 13 is composed of the same member as the base portion 10, and its thickness is cut in a wedge shape as shown in the enlarged sectional view of the A portion in FIG. 2A (see FIG. 2B). Has been. In addition, the cross-sectional shape of the fracture | rupture part 13 is not limited to the cut structure which concerns, For example, the thickness may be cut into the U-shape, or the thickness of the surrounding base 10 part is sufficient. It may be a structure that is simply thinner than the wall thickness.

  In the example shown in FIG. (2a), the entire circumference of the magnetic force generation part 11 is surrounded by the breaking part 13. For example, as shown in FIG. (3a), at least one side of the magnetic force generation part 11 is notched. It may be separated from the surrounding base portion 10 by the portion, and the remaining portion of the fracture portion 13 may be connected to the main body of the base portion 10 as the above-described thick cut structure or thin structure.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3B, the structure of the fracture portion 13 may be separated from the base portion 10 while leaving a bridging portion connected to the main body. Furthermore, the bridge connection structure in FIG. 3B and the structure in which the thickness of the above material is cut, or at least one side of the magnetic force generation part 11 is separated from the main body of the base part 10 as shown in FIG. Various structures such as a structure may be used in combination.

  In FIG. 2 or 3, the planar shape of the magnetic force generation part 11 surrounded by the breaking part 13 is represented by a rectangle, but this embodiment is not limited to such a planar shape. It goes without saying that any planar shape such as an ellipse or a triangle or other polygons can be used.

  Moreover, although the above description has shown the example in which the magnetic force generation part 11 is provided only at one place of the installation attachment part to the wall surface or the like in the bottom part of the base part 10, this embodiment is limited to such an example. Instead of this, a configuration may be adopted in which the magnetic force generator 11 is provided at a plurality of attachment portions on the bottom surface portion, and a plurality of magnetic force detectors 22 corresponding thereto are provided on the case portion 20 side.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described with reference to each diagram shown in FIG.
First, FIG. 4A shows a state in which the housing 1 is normally attached to a predetermined setting position such as a wall surface. In this case, since the magnetic force generating means 12 provided in the base portion 10 and the magnetic force detecting means 22 provided in the case portion 20 are very close to each other, for example, a permanent magnet is used as the magnetic force generating means 12, and the magnetic force detecting means is used. When a reed switch is used as 22, the movable contact of the reed switch is closed by the magnetic force from the permanent magnet.

  As a result, a tamper signal generation circuit (not shown) connected to the magnetic force detection means 22 recognizes the state in which the contact of the reed switch is turned on, and the housing 1 is placed in a normal state. A signal indicating that it is present is sent to a central device such as a monitoring center.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 4B, when the casing 1 is illegally opened and the case portion 20 is detached from the base portion 10, the magnetic force detection means 22 is separated from the magnetic force generation means 12, and thus the permanent magnet The magnetic force due to is not applied to the reed switch, and the movable contact of the reed switch is opened. When the tamper signal generation circuit detects that the contact of the reed switch has been turned off, the tamper signal generation circuit determines that the housing 1 has been placed in an abnormal state, and notifies that fact to a central device such as a monitoring center.

  On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4C, when the case portion 20 and the base portion 10 are combined and removed from the installation location, first, a fragile fracture portion having a structure provided around the magnetic force generation portion 11. 13 is crushed. As a result, the magnetic force generation part 11 held firmly by the mounting screw or the like is fractured and separated from the base part 10 and remains on the wall surface which is the original attachment position. Means 12 will also remain in that position.

  Therefore, in this case as well, the magnetic force due to the permanent magnet does not reach the reed switch as in the case of the above-described figure (4b), and the movable contact of the reed switch is opened. It is determined that it has been placed, and that fact is reported to a central device such as a monitoring center.

  As described above, in the case 1 according to the first embodiment, the case can be formed using only a simple magnetic force tamper switch without using a complicated sensor such as a fall detection sensor or a vibration detection sensor. It is possible to reliably detect the case where it is opened or removed from a predetermined position.

  Next, Example 2 which is another embodiment of the present invention will be described. The electronic circuit housing case provided with the tamper detection function according to the second embodiment is based on the case 1 described in the first embodiment. Therefore, in the following description, the same constituent elements as those in the case of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description of functions and the like is omitted.

  Incidentally, in the electronic circuit housing case shown in the second embodiment, an electromagnet is used as the magnetic force generation means 12 provided in the magnetic force generation unit 11 and is magnetized by an excitation signal of a predetermined pattern. On the other hand, as the magnetic force detection means 22, for example, a change in the magnetic force lines from the electromagnet is detected using a sensor such as a Hall element or a magnetic force detection coil. By adopting such a configuration, for example, when an intruder such as a thief removes or pry open the housing, bring in a strong permanent magnet to hold the magnetic force detection means included in the tamper detection function. It is possible to prevent attempts.

  An outline of the electronic circuit unit based on the second embodiment is shown in the block diagram of FIG. In the figure, an excitation signal generation circuit 23 is a circuit that generates an excitation signal of a predetermined pattern for exciting the electromagnet of the magnetic force generation means 12. The waveform of the excitation signal may be a simple rectangular wave with a constant period. However, in view of improving security, it is preferable to use a waveform whose period or the like changes randomly.

  The signal amplification circuit 24 is a circuit that amplifies the excitation signal from the excitation signal generation circuit 23 and supplies it to the electromagnet of the magnetic force generation means 12. The excitation signal reproduction circuit 25 is a circuit that reproduces the waveform of the excitation signal from the output signal of the magnetic force detection means 22, and the object can be achieved by detecting and reproducing the envelope of the excitation signal waveform detected by the magnetic force detection means 22. .

  The signal comparison circuit 26 is a circuit that compares two input signals and determines that the patterns are in a normal state if the patterns match, and determines that the patterns are in an abnormal state if the patterns are different. Each circuit described above is preferably mounted on the electronic substrate 21 mounted on the case unit 20, but may be mounted independently on a predetermined part in the base unit 10 or the case unit 20. good.

  Next, the operation of the tamper detection function of the casing according to the second embodiment will be described based on the time chart of FIG. First, the excitation signal output from the excitation signal generation circuit 23 is supplied to the signal amplification circuit 24 and also to the a terminal of the signal comparison circuit 26. On the other hand, the output signal from the excitation signal reproduction circuit 25 is supplied to the b (b ′) terminal of the signal comparison circuit 26.

  In the signal comparison circuit 26, it is assumed that a flag indicating abnormality which is an output (c (c ') terminal in FIG. 5B) is set in an initial state. When the two input signals a and b (b ') have the same pattern after the operation starts, the flag is reset. The resetting of the flag is preferably performed when it is detected that both signals have the same pattern for a predetermined time or a predetermined number of times.

  Thereafter, when the signal comparison circuit 26 detects that the patterns of both signals are different, the signal comparison circuit 26 sets the flag. For example, when the casing is removed from the predetermined mounting position and the magnetic force detection means 22 cannot detect the magnetic lines of force, the regenerated excitation signal disappears as shown in b of the time chart of FIG. The patterns of both inputs of the circuit 26 are different, and the abnormality flag is set.

On the other hand, when an intruder brings in a strong magnet or the like and makes it come into contact with the vicinity of the magnetic force detection means 22, the excitation signal is always detected as shown by b 'in the time chart of FIG. 5B. become. Accordingly, also in this case, the patterns of both inputs of the signal comparison circuit 26 are different, and the abnormality flag is set. An alarm signal generation circuit (not shown) subsequent to the signal comparison circuit 26 notifies the security center of the alarm signal when the abnormality flag is set.

  In consideration of the excitation delay of the electromagnet, the detection delay in the magnetic force detection means, and the fluctuation of the waveform due to the jitter of the excitation signal waveform, as shown in the dotted line range of the time chart a in FIG. It is preferable to compare the patterns of both signals with a predetermined delay from the change point.

  Since the present embodiment 2 has such a configuration, for example, an intruder makes contact with a strong magnet on the housing and holds the output of the magnetic force detecting means 22 to hold the case portion 20 of the housing 1 or Even when the entire housing including the base portion 10 is removed from a predetermined position such as a wall surface, it is possible to immediately detect an abnormality of the housing 1 and report this.

  The present invention is not limited to each embodiment described above. For example, the shape and arrangement of each part constituting the present invention, or its material, etc., do not depart from the spirit of the present invention. Needless to say, it can be changed as appropriate according to the actual implementation.

The configuration of the present invention described above can be used in a housing that houses various devices used in a machine security system.

1A is a perspective view showing an external appearance of an electronic circuit housing case according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. It is the top view and partial expanded sectional view which show the base part 10 grade | etc., Contained in the housing | casing 1 of FIG. It is a figure explaining the example of the various structures which the fracture | rupture part 13 can take in the base part 10 contained in the housing | casing 1 of FIG. It is a figure explaining the actual operation | movement regarding the housing | casing 1 of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the electronic circuit part of the electronic circuit storage housing | casing by 2nd Example of this invention, and a time chart explaining operation | movement of a tamper detection function. It is a figure explaining the structure of the electronic circuit housing | casing housing | casing provided with the conventional tamper detection function.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Electronic circuit housing | casing 10 ... Base part 11 ... Magnetic force generation part 12 ... Magnetic force generation means 13 ... Breaking part 20 ... Case part 21 ... Electronic board 22 ... Magnetic force detection means 23 ... Excitation signal generation circuit 24 ... Signal amplification circuit 25 ... Excitation signal regeneration circuit 26 ... Signal comparison circuit

Claims (5)

A base portion fixed to a wall surface or the like by fixing means such as a mounting screw, and a case portion that is detachably mounted on the base portion by predetermined attaching means,
The base portion includes a magnetic force generation portion that has a structure that can be easily separated from the main body of the base portion and is firmly fixed to a wall surface or the like by the fixing means,
The case portion includes a magnetic force detector provided in proximity to the magnetic force generator,
At least one of the cases occurred when the case part was removed from the base part or the base part excluding the magnetic force generating part was removed from the installation site regardless of the mounting state of the case part. An electronic circuit housing case having a tamper detection function for outputting a predetermined alarm signal.   2. The tamper detection function according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic force generator includes a predetermined magnetic force generator and is separated from a main body of the base portion by a breakable portion having a structure that can be easily crushed. Electronic circuit housing.   The electronic circuit housing case having a tamper detection function according to claim 2, wherein at least a part of the magnetic force generation part is separated from a main body of the base part by a notch part.   The electronic circuit housing case having a tamper detection function according to claim 2, wherein the magnetic force generating means is a permanent magnet or an electromagnet. Excitation signal generating means for generating an excitation signal of a predetermined pattern for exciting the electromagnet of the magnetic force generating means;
Signal comparison means for comparing each pattern of the excitation signal and the detection signal detected by the magnetic force detection unit;
5. The electronic apparatus having a tamper detection function according to claim 4, wherein the signal comparison means determines that the state of the housing is abnormal when the patterns of the excitation signal and the detection signal are different. Circuit housing.

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