KR20170046471A - Gas alarm appratus using semiconductor gas sensor - Google Patents
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Abstract
Description
The present invention relates to a gas alarm device using a semiconductor gas sensor as a sensor for gas detection, and also relates to a gas alarm device which is portable, has excellent detection accuracy and is resistant to environmental changes.
Recently, various kinds of gas alarm devices are installed in homes, factories, shopping malls, automobiles, ships, airplanes or camping sites. The gas alarm system detects and warns for volatile or flammable gas such as carbon monoxide, LPG, LNG, alcohol or benzene.
In the gas alarm system, gas sensors are a key part, and there are contact oxidation type, semiconductor type and electro chemical type. Due to the simple structure and excellent sensitivity, the use of semiconductor type gas sensors is increasing.
If the gas alarm system can not reliably detect the gas to be detected, the reliability of the alarm system becomes low and it can cause serious accidents. However, the gas sensor, which is a core part of the gas alarm system, may fail due to deterioration due to long-term use, defects in the manufacturing process inherent in the production, shock at the supply voltage or external physical shock, It is necessary to be able to detect such faults with a simple and complicated structure in a gas alarm system using a semiconductor type gas sensor which can detect immediately the occurrence of a failure and further emphasize portability or downsizing.
In addition, a gas alarm sometimes generates an erroneous gas detection signal even when there is no gas, or may not be able to detect gas even if the reference concentration is exceeded. Malfunctions may occur due to malfunctions in the process of turning on the power to the gas alarm system, environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity or wind speed change due to changes in seasons, day or night, There is a need to increase the detection level, reduce the possibility of malfunction, and tolerate environmental changes.
The recognition of the problems and problems of the prior art is not obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art, so that the inventive step of the present invention should not be judged based on the recognition based on such recognition I will reveal.
An object of the present invention is to provide a gas alarm device using a semiconductor type gas sensor capable of detecting a failure of a gas sensor with a simple structure.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a gas alarm device using a semiconductor gas sensor with improved detection accuracy.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a gas alarm device using a semiconductor type gas sensor with improved resistance to environmental changes.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are not restrictive of the invention, unless further departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. It will be possible.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gas warning device using a semiconductor type gas sensor, comprising: a semiconductor type gas sensor including a heater; And an insertion resistor,
The heater and the insertion resistor are connected in series between the DC power source and the ground and the breakdown of the heater is detected by monitoring the voltage of the node connected to one end of the heater and one end of the insertion resistance.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gas warning device using a semiconductor type gas sensor, comprising: a semiconductor type gas sensor including a heater; Insertion resistance; And a positive voltage regulator having an input terminal connected to the DC power supply, an output terminal and a common terminal,
Wherein the heater and the insertion resistor are connected in series between an output terminal of the positive voltage regulator and the ground and a node to which one end of the heater and one end of the insertion resistance are connected is connected to a common terminal of the positive voltage regulator, And the breakage of the heater is detected by monitoring the voltage.
In the gas warning device using the semiconductor type gas sensor, a first input terminal is connected to the node for monitoring, a comparator for receiving a reference voltage at a second input terminal and comparing the voltage of the node with the reference voltage, ; ≪ / RTI >
The microcomputer may further include a microcontroller having a nonvolatile memory incorporated therein, wherein the microcontroller includes a microcomputer for generating a gas alarm based on a time at which power is supplied to the gas alarm device, Volatile memory periodically records a cumulative operating time of the apparatus, and outputs a signal for alarming when the cumulative operating time exceeds a set reference value.
In the gas alarm apparatus using the semiconductor type gas sensor, when the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes below a predetermined speed, the semiconductor type gas sensor detects the gas in conjunction with the changing output voltage And the gas detection reference voltage to be a reference to be judged is adjusted.
In the gas alarm apparatus using the semiconductor type gas sensor, when the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes beyond a predetermined speed, the gas detection reference voltage is not adjusted.
The gas warning device using the semiconductor type gas sensor further comprises a USB port, and is supplied with power through the USB port. A smart phone is connected to the USB port, and the semiconductor type gas sensor detects gas And transmits a message through the USB port so as to be alerted by using the speaker of the smartphone when it is determined to be detected.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gas alarm apparatus using a semiconductor type gas sensor, which can easily detect a failure of the gas sensor by adding a insertion resistance and a comparator to the gas sensor unit, It is effective.
According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to prevent or reduce a false alarm and a gas detection alarm, and to reduce or eliminate a necessary lead time.
According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to improve the detection accuracy of the gas alarm device and prevent or reduce the malfunction by preventing the accuracy or the malfunction of the gas alarm device according to the environmental change by reflecting the environmental change at a comparatively slow speed There is an effect that the resistance to environmental change can be further improved.
1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a gas alarm apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a circuit diagram showing a peripheral circuit for the conventional semiconductor
3 is a circuit diagram showing a
4 is a circuit diagram showing a
5 is a graph showing an example of the sensor resistance changing in the semiconductor type gas sensor according to temperature and humidity changes.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings in which: FIG. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention in the drawings, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar names and reference numerals are used for similar parts throughout the specification.
1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a gas alarm apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The gas alarm apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a
The
The
The
The display and
The short-range
The
2 is a circuit diagram showing a peripheral circuit for the conventional semiconductor
Semiconductor
According to one embodiment of the present invention, by adding a simple circuit to such a conventional peripheral circuit, it is possible to detect and alarm the failure of the
3 is a circuit diagram showing a
The semiconductor
However, the
The heater H and the insertion resistor R2 of the
The
The failure of the semiconductor
The reference voltage V REF is a constant voltage used as a criterion for judging whether or not the heater is broken, and the voltage of the DC power supply can be used by dividing it. When the voltage of the DC power source is 5 V, the reference voltage (V REF ) may be set to 0.05 to 0.1 V, for example.
A process of alarming the failure of the gas sensor using the
The resistance value of the insertion resistor R2 and the reference voltage VREF are set such that the voltage of the node N always becomes equal to or larger than the sum of the reference voltage VREF and the margin margin when the heater of the
When the heater of the
The
According to the gas alarm apparatus using the semiconductor type gas sensor according to an aspect of the present invention, the effect of easily detecting the failure of the gas sensor is provided by a simple structure in which an insertion resistance and a comparator are added to the gas sensor unit or an insertion resistance is added have.
4 is a circuit diagram showing a
The description of the same portions as those of the first embodiment will be omitted, and the following description will focus on the other portions.
The
The heater H and the insertion resistor R2 of the
The
According to the
According to an aspect of the present invention, it is possible to prevent or reduce a false alarm and a gas detection alarm, and to reduce or eliminate the lead time required in START.
1, the
Since the portable gas alarm device can intermittently supply power through the
On the other hand, in the conventional gas alarm system, there is a case where a gas detection signal is erroneous even though there is no gas at all, or gas detection can not be performed even when the reference concentration is exceeded. This is caused mainly by changes in environmental factors such as temperature, humidity or wind speed accompanying changes in seasons, day and night or installation place, and the operating conditions of the semiconductor type gas sensor are changed.
FIG. 5 is a graph (500 ppm methane gas), for example, to illustrate the sensor resistance varying in the semiconductor gas sensor according to temperature and humidity changes.
The reference resistance (R 0 ) is the sensor resistance at 20 ° C and 65% humidity. As shown, the ratio (R S / R 0 ) of the sensor resistance to the reference resistance , It can be seen that there is a large difference in the value of the sensor resistance (R S ) even at the same gas concentration (500 ppm methane) depending on temperature and humidity.
In order to detect the gas, the sensor voltage V S applied to both ends of the detection resistor R1 is used. When the sensor voltage V S exceeds the gas detection reference voltage which is a preset reference voltage, And alarms the user. The gas detection reference voltage is a reference voltage at which the semiconductor type gas sensor determines that the gas is detected.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the
The gas detection reference voltage is adjusted on the basis of the rate of change of the sensor voltage (V S ), which is the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor, so that the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes below the output voltage reference change rate The gas detection reference voltage is not adjusted when the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes beyond the set output voltage reference change speed. In this case, however, There is a high probability that it is judged as gas detection and leads to a gas detection alarm.
The output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor is monitored when the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes below the set output voltage reference change speed. The new gas detection reference voltage is a voltage having a constant interval with the changed output voltage Or a value obtained by adding the variation amount of the output voltage to the previous gas detection reference voltage or a value obtained by adding a certain percentage of the variation amount of the output voltage to the previous gas detection reference voltage, And may be a voltage calculated by a predetermined calculation formula.
The rate of change of the output voltage can be calculated by various methods such as the amount of change of the output voltage per unit time. For example, when the output voltage rises below the output voltage reference change speed, the gas detection reference voltage also rises. The output voltage reference conversion speed is a value stored in the nonvolatile memory M of the
According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to improve the detection accuracy of the gas alarm device and prevent or reduce the malfunction by preventing the accuracy or the malfunction of the gas alarm device according to the environmental change by reflecting the environmental change at a comparatively slow speed There is an effect that the resistance to environmental change can be further improved.
10: Micro controller 20: Gas sensor unit
30: Operation input unit 40: Display and alarm unit
50: Local area wireless communication unit 60: USB port
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And an insertion resistor,
The heater and the insertion resistor are connected in series between the DC power source and the ground,
And detecting a breakdown of the heater by monitoring a voltage of a node to which one end of the heater and one end of the insertion resistance are connected,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
Insertion resistance; And
And a positive voltage regulator having an input terminal connected to the DC power supply, an output terminal and a common terminal,
The heater and the insertion resistor are connected in series between the output terminal of the positive voltage regulator and the ground,
Wherein a node to which one end of the heater and one end of the insertion resistor are connected is connected to a common terminal of the positive voltage regulator and detects breakage of the heater by monitoring a voltage of the node,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
A comparator for connecting the first input terminal to the node and the reference voltage to the second input terminal for the monitoring and comparing the voltage of the node with the reference voltage;
Further comprising a sensor for detecting the presence of the gas.
And a microcontroller in which a nonvolatile memory is incorporated,
The microcontroller includes:
Wherein the control unit periodically records the cumulative operating time of the gas alarm device in the nonvolatile memory based on a time when power is supplied to the gas alarm device, and outputs a signal for an alarm when the cumulative operating time exceeds a set reference value,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
Wherein when the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes below the set speed,
The gas detection reference voltage being a reference for determining that the semiconductor type gas sensor detects gas in conjunction with the varying output voltage,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
When the output voltage of the semiconductor type gas sensor changes beyond the set speed,
Wherein the gas detection reference voltage is not adjusted,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
And a USB port;
When the smartphone is connected to the USB port and the semiconductor type gas sensor detects that the gas is detected, the USB port is connected to the USB port so as to be alerted by using the speaker of the smart phone, Sending a message through,
Wherein the gas sensor is a gas sensor.
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