662 results about "Emergency evacuation" patented technology

A light-emitting diode (“LED”) based strobe may be used in automated system to provide a visual alert to occupants and / or building personnel if an emergency condition exists. A LED based strobe provides an even distribution of light having a sharp, bright pulse of light desired for emergency evacuation using lower power consumption.

In a vehicle emergency evacuation device which stops a running vehicle automatically or keeps a stop state of a stopped vehicle in a driver's emergency, a stop keeping process is executed to keep the stop state without conducting an intention confirmation process of the execution start of an emergency evacuation process when the emergency evacuation process is required, e.g. when an abnormality or a deterioration in the driver's condition arises or when the driver requests the emergency evacuation process, under a condition that the vehicle has stopped before a signal, a road crossing or a railroad crossing, thereby ensuring the safety of the vehicle. Moreover, there are provided a structure in which the stop site of the vehicle in the execution of automatic vehicle stop control is determined depending upon whether the running road is a driveway, a highway, or a normal road; and a structure that judges whether or not to permit an override to the emergency evacuation process after the execution start of the emergency evacuation process based on a passenger's motion.

A method and a system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and to a method for modernization of an existing building with the evacuation system. The system is used in a multi-story building having a plurality of floors and with at least one elevator positionable at selected landings of the floors. A first device is provided for measuring the number of persons in the building and a second device is provided for detecting an emergency condition in the building. At least one control unit is provided for determining or for estimating a number of building occupants in the building. The control unit defines at least one evacuation zone in the building during the emergency condition. Based on this information, the control unit defines at least one designated floor in the building during the emergency condition. Then the system evacuates the building occupants with the elevator car and / or a stairway from the evacuation zone to the designated floor.

Systems and methods are disclosed for a self-contained Smart Mattress which is capable of monitoring the vital statistics of a patient in real time, analyzing the data using an embedded processor, storing patient identification and information, producing an electronic medical report and communicating any data to the caregiver or computer server using wireless technology, such as Bluetooth® Technology. Due to the self-contained nature of the mattress, it is also ideal for use as an emergency evacuation mattress for bed-ridden patients.

In a vehicle emergency evacuation device executing an automatic vehicle stop control based on a command of the driver through a switch or a command input device in a driver's emergency, there is provided a switch or a command input device which is easy to operate when a driver's body condition is abnormal or deteriorates but does not erroneously receive a command input when the driver's body condition is normal. The inventive emergency evacuation device comprises a driver's condition monitoring portions, such as a driver camera; a driver's command input portion that has a receptor put on a position accessible for the driver and receiving a command input indicating a driver's intention, and outputs a command of an execution start of an automatic vehicle stop control based on the command input; and an automatic vehicle stop control portion executes the automatic vehicle stop control in response to the command from a driver's command input portion, where, only when an abnormality in a driver's body condition is judged based on the information acquired by the driver's condition monitoring portion, such as a driver's image acquired with the driver camera, the command input is acceptable to the receptor.

The invention discloses a dynamic firefighting emergency evacuation indication system for a large-scale public building. The dynamic firefighting emergency evacuation indication system comprises an evacuation indication setting subsystem, a firefighting monitoring and predicating subsystem, a dynamic evacuation indication adjusting subsystem and a crowd evacuation predicating subsystem. Firstly, evacuation indication distribution in the large-scale public building is set according to the evacuation indication setting subsystem; secondly, firefighting accidents happening in the large-scale public building are considered, multiple fire detectors are used for obtaining information such as the position and the intensity of a fire, and a computer model is used for predicating the development of the fire; thirdly, the development of the fire is used for dynamically adjusting evacuation indication to ensure that the evacuation indication points to a safe area; finally, a built cellular automaton evacuation model considering the evacuation indication function is adopted to predict crowd evacuation and feeds back a predication result to the dynamic evacuation indication adjusting subsystem. The evacuation indication is corrected again according to the crowd density, the evacuation time and the like, and the evacuation efficiency is improved.

A seating arrangement in an aircraft passenger cabin includes rows of seats, one behind another at a prescribed seat pitch. A wider transverse aisle is formed between successive seat rows at a normal exit or an emergency exit. At least one seat row bordering on and facing the transverse aisle is equipped with foldable passenger seats that each have an upwardly tiltable seat bottom and armrests. By tilting up the seat bottom and the armrests, an enlarged width of the transverse aisle is provided in the event of an emergency evacuation. In normal operation, the prescribed transverse aisle width does not need to be maintained, i.e. can be reduced, so the seat bottom and armrests are tilted down into the normal-use position for a passenger to be seated on the seat. Thereby the seat pitch of this seat row can be reduced and the total seating capacity can be increased.

The invention provides a fire emergency evacuation simulation method. On the basis of establishing a real three-dimensional fire scene, researches are made around a vector-field-based global motion planning algorithm to navigate the escape of a plurality of individuals in the fire scene in real time. The method comprises the following steps of calculating a vector-field-based safety field in real time by virtue of the algorithm, constructing a fire-scene-based crowd behavior model in combination of a social force model-based local collision avoiding algorithm, and finally providing fire escape guidance for each escape individual in the scene according to the fire-scene-based crowd behavior model. According to the fire emergency evacuation simulation method, a theoretical basis is provided, the calculation accuracy can be ensured, and verification application is developed under various experimental conditions; the method has the characteristics of low calculation complexity, high simulation effect trueness and the like, and the real-time emergency evacuation of hundreds of escape individuals can be simulated during practical application.

The invention relates to an indoor emergency response and context awareness navigation system and method. The navigation system at least comprises a location sensor network, a server and an early warning sensor, wherein the location sensor network comprises a location base station, a mobile terminal and / or a location label and an LED (Light Emitting Diode) screen; the location base station is in wired or wireless connection with the server; the mobile terminal and / or the location label is in wireless connection with the location base station; the LED screen is in wired connection with the location base station; the early warning sensor is in wireless connection with the server. The navigation method is capable of combining a plurality of context calculation navigation paths of indoor environment, self-adaptively presenting the navigation paths to users according to the scenes of the users in many ways and providing real-time, accurate and individual navigation service. The navigation system and the navigation method are applicable to personnel location, emergency evacuation, rescue after disaster and safety management of large complex indoor venues such as hospitals, markets, office buildings and stations; meanwhile, the navigation system and the navigation method are capable of improving scientificity, timeliness, effectiveness of emergency response of public places.

The invention relates to an indoor emergency evacuation simulation method for a complex building. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a three-dimensional extended hierarchical node relation model (EHI-NRM) of an internal space unit of the complex building is automatically generated, and the update of a dynamic path of a large-scale complex building is supported; an improved cellular automaton model (ICA) can better simulate jam, avoidance, mass-following and other phenomena of a large-scale crowd during the evacuation process; and an optimal evacuation path is searched in real time in the macro-level through an EHI-NRM dynamic path-finding method, and the ICA is applied in the local level for simulating the behavior characteristics of the crowd. According to the method disclosed by the invention, the evacuation simulation of the large-scale crowd in the large-scale complex building is supported, and the method has important application values for ensuring the safety of staff in the building and improving the decision-making capacity of an emergency rescue department.

A seating space such as an aircraft passenger cabin has rows of seats along an aisle, identified by a row number and a seat location letter. A seat row indicator is arranged on the side flank of the seat back of each aisle seat, at the corner where the side flank and upper edge of the seat back meet. A seat location indicator is arranged at the middle of the upper edge of the seat back of each seat. The row numbers and seat letters are indicated on or in the indicators by paint, printing, engraving, inserts, illumination or tactile indicia. The indicators are conspicuous and easily visible to a passenger standing or walking in the aisle without bending or leaning over. Boarding of the aircraft is facilitated and expedited. Emergency evacuation is assisted by appropriate illumination of the indicators.

An economical emergency evacuation mattress for persons in areas with limited access, such as subways and high-rises, provides a warm and secure cocoon for the patient, allows easy transport over any type of surface (e.g., up and down stairs), provides proper support for all of the patient's body, allows the patient to feel a high degree of comfort in what is otherwise a very stressful situation, and provides securing means (e.g., straps) to firmly hold the patient in place during transit.

From ancient history until now, man has constructed high-rise buildings of various kinds. They include monuments, castles, churches, office buildings, hotels, hospitals and residences. No matter how sophisticated construction techniques and technology have become, there is no system to transport people and equipment to or from selected locations between the ground level and roof of a high-rise; quickly, economically, consistently and safely outside the structure. Reed's High-Rise Emergency Rescue Egress System is such a system. This system solves the myriad problems which have existed for centuries relating to a need for external, vertical high-rise emergency evacuation and does so with substantial cost-efficiencies. Reed's High-Rise Emergency Rescue Egress System is comprised of varied electronic and mechanical components operating in unison. The three major pieces to the high-rise system are; a vehicle, a gondola and a roof-mount cantilever: The vehicle is a self-powered ground vehicle containing a gondola, stabilizing steel cables, drums, television screens, video cameras, communications, and remote control equipment. Once linked to a cantilever it provides power for lifting the gondola, equipment and personnel to monitor all activities below, beside or above the fire area. The self-powered cantilever is, remotely or manually, positioned on the roof of a high-rise building to a desired area of operation. The cantilever extends its connection arm over the edge of a high-rise building and lower cables to the ground rescue vehicle to make necessary connections with the gondola for traveling up and down the walls of a high-rise building. The cantilever roof-mount system is portable and contains steel cables, electric / hydraulic wenches, radio receivers, transmitters and video communication. The gondola, an enclosed cabin, is positioned on the rear, body portion, of the high-rise rescue vehicle. Once the gondola is linked to the vehicle and cantilever arm it becomes an exterior enclosed transporter in a matter of minutes. Reed's High-Rise Emergency Rescue Egress gondola will carry up to eight fully equipped firemen and can scale the wall of a burning building in minutes. The gondola carries firefighters and equipment below, beside or above the fire, while at the same time providing trapped building occupants a safe means of escape. A modified version of the gondola is used for high-rise building construction and maintenance.

The invention discloses a system of an urban track traffic for passenger flow monitor and emergency evacuation in the technical field of subway passenger flow security guarantee, which has the technical scheme that the system comprises a hardware part and a software part; the hardware part comprises a station camera, a multi-channel video switching controller, a high-speed image data acquisition processor, a station dispatching centre processor and a line network command center processor; the station camera is connected with the high-speed image data acquisition processor through the multi-channel video switching controller; the high-speed image data acquisition processor is connected with the station dispatching centre processor which is connected with the line network command center processor; and the software part comprises a digital video imaging and analyzing programme, a station passenger flow monitor and emergency evacuation system and a line network passenger flow monitor and emergency evacuation system. The system monitors the passenger flow volume and the passenger flow distribution in a real-time manner, and can start up the emergency handling process automatically to adjust a service system as needed in a real-time manner.

Devices, systems and methods that are capable of dynamically indicating emergency evacuation routes in a premises. In the premises, utility outlets such as electrical sockets and light switches are used to indicate, visually and / or audibly, an evacuation route. The use of utility outlets to indicate the evacuation routes takes advantage of devices that must be installed in virtually all buildings at predictable locations.

The present invention is directed toward a method and a system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and to a method for modernisation of an existing building with said system. It refers to a multi-story building (1) having a plurality of floors and with at least one elevator (10) being positionable at selected landings (26) of the floors. Preferably, first means (9) are provided for measuring the number of persons and second means (7) are provided for detecting an emergency condition in the building. At least one control unit (5) is provided for determining or for estimating a number of building occupants in the building, the control unit is defining at least one evacuation zone (13) in the building during the emergency condition. Based on this information, the control unit is defining at least one designated floor (14) in the building during the emergency condition. Then the system evacuates the building occupants with the elevator car and / or a stairway from the evacuation zone to the designated floor.

A flexible litter for emergency and non-emergency evacuations having a rectangular main section with side, head, and foot edge portions. In one embodiment, loop-shaped handgrips are attached to the head and foot edge portions and two sets of loop-shaped shoulder straps are attached to the sides of the main section. The loops of each set of shoulder straps extend away from the main section of the litter for a substantially greater distance than the loops of the handgrips and the loops of one set can be passed through a handgrip and looped over a carrier's shoulders like a backpack leaving the hands of the carrier free for other tasks. In other configurations, the loops can be placed directly over the rescuers' shoulders again leaving their hands free.

The invention relates to an evacuation emergency scheme selection method based on regional emergency evacuation capacity evaluation. The evacuation emergency scheme selection method based on the regional emergency evacuation capacity evaluation comprises the following steps: a regional evacuation source set, a meeting point set, a placement point set and an evacuation vehicle set are established, and an evacuation relationship between evacuation sources and meeting points is established according to the established evacuation emergency scheme; a meeting point number of people-time curve is obtained, and the evacuation relationship of meeting point-placement point is established; a running path of an emergency transport unit and an evacuation transport task list of the emergency transport unit are planned; time interval road traffic conditions are generated, evacuation transport task execution is simulated, and regional evacuation process data are recorded; regional evacuation characteristic parameters in the period of time are counted and analyzed after multiple simulations; multi-period regional evacuation characteristic parameters are obtained, and an evacuation capacity evaluation sheet is output; an optimal evacuation emergency scheme is obtained according to the evacuation capacity evaluation sheet. Compared with the prior art, the evacuation emergency scheme selection method based on the regional emergency evacuation capacity evaluation has the advantages of being rapid, effective, capable of providing effective aid decision making for emergency management when emergency incidents occur and the like.

The invention discloses a road traffic network emergency evacuation route generation method based on the Internet of vehicles. The method involves a vehicle-mounted device, a roadside device, a network background server device and a vehicle emergency evacuation route decision making model. A wireless data communication module of the vehicle-mounted device broadcasts vehicle information to the roadside device through a wireless network, the roadside device performs statistics on the vehicle information of the road section and the local road network region, and the vehicle information is transmitted to the network background server in a wired data communication mode; a multi-target vehicle emergency evacuation route optimal decision making model is established and resolved by a vehicle emergency evacuation route planning module of the network background server with the minimum evacuation total travel distance, the minimum evacuation travel time and the minimum road section congestion probability as the targets, and an optimal route is obtained to guide vehicles in a dangerous region to be evacuated to a safe region. The road traffic network emergency evacuation route generation method based on the Internet of vehicles has the advantage that a real-time, safe, reliable and efficient emergency evacuation route can be provided for vehicles in the road traffic network.

A seating arrangement in an aircraft passenger cabin includes rows of seats, one behind another at a prescribed seat pitch. A wider transverse aisle is formed between successive seat rows at a normal exit or an emergency exit. At least one seat row bordering on and facing the transverse aisle is equipped with foldable passenger seats that each have an upwardly tiltable seat bottom and armrests. By tilting up the seat bottom and the armrests, an enlarged width of the transverse aisle is provided in the event of an emergency evacuation. In normal operation, the prescribed transverse aisle width does not need to be maintained, i.e. can be reduced, so the seat bottom and armrests are tilted down into the normal-use position for a passenger to be seated on the seat. Thereby the seat pitch of this seat row can be reduced and the total seating capacity can be increased.

The invention discloses a method and a system for evaluating road emergency evacuation capacity and a method and a system for grading the road emergency evacuation capacity. The method for evaluating includes steps of acquiring a plurality of evaluation indexes used for evaluating road emergency traffic states, acquiring a time dimension principal component and a space dimension principal component by aid of a principal analysis method according to the evaluation indexes of road emergency traffic states, and then determining integrated index of road emergency evacuation capacity. The method for evaluating utilizes the principal component analysis to process mass data and expresses the integrated index of road emergency evacuation capacity in incidents by aid of combination of the time dimension principal component and the space dimension principal component. The higher the integrated index is, the higher the corresponding road emergency traffic service level is, therefore, the method is more adaptable to evacuation and rescue of traffic flow in emergency.

A system and a method for evacuating personnel from an offshore unit ar e described. The evacuation system comprises at least one submarine evacuation module attached to the offshore unit. A submarine evacuation module comprise s a submarine for transporting personnel to be evacuated and a watertight submarine bay fixed to the offshore unit for holding the submarine, the bay having a door to permit the launch of the submarine from the bay. The evacuation module bay includes a control system for flooding the submarine bay, for operating the door, and f or decoupling a hook mechanism that couples the submarine to the submarine. The evacuation module bay may also include a roller system for cradling the submarine and guiding its movement into and out of the bay, and a sonar system for detecting obstructions near the bay door outside of the bay. The method of evacuating personnel from an offshore unit having a portion adapted to be submerged bel ow the water level comprises having the personnel enter the submarine, flooding the bay, opening the door in the submarine bay and propelling the submarine from the bay to a predetermined location remote from the offshore unit.

A system and process is provided for controlling a robot path of a robot including providing a main path for movement of the robot based on path data having points along the main path and providing a safe evacuation path from each point in the main path to get to a safe position. The main path is formed with safety evacuation path considerations in mind such that along any point on ride path the robot can be safely moved to a safety point or to the unload position or safe position.

An emergency evacuation slide system includes a control valve having a normally-open vent that closes after a predetermined period of time calculated to vent excess inflation gas produced by the gas generator. In operation, in the event of an aircraft emergency exit door being opened in the “armed” condition, the primary valve member of the control valve is opened allowing inflation gas to flow into the valve chamber. A portion of the gas entering the chamber is vented through the normally-open vent. After a predetermined period of time calculated to be sufficient to vent the excess inflation gas, the normally-open valve is closed to divert 100% of the remaining inflation gas into the evacuation slide.

An inflatable evacuation slide includes a flexible slide surface that is supported by longitudinal main support members. Illumination of the slide surface is provided by a plurality of illumination sources that are supported above the upper surface of the main support members on inflatable stanchions that extend upward from the upper surface of the main support members. The plurality of illumination sources may be high efficiency light emitting diodes or other high efficiency light sources. By providing an illumination source that is elevated above the upper surface of the main support members, a greater portion of the slide surface can be illuminated without shadows.

A girt assembly for releasably connecting an evacuation slide to an aircraft includes superimposed flexible panels that are continuous at a pair of spaced connection points for connection with the aircraft. One or more catenary loops are formed in each panel for distributing forces on the flexible panels along a length of the loops. The connection points may be releasably connected to a girt bar with spaced bracket assemblies or directly connected to floor brackets associated with the aircraft.

The invention provides an underground emergency evacuation virtual crowd simulation method based on multiple intelligent agents. A virtual mine emergency evacuation crowd simulation frame is built by using the underground emergency evacuation virtual crowd simulation method based on the multiple intelligent agents. The virtual mine emergency evacuation crowd simulation frame is mainly composed of five portions of a crowd simulation engine, a geometric scene simulation engine, a scene database, an event recorder and a human-computer interaction interface. In consideration of different understandings on mine knowledge and different behavior decisions of miners playing different roles when mine disasters occur, a multiple intelligent agent miner crowd emergency evacuation module and a crowd emergency evacuation algorithm for the different roles of the miners such as job foremen, expert miners, common miners and rescuers are built by using the underground emergency evacuation virtual crowd simulation method based on the multiple intelligent agents according to a role theory. The underground emergency evacuation virtual crowd simulation method based on the multiple intelligent agents can simulate true situations of a mine well, has good universality and verisimilitude, and can provide effective technical support for underground security accident analysis and prevention, mine safety training and rescue exercises.

An economical emergency evacuation mattress for persons in areas with limited access, such as subways and high-rises, provides a warm and secure cocoon for the patient, allows easy transport over any type of surface (e.g., up and down stairs), provides proper support for all of the patient's body, allows the patient to feel a high degree of comfort in what is otherwise a very stressful situation, and provides securing means (e.g., straps) to firmly hold the patient in place during transit.

Embodiments of an emergency evacuation system are disclosed which may be installed within the knockouts of a panel of a modular work space system. During normal operation a battery power source within the emergency evacuation system is charged by normal AC power supplied through the modular work space system. In the event of a power outage or fire, the battery power source serves to operate emergency lighting.

The invention discloses a building locating system with an emergency evacuation function. The system comprises a server, a remote control terminal, and a plurality of infrared video cameras arranged on the interior wall. The server comprises a signal receiving module, a face recognition module, a storage module, a control module, and a wireless communication module. A plurality of temperature sensors and a plurality of smoke sensors are arranged on the interior wall. The system can effectively guide indoor personnel to evacuate and escape through the best route in the case of fire, avoid confusion, and effectively improve the escape probability of people in the case of fire.