Fire Hose Attachment Integrating Lighting and Sensors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Firefighters face challenges in enhancing visibility, communication, and safety during emergency scenes due to the complexity of their work environment and the need to carry multiple tools, which hinders their ability to efficiently operate and respond to diverse emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
A device that can be attached to a fire hose or carried by firefighters, providing a high-intensity lighting source, video monitoring capability, and atmospheric monitoring, while acting as an early warning system for hazardous conditions, allowing for hands-free operation and real-time communication with command units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If firefighters carry multiple hand tools including personal flashlights, scene lighting, extrication tools, and medical equipment, then they can be prepared for diverse emergency situations, but their workload increases and it becomes difficult to carry all necessary tools
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple functions into a single device: the fire hose attachment includes lighting sources, video monitoring capability, atmospheric monitoring sensors, and communication systems. This allows firefighters to replace multiple separate tools (flashlights, scene lighting, monitoring equipment) with one multi-functional attachment that provides all these capabilities simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines previously separate tools and systems into a single integrated fire hose attachment. The lighting source, video camera, atmospheric sensors, and communication device are merged into one unit that attaches to the fire hose, eliminating the need to carry and manage multiple separate pieces of equipment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If firefighters return to on scene fire vehicles to retrieve additional equipment, then they can obtain necessary tools, but it is time consuming and dangerous
Solution Approach 1:
The fire hose attachment provides multiple functions (lighting, video monitoring, atmospheric monitoring, communication) in one integrated unit, reducing the need to retrieve additional equipment from fire vehicles during operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment is pre-equipped with all necessary tools and systems before deployment. Lighting sources, video cameras, atmospheric sensors, and communication devices are all integrated into the attachment beforehand, eliminating the need to return to the fire vehicle to retrieve additional equipment during the emergency response.
3Illumination intensity
If the device provides high-intensity lighting source and video monitoring capability, then visibility and communication are enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fire hose attachment integrates multiple functions including high-intensity lighting sources, video monitoring cameras, atmospheric sensors, and communication systems into a single multi-functional device that attaches to the fire hose, providing comprehensive capabilities without requiring multiple separate tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges lighting sources, video cameras, atmospheric monitoring sensors, and communication devices into one integrated fire hose attachment. This consolidation provides high-intensity illumination and video monitoring capability while managing complexity through unified design and integration.
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AI summary
A device for carrying an apparatus for discharging a fire extinguishing agent has a frame member. A leg member extends out and away from a bottom section of the frame member. The leg member is dimensioned to be inserted through an opening formed in the hose attachment.