US Patent Issued to HOCHIKI on Dec. 9 for "Disaster prevention apparatus to detect fire outbreak or gas leakage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,113, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HOCHIKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Disaster prevention apparatus to detect fire outbreak or gas leakage" was invented by Keisuke Washizu (Tokyo) and Manabu Dohi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector 100 includes an outer cover 11; and a light emitter that outputs information by causing at least a part of the detector 100 to emit light, wherein the light emitter causes at least a protective portion 12 to emit the light, the protective portion 12 accommodating a thermistor that detects a physical quantity of a detection target, and protruding from the outer cover 11, the protective portion 12 guide...