Priority coding for control room alarms

Patent · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:869532

Scarola, Kenneth ^[1]; Jamison, David S ^[1]; Manazir, Richard M ^[2]; Rescorl, Robert L ^[3]; Harmon, Daryl L ^[4]

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1. Windsor, CT
2. North Canton, CT
3. Vernon, CT
4. Enfield, CT

Indicating the priority of a spatially fixed, activated alarm tile on an alarm tile array by a shape coding at the tile, and preferably using the same shape coding wherever the same alarm condition is indicated elsewhere in the control room. The status of an alarm tile can change automatically or by operator acknowledgement, but tones and/or flashing cues continue to provide status information to the operator.

• Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc. (Windsor, CT)
• Patent Number(s): US 5353315
• OSTI ID: 869532
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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