Abstract: A vehicle fire extinguisher system for extinguishing a fire in event of a crash or another adverse vehicle mishap. The vehicle fire extinguisher system includes a central processing unit being adapted to be securely mounted in a vehicle including airplanes; and also includes a plurality of heat and impact sensors adapted to be disposed about a vehicle and being connected to the central processing unit; and further includes a fire extinguisher assembly being adapted to be securely disposed in a vehicle and being connected to the central processing unit.

Abstract: An expandable metal product for use in extinguishing fires and in the prevention of or protection against explosions. The product is a continuous sheet of material having discontinuous slits in spaced apart lines parallel to each other but transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the sheet. The invention is also directed to the expanded form of the product, either in sheets which may be used for preventing fires or explosion or in the form of shaped ellipsoids for use in a passive inerting system for fuel tanks, as flame arresters, as anti-explosion barriers, and as shields against mechanical impact.

Abstract: A device for protecting flammable fluid reservoirs, or the regions in immediate proximity thereof, from the hazards due to impact and reservoir rupture, and subsequent potential of fire, corrosion or other damage or injury due to contact with reactive fluids. Such impacts may arise from collisions, such as encountered in transportation systems, or structural or thermal failure and/or rupture of components and systems, or separation of system components. Such a device may be formed as a close-fitting shroud over such components, or surrounding fittings and junctions of mating components in such systems, or mounted near the location of such components in the direction of impact or failure. Such a device may have a pattern of pre-scored lines to facilitate break-up of the device upon impact or thermal stress.

Abstract: A passenger and cargo area fire safety system for a vehicle actuated by a collision comprising a series of impact sensors and a series of fire extinguishing gel injector nozzles placed around the perimeter of the vehicle including the passenger compartment and the trunk compartment. The gel is stored as a dry, powdered concentrate which when expelled and contacting air becomes a semi-solid gel protecting the passengers from injury and the cargo from damage.

Abstract: A tank for an excavator vehicle having a frame and body with a hydraulically operated bucket and an engine, the tank comprising a main body mountable to the frame adjacent the engine. The main body has a sealed interior volume with at least one ballast region formed within the interior volume to hold fluid for ballast and at least one discharge region formed within the interior volume to hold fluid for discharge from the tank. There is also at least one valve communicating the ballast region with the discharge region to permit one way flow from the ballast region to the discharge region. A pump having an inlet communicates the discharge region with an outlet. A conduit extends from the pump outlet for delivering fluid forwardly of the excavator bucket. The tank provides ballast for stabilizing the excavator and fluid for fire fighting purposes making the tank useful in fire fighting situations where simultaneous delivery of pressurized fluid and penetration and removal of burning debris is desirable.

Abstract: The invention relates to a power source for supplying water-based liquid to a system, the power source comprising a container (5) for the water-based liquid and a pump unit (6) which comprises a pump (7) and a power source (8) for the pump, the pump unit being arranged to supply the water-based liquid from the container to the system via a pipe system (4) which is filled with a liquid.

Abstract: The invention relates to an installation for extinguishing fire in a railway carriage for transportation of lorries, trailers and the like. In order to extinguish a fire efficiently in a trailer or the like, the installation comprising at least two spray heads (1, 2), whereof the first spray head (1) is placed in the railway carriage close to a first longitudinal side wall (3) of the railway carriage and obliquely directed downwards at an angle (&agr;1) of 40 to 70° in relation to a vertical plane, and the second spray head (2) is placed in the railway carriage close to a second longitudinal side wall (4) of the railway carriage opposite the first side wall and obliquely directed downwards at an angle (&agr;2) of 40 to 70° in relation to the vertical plane, the spray heads being placed at a height of 3,2 to 4 m above the railway carriage floor (11) and arranged to spray water-based extinguishing medium at a spread angle (&bgr;1, &bgr;2) of 45 to 120°.

Abstract: A safety-enhancing management system for storing, transporting, or transferring hydrocarbon fuel whereby inert gas conveyance provides hydrocarbon fuel receptacles with a combustion suppressing volume of inert gas which displaces potentially combustible fuel vapor/air mixtures which can otherwise collect in the ullages of such receptacles. In one embodiment the inert gas is readily stored, transported, and conveyed in an inert gas-enriched fuel that degasses inert gas from the fuel within one or more receiving receptacles ullage(s). In a second embodiment, a separate controllable supply of inert gas, such as carbon dioxide, is storable in one or more gas receptacle(s), in a gaseous or liquefied state.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing system for vehicles homes and offices includes a firing assembly for attachment to a container of fire extinguishing agent, a firing pin for penetrating the container to release the fire extinguishing agent, the firing pin being moved by an explosive squib or a solenoid, a conduit for carrying fire extinguishing agent to a discharge outlet, and a control system having a capacitor for pulse discharge of electric power to the control head to fire the squib or solenoid. The control box includes a three-position switch for firing the system, putting the system on automatic function, or deactivating the system. Other switches can include sensors for activating the firing pin in response to high temperature, or vehicle impact. One or more optical flame sensors are employed with pulse counting electronic circuitry. Also included herein is an electropneumatic firing assembly employing a movable piston valve.

Abstract: A linear fire extinguisher system is described that includes a flexible, substantially closed plastic tube containing an extinguishant, the tube containing a multiplicity of selectively weakened pre-scored orifices at preselected spacing along the tube length, whereby sufficient heat from a fire contacting the tube will weaken and rupture the tube predictably and facilitate efficient discharge of the extinguishant directly onto the fire. The structure of the invention may include two coaxial inner and outer tubes, each tube containing extinguishant wherein the outer tube may initially rupture upon heating and discharge extinguishant onto the fire, the inner tube being available for rupture and discharge onto the fire upon re-ignition or if the discharge of the outer tube is insufficient to extinguish the fire.

Abstract: Anti-combuation safeguarding of fuel and other combustible material confined in contact with a pre-existing overlying ambient atmosphere supportive of combustion. Such atmosphere is displaced by an underlying blanketing layer of heavier-than-air gaseous carbon dioxide evolving from solid non-combustible carbon dioxide located at a nearby site, from which it is distributed to site(s) of fuel or other combustible material. Such a method, together with apparatus to implement it, is applicable to fuel or other combustible material not only when stored at a fixed location, but also in a transport vehicle or craft of whatever type, and wherever located. Distributive flow of carbon dioxide to fuel sites in air, land, or marine craft may be accelerated in accordance with fuel consumption, and also in the event of occurrence of a spark or other hazard, as by applying radiation to the solid carbon dioxide so as to increase its existing rate of conversion into carbon dioxide gas.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for extinguishing fires in engine compartments and the like including a layer of polymeric material disposed within the engine compartment, the polymeric material being expandable on exposure to localized elevated temperatures and being disposed at predetermined locations within the engine compartment so that upon exposure to localized elevated temperatures the polymeric material expands to extinguish the fires produced thereby.

Abstract: A fire is extinguished and suppressed, by a dual stage fire extinguisher. In a first stage, a sufficient amount of an inerting agent is delivered to extinguish the fire. Once the fire is extinguished, in the second stage, a different amount of inerting agent is delivered to the fire to prevent its re-ignition. Since suppression typically requires less of the inerting agent than extinguishing, a reduction in the weight of the inerting agent is achieved with the dual stage process making the system particularly amenable to aircraft applications such as in an engine nacelle or cargo dry bay.

Abstract: A vehicular fire extinguishing or suppressing device that includes a pressurized vessel that houses a flexible bladder and contains a fire extinguishing composition. A disk assembly blocks an axial bore between the vessel and its exit in order to retain the fire extinguishing composition in the vessel. If a fire is detected in the vehicle, the disc assembly is perforated by the discharge of an explosive charge. The perforation of the disk assembly allows the escape of the fire extinguishing composition.

Abstract: An expandable metal product for use in extinguishing fires and in the prevention of or protection against explosions. The product is a continuous sheet of material having discontinuous slits in spaced apart lines parallel to each other but transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the sheet. The invention is also directed to the expanded form of the product, either in sheets which may be used for preventing fires or explosion or in the form of shaped ellipsoids for use in a passive inerting system for fuel tanks, as flame arresters, as anti-explosion barriers, and as shields against mechanical impact.

Abstract: A method for extinguishing fires in aircraft cargo spaces includes two pressure chambers separated by an annular boss which houses a restricting orifice and a check valve assembly. A lower chamber acts as a high rate discharge fire extinguisher and the upper chamber acts as a metering fire extinguisher. Upon receipt of an activation command from the cockpit, all the agent contained in the high rate discharge chamber is emptied within seconds. At the same time, the pressurized agent contained in the upper chamber pushes the check valve to a closed position and allows the agent in the metering chamber to flow through the orifice of the restrictor at a predetermined rate. With the properly sized orifice, the agent in the upper chamber will be emptied at a rate that lasts for the needed duration of the aircraft fire protection system.

Abstract: A system for preventing and suppressing fires and explosions is provided that fills the ullage spaces in fuel tanks with an inert gas that is generated by the operating system or facility. This insert gas is a combustion gas that is depleted of readily combustible oxygen and that is supplied at a pressure exceeding the ambient and displaces any oxygen in the ullage to a level that inhibits combustion in the fuel tank.

Abstract: A home fire extinguishing system is provided including a sprinkler system having a plurality of sprinkler heads adapted to dispense water in the rooms of a home upon the actuation thereof. Also provided is a manual switch for allowing the selective actuation of the sprinkler system.

Abstract: A fire extinguisher comprises a pressure bottle containing the fire extinguishing material and having mounted therein a diffuser-actuation housing. A source of pressurized gas is in at least one of the pressure bottle or the housing or may be in both. The housing has internal exhaust ports for permitting flow of the fire extinguishing material from the interior of the pressure bottle to the interior of the housing and external diffuser ports for delivering the fire extinguishing material from the interior of the housing to the area of a fire. Intermediate the internal exhaust ports and the external diffuser ports there is positioned a burst element, for interrupting the flow path between the internal exhaust ports and the external diffuser ports until the burst element is ruptured.

Abstract: A fire extinguisher for closed spaces comprising a pressure container having at least two chambers separated from each other by means of a displaceable wall, one of the chambers containing an extinguishant liquid and being provided with a release valve and the other chamber containing a pressurized driving gas for discharging the extinguishant liquid from said one chamber through said release valve by displacing the displaceable wall into the first chamber at a high pressure when the release valve is actuated, the fire extinguisher further comprising at least one nozzle connected with the release valve for atomizing the extinguishant liquid supplied to the nozzle from the release valve at a high pressure in order to create a liquid fog filling the closed space, characterized in that the displaceable wall is constituted by a piston displaceably positioned in the pressure container between the chamber containing the extinguishant liquid and the chamber containing the pressurized driving gas, the piston being ad

Abstract: An engine fire suppression system comprising a canister charged with a fire suppressant material, a piping system connected to the canister and terminating in a U-shaped manifold having a plurality of discharge orifices, a redundant parallel valve system in connection between the canister and the manifold, and a fire detection system controlling the redundant parallel valves having a heat sensing circuit and a smoke sensing circuit. A back up power supply is provided that is constantly maintained at full charge by the vehicle alternator but that has sufficient electrical power to power the system in the event the vehicle battery is removed. In addition, an audible alarm is initiated for several seconds prior to discharging the canister contents and during the discharge of the canister contents to alert vehicle passengers that the canister contents will be discharged or are being discharged.

Abstract: An automobile engine fire extinguishing system including an extinguisher canister secured within an automobile adjacent to its engine. The extinguisher holds fire retardant material therein. The extinguisher canister has an outlet valve for dispensing the fire retardant material out of the canister. The outlet valve has a lever coupled thereto for releasing the fire retardant material into the engine. A release handle is positioned within an interior of the automobile adjacent to a steering wheel thereof. The release handle has a shaft extending inwardly therefrom and is secured to the lever for releasing thereof.

Abstract: A fire hazard is automatically detected and a fire is prevented or extinguished in an automotive vehicle upon such vehicle being involved in a collision. The vehicle has an air conditioning system including a container and employing CO.sub.2 as a refrigerant. The occurrence of a collision is detected by an impact sensor. In response to detection of the collision by such a sensor, a processing/control unit opens a valve in a line connected to an outlet at or near a bottom of the container. Thereby, the CO.sub.2 refrigerant is released substantially in liquid phase from the container and passed through the line and is discharged as a fire extinguishing agent into various parts of the vehicle, for example the engine compartment.

Abstract: A fire extinguishing system for vehicles includes a firing assembly for attachment to a container of fire extinguishing agent, a firing pin for penetrating the container to release the fire extinguishing agent, the firing pin being moved by an explosive squib or a solenoid, a conduit for carrying fire extinguishing agent to a discharge outlet, and a control system having a capacitor for pulse discharge of electric power to the control head to fire the squib or solenoid. The control box includes a three-position switch for firing the system, putting the system on automatic function, or deactivating the system. Other switches can include sensors for activating the firing pin in response to high temperature or vehicle impact.

Abstract: A system for preventing and suppressing fires and explosions is provided that fills the ullage spaces in fuel tanks with an inert gas that is generated by the operating system or facility. This insert gas is a combustion gas that is depleted of readily combustible oxygen and that is supplied at a pressure exceeding the ambient and displaces any oxygen in the ullage to a level that inhibits combustion in the fuel tank.

Abstract: An aircraft penetrating nozzle comprises a penetrator which has a harden tip. The penetrator functions to open a passageway in a barrier or skin of an aircraft to permit the aircraft penetrating nozzle to pass thereinto. The penetrator is securely attached to a frustum which comprises a plurality of nozzles which disperse fire extinguishing fluids interior to the aircraft perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft penetrating nozzle and forward of the perpendicular. The frustum is securely attached to a shank which comprises at least one rotating nozzle which functions to disperse fire extinguishing fluid, in fog form, sideways to the aircraft penetrating nozzle which is fore and aft in the aircraft. The aircraft penetrating nozzle is attached to a boom and a fire extinguishing fluid source.

Abstract: The linear type fire-extinguisher is modified to be fabricated from a synthetic polymeric resin, rupturable upon combustion to release a contained fire-extinguisher.

Abstract: A fire detecting valve activation assembly for vehicle fire suppression systems that have a pressurized gas fire suppressant cylinder and a pressurized gas fire suppressant distribution line terminating in a release valve having an actuator shaft for closing and opening the release valve. The fire detecting valve activation assembly includes a nozzle and a lead link fire detecting valve activation assembly.

Abstract: In the method for extinguishing fires in enclosed spaces, pre-cooled combustion products are introduced into an enclosed space until in the enclosed space there is an atmosphere that prevents combustion. An ecologically acceptable and fire-inhibiting medium that is not detrimental to health is formed by oxidizing the combustion products completely by an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent prior to cooling. An apparatus for implementing the method has a housing (1) which is divided by a transversely running partition wall (11) having at least one wall opening (15). At the at least one wall opening (15) a mixing tube (8) is mounted coaxially with respect to a discharge nozzle (2) connected to a combustion chamber (14), the end of the mixing tube remote from the partition wall (11) opening into the atmosphere. The space (7) between the mixing tube (8) and the inner wall of the housing (1) is filled with a coolant.

Abstract: A fire suppression system for the engine compartment of a vehicle is described which includes a remotely controllable throttle valve disposed within the exhaust duct of the engine for selectively diverting exhaust gases through a bypass duct for mixing with the ventilation airflow for the purpose of reducing the oxygen content in the airflow over the engine below a level which will effectively support combustion.

Abstract: An effective method for diminishing hydrocarbon vapors in fuel tanks and thereby avoiding expensive, complicated and risky procedures for capturing purged hydrocarbon vapors during refueling. The method involves filling the fuel tank with multiple pieces of expanded metal net formed in the shape of ellipsoids, to inhibit the formation of hydrocarbon vapors and to promote condensation of such vapors as may be formed.

Abstract: A Fire Fighting System includes a vehicle with a plurality of mounted motors, a fire shield system, an emergency fire retardant discharge system, and a modular instrumentation assembly. The motors are equipped with a plurality of swinging cutting elements and severe duty fire whips. The fire shield system may include a series of flame and heat retardant coverings placed on all exposed parts of the system to prevent damage from exposure to extreme heat. The emergency fire retardant discharge system distributes chemical fire retardant in the event the fire comes too close to the system. The modular instrumentation system includes a series of video, radar, and infrared sensors which provide information of the fire environment to the operator of the system. In operation, the vehicle operator positions the system at the edge of a fire line and energizes the motors causing the cutting blade assembly and fire whips to begin rotating.

Abstract: The fire and explosion suppression system is mounted external to a tank and injects a suppressant medium into the tank via a preformed opening in the tank wall. The fire and explosion suppressant system includes a container for housing a suppressant medium which includes an opening removably connected to the predefined opening in a tank wall. The fire and explosion suppressant system also includes an actuator, such as a detonator, for activating the suppressant medium upon detection of a fire or explosion within the tank. The fire and explosion suppressant system further includes a reclosable valve for sealing the predefined opening in the tank wall. The valve includes a valve housing having at least one port and mounted over the opening in the tank wall. The valve further includes a piston disposed within the valve housing for sealing the tank wall opening.

Abstract: An expandable metal product for use in extinguishing fires and in the prevention of or protection against explosions. The product is a continuous sheet of material having discontinuous slits in spaced apart lines parallel to each other but transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the sheet. The invention is also directed to the expanded form of the product, either in sheets which may be used for preventing fires or explosion or in the form of shaped ellipsoids for use in a passive inerting system for fuel tanks, as flame arresters, as anti-explosion barriers, and as shields against mechanical impact.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a new method for extinguishing fires. The method is advantageously used for fighting fires in engine rooms and similar spaces. According to the method, the fire is extinguished or at least suppressed by means of concentrated fog sprays with strong penetrating power, by utilizing high operating pressure, which is gradually decreased for the provision of spread fog-like liquid spraying providing for effective heat absorption and control of fire. The extinguishing liquid is preferably delivered to spray heads (43, 44, 45) by using hydraulic accumulators (41, 41a).

Abstract: The invention provides a self-contained automatic fire detection, warning, and suppression life safety system having an extinguishant source and a fire detector coupled to an electronic processor. The processor has logic to interface with components for detecting and warning of a fire and releasing the extinguishant. Self-diagnosis logic checks the entire system's function, pressure, power level, and power source. Additional sensors are provided for detecting various hazards, and the processor has logic for proper response.

Abstract: A method for fighting a fire in a narrow space fog-form sprays an extinguishing medium in a direction along the narrow space from a first nozzle and fog-form sprays the extinguishing medium in the direction along the narrow space from a second nozzle that is spaced from the first nozzle in the direction along the narrow space for the fog-form sprayings to strengthen each other in capacity and penetration from availability of air behind and close to each of the nozzles.

Abstract: A fire retardant delivery system for delivering fire retardant onto a fire. The system 10 includes an aircraft comprises a fire retardant storage and ejection system, and a stabilized three axis gimbal system for providing signals indicative of angle and angle rates of a gimbal with respect to an axis of the aircraft. An infrared sensor system is disposed on stabilized three axis gimbal system. A display is coupled to infrared sensor system for displaying an image produced thereby to a pilot of the aircraft. Aircraft sensors are provide signals indicative of the velocity, altitude, and dive angle of the aircraft. A computer is coupled to the infrared sensor system, to the aircraft sensors, and to the fire retardant storage and ejection system, for computing distance between the aircraft and a hot spot in the fire and for computing an optimal release point for ejecting fire retardant from the aircraft onto the fire.

Abstract: A fire fighting method for extinguishing an elongated object includes spraying a first water-based spray (1a) and a second water-based spray (2a) with a first spray nozzle (1) and a second spray nozzle (2) to the immediate vicinity of the object in such a way that the first spray is directed towards the underpressure of air generated by the second spray nozzle. To enable efficient extinction with a small number of spray heads without causing high temperature gradients at various points on the surface of the object to be extinguished, the second spray (2a) is sprayed towards the underpressure of air generated by the first spray nozzle, and the first and the second spray are sprayed at least approximately in the direction of a longitudinal axis the of the elongated object in such a manner that the sprays are sprayed mainly in opposite directions and that the first and the second spray form a continuous spray path.

Abstract: A fixed hollow panel, either channeled or unchanneled internally with extinguishant sealed inside, is mounted on the exterior surfaces of a highway vehicle fuel tank. When the vehicle on which this device is mounted is impacted in an accident, and the resultant impact deforms or ruptures the fuel tank, the attached device is also ruptured and releases the extinguishant contained inside the device. This is intended to extinguish fires or inert against potential fires in the vicinity of the fuel tank, where splashing or misting fuels may come into contact with sparks or other ignition sources for a brief instant, hence protecting against accident-induced vehicle fires in a simple, lightweight and low cost manner.

Abstract: A method of fighting a fire drives a first fire-extinguishing liquid from at least one spray head or sprinkler at a fire with a low-pressure pump. Thereafter it drives a second fire-extinguishing liquid from a liquid container and the spray head or sprinkler at the fire with a first propellant gas from at least one gas container, at least some of the first propellent gas remaining in the gas container after all of the second fire-extinguishing liquid has been driven from the liquid container. Still thereafter it again drives the first fire-extinguishing liquid from the spray head or sprinkler at the fire with the low-pressure pump, the low-pressure pump being driven by the first propellant gas that was remaining in the gas container.

Abstract: A vehicular and marine fire suppression system (10) for suppressing and quenching fires. The vehicular and marine fire suppression system (10) including a first canister (12), a second canister (20) and an actuating mechanism (26). The first canister (12) includes an inlet (14), an outlet (16) defining a neck (18) and a discharge mechanism (42) received within the neck (18). The first canister (12) houses a fire suppressing agent. The second canister (20) includes an outlet (22) and a seal (24) disposed about the outlet (22). The second canister (20) houses an agitating and pressurizing agent. The actuation mechanism (26) includes an actuating valve stem (36) received within the inlet (14) of the first cylinder (12).

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a new method and a new equipment for extinguishing fires especially in engine rooms and similar spaces. The fire is extinguished or at least pressed down by means of concentrated fog sprays with strong penetrating power, by utilizing high operating pressure, which is gradually decreased for the provision of spread fog-like liquid spraying. The extinguishing liquid is preferably delivered to spray heads (43, 44, 45) by using hydraulic accumulators (41, 41a).

Abstract: A spark and flame suppression system including an extinguishing member positioned around a contained fire extinguishing material and is securable within an engine compartment of a vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fire fighting equipment, comprising at least one spray head (1) with a number of nozzles (3) directed obliquely sideways. The nozzles (3) are arranged so close to each other that the fog formation areas of the individual nozzles intensify the fog flows and provide a suction to cause the fog formation areas to be compressed into a continuous directional fog spray.

Abstract: A scheme for essentially instantaneous kills of fires in crew compartments s shown which is effective over a wide variety of climatic temperatures. An extinguishant is mixed according to the formula, (M.sup.+ A.sup.-).sub.sat +H.sub.2 O+fps+d @T, where A.sup.- is either an acetate in the form H.sub.2 CCOO.sup.-, chloride, or bromide, M.sup.+ is an alkali metal or ammonium, fps is a freezing point suppressant, d is a surfactant, and (M.sup.+ A.sup.-).sub.sat is a saturation level of compound M.sup.+ A.sup.- at temperature T. In one embodiment of our scheme, potassium acetate is both the (M.sup.+ A.sup.-).sub.sat and the fps in the foregoing formula. The scheme includes charging an extinguisher bottle with the extinguishant under pressure, opening a gate device connecting the bottle to a feeder line, and allowing the extinguishant to flow in the line to a nozzle. The extinguishant is then sprayed through the nozzle, which is disposed at the fire in the compartment.

Abstract: A Fire Fighting System includes a vehicle with one or more mounted motors, a fire shield system, and an emergency fire retardant discharge system. The motors are equipped with cutting elements including cutting teeth, paddle teeth, and severe duty fire whips. The fire shield system may include a series of flame and heat retardant coverings placed on all exposed parts of the system to prevent damage from exposure to extreme heat. The emergency fire retardant discharge system distributes chemical fire retardant in the event the fire comes too close to the system. In operation, the vehicle operator positions the system at the edge of a fire line and energizes the motors causing the cutting elements and whips to begin rotating. Once rotating at full speed, the vehicle is advanced along the fire line with the cutting elements cutting and slashing the burning vegetation. Once cut, the burning vegetation is thrown aside by the severe-duty fire whips that rotate to throw the debris back towards the fire.

Abstract: In a ship having water-ejection for driving the ship and spraying water, the water-ejection for the spraying of the water is improved by spraying the water as a fog of droplets, whereby to cool the ship and protect the ship from radioactive fallout.

Abstract: A fire extinguisher apparatus is provided for preventing and extinguishing fires in an engine compartment of a motor vehicle. The apparatus includes a collision sensor assembly supported by the motor vehicle and a fire extinguisher module supported by the motor vehicle. The fire extinguisher module includes a valve assembly. A valve control assembly is electrically connected to the collision sensor assembly, is supported by the fire extinguisher module, and is employed for controlling the valve assembly. A manifold assembly is supported by the motor vehicle and is connected to the valve assembly. The manifold assembly receives a quantity of fire extinguishant from the fire extinguisher module when the valve assembly is operated by the valve control assembly. The manifold assembly includes a first manifold branch which extends along a first side of the engine compartment and includes a second manifold branch which extends along a second side of the engine compartment.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for suppressing a fire. The apparatus includes a gas generator containing as a propellant, a mixture of a fuel, strontium nitrate as an oxidizer, and magnesium carbonate. When the propellant is ignited, a nitrogen rich effluent is generated that is effective to suppress the fire. By providing the propellant with at least 35%, by weight, of magnesium carbonate, the generation of effluent by-products that are corrosive to aluminum is inhibited.