Patent ID: 9631806
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A62C,F21V,Y10S

Claim:
1. A device for housing electronics and optics at the leading edge of a fire suppression operation comprising: a housing having a substantially flat front plate with an inner perimeter wall and an outer perimeter wall, a plurality of light unit openings in the front plate at the outer perimeter wall, the inner perimeter wall aligned with a fluid flow path from a center opening in the housing; and a plurality of light source units respectfully positioned in the plurality of light unit openings to emit light forward from the front plate; the light emitted from the light unit openings having a peak luminous intensity directed parallel to or angled toward the fluid flow path exiting the housing; wherein the plurality of light source units each include a high power LED adjacently rearward of a lens, wherein the light source units have a viewing angle between seven and twenty-one degrees and the light source units each direct light parallel to or angled towards a fluid along the fluid flow path exiting the central opening of the device, the viewing angle intersecting the fluid flow within twenty inches of a lens of each of the light source units.