CN101777138A - Use condition output structure applied to protective tool - Google Patents

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CN101777138A
CN101777138A CN200910248019A CN200910248019A CN101777138A CN 101777138 A CN101777138 A CN 101777138A CN 200910248019 A CN200910248019 A CN 200910248019A CN 200910248019 A CN200910248019 A CN 200910248019A CN 101777138 A CN101777138 A CN 101777138A
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The invention provides a use condition output structure applied to a protective tool, which belongs to the field of protective tools, The structure comprises a protective tool body used by individual person and worn on the body to protect the body, a use condition detecting module for detecting the use condition of the protective tool for users, a use condition detecting component for users, a component for counting the frequency of taking down the protective tool, a component for counting the time of taking down the protective tool, a data output module used for outputting the statistic results in the use condition detecting module, a component for outputting the frequency of taking down the protective tool, a component for outputting the time of taking down the protective tool, a component for automatically setting the frequency of taking down the protective tool, a component for automatically setting the time of taking down the protective tool, a legality judging component, a rule violation level judging module and the like, and the legality of the user is judged via recording and outputting the user protective condition, so people do not need to carry out monitoring on site, and the effect is good in places having high requirements on safety and health problems.

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Be applied to the behaviour in service export structure of safety appliance
Technical field
The invention belongs to the safety appliance field, relate to a kind of guard technology.
Background technology
Nowadays, along with the continuous progress with civilization of society science and technology, people are strong increasingly working day to self and other peoples' protection.In many densely populated living quarterss, self and other peoples' health all is considerable.
For example, be similar to the communicable disease of aspect such as SARS and H1N1 first stream virus etc., in the big city of the density of population, be easy to contacting with each other and then wreak havoc by people.Whether infect this viroid and work as people, usually not understanding oneself has infected, and perhaps the phenomenon to self thinks little of.Just like the usual life and work that carries out.So, easily virus disseminating is come.
For such phenomenon, we also constantly take many measures.
China the publication application number be CN200710202378 with the similar patented claim of safety appliance.The described a kind of eye protection alarming device that is used for computer of this patent, it comprises image acquiring module, image processing module, statistical module and alarm module.This image sensing module is used to obtain computer user's continuous multiple frames face image.Image processing module is used to handle every frame face image to obtain to characterize continuous a plurality of eigenwerts of computer user eye height.Statistical module be used for adding up these continuous a plurality of eigenwerts greater than the number of the eigenwert of predetermined value to obtain computer user's open time of eyes.Alarm module sends caution when being used for satisfying predetermined condition in the open time of computer user eyes.This eye protection alarming device can in time remind the computer user to leave computer, avoids eye illness to occur or increases the weight of.The present invention also provides a kind of eye protection alarming method for power in addition.
This type of technology all is that reminds people is had a rest in good time, protecting own and other people apparatus, and is directed to the disease class protection field that we often face, and similar techniques is still more rare.
People have had recognized the need to similar techniques is strengthened reinforcement, and people just can be by similarly situation puzzlement, and similarly the safety appliance field more remains to be further developed.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance, in order to a kind of device that can protect by export structure to be provided.
Be applied to the behaviour in service export structure of safety appliance, include following structure:
The safety appliance body, it be used for people individual use be worn on one's body with the apparatus structure of body protection as purpose.
The behaviour in service detecting module, it is arranged on the aforesaid safety appliance body, surveys the situation that the user uses safety appliance, includes user's user mode probe assembly, takes off safety appliance number of times statistics component, takes off safety appliance time statistics component.
Data outputting module, it is connected with aforesaid behaviour in service detecting module, take off safety appliance number of times output precision in order to export the statistics in the aforementioned behaviour in service detecting module, to include, take off safety appliance time output precision, take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component, validity decision assembly, rank is judged wherein one at least of assembly in violation of rules and regulations.
Validity decision assembly wherein includes the legal standard module and judges comparison module.
Violation rank is wherein judged assembly, includes violation rank standard module and judges comparison module in violation of rules and regulations.
Further, the described behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance also has following technical characterictic:
Described data outputting module is provided with the information cutout screen behaviour in service identification information is exported.
On the described data outputting module, be provided with the identification code of holding object information in order to read.
Described identification code is realized by bar code, magnetic stripe or radio frequency chip.
Described behaviour in service detecting module is realized by detecting structure.
Described detecting structure, can be provided with breathe detecting structure, pressure switch, temperature sensitive switch three at least one realize.
Described take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component by realizing from setting structure.
The invention has the advantages that:
The described behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance is to utilize capacitance variations to survey the device that the user breathes.The present invention be provided be used for people individual use be worn on one's body be purpose safety appliance body with body protection, survey the behaviour in service detecting module that the user uses the situation of safety appliance, user's user mode probe assembly, take off safety appliance number of times statistics component, take off safety appliance time statistics component, in order to export the data outputting module of the statistics in the aforementioned behaviour in service detecting module, take off safety appliance number of times output precision, take off safety appliance time output precision, take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component, the validity decision assembly, rank is judged assembly etc. in violation of rules and regulations, by record and output, judge user's legitimacy to the customer protection situation.
Utilize the behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance of the present invention, can survey the information of user, and, judge user's behavior legitimacy by record and output to self-protection.Can not use safety appliance to carry out instant recording and statistics to the user, need not monitor on the spot yet by people.When violation, managerial personnel just can carry out to a certain degree warning or punishment to the user, can improve the consciousness of user's self-protection.Like this, have good effectiveness for safety and the demanding place of health problem.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of theory diagram that is applied to the behaviour in service export structure of safety appliance of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a kind of example structure synoptic diagram that is applied to the behaviour in service export structure of safety appliance of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a kind of information cutout screen synoptic diagram that is applied to the behaviour in service export structure of safety appliance of the present invention.
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Be applied to the behaviour in service export structure-100 of safety appliance, safety appliance body-110, behaviour in service detecting module-200, user's user mode probe assembly-210, take off safety appliance number of times statistics component-220, take off safety appliance time statistics component-230, data outputting module-300, take off safety appliance number of times output precision-310, take off safety appliance time output precision-320, take off the safety appliance number of times, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component-340 from assignment component-330, validity decision assembly-350, legal standard module-351 is judged comparison module-352, and rank is judged assembly-360 in violation of rules and regulations, violation rank standard module-361, judge comparison module-362, information cutout screen-400, identification code-410 in violation of rules and regulations, detecting structure-420 is from setting structure-430.
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The behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance of the present invention at the behaviour in service of people to it, writes down and exports.Be described further at the embodiment among the present invention below.
The explanation of Fig. 1:
Shown in ginseng Fig. 1, be the theory diagram that is applied to the behaviour in service export structure 100 of safety appliance, it mainly comprises:
Safety appliance body 110, it be used for people individual use be worn on one's body with the apparatus structure of body protection as purpose.Behaviour in service export structure 100 its safety appliance body 110 structure applications wide range that are applied to safety appliance of the present invention such as mouth mask, protective clothing, safety helmet or the like, all can be utilized.
Behaviour in service detecting module 200, it is arranged on the aforesaid safety appliance body 110, surveys the situation that the user uses safety appliance, and the situation that the user uses safety appliance and takes off safety appliance is surveyed, and can realize by detecting structure.
Described behaviour in service detecting module 200 mainly includes user's user mode probe assembly 210, takes off safety appliance number of times statistics component 220, takes off safety appliance time statistics component 230.Wherein said user's user mode probe assembly 210 is to be used for surveying the assembly whether user uses safety appliance body 110.The wherein said safety appliance number of times statistics component 220 of taking off is to be used for the user is taken off the assembly that the number of times of safety appliance body 110 is added up.The wherein said safety appliance time statistics component 230 of taking off, the time that promptly is used for the user is taken off safety appliance body 110 is added up.
Data outputting module 300, it is connected with aforesaid behaviour in service detecting module 200, take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310 in order to export the statistics in the aforementioned behaviour in service detecting module 200, to include, take off safety appliance time output precision 320, take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component 330, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component 340, validity decision assembly 350, rank is judged wherein one at least of assembly 360 in violation of rules and regulations.
Wherein take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, be to be used for taking off the assembly that data that safety appliance number of times statistics component 220 added up are exported with aforementioned.
The safety appliance time of taking off output precision 320 wherein is to be used for taking off the assembly that data that safety appliance time statistics component 230 added up are exported with aforementioned.
Wherein take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component 330, be to be used for managerial personnel before use, be directed to and take off safety appliance number of times statistics component 220 assembly that maximum is taken off the safety appliance number of times is set.
The safety appliance time of taking off wherein is to be used for managerial personnel before use from assignment component 340, is directed to take off safety appliance time statistics component 230 assembly that maximum is taken off the safety appliance time is set.
Validity decision assembly 350 wherein includes legal standard module 351 and judges comparison module 352.
Described legal standard module 351 is about to the aforementioned safety appliance number of times that takes off from assignment component 330 and take off the data of safety appliance time under assignment component 340 sets, as the data of legal standard module 351.
Described judgement comparison module 352, be about to the data of legal standard module 351 and take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, modular structure that the data of taking off 320 outputs of safety appliance time output precision compare judgement.
As an example, when managerial personnel by taking off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component 330 and take off the data that the safety appliance time sets from assignment component 340 and be " 2T.5M ", and by take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, take off safety appliance time output precision 320 output be " 3T.10M " time, like this, judge that comparison module 352 judgement users are illegal; If by what take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, take off 320 outputs of safety appliance time output precision is " 1T.3M ", like this, judge that comparison module 352 judgement users are legal.
Violation rank is wherein judged assembly 360, includes violation rank standard module 361 and judges comparison module 362 in violation of rules and regulations.
The violation rank that described violation rank standard module 361 is promptly set at this behaviour in service export structure 100 that is applied to safety appliance.Described violation judges that comparison module 362 is promptly to violation rank standard module 361 and take off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, take off the modular structure that safety appliance time output precision 320 compares judgement.
As an example, when taking off safety appliance number of times output precision 310, taking off the violation rank that data that safety appliance time output precision 320 notes are set greater than violation rank standard module 361, judge in violation of rules and regulations that then comparison module 362 by relatively, is judged to be in violation of rules and regulations.When violation, managerial personnel just can carry out to a certain degree warning or punishment to the user, can improve the consciousness of user's self-protection.
The explanation of Fig. 2:
Shown in ginseng Fig. 2, be the behaviour in service export structure 100 that is applied to safety appliance, relate to anti-tool apparatus body 110 example structure synoptic diagram, this embodiment mainly includes following structure:
As join shown in Figure 2ly, be provided with safety appliance body 110, it be used for people individual use be worn on one's body with the apparatus structure of body protection as purpose.And safety appliance body 110 is set to Respirator structure in the present embodiment.Be provided with information cutout screen 400, identification code 410, detecting structure 420 thereon, from setting structure 430.
Described behaviour in service detecting module is realized by detecting structure 420.Behaviour in service export structure 100 its body construction wide range that are applied to safety appliance of the present invention such as mouth mask, protective clothing, safety helmet or the like, all can be utilized.Described detecting structure 420, can be provided with breathe detecting structure, pressure switch, temperature sensitive switch three at least one realize.As the described Respirator structure of present embodiment, on its safety appliance body 110, just be provided with the detecting structure 420 that is used to survey user's breathing, the breathing that just can be directed to the user is surveyed, in a single day the user takes off mouth mask, and detecting structure 420 can carry out record by corresponding module; If be set to protective clothing, then on its safety appliance body 110, the detecting structure 420 of surveying human body temperature by temperature sensitive switch is just arranged, it can detect 35 degrees centigrade to 42 degrees centigrade human body temperature, in a single day the user takes off protective clothing, and detecting structure 420 just can carry out record by corresponding module; If be set to safety helmet, then on its safety appliance body 110, the detecting structure 420 of surveying the human body crown by pressure switch is just arranged, it can be surveyed by the pressure that safety helmet is worn over the crown, in a single day the user takes off safety helmet, and detecting structure 420 just can carry out record by corresponding module.
On the described data outputting module 300, be provided with the identification code 410 of holding object information in order to read.As an example, if people wear is mouth mask, 410 of its identification codes are shown as the identification code 410 of mouth mask.Very convenient like this managerial personnel read safety appliance body 110.Simultaneously, identification code 410 can be realized by bar code, magnetic stripe or radio frequency chip.As long as the user is in the entrance management scope, managerial personnel just can read user profile by external unit.
Described information cutout screen 400 belongs to data outputting module 300, and the behaviour in service identification information is exported.As an example, as people not behind the entrance management zone, when not using safety appliance body 110, the behaviour in service export structure 100 that is applied to safety appliance will be added up untapped number of times and duration, such as, the user is behind the entrance management zone, safety appliance body 110 is taken off 3 times, continued 10 minutes altogether, so, safety appliance body 110 will write down and add up data, and on information cutout screen 400 " 3T.10M " is exported.
Also be provided with on safety appliance body 110 from setting structure 430, it is to take off the structure that number of times and time sets at safety appliance body 110.
Join shown in Figure 3ly, be the enforcement illustration of the information cutout screen 400 of the behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance of the present invention.
As shown in the figure, when people did not use the safety appliance body within a governance context, aforesaid detecting structure was surveyed sign information, will will take off safety appliance time logarithmic data, take off the safety appliance time data and export by information cutout screen 400.
Information cutout screen 400 also can be exported information in several ways, such as joining shown in Fig. 3 top, with bar code form output, for managerial personnel's identification.In addition, implement as ginseng Fig. 3 below, with the output of numerical information form, as " 3T.10M ", i.e. it is 3 times that the safety appliance number of times is taken off in expression, take off the safety appliance time is 10 minutes.
Utilize safety appliance within a governance context by the user, managerial personnel utilize the behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance of the present invention that it is carried out data recording, when violation, managerial personnel just can carry out to a certain degree warning or punishment to the user, can slow down the consciousness that the user lacks self-protection.
More than be the description of this invention and non-limiting, based on other embodiment of inventive concept, all among protection scope of the present invention.

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1. behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance is characterized in that this structure comprises as the lower part:
(1) safety appliance body, it be used for people individual use be worn on one's body with the apparatus structure of body protection as purpose;
(2) behaviour in service detecting module, it is arranged on the aforesaid safety appliance body, surveys the situation that the user uses safety appliance, includes user's user mode probe assembly, takes off safety appliance number of times statistics component, takes off safety appliance time statistics component;
(3) data outputting module, it is connected with aforesaid behaviour in service detecting module, in order to export the statistics in the aforementioned behaviour in service detecting module, include and take off safety appliance number of times output precision, take off safety appliance time output precision, take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component, validity decision assembly, rank is judged wherein one at least of assembly in violation of rules and regulations
Validity decision assembly wherein includes the legal standard module and judges comparison module,
Violation rank is wherein judged assembly, includes violation rank standard module and judges comparison module in violation of rules and regulations.
2. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described data outputting module is provided with the information cutout screen behaviour in service identification information is exported.
3. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 1 is characterized in that: on the described data outputting module, be provided with the identification code of holding object information in order to read.
4. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 3, it is characterized in that: described identification code is realized by bar code, magnetic stripe or radio frequency chip.
5. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described behaviour in service detecting module, realize by detecting structure.
6. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 5 is characterized in that: described detecting structure, can be provided with breathe detecting structure, pressure switch, temperature sensitive switch three at least one realize.
7. a kind of behaviour in service export structure that is applied to safety appliance according to claim 1 is characterized in that: described take off the safety appliance number of times from assignment component, take off the safety appliance time from assignment component by realizing from setting structure.
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