CN105313923A - Device for displaying road number of locomotive - Google Patents

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CN105313923A
CN105313923A CN201510446970.9A CN201510446970A CN105313923A CN 105313923 A CN105313923 A CN 105313923A CN 201510446970 A CN201510446970 A CN 201510446970A CN 105313923 A CN105313923 A CN 105313923A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61LGUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
    • B61L25/00Recording or indicating positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains or setting of track apparatus
    • B61L25/02Indicating or recording positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains
    • B61L25/04Indicating or recording train identities
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61LGUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
    • B61L15/00Indicators provided on the vehicle or vehicle train for signalling purposes ; On-board control or communication systems
    • B61L15/02Head or tail indicators, e.g. light
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61LGUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
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Abstract

A device for displaying a road number of a locomotive includes a bracket, a polyhedral housing, an LED-based illumination source, and a display panel. The bracket is configured to be rigidly attached to a head portion of the locomotive. The polyhedral shell includes a first side and a second side. The first side is disposed within the bracket. The second side is disposed with a space from the first side. The second side is configured to releasably engage the bracket and receive a transparent cover thereon. The LED-based illumination source is mounted between the first side and the transparent cover. The display panel is disposed between the LED-based illumination source and the transparent cover. The display panel includes one or more alphanumeric characters drawn thereon, wherein the alphanumeric characters represent a road number.

Description

The device of the road number of display locomotive
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to one on vehicle, shows character or alpha numeric device.Especially, the present invention relates to a kind of device showing the road number of locomotive.
Background technology
Railway comes the locomotive that reversion sails identified by a kind of numbering being commonly called road number or railway numbering.In order to the locomotive associating and/or identify railway or travel on railway, road number or railway numbering may be displayed on locomotive.
The conventional structure design that locomotive shows road number may be difficult to manufacture and/or assembling.And locomotive main may need to carry out suitable transformation could hold described display structure.Furtherly, in some cases, conventional structure adopts one or more bulb to illuminate described display structure.But in operation, bulb may fuse at any time, and whole display system may be caused normally to run realize its function.
Therefore, need and a kind ofly can overcome above-mentioned defect, be retrofitted to device on existing locomotive easily.
Summary of the invention
On the one hand, the invention discloses a kind of device showing the road number of locomotive, it comprises support, Polyhedral shells, LED base light source and display panel.Described framework construction is headstock (nose) part being attached to described locomotive rigidly.Described Polyhedral shells comprises the first side and the second side.Described first side is arranged in described support.Described second side is arranged to and described first side has interval.Described second side is configured to engage releasedly with described support and received thereon by transparency cover.Described LED base light source is arranged between described first side and described transparency cover.Described display panel is arranged between described LED base light source and described transparency cover.Described display panel comprises drafting (script) one or more alphanumerics thereon, and wherein said alphanumeric represents road number.
On the other hand, the invention provides a kind of method showing the road number of locomotive.Described method comprises: support is attached to rigidly the vehicle head part of locomotive and tail part one of at least; And the Polyhedral shells with the first side and the second side is provided, described first is placed in described housing, and described second side is set to engage releasedly with described support.Described method comprises further: provide transparency cover in described second side of described Polyhedral shells; LED base light source is placed in described housing; And display panel is provided between described LED base light source and described transparency cover, wherein said display panel comprises drafting one or more alphanumerics thereon.
In conjunction with specification sheets and Figure of description, other characteristic sum aspects of the present invention can be more obvious.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of side perspective view of exemplary locomotive, which employs the device according to embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the decomposed figure of the device that described apparatus parts is shown;
Fig. 3 illustrates the front elevation of described locomotive;
Fig. 4 illustrates the back view of described locomotive; And
Fig. 5 illustrates a kind of method showing the road number of locomotive.
Detailed description of the invention
As long as of course, in whole Figure of description, identical Reference numeral represents same or analogous parts.In addition, when the element of multiple identical type may be had, being cited as entirety or quoting separately to various element in the present invention.But this class reference is essentially only exemplary.Should be noted that, to single parts any quote also be interpreted as relevant to these parts multiple, vice versa, and this quotes this parts not limiting the scope of the present invention to exact amount or type, unless clearly stated in the dependent claims.
Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of side perspective view of exemplary locomotive 100, and embodiments of the present invention can be implemented in locomotive 100.Locomotive 100 can be provided with the wheel (not shown) that can travel on railway (not shown).Locomotive 100 can be the locomotive of diesel locomotive, electric locomotive or any form well known to those skilled in the art or type.
As shown in Figure 1, locomotive 100 can comprise vehicle head part 102, car parts 104 and tail part 106.Vehicle head part 102 arranges the front portion being locomotive 100, is positioned at distally away from tail part 106.Tail part 106 is arranged on the rear portion of locomotive 100.Car parts 104 extends between vehicle head part 102 and tail part 106.Car parts 104 can hold trainman or the operator of locomotive 100.
The present invention relates to a kind of device 108 being locomotive 100 and showing road number.As shown in Figure 1, device 108 is positioned in the vehicle head part 102 of locomotive 100.The railway that device 108 can allow visual identification locomotive 100 and/or locomotive 100 travelling to relevance.
The decomposed figure of device 108 is shown see Fig. 2, Fig. 2.As shown in the figure, device 108 comprises support 110, and support 110 can be attached to the vehicle head part 102 of locomotive 100 rigidly.But apparent by other parts of the present invention, support 110 also suitably can be positioned at other positions of locomotive 100.Support 110 can be obtained by the shape be formed as by sheetmetal as shown in the figure, thus allows support 110 to be soldered in the vehicle head part 102 of locomotive 100.
See the embodiment shown in Fig. 2, support 110 comprises Part I 112, and Part I 112 can be attached to the vehicle head part 102 of locomotive 100 rigidly.As previously mentioned, by the Part I 112 of support 110 being soldered to the vehicle head part 102 of locomotive 100, support 110 can advantageously be attached to locomotive 100.Described welding manner can comprise, such as but not limited to, hot inert gas (TIG) welding, metal inert gas (MIG) welding, or other welding manners well known in the art can be comprised.
Support 110 also comprises a pair Part II 114, and Part II 114 is configured to from Part I 112 horizontal expansion.Therefore, Part II 114 makes support 110 have degree of depth D away from the horizontal expansion of the Part I 112 of support 110, after will be described in detail to this.
Support 110 also comprises a pair Part III 116, and Part III 116 is respectively from the horizontal expansion of a pair Part II 114.Therefore, Part III 116 can with Part I 112 parallel orientation, and be set to the center line M away from support 110.
Device 108 also comprises Polyhedral shells 118.In the embodiment shown in figure 2, Polyhedral shells 118 is cell type, that is, housing 118 has hollow and is roughly cubical structure.Housing 118 comprises the first side 120 and the second side, side 122, first 120 and the second side 122 and is set to have interval each other.First side 120 is arranged in support 110, that is, in the degree of depth D of support 110; Second side 122 can a pair Part III 116 of splice holder 110 releasedly.In order to be positioned in support 110 by the first side 120 of housing 118, housing 118 can laterally slide, that is, the center line M along support 110 slides, thus is received in support 110.Alternatively, housing 118 can be axially received in support 110, wherein makes the first side 120 of housing 118 in axial direction A closer to the Part I 112 of housing 118.Therefore, support 110 can be defined size and/or shape, thus is received in wherein by housing 118 at least in part, allows the second side 122 of housing 118 to be set to a pair Part III 116 of adjacent support 110 simultaneously.
Second side 122 of housing 118 can receive the transparency cover 124 on it.Transparency cover 124 can be such as glass, transparent plastic material, glass fibre or other any known materials with high Transmission light level.
Device 108 also comprises LED illumination light source 126 and display panel 128.LED illumination light source 126 is arranged between the first side 120 of housing 118 and transparency cover 124.As shown in Figure 2, LED illumination light source 126 is advantageously supported on the first side 120 of housing 118 by fastener 130.Display panel 128 is arranged between LED illumination light source 126 and transparency cover 124.Display panel 128 comprises the alphanumeric script 132 on it.As described herein, alphanumeric script 132 represents and the road number that the railway of locomotive 100 and/or locomotive 100 current driving is associated.
Continue see Fig. 2, the Part III 116 of support 110 limits the threaded block 134 passed therethrough.Correspondingly, the second side 122 of transparency cover 124 and housing 118 limits opening 136,138, and opening 136,138 is arranged to axially align with the threaded block 134 of support 110.The opening 138 of threaded block 134 and the opening 136 of the transparency cover 124 axially aligned and the second side 122 of housing 118 can together with fastener 140 is received in wherein, thus realize the discharged connection of housing 118 and transparency cover 124 pairs of supports 110.
In the various embodiments of the present invention, display panel 128 can be formed by transparent, translucent or opaque material.But the alphanumeric script 132 be arranged on display panel 128 is formed as forming visual contrast with other parts of display panel 128.Therefore, if display panel 128 is transparent or semitransparent, then alphanumeric script 132 can be configured to opaque.Similarly, if display panel 128 is opaque or semi-translucent, then alphanumeric script 132 can be configured to transparent.One of skill in the art will recognize that shades of colour and/or the saturating feature of light can advantageously be applied in the material of display panel 128 and alphanumeric script 132, thus strengthen the distinguishability of road number for human eye.
And the first side 120 of housing 118 can also add the hole 142 limiting and be arranged near LED illumination light source 126.Hole 142 can allow the electrical lead (not shown) be associated with LED illumination light source 126 to pass through.Described electrical lead can be connected to power supply (not shown), such as but not limited to, the generating of battery, alternating current generator or other types well known to those skilled in the art and/or electric energy storage device.
Shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, device 108 is arranged on midway along the height H 1 of vehicle head part 102.Like this, the support 110 of device 108 is also arranged on midway along the height H 1 of vehicle head part 102.Although the invention discloses device 108 to be positioned at midway along the height H 1 of vehicle head part 102, for favourable consideration, the support 110 of device 108 also can select other positions be arranged on locomotive 100, with the support 110 of adaptive device 108.See Fig. 4, it illustrates the tail part 106 of locomotive 100.As shown in the figure, support 110 is positioned at midway along the height H 2 of tail part 106.In order to reach following object, such as but not limited to, be convenient to see auto levelizer 108 and identify locomotive 100 and/or railway, convenient for maintaining device 108 etc., one of skill in the art will recognize that and device 108 can be selected to be arranged on the various positions of locomotive 100.
Should be understood that, various embodiment disclosed by the invention is description and interpretation, never carries out any restriction to the present invention.The word in all expression directions (such as: above, below, top, bottom, top, bottom, vertically, level, inwardly, outwards, radial, upwards, downward, left and right, left, to the right, left-hand side, right-hand side, cw, conter clockwise), its object is only convenient identification, help reader understanding the present invention, do not form any restriction, especially restriction is not formed to position disclosed by the invention, orientation or equipment use and/or method.Represent that the word (such as: attachment, attachment, connection, joint, connection etc.) connected should be interpreted broadly.And these represent that the word connected not necessarily represents that two elements are directly connected to each other.
In addition, all numerical words, such as but not limited to, " first " " second ", " the 3rd " or other any common and/or numerical words, be interpreted as only as the mark helping reader understanding various embodiment of the present invention, modification and/or transformation equally, do not form any restriction, especially not to another embodiment, modification and/or transform relevant or any embodiment on its basis, modification and/or transformation order, be preferably formed any restriction.
Should be understood that, illustrate or describe for a kind of embodiment independent feature can with to illustrate or the independent feature described for another embodiment combines.The scope that embodiment described above does not limit the present invention in any way.Therefore should be understood that, although illustrate or describe some feature so that the use of the present invention in functional section environment to be described, this category feature can omit and not depart from the purport of the present invention of appended claims restriction from scope of the present invention.
Industrial applicibility
Fig. 5 is depicted as the method 500 that locomotive 100 shows road number.See Fig. 5, in step 502, method 500 comprises the vehicle head part 102 that support 110 is attached to rigidly locomotive 100 and tail part 106 one of at least.In step 504, method 500 also comprises provides Polyhedral shells 118, first side 120 with the first side 120 and the second side 122 to be arranged in housing 118, and the second side 122 is set to engage releasedly with support 110.
In step 506, the second side 122 that method 500 is also included in Polyhedral shells 118 provides transparency cover 124.In step 508, method 500 also comprises and being placed in housing 118 by LED base light source 126.
In step 510, method 500 is also drawn together provides display panel 128 between LED base light source 126 and transparency cover 124, wherein display panel 128 comprises alphanumeric script 132.Afterwards, method 500 can comprise and connects LED base light source 126 with the contrast between other parts strengthening alphanumeric script 132 and display panel 128.
Practicality of the present invention be for locomotive and other vehicles that can travel on railway such as: the display such as train, tramway train, transition train, barge train road number.Embodiment disclosed in this invention can advantageously be applied to make device 108 for ease of maintenaince, reduces and safeguards, and make road number have better visuality in every operating condition by providing LED base light source 126.
In order to the defect that display system known before alleviating exists, such as but not limited to, poor visibility, upkeep cost be high, manufacture and/or running cost high, device 108 disclosed by the invention provides a kind of simple but actv. solution.In addition, device 108 disclosed by the invention easily can be arranged on locomotive when carrying out minimum transformation to locomotive or not transforming.Therefore, device 108 also can easily be retrofitted on existing locomotive.
Although illustrate especially in conjunction with above-mentioned embodiment and describe various aspects of the present invention, but those skilled in the art are to be understood that, by not departing from the transformation of purport of the present invention and scope to machine disclosed in this invention, system and method, various additional embodiments can be expected.These embodiments are appreciated that and are included in according within claims and the determined scope of the present invention of any coordinator thereof.

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1. show a device for the road number of locomotive, described device comprises:
Support, it can be attached to the vehicle head part of described locomotive rigidly;
Polyhedral shells, it comprises:
First side, it is arranged in described support; And
Second side, it is set to and described first side has interval, and described second side can engage described support releasedly and be received thereon by transparency cover; And
LED base light source, it is arranged between described first side and the described transparency cover on described second side of described housing; And
Display panel, it is arranged between described LED base light source and described transparency cover, and described display panel comprises one or more alphanumerics of drawing on it, wherein said alphanumeric representation road number.
2. device according to claim 1, wherein said display panel be transparent, translucent and opaque at least one.
3. device according to claim 2, other parts of wherein said alphanumeric script and described display panel form visual contrast.
4. device according to claim 1, wherein said support comprises:
Part I, it can be attached to the vehicle head part of described locomotive rigidly;
A pair Part II, it is from described Part I horizontal expansion; And
A pair Part III, it is respectively from described a pair Part II horizontal expansion.
5. device according to claim 4, wherein said a pair Part III is set to be parallel to described Part I.
6. device according to claim 4, wherein said a pair Part III limits the threaded block passed therethrough, and described housing, thus can be linked to described support by fastener receiver wherein by described threaded block releasedly.
7. device according to claim 1, wherein said first side limits the hole that electrical lead can be allowed to pass through from it, and described electrical lead connects with described LED base light source.
8. locomotive, comprising:
Operator's compartment, it comprises vehicle head part, car parts and tail part; And
Device according to claim 1 is installed on described vehicle head part and described tail part one of at least on.
9. locomotive according to claim 8, wherein said support along described vehicle head part altitude location midway.
10. locomotive according to claim 8, wherein said support along described tail part altitude location midway.
11. locomotives according to claim 1, wherein said Polyhedral shells is box-like.
12. 1 kinds of methods showing the road number of locomotive, described method comprises:
Support is attached to rigidly the vehicle head part of described locomotive and tail part one of at least;
There is provided Polyhedral shells, it has the first side and the second side that are spaced, and described first side is arranged in described housing, and described second side is set to engage releasedly with described support;
Transparency cover is provided in described second side of described Polyhedral shells;
LED base light source is placed in described housing; And
Between described LED base light source and described transparency cover, provide display panel, wherein, described display panel comprises one or more alphanumerics of drawing on it.
13. methods according to claim 11, wherein said Polyhedral shells is box-like.
14. methods according to claim 11, also comprise and connect LED base light source.
15. methods according to claim 11, in described housing, also limit threaded block with by fastener receiver wherein, described housing can be linked to described support by described fastener releasedly.
16. methods according to claim 11, also in the first side of housing, limiting hole passes from it to allow electrical lead, and described electrical lead connects described LED base light source.
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