CN108894304A - Catch-basin base station incense electric equipment - Google Patents

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CN108894304A
CN108894304A CN201810769838.5A CN201810769838A CN108894304A CN 108894304 A CN108894304 A CN 108894304A CN 201810769838 A CN201810769838 A CN 201810769838A CN 108894304 A CN108894304 A CN 108894304A
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    • E03WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03FSEWERS; CESSPOOLS
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    • E03F5/04Gullies inlets, road sinks, floor drains with or without odour seals or sediment traps
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    • H02GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02JCIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
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    • H02J7/0063Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H02GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02JCIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
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    • H02J9/04Circuit arrangements for emergency or stand-by power supply, e.g. for emergency lighting in which the distribution system is disconnected from the normal source and connected to a standby source
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Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipments, catch-basin shaping mould group including being embedded in subsurface, the shape of catch-basin shaping mould group is long trough, upper end opening is in ground, the well lid adaptation of catch-basin is fastened in the opening of catch-basin shaping mould group, groove is respectively equipped on the two sidewalls of catch-basin shaping mould group, slot opening is opposite;What is be embedded in two grooves sets Packed buried cabinet, is respectively equipped with battery mould group and energy supply control module in two buried cabinets;It is electrically connected between two buried cabinets by conducting wire;The buried cabinet of wherein at least one also connects the communication equipment of alternating current and base station by conducting wire respectively.The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:Base station incense electric equipment is arranged under the well lid of catch-basin, the power demand of base station can either be met, and limited ground space can be not take up.

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Catch-basin base station incense electric equipment
Technical field
The invention belongs to communication equipment field, specifically a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment, it is logical for being mainly used in Believe that base station provides electric power and standby electricity.
Background technique
Base station is important radio communication equipment, in the coverage area of base station, all communication terminals require with Base station carries out radio signal connection, and the effective radio signals of ability are just able to achieve reliable communication.To keep communication Uninterruptedly, the uninterrupted support of the need of work electric power of base station.For this purpose, each base station requires individually to be equipped with an incense electricity and set It is standby.Way relatively common at present is that outdoor powering shelf, internal battery module and power control system mould are arranged by base station Block, input terminal are electrically connected with city, and output end is connect by cable with the communication equipment on base station.The problem of outdoor powering shelf maximum It is to need specially to arrange placement location.For populous, road is crowded, for the city of building dense, space limitation compared with More, the construction addressing difficulty of base station is higher, if continuing that outdoor powering shelf is arranged by each base station, will lead to base station construction and seeks Location is more difficult.And in predictable future, urban network informatization requires to reach WIFI all standing, may require that into one The problem of step improves base station density, thus base station construction addresses can further protrude.Aiming at the problem that outdoor powering shelf, produce The scheme of buried powering shelf:Powering shelf is carried out to the underground being embedded to after moisture preventive measure by base station.But in city, for embedment The ground of powering shelf is very few.And behind powering shelf embedment underground, the problems such as ventilation and heat, is also difficult to very good solution.
Chinese patent literature CN207048391U disclosed " well lid base station ", including well lid and base on 2 27th, 2018 The bottom of station owner's body, well lid is equipped with bindiny mechanism, and base station body includes base station cabinet and antenna, and base station cabinet passes through bindiny mechanism The bottom of well lid is set, and antenna is arranged on the shell of base station cabinet, and base station cabinet is connected with antenna by feeder line.It solves existing Some base station installations on the ground, occupy ground space and inaesthetic problem.The well room calibrated altitude of inspection shaft is only 180CM, the big person 150CM of well head diameter, small person only 70CM.In the technical scheme, to base station and matched incense electricity are set Standby to be placed under well lid together, the size of base station and incense electric equipment is necessarily limited, power certainty very little.With the similar techniques of Japan For scheme, even if well lid and well seat have all used FRP composite material unobstructed to wireless signal instead, in actual test, Signal is also only capable of 90 meters of horizontal diameter of covering, the range of 15 meters of height.If be laid out using such base station, the number of base station Amount can greatly increase, and construction cost can be obviously improved, and be unfavorable for Communication Development.It is of particular importance that 15 meters of skyscraper or more Just become signal blind zone, and this highly just corresponds to the height of common 5 floor of local-style dwelling houses.Such solution obviously cannot Meet current communication requirement.The theory of the shared social resources of country's proposition has simultaneously come into effect, such as shared municipal road lamp bar, Municipal monitoring bar, transmission pole, power tower etc. carry out communication base station deployment or benefit is blind, and nearest incense electricity, which becomes, utilizes social shaft tower The outstanding problem for needing to solve when disposing base station.Therefore, it is necessary to be base station incense in the case where keeping base station power constant Electric equipment finds a suitable placement location, can either meet the power demand of base station, and can be not take up limited ground Space.
Summary of the invention
Based on problem above, the present invention provides a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment, and incense electric equipment in base station is arranged Under the well lid of catch-basin, the power demand of base station can either be met, and limited ground space can be not take up.
In order to realize that goal of the invention, the present invention adopt the following technical scheme that:A kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment, including It is embedded in the catch-basin shaping mould group of subsurface, the shape of catch-basin shaping mould group is long trough, and upper end opening is in ground, rainwater Being fastened in the opening of catch-basin shaping mould group for the well lid adaptation of well, is respectively equipped on the two sidewalls of catch-basin shaping mould group Groove, slot opening are opposite;What is be embedded in two grooves sets Packed buried cabinet, is respectively equipped with battery in two buried cabinets Mould group and energy supply control module;It is electrically connected between two buried cabinets by conducting wire;The buried cabinet of wherein at least one is also respectively by leading The communication equipment of line connection alternating current and base station.
It has been discussed in background technique paragraph above, the power demand and base station incense electric equipment for meeting base station are not Occupy between limited ground space that there are contradictions.In order to solve this contradiction, the base station incense electric equipment quilt of this programme design It is placed under catch-basin.Catch-basin includes a well head, and fastening on well head has well lid, and well lid is equipped with water hole for surface gathered water It flows into;It is catch-basin shaping mould group below well head, this is the structure of a long trough, is integrally embedded in road in road construction Face is hereinafter, the structure both ends of long trough are separately connected rain pipe, and rain pipe is by each catch-basin shaping mould group on road on ground Under connect into line networking.In the present solution, being improved catch-basin shaping mould group, groove has been separately designed on its side wall, The opening of groove is opposite to be designed, and groove is embedded in buried cabinet.Buried cabinet is sealing, and inside is equipped with necessary equipment, one It is mounted with battery mould group in buried cabinet, is mounted with energy supply control module in another buried cabinet.Such layout, without to rain The outer profile of well shaping mould group is changed, and will not be adjusted to road civil construction size, therefore to civil construction It influences almost nil.Since battery mould group and energy supply control module are separately positioned in two buried cabinets by this programme, and this Two buried cabinets are separately positioned on again on two different laterals of catch-basin shaping mould group groove body, therefore also needing will by electrical connection Battery mould group and energy supply control module connect, to meet the control requirement of incense electricity.In addition, being buried at least one of which The communication equipment of alternating current and base station is also connected on cabinet by conducting wire, such as can then make to input along the spool cabling by well End is electrically connected by alternating currents facilities such as light poles with city, and output end is conducting on base station, is connect with the communication equipment of base station, To realize effective power supply to base station, while again without occupying ground space.Furthermore unexpected advantage there are one this programme, Catch-basin is located at subsurface, above again there is well lid to cover, therefore the temperature fluctuation amplitude in catch-basin with respect to ambient air temperature fluctuation Amplitude is much smaller, usual situation can accomplish it is cool in summer and warm in winter therefore beneficial to the operation steady in a long-term of base station incense electric equipment, Especially battery module is more sensitive to temperature change, works within the scope of suitable temperature, is conducive to battery and uses the longevity The extension of life.
Preferably, the upper end of buried cabinet is equipped with cabinet door able to turn on or off;Cabinet door is set under well lid.Cabinet door is openable, so as to Installation and repairing inner facility.Cabinet door is set under well lid, cabinet door only can be just opened when well lid is opened, therefore reduce A possibility that arbitrarily destroyed and be stolen.
Preferably, the top surface of cabinet door is inclined-plane, the side in the slot bottom direction of the close catch-basin shaping mould group on inclined-plane is Low side.Since position is lower, and under catch-basin, therefore there may be water droplet to fall in cabinet door often in environment.By cabinet door top Face is designed as inclined-plane, and water droplet can be guided to flow rapidly into the slot bottom of catch-basin shaping mould group, keeps the drying in cabinet door.
Preferably, the well lid is above the two sidewalls in catch-basin shaping mould group;The position of the correspondence cabinet door of well lid It sets and closes in a thickness direction, the middle section set on well lid of water hole perforation.The water hole of this programme design, is only located at well The middle part of lid is just not easy directly to trickle onto cabinet door from the water that water hole flows into this way.
Preferably, the slot bottom of catch-basin shaping mould group also across adaptation be equipped with bottom trace module;Bottom trace The both ends of module are equipped with the conducting wire or connector being electrically connected respectively with two buried cabinets;Two buried cabinets are respectively arranged on bottom trace mould The top at block both ends.In order to facilitate the installation of, the part for linking up two buried cabinets has also been designed to modular bottom by this programme Portion's router module.The size of bottom trace module is adapted to catch-basin shaping mould packet size, also with two buried cabinets where sky Between position be adapted to.Necessary conducting wire or connector are additionally provided in bottom trace module.It only needs for bottom trace module to be laid on Then being electrically connected with two buried cabinets of top for the conducting wire at both ends or connection adapters will by the slot bottom of catch-basin shaping mould group Buried cabinet is placed to positioning.The process that the scene of can substantially omitting in this way is laid with conducting wire improves construction efficiency.Conducting wire is the bottom of at It is protected inside portion's router module, it can also be to avoid the unsafe problems of the exposed slot bottom in catch-basin shaping mould group of conducting wire.
Preferably, the material of buried cabinet is good heat conductive material, battery mould group and energy supply control module are close to buried The inner sidewall of cabinet is installed.The material of buried cabinet has thermal conductive resin, and can make full use of the temperature under catch-basin is battery Mould group and energy supply control module cooling and heat dissipation.
In conclusion the beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:Base station incense electric equipment is arranged under the well lid of catch-basin, it can Enough meet the power demand of base station, and limited ground space can be not take up.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is structural schematic diagram of the invention.
Fig. 2 be well lid, buried cabinet, cabinet door, bottom trace module matching relationship decomposition diagram.
Wherein:1 well lid, 2 buried cabinets, 5 cabinet doors, 6 input/output bus cables, 7 bottom trace modules, 8 catch-basin shaping moulds Group.
Specific embodiment
The present invention will be further described with specific embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Embodiment as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 is a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment.Catch-basin includes a well head, Fastening on well head has well lid, and well lid is equipped with water hole and flows into for surface gathered water;It is catch-basin shaping mould group below well head, this is The structure of one long trough is integrally embedded in road surface hereinafter, the structure both ends of long trough are separately connected rain in road construction Each catch-basin shaping mould group on road is connected into line networking in underground by water pipe, rain pipe.This catch-basin base station incense electricity Equipment, the catch-basin shaping mould group 8 including being embedded in subsurface, the shape of catch-basin shaping mould group are long trough, upper end opening In ground, what the well lid 1 of catch-basin was adapted to is fastened in the opening of catch-basin shaping mould group, in the two sides of catch-basin shaping mould group Groove is respectively equipped on wall, slot opening is opposite;What is be embedded in two grooves sets Packed buried cabinet 2, in two buried cabinets It is respectively equipped with battery mould group and energy supply control module.The upper end of buried cabinet is equipped with cabinet door 5 able to turn on or off, and cabinet door is set to well lid Under.The top surface of cabinet door is inclined-plane, and the side in the slot bottom direction of the close catch-basin shaping mould group on inclined-plane is low side.Well lid across Above the two sidewalls of catch-basin shaping mould group;The position of the correspondence cabinet door of well lid is closed in a thickness direction, water hole perforation Set on the middle section of well lid.The material of buried cabinet is good heat conductive material, and battery mould group and energy supply control module abutting are buried The inner sidewall of cabinet is installed.
Catch-basin shaping mould group slot bottom also across adaptation be equipped with bottom trace module 7.Bottom trace module Both ends are equipped with the conducting wire or connector being electrically connected respectively with two buried cabinets;Two buried cabinets are respectively arranged on bottom trace module both ends The top in portion.
It is electrically connected between two buried cabinets by conducting wire;The buried cabinet of wherein at least one also passes through input/output bus cable respectively The communication equipment of 5 connection alternating currents and base station.In this example, then spool cabling of the input/output bus cable by well inputs cable It being electrically connected by the alternating currents facility such as light pole with city, output cord is conducting on base station, it is connect with the communication equipment of base station, To realize effective incense electricity to base station.

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1. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment, the catch-basin shaping mould group including being embedded in subsurface(8), catch-basin molding The shape of mould group is long trough, and upper end opening is in ground, the well lid of catch-basin(1)Adaptation is fastened on catch-basin shaping mould group In opening, characterized in that be respectively equipped with groove on the two sidewalls of catch-basin shaping mould group, slot opening is opposite;In two grooves What is be embedded in sets Packed buried cabinet(2), battery mould group and energy supply control module are respectively equipped in two buried cabinets;Two bury It is electrically connected between cabinet by conducting wire;The buried cabinet of wherein at least one is also set by the communication that conducting wire connects alternating current and base station respectively It is standby.
2. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper end of buried cabinet is equipped with can The cabinet door of opening and closing(5);Cabinet door is set under well lid.
3. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment according to claim 2, characterized in that the top surface of cabinet door is inclined-plane, The side in the slot bottom direction of the close catch-basin shaping mould group on inclined-plane is low side.
4. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that the well lid across Above the two sidewalls of catch-basin shaping mould group;The position of the correspondence cabinet door of well lid is closed in a thickness direction, water hole perforation Set on the middle section of well lid.
5. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that catch-basin shaping mould group Slot bottom also across adaptation be equipped with bottom trace module(7);The both ends of bottom trace module are equipped with buried with two respectively The conducting wire or connector of cabinet electrical connection;Two buried cabinets are respectively arranged on the top at bottom trace module both ends.
6. a kind of catch-basin base station incense electric equipment according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the material of buried cabinet is Good heat conductive material, battery mould group and energy supply control module are close to the inner sidewall installation of buried cabinet.
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