CN112572311A - Self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera which comprises a shell, wherein a camera body is arranged in the shell, a transparent glass plate is rotatably connected in the shell, a baffle is fixedly connected to the inner bottom of the shell, a sliding groove is formed in the side wall of the baffle, a cleaning brush is slidably connected in the sliding groove and elastically connected to the inner bottom of the sliding groove through a spring, a driving device for driving the transparent glass plate to rotate is arranged in the shell, the driving device comprises an electromagnet embedded on the inner wall of the shell, an iron sheet is embedded on the transparent glass plate, and a power generation sheet is arranged at the inner top of the sliding groove. The spring, the cleaning brush and other components are arranged, so that the cleaning brush can continuously move up and down under the action of the spring because the components such as the exhaust pipe and the like at the tail part of the automobile vibrate when the automobile exhausts when running, and the transparent glass plate can be cleaned, and the reversing camera is prevented from being polluted by dust.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of monitoring camera related equipment, in particular to a self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera.
Background
The reversing camera is arranged at the tail of the vehicle, forms a reversing image system with a display screen arranged in the vehicle, and is a camera device convenient for a driver to reverse or turn around.
Because the camera of backing a car sets up and directly exposes outside again at the rear of a vehicle, a large amount of dust can be raised to the car when the driving, and the dust that partially raises is very easily attached to the lens of camera, and pollutes the observation region of camera, leads to the clear greatly reduced of image, finally makes the driver be difficult to observe the condition behind the car through the camera, easily takes place dangerous accident when backing a car or turning round.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the defects in the prior art and provides a self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
the utility model provides an on-vehicle camera of backing a car of self-cleaning formula, includes the casing, install the camera body in the casing, it is connected with the clear glass board to rotate in the casing, the interior bottom fixedly connected with baffle of casing, the spout has been seted up to the lateral wall of baffle, sliding connection has the cleaning brush in the spout, just the cleaning brush passes through spring elastic connection bottom in the spout, install drive clear glass board pivoted drive arrangement in the casing.
Preferably, drive arrangement is including inlaying the electro-magnet of establishing on shells inner wall, it is equipped with the iron sheet to inlay on the transparent glass board, the interior top of spout is equipped with the piece of generating electricity, the piece of generating electricity adopts piezoceramics material to make, install the battery with the piece electric connection of generating electricity in the casing, just the battery passes through control circuit and each electromagnetism ferroelectric connection.
Preferably, the lower extreme fixedly connected with flexible gasbag of cleaning brush, just the interior bottom at the spout of the lower extreme fixed connection of flexible gasbag, the aqua storage tank has been seted up to the lateral wall of casing, through the outlet pipe intercommunication between aqua storage tank and the flexible gasbag, install first check valve in the outlet pipe, the second check valve is installed to the end of giving vent to anger of flexible gasbag.
Preferably, the first one-way valve only allows water to flow from the water storage tank to the telescopic air bag, and the second one-way valve only allows water to flow from the inside of the telescopic air bag to the outside of the telescopic air bag.
Preferably, a water filling port communicated with the water storage tank is formed in the side wall of the shell, and an opening and closing valve is installed in the water filling port.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. by arranging the spring, the cleaning brush and other components, when the automobile runs, the exhaust pipe and other components at the tail part of the automobile vibrate when exhausting, so that the cleaning brush can continuously move up and down under the action of the spring, the transparent glass plate can be cleaned, and the reversing camera is prevented from being polluted by dust;
2. by arranging the driving device, the driving device is operated by utilizing kinetic energy generated when the cleaning brush moves up and down, so that the whole transparent glass plate can be cleaned, the cleaning range is wide, and the definition of an image observed by a camera can be kept all the time;
3. through setting up parts such as aqua storage tank, outlet pipe and flexible gasbag, can make the cleaning brush constantly take out water to the cleaning brush when reciprocating, improve the clean effect of cleaning brush.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional structural view of FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention.
In the figure: the camera comprises a shell 1, a camera body 2, a transparent glass plate 3, a baffle 4, a chute 41, an electromagnet 5, an iron sheet 6, a cleaning brush 7, a spring 8, a power generation sheet 9, a telescopic air bag 10, a water storage tank 11, a water outlet pipe 12, a first check valve 121 and a second check valve 101.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments.
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
The first embodiment is as follows:
referring to fig. 1-2, a self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera comprises a shell 1, a camera body 2 is installed in the shell 1, a transparent glass plate 3 is connected in the shell 1 in a rotating mode, a baffle 4 is fixedly connected to the inner bottom of the shell 1, a sliding groove 41 is formed in the side wall of the baffle 4, and a cleaning brush 7 is connected in the sliding groove 41 in a sliding mode. The cleaning brush 7 is elastically connected to the bottom of the chute 41 through a spring 8, and a driving device for driving the transparent glass plate 3 to rotate is installed in the shell 1.
Drive arrangement inlays the electro-magnet 5 of establishing on the casing 1 inner wall including, inlays on the transparent glass board 3 and is equipped with iron sheet 6, and the interior top of spout 41 is equipped with power generation piece 9, and it should be explained that cleaning brush 7 comprises two parts, and the upper portion adopts stereoplasm plastic casing, and the lower part adopts soft materials such as sponge to make, so can enough push up when cleaning brush 7 reciprocates and move power generation piece 9, can clean transparent glass board 3 again simultaneously. The power generation sheet 9 is made of piezoelectric ceramic materials, a storage battery electrically connected with the power generation sheet 9 is installed in the shell 1, and the storage battery is electrically connected with the electromagnets 5 through a control circuit. Specifically, the control circuit adopts a CD4017, the circuit can enable the electromagnets 5 to be sequentially electrified by electric energy released by the storage battery, and the installation mode and the connection mode of the circuit belong to the mature technology in the existing electrical field, so detailed description is omitted.
The control circuit sequentially energizes the electromagnets 5 to generate magnetism, and further attracts the iron sheet 6 to be sequentially attached to the electromagnets 5, so that the transparent glass plate 3 rotates in a single direction, and thus, the cleaning brush 7 which slides up and down can move relatively, thereby further improving the cleaning effect of the cleaning brush 7. In addition, the electric energy of each electromagnet 5 and the kinetic energy of the cleaning brush 7 moving up and down are both generated by the vibration kinetic energy generated by the automobile, and no extra electric energy is consumed.
In the use process of the device, due to the pulse characteristic of tail gas exhaust when the automobile runs, the vibration of each part of tail gas exhaust can be caused and is transmitted into the shell 1 through the automobile body, and the vibration is more obvious particularly when the automobile backs or turns around and runs at low speed. The cleaning brush 7 can be caused to slide up and down in the chute 41 under the action of the spring 8, and the lower part area of the transparent glass plate 3 can be cleaned.
Meanwhile, the cleaning brush 7 continuously pushes the power generation sheet 9 when sliding up and down, so that the power generation sheet 9 continuously vibrates, the power generation sheet 9 made of piezoelectric ceramic material can convert mechanical energy generated by vibration into electric energy and store the electric energy in the storage battery, the storage battery can be powered on by the electromagnets 5 in sequence through the control circuit, and each time a certain electromagnet 5 is powered on, the iron sheet 6 is attracted to be attached to the electromagnet, as shown in FIG. 2, therefore, when the electromagnets 5 are sequentially electrified, the iron sheet 6 is attracted by the magnetic force to drive the transparent glass plate 3 to rotate in a one-way circulation manner, the cleaning brush 7, which slides up and down continuously at the lower part of the housing 1, can clean the exposed surface of the whole transparent glass plate 3, so that the transparent glass plate 3 can be kept in a clean state, prevent that the dust from polluting camera body 2 observation area, the definition of image when improving backing a car or turning around prevents to take place dangerous situation.
Example two:
referring to fig. 3, a difference from the first embodiment is that the lower end of the cleaning brush 7 is fixedly connected with a telescopic airbag 10, the lower end of the telescopic airbag 10 is fixedly connected to the inner bottom of the chute 41, the side wall of the housing 1 is provided with a water storage tank 11, the side wall of the housing 1 is provided with a water filling opening communicated with the water storage tank 11, and the water filling opening is provided with an on-off valve.
The water storage tank 11 is communicated with the telescopic air bag 10 through the water outlet pipe 12, the first one-way valve 121 is installed in the water outlet pipe 12, the second one-way valve 101 is installed at the air outlet end of the telescopic air bag 10, the first one-way valve 121 only allows water to flow from the water storage tank 11 to the telescopic air bag 10, and the second one-way valve 101 only allows water to flow from the inside of the telescopic air bag 10 to the outside of the telescopic air bag 10. It should be noted that the water outlet end of the second one-way valve 101 is provided on the cleaning portion of the cleaning brush 7, so that the water discharged from the second one-way valve 101 can wash the cleaning surface of the cleaning brush 7.
In this embodiment, the cleaning brush 7 is constantly moving up and down, will make the flexible gasbag 10 also constantly stretch out and draw back thereupon, its inner space increases when flexible gasbag 10 extends, can produce the negative pressure and with the water in the aqua storage tank 11 by outlet pipe 12 suction flexible gasbag 10 in, and when flexible gasbag 10 contracts, its inner space reduces, can extrude the water in the flexible gasbag 10 by second check valve 101 and flow to the cleaning part of cleaning brush 7 on, so can remain some on the outer wall of transparent glass board 3 comparatively stubborn dust and erase, improve the cleaning effect of cleaning brush 7, the water that constantly flows to on the cleaning brush 7 simultaneously also can wash the cleaning surface of cleaning brush 7, only need regularly to add water or sanitizer in the aqua storage tank 11 can.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art should be considered to be within the technical scope of the present invention, and the technical solutions and the inventive concepts thereof according to the present invention should be equivalent or changed within the scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides an on-vehicle camera of backing a car of self-cleaning formula, includes casing (1), install camera body (2) in casing (1), its characterized in that, casing (1) internal rotation is connected with clear glass board (3), interior bottom fixedly connected with baffle (4) of casing (1), spout (41) have been seted up to the lateral wall of baffle (4), sliding connection has cleaning brush (7) in spout (41), just cleaning brush (7) are bottom in spout (41) through spring (8) elastic connection, install drive clear glass board (3) pivoted drive arrangement in casing (1).
2. The self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera according to claim 1, wherein the driving device comprises electromagnets (5) embedded on the inner wall of the housing (1), iron sheets (6) are embedded on the transparent glass plate (3), a power generation sheet (9) is arranged at the top of the sliding chute (41), the power generation sheet (9) is made of piezoelectric ceramic materials, a storage battery electrically connected with the power generation sheet (9) is installed in the housing (1), and the storage battery is electrically connected with the electromagnets (5) through a control circuit.
3. The self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera according to claim 2, characterized in that a telescopic air bag (10) is fixedly connected to the lower end of the cleaning brush (7), the lower end of the telescopic air bag (10) is fixedly connected to the inner bottom of the sliding groove (41), a water storage groove (11) is formed in the side wall of the shell (1), the water storage groove (11) is communicated with the telescopic air bag (10) through a water outlet pipe (12), a first one-way valve (121) is installed in the water outlet pipe (12), and a second one-way valve (101) is installed at the air outlet end of the telescopic air bag (10).
4. A self-cleaning vehicle reverse camera according to claim 3, wherein the first one-way valve (121) only allows water to flow from the water storage tank (11) to the telescopic air bag (10), and the second one-way valve (101) only allows water to flow from the inside of the telescopic air bag (10) to the outside of the telescopic air bag (10).
5. The self-cleaning vehicle-mounted reversing camera according to claim 3, wherein a water filling port communicated with the water storage tank (11) is formed in the side wall of the shell (1), and an opening and closing valve is installed in the water filling port.
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