CN115632342A - Power network inspection device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides a power network inspection device, which belongs to the technical field of power network inspection, and comprises a reference seat, wherein a handle is fixedly arranged in the center of the top end of the reference seat, an antenna is fixedly arranged at one end of the top of the reference seat, a worm is rotatably connected inside the reference seat through a rotating shaft, the worm and a worm wheel are meshed and connected, the worm wheel is rotatably connected inside the reference seat through the rotating shaft, the worm wheel is fixedly connected with the middle part of a bidirectional lead screw, and the bidirectional lead screw is rotatably connected with the reference seat through the rotating shaft; the invention is suitable for the field of power network inspection.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of power network inspection, in particular to a power network inspection device.
Background
The electric wire netting can regularly carry out patrolling and examining of electric wire netting circuit in daily use, so that arrange the potential safety hazard that exists and examine, use safely for guaranteeing that the electric wire netting can be long-time, and its mounting height of city outside electric wire netting is higher, when arranging the inspection to the circuit between each node, do not benefit to the manual work and arrange the inspection, because its danger of manual formula row inspection mode is higher, so, adopt the row inspection mode of non-manual formula to carry out work more, and arrange the inspection device on the present circuit, its suitability is relatively poor, and stability is relatively poor.
Therefore, there is a need to provide a new power network inspection device to solve the above technical problems.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides a power network inspection device.
The invention provides a power network inspection device, which comprises: the reference base, the top central authorities fixed mounting of reference base has the handle, the top one end fixed mounting of reference base has the antenna, the inside of reference base is rotated through the pivot and is connected with the worm, the meshing is connected between worm and the worm wheel, and the worm wheel rotates the inside of connecting at the reference base through the pivot, the middle part fixed connection of worm wheel and two-way lead screw, and two-way lead screw is connected through the rotation between pivot and the reference base, the both ends of two-way lead screw respectively with slide bracket between threaded connection, the bilateral symmetry of two-way lead screw is equipped with the restriction pole, and fixed connection between two restriction poles and the reference base, each restriction pole both ends respectively with slide bracket between mutual sliding connection, the equal fixed mounting in bottom of two slide brackets has adjustment mechanism, the equal fixed mounting in one end of two slide brackets has detection mechanism, adjustment mechanism includes: the mounting seat is fixedly mounted at the bottom end of the sliding seat, the inside of the mounting seat is rotatably connected with a driving wheel through a rotating shaft, and a mounting side rail is fixedly mounted on one side of the mounting seat.
Preferably, the restriction lug has all been seted up at the both ends of each restriction pole, and each restriction pole all is the cross setting.
Preferably, the adjusting mechanism further comprises: each drive wheel respectively with the one end fixed connection of each action wheel, and mutually support between the lateral wall that the one end of each action wheel all passed the mount pad and the drive wheel, the drive belt has been cup jointed in the outside of each drive wheel, one side fixed mounting of installation side fence has the work motor, mutual fixed connection between the lateral wall that the output of work motor passed the installation side fence and one of them drive wheel, the mount pad is close to the one end symmetry fixed mounting who installs the side fence has the gag lever post, fixed connection between the bottom of each gag lever post respectively and the upper surface of bottom plate, the bottom of each gag lever post all is equipped with the restriction spring, the upper surface symmetry fixed mounting of bottom plate has the stand, and mutually support between stand and the restriction spring, sliding connection between each gag lever post and the base, the top of base is connected with a plurality of cooperation wheels through the pivot rotation.
Preferably, the bottom of each gag lever post all seted up with the restriction spring between the mounting groove of mutually supporting, the lug has all been seted up to the both sides of each gag lever post.
Preferably, one end of the matching wheel is symmetrically provided with matching holes matched with the limiting rods.
Preferably, the outer ring of each driving wheel and the outer ring of the matching wheel are equidistantly provided with an arc matching groove, and the arc matching grooves of each driving wheel and the matching wheel are equidistantly provided with anti-skid grains.
Preferably, the detection mechanism includes: the installation support arm is fixedly installed at one end of the sliding seat, one end, far away from the sliding seat, of the installation support arm is connected with rotating arms in a symmetrical and rotating mode through torsion springs, and the detection cameras are fixedly installed on the inner rings of the two rotating arms at equal intervals.
Preferably, each rotating arm is arranged in a C shape.
Compared with the related art, the power network inspection device provided by the invention has the following beneficial effects:
the invention provides a power network inspection device, when a worker detects lines among nodes through equipment, the worker adjusts the distance between a reference seat and a sliding seat according to the distance between the parallel lines, the worker can rotate a bidirectional screw rod through a worm and a worm wheel, so that the distance between the reference seat and the sliding seat is adjusted, in order to increase the connection stability between the reference seat and the sliding seat, a limiting rod is arranged between the reference seat and the sliding seat, then an adjusting mechanism is clamped on the parallel lines, in addition, when the equipment is clamped on the lines, the worker opens a detecting mechanism, the lines are arranged in the center of the detecting mechanism, so that the detecting mechanism can detect the surfaces of the lines, the power network inspection device can detect the lines among the nodes of a power grid through the adjusting mechanism and the detecting mechanism on the equipment at 360 degrees, the hidden danger inspection work of the lines can be completed more carefully, the adaptive adjusting mechanism enables the equipment to detect different lines, and in addition, the symmetrical arrangement increases the stability of the equipment when in use.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred embodiment of an inspection apparatus for an electric power network according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the device shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the adjustment mechanism shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the adjustment mechanism of FIG. 1;
fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the detection mechanism shown in fig. 1.
Reference numbers in the figures: 1. a reference base; 2. a handle; 3. an antenna; 4. a worm; 5. a worm gear; 6. a bidirectional screw rod; 7. a sliding seat; 8. a restricting lever; 9. an adjustment mechanism; 10. a detection mechanism; 11. a mounting seat; 12. a driving wheel; 13. installing a side rail; 14. a driving wheel; 15. a transmission belt; 16. a working motor; 17. a limiting rod; 18. a base plate; 19. a limiting spring; 20. a column; 21. a base; 22. a mating wheel; 23. a mating hole; 24. mounting a support arm; 25. a torsion spring; 26. a rotating arm; 27. and detecting the camera.
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The invention is further described with reference to the following figures and embodiments.
In the concrete implementation in-process, as shown in fig. 1, fig. 2, fig. 3 and fig. 4, reference base 1, the top central authorities fixed mounting of reference base 1 has handle 2, the top one end fixed mounting of reference base 1 has antenna 3, the inside of reference base 1 is rotated through the pivot and is connected with worm 4, the meshing is connected between worm 4 and the worm wheel 5, and worm wheel 5 rotates through the pivot and connects the inside at reference base 1, the middle part fixed connection of worm wheel 5 and two-way lead screw 6, and two-way lead screw 6 is connected through rotation each other between pivot and the reference base 1, the both ends of two-way lead screw 6 respectively with slide base 7 between threaded connection, the bilateral symmetry of two-way lead screw 6 is equipped with restriction pole 8, and fixed connection between two restriction poles 8 and reference base 1, each the both ends of restriction pole 8 respectively with slide base 7 between mutual sliding connection, two the equal fixed mounting in bottom of slide base 7 has adjustment mechanism 9, two the equal fixed mounting in one end of slide base 7 has detection mechanism 10, adjustment mechanism 9 includes: the mounting seat 11, mounting seat 11 fixed mounting is in the bottom of sliding seat 7, the inside of mounting seat 11 is connected with action wheel 12 through the pivot rotation, one side fixed mounting of mounting seat 11 has installation side fence 13.
It should be noted that: when the staff detects the circuit between each node through this equipment, the staff adjusts the interval between reference base 1 and the sliding seat 7 according to the interval between the line side by side, the staff can realize rotating two-way lead screw 6 through worm 4 and worm wheel 5, thereby realize adjusting the interval of reference base 1 and sliding seat 7, and in order to increase the connection stability between reference base 1 and the sliding seat 7, be equipped with restriction lever 8 between reference base 1 and the sliding seat 7, subsequently, go into the line side by side with adjustment mechanism 9 card, in addition, when equipment card goes into the circuit, the staff opens detection mechanism 10, arrange the central authorities of detection mechanism 10 in with the circuit, detect the surface of circuit with supply detection mechanism 10.
Referring to fig. 2, limiting convex blocks are respectively disposed at two ends of each limiting rod 8, and each limiting rod 8 is disposed in a cross shape.
It should be noted that: the limiting projection on the limiting rod 8 can prevent the sliding seat 7 from excessively moving, and the cross-shaped arrangement of the limiting rod 8 is convenient for increasing the connection stability between the reference seat 1 and the sliding seat 7.
Referring to fig. 3 and 4, the adjusting mechanism 9 further includes: the drive wheel 14, each the drive wheel 14 respectively with the one end fixed connection of each action wheel 12, and the one end of each action wheel 12 all passes and mutually supports between lateral wall and the drive wheel 14 of mount pad 11, each the drive belt 15 has been cup jointed in the outside of drive wheel 14, one side fixed mounting of installation side fence 13 has work motor 16, mutual fixed connection between lateral wall and one of them drive wheel 14 that installation side fence 13 was passed to the output of work motor 16, mount pad 11 is close to the one end symmetry fixed mounting who installs side fence 13 has gag lever post 17, each fixed connection between the bottom of gag lever post 17 and the upper surface of bottom plate 18 respectively, each the bottom of gag lever post 17 all is equipped with limiting spring 19, the upper surface symmetry fixed mounting of bottom plate 18 has stand 20, and mutually supports between stand 20 and limiting spring 19, each sliding connection between gag lever post 17 and the base 21, the top of base 21 is connected with a plurality of cooperation wheels 22 through the pivot rotation.
It should be noted that: when needs use adjustment mechanism 9, the staff stimulates base 21 downwards this moment, compress restriction spring 19, afterwards, the staff carries out the joint with action wheel 12 and cooperation wheel 22 and the circuit between the node, afterwards, restriction spring 19 resumes to initial condition, it upwards moves to drive base 21 simultaneously, make action wheel 12 and cooperation wheel 22 carry out extrusion fit to the circuit, at this moment, work motor 16 begins to work, cooperation drive wheel 14 and drive belt 15 realize action wheel 12 and rotate, thereby realize the bulk movement of equipment, begin to detect the circuit of node.
Referring to fig. 3 and 4, the bottom end of each limiting rod 17 is provided with a mounting groove matched with the limiting spring 19, and two sides of each limiting rod 17 are provided with bumps.
It should be noted that: the mounting groove of gag lever post 17 bottom is convenient for realize carrying out half hidden installation to restriction spring 19, increases the whole compactness of equipment, reduces the size of equipment to better carry out line detection.
Referring to fig. 3 and 4, one end of the engaging wheel 22 is symmetrically provided with engaging holes 23 which are engaged with the limiting rods 17.
It should be noted that: the arrangement of the matching hole 23 ensures that the matching between the mounting seat 11 and the base 21 is more stable, so that the equipment can better perform detection work
Referring to fig. 3 and 4, arc-shaped matching grooves are equidistantly formed in the outer rings of the driving wheel 12 and the matching wheel 22, and anti-skid lines are equidistantly formed in the arc-shaped matching grooves of the driving wheel 12 and the matching wheel 22.
It should be noted that: the cooperation between the driving wheel 12 and the engaging wheel 22 allows a stable grip of the line for better movement.
Referring to fig. 5, the detection mechanism 10 includes: installation support arm 24, installation support arm 24 fixed mounting is in the one end of sliding seat 7, the one end that sliding seat 7 was kept away from to installation support arm 24 is connected with rotor arm 26, two through torsion spring 25 symmetry rotation the inner circle equidistance fixed mounting of rotor arm 26 has detection camera 27.
It should be noted that: when equipment fixing was on the circuit, simultaneously, the staff rotated rotor arm 26 and expandes, gone into two rotor arms 26 with the circuit card in the back, loosened rotor arm 26, rotor arm 26 resets under torque spring 25's drive, and detection camera 27 on rotor arm 26 can carry out 360 detections to the circuit, better carry out hidden danger investigation to the circuit
Referring to fig. 5, each of the rotating arms 26 is provided in a C-shape.
It should be noted that: the two rotating arms 26 cooperate with each other to cooperate with the inspection camera 27 to perform 360 ° inspection of the line.
The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent structures or equivalent processes performed by the present invention or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields are included in the scope of the present invention.
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1. The utility model provides a power network inspection device which characterized in that includes: reference base (1), the top central authorities fixed mounting of reference base (1) has handle (2), the top one end fixed mounting of reference base (1) has antenna (3), the inside of reference base (1) is rotated through the pivot and is connected with worm (4), meshing between worm (4) and worm wheel (5) is connected, and worm wheel (5) rotate through the pivot and connect in the inside of reference base (1), the middle part fixed connection of worm wheel (5) and two-way lead screw (6), and two-way lead screw (6) rotate each other between pivot and reference base (1) and be connected, the both ends of two-way lead screw (6) respectively with slide base (7) between threaded connection, the bilateral symmetry of two-way lead screw (6) is equipped with restriction bar (8), and fixed connection between two restriction bar (8) and reference base (1), each the both ends of restriction bar (8) respectively with slide base (7) between sliding connection each other, two the equal fixed mounting in bottom of slide base (7) has adjustment mechanism (9), two the one end of slide base (7) all installs detection mechanism (10), detection mechanism (9) includes: mount pad (11), mount pad (11) fixed mounting is in the bottom of sliding seat (7), the inside of mount pad (11) is connected with action wheel (12) through the pivot rotation, one side fixed mounting of mount pad (11) has installation side fence (13).
2. The power network inspection device according to claim 1, wherein limiting lugs are formed at two ends of each limiting rod (8), and each limiting rod (8) is arranged in a cross shape.
3. The power network inspection device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment mechanism (9) further includes: drive wheel (14), each drive wheel (14) respectively with the one end fixed connection of each action wheel (12), and the one end of each action wheel (12) all passes mutually supporting between lateral wall and the drive wheel (14) of mount pad (11), each drive belt (15) have been cup jointed in the outside of drive wheel (14), one side fixed mounting of installation side fence (13) has work motor (16), mutual fixed connection between the lateral wall that installation side fence (13) was passed to the output of work motor (16) and one of them drive wheel (14), the mount pad (11) are close to the one end symmetry fixed mounting of installation side fence (13) has gag lever post (17), each fixed connection between the bottom of gag lever post (17) respectively and the upper surface of bottom plate (18), each the bottom of gag lever post (17) all is equipped with limiting spring (19), the upper surface symmetry fixed mounting of bottom plate (18) has stand (20), and mutually supports between stand (20) and limiting spring (19), each sliding connection between gag lever post (17) and base (21), base (21) is through a plurality of pivoted wheels (22) the top of rotation and cooperation.
4. The power network inspection device according to claim 3, wherein mounting grooves matched with the limiting springs (19) are formed in the bottom ends of the limiting rods (17), and protruding blocks are formed in two sides of each limiting rod (17).
5. The power network inspection device according to claim 3, wherein one end of the matching wheel (22) is symmetrically provided with matching holes (23) matched with the limiting rods (17).
6. The power network inspection device according to claim 3, wherein arc-shaped matching grooves are formed in outer rings of the driving wheels (12) and the matching wheels (22) at equal intervals, and anti-skid grains are formed in the arc-shaped matching grooves of the driving wheels (12) and the matching wheels (22) at equal intervals.
7. The power network inspection device according to claim 1, wherein the detection mechanism (10) includes: installation support arm (24), installation support arm (24) fixed mounting is in the one end of sliding seat (7), the one end that sliding seat (7) were kept away from in installation support arm (24) is connected with rotor arm (26), two through torque spring (25) symmetry rotation the inner circle equidistance fixed mounting of rotor arm (26) has detection camera (27).
8. The power network inspection device according to claim 7, wherein each of the rotating arms (26) is provided in a C-shape.
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