CN201269804Y - Front light detection device for vehicle - Google Patents

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CN201269804Y
CN201269804Y CNU2008200942099U CN200820094209U CN201269804Y CN 201269804 Y CN201269804 Y CN 201269804Y CN U2008200942099 U CNU2008200942099 U CN U2008200942099U CN 200820094209 U CN200820094209 U CN 200820094209U CN 201269804 Y CN201269804 Y CN 201269804Y
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宋豪杰
王慧敏
范彦隆
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The utility model relates to a detection device for vehicle headlamps, which comprises a tank, wherein, the tank is provided with a condensing lens, a projection screen and a readout device which reads projection images from the projection screen. The detection device is characterized in that: the tank is composed of an image acquisition tank part and a lamp mounting tank part; the condensing lens, the projection screen and the readout device are arranged on the image acquisition tank part; the lamp mounting tank part is provided with a lamp clamping mechanism and the lamp clamping mechanism is arranged on the front of the condensing lens of the image acquisition tank part; and the detection device is also provided with a display device and a control unit that is connected with the display device, the readout device and the headlamps to be detected. The detection device has simple structure and can realize the detection, correction and adjustment of the headlamps before being mounted in the front of the vehicle body.

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The automotive headlamp checkout equipment
[technical field]
The utility model relates to the vehicle lamp checkout equipment, refers more particularly to a kind of automotive headlamp luminous intensity distribution checkout equipment.
[background technology]
The detection of automobile front is the big event that automotive safety detects, and whether the correlation parameter of headlight has reached the regulation of national standard, is the important indicator of traffic safety.
At present, the checkout equipment principle and the measuring process of automobile front are as follows: host computer sent sense command to the headlight detector after tested vehicle was docked to detecting position, before the headlight detector moves to first headlight, the prompting driver opens high beam, move up and down by the control of the centralising device in headlight checkout equipment measure case headlight checkout equipment, until the center of measure case and the center of headlight, measurement mechanism is measured the luminous intensity of light, parameters such as optical angle side-play amount are pointed out the driver that headlight is become dipped beam then and are measured the dipped headlights parameter; Until high beam parameter and the dipped headlights parameter of measuring second headlight with quadrat method, measure end back headlight checkout equipment and get back to initial position.
But all only being applicable at headlight, present headlight checkout equipment pacified a testing process after being fitted on the vehicle, so just caused when the correlation parameter that detects headlight does not meet the regulation of national standard, after the staff need open hood, can utilize the light fixture adjustment means that the corresponding component of headlight is regulated correction accordingly again, make it finally can meet request of national standard.Yet the parts in the vehicle motor chamber are many, and the installation site of headlight also is not easy to the staff and regulates operation, therefore, at every turn all long to the time of the adjusting operation of headlight, or need be through adjusting operation repeatedly, greatly reduce production efficiency, increased labour cost; Simultaneously, the cost of present headlight checkout equipment is higher, is unfavorable for that industry is used on a large scale.
[utility model content]
The utility model provides a kind of simple in structure for solving the technical matters of above-mentioned existence, can detect and regulate the headlight checkout equipment of correction before headlight is assemblied in vehicle body.
The purpose of this utility model is achieved in that a kind of automotive headlamp checkout equipment, has a casing, the reading device that described casing is provided with collector lens, projection screen and reads projection image from this projection screen, wherein, described casing has image acquisition casing part and lamp installation casing part; Described collector lens, projection screen and reading device are installed in image acquisition casing part, and lamp installation chest portion branch is provided with the light fixture clamping mechanism, and this light fixture clamping mechanism is positioned at the place ahead of the collector lens of described image acquisition casing part; This checkout equipment also comprises display device and the control module that is electrically connected with display device, reading device, tested headlight.
As further improvement, described image acquisition chest portion branch is set to a darkroom, and the cabinet wall of this image acquisition casing part is provided with the extinction curtain.
As further improvement, described projection screen parallels with described collector lens, and is arranged on the vertical plane of described image acquisition casing rear wall inboard.
As further improvement, described display device is the display device that is used for Display projector image and/or parameter regulation trimming process, and this display device is installed on described image acquisition casing part, and is positioned at the top of described collector lens.
As further improvement, described reading device is the industrial digital camera, and this camera is installed on described image acquisition casing part by the camera installing mechanism.
As further improvement, described camera installing mechanism comprises base, fixed head, regulating block, set screw, and described camera is fixedly installed on the fixed head, and fixed head is articulated in base by screw; Described regulating block is fixedly installed in the side that closing on of described base is equipped with fixed head, and described set screw is bolted in the threaded hole of regulating block, and an end of set screw is replaced fixed head.
As further improvement, described light fixture clamping mechanism comprises that locating piece and handle push away clip assembly, and described locating piece and handle push away the outside surface that clip assembly is arranged on lamp installation casing part with cooperatively interacting; Described handle pushes away that clip assembly also comprises base, pushes away the tong handle, handle and connecting rod, clamping head, and the described tong handle that pushes away is articulated on the base, and the clamping head is connected in by handle and connecting rod and pushes away the tong handle.
As further improvement, described headlight checkout equipment also comprises the joystick of the one of four states switching that high beam, dipped headlights, steering indicating light (position lamp) and the light fixture of a control headlight are changed, and described joystick is electrically connected with described control module.
As further improvement, described control module adopts the single-chip microcomputer of MC68HC08GZ32CFU model.
Advantage of the present utility model is: checkout equipment of the present utility model, has the light fixture clamping mechanism, can directly on checkout equipment, carry out the light fixture clamping detection of light shape and regulate correction, simultaneously, the checkout equipment that the utility model provides, also include the joystick of the one of four states switching of high beam, dipped headlights, steering indicating light and the light fixture replacing of controlling headlight, can conveniently carry out the switching of the various states of headlight by this joystick.The more important thing is, to the detection of headlight the time, need not again it to be carried out relevant detection after the prior peace of a headlight is fitted on the vehicle and regulate and proofread and correct, but before headlight is assemblied in vehicle body, just can detect and regulate correction by this checkout equipment to headlight, simplify and detect step, shorten detection time, thereby avoided in the prior art longer to the time of the adjusting operation of headlight, need be through adjusting operation repeatedly, greatly reduce production efficiency, increased the problem of labour cost.And this assay device structures is simple, and is easy to operate, low cost of manufacture.
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Fig. 1 is the structural representation of the automotive headlamp checkout equipment of the utility model embodiment;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of camera installing mechanism of the automotive headlamp checkout equipment of the utility model embodiment;
Fig. 3 is the high beam test philosophy figure that the automotive headlamp checkout equipment of the utility model embodiment relates to;
Fig. 4 is the dipped headlights test philosophy figure that the automotive headlamp checkout equipment of the utility model embodiment relates to.
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Below in conjunction with the drawings and specific embodiments the utility model is further described.
As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, a kind of automotive headlamp checkout equipment, has a casing 1, the reading device 3 that described casing 1 is provided with collector lens 2, projection screen and reads projection image from this projection screen, wherein, described casing 1 has an image acquisition casing part 101 and lamp installation casing part 102; Described collector lens 2, projection screen and reading device 3 are installed in image acquisition casing part 101, lamp installation casing part 102 is provided with light fixture clamping mechanism 4, and this light fixture clamping mechanism 4 is positioned at the place ahead of the collector lens 2 of described image acquisition casing part 101; This checkout equipment also comprises display device 5 and the control module (not shown) that is electrically connected with display device, reading device, tested headlight.Described display device 5 is installed on described image acquisition casing part 101, and display device 5 is positioned at the top of described collector lens 2.Described display device 5 is used for Display projector image and/or parameter regulation trimming process.Described display device 5 can be the known various displays of affiliated technical field personnel, as long as can realize being used for the function of Display projector image and/or parameter regulation trimming process.
Described light fixture clamping mechanism 4 can be well known to those skilled in the art is used for the fixing mechanism of clamping, as shown in Figure 1, comprise that locating piece 41 and handle push away clip assembly 42, described locating piece 41 and handle push away clip assembly 42 and are arranged on the lamp installation casing part 102 with cooperatively interacting.Described handle pushes away that clip assembly 42 also comprises handle base 420, pushes away tong handle 421, handle and connecting rod 422, clamping head 423, and the described tong handle 421 that pushes away is articulated on the handle base 420, and clamping head 423 is connected in by handle and connecting rod 422 and pushes away tong handle 421.When operation pushes away tong handle 421, can utilize cooperating of clamping head 423 and locating piece 41, the light fixture clamping and positioning.Described clamping mechanism also can be the leverage of other form, as long as can realize the clamping and positioning to light fixture.
Described image acquisition casing part 101 is set to a darkroom, and the cabinet wall of this image acquisition casing part 101 is provided with the extinction curtain, can prevent the reflection of car light light effectively; Projection screen can adopt the curtain of light color, and the projection screen in the present embodiment is the curtain of white, can prevent the light reflection of minute surface more effectively.Described projection screen parallels with described collector lens 2, and is arranged on the vertical plane of described image acquisition casing 101 rear wall inboards.
Described reading device 3 is an industrial digital camera 3, and this camera 3 is installed on the cabinet wall of described image acquisition casing part 101 by camera installing mechanism 31.As shown in Figure 3, described camera installing mechanism 31 comprises base 310, fixed head 311, regulating block 312, set screw 313, and described camera 3 is fixedly installed on the fixed head 311, and fixed head 311 is articulated in base 310 by screw; Described regulating block 312 is fixedly installed in the side that closing on of described base 310 is equipped with fixed head 311, described set screw 313 is bolted in the threaded hole of regulating block 312, and an end of set screw 313 is replaced fixed head 311, replace the degree of fixed head 311 by rotation set screw 313 to change set screw 313, finally reach the effect of regulating camera 3.
This checkout equipment also comprises the joystick 6 of the switching of the one of four states test that high beam, dipped headlights, steering indicating light and the light fixture of a control headlight are changed.Described joystick 6 and display device 5 are connected with the control module of this checkout equipment by serial communication, in the present embodiment, control module adopts the MC68HC08GZ32CFU single-chip microcomputer, switch the one of four states of headlight by four I/O mouth controls of described single-chip microcomputer, described joystick 6 promptly is electrically connected with described single-chip microcomputer with the I/O mouth by four, reaches the function of switching the headlight one of four states.
The image acquisition of this checkout equipment is industrial digital camera 3 images acquired by the band USB interface, aspect Flame Image Process, adopt the LabVIEW programming, detection for dipped headlights, the image of gathering earlier through the edge enhancing and the binaryzation of the cutting of LUT (Look_up Table) conversion, image, image, go Flame Image Process such as interference after, use mathematical operation again, seek the horizontal line of dipped beam light shape and the position of intersecting point of 15 degree oblique lines, and show its coordinate figure by above-mentioned display device 5.Such as, for the detection of high beam, after binary conversion treatment is done with image by elder generation, the bright spot position (being centroid position) of light shape is sought in the utilization mathematical operation, identifies with round dot in image, in addition, can also show its coordinate figure by above-mentioned display device 5 as required.
The course of work: at first headlight is clamped in described light fixture clamping mechanism, makes the lamp face, start power supply, enter product function of tonic chord test process towards described collector lens 2:
(1) high beam test
Stir joystick 6 to " high beam " test position, begin to carry out the test of upper beam shape, to show high beam barycenter 91 positions on the display screen 5, has the qualified regional frame 8 of a smooth shape on the display screen 5 simultaneously, if the light shape 71 of high beam is qualified, then high beam barycenter 91 is in the qualified regional frame 8 of described smooth shape; If the light shape 71 of high beam is defective, then high beam barycenter 91 at this moment, adopts electric screw driver to regulate the vertical-horizontal height of the high beam of light fixture not in the qualified regional frame of light shape, make high beam barycenter 91 positions on the display screen 5 be positioned at the qualified regional frame 8 of light shape, it is qualified to be.As shown in Figure 3.
(2) dipped headlights test
Stir joystick 6 to " dipped headlights " test position, begin to carry out the test of dipped beam shape, to show dipped headlights barycenter 92 positions on the display screen 5, has the qualified regional frame 8 of a smooth shape on the display screen 5 simultaneously, if the light shape 72 of dipped headlights is qualified, then dipped headlights barycenter 92 positions are in the qualified regional frame 8 of described smooth shape; If the light shape 72 of dipped headlights is defective, then dipped headlights barycenter 92 positions at this moment, adopt electric screw driver to regulate the vertical-horizontal height of the dipped headlights of light fixture not in the qualified regional frame of light shape, make dipped headlights barycenter 92 positions on the display screen 5 be positioned at the qualified regional frame 8 of light shape, it is qualified to be.As shown in Figure 4.
(3) steering indicating light (position lamp) test
Stir joystick 6 to " steering indicating light (position lamp) " test position, i.e. open position lamp, whether the position lamp of Direct observation light fixture is lighted gets final product.If the position lamp is lighted, then the position lamp test is qualified; If the position lamp does not work, then the position lamp test is defective, needs maintenance again.
(4) light fixture is changed
Stir joystick 6 to " light fixture replacing " position, close light, so that change the test that product carries out next group light fixture.
Above content be in conjunction with concrete preferred implementation to further describing that the utility model is done, can not assert that concrete enforcement of the present utility model is confined to these explanations.For the utility model person of an ordinary skill in the technical field; under the prerequisite that does not break away from the utility model design; can also make some simple deduction or replace, all should be considered as belonging to the scope of patent protection that the utility model is determined by claims of being submitted to.

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1, a kind of automotive headlamp checkout equipment, has a casing, described casing is provided with collector lens, projection screen and reads the reading device of projection image from this projection screen, it is characterized in that: described casing has image acquisition casing part and lamp installation casing part; Described collector lens, projection screen and reading device are installed in image acquisition casing part, and lamp installation chest portion branch is provided with the light fixture clamping mechanism, and this light fixture clamping mechanism is positioned at the place ahead of the collector lens of described image acquisition casing part; This checkout equipment also comprises display device and the control module that is electrically connected with display device, reading device, tested headlight.
2, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described image acquisition chest portion branch is set to a darkroom, and the cabinet wall of this image acquisition casing part is provided with the extinction curtain.
3, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described projection screen parallels with described collector lens, and is arranged on the vertical plane of described image acquisition casing rear wall inboard.
4, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described display device is the display device that is used for Display projector image and/or parameter regulation trimming process, this display device is installed on described image acquisition casing part, and is positioned at the top of described collector lens.
5, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described reading device is the industrial digital camera, and this camera is installed on described image acquisition casing part by the camera installing mechanism.
6, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 5, it is characterized in that: described camera installing mechanism, comprise base, fixed head, regulating block, set screw, described camera is fixedly installed on the fixed head, and fixed head is articulated in base by screw; Described regulating block is fixedly installed in the side that closing on of described base is equipped with fixed head, and described set screw is bolted in the threaded hole of regulating block, and an end of set screw is replaced fixed head.
7, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that: described light fixture clamping mechanism comprises that locating piece and handle push away clip assembly, and described locating piece and handle push away the outside surface that clip assembly is arranged on lamp installation casing part with cooperatively interacting; Described handle pushes away that clip assembly also comprises base, pushes away the tong handle, handle and connecting rod, clamping head, and the described tong handle that pushes away is articulated on the base, and the clamping head is connected in by handle and connecting rod and pushes away the tong handle.
8, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: described headlight checkout equipment also comprises the joystick that high beam, dipped headlights, steering indicating light or the position lamp of a control headlight and the one of four states that light fixture is changed switch, and described joystick is electrically connected with described control module.
9, automotive headlamp checkout equipment as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that: described control module adopts the single-chip microcomputer of MC68HC08GZ32CFU model.
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