CN202871214U

CN202871214U - Character display system

Info

Publication number: CN202871214U
Application number: CN2012205876827U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 麦文伟; 廖云龙
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2012-11-08
Filing date: 2012-11-08
Publication date: 2013-04-10
Anticipated expiration: 2022-11-08

Abstract

The utility model provides a character display system. The character display system comprises a rotating component (1), a power supply (2), a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) lamps (3), a display control unit (4), a character storage unit (5), a character editing unit (6), a character emitting unit (7) and a character receiving unit (8), wherein the plurality of LED lamps (3) are arranged on the rotating component (1) in an array mode and is connected with the power supply (2), and the display control unit (4) is electrically connected with the power supply (2) and is in communication connection with the plurality of LED lamps (3). The character display system enables a user to define displayed content of the LED lamps on the rotating component through the character editing unit, and therefore interactivity and playability are increased.

Description

Character display system

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an mechatronic technical field, in particular to character display system.

Background

In modern life, various fashionable articles such as various toys and various electronic products are diversified, have attractive appearance, are small and practical, and are often used as gifts on various occasions. Among them, products of a type with a motor rotating such as a hand-held electric fan, a remote control airplane model, a remote control car model, etc. are a large part. When the product is used as a small gift, the product has high propaganda and advertising functions.

The luminous LED lamp is arranged on the rotating component of the rotating product, so that the LED lamp is controlled to be on or off, and when the rotating component rotates at a high speed, people feel that characters or patterns with various colors are formed in the rotating range due to the visual retention of the people, and the purpose of propaganda is achieved. For example, the Chinese patent "electric fan" (patent No. 200320131528. X) and the Chinese patent "an electric fan" (patent No. 00130875.0) both have a plurality of LED lamps arranged on the rotating blades of the electric fan, and preset the on-off rules of the LED lamps, so that people can see specific characters or patterns when the electric fan rotates at high speed. Besides the electric fan, the electric fan can also produce the same effect on products such as a remote control airplane model, an automobile model and the like.

However, in the rotary display effect in the prior art, the displayed content is single due to the fact that the displayed content is pre-solidified, and cannot be changed, and different contents can be displayed on a plurality of products respectively.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a character display system, which allows a user to customize the content of characters and patterns formed by an LED lamp on a rotating member.

In order to achieve the above object, in one aspect, the present invention provides a character display system including: a rotating member; a power source; a plurality of LED lamps arranged in an array on the rotating member and connected to the power supply; the display control unit is electrically connected with the power supply and is in communication connection with the plurality of LED lamps; the character storage unit prestores a character set, is provided with a storage space for storing characters, is electrically connected with the power supply and is in communication connection with the character editing unit; the character editing unit is electrically connected with the power supply and is in communication connection with the character storage unit so as to call characters from the character storage unit, edit the characters or character strings and output signals representing the characters or character strings; the character transmitting unit is electrically connected with the power supply and is in communication connection with the character editing unit so as to receive the signals of the representation characters or character strings edited by the character editing unit; the character receiving unit is electrically connected with the power supply and is in communication connection with the character transmitting unit, and receives and transmits the signals representing the characters or the character strings to the display control unit; the display control unit provides communication connection to send signals representing characters or character strings of the character receiving unit to the LED lamps, and controls the LED lamps to be on and off at a certain position in a certain area in a circle of rotation.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the character display system is a remote control aircraft, the remote control aircraft including an aircraft body, a propeller, and a remote controller; the rotating part is the aircraft main body, and the power supply, the display control unit and the character receiving unit are arranged in the aircraft main body; the LED lamps are vertically arranged on one side of the aircraft main body; the character transmitting unit is arranged in the remote controller; the character editing unit comprises a display screen and keys which are arranged on the remote controller.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the character display system is an electric fan, and the electric fan includes a fan main body and fan blades; the rotating part is the fan blade; the power supply, the display control unit, the character transmitting unit and the character receiving unit are arranged in the fan main body; the LED lamps are arranged on the fan blades; the character editing unit comprises a display screen and keys which are arranged on the panel of the fan main body.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the number of the LED lamps is 5 to 10.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the character set is an ASCII character set.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the length of the character string is 1-20.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the rotating member has a rotation speed greater than 20 rotations per second.

In another aspect of the present invention, preferably, the array of the plurality of LED lamps is arranged in a straight line.

The utility model has the advantages as follows:

the utility model discloses the system can let the user through the demonstration content of the LED lamp on the self-defined rotary part of character editing unit, has increased interactive and object for appreciation nature.

The utility model discloses the system makes the content that shows various, can change at will, shows different content separately moreover on a plurality of products.

The utility model discloses the time of a plurality of LED lamp rotatory a week is less than human vision ghost time in the method, and the typeface hangs always on its rotatory face of cylinder, can very clear demonstration characters, has very strong stability moreover.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a character display system according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an LED arrangement according to the present invention, which gives the principle of character display;

FIG. 3 is a perspective schematic view of a remotely piloted vehicle;

FIG. 4 is a front view of the remotely piloted vehicle of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a rear view of the remotely piloted vehicle of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the remote control;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of the electric fan.

Wherein the reference numerals are as follows:

1 rotating part, 2 power supply and 3 LED lamp

4 display control unit 5 character storage unit 6 character editing unit

7 character transmitting unit 8 character receiving unit 9 power supply

11 section(s)

12. 131, 132, 141, 142, 151, 152, 161, 162 bright light positions;

20 remote control aircraft 21 aircraft main body 22 screw propeller

23 LED lamp 24 signal receiving head 25 power switch

30 remote controller 31 key 32 display screen

33 infrared emitting head 40 electric fan 41 fan body

42 flabellum 43 LED lamp 44 button

45 display screen.

Detailed Description

The following describes the embodiments of the present invention in detail.

As shown in fig. 1, the character display system according to the present invention includes: a rotating member 1; a power supply 2 electrically connected to the rotating member 1; a plurality of LED lamps 3 arranged in an array on the rotating member 1 and connected to the power supply 2; a display control unit 4 electrically connected to the power supply 2 and communicatively connected to the plurality of LED lamps 3; the character storage unit 5 is used for prestoring a character set, is provided with a storage space for storing characters, is electrically connected with the power supply 9 and is in communication connection with the character editing unit 6; a character editing unit 6 electrically connected to the power supply 9 and communicatively connected to the character storage unit 5 to retrieve characters from the character storage unit 5 and perform character or character string editing and output a signal representing the characters or character strings; the character transmitting unit 7 is electrically connected with the power supply 9 and is in communication connection with the character editing unit 6 so as to receive signals of the character or the character string edited by the character editing unit 6; and a character receiving unit 8 which is electrically connected with the power supply 2 and is in communication connection with the character transmitting unit 7, and receives and transmits the signal representing the character or the character string.

Wherein, the display control unit 4 provides communication connection to send the signal of the character or character string of the character receiving unit 8 to the plurality of LED lamps 3, and the display control unit 4 controls the on and off of the plurality of LED lamps 3 at a certain position in a certain area in a rotation circle thereof.

In the character display system according to the present invention, the character set stored by the character storage unit 5 is preferably a standard ASCII character set.

In the character display system according to the present invention, the plurality of LED lamps 3 are preferably arranged in a line on the rotating member 1.

In the character display system according to the present invention, the rotating member 1 can be connected to the power source 2, the display control unit 4, and the character receiving unit 8, and can be separated from each other, and in the case of separation, the plurality of LED lamps 3 are electrically connected to the display control unit 4 through brushes (not shown).

In the character display system according to the present invention, the display control unit 4 includes a chip (not shown) in which a character set is loaded and a display program for each character in the character set is preset.

In the character display system according to the present invention, the character transmitting unit 7 and the character receiving unit 8 are connected by wired or wireless communication; when wired, the display control unit 4, the character receiving unit 8, the character transmitting unit 7 and the character editing unit 6 are arranged on the same circuit board (not shown); when wirelessly connected, the character transmitting unit 7 is provided on a remote controller (not shown) for operating the rotating means, and the character editing unit 6 is also provided on the remote controller.

When the utility model discloses a character display system during operation, rotary part 1 drives a plurality of LED lamps 3 rotate, in its certain region that rotates a week, every LED lamp in a plurality of LED lamps 3 realizes bright and going out by a certain position that display control unit 4 control was in this region, and the display effect that makes its production reaches people's eye's vision and stops, makes the people see the character and shows at the rotation space, control can be realized by the display control procedure in the display control unit 4. The character transmitting unit 7 transmits the character or the character string generated by the character editing unit 6 to the character receiving unit 8, and the display control unit 4 displays the character or the character string received by the character receiving unit 8 through the plurality of LED lamps 3. The modification of the displayed characters can be done while the rotating member 1 is rotating, achieving a dynamic effect.

Referring to fig. 2, a character string with 5 LED lamps displaying 8 characters is taken as an example to illustrate the working principle of the present invention, a plurality of LED lamps rotate with a rotating component on the rotating component (not numbered), a cylindrical surface is formed, on a circumference, an arc of the circumference is divided into 8 equally divided sections 11, in a first section 11, for example, displaying a letter "a", when the LED lamps rotate into the first section 11, the first LED lamp is located at the bright position 12 of the first section 11, the first LED lamp is turned on and off; when the second LED lamp is located at the first lighting position 131 of the first section 11, the second LED lamp is turned on and turned off, and when the second LED lamp is located at the second lighting position 132, the second LED lamp is turned on and turned off; when the third LED lamp is located at the first lighting position 141 of the first segment 11, the third LED lamp is on, and is turned off until the second lighting position 142 of the third LED lamp is turned off; when the fourth LED lamp is located at the first lighting position 151 of the first section 11, the fourth LED lamp is turned on and turned off, and when the fourth LED lamp is located at the second lighting position 152, the fourth LED lamp is turned on and turned off again; when the fifth LED lamp is located at the first lighting position 161 of the first segment 11, the fifth LED lamp is turned on and turned off at a time, and when the fifth LED lamp is located at the second lighting position 162, the fifth LED lamp is turned on and turned off at a time. Thus, during the rotation time of the first section 11, we can see the word "a" formed by the LED light spot. When the five LED lamps rotate for one circle and then return to the first section 11, the five LED lamps display the character 'A' again in the manner described above, and when the time of one circle of rotation of the five LED lamps is less than the time of human visual afterimage, the character 'A' is always suspended on the rotating cylindrical surface. The display principle of the 2 nd character to the 8 th character is the same, namely the display of the character string formed by the 8 characters is completed. Because the display control unit prestores the display programs of all characters in the character set, after the character receiving unit receives the self-defined character strings, the display control unit calls the display programs to display different character strings.

Referring to fig. 3 to 6, the present invention is applied to a remote control flying machine 20, the type of the remote control flying machine 20 may be different, for example, the remote control flying machine 20 shown in fig. 3 and 6 includes a flying machine main body 21, a propeller 22, and a remote controller 30, the flying machine main body 21 is the rotating part 1 shown in fig. 1, and the power supply 2, the display control unit 4, the character receiving unit 8, and other circuit boards are all installed in the flying machine main body 21 of the remote control flying machine 20 shown in fig. 1. The power switch 25 of the remote control flight vehicle 20 is provided below the vehicle body 21. A plurality of LED lamps 23 (which correspond to the LEDs 3 of fig. 1) are disposed on the side of the aircraft body 21, and the plurality of LED lamps 23 are disposed vertically in parallel with the rotation axis. The propeller 22 of the remote control aircraft 20 is controlled by the remote controller 30 to rotate, and when the propeller 22 rotates, the lift force of the propeller 22 enables the remote control aircraft 20 to suspend in the air and drives the aircraft body 21 to rotate in the direction opposite to the direction of the propeller 22. The character transmitting unit 7 and the character editing unit 6 of fig. 1 are provided in the remote controller 30, and character strings are edited by the keys 31 and the display screen 32 of the remote controller 30. The edited character string is transmitted to the character receiving unit 8 of the remote control flight vehicle 20 by the infrared transmitting head 33 through the character transmitting unit 7. The remote control flight vehicle 20 receives the infrared signal through a signal receiving head 24 below the vehicle body 21. The display control unit 4 displays the characters received by the character receiving unit 8 through the plurality of LED lamps 23. The number of the LED lamps 23 can be selected from 5 to 10, and the length of the character string is preferably 1 to 20. The speed of rotation of the aircraft body 21 is such that the human eye is able to produce a visual dwell, which is more than 20 revolutions per second, or which is reached over a period of time. On different figurative remote control crafts, as long as there is rotating member to its rotational speed can reach the effect that people's eye vision stops, and parallel or certain angle of formation between LED lamp on it and its rotation axis all can realize the utility model discloses.

Referring to fig. 7, the present invention can also be applied to an electric fan 40. The electric fan 40 includes a fan main body 41, fan blades 42, the fan blades 42 as rotating members, the power supply 2, the display control unit 4, the character transmitting unit 7, and the character receiving unit 8 of fig. 1 are provided in the fan main body 41, the character transmitting unit 7 and the character receiving unit 8 of fig. 1 are wired, and a plurality of LED lamps 43 are provided on the fan blades 42. The character editing unit 6 of fig. 1 includes, in the present embodiment, a key 44 and a display 45 provided on the fan main body panel. The connection of the plurality of LED lamps to the fan main body 41 may be connected by means of brushes.

The utility model can also be applied to various rotary toys, ornaments and electromechanical products, such as toy cars, real cars and real airplanes, and can realize good effect.

While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited thereto, and that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Claims

1. A character display system comprising:

a rotating member (1);

a power supply (2, 9);

a plurality of LED lamps (3) arranged in an array on the rotating member (1) and electrically connected to the power supply (2);

a display control unit (4) electrically connected with the power supply (2) and in communication connection with the plurality of LED lamps (3);

the method is characterized in that: the character display system further includes:

the character storage unit (5) is used for prestoring a character set, providing a storage space for storing characters, is electrically connected with the power supply (9) and is in communication connection with the character editing unit (6);

the character editing unit (6) is electrically connected with the power supply (9) and is in communication connection with the character storage unit (5) so as to call characters from the character storage unit (5), edit the characters or character strings and output signals representing the characters or character strings;

the character transmitting unit (7) is electrically connected with the power supply (9) and is in communication connection with the character editing unit (6) so as to transmit signals of the representation characters or character strings edited by the character editing unit (6); and

the character receiving unit (8) is electrically connected with the power supply (2) and is in communication connection with the character transmitting unit (7), and receives and sends a signal representing the character or the character string to the display control unit (4);

wherein,

the display control unit (4) provides communication connection to send signals representing characters or character strings of the character receiving unit (8) to the plurality of LED lamps (3), and the display control unit (4) controls the plurality of LED lamps (3) to be on or off at a certain position in a certain area in one rotation circle.

2. The character display system according to claim 1,

the character display system is a remote control aircraft, and the remote control aircraft comprises an aircraft body (21), a propeller (22) and a remote controller (30);

the rotating part (1) is the aircraft body (21), and the power supply (2), the display control unit (4) and the character receiving unit (8) are arranged in the aircraft body (21);

the LED lamps (3) are vertically arranged on one side of the aircraft body (21);

the character transmitting unit (7) is arranged in the remote controller (30);

the character editing unit (6) comprises a display screen (32) and keys (31) arranged on the remote controller (30).

3. The character display system according to claim 1,

the character display system is an electric fan (40), and the electric fan (40) comprises a fan main body (41) and fan blades (42);

the rotating part (1) is the fan blade (42);

the power supply (2), the display control unit (4), the character transmitting unit (7) and the character receiving unit (8) are arranged in the fan main body (41);

the plurality of LED lamps are arranged on the fan blades (42);

the character editing unit (6) comprises a display screen (45) and keys (44) which are arranged on the fan main body (41) and the panel.

4. The character display system of claim 1, wherein the number of said LED lamps is 5-10.

5. The character display system of claim 1, wherein the character set is an ASCII character set.

6. The character display system of claim 1, wherein the character string is 1-20 in length.

7. Character display system according to claim 1, characterised in that the rotational speed of the rotating member (1) is more than 20 revolutions per second.

8. Character display system according to claim 1, characterized in that the lamp (3) array of the plurality of LEDs is arranged in a straight line.