CN210986218U - Intelligent monitoring equipment for highway electromechanical system - Google Patents

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CN210986218U
CN210986218U CN202020290054.7U CN202020290054U CN210986218U CN 210986218 U CN210986218 U CN 210986218U CN 202020290054 U CN202020290054 U CN 202020290054U CN 210986218 U CN210986218 U CN 210986218U
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The utility model relates to an intelligent supervisory equipment is used to highway electromechanical system, including mounting bracket, bracing piece and monitoring device, the mounting bracket pass through the mounting screw and install on highway's guardrail, the bracing piece is installed to mounting bracket upper end symmetry, installs monitoring device between the upper end of the support bar. The utility model discloses can solve current equipment when monitoring the vehicle of highway, the control effect is poor, the recognition of shooing is carried out to the vehicle on the corresponding emergency lane that can not be timely, lead to the vehicle to occupy the follow-up rescue of emergency lane influence, simultaneously, current supervisory equipment is when the time uses, and sealed effect is poor, receives rainwater erosion to take place to damage easily, can not effectually clear up the camera moreover and clean, influences difficult problems such as shooting effect easily after using for a long time.

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Intelligent monitoring equipment for highway electromechanical system
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a highway supervisory equipment field, in particular to highway is intelligent supervisory equipment for electromechanical system.
Background
An emergency lane on a highway is a special channel for engineering rescue, fire rescue, medical rescue or police rescue. But in fact, the situation that many drivers illegally occupy emergency lanes is very common. Particularly, when a traffic accident occurs, the rescue vehicle cannot smoothly arrive at the accident site due to illegal occupation of the emergency lane, so that the smooth rescue is hindered, and irretrievable consequences can be caused.
At present, when the existing monitoring equipment monitors vehicles on a highway, the following defects generally exist: 1. when the existing equipment is used for monitoring vehicles on a highway, the monitoring effect is poor, and the vehicles on emergency lanes cannot be photographed and identified in time, so that the vehicles occupy the emergency lanes to influence subsequent rescue; 2. when current supervisory equipment used at the time, sealed effect is poor, receives the rainwater erosion to take place to damage easily, can not effectually clear up moreover to the camera and clean, influences the shooting effect easily after long-time the use.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problem, the utility model provides an intelligent monitoring equipment for highway electromechanical system, the utility model discloses can solve current equipment when monitoring the vehicle of highway, the monitoring effect is poor, the recognition of shooing is carried out to the vehicle on the corresponding emergency lane that can not be timely, lead to the vehicle to occupy the follow-up rescue of emergency lane influence, and simultaneously, current monitoring equipment is when the time uses, and sealed effect is poor, receives rainwater erosion to take place to damage easily, and can not effectually clear up the camera and clean moreover, influence difficult problems such as shooting effect after long-time use easily.
In order to realize the above object, the utility model discloses a following technical scheme, an intelligent supervisory equipment for highway electromechanical system, including mounting bracket, bracing piece and monitoring device, the mounting bracket pass through the mounting screw and install on highway's guardrail, the bracing piece is installed to mounting bracket upper end symmetry, installs monitoring device between the upper end of the support rod.
Monitoring device include casing frame, dead slot, electrical control mechanism, rectangular channel, monitoring mechanism and protection frame, the casing frame be the rectangle structure, the casing frame is installed in the bracing piece upper end, the inside lower extreme of casing frame is provided with the dead slot, dead slot internally mounted has electrical control mechanism, the inside rectangular channel that is provided with of casing frame, rectangular channel internally mounted has monitoring mechanism, the protection frame is installed to casing frame upper end, the protection frame is the arc structure, concrete during operation, when monitoring mechanism monitors that there is the vehicle to pass through in the emergent lane on the highway, electrical control mechanism drives monitoring mechanism and opens, monitoring mechanism can shoot the discernment to the vehicle in emergency lane, and then can take a photograph the violation of vehicle and take a charge of real-time supervision.
Electric control mechanism include battery, controller and distance sensor, the inside left side of dead slot install the battery, the controller is installed on the inside right side of dead slot, the controller is connected with the battery electricity, evenly install distance sensor on the terminal surface before the highway guardrail, distance sensor is connected with the controller electricity through parallelly connected mode, concrete during operation, when being located distance sensor on the highway guardrail and sensing the vehicle and go on emergent lane, distance sensor passes through the controller and drives the vehicle recognition of shooing of monitoring mechanism to emergent lane.
The monitoring mechanism comprises a rotating frame, a driving branched chain, a wiping seat, a sealing branched chain and a camera, the left side in the rectangular groove is provided with a rotating frame through a pin shaft, the section of the rotating frame is of a U-shaped structure, the rotating frame is internally provided with a camera, the rectangular groove is internally provided with a driving branched chain, the driving branched chain is connected with the rotating frame, the right side in the rectangular groove is provided with a wiping seat, the rotating frame is symmetrically provided with sliding grooves, the sliding grooves are internally provided with sealing branched chains, when the device works, when the monitoring mechanism is powered on, the driving branched chain drives the rotating frame to rotate outwards, the camera in the rotating frame can further take pictures of vehicles on the emergency lane for identification, after finishing shooing, the drive branched chain drives the rotating turret and recovers, cleans the seat and can clean the camera surface, and the leakproofness between rotating turret and the casing frame can be guaranteed to sealed branched chain, prevents the rainwater infiltration.
As the utility model discloses a preferred technical scheme, the mounting bracket include the diaphragm, rotate seat and pressure strip, the diaphragm be the rectangle structure, diaphragm lower extreme symmetry is installed and is rotated the seat, rotate the seat inside and install the pressure strip through the round pin axle, the pressure strip lower extreme passes through the mounting screw in highway guardrail upper end, concrete during operation, the manual work is installed the diaphragm on highway guardrail through the screw, easy operation is convenient, does benefit to the installation and dismantles.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, the drive branch chain including driving actuating cylinder, connecting rod and coupling spring, drive actuating cylinder and install inside the rectangular channel, the top that drives actuating cylinder has the connecting rod through the round pin hub connection, the connecting rod is connected with the rotating turret through the round pin axle, the inside symmetry of rectangular channel is provided with the arc wall, installs coupling spring in the spout, coupling spring is connected with the rotating turret, concrete during operation, casing frame, rotating turret, drive and be four bar linkage between actuating cylinder and the connecting rod, drive actuating cylinder and drive the rotating turret outwards rotation through the connecting rod.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, clean the seat and include air bag, cushion and flexible brush hair, air bag install on the inside right side of rectangular channel, the cushion is installed to the air bag left end, evenly is provided with the recess on the cushion, flexible brush hair is evenly installed to recess inside, concrete during operation, when the rolling stand extrudees the air bag, deformation takes place for the air bag atress, simultaneously, the air bag can play sealed effect, flexible brush hair can clean the camera surface.
As a preferred technical scheme of the utility model, sealed branch chain including sealed pad, briquetting, connecting rod and expanding spring, the rotating turret on the symmetry be provided with the spread groove, be connected with the connecting rod through sliding fit's mode in the spread groove, expanding spring is installed to the connecting rod inboard, the briquetting is installed in the connecting rod outside, install sealed the pad on the spread groove, the briquetting is hugged closely with sealed inboard of filling up, concrete during operation, when the rotating turret recovers, expanding spring drives the connecting rod outwards to move, the connecting rod drives the outside expansion of briquetting, the briquetting drives sealed pad and casing frame sealing connection.
As an optimal technical scheme of the utility model, the pressure strip be L type structure, evenly be provided with the protection on the pressure strip medial surface and fill up, the protection fills up and makes for rubber materials, evenly is provided with anti-skidding line on the protection fills up the medial surface.
As an optimized technical scheme of the utility model, protection frame upper end evenly be provided with the solar substrate, the solar substrate is connected with the battery electricity.
The beneficial effects of the utility model reside in that:
1. the utility model provides an intelligent monitoring equipment for highway electromechanical system, its monitoring device can be effective to the vehicle in the emergent lane on the highway carry out the recognition of shooing, prevent that the vehicle from illegally taking up emergent lane influence follow-up rescue;
2. the utility model provides an intelligent monitoring equipment for electromechanical system of highway, its clean seat can clean the clearance effectively to the camera, guarantees the clean effect of camera, does benefit to the long-time use of healthy camera;
3. the utility model provides an intelligent monitoring equipment for highway electromechanical system, the leakproofness that its sealed branch chain can effectual assurance equipment avoids appearing the rainwater infiltration and leads to the inside phenomenon that takes place to damage of equipment.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the flat structure of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic sectional structure diagram of the monitoring device of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional structure diagram between the housing frame, the rectangular groove and the monitoring mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a state diagram of the utility model between the shell frame, the rectangular groove and the monitoring mechanism during operation;
fig. 6 is a schematic view of the cross-sectional structure between the housing frame, the rectangular groove and the sealing branched chain of the present invention.
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In order to make the technical means, creation features, achievement purposes and functions of the present invention easy to understand and understand, the present invention is further explained by combining with the specific drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.
As shown in fig. 1 to 6, the intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the expressway comprises an installation rack 1, supporting rods 2 and a monitoring device 3, wherein the installation rack 1 is installed on a guardrail of the expressway through screws, the supporting rods 2 are symmetrically installed at the upper end of the installation rack 1, and the monitoring device 3 is installed between the upper ends of the supporting rods 2.
Mounting bracket 1 include diaphragm 11, rotate seat 12 and pressure strip 13, diaphragm 11 be the rectangle structure, rotate seat 12 is installed to diaphragm 11 lower extreme symmetry, rotate seat 12 inside and install pressure strip 13 through the round pin axle, pressure strip 13 lower extreme passes through the mounting screw in highway guardrail upper end, pressure strip 13 be L type structure, evenly be provided with the protection on the pressure strip 13 medial surface and fill up, the protection is filled up and is made for rubber materials, evenly is provided with anti-skidding line on the protection pad medial surface, concrete during operation, the manual work is installed diaphragm 11 on highway guardrail through the screw, easy operation is convenient, does benefit to installation and dismantlement.
The monitoring device 3 comprises a shell frame 31, an empty groove 32, an electric control mechanism 33, a rectangular groove 34, a monitoring mechanism 35 and a protection frame 36, the shell frame 31 is of a rectangular structure, the shell frame 31 is arranged at the upper end of the support rod 2, the lower end inside the shell frame 31 is provided with an empty groove 32, an electric control mechanism 33 is arranged inside the empty groove 32, a rectangular groove 34 is arranged inside the shell frame 31, a monitoring mechanism 35 is arranged inside the rectangular groove 34, the upper end of the shell frame 31 is provided with a protection frame 36, the protection frame 36 is of an arc structure, the upper end of the protective frame 36 is uniformly provided with a solar substrate which is electrically connected with the storage battery 331, and when the solar cell protective frame works, when the monitoring mechanism 35 monitors that vehicles pass through an emergency lane on the expressway, the electric control mechanism 33 drives the monitoring mechanism 35 to be opened, the monitoring mechanism 35 can shoot and recognize the vehicles corresponding to the emergency lane, and then the illegal lane occupation of the vehicles can be monitored in real time.
Electric control mechanism 33 include battery 331, controller 332 and distance sensor 333, the inside left side of dead slot 32 install battery 331, controller 332 is installed on the inside right side of dead slot 32, controller 332 is connected with battery 331 electricity, evenly install distance sensor 333 on the terminal surface before the highway guardrail, distance sensor 333 is connected with controller 332 electricity through parallelly connected mode, during specific work, when being located distance sensor 333 on the highway guardrail and sensing the vehicle and traveling on emergent lane, distance sensor 333 drives the vehicle of monitoring mechanism 35 on corresponding emergent lane through controller 332 and takes a picture the discernment.
The monitoring mechanism 35 comprises a rotating frame 351, a driving branched chain 352, a wiping seat 353, a sealing branched chain 354 and a camera 355, the rotating frame 351 is installed on the left side inside the rectangular groove 34 through a pin shaft, the cross section of the rotating frame 351 is of a U-shaped structure, the camera 355 is installed inside the rotating frame 351, the driving branched chain 352 is installed inside the rectangular groove 34, the driving branched chain 352 is connected with the rotating frame 351, the wiping seat 353 is installed on the right side inside the rectangular groove 34, sliding grooves are symmetrically formed in the rotating frame 351, and the sealing branched chain 354 is installed inside the sliding grooves, during specific work, when the monitoring mechanism 35 is powered on, the driving branched chain 352 drives the rotating frame 351 to rotate outwards, the camera 355 in the rotating frame 351 can further photograph and recognize vehicles on an emergency lane, after photographing is finished, the driving branched chain 352 drives the rotating frame 351 to recover, the wiping seat 353 can wipe the surface of the camera 355, the sealing branch 354 may ensure sealability between the rotating frame 351 and the housing frame 31 to prevent rainwater from penetrating.
Drive branch 352 including drive actuating cylinder 3521, connecting rod 3522 and connecting spring 3523, drive actuating cylinder 3521 install inside rectangular channel 34, the top of driving actuating cylinder 3521 is connected with connecting rod 3522 through the round pin axle, connecting rod 3522 is connected with rotating turret 351 through the round pin axle, the inside symmetry of rectangular channel 34 is provided with the arc wall, install connecting spring 3523 in the spout, connecting spring 3523 is connected with rotating turret 351, during specific work, be four-bar linkage between casing frame 31, rotating turret 351, drive actuating cylinder 3521 and the connecting rod 3522, drive actuating cylinder 3521 drives rotating turret 351 outward through connecting rod 3522 and rotates.
Clean seat 353 include gasbag 3531, cushion 3532 and flexible brush hair 3533, gasbag 3531 install on the inside right side of rectangular channel 34, gasbag 3531 left end is installed cushion 3532, evenly be provided with the recess on cushion 3532, flexible brush hair 3533 is evenly installed to recess inside, concrete during operation, when rotating turret 351 extrudees gasbag 3531, deformation takes place for gasbag 3531 atress, and simultaneously, gasbag 3531 can play sealed effect, flexible brush hair 3533 can clean camera 355 surface.
Sealing branch 354 include sealed pad 3451, briquetting 3542, connecting rod 3543 and expanding spring 3544, rotating turret 351 on the symmetry be provided with the connecting groove, be connected with connecting rod 3543 through sliding fit's mode in the connecting groove, expanding spring 3544 is installed to connecting rod 3543 inboard, briquetting 3542 is installed in the connecting rod 3543 outside, install sealed pad 3451 on the connecting groove, briquetting 3542 is hugged closely with sealed pad 3451 inboard, in concrete during operation, when rotating turret 351 restores, expanding spring 3544 drives connecting rod 3543 outwards, connecting rod 3543 drives briquetting 3542 outwards to expand, briquetting 3542 drives sealed pad 3451 and casing frame 31 sealing connection.
When in work:
the first step is as follows: manually installing the transverse plate 11 on the highway guardrail through screws;
the second step is that: when the distance sensor 333 on the road guardrail senses that the vehicle is running on the emergency lane, the distance sensor 333 energizes the monitoring mechanism 35 through the controller 332;
the third step: when monitoring mechanism 35 circular telegram, drive branched chain 352 drives the rotating turret 351 outwards and rotates, and the discernment of shooing can be corresponding to the vehicle on the emergency driveway to the camera 355 in the rotating turret 351, and after finishing shooing, drive branched chain 352 drives the rotating turret 351 and recovers, cleans the seat 353 and can clean the camera 355 surface, and the leakproofness between rotating turret 351 and the casing frame 31 can be guaranteed to sealed branched chain 354, prevents the rainwater infiltration.
The foregoing illustrates and describes the principles, general features, and advantages of the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and that the foregoing embodiments and descriptions are provided only to illustrate the principles of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.

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1. The utility model provides a highway is intelligent supervisory equipment for electromechanical system, includes mounting bracket (1), bracing piece (2) and monitoring device (3), its characterized in that: the mounting rack (1) is mounted on a guardrail of the highway through screws, the upper ends of the mounting rack (1) are symmetrically provided with supporting rods (2), and a monitoring device (3) is mounted between the upper ends of the supporting rods (2); wherein:
the monitoring device (3) comprises a shell frame (31), an empty groove (32), an electric control mechanism (33), a rectangular groove (34), a monitoring mechanism (35) and a protection frame (36), wherein the shell frame (31) is of a rectangular structure, the shell frame (31) is installed at the upper end of a supporting rod (2), the empty groove (32) is arranged at the lower end inside the shell frame (31), the electric control mechanism (33) is installed inside the empty groove (32), the rectangular groove (34) is arranged inside the shell frame (31), the monitoring mechanism (35) is installed inside the rectangular groove (34), the protection frame (36) is installed at the upper end of the shell frame (31), and the protection frame (36) is of an arc-shaped structure;
the electric control mechanism (33) comprises a storage battery (331), a controller (332) and a distance sensor (333), the storage battery (331) is installed on the left side inside the empty groove (32), the controller (332) is installed on the right side inside the empty groove (32), the controller (332) is electrically connected with the storage battery (331), the distance sensor (333) is uniformly installed on the front end face of the highway guardrail, and the distance sensor (333) is electrically connected with the controller (332) in a parallel connection mode;
monitoring mechanism (35) include rotating turret (351), drive branch chain (352), clean seat (353), sealed branch chain (354) and camera (355), inside left side of rectangular channel (34) install rotating turret (351) through the round pin axle, rotating turret (351) cross-section is U type structure, rotating turret (351) internally mounted has camera (355), rectangular channel (34) internally mounted has drive branch chain (352), drive branch chain (352) are connected with rotating turret (351), seat (353) are cleaned in the inside right side of rectangular channel (34) installation, the symmetry is provided with the spout on rotating turret (351), spout internally mounted has sealed branch chain (354).
2. The intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the highway according to claim 1, wherein: mounting bracket (1) include diaphragm (11), rotate seat (12) and pressure strip (13), diaphragm (11) be the rectangle structure, diaphragm (11) lower extreme symmetry is installed and is rotated seat (12), rotate seat (12) inside and install pressure strip (13) through the round pin axle, pressure strip (13) lower extreme passes through the screw installation in highway guardrail upper end.
3. The intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the highway according to claim 1, wherein: drive branch chain (352) including driving actuating cylinder (3521), connecting rod (3522) and connecting spring (3523), drive actuating cylinder (3521) install inside rectangular channel (34), the top that drives actuating cylinder (3521) has connecting rod (3522) through round pin hub connection, connecting rod (3522) are connected with rotating turret (351) through the round pin axle, the inside symmetry of rectangular channel (34) is provided with the arc wall, install connecting spring (3523) in the spout, connecting spring (3523) are connected with rotating turret (351).
4. The intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the highway according to claim 1, wherein: clean seat (353) include gasbag (3531), cushion (3532) and flexible brush hair (3533), gasbag (3531) install on the inside right side of rectangular channel (34), gasbag (3531) left end is installed cushion (3532), evenly be provided with the recess on cushion (3532), inside evenly installed of recess has flexible brush hair (3533).
5. The intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the highway according to claim 1, wherein: sealing branch chain (354) including sealed pad (3451), briquetting (3542), connecting rod (3543) and expanding spring (3544), rotating turret (351) on the symmetry be provided with the connecting groove, be connected with connecting rod (3543) through sliding fit's mode in the connecting groove, expanding spring (3544) are installed to connecting rod (3543) inboard, briquetting (3542) are installed in connecting rod (3543) outside, install sealed pad (3451) on the connecting groove, briquetting (3542) and sealed pad (3451) inboard are hugged closely.
6. The intelligent monitoring device for the electromechanical system of the highway according to claim 2, wherein the pressing plate (13) is in an L-shaped structure, protective pads are uniformly arranged on the inner side surface of the pressing plate (13), the protective pads are made of rubber materials, and anti-skid lines are uniformly arranged on the inner side surface of the protective pads.
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