CN211779265U

CN211779265U - Air flow valve

Info

Publication number: CN211779265U
Application number: CN202020330435.3U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张育平; 卢成登; 孙太喜
Original assignee: Shenzhen Btk Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Btk Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-03-16
Filing date: 2020-03-16
Publication date: 2020-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 2030-03-16

Abstract

The application relates to an airflow valve, which comprises a pipeline, an air pressure sensor, a control panel and a wireless assembly, wherein an airflow channel is arranged in the pipeline; the air pressure sensor is assembled on the pipeline and connected to the control panel, and senses and acquires air pressure in the air flow channel; the control panel is provided with a control circuit, the wireless assembly is connected to the control circuit and sends corresponding data to third-party electronic equipment, wherein the corresponding data are air pressure in the air flow channel or data obtained by calculation of the control circuit based on the air pressure in the air flow channel. Through configuration wireless subassembly, can insert intelligent home systems with the air current valve, realize the intellectuality of air current valve, the user can be timely master the gas consumption, has further made things convenient for modern's life for life more convenient and fast ization.

Description

Air flow valve

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of smart homes, in particular to an airflow valve.

Background

With the popularization of smart devices represented by smart phones, the life style of people has changed greatly, and the life style gradually becomes more intelligent. In the traditional home field, electrical appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators, televisions and lamps operate independently and are controlled by respective remote controllers or switches, along with the popularization of smart phones, the remote controllers or the switches can be controlled by the smart phones, and one smart phone can realize the functions of the remote controllers/switches of all the electrical appliances, so that the concept of smart home is created.

The mode of using natural gas has two kinds, one kind is for indoor logical being equipped with the natural gas pipeline, supplies gas through the natural gas pipeline, and another kind supplies gas for the natural gas jar, when using the natural gas pipeline to supply gas, the user can only know the monthly service condition through gas company's monthly bill, can't implement and master the gas consumption, when using the natural gas jar to supply gas, generally only when the gas-cooker can not light, the user just finds to aerify. Therefore, the conventional apparatuses do not allow the user to grasp the gas usage situation.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, it is necessary to provide an airflow valve to solve the problem that the user cannot know the gas usage condition in any of the conventional devices.

An airflow valve comprises a pipeline, an air pressure sensor, a control panel and a wireless assembly, wherein an airflow channel is arranged in the pipeline;

the air pressure sensor is assembled on the pipeline and connected to the control panel, and senses and acquires air pressure in the air flow channel;

the control panel is provided with a control circuit, the wireless assembly is connected to the control circuit and sends corresponding data to third-party electronic equipment, wherein the corresponding data are air pressure in the air flow channel or data obtained by calculation of the control circuit based on the air pressure in the air flow channel.

In one embodiment, the pipeline is provided with a through hole, the airflow channel is communicated with the outside through the through hole, and the air pressure sensor is arranged corresponding to the through hole and seals the through hole.

In one embodiment, the outer side wall of the pipeline is provided with a mounting protrusion, and the through hole penetrates through the mounting protrusion and the pipeline wall and is communicated with the airflow channel;

the air pressure sensor is fixed on the mounting protrusion, senses and collects air pressure in the through hole, and feeds the collected air pressure back to the control panel.

In one embodiment, the air pressure sensor comprises a base and a sensing piece, wherein the base is fixed on the mounting protrusion and seals the through hole, and the sensing piece is arranged on the base and is electrically connected with the control board;

at least part of the base extends into the through hole, and a rubber ring is clamped between the base and the mounting protrusion.

In one embodiment, the base is provided with a convex column, the convex column at least partially extends into the through hole, and the rubber ring is provided with at least one rubber ring clamped between the base and the mounting protrusion and/or between the outer side wall of the convex column and the inner side wall of the through hole.

In one embodiment, the control circuit includes a microcontroller and a storage medium, the storage medium stores a calculation instruction, the microcontroller is connected to the air pressure sensor, and when receiving data fed back by the air pressure sensor, calls the calculation instruction from the storage medium, and calculates the corresponding data based on the air pressure in the air flow channel.

In one embodiment, the air flow valve is mounted on the natural gas pipeline, and the corresponding data is the excess air amount passing through the air flow valve corresponding to the pipeline position.

In one embodiment, the air flow valve is connected to a natural gas tank/lpg tank and the wireless assembly transmits the air pressure collected by the air pressure sensor to a third party device.

In one embodiment, the display screen is connected to the control panel and displays corresponding data.

In one embodiment, the power supply module is electrically connected to the control board to supply power to the control board, and the power supply module is a socket or a battery.

Therefore, the air flow valve can be connected into the intelligent home system through the wireless component, the intellectualization of the air flow valve is realized, a user can timely master the air consumption, the convenience is further brought to the life of modern people, and the life is more convenient and faster.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a configuration of an air flow valve according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional schematic view of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is an exploded view of a portion of an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an operation of a control circuit of an airflow valve according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

To facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent the only embodiments.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein in the description of the invention is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

The air flow valve of each embodiment of the application can be directly installed on an indoor natural gas pipeline, can also be connected to a canned liquefied gas tank/natural gas tank, can realize the functions of air pressure monitoring and automatic metering, and can be integrated into an intelligent home system.

The airflow valves of the various embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a schematic structural diagram of an air flow valve 10 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is exemplarily shown, where the air flow valve 10 includes a duct 110, an air pressure sensor 120, a control board 130, a display 140, and a wireless module 150, the air pressure sensor 120 is mounted on the duct 110 and connected to the control board 130, the wireless module 150 is connected to the control board 130, and a control circuit is disposed on the control board 130, and the wireless module 150 is connected to the control circuit and transmits corresponding data to a third-party electronic device, where the corresponding data is calculated by the air pressure in the air flow channel 110a or the air pressure in the air flow channel 110 a. The display screen 140 is connected to the control board 130 and displays corresponding data.

The pipe 110 may be an existing pipe, for example, when the gas flow valve 10 is applied to a natural gas pipe in a room, the pipe 110 is a pipe facility that is already laid, and when the gas flow valve 10 is connected to a liquefied gas tank or a natural gas tank, the pipe 110 may be a pipe connecting between a gas range and a gas tank.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, an airflow channel 110a is disposed in the duct 110, a through hole 110b is disposed on the duct 110, the airflow channel 110a can be communicated with the outside through the through hole 110b, and the air pressure sensor 120 is disposed corresponding to the through hole 110b and seals the through hole 110b, so that the air pressure sensor 120 can sense and collect the air pressure in the airflow channel 110 a.

For example, the outer side wall of the pipe 110 may be provided with a mounting protrusion 112, and the through hole 110b penetrates through the mounting protrusion 112 and the wall of the pipe 110 to communicate with the air flow channel 110a, so that when the combustible gas/liquefied petroleum gas flows in the air flow channel 110a, the combustible gas/liquefied petroleum gas also enters the through hole 110 b. The air pressure sensor 120 is fixed to the mounting boss 112, senses and collects air pressure in the through hole 110b, and feeds back the collected air pressure to the control board 130. Since the through hole 110b communicates with the air flow passage 110a, the air pressure in the through hole 110b is equal to the air pressure in the air flow passage 110a, and therefore, the air pressure in the collecting through hole 110b collects the air pressure in the air flow passage 110 a.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, in one or more embodiments, the air pressure sensor 120 may include a base 122 and a sensing part 124, the base 122 is fixed on the mounting protrusion 112 and seals the through hole 110b, and the sensing part 124 is disposed on the base 122 and electrically connected to the control board 130.

For example, the base 122 may at least partially extend into the through hole 110b, and a rubber ring may be clamped between the base 122 and the mounting protrusion 112 to achieve sealing. Specifically, the base 122 may have a protruding pillar 126, the protruding pillar 126 at least partially extends into the through hole 110b, and at least one rubber ring is disposed and may be clamped between the base 122 and the mounting protrusion 112 and/or between an outer sidewall of the protruding pillar 126 and an inner sidewall of the through hole 110 b. The pillar 126 is provided with a through hole 126a, the through hole 126a is connected to the through hole 110b, and the sensor 124 collects and senses the air pressure in the through hole 126 a.

The sensing element 124 is provided with a pin 1241, the control board 130 is provided with a contact corresponding to the pin 1241, and the pin 1241 abuts against the contact to connect the sensing element 124 to the circuit on the control board 130.

Referring to fig. 4, the control circuit may include a microcontroller 132 and a storage medium 134, the storage medium 134 stores a calculation instruction, the microcontroller 132 is connected to the air pressure sensor 120, and when receiving data fed back by the air pressure sensor 120, calls the calculation instruction from the storage medium 134 to calculate corresponding data.

For example, in some of the embodiments, the air flow valve 10 is mounted on the natural gas duct 110, and the control circuit calculates the corresponding data based on the air pressure collected by the air pressure sensor 120. For example, the control circuitry may be configured to implement a meter function by calculating an amount of excess air passing through the air flow valve 10 corresponding to the position of the conduit 110 based on the air pressure within the air flow passage 110 a. The display screen 140 displays the total excess air volume since the installation of the air flow valve 10. In specific application, the control circuit can also count the gas consumption in one day based on the clock signal, and send to third party's equipment through wireless subassembly 150, for example send to user's smart mobile phone on, from this, regard air flow valve 10 as the strapping table, can insert intelligent home systems, convenience of customers knows the gas consumption in real time. It can be understood that the calculation of the excess gas amount at the position of the pipeline 110 corresponding to the air flow valve 10 based on the air pressure is the same as the calculation of the excess gas amount of the existing natural gas pipeline 110, and the hardware with the relevant calculation logic burned therein can be directly connected to the control circuit in the specific implementation.

In other embodiments, the gas flow valve 10 is connected to a natural gas tank/lpg tank, the control circuit directly monitors the gas pressure in the conduit 110, the display screen 140 can directly display the gas pressure from the gas pressure sensor 120, the wireless assembly 150 can transmit the gas pressure to a third party device, and when the gas pressure is too low, the third party device can give an indication that the gas is not sufficient. The third party device may be a user's smart phone to prompt the user to use the spare gas cylinder or may be a dispensing system of the dispensing station to prompt the dispensing station to dispense a gas cylinder for the user. An alarm can be further configured, the alarm is connected to the control circuit, and the control circuit controls the alarm to give an alarm when the air pressure is lower than a preset value. It will be appreciated that a number of different thresholds may be configured so that there is still surplus gas available within the cylinder during replacement of the cylinder.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in the embodiment of connecting the air flow valve 10 to the natural gas tank/liquefied petroleum gas tank, a rotary member 160 may be further included, and the rotary member 160 is mounted on a section of the pipe 110 and rotatably connected to the pipe 110. The swivel 160 is used to interface with and seal the interface with the gas cylinder.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a pressure reducing valve 170 may be further included, and the pressure reducing valve 170 is mounted on the pipe 110. And is located on a side of the air flow valve 10 remote from the rotary member 160 such that the rotary member 160, the air flow valve 10, and the pressure reducing valve 170 are sequentially disposed. An assembly module can be formed to facilitate the production process.

The wireless component 150 may be a wifi component, a bluetooth component, a 2.4G/3G/4G/5G communication module, or other wireless communication component. For example, a home is generally configured with a router, and a smart home may be connected to a cloud terminal through wifi, and then connected to a mobile device of a user through the cloud terminal, so that the airflow valve 10 may also be connected to the cloud terminal through the router, and then connected to the smart home system through a path to the mobile device of the user.

The third-party electronic device may be a mobile device such as a smart phone, a PAD, and a tablet computer, or may be a device such as a conventional desktop computer that can be connected to a wired network. And the wireless component 150 can transmit corresponding data to one or more electronic devices. For example, in the previously described embodiment where the air flow valve 10 is connected to a gas cylinder, a low air pressure signal may be sent simultaneously to the user's smart phone and the dispensing system of the dispensing station, prompting the user to change the gas cylinder, and prompting the dispensing station to deliver air.

In a particular embodiment, the display screen 140 may be an LCD display screen.

Referring to fig. 1 to 3, in one or more embodiments, a housing 180 may be further included, the control circuit board is housed in the housing 180, the air pressure sensor 120 is at least partially housed in the housing 180, and the display screen 140 is assembled on the housing 180, so that the electronic components can be protected, and meanwhile, the integrity of the product in the shape can be improved.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, in one or more embodiments, a power supply assembly 190 may be further included, the power supply assembly 190 being electrically connected to the control board 130 to supply power to the control board 130. The power supply assembly 190 may be a socket or a battery. The power supply assembly 190 may be secured within the housing 180.

It can be seen that, through configuration wireless subassembly 150, can insert intelligent home systems with airflow valve 10, realize the intellectuality of airflow valve 10, the user can be timely master the gas consumption, has further made things convenient for modern's life for life more convenient and fast ization.

The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. An airflow valve is characterized by comprising a pipeline, an air pressure sensor, a control panel and a wireless assembly, wherein an airflow channel is arranged in the pipeline;

2. An airflow valve as recited in claim 1, wherein the duct defines a through hole, the airflow passage communicates with the outside through the through hole, and the air pressure sensor is disposed in correspondence with and seals the through hole.

3. The airflow valve as recited in claim 2, wherein the duct has a mounting protrusion disposed on an outer sidewall thereof, and the through hole extends through the mounting protrusion and a wall of the duct and communicates with the airflow channel;

4. The air flow valve of claim 3, wherein the air pressure sensor includes a base secured to the mounting boss and sealing the through-hole, and a sensing member disposed on the base and electrically connected to the control board;

5. An air flow valve as recited in claim 4, wherein the base has a boss extending at least partially into the through-hole, and the rubber ring is provided with at least one of a clamp between the base and the mounting boss and/or an outer sidewall of the boss and an inner sidewall of the through-hole.

6. The air flow valve of claim 1, wherein said control circuit includes a microcontroller and a storage medium having computing instructions stored therein, said microcontroller being coupled to said air pressure sensor and, upon receiving data fed back from said air pressure sensor, recalling computing instructions from said storage medium, said corresponding data being computed based on air pressure in the air flow path.

7. The air flow valve as recited in claim 6, wherein the air flow valve is mounted on a natural gas duct and the corresponding data is an amount of excess gas passing through the air flow valve for the respective duct position.

8. An airflow valve as claimed in claim 1, wherein the airflow valve is connected to a natural gas/lpg tank and the wireless assembly transmits the air pressure collected by the air pressure sensor to a third party device.

9. The airflow valve of claim 1 further comprising a display screen coupled to the control panel for displaying corresponding data.

10. The airflow valve of claim 1, further comprising a power supply component electrically connected to a control board to power the control board, the power supply component being a socket or a battery.