CN212179338U - Temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment for food and drug cold storage - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a food and drug freezer temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment relates to the relevant field of temperature and humidity control, and the installation of present temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment is installed through the mounting hole on the installation piece basically among the solution prior art, and the mounted position fixed point is fixed, problem that the mobility can be poor. The fixing frame is installed at the rear end of the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device, fixing rods are arranged at two ends of the fixing frame and comprise a moving portion, the fixing frame comprises L-shaped rods and a fixing bottom plate, the L-shaped rods are located at the front end and the rear end of the upper end of the fixing bottom plate and fixed with the fixing bottom plate, a moving groove is formed between the fixing bottom plate and the two L-shaped rods, the size of the moving portion is the same as that of the moving groove, and the moving portion slides in the moving groove.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a humiture control field of being correlated with specifically is food and drug refrigeration house humiture monitoring terminal equipment.
Background
The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment is the Internet of things terminal equipment integrating the functions of temperature acquisition, wireless transmission, real-time remote temperature monitoring, short message control, temperature alarm and the like. The temperature monitoring device has the characteristics of small equipment volume, long power supply time, visual display and the like, is mainly used for temperature monitoring of food and medicine refrigeration, refrigeration and transportation, and is suitable for industries with higher requirements on temperature, such as hospitals, pharmacy, cold-chain logistics, heating and the like.
The installation of the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment is basically carried out through installation holes on installation pieces on two sides of a shell at present, the installation position is fixed at a fixed point, and the maneuvering performance is poor; therefore, the market urgently needs to develop temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment for food and medicine cold storages to help people to solve the existing problems.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide food and drug freezer humiture monitoring terminal equipment to the installation that proposes present humiture monitoring terminal equipment in solving above-mentioned background art is basically through the mounting hole installation on the installation piece, and the mounted position fixed point is fixed, problem that mobility can be poor.
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a following technical scheme: food medicine freezer humiture monitoring terminal equipment, including humiture monitoring terminal equipment, the mount is installed to humiture monitoring terminal equipment's rear end, the both ends of mount are provided with the dead lever, the dead lever includes removal portion, the mount includes L type pole and PMKD, and L type pole is located the front and back both ends of PMKD upper end, and L type pole and PMKD are fixed, form the shifting chute between PMKD and two L type poles, the size of removal portion is the same with the size of shifting chute, and the removal portion slides in the shifting chute.
Preferably, one side of the upper end of the moving part is provided with a second mounting hole, the L-shaped rod is provided with a fixing hole groove, and the fixing rod and the fixing frame are fixed through the fixing hole groove and the second mounting hole which are connected through screws.
Preferably, the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment comprises a terminal equipment shell, a plurality of hole grooves are formed in the side face of the terminal equipment shell, the fixing frame further comprises a limiting connecting sheet, the limiting connecting sheet is located on one side of the L-shaped rod and the fixing base plate, the limiting connecting sheet is fixed with the L-shaped rod and the fixing base plate, a third mounting hole is formed in the limiting connecting sheet, and the limiting connecting sheet and the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment are fixed through the third mounting hole and the hole grooves in a screw connection mode.
Preferably, the number of the limiting connecting sheets is two, a connecting base plate is arranged between the limiting connecting sheets and fixedly connected with the limiting connecting sheets, a buffer base plate is arranged on the upper end face of the connecting base plate, and the buffer base plate is fixedly adhered to the connecting base plate.
Preferably, the fixing rod further comprises a fixing portion, and a first mounting hole is formed in the fixing portion.
Preferably, the four corners position of terminal equipment shell body is provided with the protection cushion, and the protection cushion sets up to flexible material, and the protection cushion is fixed with the four corners position of terminal equipment shell body is pasted, the speaker is installed to the both sides of terminal equipment shell body front end upper end, the both sides of terminal equipment shell body front end lower extreme are provided with the heat dissipation strip.
Preferably, the inside of humiture monitor terminal equipment is installed with signal amplifier, monitor terminal singlechip, wireless communication module and speaker, and signal amplifier's output is connected with the input of monitor terminal singlechip, and the output of monitor terminal singlechip is connected with the input of speaker, and monitor terminal singlechip and wireless communication module both way data connection, signal amplifier's input is connected with the output of data acquisition conversion module, data acquisition conversion module's input is connected with temperature sensor and humidity transducer's output respectively, the output of monitor terminal singlechip is connected with the input of air conditioner, fan, dehumidifier and humidifier respectively, wireless communication module and the total control end both way data connection of control.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. in the utility model, the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device is installed through the fixing frame and the fixing rod together, when the original monitoring equipment is required to be disassembled from the wall body when being transformed and replaced, the hole slot which is correspondingly arranged on the original monitoring equipment is arranged on the wall body, the movement of the first mounting hole position of the fixed part on the fixing rod is finally realized through the movement of the moving part on the fixing rod on the moving groove on the fixing frame, and the matching of a plurality of third mounting holes on the terminal equipment outer shell and the limiting connecting piece is added, so that the first mounting hole position corresponds to the original monitoring equipment mounting hole position, even if the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment and the original monitoring equipment are different in model size, the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment can still be installed through the original hole groove, the repeated formation of the hole groove is avoided, therefore, the installation position of the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment is fixed at an unfixed point, and the installation has good maneuverability;
2. in the utility model, because the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device is more convex than the traditional monitoring device, the four corners of the terminal device shell are provided with the protection cushion blocks, which not only protects operators who enter a refrigeration house by the dipole, but also protects the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device, and has certain impact buffering effect;
3. in the utility model, the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are evenly distributed at each position of the refrigeration house, after the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor acquire the temperature data and the humidity data, the analog signal is converted into the data signal by the acquisition data conversion module and is sent to the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment, the signal amplifier in the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment captures the signal and then amplifies the signal, the monitoring terminal singlechip receives the signal and controls the air conditioner, the fan, the dehumidifier and the humidifier to respectively work or stop working according to the temperature and humidity conditions at different positions, after sending the control instruction each time, the wireless communication module sends the signal to the monitoring master control end for operating log backup, after the monitoring terminal singlechip sends the control instruction, the air conditioner, the fan, the dehumidifier and the humidifier respectively work or stop working for a period of time, the data acquired by the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are also obviously abnormal, can send for the control end of always controlling through wireless communication module and warn or report the mistake, send sound through the speaker simultaneously, if there is operating personnel near freezer just can directly overhaul, save middle layer upon layer report time.
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Fig. 1 is a front view of the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine cold storage of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the fixing frame of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of the fixing rod of the present invention;
fig. 4 is the utility model discloses a food and drug freezer humiture monitoring terminal equipment's system schematic diagram.
In the figure: 1. temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment; 101. a signal amplifier; 102. a monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer; 103. a wireless communication module; 2. protecting the cushion block; 3. a terminal device outer shell; 301. a speaker; 302. a heat dissipating strip; 4. fixing the rod; 401. a fixed part; 402. a moving part; 403. a first mounting hole; 404. a second mounting hole; 5. a fixed mount; 501. a limiting connecting sheet; 502. an L-shaped rod; 503. fixing the bottom plate; 504. a moving groove; 505. connecting the base plate; 506. a cushion plate; 507. a third mounting hole; 508. a fixed hole slot; 6. a temperature sensor; 7. a humidity sensor; 8. a collected data conversion module; 9. an air conditioner; 10. a fan; 11. a dehumidifier; 12. a humidifier; 13. and monitoring the master control end.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1-4, the present invention provides an embodiment: temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment for food and medicine cold storages, which comprises temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment 1, wherein a fixed frame 5 is installed at the rear end of the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment 1, two ends of the fixed frame 5 are provided with fixed rods 4, each fixed rod 4 comprises a moving part 402, each fixed frame 5 comprises an L-shaped rod 502 and a fixed bottom plate 503, the L-shaped rods 502 are positioned at the front end and the rear end of the upper end of the fixed bottom plate 503, the L-shaped rods 502 and the fixed bottom plates 503 are fixed, a moving groove 504 is formed between the fixed bottom plate 503 and the two L-shaped rods 502, the size of the moving part 402 is the same as that of the moving, the hole position of the first mounting hole 403 of the fixing part 401 on the fixing rod 4 is moved by the movement of the moving part 402 on the fixing rod 4 on the fixing frame 5, wherein the moving groove 504 is formed by the L-shaped rod 502 and the fixing bottom plate 503, so that the position of the first mounting hole 403 corresponds to the position of the original mounting hole of the monitoring equipment.
Further, a second mounting hole 404 is formed at one side of the upper end of the moving portion 402, a fixing hole groove 508 is formed in the L-shaped rod 502, and the fixing rod 4 and the fixing frame 5 are fixed by connecting the fixing hole groove 508 and the second mounting hole 404 by screws.
Further, temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment 1 includes terminal equipment shell body 3, there are each connecting wire at terminal equipment shell body 3 rear portion, meet with each electric wire on the mounted position, terminal equipment shell body 3 front end still is provided with the display screen, operating button isothermal humidity monitoring terminal equipment 1 has other structures, terminal equipment shell body 3's side is provided with a plurality of hole grooves, mount 5 still includes spacing connection piece 501, spacing connection piece 501 is located one side of L type pole 502 and PMKD 503, spacing connection piece 501 is all fixed with L type pole 502 and PMKD 503, be provided with third mounting hole 507 on the spacing connection piece 501, spacing connection piece 501 is fixed through screw connection third mounting hole 507 and hole groove with temperature and humidity monitoring terminal equipment 1.
Further, two limiting connecting sheets 501 are arranged, a connecting pad 505 is arranged between the two limiting connecting sheets 501, the positions of the connecting pad 505 and the fixed base plate 503 are staggered up and down to form a C-shaped structure, the connecting pad 505 is fixedly connected with the limiting connecting sheets 501, a buffer pad 506 is arranged on the upper end face of the connecting pad 505, and the buffer pad 506 is fixedly adhered to the connecting pad 505.
Further, the fixing rod 4 further comprises a fixing portion 401, a first mounting hole 403 is formed in the fixing portion 401, corresponds to a mounting hole formed in a wall or a mounting plane, and is locked by a screw to complete the fixing and mounting of the equipment.
Further, the four corners position of terminal device shell body 3 is provided with protection cushion 2, protection cushion 2 sets up to flexible material, both are the protection of the operating personnel that the antithetical couplet got into the freezer, especially to the protection of humiture monitoring terminal device itself, there is the effect of certain buffering impact, protection cushion 2 pastes fixedly with the four corners position of terminal device shell body 3, speaker 301 is installed to the both sides of terminal device shell body 3 preceding terminal surface upper end, the both sides of 3 front ends lower extremes of terminal device shell body are provided with heat dissipation strip 302, dispel the heat in order to make the air in the freezer can get into the equipment.
Further, a signal amplifier 101, a monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102, a wireless communication module 103 and a loudspeaker 301 are installed inside the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1, the signal amplifier 101 can be a 4-channel DMX512 signal amplifier 101 of CA8402 type, the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102 adopts an AT89C51 single chip microcomputer, the wireless communication module 103 adopts an HW3000 industrial communication module, but the usable types of the signal amplifier 101, the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102 and the wireless communication module 103 are not limited to the above types, and any type which can realize functions and has a consistent size can be used, the output end of the signal amplifier 101 is connected with the input end of the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102, the output end of the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102 is connected with the input end of the loudspeaker 301, the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer 102 is in bidirectional data connection with the wireless communication module 103, and the input end of the signal amplifier, the input end of the collected data conversion module 8 is respectively connected with the output ends of the temperature sensor 6 and the humidity sensor 7, the output end of the monitoring terminal singlechip 102 is respectively connected with the input ends of the air conditioner 9, the fan 10, the dehumidifier 11 and the humidifier 12, the air conditioner 9, the dehumidifier 11 and the humidifier 12 can finish the adjustment of high temperature, low temperature, high humidity and low humidity, the fan 10 is arranged for disturbing air, so that the air flows, the working effect of the air conditioner 9, the dehumidifier 11 and the humidifier 12 is ensured, the adjustment is quicker, the wireless communication module 103 is in bidirectional data connection with the monitoring master control end 13, the monitoring terminal singlechip 102 sends a control instruction and then sends the control instruction to the monitoring master control end 13 through the wireless communication module 103 for operation log backup, and when the data collected by the temperature sensor 6 and the humidity sensor 7 are obviously abnormal, and the data is sent to the monitoring master control end 13 through the wireless communication module 103 to carry out data abnormity warning or data error reporting.
The working principle is as follows: when the original monitoring equipment is required to be disassembled from the wall body when being transformed and replaced, the hole slot which is correspondingly arranged on the original monitoring equipment is arranged on the wall body, the hole position of the first mounting hole 403 of the fixing part 401 on the fixing rod 4 is moved by the movement of the moving part 402 on the fixing rod 4 on the fixing frame 5, the L-shaped rod 502 and the fixing bottom plate 503 form a moving groove 504, so that the position of the first mounting hole 403 corresponds to the position of the original mounting hole of the monitoring equipment, the fixing rod 4 and the fixing frame 5 are installed after the screws penetrate through the fixing hole grooves 508 and the second installation holes 404, the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1 is installed, the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1 is placed between the limiting connection pieces 501, the side faces of the limiting connection pieces 501 and the end face of the buffer base plate 506 are attached to the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1, and the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1 is installed through a plurality of holes formed in the third installation holes 507 in the limiting connection pieces 501 and the side face of the terminal device shell 3. When the temperature and humidity acquisition system is used, the temperature sensor 6 and the humidity sensor 7 are uniformly distributed at each position of the refrigeration house, and the temperature sensor 6 and the humidity sensor 7 acquire temperature data and humidity data and then pass through the acquired data conversion module 8; the analog signals are converted into data signals and sent to the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1, the signal amplifier 101 in the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device 1 captures the signals and then amplifies the signals, the monitoring terminal singlechip 102 receives the signals and then controls the air conditioner 9, the fan 10, the dehumidifier 11 and the humidifier 12 to respectively work or stop working according to the temperature and humidity conditions at different positions, the control instructions are sent to the monitoring master control end 13 through the wireless communication module 103 for operation log backup, after the monitoring terminal singlechip 102 sends the control instructions, the air conditioner 9, the fan 10, the dehumidifier 11 and the humidifier 12 respectively work or stop working for a period of time, the data collected by the temperature sensor 6 and the humidity sensor 7 have obvious abnormal conditions, and the data are sent to the monitoring master control end 13 through the wireless communication module 103 for data abnormity warning or data error reporting, meanwhile, an alarm is given through the loudspeaker 301 to remind workers around the refrigeration house that the temperature and humidity state of the refrigeration house is abnormal.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that the invention is not restricted to details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but that it can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.
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1. Food medicine freezer humiture monitoring terminal equipment, including humiture monitoring terminal equipment (1), its characterized in that: mount (5) are installed to the rear end of humiture monitoring terminal equipment (1), the both ends of mount (5) are provided with dead lever (4), dead lever (4) are including removal portion (402), mount (5) include L type pole (502) and PMKD (503), and L type pole (502) are located PMKD (503) upper end both ends around, and L type pole (502) and PMKD (503) are fixed, form shifting chute (504) between PMKD (503) and two L type poles (502), and the size of removal portion (402) is the same with the size of shifting chute (504), and removal portion (402) slide in shifting chute (504).
2. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein: one side of the upper end of the moving part (402) is provided with a second mounting hole (404), the L-shaped rod (502) is provided with a fixing hole groove (508), and the fixing rod (4) and the fixing frame (5) are fixed through the fixing hole groove (508) and the second mounting hole (404) through screw connection.
3. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein: temperature and humidity monitoring terminal (1) includes terminal device shell body (3), and the side of terminal device shell body (3) is provided with a plurality of hole grooves, mount (5) still include spacing connection piece (501), and spacing connection piece (501) are located one side of L type pole (502) and PMKD (503), and spacing connection piece (501) are all fixed with L type pole (502) and PMKD (503), be provided with third mounting hole (507) on spacing connection piece (501), and spacing connection piece (501) are fixed through screw connection third mounting hole (507) and hole groove with temperature and humidity monitoring terminal (1).
4. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein: spacing connection piece (501) are provided with two, two be provided with between spacing connection piece (501) connecting backing plate (505), connecting backing plate (505) and spacing connection piece (501) fixed connection, the up end of connecting backing plate (505) is provided with buffering backing plate (506), and buffering backing plate (506) are pasted fixedly with connecting backing plate (505).
5. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein: the fixing rod (4) further comprises a fixing part (401), and a first mounting hole (403) is formed in the fixing part (401).
6. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein: the terminal equipment shell body (3) is characterized in that four corners of the terminal equipment shell body (3) are provided with protection cushion blocks (2), the protection cushion blocks (2) are made of flexible materials, the protection cushion blocks (2) are fixedly pasted with the four corners of the terminal equipment shell body (3), loudspeakers (301) are installed on two sides of the upper end of the front end face of the terminal equipment shell body (3), and heat dissipation strips (302) are arranged on two sides of the lower end of the front end of the terminal equipment shell body (3).
7. The temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device for the food and medicine refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein: the temperature and humidity monitoring terminal device (1) is internally provided with a signal amplifier (101), a monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer (102), a wireless communication module (103) and a loudspeaker (301), the output end of the signal amplifier (101) is connected with the input end of the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer (102), the output end of the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer (102) is connected with the input end of the loudspeaker (301), the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer (102) is in bidirectional data connection with the wireless communication module (103), the input end of the signal amplifier (101) is connected with the output end of a collected data conversion module (8), the input end of the collected data conversion module (8) is respectively connected with the output ends of a temperature sensor (6) and a humidity sensor (7), the output end of the monitoring terminal single chip microcomputer (102) is respectively connected with the input ends of an air conditioner (9), a fan (10), a dehumidifier (11) and a humidifier (12, the wireless communication module (103) is in bidirectional data connection with the monitoring master control end (13).
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