CN216369152U - Greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation - Google Patents

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CN216369152U
CN216369152U CN202123308774.5U CN202123308774U CN216369152U CN 216369152 U CN216369152 U CN 216369152U CN 202123308774 U CN202123308774 U CN 202123308774U CN 216369152 U CN216369152 U CN 216369152U
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The utility model discloses a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation, which comprises a mounting frame, wherein the top end of the mounting frame is equidistantly provided with a placing groove, a solar panel is embedded and installed in the placing groove, one side of the top end of the mounting frame is provided with a convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism, the convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism comprises a chute, a cross rod, a driving wheel, a belt, a driving motor, a movable frame, a water storage tank, a rotating rod, a brush roller, a driving gear and a rack And (5) maintaining.

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Greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of greenhouse maintenance, in particular to a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation.
Background
The ecological agricultural photovoltaic greenhouse project utilizes the roof of the agricultural greenhouse to carry out solar power generation, a comprehensive system project of high-efficiency ecological agriculture is developed in the greenhouse, the high-efficiency ecological photovoltaic agricultural greenhouse project does not additionally occupy cultivated land, the original land increment is realized, the agricultural photovoltaic project combines ecological agriculture and green power generation, and resources are utilized to the maximum extent;
however, dust is easily accumulated on the roof of the existing greenhouse, which reduces the power generation efficiency of the solar panel, and because the roof of the greenhouse is high, a large amount of time is wasted during cleaning, which affects the use of the greenhouse, so for these situations, in order to avoid the above technical problems, it is necessary to provide a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation to overcome the above defects in the prior art.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation, which can effectively solve the problems that dust is easy to accumulate on the greenhouse top in the background technology, the power generation efficiency of a solar panel is reduced, and a large amount of time is wasted in cleaning due to the fact that the greenhouse top is high, and the use of a greenhouse is influenced.
In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation comprises a mounting frame, wherein placing grooves are formed in the top end of the mounting frame at equal intervals, a solar panel is embedded into the placing grooves, a convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism is arranged at one side position of the top end of the mounting frame and comprises a sliding groove, a cross rod, a driving wheel, a belt, a driving motor, a movable frame, a water storage tank, a rotating rod, a brush roller, a transmission gear and a rack;
the top end of the mounting frame is symmetrically provided with chutes, the insides of the two chutes are rotatably connected with cross rods, the positions of the outsides of the two cross rods corresponding to one side of the mounting frame are fixedly sleeved with driving wheels, the outsides of the two driving wheels are sleeved with belts, one end of the mounting frame corresponding to one side of the cross rod is fixedly connected with a driving motor, the positions of the outsides of the cross rods corresponding to the insides of the chutes are connected with a movable frame through threads, and the top end of the movable frame is fixedly connected with a water storage tank through bolts;
the inside rotation of adjustable shelf is connected with the bull stick, the fixed brush roller that has cup jointed of bull stick outside symmetry adjustable shelf inboard position department symmetry, the bull stick outside corresponds the adjustable shelf both sides position department and all fixedly cup joints drive gear, and the mounting bracket top corresponds drive gear bottom position department and passes through bolt fixedly connected with rack.
Preferably, an automatic watering mechanism is arranged at the position, corresponding to the top of the brush roller, of the bottom end of the water storage tank, and comprises a drainage channel, a sliding rod, a sealing plate, an arc-shaped plate, a supporting spring, a sliding block, a limiting groove and a cam;
the utility model discloses a water storage tank, including brush roller, water storage tank, slide bar, limiting groove, the storage tank bottom has welded drainage channel, the equal swing joint in drainage channel bottom corresponds brush roller both sides position department has the slide bar, two the slide bar top corresponds the inside position department butt fusion of storage tank and has had the closing plate, the slide bar bottom has welded the arc, and the slide bar outside corresponds and has cup jointed supporting spring between arc and the drainage channel, arc one end has welded the slider, and the adjustable shelf inner wall corresponds slider one side position department and has seted up the limiting groove, the fixed cover of the corresponding arc bottom position department in the bull stick outside has connect the cam.
Preferably, one end of the cross rod penetrates through one end of the mounting frame, the driving motor supplies power through an external power supply, and the bottom end of the brush roller is attached to the top end of the mounting frame.
Preferably, the length and the width of the sealing plate are both larger than those of the drainage channel, one end of the sliding block is movably connected with the inner wall of the limiting groove, and the top end of the cam is attached to the bottom end of the arc-shaped plate.
Preferably, the standing groove inner wall symmetry has seted up the activity groove, the inside swing joint of activity inslot has the lifter plate, lifter plate top equidistance butt fusion has the connecting rod, the butt fusion has the arm-tie on the connecting rod top, the corresponding activity inslot of arm-tie bottom position department equidistance butt fusion has the tensioning spring.
Preferably, the handle is welded to the top end of the pulling plate, anti-slip grains are uniformly formed in the outer side of the handle, and the bottom end of the tensioning spring is attached to the bottom end of the movable groove.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that: the utility model has scientific and reasonable structure and safe and convenient use:
1. be provided with convenient clearance and maintain the mechanism, it is rotatory to drive the horizontal pole through driving motor to through the cooperation of drive wheel and belt, transmit power, make two horizontal poles together promote adjustable shelf and storage water tank and remove, then through rack and drive gear's cooperation, drive bull stick and brush roller and rotate, thereby carry out efficient clearance, maintenance to the solar panel on mounting bracket top, reduce the dust on the solar panel, guaranteed the efficiency of electricity generation.
2. Be provided with automatic watering mechanism, it is rotatory to drive the cam through the bull stick, it rises to promote the arc, and promote the closing plate through the slide bar and rise, relieve the sealed to drainage channel, make the inside rivers of storage water tank flow, spill on the brush roller, the effect of clearance has been improved, then after the cam is rotatory, through the flexible characteristic of supporting spring, it resets to promote arc and closing plate, seal drainage channel again, it is too much to avoid the water to spill, the waste of resource has been reduced, in addition at the in-process of arc activity, cooperation through slider and spacing groove, carry on spacingly to the arc, avoid the arc to appear squinting.
3. Be provided with activity groove, lifter plate, connecting rod, arm-tie and tensioning spring, rise through arm-tie pulling connecting rod to take the lifter plate to slide along the activity groove, ejecting with the inside solar panel of standing groove, conveniently dismantle the maintenance to solar panel, then through the flexible characteristic of tensioning spring, pulling lifter plate and arm-tie reset, install solar panel again.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the utility model and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the utility model and not to limit the utility model.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of the automatic watering mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the mounting structure of the pulling plate of the present invention;
reference numbers in the figures: 1. a mounting frame; 2. a placement groove; 3. a solar panel;
4. the mechanism is convenient to clean and maintain; 401. a chute; 402. a cross bar; 403. a driving wheel; 404. a belt; 405. a drive motor; 406. a movable frame; 407. a water storage tank; 408. a rotating rod; 409. a brush roller; 410. a transmission gear; 411. a rack;
5. an automatic watering mechanism; 501. a drainage channel; 502. a slide bar; 503. a sealing plate; 504. an arc-shaped plate; 505. a support spring; 506. a slider; 507. a limiting groove; 508. a cam;
6. a movable groove; 7. a lifting plate; 8. a connecting rod; 9. pulling a plate; 10. the spring is tensioned.
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The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and it will be understood that they are described herein for the purpose of illustration and explanation and not limitation.
Example (b): as shown in fig. 1-4, the utility model provides a technical scheme, which is a greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation, and the greenhouse maintenance device comprises an installation frame 1, wherein placing grooves 2 are equidistantly formed in the top end of the installation frame 1, solar panels 3 are embedded and installed in the placing grooves 2, a convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism 4 is arranged at one side of the top end of the installation frame 1, and the convenient cleaning and maintenance mechanism 4 comprises a sliding groove 401, a cross bar 402, a transmission wheel 403, a belt 404, a driving motor 405, a movable frame 406, a water storage tank 407, a rotating rod 408, a brush roller 409, a transmission gear 410 and a rack 411;
the top end of the mounting frame 1 is symmetrically provided with sliding grooves 401, the insides of the two sliding grooves 401 are rotatably connected with cross rods 402, the positions of the outsides of the two cross rods 402 corresponding to one side of the mounting frame 1 are fixedly sleeved with driving wheels 403, the outsides of the two driving wheels 403 are sleeved with belts 404, the position of one end of the mounting frame 1 corresponding to one side of the cross rod 402 is fixedly connected with a driving motor 405, the position of the outsides of the cross rods 402 corresponding to the inside of the sliding grooves 401 is connected with a movable frame 406 through threads, and the top ends of the movable frames 406 are fixedly connected with a water storage tank 407 through bolts;
a rotating rod 408 is rotatably connected inside the movable frame 406, brush rollers 409 are symmetrically fixedly sleeved at positions outside the rotating rod 408 and inside the movable frame 406, transmission gears 410 are fixedly sleeved at positions outside the rotating rod 408 and corresponding to two sides of the movable frame 406, a rack 411 is fixedly connected at a position, corresponding to the bottom of the transmission gear 410, of the top end of the mounting frame 1 through bolts, so that the solar panel 3 is conveniently cleaned, one end of a cross rod 402 penetrates through one end of the mounting frame 1, a driving motor 405 supplies power through an external power supply, and the bottom end of the brush roller 409 is attached to the top end of the mounting frame 1;
an automatic watering mechanism 5 is arranged at the bottom end of the water storage tank 407 and corresponds to the top of the brush roller 409, and the automatic watering mechanism 5 comprises a drainage channel 501, a sliding rod 502, a sealing plate 503, an arc-shaped plate 504, a supporting spring 505, a sliding block 506, a limiting groove 507 and a cam 508;
a drainage channel 501 is welded at the bottom end of the water storage tank 407, sliding rods 502 are movably connected at the bottom end of the drainage channel 501 corresponding to the positions of the two sides of the brush roller 409, sealing plates 503 are welded at the top ends of the two sliding rods 502 corresponding to the positions inside the water storage tank 407, an arc plate 504 is welded at the bottom end of the sliding rods 502, a supporting spring 505 is sleeved between the arc plate 504 and the drainage channel 501 outside the sliding rods 502, a sliding block 506 is welded at one end of the arc plate 504, a limiting groove 507 is formed in the position of the inner wall of the movable frame 406 corresponding to one side of the sliding block 506, a cam 508 is fixedly sleeved at the position of the outer side of the rotating rod 408 corresponding to the bottom of the arc plate 504, in order to seal the drainage channel 501, the length and the width of the sealing plate 503 are both larger than those of the drainage channel 501, one end of the sliding block 506 is movably connected with the inner wall of the limiting groove 507, and the top end of the cam 508 is attached to the bottom end of the arc plate 504;
the movable groove 6 has been seted up to 2 inner wall symmetries of standing groove, the inside swing joint of 6 inside swing joint of movable groove has lifter plate 7, 7 top equidistance weldings of lifter plate have connecting rod 8, 8 top weldings of connecting rod have arm-tie 9, the 6 inside position departments equidistance weldings of arm-tie 9 bottom correspondence movable groove have tensioning spring 10, for convenient dismantling solar panel 3, the butt fusion of arm-tie 9 top has the handle, the antiskid line has evenly been seted up in the handle outside, tensioning spring 10's bottom is laminated with the bottom of movable groove 6 mutually.
The working principle and the using process of the utility model are as follows: in the process of using the greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation, firstly, the mounting frame 1 is mounted at the top end of the greenhouse, when the greenhouse maintenance device is cleaned, the driving motor 405 drives the cross rods 402 to rotate, the power is transmitted through the matching of the driving wheels 403 and the belts 404, so that the two cross rods 402 push the movable frame 406 and the water storage tank 407 to move together, and then the rack 411 and the driving gear 410 are matched to drive the rotating rods 408 and the brush roller 409 to rotate, so that the solar panel 3 at the top end of the mounting frame 1 is cleaned and maintained efficiently, dust on the solar panel 3 is reduced, and the power generation efficiency is ensured;
then, in the process of rotating the rotating rod 408, the cam 508 is driven to rotate, so that the arc-shaped plate 504 is pushed to ascend, the sealing plate 503 is pushed to ascend through the sliding rod 502, the sealing of the drainage channel 501 is removed, water in the water storage tank 407 flows out, and is sprinkled on the brush roller 409, so that the cleaning effect is improved, meanwhile, through the telescopic characteristic of the supporting spring 505, after the cam 508 rotates, the arc-shaped plate 504 is pushed to reset, the drainage channel 501 is sealed again, excessive water is prevented from being sprinkled out, the waste of resources is reduced, in addition, in the moving process of the arc-shaped plate 504, the arc-shaped plate 504 is limited through the matching of the sliding block 506 and the limiting groove 507, and the arc-shaped plate 504 is prevented from deviating;
finally, through the 8 rises of arm-tie 9 pulling connecting rod to take lifter plate 7 to slide along activity groove 6, ejecting with 2 inside solar panel 3 of standing groove, conveniently dismantle the maintenance to solar panel 3, then through the flexible characteristic of tensioning spring 10, pulling lifter plate 7 and arm-tie 9 reset, install solar panel 3 again.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes may be made in the embodiments and/or equivalents thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a device is maintained to big-arch shelter for photovoltaic power generation, includes mounting bracket (1), its characterized in that: the solar cleaning and maintaining device is characterized in that placing grooves (2) are formed in the top end of the mounting frame (1) at equal intervals, solar panels (3) are embedded in the placing grooves (2), a convenient cleaning and maintaining mechanism (4) is arranged at one side of the top end of the mounting frame (1), and the convenient cleaning and maintaining mechanism (4) comprises a sliding groove (401), a cross rod (402), a transmission wheel (403), a belt (404), a driving motor (405), a movable frame (406), a water storage tank (407), a rotating rod (408), a brush roller (409), a transmission gear (410) and a rack (411);
the top end of the mounting frame (1) is symmetrically provided with sliding grooves (401), the insides of the two sliding grooves (401) are rotatably connected with cross rods (402), the positions of the outsides of the two cross rods (402) corresponding to one side of the mounting frame (1) are fixedly sleeved with driving wheels (403), the outsides of the two driving wheels (403) are respectively sleeved with belts (404), one end of the mounting frame (1) corresponding to one side of the cross rods (402) is fixedly connected with a driving motor (405), the positions of the outsides of the cross rods (402) corresponding to the insides of the sliding grooves (401) are connected with a movable frame (406) through threads, and the top end of the movable frame (406) is fixedly connected with a water storage tank (407) through bolts;
the movable frame (406) is connected with a rotating rod (408) in an internal rotating mode, the rotating rod (408) is symmetrically and fixedly sleeved with brush rollers (409) at positions on the outer side of the rotating rod (408) which are symmetrically and symmetrically arranged on the inner side of the movable frame (406), transmission gears (410) are fixedly sleeved at positions on the outer side of the rotating rod (408) which correspond to the two sides of the movable frame (406), and racks (411) are fixedly connected to the positions, corresponding to the bottoms of the transmission gears (410), of the top end of the mounting frame (1).
2. The greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation as claimed in claim 1, wherein: an automatic watering mechanism (5) is arranged at the bottom end of the water storage tank (407) corresponding to the top of the brush roller (409), and the automatic watering mechanism (5) comprises a drainage channel (501), a sliding rod (502), a sealing plate (503), an arc-shaped plate (504), a supporting spring (505), a sliding block (506), a limiting groove (507) and a cam (508);
storage water tank (407) bottom welding has drainage channel (501), drainage channel (501) bottom corresponds equal swing joint in brush roller (409) both sides position department has slide bar (502), two slide bar (502) top corresponds storage water tank (407) inside position department welding has closing plate (503), slide bar (502) bottom welding has arc (504), and has cup jointed supporting spring (505) between slide bar (502) outside corresponding arc (504) and drainage channel (501), arc (504) one end welding has slider (506), and activity frame (406) inner wall corresponds slider (506) one side position department and has seted up spacing groove (507), runner (408) outside corresponds arc (504) bottom position department and has fixedly cup jointed cam (508).
3. The greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation as claimed in claim 1, wherein: one end of the cross rod (402) penetrates through one end of the mounting frame (1), the driving motor (405) supplies power through an external power supply, and the bottom end of the brush roller (409) is attached to the top end of the mounting frame (1).
4. The greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the length and the width of the sealing plate (503) are both larger than those of the drainage channel (501), one end of the sliding block (506) is movably connected with the inner wall of the limiting groove (507), and the top end of the cam (508) is attached to the bottom end of the arc-shaped plate (504).
5. The greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation as claimed in claim 1, wherein: activity groove (6) have been seted up to standing groove (2) inner wall symmetry, the inside swing joint of activity groove (6) has lifter plate (7), lifter plate (7) top equidistance butt fusion has connecting rod (8), connecting rod (8) top butt fusion has arm-tie (9), arm-tie (9) bottom corresponds activity groove (6) inside position department equidistance butt fusion has tensioning spring (10).
6. The greenhouse maintenance device for photovoltaic power generation as claimed in claim 5, wherein: the handle is welded to the top end of the pulling plate (9), anti-slip grains are evenly formed in the outer side of the handle, and the bottom end of the tensioning spring (10) is attached to the bottom end of the movable groove (6).
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