CN220729366U - Intelligent water meter and multi-acquisition module structure thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an intelligent water meter and a multi-acquisition module structure of the intelligent water meter, comprising: the device comprises a transparent piece, a bottom ring, a widening ring, a first box body, a second box body, a shell, a switch assembly, a detection element and a camera; one side of the transparent piece is contacted with the dial of the water meter, and the other side of the transparent piece is connected with the bottom ring; one end of the widening ring is connected with the bottom ring, and the other end of the widening ring is connected with the shell; the other end of the shell, which is far away from the widening ring, is connected with a switch component; the detection element is arranged in the first box body, and the camera is connected to the side wall of the second box body; the first box body and the second box body are both installed in the shell, and the second box body is overlapped on the first box body. According to the utility model, the acquisition mode can be diversified by switching the acquisition of the detection element or the acquisition of the camera, and the situation that water meter data cannot be acquired in time when the water meter is required due to the failure of one acquisition device can be avoided.

Description

Intelligent water meter and multi-acquisition module structure thereof

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of intelligent meter reading, in particular to an intelligent water meter and a multi-acquisition module structure of the intelligent water meter.

Background

The intelligent water meter is a new type water meter which uses microelectronic technology and sensing technology to meter water consumption. Compared with the traditional water meter which generally only has the functions of flow collection and mechanical pointer display of water consumption, the water meter has great progress. At present, a data acquisition module on an intelligent water meter is integrally connected with the intelligent water meter, and the intelligent water meter can acquire water meter data only through one acquisition mode, and the acquisition mode is single.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above problems, an object of an embodiment of the present utility model is to provide an intelligent water meter and a multi-acquisition module structure of the intelligent water meter.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present utility model provides a multi-acquisition module structure of an intelligent water meter, which is characterized in that the multi-acquisition module structure includes: the device comprises a transparent piece, a bottom ring, a widening ring, a first box body, a second box body, a shell, a switch assembly, a detection element and a camera;

one side of the transparent piece is contacted with the dial of the water meter, and the other side of the transparent piece is connected with the bottom ring;

one end of the widening ring is connected with the bottom ring, and the other end of the widening ring is connected with the shell;

the other end of the shell, which is far away from the widening ring, is connected with a switch component;

the detection element is arranged in the first box body, and the camera is connected to the side wall of the second box body;

the first box body and the second box body are both installed in the shell, and the second box body is overlapped on the first box body.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present utility model further provides an intelligent water meter, including the multi-acquisition module structure described in the first aspect.

In the solutions provided in the first and second aspects of the present utility model, the transparent member is packaged on the dial of the water meter when leaving the factory, and the acquisition of the water meter data is completed by aligning the detection element in the first box body with the camera on the second box body to the transparent member; the first box body and the second box body are replaced through the switch assembly; compared with the prior art that the acquisition module is directly packaged integrally with the water meter and the acquisition mode is single, the detection element acquisition or the camera acquisition can be switched between the two acquisition modes, the diversity of the acquisition modes is realized, and the defect that the water meter data cannot be acquired in time when needed due to the fact that one acquisition device breaks down can be avoided.

In order to make the above objects, features and advantages of the present utility model more comprehensible, preferred embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the utility model or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described, it being obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the utility model, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a multi-sampling module provided by an embodiment of the present utility model;

FIG. 2 shows an exploded view of a multi-sampling module provided by an embodiment of the present utility model;

FIG. 3 illustrates a partial cross-sectional view of a multi-sampling module provided by an embodiment of the present utility model;

fig. 4 shows an enlarged schematic view of the portion a of fig. 3.

Icon: 10. a transparent member; 11. a bottom ring; 12. widening the ring; 13. a first case; 14. a second case; 15. a housing; 16. a circular opening; 17. a side edge; 18. a cover body; 19. a kit; 20. a rotating column; 21. an observation area; 22. a fixing member; 23. a rotating shaft; 24. a first annular groove; 25. a first seal ring; 26. a first clamping groove; 27. a second annular groove; 28. a second seal ring; 29. a second clamping groove; 30. a column; 31. a protruding block; 32. a cover body; 33. a camera is provided.

Detailed Description

In the description of the present utility model, it should be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings are merely for convenience in describing the present utility model and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a specific orientation, be configured and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present utility model.

Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like, are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying a relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defining "a first" or "a second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more such feature. In the description of the present utility model, the meaning of "a plurality" is two or more, unless explicitly defined otherwise.

In the present utility model, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can be communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present utility model can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art according to the specific circumstances.

The traditional water meter calculates the water consumption per month in a mechanical mode, and does not have an automatic switching function, so that a worker is still required to go to the gate for copying the water meter data and charge corresponding fees per month. And the intelligent water meter utilizes related technologies such as microelectronics, can more accurate statistics water consumption and automatically upload user's water meter data to the high in the clouds, need not the staff and go up the door and copy water meter data. Meanwhile, the intelligent water meter has the function of automatic opening and closing, water is supplied by adopting a water card automatic payment mode, and water is automatically cut off when the balance in the water card is insufficient, so that the trouble that the staff charges water by the door and the situation that the user defaults water is avoided. Therefore, intelligent water meters are getting more and more attention and popularization. But intelligent water meter has the sampling mode singleness, and inner structure is too bulky not compact.

Based on this, the following embodiments of the present utility model provide an intelligent water meter and a multi-acquisition module structure of the intelligent water meter, which can realize diversification of acquisition modes, and further can avoid that water meter data cannot be acquired in time when needed due to failure of one acquisition device.

Example 1

Referring to the perspective view of the multi-sampling module shown in fig. 1 and the explosion view of the multi-sampling module shown in fig. 2, this embodiment provides a multi-sampling module structure of an intelligent water meter, which includes: a transparent member 10, a bottom ring 11, a widening ring 12, a first case 13, a second case 14, a case 15, a switch assembly, a detection element, and a camera 33; one side of the transparent piece 10 is contacted with the dial of the water meter, and the other side is connected with the bottom ring 11; one end of the widening ring 12 is connected with the bottom ring 11, and the other end is connected with the shell 15; the other end of the shell 15, which is far away from the widening ring 12, is connected with a switch assembly; the detecting element is arranged in the first box body 13, and the camera 33 is connected to the side wall of the second box body 14; the first box 13 and the second box 14 are both installed in the housing 15, and the first box 13 is located between the second box 14 and the transparent member 10. In particular, the housing 15 is stepped and gradually contracted from the bottom near the widening ring 12 to the top near the cover 18, and the stepped outer walls of the housing 15 are chamfered. It should be noted that the sizes and shapes of the first case 13 and the second case 14 are not particularly limited herein; however, the first case 13 needs to satisfy: the first box 13 can be placed in the bottom ring 11, the height of the first box 13 is lower than that of the second box 14, and the first box 13 can not shield the camera 33 from shooting the water meter normally.

In this embodiment, the transparent member 10 is integrally connected with the intelligent water meter when leaving the factory, the transparent member 10 may be circular glass or circular plastic, meanwhile, a bottom ring 11 is connected above the transparent member 10, a circle of thread structure exists on the bottom ring 11, and the bottom ring 11 is integrally connected with the transparent member 10; the diameters of the transparent member 10 and the dial of the intelligent water meter are equal, so that the camera 33 and the detection element can be placed in the multi-acquisition module, and the internal space of the multi-acquisition module needs to be properly enlarged, thus a widening ring 12 is additionally arranged, wherein the internal surface and the external surface of the widening ring 12 are respectively provided with internal surface threads and external surface threads; the internal surface thread of the widening ring 12 is in threaded connection with the bottom ring 11; the outer surface of the widening ring 12 is screwed to the housing 15. In use, the widening ring 12 and the bottom ring 11 are screwed together by the inner surface threads, and then the housing 15 and the widening ring 12 are screwed together by the outer surface threads. Note that since the transparent member 10 is mounted on the dial of the intelligent water meter, the diameter of the transparent member needs to be limited, and the diameter of the transparent member needs to be the same as the dial diameter of the intelligent water meter. The size of the widening ring 12 can be not limited by the intelligent water meter, and only the diameter of the inner ring (the inner surface) of the widening ring is required to be matched with the diameter of the bottom ring 11. Particularly, if the dial of the water meter is larger, the diameter of the transparent member 10 correspondingly increases along with the dial, and at this time, the internal space of the multi-acquisition module does not need to be expanded, and the widening ring 12 can be removed to enable the shell 15 to be directly in threaded connection with the bottom ring 11.

In one embodiment, when two sides of the widening ring 12 are respectively in threaded connection with the bottom ring 11 and the shell 15, the threaded connection part can realize waterproof and dustproof effects after being screwed up.

Specifically, a first sealing ring 25 is provided between the widening ring 12 and the housing 15; the housing 15 is provided with a first annular groove 24 on the side facing the widening ring 12; the side of the widening ring 12 facing the shell 15 is provided with a first clamping groove 26; one end of the first seal ring 25 is embedded into the first clamping groove 26, and the other end of the first seal ring 25 is embedded into the first annular groove 24. A second sealing ring 28 arranged between the widening ring 12 and the bottom ring 11; the side of the bottom ring 11 away from the transparent member 10 is provided with a second annular groove 27; the side of the widening ring 12 facing the bottom ring 11 is provided with a second clamping groove 29; one end of the second seal ring 28 is embedded into the second clamping groove 29, and the other end of the second seal ring 28 is embedded into the second annular groove 27. In particular, the diameter of the first sealing ring 25 is larger than that of the second sealing ring 28, and the materials of the first sealing ring 25 and the second sealing ring 28 include, but are not limited to: rubber or silica gel.

Further, if the casing 15 and the transparent member 10 are to be connected together, the casing 15 and the transparent member 10 should be made to have the same size, in order to increase the internal space of the casing 15, a widening ring 12 is additionally installed between the transparent member 10 and the casing 15, so that the situation that the diameters of the casing 15 and the transparent member 10 are the same when the casing 15 and the transparent member 10 are connected is avoided, the widening ring 12 increases the space area in the casing 15, and the first box 13 and the second box 14 are conveniently placed in; in addition, in order to realize the observation and maintenance of the internal structure of the housing 15, when the detection element in the first box body 13 or the camera 33 in the second box body 14 is required to be taken out, the housing 15 and the widening ring 12 can be separated by reverse threaded rotation, and at this time, the first box body 13 and the second box body 14 are exposed, and no shielding of the housing 15 exists, so that the detection element in the first box body 13 or the camera 33 in the second box body 14 can be taken out conveniently. In particular, the detection element in the first box 13 may be a hall sensor, and the camera 33 in the second box 14 is a micro camera. Wherein, a hole is arranged at the bottom of the first box body 13, a stand column 30 for plugging the hole is arranged on one surface of the transparent member 10 facing the first box body 13, and the transparent member 10 is plugged into the hole arranged in the first box body 13 by using the arranged stand column 30, thereby completing the plugging between the first box body 13 and the transparent member 10; the first casing 13 is connected to the second casing 14 through a data line.

Specifically, referring to the partial cross-sectional view of the multisampling module shown in fig. 3 and to the enlarged schematic view of section a shown in fig. 4, the switch assembly includes: the device comprises a cover 18, a sleeve 19, a rotating column 20, an observation area 21, a fixing piece 22 and a rotating shaft 23; the observation area 21 is positioned at one end of the shell 15 far away from the widening ring 12, and the observation area 21 can pass light rays; the cover 18 is positioned on the shell 15 and matched with the observation area 21, and the other end of the cover 18 far away from the fixing piece 22 is provided with a protruding block 31; the sleeve 19 is arranged on the outer wall of the shell 15, and the rotating column 20 penetrates through the sleeve 19 and is movably connected with the sleeve 19; the fixing piece 22 is arranged on one side of the cover 18 close to the rotating column 20; the fixing piece 22 is provided with a first opening, and the rotary column 20 is provided with a second opening matched with the first opening; the rotating shaft 23 sequentially passes through the first opening and the second opening.

In the present embodiment, when it is necessary to open the cover 18 to expose the observation area 21 and observe the inside of the housing 15, there are the following two ways (1) or (2) of opening the cover 18:

(1) When the cover 18 is rotated left and right to expose the observation area 21, the protruding block 31 of the cover 18 is pressed and thrust to the left or right is applied, the cover 18 is driven to rotate the rotary column 20 after being pushed, and the rotary shaft 23 is connected with the shell 15 through the sleeve 19, so that when the cover 18 is rotated and the rotary column 20 is driven to rotate, the rotary column 20 can only realize autorotation, thereby driving the cover 18 not to cover the observation area 21 any more, and achieving the purpose of opening the observation area 21.

It should be noted that the rotation of the rotor post 20 does not cause any change in the position of the rotor post 20.

(2) When the cover 18 is turned upwards to expose the observation area 21, an upward pushing force is applied to the protruding block 31, and the cover 18 is turned upwards along the rotating shaft 23 under the action of the pushing force, so that the observation area 21 is opened. It should be noted that the rotating post 23 needs to be placed vertically, and the rotating shaft 23 needs to be disposed horizontally at the top of the rotating post 20.

Still further, the exterior of the multi-acquisition module may also be provided with a cover 32, which may provide protection for the multi-acquisition module.

In summary, in the above-mentioned intelligent water meter, the module structure is adopted, the transparent member 10 is installed on the water meter dial when leaving the factory, and the detection element in the first box 13 and the camera 33 on the second box 14 are aligned to the transparent member 10 to complete the acquisition of the water meter data; the first box body 13 and the second box body 14 are replaced through the switch assembly; compared with the prior art that the acquisition module is directly packaged integrally with the water meter and the acquisition mode is single, the detection element acquisition or the camera 33 acquisition can be switched between the two acquisition modes, so that the diversity of the acquisition modes is realized, and the defect that the water meter data cannot be acquired in time when needed due to the fact that one acquisition device breaks down can be avoided.

Example 2

The embodiment also provides an intelligent water meter, which has the multiple acquisition modules described in embodiment 1, the structure of the multiple acquisition modules, the functions that can be realized, and the technical effects that can be achieved, and can be seen from the multiple acquisition modules described in embodiment 1, and for avoiding repetition, the description is not repeated here.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present utility model, and the present utility model is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think about variations or alternatives within the scope of the present utility model. Therefore, the protection scope of the present utility model shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides a many collection module structures of intelligent water gauge which characterized in that includes: the device comprises a transparent piece, a bottom ring, a widening ring, a first box body, a second box body, a shell, a switch assembly, a detection element and a camera;

one side of the transparent piece is contacted with the dial of the water meter, and the other side of the transparent piece is connected with the bottom ring;

one end of the widening ring is connected with the bottom ring, and the other end of the widening ring is connected with the shell;

the other end of the shell, which is far away from the widening ring, is connected with a switch component;

the detection element is arranged in the first box body, and the camera is connected to the side wall of the second box body;

the first box body and the second box body are both installed in the shell, and the second box body is overlapped on the first box body.

2. The multi-acquisition module structure according to claim 1, wherein the inner surface and the outer surface of the widening ring are provided with an inner surface thread and an outer surface thread, respectively;

the internal surface threads of the widening ring are connected with the bottom ring through threads;

the outer surface threads of the widening ring are connected with the shell through threads.

3. The multiple acquisition module arrangement of claim 2, wherein the switch assembly comprises: the device comprises a cover body, a sleeve, a rotating column, a fixing piece and a rotating shaft;

an observation area is arranged at one end of the shell, which is far away from the widening ring;

the cover body is arranged on the observation area and covers the observation area;

the sleeve member is arranged on one side of the shell body, which is close to the cover body, and the rotating column penetrates through the sleeve member and is movably connected with the sleeve member;

the fixing piece is arranged on one side, close to the rotating column, of the cover body;

the fixed piece is provided with a first opening, and the rotary column is provided with a second opening; the central axis of the first opening coincides with the central axis of the second opening;

the rotating shaft sequentially penetrates through the first opening and the second opening.

4. A multi-acquisition module arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the cover diameter is larger than the diameter of the widening ring.

5. The multiple acquisition module structure of claim 2, further comprising: a first sealing ring arranged between the widening ring and the shell;

a first annular groove is formed in one side, facing the widening ring, of the shell;

a first clamping groove is formed in one side, facing the shell, of the widening ring;

one end of the first sealing ring is embedded into the first clamping groove, and the other end of the first sealing ring is embedded into the first annular groove.

6. The multiple acquisition module structure of claim 2, further comprising: a second sealing ring arranged between the widening ring and the bottom ring;

a second annular groove is formed in one side, far away from the transparent piece, of the bottom ring;

a second clamping groove is formed in one side, facing the bottom ring, of the annular piece;

one end of the second sealing ring is embedded into the second clamping groove, and the other end of the second sealing ring is embedded into the second annular groove.

7. A multi-acquisition module as claimed in claim 3, wherein the peripheral edges of the housing are chamfered, and the other end of the cover body remote from the fixing member is provided with a protruding block.

8. The multi-acquisition module structure according to claim 1, wherein the transparent member is symmetrically provided with upright posts, the first box body is provided with holes for the upright posts to be inserted, the transparent member is inserted into the holes formed in the first box body by using the arranged upright posts, the insertion of the first box body and the transparent member is completed, and the second box body is placed on the expansion disc.

9. The multi-acquisition module structure of claim 1, wherein the first box and the second box are connected by a data line.

10. An intelligent water meter, comprising: the multi-acquisition module structure of any one of the preceding claims 1-9.