EP1156466A1 - Verkehrsanzeigevorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP1156466A1
EP1156466A1 EP00125810A EP00125810A EP1156466A1 EP 1156466 A1 EP1156466 A1 EP 1156466A1 EP 00125810 A EP00125810 A EP 00125810A EP 00125810 A EP00125810 A EP 00125810A EP 1156466 A1 EP1156466 A1 EP 1156466A1
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Kenichi Nakajima
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F15/00—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
    • G09F15/0087—Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like including movable parts, e.g. movable by the wind
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01F—ADDITIONAL WORK, SUCH AS EQUIPPING ROADS OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PLATFORMS, HELICOPTER LANDING STAGES, SIGNS, SNOW FENCES, OR THE LIKE
    • E01F9/00—Arrangement of road signs or traffic signals; Arrangements for enforcing caution
    • E01F9/60—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs
    • E01F9/604—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs specially adapted for particular signalling purposes, e.g. for indicating curves, road works or pedestrian crossings
    • E01F9/619—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs specially adapted for particular signalling purposes, e.g. for indicating curves, road works or pedestrian crossings with reflectors; with means for keeping reflectors clean

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  • the present invention relates to an improvement in a road display apparatus, installed at a roadside, in the middle of the road, and so forth, for providing by means of its display section a predetermined display for passers of the road such as pedestrians and drivers.
  • Various kinds of display apparatus such as road signs are installed in roads. These kinds of display apparatus are installed at roadsides such as shoulder and at a center part of the road such as median strip so as to be easily seen by passers of the road. As a consequence, display sections of display apparatus are gradually soiled due to various reasons such as exposure to winds and rains, splashes of mud from vehicles passing by, and oily substances and the like attaching thereto from within exhaust gases from the vehicles, whereby their visibility to passers of the road gradually decreases.
  • a system in which a wipe member rotates or moves on the surface of a display section may be employed.
  • the moving wipe member may draw the interest of passers of the road more than necessary, so that there is a fear of causing various problems, e.g., distracting drivers from concentrating on driving, motivating children to play with it and break the wipe member, an so forth.
  • the wipe member will be hard to move if it is tangled with its surrounding plants or litter such as vinyl, whereby its visibility to passers of the road cannot be maintained anymore.
  • a cleaning apparatus utilizing a wind has been considered.
  • Such an apparatus has a structure utilizing a windmill technique so as to transform a wind power into a continuous rotary motion, whose force is used for rotating a wipe unit for wiping the display section together with the windmill. Therefore, the windmill necessitates a plurality of blades. If the wind is strong, the blades of windmill may rotate too fast. Also, a large stress will act on a blade if it receives alternate winds directed opposite to each other. As a consequence, the apparatus of this kind has to be made larger in order to attain a structure which can endure strong winds such as those of typhoons.
  • the windmill and wipe unit increase their sizes, so that they are more likely to draw the interest of people. As people tend to touch the apparatus out of their interest and insert their fingers into the gap between the wipe unit and display section and the like, they are likely to be injured, or the wipe unit is likely to be broken.
  • the wipe unit is driven at the outside of the outer periphery of the display section, the ratio of the display section itself being hidden by the wipe unit becomes greater, which makes it difficult for passers of the road to acquire the displayed information.
  • One of the objects of the present invention is to provide, in a road display apparatus for providing information, a road display apparatus comprising a base adapted to be secured to a road, a display section having a outer peripheral surface with a display area for providing information, said peripheral surface being substantially a outer surface of a body of revolution, a wipe unit secured to said base, with a wipe member in contact with the outer peripheral surface, and a driving unit for driving said display section to rotate, so as to clean said outer peripheral surface with said wipe member.
  • the display section not only those carrying out a display through an indicator such as letter and picture, but also those carrying out a display simply by means of a reflecting mirror and those improving the nighttime visibility by incorporating an illuminating device inside the columnar display section may be employed.
  • a part formed with the indicator may be directly rotated as the display section as a matter of course, a fixed part formed with the indicator may be provided with a surface layer portion such as a transparent cover so as to construct the display section. If the surface layer portion is rotated alone, then the position of indicator will not change with respect to passers of the road, whereby the visibility can further be improved.
  • Figs. 1 to 5 show a first embodiment of the display apparatus in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 1 is a view showing the outer configuration of a road display apparatus 100 which is an embodiment in accordance with the present invention.
  • the display apparatus 100 is to be installed at a roadside such as shoulder or a center part of a road such as median strip; and comprises an attachment plate 101 for securing the road display apparatus 100 onto the road or the like by means of anchor bolts or the like, a wipe unit 200 secured to the attachment plate 101, and a display section 160 whose outer peripheral surface is slidable with respect to the wipe unit 200.
  • a solar cell 210 Disposed at the upper part of the wipe unit 200 is a solar cell 210 which receives light from the sun and generates electric power.
  • the wipe unit 200 has holders 201, 202 for covering the upper and lower parts of the display section 160, respectively, and is configured so as to keep a predetermined positional relationship with the display section 160.
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing a mechanical inner structure of the road display apparatus shown in Fig. 1
  • Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a further detailed mechanical structure of the road display apparatus shown in Fig. 1.
  • a pillar 103 is secured to the upper face of the attachment plate 101 substantially at the center thereof so as to extend vertically upward.
  • the pillar 103 has a substantially cylindrical form.
  • An auxiliary pillar 110 for mounting individual brackets is attached to the pillar 103 so as to cover the latter.
  • the display section 160 is constituted by a cylindrical display region having an information display area, and lower and upper brackets 130, 131 covering the lower and upper parts of the display region, respectively.
  • the lower and upper brackets 130, 131 are rotatably held with respect to the auxiliary pillar 110 by way of bearings 132, 133, respectively.
  • Secured to the lower and upper brackets 130, 131 are respective passive gears 134, 135 for rotating the display section 160.
  • a display section rotating motor 220 for rotating the display section 160 is secured to the auxiliary pillar 110 by way of a motor bracket 108.
  • a rotation transmission shaft 143 for the display section vertically extends inside the display section 160.
  • a gear 142 on the rotary shaft side of the display section.
  • Fixed at the lower and upper parts of the rotation transmission shaft 143 are display section driving gears 144, 145 in mesh with the rotary passive gears 134, 135 secured to the lower and upper brackets 130, 131, respectively.
  • the rotation transmission shaft 143 is held rotatable with respect to the brackets 106, 107 by way of rotary bearings 146, 147.
  • a display section rotating shaft brackets 106, 107 for holding the rotation transmission shaft 143 is rotatably held with respect to the pillar 103.
  • the display section rotating shaft brackets 106, 107 are secured to the auxiliary pillar 110.
  • the rotary driving force of the display section rotating motor 220 is transmitted to the rotation transmission shaft 143 by way of the motor-side gear 141 secured to the driving shaft of the motor 220 and the gear 142 on the shaft for rotating the display section, and further to the passive gears 134, 135 for rotating the display section.
  • the passive gears 134, 135 are secured to the lower and upper brackets 130, 131, and the lower and upper brackets 130, 131 are secured to the display section 160. Since the passive gears 134, 135 are meshed with the display section driving gears 144, 145, the rotation of the rotation transmission shaft 143 causes the rotation of the passive gears 134, 135 around the pillar 103. Therefore, the display section 160 secured to the upper and lower brackets 130, 131 is moved with respect to the wipe section 200.
  • the wipe unit 200 is provided with a longitudinally extending container groove 300a at a part opposing the surface of display section 160 as shown in Fig. 4.
  • the container groove 300a is a single recess extending along the axial center of rotation of the display section 160, and contains and holds a plurality of wiper blades 140 arranged in series therein.
  • Each of wiper members 150 is molded with a soft, elastic resin material such as rubber, and has a transverse cross section with one end part exhibiting a pointed form. With each pointed end part opposing the surface of the display section 160, the wiper members 150 retractably engage the container groove 300a.
  • a plurality of pairs of permanent magnets 151, 152 are inserted between the container groove 300a and the individual wiper members 150.
  • the paired permanent magnets 151, 152 are attached to the inner wall of the container groove 300a and the base end face of wiper members 150 such that the same kinds of poles oppose each other, whereby repulsive forces of magnetism acting on each other press the individual pointed parts of wiper members 150 against the outer peripheral surface of the display section 160.
  • the wiper members 150 clean the outer peripheral surface of display section 160.
  • a display section internal illumination lamp 250 is disposed inside the display section 160, and illuminates the information display area of the display section 160 from inside, so that the information display area can be projected outside even in the nighttime.
  • the internal illumination lamp 250 is securely held with the auxiliary pillar 110 by way of a bracket 271 or the like.
  • One or a plurality of such illumination lights may be provided.
  • the display section 160 shows an indicator corresponding to the information to be given to passers of the road, and has an information display area displaying one composed of a letter, a mark, and/or a characteristic color.
  • the display section 160 may employ a reflecting member so as to actively reflect external light such as that of headlights or employ a transparent or semitransparent member such as glass or resin so that an internal light source such as fluorescent light and introduced external light is transmitted therethrough.
  • the surface of display section 160 be configured so as to yield a smooth surface.
  • the display section rotating motor 220 which is a driving means, is accommodated within the display section 160, the motor 220 may be disposed in any or both of the upper and lower portions of the display section 160.
  • Fig. 5 is a view showing a control circuit 400 for the above-mentioned display section rotating motor 220.
  • a voltage comparator 241 in Fig. 5 is a part determining whether the electric energy of the solar cell 210 has reached a value necessary for driving the electric motor 220 or not and supplying the result of determination to a control board 242.
  • the control board 242 is used for supplying various kinds of control signals to a motor driver board 247 according to contents of setting of a timer volume switch 243 and three setting switches 244, 245, 246 and the above-mentioned result of determination of the voltage comparator 241.
  • the timer volume switch 243 is used for setting the driving time of the electric motor 220 by changing a variable resistance value as appropriate.
  • the setting switches 244, 245, 246 are switches for selecting a preset operation pattern of the electric motor 220. For example, if the setting switch 244 is turned ON, then operation pattern A is selected.
  • operation pattern B is selected if the setting switch 245 is turned ON, so that a control signal for rotating the cylindrical member 110 in a mode different from that of the above-mentioned operation pattern A is supplied to the motor driver board 247; and operation pattern C is selected if the setting switch 246 is turned ON, so that a control signal for rotating the cylindrical member 110 in a mode different from those of the above-mentioned operation patterns A and B is supplied to the motor driver board 247.
  • Super capacitors 248, 249 are backup power sources for supplying electric power to the control board 242 in the nighttime, rainy/cloudy days, and the like under no solar irradiation.
  • the cylindrical member 110 rotates relative to the connecting member 105 according to the contents of setting of the timer volume switch 243 and setting switches 244, 245, 246, whereby the wiper blades 140 slidably come into contact with the surface of display section 160 by their pointed end parts.
  • the operation mentioned above is carried out continuously and automatically as long as the apparatus is irradiated with the sun.
  • the display apparatus 200 can keep a desirable visibility of the display section 160.
  • the solar cell 210 converts the radiation energy of the sun into an electric energy, and the electric motor 220 is driven by this electric energy, there is no necessity for securing a power source and so forth, whereby this embodiment is excellent in terms of installation.
  • the present invention may be configured so as to use a commercial power source, for example, for driving the electric motor to rotate the display section.
  • Fig. 6 shows a modified example of the road display apparatus configured so as to use a commercial power source.
  • This drawing exemplifies acontrol circuit for a display section rotating motor 220'. Since the other part of configuration is the same as that of the above-mentioned first embodiment, no detailed explanations will be provided.
  • two light sources 250, 251 are disposed inside the display section 160 and are configured such that one of them is lit so as to transmit the light thereof through the display section 160 to the outside.
  • a rain sensor 252 is used for detecting whether there is a rainfall or not
  • a solar light sensor 253 is used for detecting whether there is a solar irradiation or not, each being disposed at the top part of a display apparatus 200'.
  • the two internal light sensors 254, 255 are disposed inside the display section 160 and are used for respectively detecting whether the light sources 250, 251 disposed inside the display section 160 are lit or not.
  • a control board 260 is a part for carrying out ON/OFF control of relays R1, R2, R3, R4 according to the contents of setting of the above-mentioned three setting switches 244', 245', 246', and detection signals from the rain sensor 252, solar light sensor 253, and internal light sensors 254, 255.
  • the relays R1 and R2 are turned ON when appropriate according to the contents of setting of the setting switches 244', 245', and 246', whereby the display section 160 is rotated relatively. Consequently, as in the above-mentioned display apparatus 200 of the first embodiment, the wiper members 150 contained and held in the connecting member 105 slidably come into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the display section 160 by their pointed end parts, whereby the visibility of the display section 160 can be maintained.
  • the relays R1 and R2 are immediately turned ON regardless of the contents of setting of the above-mentioned setting switches 244', 245', 246', and the like, and this state is held for a longer period of time than usual.
  • the cylindrical member 110 immediately starts rotating, and its state continues longer than usual, whereby the display section 160 can reliably be prevented from being soiled with the rainfall.
  • Both of the relays R3, R4 are turned OFF during the time when solar irradiation is detected by the solar light sensor 253, whereas one of the relays R3, R4, e.g., relay R3, is turned ON during the time when no solar irradiation is detected.
  • the light of light source 250 is transmitted through the display section 160 in dark places where the display of the display apparatus 200' is hard to see or in the nighttime, whereby the visibility of the display section 160 can be secured.
  • both of the light sources 250, 251 are turned OFF, so as to contribute to saving energy, and the life of light sources 250, 251 can be elongated.
  • the relay R3 In the ON state of the relay R3, if its corresponding internal light sensor 254 does not detect the lighting of light source 250, then the relay R3 is immediately turned OFF, and the other relay R4 is turned ON, so as to light the other light source 251. As a result, no maintenance is necessary until both of the two light sources 250, 251 fail or are dead, whereby the labor and cost for maintenance can further be reduced.
  • the outer peripheral surface has a cylindrical shape.
  • the outer peripheral surface of the display section 160 is formed to be an outer surface of a body of revolution and the wipe member may be formed to have a shape along the outer peripheral surface of the display section 160.
  • the road display apparatus in accordance with the present invention can safely and appropriately provide information without drawing the attention of people more than necessary, and can reduce an enormous amount of human resources and the like required for cleaning since it carries out automatic cleaning.

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CN114855666A (zh) * 2022-05-30 2022-08-05 中铁二十二局集团第一工程有限公司 一种公路施工预警装置
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