EP3847052A1 - Station for the support of electrical devices - Google Patents
Station for the support of electrical devicesInfo
- Publication number
- EP3847052A1 EP3847052A1 EP19783118.3A EP19783118A EP3847052A1 EP 3847052 A1 EP3847052 A1 EP 3847052A1 EP 19783118 A EP19783118 A EP 19783118A EP 3847052 A1 EP3847052 A1 EP 3847052A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- station
- turret
- fact
- electrical devices
- anchoring
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- 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
- E01F9/623—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection
- E01F9/627—Upright bodies, e.g. marker posts or bollards; Supports for road signs characterised by form or by structural features, e.g. for enabling displacement or deflection self-righting after deflection or displacement
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
- B60L53/30—Constructional details of charging stations
- B60L53/31—Charging columns specially adapted for electric vehicles
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- 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
- E01F9/615—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 illuminated
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02G—INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES
- H02G3/00—Installations of electric cables or lines or protective tubing therefor in or on buildings, equivalent structures or vehicles
- H02G3/02—Details
- H02G3/04—Protective tubing or conduits, e.g. cable ladders or cable troughs
- H02G3/0493—Service poles
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
- Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
- Y02T10/70—Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
- Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
- Y02T10/7072—Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y02T90/00—Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- Y02T90/10—Technologies relating to charging of electric vehicles
- Y02T90/12—Electric charging stations
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
- Y02T90/00—Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
- Y02T90/10—Technologies relating to charging of electric vehicles
- Y02T90/14—Plug-in electric vehicles
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a station for the support of electrical devices.
- Stations are known to be used to support keypads, video intercoms, lighting fixtures, electrical sockets, photocells and other electrical devices, which are positioned in particular at the entrance and/or exit of parking lots, corporate sites, public and private areas (e.g., campsites, commonholds, business centers, hotels) and in the proximity of motorway toll booths and safety barriers.
- These stations are fixed to the ground and can be connected to anti-theft, intercom, lighting systems and used for the delivery of tickets or the like, as well as for charging electric vehicles or as simple posts.
- a common feature of these stations is that they are constantly approached by moving vehicles with the inevitable risk of accidental collisions caused by the distraction or manoeuvring difficulties of drivers.
- the main drawback of the stations of known type is that, in the event of a collision, they cannot be pushed to the ground without being damaged and without damaging the ground and the vehicle that hits them.
- stations that are used in parking areas for charging electric vehicles and for lighting or that are located in the proximity of vehicles manoeuvring areas.
- the stations located near the motorway toll booths and at the entrance and/or exit of car parks need to have a light and sufficiently high structure to allow using the supported devices (keypads and video intercoms) even to drivers of vehicles such as trucks, vans, coaches or the like.
- the main aim of the present invention is to provide a station for the support of electrical devices that can undergo collisions, bends or pushes downwards without being damaged and without damaging the ground or the vehicles and that, after the stresses received, can return to its initial configuration.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a station for the support of electrical devices the flexibility of which is adjustable.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a station for the support of electrical devices that allows overcoming the mentioned drawbacks of the prior art in a simple, rational, easy, effective to use and affordable solution.
- Figure 1 is an axonometric view of a station for the support of electrical devices according to the invention
- Figure 2 is an exploded view of a station for the support of electrical devices according to the invention.
- Figure 3 is a sectional view of a station for the support of electrical devices according to the invention.
- Figure 4 is a side view of a station for the support of electrical devices according to the invention in which the station is shown while flexing due to a collision with a vehicle.
- reference numeral 1 globally designates a station for the support of electrical devices.
- the station 1 comprises:
- a substantially hollow turret 2 comprising electrical devices 14 and a ground anchoring plate 7;
- flexibility adjusting means 3, 4, 6, 19 inserted in the turret 2 and adapted to adjust the inclination flexibility of the turret.
- the flexibility adjusting means 3, 4, 6, 19 allow adjusting the flexibility of the turret 2 in response to shocks or bending stresses.
- the flexibility adjusting means comprise:
- elastic means 3 having a first extremity and a second extremity opposite to each other;
- anchoring means 6 associated with the first extremity of the elastic means 3; tensioning adjusting means 19 of the elastic means 3 associated with the plate 4 and with the anchoring means 6.
- the electrical devices 14 consist, e.g., of electrical sockets, keypads, video intercoms, lighting fixtures, photocells or the like.
- the station 1 comprises:
- a substantially hollow turret 2 for the containment of the elastic means 3 and of the electrical devices 14;
- a ground anchoring plate 7 of the turret 2 provided with holes 8 for the relevant fixing means 9.
- the plate 7 could be sunk directly into the ground, without the need for holes and fixing means.
- the anchoring means 6 are provided with holes 17 for the passage of electric cables 18 for the connection and/or power supply, but alternative embodiments involving the use of batteries or the like cannot be ruled out.
- the station 1 comprises electrification means associated with the fixing means 9 and configured to electrify the turret 2.
- the electrification means are configured to allow the diffusion of electrical current inside the turret 2 and the power supply of the electrical devices 14.
- the station comprises a centering element 10 fixed to the ground anchoring plate 7.
- the centering element 10 is provided with holes 11 where the fixing means 12 pass through, the fixing means being connected to the anchoring plate 7.
- the fixing means 12 couple the centering element 10 to the anchoring plate 7 passing through the holes 11 which are formed on the centering element 10 and the holes 21 formed on the anchoring plate 7.
- the centering element 10 is placed on top of the anchoring plate 7 and in contact with it.
- the centering element 10 is associated with the second extremity of the elastic means 3.
- the centering element 10 also has the inclined sides converging from the bottom to the top.
- the centering element is of the type of a prism with inclined sides. Conveniently, this configuration facilitates the repositioning of the turret 2 after an inclination operation.
- the turret 2 is preferably made of metallic material, but other embodiments cannot be ruled, e.g. with plastic material.
- the plastic material is elastically deformable.
- the turret 2 comprises an opening 15 positioned in the proximity of the flexibility adjusting means 3, 4, 6, 19.
- the turret 2 comprises an opening 15 which allows access to the elastic means 3 and to the adjusting means 19.
- the turret 2 is provided with a closing element 16 adapted to close the opening 15 and, if necessary, to accommodate the product identification label.
- the turret 2 also comprises an opening 20 for the housing of the electrical devices 14.
- the tensioning of the elastic means 3 can be adjusted by tightening the adjusting means 19 through the plate 4 on the anchoring means 6.
- the adjustment of the flexibility of the station 1 is particularly advantageous in those applications where the same is used to support keypads or other devices 14 on which the user will have to operate with some force.
- a further advantage of the present invention is that the station can be subjected to collisions, thrusts or stresses at 360°, that is, from any direction.
- ground anchoring plate 7 is surmounted by a centering element 10 of the turret 2 to which are suitably fixed the elastic means 3 that, in the event of stress or collision, allow the station 1 to bend and then return to its initial position.
- the centering element 10 together with the anchoring means 6 of the elastic means 3, are locked together with the turret 2 by means of the plate 4 and of the adjusting means 19.
- the electric cables 18 connected to the electrical devices 14, generally in the top part of the turret 2 can be positioned inside the elastic means 3 by means of holes 17.
- a further advantage of the present invention is that the 360° flexibility of the station can be used not only against accidental impacts but also to facilitate the passage of vehicles or objects that in case of a fixed station would interfere with it, e.g. in cases of use of the station as a housing for photocells near automatic gates.
- Another advantage of the present invention is that the adjustable flexibility of the station in case of accidental collisions with vehicles, in addition to protecting the station from damage to its structure, reduces the possibility of damaging the vehicles and the ground.
- a further advantage of the present invention is that in case of accidental collisions with cycles, motorcycles or the like, in addition to protecting the station from damage to its structure, it reduces the possibility that the driver suffers serious injuries.
- the elastic deformation of the station does not affect the spread of electrical current; this means that the electrification of the turret, and therefore the operation of the electrical devices, remains unchanged during the stresses caused by the accidental collisions.
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