ES1259164U - SECURITY EQUIPMENT FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF CYCLISTS (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Safety equipment for the identification and warning of the presence of cyclists, which includes a cyclist detection system by means of an inductive loop, a vertical sign with fixed text and a luminous panel with an activation system by means of a switchboard, horizontal LED lights installed in the pavement with a power line and an activation system by means of a switchboard and a power supply unit made up of a photovoltaic plate and storage batteries characterized in that it comprises: a. A radar combined with the inductive loop, located above the vertical signal and under the photovoltaic plate, said radar being anchored to the vertical pole and connected to the switchboard along with the rest of the components; b. A video camera with 5G connection located above the vertical signal and under the photovoltaic plate, said camera being anchored to the vertical pole and connected to the switchboard along with the rest of the components. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

SECURITY EQUIPMENT FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF THE

PRESENCE OF CYCLISTS

TECHNICAL SECTOR

The purpose of this utility model application is to complement the form of detection of the security equipment for the identification and warning of the presence of cyclists, in such a way that the innovative product, which has been registered as utility model ES 1228669U and that It is owned by INSEGSA Ingeniería Preventiva SL, it would have the advantage of being able to be used only in interurban sections but, in addition, it can be used in urban sections; expanding, in any case, the intervention options to improve road safety and reduce the risk of cyclists being run over. Likewise, the initial idea of this safety team remains, in creating a system that impacts or draws attention to the road user vehicle and helps to warn, well in advance, the upcoming presence of cyclists circulating.

It is known, mainly by those who practice road cycling, that most of the accidents suffered by cyclists, attend to possible "distractions" of the driver. Therefore, I would try to solve this situation with the design of a product that consists of detecting the presence of the cyclist and immediately activate an autonomous horizontal and vertical light signal that impacts the driver of the road user vehicle, warning him of the nearby presence of cyclists.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The current advances in technology and the feeling of a society, the Spanish one, which is increasingly committed to sport, such as road cycling, are reasons why the various competent Authorities create Traffic Rules, such as keeping the safety distance of 1.5 between vehicle and cyclist, and they launch action measures, such as the adaptation of speed limits, informative and awareness campaigns, increased surveillance and control or specific signs on cycling routes; all this, aimed at user protection more vulnerable on the road, towards the cyclist.

However, the results of the statistics, extracted from the DGT, show how the measures implemented since 2008 - a turning point in the downward trend, since 1993, in terms of the number of cyclists who died on our roads until the Currently, they have NOT generated the desired effect. Assuming, these measures, in view of the results, an apparent conservative role, although with a certain rebound, of fatalities, in recent years.

In 2019, INSEGSA Ingeniería Preventiva S.L. registers a utility model, with file number ES 1228669U, called "Security equipment for the identification and warning of the presence of cyclists, in interurban sections." It is an anti-vandalism, and autonomous signaling system, since through the Renewable energy is self-sufficient throughout the equipment, and is calculated to not be without service at any time. It is composed of 3 fundamental elements: the detector, the vertical signal and the horizontal LED lights. These 3 elements allow us to generate 2 types of security in road, facing the cyclist: passive safety and active safety.

Passive safety is achieved, primarily, with the vertical signal, through the retroreflection of the signal, of level 2 fluorine type, and the fixed text: Attention CYCLISTS CIRCULATING; marking the route, or the road, as a route frequented by cyclists. Active safety, considering it as the essential of the equipment, arises when the equipment is activated after the bicycle passes through the inductive loop; In this case, the luminous part, in this case the pictogram, of the vertical signal is activated, on the one hand, provided with a photoelectric cell to adapt to ambient light, and on the other hand, the 5 points of led lights are activated horizontal; Leds equidistant from each other and covering a total of 50 linear meters after the location of the signal. To capture the visual attention of road users, the signal is programmed to stay 5 seconds on and 2 seconds off, and the horizontal LEDs are programmed to flash 30% of every second. It should be noted that these LED lights, in addition to reinforcing the vertical signal about the indication of the presence of cyclists, from the point of view of the user vehicles, also delimits the main area of circulation of the cyclist, such as the hard shoulder , and serves as feedback to the cyclist that the system, after its passage, has been activated.

With the aim of improving the equipment, and allowing it to be implemented on any type of road, both interurban and urban, this new utility model is developed by INSEGSA Ingeniería Preventiva SL, in order to improve and extend the existing, that is, the antecedents of the invention contained therein, by complementing or, if necessary, replacing the inductive loop -original detection element- with two other detection systems:

- Radar, in order to discriminate by speed, to activate the signaling equipment, other users of the road.

- Video camera with 5G connection -and later generations like the 6G-, in order to use artificial intelligence to discriminate against other road users other than bicycles.

EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION

The proposal maintains the original commitment to develop a product with a preventive format, and based on rescuing the attention of drivers, through an intelligent signal system, with a light-flashing part, and horizontal LED lights-embedded in the pavement. -, which are activated when the system detects the rider. With the two new cyclist detection accessories, considered as additions to ES 1228669U, the signaling equipment will be able to be applied on roads without a shoulder; expanding, in any case, to any type of urban and interurban road.

Both the radar and the video camera with a 5G connection - and later generations like the 6G - would be located at the top of the vertical signal. Both detection elements would be powered with the same resources as the rest of the signaling system, that is, through the set of batteries. Batteries that, in turn, are recharged with the photovoltaic energy plate of the signal itself; guaranteeing, in any case, the continuity and use of clean and renewable energies.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Although it is interesting to mention that most of the figures described in ES 1228669U have not undergone changes, since the equipment or signaling system is exactly the same, it is true that the delimitation of the carriageway and shoulder of the road is no longer necessary , and that the location of the radar / camera needs to be identified between the top of the sign and the photovoltaic board.

Consequently, the figures are as follows:

Figure 1 corresponds to a plan view of a typical road or road platform on which vehicles and cyclists circulate.

Figure 2 corresponds to an elevation view, in which the main actors to whom the invention is intended are perceived; the road, the vehicle and the bicycles, together with one of the elements of the inventive system, the luminous vertical sign with the solar panel.

Figure 3 corresponds to a perspective view, with the main systems for detecting and signaling bicycles. The rhomboid inductive loop detector, embedded in the pavement or chipboard, with the connection line to the vertical light signal (also embedded), in addition to the connection line, to the same light signal, of the LED lighting system. In the event that the road platform does not have a hard shoulder, the LED lighting system would go to the outer edge of the paved area.

Figure 4 shows the detail of the vertical signaling system, consisting of the solar panel, a fixed text at the top of the sign and the illuminated panel with a pictogram and text, together with the location of the radar / camera.

Figure 5 shows a schematic view of the inductive loop detection system.

Figure 6 shows a schematic view of the solar power system that would supply electrical power to the vertical sign panel and the LED lights.

Figure 7 shows a schematic view of the LED lights installed on the pavement.

Figure 8 shows a schematic view of the power supply circuit for the 5G artificial intelligence camera or radar.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

The system described in this document and whose purpose is to complement the ES 1228669U, will allow the implementation of the signaling system on all types of roads, both urban and interurban, both with a shoulder and without a shoulder. Between the vertical luminous signal and the solar panel that is superimposed on the signal itself, the radar / camera coupled to the vertical pole is located, to be interconnected with the entire electronic and control system for the activation of the luminous panel of the vertical signal and of the LED lights located on the pavement.

In sections of road with a hard shoulder, the inductive loop wiring is located, embedded in the pavement, that captures the passage of the cyclist and emits the signal to the detector, inserted inside the vertical signal, and the LED lighting system that runs parallel to the line between the shoulder and the lane. In those sections without a shoulder, the inductive loop wiring would also be embedded in the pavement, but as close as possible, forming the intended rhomboid, to the outer edge of the paved platform, and the LED lighting system would be located on the outer edge of the the paved platform itself; In this case, the combination of the inductive loop with the radar located on the vertical signal is foreseen, and for the detection by means of a camera and 5G connection, also located on the vertical signal, the inductive loop may be dispensed with. The vertical luminous signal is installed on the adjacent berm, and this, in turn, is the support for the power system by means of a solar energy plate, the power batteries and the detection system (inductive loop, inductive loop and radar, or camera with 5G connection), in addition to the switchboard or electronic system and the control for activating the vertical signal light panel and the horizontal LED lights located on the pavement.

Continuing the same numbering of the figures registered in ES 1228669U, the collected figures are defined and identified below:

Figure 1 shows a typical highway or road platform, composed of two lanes (1) for traffic and one for each direction (2), and two hard shoulders (3) located on both sides of these lanes. The occupation zone (4) of cyclists, when traveling on the road, is located on the shoulder and in part of the lane in the direction of travel; separating the lane from the shoulder by means of a separation line or road marking (5). The berm (10) is located from the outer end of the hard shoulder. The cyclists (6) would occupy the shoulder and part of the lane (4) and the user vehicle (7) would circulate through its only circulation space, the lane (1). The vertical light signal (8) would be located on the berm and the LED lights (9) in the proximity of the line separating the lane and the shoulder, that is, approximately, where the roadside reflectors or cat eyes are usually placed, as can be seen on most conventional roads.

Figure 2 reinforces, through a profile view, what is stated in figure 1. The main actors to which the invention is intended are appreciated; the road (1), the vehicle (7) and the bicycles (6), together with one of the elements that form part of the product of the invention: the vertical luminous sign (8) with the solar panel (11).

Figure 3 represents, in detail, the area of the paved road (3) where bicycles travel (6), the line between the lane and shoulder (5), the berm (10) where the vertical sign is installed ( 8) and the solar panel (11), as well as the bicycle detection system; the inductive loop rhomboid (13) and the connection line (14) of the rhomboid with the detector located inside the vertical signal. The power line (12) of the LED lights and one of the LED points (9) are also detailed.

Figure 4 represents the scheme of the vertical luminous signal (8), composed of a fixed text (16) described "ATTENTION, CYCLISTS RIDING" and a luminous panel (17) that, once the cyclist is detected, will be activated with a pictogram on “SAFETY DISTANCE 1.5 VEHICLE AND CYCLIST, t 5 kms t ”. The solar panel (11) is also located on the vertical sign, which will be the element for capturing solar energy to charge the batteries (20), which in turn will be the source to feed the light panel (17) of the sign. vertical, the detector (18) and the inductive loop detection system (13) (14), the radar / camera (21) and the power line (12) of the LED lights (9).

Figure 5 represents the inductive loop detection scheme, consisting of the rhomboid (13) embedded in the pavement, the connection line (14) also embedded in the pavement, and the detector (18) that would remain inserted inside. of the signal for your guard.

Figure 6 schematizes the solar-type renewable energy capture system. A photovoltaic solar panel (11) is included to capture solar energy, batteries (20) for storing energy and an electronic circuit (19) for managing and controlling the system. The solar energy captured and stored will serve as power supply (17) to the luminous panel of the vertical signal (17) and to the LED lights (9), during the estimated time of activity.

In figure 7 the LED lighting system is schematized, with the connection line (15) that would be embedded in the pavement (in the same way as the inductive loop), the power line (12) of the LED lighting, also embedded on the pavement, as well as the LED lights themselves, also embedded in the pavement itself.

In figure 8 the system for capturing renewable energy of the solar type is schematized, for feeding the radar / camera. A photovoltaic solar panel (11) is included to capture solar energy, batteries (20) for storing energy and an electronic circuit (19) for managing and controlling the system. The solar energy captured and stored will feed, in addition to the rest of the electronics already provided, to the radar / camera (21).

Claims (1)

1. SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR THE IDENTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF CYCLISTS , comprising a cyclist detection system through inductive loop, a vertical sign with fixed text and a luminous panel with activation system by means of a switchboard, horizontal LED lights installed on the pavement with a power line and an activation system by means of a switchboard and a power supply unit composed of a photovoltaic plate and storage batteries characterized in that it comprises: to. A radar combined with the inductive loop, located above the vertical signal and under the photovoltaic plate, said radar being anchored to the vertical pole and connected to the switchboard along with the rest of the components; b. A video camera with 5G connection located above the vertical signal and under the photovoltaic plate, said camera being anchored to the vertical post and connected to the switchboard along with the rest of the components.