JP2003024848A - Fountain system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve customer attractability by solving the problem that the action of the change of patterns or colors by illumination is relatively simple in a conventional fountain apparatus. SOLUTION: The fountain system is constituted so that many spouting nozzles 2 are properly arranged, a spouting control mechanism 5 corresponding to each nozzle is formed, an optical fiber 6 is mounted on each spouting nozzle to emit light to each fountain from each spouting nozzle, a color change mechanism 7 is provided in a light source side of each optical fiber and a control means 10 for controlling the spouting adjusting mechanism and the color change mechanism to form the fountain from each spouting nozzle as a picture element is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a fountain system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A fountain device installed for the purpose of giving a viewer a feeling of comfort, etc., depending on the shape of ejected water, usually has a proper number of fountain nozzles installed in the pond and a submersible pump Water is sucked, pressure is applied, and the water is ejected from the fountain nozzle.

In conventional fountains, there are intermittent fountains having a fixed pattern that occur at certain time intervals, continuous fountains that continuously occur, and the pattern changes with time. Some of them illuminate by projecting light onto the fountain. As for illumination, it has recently been proposed to illuminate the fountain from inside instead of illuminating it with light from the surroundings.

[0004]

However, in the conventional fountain device, even if the pattern changes, the movement is a relatively simple movement, so that it does not necessarily have a large customer attraction. The present invention has been made in view of the above points.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, a large number of fountain nozzles are appropriately arranged and installed, and a jet adjusting mechanism is constructed corresponding to each fountain nozzle. An optical fiber is installed in each fountain nozzle so that light can be projected onto the fountain of the fountain nozzle, and a color changing mechanism is provided on the light source side of the optical fiber so that the fountain of each fountain nozzle becomes a pixel. We propose a fountain system provided with a control means for controlling each of the jet adjusting mechanism and the color changing mechanism.

According to the present invention, in the above structure,
It is proposed that the jet adjusting mechanism has a function of turning on and off the jet and adjusting the jet height.

According to the present invention, the control means is operated to control ON / OFF of the fountain of each fountain nozzle by the ejection adjusting mechanism and the color thereof is changed by the color changing mechanism. A desired character or image can be expressed using the fountain corresponding to the fountain nozzle as a pixel.

In this case, by adjusting the height of the fountain by the ejection adjusting mechanism, the characters and images can be three-dimensionally expressed.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show an embodiment of a fountain system of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a system diagram conceptually showing the overall configuration, FIG. 2 is a plan view, and FIG. 3 is a tip portion of each fountain nozzle. FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 1 indicates a pond, and a large number of fountain nozzles 2 are appropriately arranged and installed in the pond 1. In this embodiment, a large number of fountain nozzles 2 are arranged in a lattice of 6 rows and 10 columns as shown in FIG. Therefore, the respective fountain nozzles 2 are denoted by “2 (m, n) in the drawing, where m = 1 to 6 and n = 1 to
10 "is shown separately. Reference numeral 3 is a pump,
For example, it is a submersible pump installed in a pond 1, and a water supply system 4 from this pump 3 to each fountain nozzle 2 is provided with a jet adjusting mechanism 5. Although the ejection adjusting mechanism 5 is shown as a single solenoid valve in the figure, a single or a plurality of valve devices may be used as long as it has a function of adjusting the ON / OFF of the fountain from the fountain nozzle 2 and the ejection height. Can be configured using. Further, in the present invention, an optical fiber 6 for projecting light to the fountain from the fountain nozzle 2 is installed corresponding to each of the large number of fountain nozzles 2. In this embodiment, the optical fiber 6 is The bundle is wound around the outer periphery of the fountain nozzle 2 on the tip side. Besides, the tip side of the optical fiber 6 can be installed in the fountain nozzle 2.
A color changing mechanism 7 is provided on the light source side of the optical fiber 6 provided in each fountain nozzle 2. In this embodiment, the color changing mechanism 7 has a configuration in which a rotary color filter 9 is installed between the white light source 8 and the incident end of the optical fiber 6. The ejection adjusting mechanism 5 and the color changing mechanism 7 corresponding to the respective fountain nozzles 2 are controlled by the control means 10 such as a computer.

In the above-mentioned structure, in the present invention, the control means 10 is operated to turn on the fountain of each fountain nozzle 2.
By controlling OFF by the jet adjusting mechanism 5 and changing the color by the color changing mechanism 7, it is possible to express a desired character or image by using the fountain corresponding to each fountain nozzle 2 as a pixel.

For example, in the structure shown in FIG. 2, all the jet adjusting mechanisms 5 are turned on to generate fountains from all the fountain nozzles 2 and the color changing mechanism 7 operates so that the fountain nozzles 2 (1, 5) in the figure are shown. ), 2 (2,2), 2 (2,3),
2 (2,4), 2 (2,5), 2 (2,6), 2 (2,2
7), 2 (2, 8), 2 (3, 5), 2 (4, 4), 2
(4,6), 2 (5,3), 2 (5,7), 2 (6
1), 2 (6, 2), 2 (6, 8), 2 (6, 9), 2
The fountains of the group (6, 10) are illuminated in a different color from the fountains of the other nozzles 2. By doing so, the fountain from the fountain nozzle 2 group is used as a pixel,
The character "large" is expressed.

In the expression "large", in addition to making the color of the fountain of the fountain nozzle 2 group different from the color of the fountain of the other fountain nozzle group, the jet adjusting mechanism 5 is controlled to By adjusting their ejection height,
It is also possible to express the character "large" three-dimensionally.

In some cases, only the above-mentioned fountain nozzles 2 corresponding to the character "Large" generate fountains of appropriate colors, while the remaining fountain nozzles 2 are
It is also possible to express the above character “large” by turning off the corresponding jet adjusting mechanism 5 so as not to generate a fountain.

In the above description, characters are expressed by a large number of fountain nozzles 2 groups, but it is also possible to express figures and images, and even moving images. Then, such control can be performed by applying a conventional method of expressing a character or an image by the pixel of the video display.

The fountain system of the present invention described above is
It can be installed in various places such as a facility for attracting customers, public spaces, empty spaces in urban areas, etc., and in a place that is not affected by the wind such as an indoor stairwell, the above-mentioned characters, images, etc. can be expressed better. .

Further, since the fountain system of the present invention can express like a display as described above, it can be used as an expressive means having a high customer attraction by combining it with sound and lighting. This also creates the possibility of advertising revenue.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, the fountain enables a three-dimensional expression accompanied by complicated movements and the expression of characters, figures, images, etc., which gives a viewer a feeling of comfort. In addition to that, there is an effect that a function as a new expression means can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram conceptually showing an embodiment of the configuration of a fountain system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view conceptually showing an embodiment of the arrangement of the fountain nozzles of the fountain system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a tip end portion of each fountain nozzle constituting the fountain system of the present invention. It is a system diagram shown.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 pond 2 fountain nozzle 3 pumps 4 Water supply system 5 Jet control mechanism 6 optical fiber 7 color change mechanism 8 white light source 9 Rotating color filter 10 Control means Control means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A large number of fountain nozzles are appropriately arranged and installed, an ejection adjusting mechanism is configured corresponding to each fountain nozzle, and an optical fiber is installed in each fountain nozzle.
In addition to being able to project light onto the fountain of the fountain nozzle, a color changing mechanism is provided on the light source side of the optical fiber, and the jet adjusting mechanism and the color changing mechanism are controlled so that the fountain of each fountain nozzle becomes a pixel. Fountain system characterized by having a control means 2. The fountain system according to claim 1, wherein the ejection adjusting mechanism is configured to have an ejection ON / OFF function and an ejection height adjusting function.