JP3066749U - Head wearing body with light emitting function - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To enhance the safety of a wearer by using a head-worn body in night work in road construction or traffic regulation. SOLUTION: The light emitting sheet includes a light emitting sheet made of an electroluminescence element covered with a transparent film, and a power supply box containing a switch and a control circuit for the electroluminescence element. The light emitting sheet is attached to the surface of the head wearing body.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention relates to a head wearing body having a clear light emitting function to enhance the safety of a wearer in night work in road construction and traffic regulation and sports such as fishing and mountain climbing.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 In road paving work and traffic regulation at night, it is necessary to be able to see workers and traffic police from a distance in order to prevent the occurrence of personal injury caused by driving vehicles. For this reason, workers and traffic police at night work wear work clothes on which light-reflective metal is deposited or use helmets coated with luminous pigment or luminous pigment.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 At present, even when wearing work clothes on which light-reflective metal is deposited, light-reflective metal, which only reflects external light, makes it practically difficult for workers to see from a distance, and traveling vehicles do not come very close. It cannot be said that sufficient safety can be secured. On the other hand, luminous pigments and luminous pigments generally have a small amount of light emission, and even if they can be seen from a distance, they are rather unclear, and if rainfall or fog occurs, they become invisible.

[0004] For display at night, the electroluminescence element (EL material) is relatively distant even if there is a problem that the display portion becomes inconspicuous when it is brought to a close position and irradiated with a headlight. It has the advantage of being easily visible from If this material is attached to work clothes or a vest worn at night, the area to be illuminated is so extensive that it consumes a lot of power and requires a large battery, but other parts of the body lower than the wearer's head The probability of hiding behind an object increases.

The present invention has been proposed in order to improve the above-mentioned problems with the conventional work clothes and vest worn at night, and can be easily recognized even from a distant place. The aim is to provide a head-worn body that is less likely to be hidden behind other objects. Another object of the present invention is to provide a head-worn body that can ensure safety regardless of distance.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above object, a head-wearing body according to the present invention is provided with a light-emitting sheet made of an EL element covered with a transparent film, a power supply box for supplying a direct current to the EL element, and incorporating a switch and a control circuit. And Small light-emitting sections are appropriately arranged in the light-emitting sheet, and by adhering this light-emitting sheet to the surface of the head-worn body, a plurality of small light-emitting sections can be clearly flashed at night and easily viewed. it can.

In this head-worn body, if the colors of the plurality of small light-emitting sections are yellow, the yellow color of the plurality of small light-emitting sections can be visually observed even in daytime. In the light emitting sheet, for example, a plurality of small section holes may be arranged substantially linearly, and for this purpose, a retroreflective sheet provided with a plurality of small section holes may be attached to the light emitting sheet. The plurality of small division holes can be arranged in any form other than the linear shape, and another colored plastic sheet may be used to form the small light-emitting section.

When the head wearing body is a helmet, straw hat, hard hat, or the like, a small power supply box may be attached to the inside of the top of the helmet or hard hat. If the head wearing body is a cloth hat or sun visor, it is preferable to attach a small power supply box to the cloth hat or the adjuster behind the sun visor. In addition, if this head-worn body is a hair band, cold weather hood, hood, veil, bandana, scarf, etc., a small power box will be attached to these discreet and arbitrary locations.

[0009]

[Embodiment of the invention]

The light emitting sheet 2 used in the present invention is a voltage excitation type EL device as illustrated in FIG. In this EL device, a double-insulating thin film sheet 20 is formed by sandwiching a ZnS-based phosphor thin film 16 between dielectric insulating layers 18 such as Y ₂ O to form a double-insulating thin-film sheet 20. And a back electrode 24 such as an aluminum thin film on the back surface. For the phosphor to be used, its fine powder may be dispersed in a dielectric, and this may be sandwiched between the transparent electrode 22 and the back electrode 24 on the back surface. The transparent film 26 is a light-emitting surface disposed on the transparent electrode 22, and may be colored yellowish as desired, or only the protective film to be coated may be colored yellow.

On the other hand, there are various types of retroreflective sheets 12 having a layer structure. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the transparent film 26 of the light emitting sheet 2 is formed by an adhesive layer (not shown) on the lower surface. Stick on the surface of. As the adhesive layer, for example, a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin such as a polyurethane resin may be used, and a white layer (not shown) may be provided between the adhesive layer and the reflective resin layer 30. .

The reflective resin layer 30 is generally a thin silver layer, a gold layer, a pearlescent layer, or another colored metallic layer, and is made of, for example, a methacrylic synthetic resin having transparency including a mirror pigment. The mirror pigment added to the reflective resin layer 30 is aluminum powder for the silver layer, bronze powder, garnet, aluminum powder and yellow pigment for the gold layer, pearl pigment, nickel silver powder, sodium tungstate, colloidal silver, mica, metal For example, a deposition piece.

The bead layer 32 is formed by closely adhering a large number of small beads on the reflective resin layer 30 and these beads are, for example, glass beads or vinyl acetate beads. Is usually 20 to 100 μm. Further, it is preferable that the light emitting sheet 2 and the retroreflective sheet 12 are further entirely covered with a transparent protective film (not shown).

[0013]

【Example】

 Next, the present invention will be described with reference to an embodiment. In a helmet 1 shown in FIG. 1, a light-emitting sheet 2 is horizontally and annularly adhered to an outer peripheral surface of a helmet body 3. As shown in FIG. 2, the light-emitting sheet 2 is connected to a power supply box 5 containing a switch and a control circuit via a cord 6, and the power supply box 5 is connected to the head of the helmet main body 3 as illustrated in FIG. Adhere inside the top. The cord 6 may be connected to the light-emitting sheet 2 through a small through hole 7 provided in the peripheral wall of the helmet main body 3, and may pass through the lower peripheral edge of the helmet main body without providing the through hole in the helmet main body 3. Good.

In the strip-shaped light emitting sheet 2, the retroreflective sheet 12 provided with a large number of small section holes 10 emits light in order to display the small yellow light emitting sections 8, which are substantially oblong rectangular planes, almost linearly. Affix on sheet 2. The power supply box 5 has an automatic reset type push button switch 14 or a slide switch, and stores a dry battery or a storage battery as a power supply. Although not shown, in the power supply box 5, a DC-AC conversion inverter circuit, a booster circuit to about 100 V, an oscillation circuit of about 400 Hz such as a flip-flop or a multivibrator, and the like are connected to a power supply. It connects to the light-emitting sheet 2 via.

As a structure of the light emitting sheet 2, as shown in FIG. 4, a double insulating thin film sheet 20 in which the phosphor thin film 16 is covered with a dielectric insulating layer 18 is provided. And the back electrode 24. A yellow transparent film 26, which is a light emitting surface, is disposed on the transparent electrode 22, and the two are adhered. On the transparent film 26, a retroreflective sheet 12 or a simple black opaque sheet or the like is stuck, and the transparent film 26 is formed into a substantially oblong rectangular flat small light emitting section 8 by a plurality of small section holes 10 of the retroreflective sheet. Only visible.

The strip-shaped retroreflective sheet 12 is attached to the transparent film 26 via an adhesive (not shown). A white layer (not shown) may be provided between the adhesive layer and the reflective resin layer 30. The reflection resin layer 30 is generally a thin silver layer, a gold layer, a pearl luster layer, or another colored metallic layer. Aluminum powder, pearl pigment, mica, nickel silver powder, etc. are added to the reflection resin layer. In the bead layer 32, a large number of small beads are closely adhered on the reflective resin layer 30, and the diameter of each bead is usually 20 to 100 μm.

In the helmet 1, usually, a head cover 34 is attached inside the helmet main body 3, and the inner depth of the cover is considerably lower than that of the helmet main body 3. Therefore, even if the power supply box 5 is fixed to the inside of the top of the helmet body 3 when the helmet wearer puts the head into the head cover 34, the power supply box 5 does not come into contact with the head. . In the helmet 1, since the light-emitting sheet 2 may be short, the battery in the power supply box 5 is consumed relatively little by the blinking light emission, and it can be used even with an AA alkaline battery or a button battery.

When the switch 14 of the power supply box 5 in which the battery is inserted is pressed and the helmet 1 is worn, the small light-emitting sections 8 arranged substantially horizontally and annularly in the light-emitting sheet 2 blink and emit light. In the helmet 1, the yellow color of the plurality of small light-emitting sections 8 can be visually observed in the daytime, and the plurality of small light-emitting sections 8 flash clearly in the nighttime, so that they can be easily recognized even from a distance. Also, when a traveling vehicle or the like approaches, the portion of the retroreflective sheet 12 reflects external light, so that a wearer nearby can also visually recognize it.

In the helmet 1, when the batteries in the power supply box 5 are completely consumed by the flashing of the light emitting sheet 2, the batteries may be replaced. The power supply box 5 may be detachable with a double-sided tape (not shown), or may be fixed to the lower rear side or the lower front side of the outer peripheral surface of the helmet body 3.

FIG. 5 shows a modification of the present invention. In the helmet 36, a horizontally long luminous sheet 38 is horizontally attached to the front of the outer peripheral surface of the helmet main body 40. The light emitting sheet 38 is connected via a cord to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed inside the top of the helmet main body 40. This cord may be connected to the light emitting sheet 38 through a small through hole provided in the peripheral wall of the helmet body 40. By attaching a retroreflective sheet 44 provided with a large number of small section holes 43 on the light emitting sheet 38, the yellow small light emitting sections 42, which are vertically oriented rectangular planes, are arranged in the horizontal direction. Display by status.

FIG. 6 shows another modification of the present invention. In a straw hat 46, a light emitting sheet 48 is horizontally and annularly attached to the outer peripheral surface of a cap body 50. The strip-shaped light emitting sheet 48 is connected via a cord to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed inside the top of the cap 50. This cord may be connected to the light emitting sheet 48 through a small through hole provided in the peripheral wall of the cap body 50. By attaching a colored plastic sheet 56 having a large number of small section holes 54 on the light emitting sheet 50, the yellow small light emitting sections 52, which are oblong rectangular planes, are arranged in a horizontal direction. indicate.

FIG. 7 shows still another modification of the present invention. In a baseball cap 56, a luminous sheet 58 is horizontally and partially annularly adhered to an outer peripheral surface of a cap body 60. The strip-shaped light emitting sheet 58 is connected via a cord to a power supply box 62 (FIG. 8) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed to the front side of the adjuster 64 behind the cap body 60. By attaching a retroreflective sheet 68 provided with a number of small section holes on the light emitting sheet 60, yellow small light emitting sections 66 having a circular flat surface are displayed in a horizontal state.

A sun visor 70 shown in FIG. 9 is a fifth modified example of the present invention. In the sun visor, a light emitting sheet 72 is adhered to the outer peripheral surface of the sun visor body 73 in a horizontal and partially annular shape. The strip-shaped light emitting sheet 72 is connected by a cord to a power supply box 74 containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed to the front side of an adjuster (not shown) at the rear of the main body 73. By attaching a retroreflective sheet 78 provided with a large number of small section holes on the light emitting sheet 72, small yellow light emitting sections 76 having a circular flat surface are displayed in a horizontal state.

A cowboy hat 80 shown in FIG. 10 is a sixth modification of the present invention. In the cowboy hat, a light-emitting sheet 82 is horizontally and annularly adhered to the outer peripheral surface of a cap body 83. The strip-shaped light-emitting sheet 82 is connected via a cord to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed to the lower rear side of the collar portion 84. By attaching a retroreflective sheet 88 provided with a large number of small section holes on the light emitting sheet 82, small yellow light emitting sections 86, which are long oblong planes, are displayed in a horizontal state. .

A bonnet 90 shown in FIG. 11 is a seventh modification of the present invention, in which a light emitting sheet 92 is horizontally and annularly adhered to the outer peripheral surface of a cap 93. The belt-shaped light emitting sheet 92 is connected to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit via a cord, and the power supply box is fixed to the lower front side of the outer peripheral surface of the cap 93. By attaching a colored plastic sheet 96 having a large number of small section holes on the light emitting sheet 92, white small light emitting sections 94, which are vertical elliptical planes, are horizontally arranged. To display.

A hair bend 98 shown in FIG. 12 is an eighth modification of the present invention, in which a light emitting sheet 100 is attached in a partially annular shape along the outer peripheral surface of the hair bend, and a stretchable rubber portion 101 is partially attached. . The strip-shaped light emitting sheet 100 is connected via a cord to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed to the side of the outer peripheral surface of the hair bend 98. By attaching a retroreflective sheet 104 having a large number of small section holes on the light emitting sheet 100, the yellow small light emitting sections 102, which are vertically oriented rectangular planes, are displayed in a horizontal state. I do.

FIG. 13 shows a cold weather hood 106 according to a ninth modification of the present invention. Outside the cold weather hood, a rectangular light emitting sheet 108 is stuck vertically. The light emitting sheet 108 is connected by a cord to a power supply box (not shown) containing a switch and a control circuit, and the power supply box is fixed to an appropriate place. The retroreflective sheet 110 is stuck on the entire front side of the cold weather hood 106, and a number of small compartment holes are provided in a part of the retroreflective sheet 106, so that the yellowish color which is a horizontal rectangular plane is provided. The small light emitting sections 112 are displayed in a state of being arranged in the vertical direction.

[0028]

[Effect of the invention]

 Since the head-wearing body according to the present invention has the EL element light-emitting sheet, a plurality of small light-emitting sections can be clearly flashed at night to emit light so that the wearer can easily recognize the light-emitting section. Blinking light emission of the head-worn body as in the present invention is advantageous because it can be easily recognized even from a distant place, and even a relatively small light emission is less likely to be hidden behind other objects. The EL device used in the present invention is clearer than ordinary luminous pigments and luminous pigments, and has a much better visual effect by flickering light. As a result, the head wearing body of the present invention improves the safety of the wearer during night work in road construction and traffic regulation, sports such as fishing and mountain climbing performed at night, and tunnel excavation work and underground work performed in the dark. Will increase.

In the head-worn body according to the present invention, even when a traveling vehicle or the like approaches, it becomes difficult for the headlights or the like to make blinking light emission by the EL element difficult to see, but the portion of the retroreflective sheet emits headlight light or the like. By reflecting, the wearer nearby can also see. Therefore, the head wearing body of the present invention can ensure the safety of the wearer regardless of the position of the head.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a helmet that is a head-worn body according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded plan view showing a light emitting sheet and a power supply box used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the helmet of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view schematically showing a light emitting sheet used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a helmet according to a modification of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view of a straw hat as another modification.

FIG. 7 is a side view of a baseball cap as still another modified example.

FIG. 8 is a rear view showing the back of the baseball cap of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a side view of a sun visor according to a fifth modification;

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a cowboy hat that is a sixth modification.

FIG. 11 is a side view of a hood according to a seventh modification.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a hair bend that is an eighth modification.

FIG. 13 is a perspective view of a use state of a cold hood according to a ninth modification.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 helmet 2 luminous sheet 3 helmet body 5 power supply box 8 small luminous section 12 retroreflective sheet 14 push button switch

Claims (6)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A light emitting sheet comprising an electroluminescent element covered with a transparent film, a power supply box for applying a strong electric field to the electroluminescent element and incorporating a switch and a control circuit, wherein the light emitting sheet has a yellowish color. By arranging the small light-emitting sections as appropriate, and by sticking this light-emitting sheet to the surface of the body worn on the head, yellow or the like of a plurality of small light-emitting sections can be visually observed in the daytime, and a plurality of small light-emitting sections can be seen at night. A head-wearing body whose luminous section is clearly blinking and luminous and can be easily viewed. 2. A light emitting sheet comprising an electroluminescence element covered with a transparent film, and a power supply box for applying a strong electric field to the electroluminescence element and incorporating a switch and a control circuit, and are arranged substantially linearly. A retroreflective sheet provided with a plurality of small compartment holes is stuck on a light-emitting sheet, and a plurality of small light-emitting sections are arranged substantially linearly in the light-emitting sheet. A head-wearing body that has a plurality of small light-emitting sections that are arranged in a substantially straight line at night to flash clearly and light by being attached to the head. 3. A light emitting sheet comprising an electroluminescence element covered with a transparent film, and a power supply box for applying a strong electric field to the electroluminescence element and incorporating a switch and a control circuit, and are arranged substantially linearly. A retroreflective sheet provided with a plurality of small compartment holes is stuck on the light emitting sheet, and the small light emitting sections are arranged substantially linearly in the light emitting sheet, and this light emitting sheet is stuck on the surface of the head wearing body. By doing so, a plurality of small light-emitting sections can be visually recognized in yellow during the daytime, and the plurality of small light-emitting sections can be clearly flashed and emitted at night to easily visually recognize the head-worn body. 4. The headwear according to claim 1, wherein the headwear body is a helmet, a straw hat, a hard hat, or the like, and a small power supply box is mounted inside the top of the helmet or the hard hat. body. 5. The head wearing body is a cloth hat or a sun visor, and a small power supply box is attached to the cloth hat or the adjuster behind the sun visor.
Or the head wearing body according to 3. 6. The head wearing body is a hair band, a cold weather hood,
4. The head wearing body according to claim 1, wherein the head body is a hood, a veil, a bandana, a scarf, or the like, and the small power supply box is attached to a hair band, a cold hood, a veil, a bandana, a scarf, etc. .