JPH0515006A - Traveling wind energy converter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To agitate the air in a sealed box carried in a vehicle without requiring any other power source. CONSTITUTION:A sealed box 11 containing components 3 is mounted on a vehicle. An inlet side duct 12 and a discharge side duct 13 for traveling wind 18 generated upon traveling of the vehicle, are provided symmetrically with respect to a wind turbine 15. A rotary fan 17 of rotary energy converting means is provided at a rotary shaft 16 of the turbine 15. The turbine 15 and hence the fan 17 is rotated by the generation of the wind 18 upon traveling of the vehicle to agitate the air in the box 11. Since the ducts 12, 13 are symmetrical, even if the traveling direction of the vehicle is any direction, similar operation and effect are obtained.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a traveling wind energy conversion device, for example, a traveling wind energy conversion device for generating rotational power by utilizing traveling wind energy received by a traveling vehicle which is a structure receiving traveling wind. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIGS. 3 to 4 show, for example, Mitsubishi Electric Technical Report vo.
l. 61. No. 2, 64 (1987) shows a conventional auxiliary power supply, which is a heat generating device that requires a small amount of electric power while traveling and must be cooled. On the other hand, the running wind generated by running is generally abandoned without using its energy. Among these, there is a controller as an example of a device including a heat generating device that must be cooled, and this controller will be described as an example.

As shown in FIG. 3, a controller of this type is mounted as a controller box 2 in which a heating element is housed under the floor of a vehicle body 1. As shown in FIG. 4 showing an example of an internal plan view of the controller box 2, a plurality of component parts 3 constituting the controller are mounted in the controller box 2, and among these, When some are heating elements, it is necessary to ventilate the inside of the controller heating box 2 to lower the temperature of the air inside the controller box 2. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, an armored window 4 is provided on the side surface of the controller box 2 as a ventilation hole.

Explaining a method of lowering the temperature in the controller box 2 constructed as above, the air heated by the heating element in the controller box 2 causes a convection phenomenon, which results in a high temperature. The discharged air is discharged through the upper armor windows 4 provided on the sides, etc., and the cool air is cooled by the lower armor windows 4.
By further flowing in, the inside of the controller box 2 is cooled by ventilation.

[0005]

In the structure of the conventional controller box, as described above, since external air directly enters and leaves the controller box, a large amount of harmful dust or the like existing in the air is contained in the controller box. It flows into the box and adversely affects the components inside the controller box. In particular, a controller box for a train in which electric equipment is housed in a controller box or its peripheral devices has a problem that a large amount of conductive iron powder is present and insulation failure occurs.

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional ones and to obtain a traveling wind energy conversion device which utilizes traveling wind as a power source of equipment requiring a small amount of energy.

[0007]

A traveling wind energy conversion device according to the present invention includes a wind turbine that receives traveling wind and rotates,
And a rotational energy conversion means provided on the rotating shaft of the wind turbine.

Further, there is provided an introduction side air passage for introducing the traveling wind into the wind turbine and an exhaust side air passage provided symmetrically with the introduction side air passage.

[0009]

In the present invention, the traveling wind energy is converted into desired energy by the wind turbine and the rotational energy converting means.

Further, since the introduction side air passage and the discharge side air passage are provided symmetrically to each other, the same energy conversion action can be obtained regardless of the traveling direction of the structure.

[0011]

EXAMPLES Example 1. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention, in which a side wall of a closed box 11 not provided with an armoring window is provided with an air passage cover 14 forming inlet and outlet air passages 12, 13. There is. A wind turbine 15 is attached to one end of a rotary shaft 16 penetrating the wall of the closed box 11 at approximately the center of both wind passages 12 and 13, and a rotary shaft energy conversion means is installed inside the closed box 11 of the rotary shaft 16. A fan 17 is attached. Further, the introduction side air passage 12 and the discharge side air passage 13 are symmetric with respect to the rotation axis 16 in terms of the overall shape thereof, in particular, the blowing port 12a and the discharge port 13a which are the inlets to the wind turbine 15. The structure is provided in a closed box 11 and is provided with a structure that receives the traveling wind, for example, the traveling wind 18 generated when the traveling direction of the train is the arrow X even if the traveling wind 18 comes from the opposite side by traveling in the opposite direction. The same effect is achieved only by changing the direction of the ventilation air.

Next, the operation will be described. In FIG. 2, when the train is traveling in the direction of arrow X, the traveling wind 18 flows as shown by the alternate long and short dash line arrow, enters the introduction side air passage 12 and the suction port 12b, and then travels. Wind 1
8 is converged and enters the windmill 15 through the blowing port 12a, and rotates the windmill 15 in the arrow Y direction. The traveling wind 18 that rotates the wind turbine 15 is discharged from the discharge port 13a and the discharge port 1
After passing through 3b, it exits from the discharge side air passage 13. At this time,
Since the traveling wind 18 flows only under the wind turbine 15, moisture and foreign matter contained in the air are accumulated below, and the wind turbine 15 and the like are not adversely affected.

When the wind turbine 15 rotates, a rotary fan 17 which is a rotational energy converting means connected by a rotary shaft 16 rotates, and the air in the closed box 11 is agitated as shown by a two-dot chain line arrow 19 to partially Along with preventing the temperature rise, 1
Heat is radiated to the outside of the box through the jacket of 1.

Example 2. Even if the introduction-side and discharge-side air passages 12 and 13 are not provided, the traveling wind 18 is blown to the wind turbine 15 without being restricted,
Only the traveling wind energy transmitted to the wind turbine 15 is reduced, and other effects are exactly the same.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, the rotational power generated by the wind turbine is generated in the structure that receives the traveling wind by using the traveling wind, and the rotational power is converted into the desired energy. It is possible to obtain the desired energy required by the structure that receives the traveling wind with a simple structure without specially providing an energy source for. Further, there is an effect that the converted energy can always be obtained while the wind is running regardless of the traveling direction of the structure.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along a line II-II in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a traveling vehicle having a conventional controller box.

FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view of an essential part of FIG.

5 is a side view of that of FIG. 4. FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 Controller box 12 Introductory wind passage 13 Discharge side wind path 15 windmill 16 rotation axes 17 Rotational energy conversion means (rotating fan) 18 running wind

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A traveling wind energy conversion device comprising: a wind turbine mounted on a structure that receives traveling wind and rotating by receiving the traveling wind; and a rotational energy conversion means provided on a rotation shaft of the wind turbine. 2. The traveling wind energy conversion device according to claim 1, wherein the rotational energy conversion means is a rotary fan that produces an air flow. 3. A wind turbine, which is attached to a structure that receives traveling wind and rotates by receiving the traveling wind, rotational energy conversion means provided on a rotation shaft of the wind turbine, and the traveling arranged at a lower portion of the wind turbine. An introduction-side wind passage that introduces wind into the wind turbine, and an exhaust-side wind passage that discharges the traveling wind that rotates the wind turbine and that is provided substantially symmetrically to the introduction-side wind passage with respect to the wind turbine. A traveling wind energy conversion device.