JPH0632965Y2 - River marker - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a river sign device, and more particularly to a river sign that can display the name of a river by illuminating the letters on the display panel at night and perform a disaster prevention function.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, a river sign indicating the name of the river has been provided near the passage of vehicles on the river. With this river sign, the driver's car or boarding vehicle can recognize the river name from the window,
There is a service to confirm the passing point of the vehicle.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] Since conventional river signs use a sign with the river name written on the display board, the river name can be clearly recognized from the car window during the daytime, but the There was a disadvantage that the river name could not be visually recognized at night when it was necessary to confirm the passage point.

Also, because only the river name is written, even if the amount of water in the river increases, it is not possible to display it using the river sign, and it is possible to notify passing vehicles etc. of the occurrence of a disaster in advance. There was also a disadvantage that it could not.

The present invention was made in order to solve such disadvantages, and makes a pedestrian or a driver's car of a vehicle recognize the name of a river at night, so as to eliminate the anxiety of having an unguided land and the amount of water in the river. The purpose of the present invention is to obtain a river marking device that can display a warning in response to the increase in the number of rivers and can minimize the damage caused by the occurrence of a disaster.

[Means for Solving the Problem] A river signage device according to the present invention is installed on a waterside of a river, a display board having a plurality of display parts for a river sign and an alarm sign, a solar cell attached to the display board. , A water level sensor that outputs an alarm signal when the water level of the river rises to a predetermined water level, a battery stored in the display panel and charged by the solar cell, and a control unit, and the control unit displays A light emitting element for causing each display section of the panel to emit light, a lighting means for causing each light emitting element to emit light, a fiber cable for transmitting the light of the light emitting element to each display section, a voltage detecting means, a receiving means, and a lighting control means. The voltage detecting means detects the voltage of the solar cell to distinguish between daytime and nighttime, sends a nighttime determination signal to the lighting control means, and a receiving means receives an alarm signal from the water level sensor and sends it to the lighting control means. , Lit The control means drives and controls the lighting means of the light emitting element that emits light from the display portion of the river sign when the night discrimination signal is input from the voltage detection means,
When the alarm signal from the receiving means is input, the lighting means of the light emitting element that causes the display portion of the alarm sign to emit light is driven and controlled regardless of the nighttime discrimination signal from the voltage detecting means.

[Operation] In the present invention, a light-emitting element that emits and displays a river sign on a display panel having a plurality of display parts for a river sign and an alarm sign,
The nighttime discrimination signal from the voltage detecting means for detecting the voltage of the solar cell is caused to emit light, and this light emission is transmitted by the fiber cable to clearly indicate the river sign.

Further, when a signal is received from a sensor installed on the waterside of a river, the lighting control means emits a warning by emitting a light emitting element of an alarm sign without distinguishing between day and night.

Furthermore, by supplying electric power with the battery charged by the solar cell, the display panel is made to emit light without power failure.

[Embodiment] FIGS. 1 and 2 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a front view and FIG. 2 is a side view. As shown in the figure, the river marking device 1 has a display panel 2 and a solar cell 3. Display board 2
Has, for example, a river display section 4 labeled "Tsurumigawa", an alarm display section 5 labeled "Flood danger", and another display section 6 labeled "Kensetsusho". It is fixed to the middle part of the pole 9 fixed at 8. The solar cell 3 is fixed to the upper end of the pole 9 and converts light energy into electric energy.

As shown in the block diagram of FIG. 3, the display panel 2 has a control unit 11 which is supplied with electric power from the solar cell 3 and receives a signal from a water level sensor 10 installed on the waterside of a river.

The control unit 11 includes a battery 1 charged by the solar cell 3.
2 and the voltage of the solar cell 3 for detecting the voltage between the daytime and nighttime, and the receiving means 14 for receiving the signal sent from the water level sensor 10 by wire, wireless, light or the like.
And a lighting control means 15 that receives signals from the receiving means 14 and the voltage detecting means 13 and sends a control signal to the lighting means 16, 17, and 18, and light emission by, for example, an LED that emits light by the respective lighting means 16, 17, and 18. The elements 19, 20 and 21 and the light emitting elements 19 and 20 are connected to the respective display portions 4 and 6 of the display panel 2 and optical fiber cables 22 and 23.
The control unit 11 is built in the display panel 2.

Next, the operation of the river marking device 1 configured as described above will be described.

The solar cell 3 supplies electric power to the control unit 11 to charge the battery 12 during the daytime. On the other hand, the voltage detection unit 13 of the control unit 11 constantly detects the voltage of the solar cell 3, and when the sun is set in the evening and the amount of light of the sun decreases and the voltage of the solar cell 3 decreases, the night-time discrimination signal is turned on. Send to. The lighting control means 15 that has received this nighttime discrimination signal is the lighting means 1
An operation signal is sent to 6 and 18. The lighting means 16 and 18 cause the light emitting elements 19 and 20 to emit light when receiving the operation signal. The light emitting elements 19 and 20 are transmitted through the optical fiber cables 22 and 2
It is sent to the river display unit 4 and the display unit 6 through 3, and the river display unit 4 and the display unit 6 emit light.

Therefore, the display contents of the river display unit 4 and the display unit 6 can be clearly displayed even at night.

Further, since the electric power for causing the display panel 2 to emit light is supplied from the battery 12 which is charged by the solar cell 3, the river marker device 1 can be freely used even in a riverside or a mountainous remote area where commercial power is hard to obtain.
Can be installed to emit light.

In this state, when the water level sensor 10 installed on the waterside of the river detects the rise of the water level of the river, the water level rise signal is received by the receiving means 1
4 is received and sent from the receiving means 14 to the lighting control means 15. Upon receiving the water level rise signal, the lighting control means 15 switches the operation signal sent to the lighting means 16 displaying "Tsurumigawa" to the lighting means 17 displaying "flood danger", and operates the lighting means 17. Upon receiving the operation signal, the lighting means 17 causes the light emitting element 21 to emit light, and the light from the light emitting element 21 causes the alarm display section 5 to emit light.

By the light emission of the alarm display unit 5, a pedestrian, a driving vehicle of a vehicle, or the like can immediately know the flood danger information.

In this case, a blinking signal is sent to the lighting means 17 without switching between the lighting means 16 and the lighting means 17, and "flood danger"
The alarm display section 5 may be blinked.

In addition, as a matter of course, the characters on the river display part 4 of the display panel 2 are outlined so that they can be easily seen in the daytime, and conversely, the characters on the alarm display part 5 indicating "flood danger" are made inconspicuous. can do.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the warning display unit 5 is light-emitted and displayed by the signal from the water level sensor 10 at night is explained, but when the signal from the water level sensor 10 is received by the lighting control means 15 also in the daytime. Causes the lighting control unit 15 to operate the lighting unit 17 to blink the alarm display unit 5 to notify pedestrians of flood danger information and the like.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the case where the alarm display section 5 is directly illuminated by the light of the light emitting element 21 has been described. However, the light of the light emitting element 21 is transmitted to the alarm display section 5 by the optical fiber cable to perform the light emitting display. Good.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the present invention provides a light emitting element for displaying a river sign on a display panel having a plurality of display sections for a river sign and an alarm sign by means of a voltage detecting means for detecting the voltage of a solar cell. It emits light according to the night-time discrimination signal of the above, and transmits this light emission with a fiber cable to clearly indicate the river sign, so it is possible to inform the pedestrian and the driver's car of the river even at night, and the passing point Can be easily confirmed.

Also, when a signal is received from a sensor installed on the waterside of a river, the light emitting element of the warning sign will emit light to warn you whether it is day or night, so it is possible to prevent accidents before they occur. You can

Furthermore, since the power is supplied by a battery that is charged by a solar cell, it is possible to install river marking devices freely even in riverbanks and mountainous remote areas where commercial power supply is difficult to obtain, and to display the display panel without power failure. It can emit light.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a front view, FIG. 2 is a side view, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control unit. 1 ... River marking device, 2 ... Display panel, 3 ... Solar cell,
4 ... River display part, 5 ... Alarm display part, 10 ... Water level sensor, 11 ... Control part, 12 ... Battery, 13 ... Voltage detecting means, 14 ... Receiving means, 15 ... Lighting control means , 16, 17, 18 ... Lighting means, 19, 20, 21
...... Light emitting element, 22, 23 …… Optical fiber cable.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A display panel having a plurality of display portions for a river sign and an alarm sign, a solar cell attached to the display board, and a water battery installed on the waterside of the river when the water level of the river reaches a predetermined water level. A water level sensor that outputs an alarm signal, and a battery that is stored in the display panel and charged by the solar cell and a control unit, and the control unit is a light-emitting element that causes each display unit of the display panel to emit light. It has a lighting means for emitting light from each light emitting element, a fiber cable for transmitting the light of the light emitting element to each display section, a voltage detecting means, a receiving means and a lighting controlling means, and the voltage detecting means detects the voltage of the solar cell. Then, it discriminates between daytime and nighttime, sends a nighttime discrimination signal to the lighting control means, the receiving means receives the warning signal from the water level sensor and sends it to the lighting control means, and the lighting control means sends the nighttime discrimination signal from the voltage detection means. input When the lighting means of the light emitting element that emits light from the river sign display section is driven and controlled, and the warning signal from the receiving section is input, the warning sign display section emits light regardless of the nighttime discrimination signal from the voltage detection section. A river signage device characterized by drivingly controlling a lighting means of a light emitting element to be activated.