JPH1118162A - Remote commander - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a remote commander that is used without replacement of a battery. SOLUTION: Wheels 302A, B are provided to both sides of the commander main body 300, and rotation of the wheels 302A, B is delivered to a rotor of a generator 100 via a step-up gear. Furthermore, the wheel 302A is rotated by an operation lever 320 and the output power of the generator 100 is stored on a charging section 108 through a rectifier circuit 102, a capacitor 104, and a DC-DC converter 106. A remote control signal transmission LED is lighted by the power of the charging section 108, and a remote control signal is transmitted. A charging display LED 110 displays a charging state and a full charging display LED 112 displays a full charging. An operation display LED is used to display an operating state. A high luminance LED is provided, which is used for an emergency lighting device.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a remote commander for remotely operating various electronic devices and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in various electronic devices (TV receivers, VTRs, CD players, etc.), a remote commander that remotely operates the electronic devices by transmitting a command signal using infrared rays or the like from a remote place. Is widespread.

[0003]

The energy of such a remote commander generally uses a dry battery. Therefore, when the battery is exhausted, remote operation by a remote commander is temporarily disabled, and the battery must be replaced. For this reason, it is necessary to always prepare a replacement battery, and there is a problem that the usability is poor, for example, there is a concern that the battery is consumed.

In particular, recently, there has been a tendency to reduce the operation functions of the main body of the electric equipment and to increase the operation functions of the remote commander accordingly. Therefore, when the batteries of the remote commander are exhausted, until the batteries are replaced, In some cases, it becomes impossible to effectively operate electric devices. In some cases, solar cells are used as energy.
In some cases, stable use may not be possible. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a remote commander that can be used without replacing the battery.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a generator for generating power supply power, a transformer and rectifier circuit for transforming and rectifying output power of the generator,
A charging section for storing output power of the transformer and rectifier circuit; a rotating body rotatably supported by an outer casing; and an increasing section for increasing the rotation of the rotating body and transmitting the rotation to the rotor of the generator. A speed control mechanism, a signal transmission unit for transmitting a remote control signal, a key input unit for performing a remote control operation, and a control circuit for controlling the signal transmission unit in accordance with an input from the key input unit. And

In the remote commander of the present invention, when the rotating body provided in the outer case is rotated, the rotor of the generator rotates through the speed increasing mechanism, and the generator generates power. This power generation is rectified in a transformer and a rectifier circuit, is transformed to a predetermined charging voltage, and is supplied to a charging unit and stored. The control circuit is operated by the power supply power stored in the charging unit, and controls the signal transmitting unit based on an input from the key input unit. The signal transmission unit operates by the power supply power stored in the charging unit, and transmits a remote control signal based on a control signal from the control circuit.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a remote commander according to the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing one configuration example of a power supply circuit system of a remote commander according to the present invention. FIG. 2A is a circuit diagram showing one configuration example of a signal transmission system of the remote commander according to the present invention. . 2 (B) to 2 (D) are waveform diagrams showing the shape of the drive signal in each section of the signal transmission system, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a waveform chart showing a specific example of a remote control transmission signal in the same signal transmission system.

In FIG. 1, a generator 100 is a three-phase AC generator, and outputs an electromotive force generated in a three-phase coil by rotation of a rotor. The rectifier circuit 102 is connected to the generator 10
It is composed of a diode bridge that rectifies and combines three-phase AC power from zero. Smoothing capacitor 1
Numeral 04 is for smoothing the rectified power output from the rectifier circuit 102 and converting it to DC power. DC-DC converter 106 is for boosting the voltage level of the DC power output from the smoothing capacitor 104 to a predetermined charge voltage level, to charge the charging unit 108 from the diode D ₁ provided on the output stage.

[0009] The charging unit 108 is a DC-DC converter 1
For example, it is configured by a double-layer capacitor 114 that charges the output power from the power supply 06, and the power charged in the double-layer capacitor 114 is supplied to a subsequent load. The charging display LED 110 is, for example, a red LED, and includes a rectifier circuit 1.
Emits light by current supplied through the resistor R ₅ from 02 to indicate that charging is in progress. Such a display during charging has an advantage that a charging operation described later does not need to be performed with excessive force.

The full-charge display LED 112 is, for example, a green LED, and passes through a circuit composed of resistors R _{1 to} R ₃ , a zener diode D ₂ , and a transistor Q ₁ based on the potential difference between the positive and negative electrodes of the charging unit 108. It emits light by the supplied current to indicate that the battery is fully charged. Such a full charge display allows the user to recognize that charging is unnecessary, so that there is an advantage that it is not necessary to perform an operation for unnecessary charging.

Next, in FIG. 2A, the remote control transmission control circuit 202 converts the remote control input signal input from the key input section 204 into a remote control transmission signal as shown in FIG. Is what you do. Remote control signal transmitted for LED206 on the basis of the remote control transmission signal, the transistor Q _3, a coil L, the formed driving circuit by a capacitor C _1, the driving current D _i is supplied, and outputs the infrared by the driving current D _i , Which are supplied to a light receiving unit of an electronic device (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 2B, the transistor Q
By a pulse of the remote control transmission signal input to the _third base when the transistor Q ₃ is turned on, by a coil L connected to the collector of the transistor Q _3, the collector potential of the transistor Q ₃ is as shown in FIG. 2 (C) At the same time, the pulse wave shape changes sharply at the falling portion of the remote control transmission signal. Accordingly, even when the drops voltage of the charging unit 108, it is possible to obtain a reliable discharge of the capacitor C _1, it is possible to obtain a drive current D _i shown in FIG. 2 (D).

The operation display LED 208 is a key input unit 2
04 in response to the key input operation in, the transistor Q ₄ is turned on and off by remote control transmission signal, and blinking. Transistor Q ₄ are, the potential of the operation display LED208 connected to the collector side, has to be turned on only when it is more than the potential which is suitable for remote control operation. Therefore, this operation display LED 208
By blinking, it can be recognized that the potential of the charging unit 108 is maintained in a state where an appropriate operation can be obtained. In addition, power consumption can be suppressed by blinking the operation display LED 208 without lighting it.

The high-brightness LED 210 illuminates in an emergency, and can be turned on when the operation switch 212 is turned on. In general, a remote commander is often at hand of a user, and therefore, by providing a function as a lighting device in the remote commander, it is useful in a sudden power failure or the like. The high-brightness LED 210 is
Since the power consumption is low, the brightness is long, the life is long, and there is no fear of running out of the lamp.
8 is optimal in configuring a lighting device using the light emitting device 8.

FIGS. 3 to 7 show the appearance of the remote commander of this embodiment. FIG.
Is a partial side view, FIG. 5 is a partial perspective view of an upper end, FIG. 6 is a front view of a main part of a key input unit, and FIG. 7 is a front view of a main part of an upper end. As shown in FIG. 3, the remote commander of this embodiment is provided with a pair of wheels 302A and 302B as rotating bodies on both sides of a base end of a commander main body (outer casing case) 300, and rotates the wheels 302A and 302B. Thus, the rotor of the generator 100 described above is rotated. FIG.
As shown in (1), on one side surface of the commander main body 300, the above-described LED 110 for charging display and the LED 112 for full charge display are provided side by side.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the operation display LED 208 described above is provided on the upper front side of the commander main body 300. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 7, the upper end of the commander main body 300 is provided with the above-described remote control signal transmission LED 206 and the high luminance L.
An ED 210 is provided. As shown in FIG. 6, a high-brightness LED 2
Ten operation switches 212 are provided. further,
On the front surface of the commander main body 300, numeric keys 204A and various function keys 20 constituting the key input unit 204 are provided.
4B, 204C, a power key 204D, and
Various display LEDs are provided.

FIG. 8 is a front view of a main portion of a lower end portion of the commander main body 300, and FIG. 9 is a side view showing a shape of one wheel 302A. As shown in FIG. 9, in the remote commander of this example, an operation lever 320 is attached to one wheel 302A.
Is provided. The operation lever 320 has a hinge portion 322 provided at a base end thereof, and a hinge member 322 provided at a base end thereof.
4A is provided rotatably. The operation lever 3
An operation knob 324 is provided at the distal end of 20.
On the other hand, on the side surface of the core member 304A, along the diametrical direction of the wheel 302A, the groove 30 for accommodating the operation lever 320 is provided.
6 is formed, and the groove 306 is provided with a hinge 3
On the other side of the insertion hole 3, the insertion hole 3 into which the operation knob 324 is inserted
08 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 9A, the operation lever 320 is folded around the hinge portion 322, the operation knob 324 is inserted into the insertion hole 308, and the operation lever 320 is inserted into the groove 306 of the core member 304A. From the stored state, FIG. 9 (B)
As shown in FIG. 3, the tip of the operation lever 320 is rotated by about 180 ° about the hinge 322 so that
02A extends in the outer diameter direction. This allows
The operation knob 324 of the operation lever 320 is in a state of being extended in the outer diameter direction, and can be rotated to operate the wheel 302A. As described above, the operation knob 324 is extended from the wheel 302A in the outer diameter direction and is rotated to operate the wheel 302.
The rotation operation can be performed with a diameter larger than the diameter of A,
There is a merit that smooth operation can be performed.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of the lower end of the commander body 300 showing the structure of the speed increasing mechanism interlocked with the wheels 302A and 302B. FIG. 11 is the lower end of the commander body 300 showing the structure of the speed increasing mechanism. It is a side front sectional view. FIG.
2 (A) is an abbreviated cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 10, and FIG. 12 (B) is an abbreviated cross-sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. The wheels 302A and 302B are
04A, 304B, rubber tires 310A, 3
10B, each core member 304A, 30
4B is connected by an axle 312 and has a structure that rotates integrally. The rotation of the axle 312 is linked to a speed increasing mechanism described later, and rotates the rotor of the generator 100 via the speed increasing mechanism.

In such a remote commander of this example,
By moving the commander body 300 back and forth while the tires 310A and 310B are in contact with the table surface or the like, the wheels 302A and 302B can be rotated. That is, in the present embodiment, the wheels 302A and 302B are rotated by gripping the commander main body 300 and performing a running operation on a table surface or the like, and
The charging unit 108 can be charged by the power generation unit 100, and by directly operating the operation lever 320 to rotate the wheel 302A, the charging unit 108 can be charged by the generator 100 described above. There is a merit that two methods can be selected and charged.

Further, the speed increasing mechanism controls the rotation of the crown gear 332 provided on the axle 312 by a plurality of stages of spur gears 334, 33.
The speed is increased by 6, 338, and 340, and transmitted to the rotating shaft 100A connected to the rotor of the generator 100.
With such a speed increasing mechanism, the wheels 302A, 302B
Can be transmitted to the rotor of the generator 100 by increasing the speed of the low-speed rotation, and an efficient power generation operation can be obtained.
Also, as in this example, the axle 3 of the wheels 302A and 302B
With the structure in which the rotating shaft 100A of the generator 100 is provided in a direction orthogonal to the direction 12, the generator 100 and the speed increasing mechanism can be compactly stored in the outer case of the commander main body 300.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing another example of the remote commander according to the present invention, and FIG. 14 is a rear view of a main part of the remote commander shown in FIG. In the remote commander of the present example, instead of the wheels 302A and 302B described above, a disk-shaped rotating body 40 is provided on the back of the commander main body 300.
0 is provided, and the rotor of the generator 100 is rotated by rotating the rotating body 400 with the operation lever 402. That is, the rotating body 400
Is linked to the rotor of the generator 100 by the same speed increasing mechanism as in the above example.

The operation lever 402 is rotatable by a hinge 400 provided at a base end thereof.
It is connected to. An operation knob 406 is provided at the tip of the operation lever 402. This operation knob 40
6 shows a state in which the operation lever 402 is folded along the rotating body 400 as shown in FIG.
00 is inserted into an insertion hole 408 provided on the back surface of the 00 ’. In this state, the rotation of the rotating body 400 is locked. Further, by operating the operation lever 402 by about 180 ° about the hinge 404, the tip of the operation lever 402 is rotated by the rotating body 400 as shown in FIG.
The operation knob 406 is arranged in a state of extending outward in the outer diameter direction. In this state, the operation dial 406
And turning the operation lever 402 to rotate the
The rotating body 400 is rotated to generate power by the above-described generator 100. Note that the other configuration is the same as the above-described example, and thus the description is omitted.

FIG. 15 is a circuit diagram showing another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention. In this example, a constant voltage regulator 120 is provided instead of the DC-DC converter 106 described above. The constant voltage regulator 120, similar to the DC-DC converter 106 described above, by boosting the voltage level of the DC power output from the smoothing capacitor 104 to a predetermined charge voltage level, the charge from the diodes D ₁ provided on the output stage Part 1
08 is charged. The other configuration is the same as that of the above-described example of FIG.

FIG. 16 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention. In this example, the three-phase AC power from the above-described generator 100 is not rectified and smoothed, but is transformed.
After the transformation of the three-phase AC power from 00, rectification is performed. The three-phase AC transformer 122 boosts the three-phase AC power from the generator 100 to a predetermined charging voltage level, and the three-phase AC rectifier circuit rectifies the AC output power from the three-phase AC transformer 122. Things. Furthermore, the rectified output from the three-phase AC rectification circuit 124 is supplied to the charging unit 108 from the diode D ₁ provided on the output stage. The other configuration is the same as that of the above-described example of FIG.

FIG. 17 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention. In this example, a secondary battery 126 is provided as the charging unit 108 instead of the double-layer capacitor 114 described above. In this example, the full charge display LED 11
2 is provided with a voltage detection circuit 130 for detecting the voltage in the charging unit 108 described above.
If the voltage is a predetermined value or more in, by blinking the full-charge display LED112 turns on and off the transistors Q _2, it is obtained so as to display the full charge. In this way, by displaying the full charge by blinking the full charge display LED 112, the power consumption of the charging unit 108 can be suppressed, and the display period of the full charge state, that is, the cycle that requires the charging operation can be increased. it can. The other configuration is the same as that of the above-described example of FIG.

FIG. 18 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention. This example corresponds to the DC-DC converter 1 shown in FIG.
In place of 06, the constant voltage regulator 120 described with reference to FIG. 15 is provided.

FIG. 19 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention. In this example, a three-phase AC transformer 122 and a three-phase AC rectifier circuit 124 described with reference to FIG. 16 are provided instead of the rectifier circuit 102, the smoothing capacitor 104, and the DC-DC converter 106 in FIG. The description is omitted because it is the same as FIG.

[0029]

As described above, in the remote commander of the present invention, by rotating the rotating body provided in the outer case, the rotation is transmitted to the internal generator via the speed increasing mechanism to generate electric power. This power is transformed and rectified and stored in the charging section. As a result, there is no need to worry about running out of the battery as in the related art, and necessary charging can be performed only when necessary, so that an easy-to-use remote commander can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing an example of a power supply circuit system of a remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram and a waveform diagram showing an example of a signal transmission system of a remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an overall front view showing an example of a remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partial side view of the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a partial perspective view of an upper end portion of the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a front view of a main part of the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 7 is a front view of a main part of an upper end portion of the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 8 is a front view of a main part of a lower end portion of the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 9 is a side view showing the shape of one wheel provided in the remote commander shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a plan sectional view showing a structure of a speed increasing mechanism provided in the remote commander shown in FIG. 3;

11 is a front sectional view of the speed increasing mechanism shown in FIG.

12A is an abbreviated sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 10, and FIG. 12B is an abbreviated sectional view taken along line BB of FIG.

FIG. 13 is a side view showing another example of the remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a rear view of a main part of the remote commander shown in FIG. 13;

FIG. 15 is a circuit diagram showing another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention.

FIG. 19 is a circuit diagram showing still another example of the power supply circuit system of the remote commander according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

100: generator, 102: rectifier circuit, 104: smoothing capacitor, 106: DC-DC converter, 10
8 ... Charging part, 110 ... Charging LED, 112
... LED for full charge display, 114 ... Double layer capacitor, 120 ... Constant voltage regulator, 122 ... Three-phase AC transformer, 124 ... Three-phase AC rectifier circuit, 126 ...
Rechargeable batteries 126, 202 ... remote control transmission control circuit,
204: Key input unit, 206: Remote control signal transmission LED, 208: Operation display LED, 210: High brightness LED, 212: Operation switch, 300: Commander main body, 302A, 302B: Wheel, 320, 402
... Operation lever, 324, 406 Operation knob, 400
……Rotating body.

Claims (25)

[Claims] A generator for generating power supply power; a transformer and rectifier circuit for transforming and rectifying the output power of the generator; a charging unit for storing the output power of the transformer and rectifier circuit; A rotating body that is rotatably supported, a speed increasing mechanism that speeds up the rotation of the rotating body and transmits the speed to the rotor of the generator, a signal transmitting unit that transmits a remote control signal, and a remote control operation A remote commander comprising: a key input unit; and a control circuit that controls the signal transmission unit in accordance with an input from the key input unit. 2. The generator according to claim 1, wherein the generator is a three-phase AC generator, the transformer and the rectifier circuit are a rectifier circuit for rectifying an output of the three-phase AC generator, and a smoother for smoothing a rectified output of the rectifier circuit. 2. The remote commander according to claim 1, further comprising a DC conversion circuit for converting a DC output of the smoothing circuit. 3. The remote commander according to claim 2, wherein said rectifier circuit is a diode bridge circuit, said smoothing circuit is a capacitor, and said DC transformer circuit is a DC-DC converter. 4. The remote commander according to claim 2, wherein said rectifier circuit is a diode bridge circuit, said smoothing circuit is a capacitor, and said DC transformer circuit is a constant voltage regulator. 5. The generator is a three-phase AC generator, and the transformer and rectifier circuit rectifies an AC output of the three-phase AC generator and an AC output of the AC transformer circuit. The remote commander according to claim 1, further comprising a rectifier circuit. 6. The remote commander according to claim 5, wherein said AC transformer circuit is a three-phase AC transformer, and said rectifier circuit is a diode bridge circuit. 7. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein the charging unit is a double-layer capacitor. 8. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein the charging unit is a secondary battery. 9. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein the rotating body is a pair of wheels provided on both sides of the outer casing case. 10. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the wheels constituting the rotating body has an operation lever for manually rotating the wheel. 11. The operation lever is provided on the wheel in a folded state via a hinge portion, and when the wheel is manually rotated, the operation lever is rotated by about 180 ° via the hinge portion. The remote commander according to claim 10, wherein the distal end of the operation lever is arranged so as to extend in an outer radial direction of the wheel. 12. An operation knob is provided at a tip portion of the operation lever. The operation knob is inserted into an insertion hole provided in the wheel in a state where the operation lever is folded on the wheel, and the operation knob is provided. The remote commander according to claim 11, wherein the lever is disposed so as to protrude outward from the outer casing case when the lever is rotated by about 180 ° via the hinge portion. 13. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein said rotating body has an operation lever for rotating said rotating body by manual operation. 14. The operating lever is provided on the rotating body in a folded state via a hinge portion,
When rotating the rotating body by manual operation, by rotating the operating lever through the hinge portion by about 180 °, the distal end of the operating lever is arranged in a state of extending in the outer diameter direction of the rotating body. 14. The remote commander according to claim 13, wherein: 15. An operation knob is provided at a tip of the operation lever, and the operation knob is inserted into an insertion hole provided in the outer casing case in a state where the operation lever is folded into the rotating body. 15. The remote commander according to claim 14, wherein the operation lever is disposed so as to protrude outwardly of the outer casing case when the operation lever is rotated by about 180 degrees via the hinge portion. 16. The remote commander according to claim 1, further comprising a power generation display means for displaying that the power is being generated by the power generator. 17. The remote commander according to claim 16, wherein the power generation indicating means is a light emitting diode. 18. The remote commander according to claim 1, further comprising full charge display means for displaying that the charging section is in a fully charged state. 19. The remote commander according to claim 18, wherein said full charge display means is a light emitting diode. 20. The remote commander according to claim 18, further comprising means for flashing the full charge display means. 21. The remote commander according to claim 1, further comprising operable display means for displaying that the charging section is in an operable charging state. 22. The remote commander according to claim 21, wherein said operable display means is a light emitting diode. 23. The remote commander according to claim 22, further comprising means for flashing the operable display means. 24. The signal transmission section is a light emitting diode, and a driving circuit for driving the light emitting diode includes:
2. The remote commander according to claim 1, wherein a pulse of a remote control transmission signal output from the control circuit is temporarily converted into a steep pulse, and a drive signal for the signal transmission unit is generated based on the converted pulse. . 25. The remote control according to claim 1, further comprising: a high-intensity light-emitting diode that is turned on by a power supply of the charging unit; Commander.