KR100916322B1 - Apparatus for measuring rain or snowfall with enhanced structure by infrared - Google Patents

Abstract

A device for measuring the amount of rainfall and snowfall is provided to sense snow effectively by reflecting the weather condition effectively and to improve power consumption by driving the heating unit converting the accumulated snow into water selectively in case of snow being sensed. A device(100) for measuring the amount of rainfall and snowfall comprises a collector(110) which is provided with an outlet(115) where the collected rainfall is fallen formed at the lower surface and collects rainfall; a heating module(150) which heats the collector and comprises a plurality of heating sections capable of individual driving; a infrared light-emitting module(140) which generates infrared rays; a plurality of infrared light-confining modules(130) which sense the infrared ray generated at the infrared radiation module, and face to the inner surface of the collector; and a control module which operates the heating module if the infrared ray is not sensed at the infrared light-confining modules. The control module operates selectively the heating section corresponding to the location where the infrared light-confining module not sensing infrared rays is installed among the plurality of infrared light-confining modules.

Description

Apparatus for measuring rain or snowfall with enhanced structure by infrared}

The present invention relates to a snowfall measurement device for measuring the amount of rain, snow, hail, etc. falling to the ground surface due to a climatic phenomenon, and more specifically, heating used when measuring snow in the snowfall device. The present invention relates to a device for measuring a tongue amount having an improved structure using infrared rays to control the function to selectively drive only when snow falls by reflecting the sensitivity of infrared rays.

Typically, a snow gauge, that is, a device for measuring the amount of snow, means a device for measuring the amount of rain, snow, and the like caused by meteorological phenomena. In general, rain, snow, etc. falling to the ground due to the above-mentioned weather phenomenon, commonly referred to as precipitation (precipitation), the degree is referred to as (amount of precipitation), in the case of snow is also expressed as snowfall.

Various methods can be used according to the measurement method, and it is a general method to measure the amount of snow or snow precipitation, and heat the snow to change it to water and then treat the changed amount of water as a statistically determined function. The method of measuring snowfall or precipitation is mainly used.

That is, the snow gauge (a device for measuring rainfall and precipitation) is a device capable of measuring the amount of snow as well as the function of measuring the amount of rain.In the case of rain, it is collected by a measuring device using the fluid characteristics of water. It is configured to flow the prepared water and to measure the amount of flowing water and the like.

It is preferable to measure the precipitation of snow without changing the basic structure as described above. However, since snow does not flow because the physical state is not liquid, unlike snow, it has a characteristic that it accumulates in the falling place. Conventional tongue snow meter is configured to apply the basic measurement technique by changing the accumulated snow into liquid water by heating the snow collected in the squid through a predetermined heating means (heating means).

This heating function to change the snow snow in the form of water as described above can be said to be a very important function to accurately and accurately measure the amount of snow. However, the conventional tongue-mounted gauge is made of a structure that drives the heating means only by physical on / off such as a user (measurer, etc.) simply operates a switch means, or uses only a passive structure such that it is always driven in winter. It is becoming.

The heating means consumes a considerable amount of power in order to quickly and effectively change the snow in the form of water, but the conventional invention is driving the heating means only by a conventional manual type, etc. Since the technology for effectively recognizing or detecting the control means of the heating means in an improved form is not applied at all, there is a problem that considerable energy waste may be caused.

An object of the present invention is to provide a device that can measure snowfall more effectively by automatically detecting a snowy weather phenomenon and effectively linking it to a heating control method. There is this.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be described below and will be appreciated by the embodiments of the present invention. In addition, the objects and advantages of the present invention can be realized by the configuration and combination of configurations shown in the claims.

The apparatus for measuring snow tongue of the improved structure using infrared rays of the present invention for achieving the above object is formed in the discharge port is a drop of the collected rainfall is collected down the drain; A heating module for heating the sewer; An infrared light emitting module for generating infrared light; An infrared receiver module for detecting infrared rays generated by the infrared light emitting module; And a control module for driving the heating module when the infrared light is not detected by the infrared light receiving module.

In addition, the present invention further includes a temperature sensor for sensing the ambient temperature, the control module to drive the heating module when the detected ambient temperature is less than the reference temperature, and the infrared ray is not detected by the infrared receiving module. It is preferable to configure so that.

In addition, the sorghum of the present invention may be configured in a conical shape that gradually decreases the inner diameter from the top to the bottom, it may be configured to further include a measuring module for measuring the amount of precipitation falling from the outlet.

In order to implement a more preferred embodiment, the infrared receiving module is provided with a plurality of opposed to the inner surface of the receiver, the control module is the heating module when the infrared is not detected in one or more of the plurality of infrared receiving module It can be configured to drive.

In addition, the infrared light emitting module is installed on the center of the lower end of the squid, but preferably installed at a lower position than the infrared receiving module, the heating module is a heating pad in contact with the squirt; And a heat source unit for heating a portion of the heating pad when a driving start signal is input from the control module.

In addition, the heating module of the present invention is composed of a plurality of heating sections that can be individually driven, the control module is infrared radiation of the place where the infrared rays of the plurality of infrared radiation module is not detected, that is partially deflected snow Preferably, the module is configured to selectively drive a heating section corresponding to the installed position.

According to the present invention, in the snow meter measuring rain or snow, that is, the device for measuring the amount of snow, when measuring the amount of snow can accurately reflect the weather phenomenon that the actual snow falling on the snow meter On the basis of this, the heating means can be effectively controlled to provide the effect of using energy efficiently.

In addition, even when the snow is not horizontally snowed due to unusual weather phenomenon such as wind, it can be effectively detected. When the above phenomenon occurs, the heating means divided into a plurality of heating sections are selectively and individually driven. By doing so, it is possible to effectively maintain the function of the snow meter through the heating function, and at the same time, to reduce the power consumption.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as being limited to the common or dictionary meanings, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of a tongue tongue amount measuring device (hereinafter referred to as a measuring device) of an improved structure using infrared rays according to an embodiment of the present invention. The measuring device 100 includes a water receiver 110, an infrared ray sensing module 130, an infrared light emitting module 140, and a heating module 150.

The sewer 110 corresponds to a collection container for collecting rain or snow, and may be configured in various shapes to collect snow or rain effectively, and to increase the efficiency of collection and to effectively measure the precipitation downward. It is preferable to comprise in the conical shape (inversely conical in a horizontal direction reference | standard) which an internal diameter becomes narrow.

In addition, a discharge port 115 is formed on the bottom surface of the sluice port 110 in which the collected rainfall falls, and the precipitation falling through the discharge port 115 selectively passes through a predetermined slow collection port 160 and then measures the measurement module. Finally, precipitation is measured through (not shown).

In the description of the present invention, the precipitation (precipatation) refers to a generic name of a material having essentially the property of water (H ₂ O), falling to the ground surface by meteorological phenomena such as snow, rain, hail, precipitation (amount of precipitation refers to the magnitude of the degree of precipitation. Unless otherwise stated, the term "precipitation" in the description of the present invention will be described in terms of snow and rain.

The measurement module refers to a predetermined module that measures precipitation on the earth's surface from the viewpoint of meteorology using unit time information, flow velocity, volume, or weight of information, and the like. It is a module capable of measuring precipitation using a functional correlation of, and it is obvious that various applications are possible among those skilled in the art according to embodiments, installation environments, and the like.

As mentioned above, the present invention is to overcome the problems with the prior art, which is configured to operate the heating means at all times. Hereinafter, the method of the present invention for detecting an actual eye using infrared rays is attached to FIGS. This will be described with reference to FIG. 2B.

First, since rain is a property of water that is liquid and has intrinsic properties of a fluid flowing downward by gravity, the rain (a) collected at the sluice port 110 flows downward along the direction inclined to the inner diameter as shown in FIG. And it is dropped through the discharge port 115 provided in the bottom of the sorghum 110.

However, eyes are inherently watery but physical phases are not liquid, so they do not flow downward and are stacked. As shown in FIG. 2B, the eyes b dropped do not flow along the sluice 110, but aggregate together. By stacking from below (see B of Fig. 2b).

As described above, when the two conditions are divided into rain and snow, the rain falls along the surface of the water polo as shown above. Infrared rays generated by the light emitting module 140 may be detected.

However, when the snow falls, the infrared light generated by the infrared light emitting module 140 is blocked or interfered by the snow, which is accumulated by the snow stacked as shown in FIG. It cannot be detected effectively.

As described above, by effectively utilizing the sensitivity of the infrared receiving module 130 according to the present invention, it is possible to effectively detect a case where the actual snow falls.

The infrared light emitting module 140 of the present invention generates infrared rays of a predetermined infrared wavelength band so that the above principle is sufficiently reflected, and the infrared light receiving module 130 of the present invention generates infrared light generated by the infrared light emitting module 140. Detect or receive the message.

Since light having a shorter wavelength has an optical characteristic that is relatively stronger to phenomena such as diffraction and interference, the infrared wavelength band having a relatively long wavelength band is used in the present invention which detects actual snow phenomenon by blocking a signal as described above. It is preferable to use, and it can be said that it is preferable to adopt infrared rays of a band with a long wavelength as possible.

Through such a technique and configuration, the control module of the present invention is configured to enable selective driving of the heating module only when the infrared light is not detected by the infrared receiver module 130, that is, when the snow actually falls.

In the case where the infrared light is not detected by the infrared receiving module 130 as described above, the signal is blocked by the source and the infrared light is not detected at all by the infrared receiving module 130. This case corresponds to the concept including all of the cases where the electromagnetic operation of the infrared receiver module 130 is not made.

Hereinafter, a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of a measuring apparatus according to the present invention and FIG. 7 showing a flow chart showing a process of the measuring method according to the present invention will be described. The configuration will be described as follows.

First, the present invention may further include a temperature sensor 320 for sensing the ambient temperature in order to more accurately detect the actual snow falling situation, the detection of the actual snow phenomenon based on the temperature sensor 320 is It will be described in detail later in the section.

The control module 330 of the present invention is electrically connected to the infrared receiving module 310, the temperature sensor 320 and the heating module 340, first, hardware switching for driving the measuring device according to the present invention By performing a preprocessing process for the back setup, etc., each component of the present invention is entered into an operable mode (S700).

In the operation mode state as described above, the infrared receiver module 310 transmits an electrical signal to the control module 330 whether the infrared rays generated by the infrared light emitting module 140 described above is sensed.

In addition, the temperature sensor 320 measures the ambient temperature and transmits the measured temperature information to the control module 330.

As described above, when the control module 330 receives a signal for infrared detection and a signal for temperature information as input variables, the control module 330 determines whether the two signals meet a predetermined condition and performs a subsequent control operation.

That is, the control module 330 determines whether the infrared signal is blocked (S710), and when it is determined that the infrared signal is blocked, the control module 330 determines whether the temperature information input from the temperature sensor 320 is below a reference temperature (S720). ).

Since the eye is usually a phenomenon occurring at about 4 ° C. to 5 ° C. of the image, the information on the temperature condition as described above is a reference information for determining whether or not the weather condition may actually fall, and the infrared signal is blocked by dust or foreign matter. As a result, it is used as reference information for screening cases that are not real eyes.

That is, even if a substance is detected through the infrared signal, etc., when the temperature is higher than 4 ° C. to 5 ° C., which is a reference temperature at which the actual eye can be generated, it is more likely that the object is not an eye but a foreign material. It is possible to determine more precisely whether the situation is falling.

Obviously, the above-described conditions relating to temperature and conditions for infra-red reception may be configured in parallel. That is, FIG. 7 is only one embodiment of the present invention, and it should be understood that it is obvious that it is configured to determine the temperature condition in advance or to simultaneously determine and control both conditions.

As long as both the conditions for detecting the infrared rays and the temperature conditions are met at the same time, the control module 330 of the present invention controls the driving of the heating module 340 to be started (S730).

Thereafter, when a predetermined end condition for the measuring apparatus 100 of the present invention is satisfied (S740), the series of processing is terminated. The termination condition refers to a general and general processing termination condition that means a condition such that an entire power supply is turned off or an unusual characteristic occurs due to overheating. As long as the above termination condition is not satisfied, the series of processing of the present invention is recursively cycled so that the driving of the heating module is maintained as long as the eye is detected.

In the above configuration, in order to prevent overheating of the heating module 340 or to increase the efficiency of the heating state, the heating module 340 may be configured to be driven at a predetermined cycle.

4 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment for implementing the measuring device according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, reference numeral 300 corresponds to an infrared light emitting device, and reference numeral 310 corresponds to an infrared light receiving device.

In addition, the above-described logic block control module 330 may be implemented with a logic IC chip (A) and a relay (B), the temperature sensor 320 is a specific value by changing the resistance value by the ambient temperature It may be implemented as a switch to drive on (on) below the temperature, the heating module 340 may be composed of a power source and a heating wire.

On the other hand, as shown in Figure 4, in order to implement a more preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is preferable to install a plurality of infrared receiving module 310 so as to face the inner surface of the receiver 110.

In a meteorological phenomenon in which wind or the like is generated, the snow is deflected instead of falling vertically, so that it may be piled in one side as shown in FIG. 6 (see B). If the infrared receiver module is not installed where snow is snowed due to deflection as shown in B, the operation of the heating module may not be performed even though the snow is actually falling.

In order to more effectively reflect the above phenomenon, it is preferable to install a plurality of infrared receiver modules 310 or four or so in the north-west, north-west direction so as to face the inner surface of the sorghum.

Based on the contents described above, the driving conditions of the present invention are summarized as follows. In the following description, it is assumed as an example that the infrared receiver module 310 is two.

In the example shown in Table 1, the output value when the infrared sensor is effectively detected by the infrared receiver module 310 is set to 1, the output value when the detection is not detected or blocked below the reference value is set to 0, Figure 4 The logic IC (A) of the control module 330 of employs NAND GATE as an example. In addition, the temperature switch 320 was set to ON when it is below the reference temperature, and to OFF when it exceeds the reference temperature.

In addition, the relay corresponding to the control module 330 is set to operate as ON when the logic IC output value is 1, and OFF when 0. The circuit can be freely configured by those skilled in the art to vary driving conditions using various logic gate chips (OR, NOR, EXCLUSIVE OR, AND, etc.), and thus descriptions of other embodiments will be omitted.

When the rain falls, both the infrared receiving module (310) 1 and 2 will effectively output the signal generated by the infrared light generated by the infrared light emitting module (300). Since both signals correspond to 1, the output value of the logic IC composed of NAND gates becomes 0. In this case, even though the actual temperature is below the reference temperature, no substance is detected, and thus the heating module is not driven.

Meanwhile, only one of the infrared receiver module 1 and the infrared receiver module 2 detects infrared rays and one cannot detect the infrared rays, corresponding to the events # 3, # 4, # 5, and # 6. In this case, as described above, the material is detected, but it can be expected that the sensing is in a deflected form, and in this case, the temperature condition is # 4 and # 6 where the temperature is lower than the reference temperature. The determined substance is judged as an eye, and the heating module is driven. When the temperature conditions are not met, the heating module is controlled so that the heating module is not driven. After all, # 4, # 6 can be understood as a snow-biased situation.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, since the relay B and the temperature switch are connected in series, the heating module is set to be driven only when both are activated (ON) by performing a kind of AND gate function.

In addition, when the infrared receiver module 1 and 2 do not detect the infrared rays by the same relationship as described above, the value input to the logic IC is all 0, and since the logic IC is configured with the NAND gate, 1 is the result value. As it is outputting, the relay is ON. In addition, the heating module is driven when the temperature switch is ON, and the heating module is controlled so as not to be driven when the temperature switch is OFF.

5 is a perspective view showing the overall configuration of the measuring apparatus 100 of the present invention.

When snow is snowed, it is stacked upward from below, so that the infrared light emitting module 140 of the present invention is located on the center of the lower end of the sorghum 110 as shown in FIG. In addition, it is preferable to be configured to be installed in a lower position than the infrared receiver module 130.

Since the infrared light emitting module 140 is positioned above the outlet, the rigid light emitting module 140 may be configured to be supported by a supporting means having a small volume but having a high rigidity so as to minimize the disturbance of the fluid flow due to the eyes turned into water.

In addition, the heating module 340 of the present invention avoids a method of directly heating the sewer 110, and is made of a copper plate or aluminum material in contact with the sewer 110 to effectively use a heat source and increase the heat transfer efficiency. When the driving start signal is input from the heating pad 341 and the control module, it is more preferable to configure the heat pad part 342 made of a heating wire for heating a part of the heating pad to enable indirect heating.

On the other hand, the heating module 340 may be composed of a plurality of heating sections (340-1, 340-2, ...) that can be driven individually, when the snow is snowed by the aforementioned deflection in the snowed direction In order to further enhance energy efficiency, the control module 330 of the present invention is equipped with an infrared receiving module in which infrared rays are not detected among the plurality of infrared receiving modules. It is more preferable to configure to selectively drive the heating section corresponding to the position.

For example, as illustrated in FIG. 6, when snow is snowed only on the right infrared receiver module 130 (B), only the heating section 340-2 installed on the right side of the receiver 110 selectively The control module 330 of the present invention is controlled to be heated.

As described above in detail with respect to the device for measuring the tongue amount of the improved structure using the infrared rays according to the present invention, but the configuration of the device according to the invention shown in Figures 3 and 4, etc. rather than physically divided components It should be understood as a logical component. That is, since each configuration corresponds to logically divided components to realize the technical idea of the present invention, even if each component is integrated or separated, the present invention can realize the function performed by the logical configuration of the present invention. Should be interpreted to be within the scope of.

Although the present invention has been described above by means of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and will be described below by the person skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the claims.

The following drawings, which are attached to this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the present invention serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention includes matters described in such drawings. It should not be construed as limited to.

1 is a cross-sectional view showing a schematic configuration of an apparatus for measuring tongue-mountedness of an improved structure using infrared rays according to the present invention;

2A and 2B illustrate an infrared driving relationship according to snow and rain,

3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a measuring apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a circuit configuration diagram of an embodiment of a measuring device of the present invention;

5 is a partial cutaway perspective view showing the overall configuration of a measuring device according to the present invention;

6 is a diagram illustrating a state of detecting deflection snowfall according to the present invention;

7 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a measuring method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (7)

A discharge port for collecting precipitation is formed on the lower surface and collects precipitation; A heating module comprising a plurality of heating sections capable of individually driving the heating apparatus; An infrared light emitting module for generating infrared light; An infrared receiver module configured to detect infrared rays generated by the infrared light emitting module and face the inner surface of the receiver; And And a control module for driving the heating module when the infrared rays are not detected by the infrared receiver module. The control module, An apparatus for measuring tongues of an improved structure using infrared rays, characterized in that for selectively driving a heating section corresponding to a position in which the infrared receiver module in which no infrared rays are detected is installed among the plurality of infrared receiver modules. The method of claim 1, Further comprising a temperature sensor for sensing the ambient temperature, The control module, The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the heating module is driven when the sensed ambient temperature is less than or equal to a reference temperature and the infrared receiver module does not detect the infrared light. The method of claim 1, wherein the sewer The tongue-mounted measuring device of the improved structure using infrared rays, characterized in that the inner diameter is gradually reduced from the top to the bottom. delete The method of claim 1, wherein the infrared light emitting module, Installed on the lower center portion of the bottom of the squid port, the tongue amount measurement device of the improved structure using infrared rays, characterized in that installed in a lower position than the infrared receiver module. The method of claim 1, wherein the heating module, A heating pad in contact with the water polo; And And a heat source unit for heating a portion of the heating pad when a driving start signal is input from the control module. delete

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