KR101583319B1 - Delineator for Curved Zone of Roadway - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a driver with different colors of light according to the turning radius of the road curve section and the driving angle of the vehicle, which are continuously installed at the boundary of the curved section of the road, The present invention relates to a delineator for a curved section of a road so as to improve safety by transmitting continuous visual information varying in time to a turning radius of the curved section, A cylindrical or polygonal columnar housing fixedly installed at a boundary of the curved section; And a plurality of color display members arranged at regular intervals along the periphery of the housing and adapted to emit light of different colors.

Description

Delineator for Curved Zone of Roadway "

More particularly, the present invention relates to a safety indicator which is installed continuously at a boundary of a curved section of a road and which is provided to a driver in accordance with the turning radius of the road curved section and the running angle of the vehicle, The present invention relates to a delineator for a curved section of a road, which is capable of improving safety by transmitting information related to road boundaries and continuous visual perception information varying instantaneously according to the radius of rotation of the curved section.

A delineator, which shows the outline of the guard rail, the median separator, and the retaining wall at night, is installed almost entirely on the expressway or the automobile exclusive road, and furthermore, the curved road is provided with the deliberator and the direction of the curve The curved signs that are displayed are installed to reduce safety accidents.

Typically, the deliner is equipped with a reflection plate attached to a disk-shaped mounting member and fixed to a guard rail or a median separator. The curved sign is a large square sign composed of a back reflection sheet and a reflection sheet for curve display, Respectively.

However, the conventional safety devices such as the deliner installed in the curved section of the road are continuously installed at the road boundary, so that the driver only provides information related to the presence or absence of the road curved section and the boundary position of the curved section, The information about the turning radius, the running state (angle) of the vehicle in the curved section, and the like are not transmitted, and thus there is a limit to improve the safety.

Of course, in order to provide information on the degree of curvature in consideration of the turning radius, a curved sign or the like is provided or a separate sign for announcing the "rapid curve" section is provided, but these are not intuitive visual information indicating low degree of visibility and degree of curvature It tends to be easily ignored by the driver. In addition, it does not give differentiated warning by providing certain information irrespective of the change of night and weather, and there is a problem that safety is remarkably lowered due to low visibility at night and worsening of weather.

Open Patent No. 2004-0069544 (Published on August 06, 2004) "Deliner with curved road display function" Registered Patent No. 10-0733708 (Date of Registration June 22, 2007) "Deliner having rotating reflector"

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a driver of a vehicle, which is provided continuously at a boundary of a curved section of a road and provides light of different colors to a driver according to a turning radius of the road- The present invention provides a delineator for a curved section of a road which is capable of enhancing safety by transmitting consecutive time information that varies at various angles according to the turning radius of the curved section, .

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a delineator for a curved section of a road, comprising: a cylindrical or polygonal columnar housing fixedly installed at a boundary of a curved section of a road; And a plurality of color display members arranged at regular intervals along the periphery of the housing and adapted to emit light of different colors.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a delineator for a curved segment of the present invention, comprising: an environment detection sensor for detecting information on a surrounding environment in a curve section of a road; And a controller for controlling emission of light through the color display member 20.

According to the present invention, since the color indicating members of the colors are arranged at regular intervals along the periphery of the columnar housing, before the vehicle enters the curved section, the color indicator is provided in the deliner according to the turning radius of the front curved section The change of the color spectrum is changed, and the change of color spectrum of such a deliner allows the driver to intuitively recognize the degree of the turning radius of the curved road.

Also, when the vehicle enters the curve section, the driver can see different colors according to the driving angle of the vehicle. Accordingly, since the driver can immediately recognize the running state of the vehicle according to the turning radius of the curved section, the driving direction of the vehicle can be controlled through the continuous time information that varies instantaneously in the curved section, There is an effect.

1 is a perspective view showing a delineator for a curved section of a road according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a curved section delineator of the road of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a view showing a state in which a curved section delineator of the road of Fig. 1 is installed on the road.
4 is a front view showing a part of a delineator for a curve section of a road according to another embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a cross-sectional view showing a delineator for a curve section of a road according to another embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

1 to 3, a curvilinear section deliner 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a cylindrical or polygonal columnar housing 10 fixedly installed at a boundary of a curved section of a road, And a plurality of color display members 20 arranged at regular intervals along the circumference of the housing 10 and adapted to emit light of different colors.

The housing 10 is fixed to a guard rail or a pillar installed in a curved section of the road. The housing 10 may have a cylindrical shape as shown in FIG. 1, but may have a polygonal column shape. Here, the term "prismatic" may include not only a columnar shape having a polygonal shape (for example, an octagonal shape or a hexagonal shape) having all sides of a straight line, but also a columnar shape of a partial shape and a polygonal shape.

A plurality of light guide holes 11 for mounting the color display member 20 are formed in the housing 10. A partition wall 12 for isolating the respective color display members 20 from each other is formed on the inner side surface of the housing 10 so that the light emitted from each color display member 20 is adjacent It is possible to prevent the other color display member 20 from being influenced.

The color display member 20 may include a light source to emit light of a specific color by itself, but may be configured to reflect light of a specific color by a light emitted from the vehicle by applying a reflector applied to a known deliner . When the color display member 20 includes a light source that emits light by a power source applied from the outside, it is preferable to apply an LED light source that emits light of a specific color to the light source.

Of course, both of the reflector and the light source may be used as the color display member 20 without being used solely. 2, the color display member 20 includes a reflection plate 21 that reflects light of a specific color by light emitted from a vehicle, and a reflection plate 21 that is provided inside the reflection plate 21, And an LED light source 22 that emits light to the outside through the reflector 21 by an applied power source.

In this embodiment, each of the color display members 20 includes a plurality of circular or polygonal reflection plates 21 and LED light sources 22 having the same hue, arranged in a vertical direction at regular intervals, Thereby forming a color display member row. The color of the color display member 20 provided on the surface of the housing 10 which is substantially perpendicular to the traveling direction of the roads of the respective color display members 20 is red and the color of the color display member 20 is red, The color of the color display member 20 provided on the surface of the color display member 20 is green and the plurality of color display member 20 columns arranged between the green color display member 20 row and the red color display member 20 row It is preferable to have colors (yellow and orange) of a continuous color spectrum between red and green (see FIG. 1).

The LED light source 22 of the color display member 20 may be powered only at night to emit light. However, the illuminance of the LED light source 22 of the color display member 20 may vary depending on the illuminance of the place where the curved section delineator 1 is installed, And can be controlled to emit light in accordance with the surrounding environment. In order to achieve the above object, according to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a color display device, comprising: an environmental sensor installed inside the housing or outside the housing to detect a surrounding environment; A controller for controlling the emission of light through the light source 20 can be further configured.

The environmental sensor may include an ambient light sensor for sensing ambient brightness and / or a humidity sensor for sensing ambient humidity.

The controller controls the LED light source 22 to continuously emit light when the measured value of the ambient light sensor or the humidity sensor is equal to or greater than the predetermined value or turns the LED light source 22 on / It may be controlled to be flickered.

The curved section delineator 1 of the present invention constructed as above operates as follows.

Before the vehicle enters the curve section of the road, the spectral range of the colors emitted from the forward (1) delineator (1) according to the radius of rotation of the front curve section is changed from green to yellow in the mild state, The intuitive visual information corresponding to the turning radius of the curved road is transmitted to the driver.

When the vehicle enters the curved section of the road, the delinator 1 enters the field of view of the driver. At this time, when the vehicle is substantially aligned with the direction of the road, The color of the color display member 20 made of green or yellow next to it comes into the view of the driver (see FIG. 3).

As described above, the deliner 1 of the present invention provides intuitive visibility information according to the turning radius of the front curved section to the driver before the vehicle enters the curved section. When the vehicle runs in the curved section, It is possible to recognize whether the driving angle of the vehicle is accurately maintained according to the turning radius of the curved section while continuously viewing the colors emitted from the color display members 20 of the controller 1 continuously.

If the driving direction of the vehicle is greatly changed in the road direction during the course of the curve, the color of the orange or red color indicating member 20 of the deliner 1 is shown in the driver's view, It is possible to prevent accidents by adjusting the direction so as to coincide with the road direction.

As described above, the deliner according to the present invention provides intuitive visual perception information for helping the driver of the vehicle to prepare ahead according to the turning radius of the front curve section in the state of entering the curved section of the road, The driver of the vehicle traveling in the curve section immediately recognizes the running state of the vehicle according to the turning radius of the curved section through the continuous time information changing every moment of the delinner so that the traveling direction of the vehicle can be safely adjusted .

Meanwhile, in the above-described embodiment, a plurality of circular or polygonal reflection plates and / or light sources having the same hue are arranged at regular intervals in the vertical direction in the vertical direction to form a group, and a color display member 20 And the rows of the respective color display members 20 are configured to emit different colors.

However, as shown in another embodiment in Fig. 4, a plurality of color display members 20 are formed in a stripe shape in the upper and lower vertical directions, and the color display members 20 in the form of strips Or may be configured to emit light of a different color.

Although the color display member 20 is disposed inside the light guide hole 11 and emits light to the outside through the light guide hole 11 in the above embodiment, The color display member 20 may be directly mounted on the outer surface of the housing 10 as shown in Fig. In this case, an outer partition wall 13 is formed on the outer surface of the housing 10 so as to protrude outward so as to shield between the respective color display members 20, so that light emitted through the color display member 20 It is desirable to minimize the influence on the color display member 20.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims. And it is to be understood that such modified embodiments belong to the scope of protection of the present invention defined by the appended claims.

1: deliner 10: housing
11: light guide hole 12: partition wall
13: outer barrier rib 20: color display member
21: reflector 22: LED light source

Claims (12)

A cylindrical or polygonal columnar housing 10 fixedly attached to a boundary of a curved section of the road;
At least three color display members (20) arranged at regular intervals along the periphery of the housing (10) and emitting light of different colors along the circumferential direction;
The hue of the color display member 20 provided on the surface of the housing 10 perpendicular to the traveling direction of the color display member 20 is red and is provided on the surface of the housing 10 which is horizontal to the traveling direction of the road The color display member 20 is colored green and the plurality of color display members 20 arranged between the green color display member 20 and the red color display member 20 is a continuous color between red and green And a color of the spectrum. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an environment sensor for sensing information about a surrounding environment in a curved section of the road; Further comprising a controller for controlling the curve section of the road. [3] The deliner according to claim 2, wherein the environment sensor is an illuminance sensor or a humidity sensor. The deliner according to claim 1, wherein the color display member (20) is a light source that emits light by an external power source. The deliner for a curve section of a road according to claim 1, wherein the color display member (20) is a reflector for reflecting light of a specific color by light emitted from a vehicle. The color display device according to claim 1, wherein the color display member (20) comprises a reflection plate (21) for reflecting light of a specific color by light emitted from a vehicle, and a power supply And an LED light source (22) for emitting light to the outside through a reflection plate (21). The color display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a plurality of light guide holes (11) are formed in the housing (10), and the color display member (20) And a color is emitted through the light guide hole (11). A deliner for a curved section of a road. 7. The color display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein outer walls (13) for shielding between the color display members (20) are formed on the outer surface of the housing (10) A delineator for the curved section of a road. The display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein a partition wall (12) for isolating the color display members (20) from each other is formed in the housing (10) And the light emitted from the member (20) is prevented from affecting the other adjacent color display member (20). delete 7. The color display device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein each of the color display members (20) has a plurality of circular or polygonal reflection plates or light sources of the same color arranged at regular intervals in the vertical direction Wherein the curvilinear section of the road is provided with a curved section. The deliner for a curved section of a road according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the plurality of color display members (20) are in the form of a stripe in the vertical direction.

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