EP0117279A2 - Système de signaux lumineux animés pour indicateur de direction - Google Patents

Système de signaux lumineux animés pour indicateur de direction Download PDF

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EP0117279A2
EP0117279A2 EP83109552A EP83109552A EP0117279A2 EP 0117279 A2 EP0117279 A2 EP 0117279A2 EP 83109552 A EP83109552 A EP 83109552A EP 83109552 A EP83109552 A EP 83109552A EP 0117279 A2 EP0117279 A2 EP 0117279A2
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Karl-Heinz Handke
Dieter Dipl.-Ing. Wade
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Adolf Nissen Elektrobau GmbH and Co KG
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B5/00—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied
    • G08B5/22—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
    • G08B5/36—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission using visible light sources
    • G08B5/38—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission using visible light sources using flashing light
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    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B5/00—Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied
    • G08B5/006—Portable traffic signalling devices

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  • the invention relates to a trend-setting running light system with a plurality of traffic lights which are to be set up in alignment and which are switched on and / or off in succession by means of a synchronous control, each with its own mains-independent power source.
  • the guide lights which have been known for almost twenty years and are used primarily on construction sites when a lane narrowing or a lane change is to be signaled, have the disadvantage that all lights have to be connected to one another or to a common control unit. Cabling is extremely undesirable, particularly on construction sites, since it is labor-intensive and prone to failure. It is theoretically possible to synchronize and program the individual lights of a chasing system using infrared signals. Because of the relatively high costs and also system-related disadvantages, chaser systems with radio control are generally out of the question.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide an improved, trend-setting running light system of the type mentioned in the introduction, which can be set up by laymen in a particularly simple manner without any wiring and which is also characterized by relatively low production and maintenance costs.
  • all lights are provided with an oscillator fed from the power source, that the oscillators of all lights work at the same frequency, that the synchronous control is provided with an electronic counter that periodically runs through its counter stages, which is then connected to the lights -Actuator turns on when the respective counter position coincides with the position that the corresponding luminaire should assume in the luminaire alignment, and that a common switch-on device which can be coupled to it is provided for all luminaires and is preferably located in a transport or collecting container in which the individual lights can be used in order according to their intended positions in the luminaire alignment.
  • each lamp can with an influenceable by the switch-P rocrrammschalter and be provided a clocked by the oscillator electronic counter, in which case in each lamp, the lamp end stage is connected only to a single predetermined counter stage, the position of which in the counter corresponds to the intended luminaire position in the luminaire alignment.
  • a current source, an oscillator and an electronic counter, which is clocked by the oscillator and which is common to all lights, can be provided in the common transport or collecting container for the common switching. Outputs are each connected to a specific, assigned luminaire location in the container.
  • the switch-on device can be connected to the lights arranged in the transport and collecting container either via plug contacts, a magnetic field or an infrared, ultrasound or similar connection.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 there are ten independent lights 1 to 10 provided with their own power source in a transport box 20, which contains three touch contacts 27 in its bottom or side surface for each individual light, with correspondingly designed touch contacts 26 the individual lights 1 to 10 can work together.
  • the three touch contacts in the transport box 20 are connected in parallel via lines 21, 22 and 23. These aforementioned lines lead to two pushbutton switches 24 and 25 with which the running light system can be switched on and off in a synchronizing manner in the manner to be described below.
  • the individual lights 1 to 10 can be accommodated in the transport box 20 in any manner.
  • the ten lights for example, are mounted in parallel one behind the other in one or two rows, which then also ensures that the upstanding optics with the incandescent or flash lamps, which are located outside the light housing, cannot be damaged.
  • each individual lamp L1 to L10 contains its own mains-independent power source 30 in the form of a dry battery or a rechargeable battery. Furthermore it is provided in each lamp L except the actual Vietnamesetstoff 35 is a crystal controlled oscillator 32 and a decadic counter 33rd
  • the synchronous switch 31 which can connect the voltage output of the voltage source 30 to the aforementioned electrical and electronic components, is used to switch the individual lights on and off.
  • the synchronous switch 31 is connected via the already mentioned touch contacts 26 to the touch contacts 27 provided in the transport box.
  • the circuit is made so that by utilizing the power supply by the individual voltage sources 30 by briefly pressing the button 24, all the lights can be switched on simultaneously and can also be switched off by pressing the button 25 once.
  • all lights 1 to 10 are switched on at the same time by actuating the switch 24 as long as they are still in the transport box 20. Then the individual lights can be removed and set up in the order provided, without the need for any line connections or controlling light or radio links. Switching on results in a synchronization of all lights, which is maintained even after the individual lights have been separated.
  • the reset input of the quartz oscillator 32 and the reset input of the decadal counter 33 are set to zero via the synchronous switch 31.
  • all the crystal oscillators 32 start at the same instant and emit a frequency of 10 Hz, for example, which corresponds to a pulse interval of 100 ms.
  • These pulses from the quartz oscillators 32 are passed to the decadal counter 33, which has ten outputs.
  • the counter output 1 is connected to the associated illuminant 35 via the output stage 34.
  • the counter output 2 is connected to its associated illuminant via the output stage and so on to the tenth lamp, where the tenth counter output is then connected to the associated illuminant via the output stage.
  • this can be illuminated light and also flash light or combination effects. It is also irrelevant to the invention whether the individual lamps are only switched on for a brief moment or whether all lamps remain switched on until a complete run has taken place, so that all lamps are then switched off at the same time before a new run begins. If, for example, xenon gas tubes are used as the illuminant, the output of the counter has the task of igniting the flash tube via the output stage 34.
  • the individual lights L1-L10 have no external contact connections to a synchronizing switch-on device.
  • the components 30 and 32 to 35 coincide with the components of FIG. 2 numbered in the same way. that the synchronous switch 41 now used is designed so that it can be switched on using an external magnetic field to start the counter 33.
  • the individual lights L1-L10 are brought together in a predetermined spatial position, for example in a transport frame in which the magnetic field generator is located, for synchronous switching on. 4 is next to all the lights or in the vicinity of their synchronous switches 41 an axis 43 to be rotated with a handle 44, which carries a permanent magnet 45 for each individual light. After the supply of a permanent magnetic pulse, all the counters 33 of the lights start up in the manner described above, so that the desired running light effect occurs.
  • electromagnets 46 can also be used, which are connected in parallel for each individual lamp and can be excited with the aid of a button 47 from a battery connected at 48.
  • a hand switch 42 is provided with which the voltage source 30 can be disconnected, the individual lights can be switched on and off separately. If the individual H are actuated andschalter 42 in succession, an asynchronous operation of the L results initially euchtstoff. Only after actuation of the synchronization device according to FIGS. 4 and 5 does the desired synchronization occur.
  • the synchronous switch 41 In order to make the synchronous switch 41 responsive to external magnetic fields, they preferably contain a reed contact, a Hall generator or a relay.
  • the electronic counter 33 provided in each individual luminaire according to FIG. 2 is replaced by a common counter 63 which is located in a special switch-on device.
  • This switch-on device is preferably part of a transport box common to all lights.
  • the switch-on device can also be designed as a handheld programming device.
  • the mentioned switch-on device 60 contains its own voltage source 61, for example an accumulator or a battery.
  • a two-pole switch 70 is used to start up the switch-on device 60, which switches on an oscillator 62 in the switched-on state and sets the reset input 71 of the electronic counter 63 to zero in the switched-off state.
  • the quartz-controlled oscillator 62 which can be designed in exactly the same way as the oscillators 32 of the aforementioned embodiments, is used to clock the electronic counter 63, the ten outputs of which, provided in a decade configuration, each lead to an amplifier 64.
  • infrared diodes 65 which are arranged in the transport box 20 in line of sight with photodiodes 53, which are located in the individual lighting units LI-LIO.
  • the corresponding light-emitting diodes 65 are arranged at the bottom of the transport box 20 at the individual parking spaces of the light units, specifically at a point at which there is an opening in the base surface of the light, behind which the photodiode 53 is arranged.
  • the switch-on distance between the switch-on device and the individual lights is therefore the line of sight between the infrared diode 65 and the photodiode 53.
  • Each individual lamp L1-L10 must be switched on manually using a switch 52 located on the lamp, which establishes the connection to the lamp's own power source 30.
  • the individual luminaires to be inserted in the transport container 20 each contain a battery 30, an infrared diode receiver 53 for later programming, a quartz oscillator 32, a divider 51 which emits a second pulse to the output stage 34 with the associated illuminant 35.
  • the switched-on divider 51 enables the oscillator 32 to run at a frequency which is considerably higher than the frequency at which the lamps 35 are to be switched.
  • the aforementioned switch-on device 60 is required, which is preferably installed in the transport box 20.
  • the battery 61 is switched on by actuating the two-pole switch 70 so that the oscillator 62 oscillates
  • the reset input 71 of the counter 63 is also released so that the counter can switch on the connected amplifiers 64 with their infrared diodes 65 one after the other with a time delay the infrared diodes 65 are received by the photodiode 53 in visual contact in the lights L1-L10.
  • the divider 51 is set to zero via the reset input and then begins to work according to the program, so that the desired sequence of lighting occurs.
  • programming was carried out using time-shifted IR pulses in the transport box. Understandably, with the system according to the invention, it is also possible to ensure that all the lamps light up or flash at the same time by emitting a synchronous pulse.
  • the switch-on device 60 can be used in exactly the same way as with a TV remote control.
  • a switch button is then provided for each luminaire position.
  • the handheld programmer is basically the same as the switch-ausgebi3det in the transport box, except that continuous drop the IR-diodes and p in an optical system, an IR is iode provided with which to the IR receiver may be irradiated at a luminaire. If you hold the handheld programming device in the direction of the first lamp and press the first switch, the lamp will receive the pulse that is intended for the first lamp. The same applies to the second luminaire, etc. If you program all luminaires with one and the same switch, you get a synchronously flashing system.

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EP0211227A2 (fr) * 1985-08-05 1987-02-25 Leonard Venn Dispositif avertisseur
DE3542412A1 (de) * 1985-11-30 1987-06-04 Horizont Geraetewerk Mehrfachlichtanlage
CN102602412A (zh) * 2012-03-19 2012-07-25 上海海事大学 地铁车厢空间人口密度分段指示器及其工作方法

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US3938080A (en) * 1974-06-03 1976-02-10 Kurt W. Thurston System for the programmed flashing of warning lights
DE2730852A1 (de) * 1977-07-08 1979-01-25 Royal Ind Inc N D Ges D Staate Warnleuchte sowie verfahren zum betreiben einer anordnung von warnleuchten

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US3938080A (en) * 1974-06-03 1976-02-10 Kurt W. Thurston System for the programmed flashing of warning lights
DE2730852A1 (de) * 1977-07-08 1979-01-25 Royal Ind Inc N D Ges D Staate Warnleuchte sowie verfahren zum betreiben einer anordnung von warnleuchten

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EP0211227A2 (fr) * 1985-08-05 1987-02-25 Leonard Venn Dispositif avertisseur
EP0211227A3 (fr) * 1985-08-05 1988-10-26 Leonard Venn Dispositif avertisseur
DE3542412A1 (de) * 1985-11-30 1987-06-04 Horizont Geraetewerk Mehrfachlichtanlage
CN102602412A (zh) * 2012-03-19 2012-07-25 上海海事大学 地铁车厢空间人口密度分段指示器及其工作方法

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