JP2005180017A - Wall display device for curtain wall skyscraper - Google Patents

Abstract

[PROBLEMS] To envisage a huge curtain wall skyscraper, for example, in an environment where a building is viewed from a distance across a large river or bay, or a railway or highway, the wall surface of the building can function as a huge screen display. In addition, the curtain wall panel material can be easily implemented by modifying the bar material (sash) for attaching the panel material, basically without modifying the panel material of the curtain wall. A “wall display device for a building” is provided.
An outer peripheral wall is formed by connecting and fixing a large number of panel materials to a support mechanism fixed to a slab or beam of a structural frame, and a large number of bar materials for fixing the edge of the panel material are formed on the outer peripheral wall surface. In a curtain wall skyscraper arrayed in parallel with each other, a large number of multicolor lamp units are attached to each bar, and these multicolor lamp units are arrayed in a substantially uniform distribution on the outer peripheral wall surface. The wiring along the bar is electrically connected to the display driving system, and the display driving system individually controls the emission color and luminance of each multicolor lamp unit.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a wall surface display device that allows a wall surface of a curtain wall skyscraper to function as a display of a huge screen, and more particularly to a structure in which a panel material such as a glass panel of a curtain wall is basically left untouched.

  In urban buildings, you often see a large-screen public display installed on the wall of the building. Recently, a dot matrix type full-color large screen LED display device using an LED lamp as a display element has been widely used as a public display, and has sent out various images similar to television images.

  A large screen LED display device used as this type of public display has a structure that is externally installed on the wall surface of an existing building and a pre-designed opening on the wall surface of the building, and fills the opening. A typical structure is one that can be installed as much as possible. None of the devices having these structures is suitable for constructing a huge screen display having multiple layers in terms of practical workability and maintainability.

  Under such a technical background, the applicants first made an invention of a high-rise building (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-132123) equipped with a huge screen display facing outside on the inside of a transparent glass outer wall. did. The high-rise building to which this invention is applied is actually constructed and operated. In this connection, the applicants have invented a louver structure module (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-200054) that constitutes a huge screen display, or a high-density dot matrix type display with a low-density dot configuration. The invention includes a control method and a display system (Japanese Patent No. 3313312) and a full-color LED display system (Japanese Patent No. 3294597) for displaying bitmap image data having a high density dot configuration, and these technologies are also applied to a public display. It is carried out.

  In the "high-rise building equipped with a huge screen display facing outside inside the transparent glass outer wall" developed and currently being implemented by the applicants, the basic structure of the building is designed on the assumption that a large screen display will be incorporated There was a need to do. In contrast to this, there is no invention that can easily incorporate a large-screen LED display device into a part of the outer peripheral wall of a general curtain wall construction, regardless of the basic design of the building. (Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-355553), this apparatus has already been implemented. This is configured so that an LED dot matrix panel finished as thin as possible can be attached as a panel material for a curtain wall.

  Unlike the above-mentioned inventions already implemented, this invention assumes a huge curtain wall skyscraper, for example, in an environment where a building is viewed from a distance across a large river, a cove, or a railway or a highway. The wall surface of the building can function as a huge screen display, and the panel material of the curtain wall is basically not modified, and the bar material (sash) for attaching the panel material is devised. The present invention provides a “wall-wall display device for a curtain wall skyscraper” that can be easily implemented.

  The “wall-wall display device for curtain wall high-rise building” according to the present invention basically has an outer peripheral wall by connecting and fixing a number of panel members to a support mechanism fixed to a slab or beam of a structural frame. In a curtain wall high-rise building that is configured and a large number of bars that fix the edge of the panel material are arranged parallel to the outer peripheral wall surface, a number of multicolor lamp units are attached to each bar, and these multicolor lamps The units are arranged on the outer peripheral wall surface with a substantially uniform distribution, and the multicolor lamp unit is electrically connected to the display drive system including the wiring along the bar, and the display drive system is connected to the emission color of each multicolor lamp unit. The brightness is individually controlled.

In the above basic configuration, the following technical items (A) to (D) can be appropriately selected and additionally employed.
(A) The multi-color lamp unit includes an LED collective lamp, a low current driver that drives the LED collective lamp, a latch circuit that temporarily stores light emission control data applied to the low current driver, and light emission control data from the display drive system. A data shift circuit for transferring and taking in the latch circuit is integrally mounted.
(B) The display driving system and a large number of multicolor lamp units are connected by a data transfer system branched in a dendritic manner, and a data distribution control circuit is interposed at the branch point of the data transfer system.
(C) The display driving system stores bitmap-format image data in a memory, sequentially reads out each pixel data constituting the image data from the memory, and transfers and distributes each pixel data to each multi-color lamp unit. The color lamp unit is driven to emit light based on each pixel data.
(D) The panel material which comprises an outer peripheral wall is a glass panel.

  The present invention can be easily implemented by devising the bar material (sash) for attaching the panel material without basically changing the panel material of the curtain wall construction method. The wall of the skyscraper can be used as a huge screen display.

=== Appearance of the building to which the invention is applied ===
FIG. 1 shows a rough appearance of a curtain wall skyscraper to which the present invention is applied. The height of this building is about 160 meters, and the shape of the cross section of the building is almost rectangular. Four surfaces of the building outer peripheral wall are constituted by an array of a large number of panel members 1, 1,. As is well known, in the curtain wall construction method, mullions are joined to slabs and beams of the structural frame of the building at appropriate intervals, and panel materials are provided between the mullions via sashes and seams (also called bars). 1 is fixed to constitute the outer peripheral wall. When applying this invention, there is no restriction | limiting in the kind of panel material, Various curtain wall outer wall materials, such as a glass panel, a metal panel, and a PC panel, can be used.
On the outer wall surface of the building, vertical bars 2 and horizontal bars 3 which are main bars of a support mechanism for fixing a large number of panel members 1 are arranged in a lattice shape. The arrangement pitch of the vertical bars 2 is about 180 centimeters, and the arrangement pitch of the horizontal bars 3 is about 400 centimeters.

=== Screen area XY ===
In the building exterior shown in FIG. 1, the wall surface display device of the present invention is incorporated in the central portion of the right building outer wall surface. The screen of the wall surface display device is a region to which the horizontal X and vertical Y symbols in FIG. Hereinafter, this area is also referred to as a screen area XY.

  In the specific example shown in FIG. 1, the screen area XY includes 17 vertical bars 2 arranged at intervals of about 180 centimeters, and these vertical bars 2 are shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. A lamp bar 4 is attached.

  The total length of one lamp bar 4 is about 400 centimeters. One lamp bar 4 has 17 multicolor lamp units 5 mounted at a constant pitch (about 17 centimeters). One multicolor lamp unit 5 is a lamp in which red LEDs, green LEDs, and blue LEDs are assembled and mounted.

  The height of the screen area XY is about (4 meters × 27), and 27 lamp bars 4 are attached along one vertical rail 2 in the screen area XY. 17 vertical bars 2 are included in the screen area XY, and 27 lamp bars 4 are attached to all of them. That is, in the screen area XY, 17 vertical lines are arranged in parallel at a pitch of 180 centimeters, and 27 lamp bars 4 are continuously arranged in a straight line along each vertical line. In the lamp bar 4, multicolor lamp units 5 are arranged at a pitch of about 17 centimeters.

  That is, in the screen area XY, 24 × 27 = 648 multicolor lamp units 5 are arranged in the vertical direction at a pitch of about 17 centimeters, and 17 multicolor lamp units 5 are arranged in the horizontal direction. They are arranged at a pitch of about 180 centimeters. A total of (648 × 17 = 1016) multicolor lamp units 5 are arranged in the screen area XY in an orderly manner. With this configuration, a dot matrix type display screen having one multicolor lamp unit 5 as one pixel is formed.

=== Mounting structure of the lamp bar 4 ===
FIG. 4 shows the positions of the glass panel 6 (which is a double plate glass) that forms the outer wall surface of the building, the vertical beam 2 that supports the glass panel 6, and the lamp bar 4 in the screen region XY. It is a relationship. The vertical beam 2 is located inside the building at the joint portion between two adjacent glass panels 6. The lamp bar 4 is positioned so as to be close to and along the vertical rail 2 on the outside of the building.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the lamp bar 4 is attached to a bracket 7 that holds the back of the lamp bar 4. A plurality of connecting brackets 8 are attached to the back of the bracket 7, and the connecting bracket 8 passes through the joint portion of two adjacent glass panels 6 and the vertical beam 2 inside the building and the bracket 7 and lamp bar outside the building. 4 are mechanically connected and fixed.

=== Built-in circuit of the lamp bar 4 ===
An electric circuit shown in FIG. 5 is built in one lamp bar 4 provided with 24 multicolor lamp units 5. This built-in circuit is divided into an LED drive circuit unit 9, a communication circuit unit 10, and a power supply circuit unit 11.
The LED drive circuit unit 9 is an assembly of circuits that individually drive the light emission of the 24 multi-color lamp units 5, and individually the red LED, the green LED, and the blue LED in the single multi-color lamp unit 5. This is a circuit for driving light emission.
A communication circuit unit 10 sends a set of red data, green data, and blue data (referred to as pixel data) and a control signal for each of the 24 multicolor lamp units 5 to the LED drive circuit unit 9. come. The LED drive circuit unit 9 temporarily stores pixel data for 24 dots, and drives the 24 multicolor lamp units 5 to emit light based on the pixel data.

The communication circuit unit 10 receives pixel data inputted in series from the input cable Kin, sends pixel data for 24 dots to be taken into its lamp bar 4 to the LED drive circuit unit 9, and other pixel data. Sequentially output from the output cable Kout (relay transfer).
The power supply circuit unit 11 receives a direct current 15 volt power supply supplied from the power cable Kp, converts it into a direct current 5 volt power supply for the logic circuit in the communication circuit unit 10 and the LED drive circuit unit 9, and supplies it to the main points. The direct current 15 volt power source is applied to the main point as a driving power source for the multicolor lamp unit 5.

=== Interconnection of lamp bars 4 ===
As described in FIG. 5 and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the input cable Kin, the output cable Kout, and the power cable Kp are drawn out from the lower end portion of one lamp bar 4. And as shown in FIG. 3, the cable of each lamp bar 4 is mutually connected in the horizontal direction.
Since the output cable Kout of a certain lamp bar 4 is connected to the input cable Kin of the adjacent lamp bar 4, data transfer lines of 17 lamp bars 4 arranged in the horizontal direction are connected in series.
In addition, a vertical power supply cable 12 is connected to a large power supply apparatus (not shown), and 27 horizontal power supply cables 13 are branched therefrom. The power cables Kp of the 17 lamp bars 4 arranged in the horizontal direction are connected to a plurality of power supply units 14 connected to the horizontal power cable 13 and are supplied with power.

=== Display drive system ===
A configuration example of the overall display drive system of the wall surface display device is shown in FIG. The image sending device 20 is a computer that operates the wall surface display device, reads the image data prepared in the memory 21 in a predetermined order and speed, and sequentially sends each pixel data constituting the image data and a control signal. .

  The image data output in series from the image sending device 12 is transferred to the screen area XY through the vertical data cable 15 also shown in FIG. Twenty-seven data distribution units 16 are branched and connected to the vertical data cable 15. The 27 data distribution units 16 are connected to the input cables Kin of the lamp bars 4 positioned at the ends of the 17 lamp bars 4 that are laterally connected.

  As described above, a display drive system for individually controlling the emission color and brightness of each multicolor lamp unit 5 is configured for a multicolor lamp unit group having a dot matrix configuration of 648 dots vertically by 17 dots horizontally. The image sending device 20 distributes each pixel data of the bitmap format image data prepared in the memory 21 as planned by the multicolor lamp unit 5 of 648 dots long × 17 dots wide. Thus, an image corresponding to the image data sent to the screen area XY is displayed.

=== Waterproof structure ===
Since the multicolor lamp unit 5 and the lamp bar 4 are exposed to rain on the outer surface of the building, they are waterproof. As for the waterproof structure of this part, known techniques with many achievements are already known. In the present invention, since the cables Kin, Kout, Kp drawn from the lamp bar 4 are wired inside the building outer wall surface, a waterproof measure is required at the portion where the cable penetrates the building outer wall panel member 70. An example of the waterproof structure of this portion is shown in FIG. As shown in this example, the panel material 70 is sandwiched between the bushing 72 through which the cable K passes and the bushing nut 71, and the seal rings 73 and 74 provide waterproofing at two joints.

  The specific numerical example shown in FIG. 1 is not necessarily a desirable example, but is an explanatory example in consideration of the resolving power of the drawing.

It is a rough external view of the skyscraper to which this invention is applied. 1 is an external view of one lamp bar according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. It is a relationship diagram between lamp bars in the example. It is a related figure of the glass panel in an Example, a vertical cross, and a lamp bar. It is a block diagram of the built-in circuit of the lamp bar in an Example. It is a block diagram of the display drive system in an Example. It is sectional drawing of the waterproof structure of the cable penetration part in an Example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Panel material 2 Vertical beam 3 Horizontal beam 4 Lamp bar 5 Multicolor lamp unit 6 Glass panel 7 Bracket 8 Connecting metal fitting 9 LED drive circuit part 10 Communication circuit part 11 Power supply circuit part 12 Vertical power supply cable 13 Horizontal power supply cable 14 Power supply unit 15 Vertical data cable 16 Data distribution unit 20 Image sending device 21 Memory Kin Input cable Kout Output cable Kp Power cable,

Claims (5)

  A large number of panel members are connected and fixed to a support mechanism fixed to the slab or beam of the structural frame to form an outer peripheral wall, and a large number of bar members that fix the edge of the panel material are arranged in parallel to the outer peripheral wall surface. In a curtain wall high-rise building, many multicolor lamp units are attached to each bar, and these multicolor lamp units are arranged in a substantially uniform distribution on the outer peripheral wall surface. A wall display device for a curtain wall high-rise building, wherein the display drive system includes a wiring and is electrically connected to a display drive system, and the display drive system individually controls the emission color and brightness of each multicolor lamp unit.   2. The multicolor lamp unit according to claim 1, wherein the multi-color lamp unit includes an LED collective lamp, a low current driver for driving the LED collective lamp, a latch circuit for temporarily storing light emission control data to be given to the low current driver, and light emission control from the display drive system. A wall display device for a curtain wall skyscraper, in which a data shift circuit for transferring data and taking in a latch circuit is integrally mounted.   3. The display driving system and a plurality of multicolor lamp units are combined by a data transfer system branched in a dendritic manner, and a data distribution control circuit is interposed at the branch point of the data transfer system. A wall display device for a curtain wall skyscraper characterized by the above.   4. The display driving system according to claim 1, wherein the display drive system stores bitmap-format image data in a memory, sequentially reads each pixel data constituting the image data from the memory, and reads each pixel data from each multicolor lamp unit. A wall surface display unit for a curtain wall skyscraper, wherein each multicolor lamp unit is driven to emit light based on each pixel data.   5. The wall surface display device for a curtain wall high-rise building according to claim 1, wherein the panel material constituting the outer peripheral wall is a glass panel.

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