JP4665207B2 - Hydroelectric self-illumination auxiliary device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a device that generates electricity using water from a water faucet, a fountain in a park, a fall water of a waterfall, etc., and illuminates these or the vicinity thereof.

Conventionally, power generation using tap water can be found in Patent Document 1, Patent Document 2, Patent Document 3, Patent Document 4, Patent Document 5, and Patent Document 6 regarding the power generation itself. There are few proposals, and it can be seen slightly in Patent Document 7. In patent document 7, an ozone generator is driven with an electric power generation output, and tap water is disinfected with ozone. In the proposal regarding power generation itself of Patent Documents 1 to 6, technical questions remain in the power generation itself. FIG. 6 shows a hydroelectric generator 63 having a water flow flowing through the water pipe 61 at a speed v and a turbine blade 62 on the way. 6-A is a water pipe placed horizontally. If the flow velocity in front of the rotor blade 62 is v, and it is assumed that power is generated and the energy has moved to the water turbine side, the flow velocity of the water flow is slower after the rotor blade 62. This means that water stays on the output side because the velocity of the flowing water flow is slower than the velocity of the input water flow. Therefore, there is no stagnation in such a closed tube, and it is considered that energy cannot be taken with a continuous water flow. Patent Documents 1 to 6 do not explain this. Therefore, in order to take energy, a hydroelectric generator 63 having a rotary blade 62 is attached at or near the open end of the pipe as in 6-C, or a closed pipe having a drop as in 6-B. It is necessary to attach to. This is because if there is a drop, even if the energy is taken by the difference in potential energy, there is no change in speed. In any case, there are very few proposals related to the application of the power generation output as in the present invention.
JP-A-8-42440 JP 2002-138525 A JP 2001-295748 A JP 2003-254219 A JP 2002-332947 A JP2002-138842 JP-A-8-103777

    In view of the circumstances as described above, the problem to be solved by the present invention has been heretofore unknown, such as a water faucet, a shower, a terminal at the open end of a pipe such as a park fountain, or a waterfall. Because it generates energy by generating energy from the open water of the city and illuminates them or near it, it generates power by its own water flow and obtains lighting, so it is particularly lighting around the water in homes, parks without power sources, natural environments, etc. It is to provide a convenient thing to use for illumination.

    The present invention relates to a rotating blade that receives the water flow at or near the open end of a transport section such as a pipe that guides the water flow, or rotates in response to the open water, a generator driven by the rotor, and a power generation output thereof And a lighting device for self-illuminating the water flow or the vicinity thereof. Details will be described below.

The invention according to claim 1 is a hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device, which receives the water flow at or near an open end of a water flow transport section, or rotates by receiving open water and the rotation A generator that generates power by rotating blades, and energy that self-illuminates at least one of the water flow or the open water, the generator, the transport unit, the rotor blades, and the vicinity thereof with energy generated by the generated power. And a tool.

The invention according to claim 2 is the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device according to claim 1, characterized in that the hydropower self-lighting auxiliary device is connected to or integrated with a faucet of a water supply.

The invention according to claim 3 is the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device according to claim 1, characterized in that the hydropower self-lighting auxiliary device is connected to or integrated with a shower device.

The invention according to claim 4 is the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device according to claim 1, characterized in that the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device is connected to or integrated with a watering device.

The invention according to claim 5 is the hydropower self-illumination assisting device according to claim 1, characterized in that the hydropower self-illumination assisting device is connected to or integrated with the fountain device.

The invention according to claim 6 is the hydropower self-illumination assisting device according to claim 1, wherein the hydropower self-lighting assisting device is installed in a waterfall or an artificial waterfall as the open water, One of the waterfall or the artificial waterfall and its vicinity is illuminated.

A seventh aspect of the present invention is the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, wherein the illuminator includes one or a plurality of illuminators having a plurality of luminescent colors. And a control means for electronically switching at least one of invariant illumination conditions or brightness of light emitted from the illuminator and the color of emitted light.

The invention according to claim 8 is the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of light emission colors are generated using at least one of a different color reflector and a different color glass. It is characterized by that.

Since it is configured as described above, it is possible to obtain electric power from its own water flow from the open end of pipes such as water faucets, showers, park fountains, etc., or waterfalls. Decoration is possible.

The hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device of the present invention is suitable for illumination where there is an open end of a water flow tube or open water, particularly where there is no power source, and power is generated by its own water flow to illuminate the water flow. Can be installed in parks, etc. to provide optimal means. This will be described below with reference to examples.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, which is applied to a water tap 11. 12 is a hydroelectric power self-illumination assisting device according to the present invention, and a hydroelectric generator 14 having a rotary blade 13 is provided inside, and 15 is a control board for controlling a lighting device 16 such as an LED. The board | substrate 15 may contain the rectifier and the secondary battery for charge as needed. For example, when the cock 17 is opened and water flows, power generation occurs, and the lighting device 16 is turned on or blinks. The hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device 12 and the faucet, stop cock, etc. are integrated or not.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. The hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device 12 is substantially the same as in FIG. 1, but the water outlet has a shower water discharge surface having a large number of shower holes 20. Of course, the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device 12 and the shower hole 20 can be integrated or not.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. The whole 31 is a sprinkler-type hydroelectric self-lighting auxiliary device. The water entered from the input 32 is ejected vigorously from the sprinkling output 34 by opening the stop cock 33, hits the rotary blade 35, and the rotary blade rotates. A power generator (not shown) generates power, and a lighting tool 36 such as an LED is turned on or blinks by a lighting control board (not shown). Of course, the water spigot, the rotor blade, and the lighting device do not necessarily have to be integrated.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention. It is an example applied to fountains such as parks. Reference numeral 12 denotes a hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device that is substantially the same as that in FIG. 1, and generates electricity by receiving water from the fountain output terminal 41 or from the vicinity as shown in the figure, and illuminates via the illumination control board 15. The tool 42 is turned on or blinked. The illumination control board 15 may be outside the hydropower self-illumination auxiliary device 12. Further, the lighting device 42 and the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device 12 may be integrally formed, and the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device may be integrated.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the present invention. Ideal for night illumination of artificial waterfalls and natural waterfalls in parks. For example, FIG. 5 shows an example of a man-made waterfall, and there is a rotating rotor blade 51 that receives a rotating water flow and receives the rotation, and the hydroelectric generator 52 generates electricity. With the electric power, the lighting fixtures 54 and 55 are turned on or blinking via the lighting control board 53. In particular, a plurality of lighting fixtures are arranged in the lighting fixture 55, and the lighting is turned on with the same color, the lighting fixtures are turned on with different colors, or the lighting can be switched depending on the time, so that it is possible to add aesthetics to the illumination. . This can be done by storing the lighting procedure in a memory on the control board 53 and reading it by an instruction from a microcomputer or the like. Of course, the illumination is one color (for example, white), but it is possible to increase the number of illumination emission colors by installing different color reflectors or colored glass such as stained glass.

In the above embodiment, the power generation output can be charged to the secondary battery through a rectifier or a voltage controller installed on the control board 53, for example, and belongs to the scope of the present invention. It goes without saying that it is possible to illuminate when charged water is not flowing. Furthermore, it is needless to say that the shape of the rotor blade used in the hydroelectric generator is not limited to that shown in the figure, and a known one can be used.

  The hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device as described above is suitable for use in lighting and illumination of water around a home or a park, or for illumination of a natural waterfall at night for sightseeing.

It is a figure which shows one embodiment of the hydroelectric power generation self-illumination auxiliary device which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows another embodiment of the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows another embodiment of the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows another embodiment of the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows another embodiment of the hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the subject of the conventional hydroelectric generator in a patent document.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Faucet, 12 Hydroelectric power generation self-illumination auxiliary device 13, 35, 51, 62 Rotor blade, 14, 52, 63 Hydroelectric generator 15, 53 Control board, 16, 36, 42, 54, 55 Illuminator 17 Cock, 20 Shower hole, 31 Sprinkle-type hydropower self-lighting auxiliary device 32 input, 33 stopcock, 34 sprinkling output, 41 fountain output terminal 61 water pipe

Claims (2)

A rotating blade that receives open water at the open end of the water flow transportation part or in the vicinity of the transportation part and rotates, a generator that generates electricity by the rotation of the rotating blade, and energy generated by the power generated by the generator, A hydroelectric power self-illumination assisting device comprising: an illuminating device that self-illuminates at least one of the vicinity thereof, and installed in the artificial waterfall as the open water . The luminaire includes one or a plurality of luminaires having a plurality of emission colors, and control means for electronically switching at least one of invariant illumination conditions or light emission brightness of the luminaires and the emission color. The hydroelectric power self-illumination auxiliary device according to claim 1 .

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