The present disclosure relates to an escape system used for a car being sunken into water and an ultrasonic component of the escape system, both of which utilize the property of the ultrasonic to transmit a car sunken signal and an obstacle signal, to recognize the type and thickness of obstacles which are accumulated in the ultrasonic component, and to determine whether a warning message for sweeping the obstacles should be sent, so as to maintain a sensitivity of the ultrasonic component and further to prevent the ultrasonic component from mistakenly judging that the car is sunken into water. The escape system used for the car being sunken into water and its ultrasonic component of the present disclosure are helpful to quickly receive and send out the information which the car is sunken in water, so as to grasp the rescue opportunity.
In the government promotion information, people are often educated that when their cars fall into water accidentally, the cars may be sunken easily due to the weight of the engines at the car heads. When this thing happens, people in the car should keep calm, unlock the safety belt firstly and open a car window as soon as possible, so that they can climb out of the car from the car window before the car has been sunken in water. However, if the car has already been sunken in water, the car doors will not be opened easily due to the water pressure difference between the inner part and the outer part of the car, and the automatic car windows will not be activated as water has entered into the car. At this moment, the car will be sunken completely in about 90 seconds, and the trapped persons should find a sharp object in the car in time to strike the front or back windshield to grasp a chance of survival. On the contrary, if not being able to take the chance of escape in 90 seconds, the trapped persons will have a very little chance of survival.
TW Patent TW M416576 provides a conventional escape system used for a car being sunken into water includes a car body, an inflating device, a water gauge and a control unit. The car body is provided with sides, and the inflating device is mounted on one side of the car body and includes a pressurized gas cylinder, an inflating ball and an inflating ball control module. The pressurized gas cylinder is mounted inside the car body, the inflating ball is mounted outside the car body, and the inflating ball control module is connected to the pressurized gas cylinder and the inflating ball. The inflating ball control module includes a hoop, a pressurized gas cylinder switch and a driver unit. The water gauge is mounted outside the car body, and the control unit is electrically connected to the water gauge and the inflating ball control module. Accordingly, when the water gauge has detected that the water level is too high, the inflating device can be activated to inflate the inflating ball quickly, thereby preventing the car body from being sunken in water, which in turn can save the life of the driver. Furthermore, a warning lamp is mounted on a top of the headlight to flash for rescue. However, when the car falls into water, the water gauge and the inflating ball will move upward due to the buoyancy effect of water, and an activating time of the inflating ball is affected by a spring tension, which acts as a resistant force. Therefore, a signal transmission time of a sensor is delayed, which in turn postpones timing of inflating the inflating ball. Eventually, the timing for rescuing the trapped person is missed.
Further, the water gauge of the escape system used for the car being sunken into water comprises a case, an inflation barrel, a rod, a spring and the sensor. The case has a bottom part and a water inlet, and the obstacle, such as snow, sand, dust and other object unavoidably enters water gauge via the After the snow is frozen, the spring may be stuck, and the water gauge becomes invalid. Similarly, the sands, dusts and other objects may be accumulated for a period, and the spring is stuck to make the water gauge invalid. Further, when the obstacle, such as the snow, sand, dust and other object, enters the water gauge, the water gauge has no warning mechanism to identify the types of the obstacles. Thus, it causes the user of the car not to know that the watergauge is invalid, and the user mistakenly believes the water gauge works well. It is a very bad thing that life and safety of the user depend on the invalid water gauge.
Other related patent documents are U.S. Pat. Nos. 10,352,086, 10,150,439 and 10,564,027.
A main objective of the present disclosure is to provide an escape system used for a car being sunken into water and an ultrasonic component of the escape system, which can transmit a car sunken signal or an obstacle signal, and identify the type of the obstacle to prevent the ultrasonic component from mistakenly judging that the car is sunken. Thus, the escape system and its ultrasonic component are helpful to quickly and correctly send out the information which the car is sunken, so as to grasp the rescue opportunity.
According to one objective of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides an ultrasonic component comprising: a case, having a reception space therein, at least one side of the case has at least one penetration hole; and an ultrasonic module, disposed in the reception space, the ultrasonic module comprises an ultrasonic signal transmitting unit, at least one top receiving unit electrically connected to the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit, a calculation unit electrically connected to the top receiving unit and a signal transmitting unit electrically connected to the calculation unit; both of the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit and the top receiving unit are disposed at one side of the reception space, and the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit and the top receiving unit are disposed on a top part of the reception space; wherein the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit projects an ultrasonic wave; the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit is disposed at a projection point, the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit projects the ultrasonic wave to a bottom wall surface of the case with a projection angle, wherein the projection angle is a complementary angle of an angle formed between a propagating direction of the ultrasonic wave and a gravity line of the projection point, and the projection angle is less than 90 degrees and larger than 0 degree; wherein the ultrasonic wave firstly collides with a reflection point of the bottom wall surface, and then is reflected to generate a primary reflection wave; the primary reflection wave propagates toward a top wall surface of the case, and then firstly collides with a scheduled reception point of the top wall surface; a primary path is formed from a path from the projection point to the reflection point and a path from the reflection point to the scheduled reception point; the top receiving unit is not disposed in the primary path.
According to one objective of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides an ultrasonic component comprising: a case, having a reception space therein, at least one side of the case has at least one penetration hole; and an ultrasonic module, disposed in the reception space, the ultrasonic module comprises an ultrasonic signal transmitting unit, at least one top receiving unit electrically connected to the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit, a calculation unit electrically connected to the top receiving unit and a signal transmitting unit electrically connected to the calculation unit; both of the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit and the top receiving unit are disposed at one side of the reception space, and the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit and the top receiving unit are disposed on a top part of the reception space; wherein the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit projects an ultrasonic wave; the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit is disposed at a projection point, the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit projects the ultrasonic wave to a bottom wall surface of the case with a projection angle, wherein the projection angle is a complementary angle of an angle formed between a propagating direction of the ultrasonic wave and a gravity line of the projection point, and the projection angle is less than 90 degrees and larger than 0 degree; wherein the ultrasonic wave firstly collides with a reflection point of the bottom wall surface, and then is reflected to generate a primary reflection wave; the primary reflection wave propagates toward a top wall surface of the case, and then firstly collides with a scheduled reception point of the top wall surface; a primary path is formed from a path from the projection point to the reflection point and a path from the reflection point to the scheduled reception point; the top receiving unit is disposed in the primary path, the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit projects the ultrasonic wave by projecting an ultrasonic pulse wave with a pulse repetition period, and the pulse repetition period is transmitted to the top receiving unit; when the top receiving unit does not receive a reflection wave in two adjacent pulse repetition periods, the top receiving unit generates an interrupt signal to the calculation unit, wherein the reflection wave is generated after the ultrasonic wave collides with at least one obstacle on a bottom part of the reception space; the calculation unit converts the interrupt signal into a car sunken signal or an obstacle signal, and transmits the car sunken signal or the obstacle signal to the signal transmitting unit.
According to one objective of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides an escape system used for a car being sunken into water, installed in the car, and the escape system at least comprises: the at least one of the above ultrasonic components; and a mainboard, electrically connected to the ultrasonic component; after the mainboard receives the car sunken signal transmitted by the signal transmitting unit, a motor electrically connected to the mainboard is controlled to open at least one car window, and an electromagnetic switch electrically connected to the mainboard is controlled to release at least one safety belt.
According to the escape system, the escape system further comprises an uninterrupted power system which makes required power of the escape system uninterrupted.
According to the escape system, the escape system is further linked to an application (APP) installed in a device of the car or a mobile communication device of the user of the car, and after the escape system receives the car sunken signal, an automatic location function of the application is activated.
For the examiners to understand the technical features, the content, and the advantages of the present invention, as well as the benefits that the present invention can achieve, the present invention is hereinafter described in details with the accompanying drawings and the expression in the form of an embodiment. The drawings used in the description are only for illustration and as assistance to the specification, which may not be necessarily true in scale and precise configuration after the implementation of the present invention. Therefore, one should not interpret according to the scale and configuration in the accompanying drawings to limit the claims of the present invention on practical implementation.
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The case (11) has a reception space (111) therein, each of two opposite sides of the case (11) has at least one penetration hole (112), and the case (11) further has at least two shielding plates (113) on the two sides of the penetration hole (112), wherein the shielding plate (113) and the side of the case (11) have a shielding plate angle (θ) therebetween. Further, the shielding plate angle (θ) is 5 degrees through 65 degrees. In a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the case (11) is a rectangle case with the reception space (111) formed therein, the reception space (111) is filled with air, each of the left and tight sides of the case (11) has at least the penetration hole (112), each of the top and bottom sides of the penetration hole (112) has the shielding plate (113), and the penetration hole (112) and the bottom part of the case (11) form a shielding plate height deviation (G), as shown in
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wherein A is the distance between projection point (I) and the scheduled reception point (R), H is the first height deviation, and the tan(θ1) is the tangent value of the projection angle (θ1). The distance between the top receiving unit (1221) and the projection point (I) is less than the distance between the projection point (I) and the scheduled reception point (R). Referring to
It is noted that, when the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit (121) projects the ultrasonic wave (U), the initial time is synchronously transmitted to the top receiving unit (121). The top receiving unit (1221) receives the reflection wave (U2) and records a reception time of the reflection wave (U2). The top receiving unit (1221) obtains a reflection time difference by subtracting the initial time from the reception time, and the top receiving unit (1221) analyzes a reflection distance according to the reflection time difference. The reflection distance is obtained by multiplying a speed of the reflection wave (U2) with the reflection time difference. The top receiving unit (121) transmits the reflection distance to the calculation unit (123), and the calculation unit (123) calculates an obstacle thickness (h) of the at least one obstacle (O) stacked on a bottom part of the reception space (111). The obstacle thickness (h) is obtained by subtracting a product of the half reflection distance and the sine value of the projection angle (θ1) from the first height deviation (H), and can be expressed by a related equation as follows:
wherein h is the obstacle thickness, H is the first height deviation, B is the reflection distance, and sin(θ1) is the sine value of the of the projection angle. The calculation unit (123) transmits the obstacle thickness (h) to the signal transmitting unit (124), the signal transmitting unit (124) transmits the obstacle thickness (h) to the mainboard of the car via the wired or wireless manner. Thus, the ultrasonic module (12) is capable of recognize the obstacle thickness (h) of the obstacle (O) stacked in the case (11), and the driver or the maintenance staff can use the obstacle thickness (h) as a basis for the following decision.
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wherein P is the pulse repetition period, H is the first height deviation, U is the speed of the ultrasonic wave, and sin(θ1) is the sine value of the projection angle.
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In addition to measure the speed of the penetration wave (U1) by the bottom receiving unit (1222), there are other manners for obtaining the speed of the penetration wave (U1), which are described as follows. An incidence angle (θ2) is formed by a propagating direction of the ultrasonic wave (U) and an obstacle thickness direction of the obstacle (O), the incidence angle (θ2) is a complementary angle of the predetermined projection angle (θ1), and thus the sine value of the incidence angle (θ2) can be calculated. The propagating direction of the penetration wave (U1) and the obstacle thickness direction of the obstacle (O) form a refraction angle (θ3), and the bottom receiving unit (1222) calculates a tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3), wherein the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3) is obtained by dividing a difference between a second distance (D2) and half of the first distance (D1) by the obstacle thickness (h), the second distance (D2) is the distance between the gravity line (L) of the bottom receiving unit (1222) and the gravity line (L) of the projection point (I), and the first distance is the distance between the gravity line (L) of the top receiving unit (1221) and the gravity line (L) of the projection point (I). The related equation of the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3) is expressed as follows:
wherein tan(θ3) is the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3), D2 is a second distance which is the distance between the gravity line (L) of the bottom receiving unit (1222) and the gravity line (L) of the projection point (I), D1 is a first distance which is a distance between the gravity line (L) of the top receiving unit (1221) and the gravity line (L) of the projection point (I), and h is the obstacle thickness. Next, the bottom receiving unit (1222) converts the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3) to the sine value of the refraction angle (θ3). According to Snell's law, the product of the speed ultrasonic wave (U) and the sine value of the incidence angle (θ2) is equal to the product of the speed of the penetration wave (U1) and the sine value of the refraction angle (θ3), and the related equation is expressed as follows:
U×sin(θ2)=U1×sin(θ3)
wherein U is a speed of the ultrasonic wave (U), sin(θ2) is a sine value of the incidence angle (θ2), U1 is the penetration wave (U1), and sin(θ3) is the sine value of the refraction angle (θ3). Since the speed of the ultrasonic wave (U) can be seen as 331 m/s (the sonic speed in air), and the sine value of the incidence angle (θ2) and the sine value of the refraction angle (θ3) can be calculated according to the above equations, the speed of the penetration wave (U1) in the obstacle (O) can be calculated according to Snell's law.
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The calculation unit (123) compares the speed of the penetration wave (U1) transmitted by the bottom receiving unit with an obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231) built in the calculation unit (123). The obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231) is built-in with obstacle types, each obstacle type has an estimated penetration wave speed, and one of the obstacle types corresponds to the obstacle (O). After the speed of the penetration wave (U1) is calculated by the bottom receiving unit (1222) and transmitted to the calculation unit (123), the calculation unit (123) compares the speed of penetration wave (U1) with the estimated penetration wave speeds to find the most approximate estimated penetration wave speed from the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231), and accordingly determines that the obstacle (O) corresponds to the obstacle type having the most approximate estimated penetration wave speed. The calculation unit (123) can further find that the obstacle (O) corresponds to the density and the acoustic impedance of the specific obstacle type via the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231). For example, the bottom receiving unit (1222) analyzes the speed of the penetration wave (U1) is 649 m/s, and the speed of the penetration wave (U1) is transmitted to the calculation unit (123). The calculation unit (123) compares the 649 m/s speed of the penetration wave (U1) with the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231), and the most approximate estimated penetration wave speed in the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231) is 650 m/s. Next, the obstacle type being snow in the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231) having the estimated penetration wave speed being 650 m/s is found, and the obstacle (O) is determined as the snow. Next, the calculation unit (123) generates an obstacle type signal according to the determined obstacle type (for example, the obstacle is determined to be snow), and transmits the obstacle type signal to the signal transmitting unit (124). The signal transmitting unit (124) transmits obstacle type signal to the mainboard of the car via the wired or wireless manner. Thus, the ultrasonic module (12) is capable of recognizing the obstacle type of the obstacle (O) in the case (11), and the driver or the maintenance staff can use the determined obstacle type as a basis for the following decision.
Table 1 is used to illustrate the example of the obstacle-speed correspondence database (1231), but the number of the obstacle types and the estimated penetration wave speeds of the obstacle types in Table 1 are not used to limit the present disclosure. The acoustic impedance of the obstacle type is the product of the density and the estimated penetration wave speed of the obstacle type, i.e. Z=ρ×C, wherein Z is the acoustic impedance, ρ is the density and C is estimated penetration wave speed.
There is another one manner for recognizing the obstacle type of the obstacle (O) stacked in the case (11). The refraction angle (θ3) can be obtained by the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3), and since the different obstacles (O) have different specific refraction angles (θ3), the calculation unit (123) compares the refraction angle (θ3) with the obstacle-refraction angle correspondence database (1232) built in the calculation unit (123). The obstacle-refraction angle correspondence database (1232) has the built-in obstacle types, each obstacle type has an estimated refraction angles, and one of the obstacle types corresponds to the obstacle (O). Thus, after the refraction angle (θ3) is calculated by the bottom receiving unit (1222) and then transmitted to the calculation unit (123), the calculation unit (123) compares the refraction angle (θ3) with the estimated refraction angles to find the most approximate estimated refraction angle from the obstacle-refraction angle correspondence database (1232), and accordingly determines that the obstacle (O) corresponds to the obstacle type having the most approximate estimated refraction angle. Next, the calculation unit (123) generates an obstacle type signal according to the determined obstacle type, and transmits the obstacle type signal to the signal transmitting unit (124). The signal transmitting unit (124) transmits obstacle type signal to the mainboard of the car via the wired or wireless manner.
It is noted that, there is another one manner for generating the car sunken signal or the obstacle signal. The ultrasonic module (12) comprises the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit (121), the bottom receiving unit (1222) electrically connected to the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit (121), the calculation unit (123) electrically connected to the top receiving unit (1221) and the signal transmitting unit (124) electrically connected to calculation unit (123). The bottom receiving unit (1222) and the ultrasonic signal transmitting unit (121) are disposed at opposite sides of the reception space (111), and the bottom receiving unit (1222) is disposed on the bottom part of the reception space (111). For example, the bottom receiving unit (1222) is disposed on the bottom wall surface (116) of the case (11). The refraction angle (θ3) is calculated by the bottom receiving unit (1222) based on the tangent value of the refraction angle (θ3), and the calculation unit (123) compares the refraction angle (θ3) with the incidence angle (θ2). When the refraction angle (θ3) is not identical to the incidence angle (θ2), the calculation unit (123) generates the car sunken signal or the obstacle signal to the signal transmitting unit (124). The signal transmitting unit (124) transmits the car sunken signal or the obstacle signal via the wired or wireless manner.
It is noted that, there is another one manner for generating the car sunken signal or the obstacle signal. Referring to
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Further, the inner side of the penetration hole (112) has a permeable stratum (114), and the permeable stratum (114) can be a fiber layer or a cloth layer. Referring to
To achieve the above objective, the present disclosure further provides an escape system (2) used for the car being sunken into water. Referring to
The mainboard (1) is electrically connected to the ultrasonic component (1), and the main board (21) receives the car sunken signal transmitted by the signal transmitting unit (124). The main board (21) is electrically connected to a motor (31) of the car (3) to control at least one car window (32) to be opened and closed, and further electrically connected to an electromagnetic switch (33) to control at least one safety belt (34) to be locked or released. Moreover, the escape system (2) further has an uninterrupted power system (22), and the uninterrupted power system (22) makes the required power of the escape system (2) uninterrupted. In an preferred embodiment, the escape system (2) comprises the above ultrasonic component (1) and the mainboard (21), and the mainboard (21) has a control unit (211), wherein the control unit (211) is electrically connected to the motor (31) and the electromagnetic switch (33) of the car (3), the motor (31) is electrically connected to the car window (32) of the car (3), and the electromagnetic switch (33) is electrically connected to the safety belt (34) of the car (3). When the car (3) is sunken into the water, the mainboard (21) receives car sunken signal transmitted by the signal transmitting unit (124) electrically connected to the mainboard (21), the mainboard (21) controls the motor (31) to open at least the car window (32), and the electromagnetic switch (33) is controlled to release the at least one safety belt (34), such that the driver or person in the car (3) can successfully escape from the car (3). Further, the uninterrupted power system (22) provides the required power to the escape system (2) when the car (3) is sunken into the water and the power is cut off.
Furthermore, the ultrasonic components (1) can be installed on the front side of the car head, the rear side of a car tail, interior of the front left car door, and interior of the front right car door, interior of the rear left car door and interior of the rear right car door, respectively. When the ultrasonic component (1) installed on the front side of the car head detects abnormality (i.e. generating the car sunken signal), or the mainboard (21) receives the car sunken signal transmitted by the signal transmitting unit (124), the mainboard (21) will notify the motors to open the front right car door window, the front left car door window, the rear right car door window, the rear left car door window and the sunroof. When the ultrasonic component (1) installed on the rear side of a car tail detects abnormality (i.e. generating the car sunken signal), the mainboard (21) will notify the motors to open the front right car door window, the front left car door window, the rear right car door window, the rear left car door window and the sunroof. When the ultrasonic component (1) installed on the interior of the front or rear left car door detects abnormality (i.e. generating the car sunken signal), the mainboard (21) will notify the motors to open the front and rear right car door windows, wherein the escaping direction is opposite to the car sunken direction. When the ultrasonic component (1) installed on the interior of the front or rear right car door detects abnormality (i.e. generating the car sunken signal), the mainboard (21) will notify the motors to open the front and rear left car door windows. Further, the sunroof of the car (3) can be also installed with the ultrasonic component (1), and when the ultrasonic component (1) installed on the sunroof detects abnormality (i.e. generating the car sunken signal), the main board (21) will notify the motors to open the front and rear right car door windows and the front and rear left car door windows.
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Accordingly, in comparison with the existing technology and product, the escape system used for the car being sunken into water and the ultrasonic component thereof in accordance with the present disclosure, can utilize the property of the ultrasonic to recognize the type and thickness of the obstacle which is accumulated in the ultrasonic component, and to determine whether the warning message for sweeping the obstacle should be sent, so as to maintain the sensitivity of the ultrasonic component. Further, the escape system used for the car being sunken into water and the ultrasonic component thereof are helpful to quickly receive and send out the information which the car is sunken, so as to grasp the rescue opportunity and to decrease the damages or deaths of the users.
To sum up, the escape system used for the car being sunken into water and its ultrasonic component are disclosed by the above embodiments, and can achieve the mentioned technical results. The Applicant believes the escape system used for the car being sunken into water and its ultrasonic component are not anticipated by prior art, and meet the provision of patentability in the patent act, and allowance of the present disclosure is requested respectfully.
The above-mentioned descriptions represent merely the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, without any intention to limit the scope of the present disclosure thereto. Various equivalent changes, alternations or modifications based on the claims of present disclosure are all consequently viewed as being embraced by h scope of the present disclosure.
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