Self-Powered Apparatus for Measuring Precipitation and Method for Controlling the Same

    公开(公告)号:US20230052633A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17862781

    申请日:2022-07-12

    IPC分类号: G01W1/14 G08B21/18

    摘要: There is disclosed a self-powered apparatus for measuring precipitation, comprising: a housing; a display unit including one or more display lights capable of displaying an amount of precipitation, wherein the display lights are formed on at least one of outer surfaces of the housing; a water collecting vessel, having a funnel-shaped space to which the precipitation is introduced and gathered at a vertex part of the funnel-shaped space; a cup module, having an accommodating space for accommodating the precipitation dropped from the vertex part of the funnel-shaped space of the water collecting vessel; an electric signaling unit; a guiding module; a self-powered generator; and a final drainage opening, formed at a lower part of the housing.

    Radiation shielding device for meteorological observation with internal air circulation

    公开(公告)号:US11371729B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17474655

    申请日:2021-09-14

    摘要: A radiation shielding device for meteorological observation with internal air circulation including: a body for allowing meteorological sensors to be mounted therein; a cover for covering the body by engaging with the body; and a modified Venturi tube which is physically formed while the body and the cover are engaged with each other; wherein, the modified Venturi tube is configured as a first opening for receiving external air from an exterior of the body, a second opening for receiving internal air from an interior of the body, and a third opening for releasing the received external air and the received internal air, and wherein, the external air gets into the modified Venturi tube through the first opening, the internal air gets into the modified Venturi tube through the second opening, and the external air and the internal air are released from the modified Venturi tube through the third opening.

    Method for simulating generation of black ice on roads and controlling device and system using the same

    公开(公告)号:US11347909B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17468041

    申请日:2021-09-07

    摘要: A method, controlling device, and system for simulating a generation of black ice on a road including steps of: (a) in response to an ambient atmosphere being determined as in a (1-1)-st state, changing the ambient atmosphere to be in a (1-2)-nd state by referring to a (1-1)-st simulation variable corresponding to a temperature of the ambient atmosphere and a (1-2)-nd simulation variable corresponding to a humidity of the ambient atmosphere; and (ii) in response to a road specimen being determined as in a (2-1)-st state, changing the road specimen to be in a (2-2)-nd state by referring to a (2-1)-st simulation variable corresponding to a temperature of the road specimen and a (2-2)-nd simulation variable corresponding to a residual precipitation; (b) applying a triggering action; and (c) determining whether the black ice is generated on the road specimen.

    Watchtower vehicle
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11369817B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US17674296

    申请日:2022-02-17

    摘要: A watchtower vehicle, including: a top plate engaged with a top of a vehicle; an extendable boom, with a first end thereof engaged with the top plate, wherein the extendable boom is allowed to be inclined from a vertical axis of the top plate within a first angle range; a main sensor mounting unit, engaged with a second end of the extendable boom, for mounting at least one sensor thereon, wherein the main sensor mounting unit is allowed to be inclined from a longitudinal axis of the extendable boom within a second angle range; a sensor module unit including the sensor mounted on the main sensor mounting unit; and a control module for controlling or supporting another module to control at least one of the extendable boom within the first angle range and the main sensor mounting unit within the second angle range.

    Rainwater detection device using electric wires

    公开(公告)号:US11181495B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-23

    申请号:US17185158

    申请日:2021-02-25

    摘要: A rainwater detection device for detecting rainwater is provided. The rainwater detection device includes: a panel having a surface; rainwater sensing wires on the surface; and a rainwater sensor (i) physically connected with the rainwater sensing wires without an electrical connection if a condition is unsatisfied and (ii) physically and electrically connected with the rainwater sensing wires if the condition is satisfied; wherein a first wire, one of the rainwater sensing wires, is separated from a second wire, another of the rainwater sensing wires, by an interval, without contacting each other and wherein the rainwater sensing wires are connected to opposite polarity of an electrode connected with the rainwater sensor, and wherein the condition is that a first state where no current flows between the first and the second wires is changed to a second state where current flows between the first and the second wires due to the rainwater.

    Rainwater guidance device for meteorological observation balloon

    公开(公告)号:US11467319B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-11

    申请号:US17564690

    申请日:2021-12-29

    IPC分类号: G01W1/14 G01W1/08

    摘要: A rainwater guiding device for a meteorological observation balloon for preventing the observer and electronic devices held by the observer from getting wet by rainwater by guiding the rainwater flowing down along the surface of the balloon to the outside of the observer's workspace during the rawinsonde levitation operation for upper atmospheric observation, wherein the rainwater guiding device is composed of a double-cone structure comprising an inner cone closely contacted with the surface of the balloon around the inlet and an outer cone formed on the outside of the inner cone, wherein the inner cone and the outer cone have funnel shapes, each of which has a conical portion at the upper portion as a shape gradually widening in the upward direction, and an extension portion at the lower portion extending vertically downward from a neck portion, which is a neck portion below the conical portion.

    Radiation Shielding Device For Meteorological Observation With Internal Air Circulation

    公开(公告)号:US20220107101A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17474655

    申请日:2021-09-14

    摘要: A radiation shielding device for meteorological observation with internal air circulation including: a body for allowing meteorological sensors to be mounted therein; a cover for covering the body by engaging with the body; and a modified Venturi tube which is physically formed while the body and the cover are engaged with each other; wherein, the modified Venturi tube is configured as a first opening for receiving external air from an exterior of the body, a second opening for receiving internal air from an interior of the body, and a third opening for releasing the received external air and the received internal air, and wherein, the external air gets into the modified Venturi tube through the first opening, the internal air gets into the modified Venturi tube through the second opening, and the external air and the internal air are released from the modified Venturi tube through the third opening.