54 results about "Icicle" patented technology

Various exemplary implementations of light emitting diode (LED) based illumination products and methods are disclosed including, but not limited to, glow sticks, key chains, toys, balls, various game accessories, light bulbs, night lights, wall lights, wall switches, wall sockets, wall panels, modular lights, flexible lights, automotive lights, wearable accessories, light ropes, decorative lights such as icicles and icicle strings, light tubes, insect control lights and methods, and lighted air fresheners/scent dispensers. Any of the foregoing devices may be equipped with various types of user interfaces (both “local” and “remote”) to control light generated from the device. Additionally, devices may be controlled via light control information or programs stored in device memory and/or transmitted or downloaded to the devices (e.g., devices may be controlled individually or collectively in groups via a network, glow sticks or other products may be downloaded with programming information that is stored in memory, etc.). Devices also may include sensors so that the generated light may change in response to various operating and/or environmental conditions or a user input. Various optical processing devices which may be used with any of the devices (e.g., reflectors, diffusers, etc.) also are disclosed.

A light system provides a visual effect and impression of motion of objects, and in particular the rising and falling of objects, through the sequential lighting of an array of individually controllable lights. The embodiments disclosed herein are, for example, a light array to simulate the action of an icicle dripping water and an array to simulate a rising and exploding firework shell. These arrays and the driving means are arranged in such a manner as to implement the actually physical equations of motion to enhance realism. This is accomplished by appropriate timing and spatial positioning of the individual lights, or a combination thereof.

An organizing and installation device for Icicle lights has a hanging assembly. The device includes a hanging unit having a plurality of rods which are arranged vertically and approximately in parallel; wherein at a top of each rod is connected with an upper wire; and a lower end of each rod is connected with a lower wire. Each rod is installed with a plurality of clips or other fastening devices. A plurality of upper support clips are arranged on the upper wire; and a lower stabilizing clip has a connecting wire to connect the lower clip to the lower wire or rod. The upper and lower wires are made of flexible materials for easy installation around the corner and easy folding away storage. The upper support clip has two clamping tongues and a wire organizing space; and the space has a flexible notch to receive and release electrical and upper wire. The clips or other fastening devices on rod are elastic C-rings, adhesive tapes, velcro, flexible string or snap-on clips.

A method for packaging specialty lighting strings and elongated items of narrow width, especially useful for specialty light strings which contain large, bulky decorative light covers or complicated patterns such as icicle lights. Scarves, decorative garland, ties, and lawn ornaments may also be packaged effectively. Items are passed through a cylinder of rigid material on which a quantity of thin plastic tubing is compressed. Once the item emerges out the end of the cylinder, the beginning of the plastic tubing is secured to the end of the item with a twist tie. The end is then grasped and the item is pulled completely through the cylinder. As it comes through, it is encased in the plastic tubing which unravels from the cylinder. Once through, the end of the item is secured to the tubing with a twist tie and the tubing is cut. Thus a completely packaged item which may be stored dust and tangle free.

The invention discloses a deicing device for tunnel vault. The deicing device for the tunnel vault comprises a deicing vehicle and is characterized in that wheels are arranged on the bottom of the deicing vehicle, a walking motor arranged on the deicing vehicle drives the wheels to rotate through a transmission pair, a rotating platform is arranged on the deicing vehicle, outer teeth are arranged on the outer ring of the rotating platform, driving teeth meshed with the outer teeth are arranged on an output end of a rotating motor fixed on the deicing vehicle, a primary cylinder is connected with the rotating platform in a rotating mode, a telescopic swinging arm is sleeved with the top end of the primary cylinder, a working cylinder is arranged on an end socket of the swing arm, a deicing machine is arranged on the front end oh the working cylinder, a secondary cylinder is further arranged between the middle part of the primary cylinder and the end socket of the swinging arm, an air storage tank for supplying air resource to the cylinders is arranged on the deicing vehicle, a swinging cylinder is further hinged with the rotating platform, and the other end of the swinging cylinder is hinged with the lower portion of the primary cylinder. The deicing device for tunnel vault is skilled in design, reasonable in arrangement, and can automatically clean icicle of the tunnel vault.

A string light has multiple icicle-shaped bulbs, a controller and a connector assembly. The icicle-shaped bulbs are serially connected by a set of wires. Each icicle-shaped bulb has an icicle-shaped lamp holder shell, an elongated lamp strip and a cap assembly. The lamp holder shell has an irregular and rough surface and an opening. The lamp strip is mounted inside the lamp holder shell. The cap assembly is mounted on the opening of the lamp holder shell and has a set of through holes for the set of wires to penetrate into the lamp holder shell. Accordingly, light emitted from each icicle-shaped bulb is scattered irregularly to generate different illuminating effects when the icicle-shaped bulb is powered on and make the lighting variations of the entire string light more versatile and interesting.

A de-icicling tool has an icicle removing head mounted onto the distal end of an elongated handle. The head is formed of a generally flat blade and a mounting sleeve to that fits onto the distal end of the handle. The blade member has a series of triangular teeth in a concave arc along the front with each tooth having a point and beveled edges which meet at the associated point. The points of the teeth are rounded. The blade has at least one generally triangular notch formed along its rear thereof, each notch having a pair of beveled edges. There is one or more one round aperture in the blade, each with a beveled edge and with a diameter of three to five centimeters. The mounting sleeve includes a threaded socket adapted to accept a male thread of a standard broom handle or paint pole.

The invention relates to a road deicing and snow clearing vehicle, comprising a bodywork(2). A bucket(11)is arranged at the lower part of the front end of the bodywork(2) and a vibratory ice piton(7)is also arranged on the lower part of the front end of the bodywork(2). The ice piton(7) is arranged in front of the bucket(11), with the head facing downwards. The road deicing and snow clearing vehicle is provided with the vibratory ice piton(7)which is arranged in front of the bucket, so when removing the ice and snow, the ice piton(7) firstly breaks the cat ice on the road, then the bucket removes the ice. The vibratory ice piton(7) can realize force control, and ensures enough breaking strength while not damaging the road.

The present invention relates to a method for the reset control of heating temperature in accordance with the outdoor temperature and for preventing icicles from being formed on an exhaust pipe, wherein the outdoor temperature is received from an integration server without the need for having a separate outdoor temperature sensor installed, and a system is constructed so as to be capable of communicating between a room controller to which a wireless communication module is mounted and the integration server. The method includes the steps of: (a) registering a room controller by transmitting the unique number of a room controller having a wireless communication module mounted thereto to an integration server through a wireless router, and storing the unique number from the integration server to a database by preforming an authentication step; (b) accessing the integration server by a user through a terminal, inputting the unique number of the room controller, and then inputting user address information; (c) searching by the integration server for address information about the user who inputted the unique number of the room controller, and transmitting the outdoor temperature information of the user address site to the room controller; (d) using the outdoor temperature received from the room controller so as to perform outdoor temperature reset control of the boiler or suppressing the formation of icicles on the exhaust pipe, when the outdoor temperature received from the room controller is below zero.

The invention discloses a method for calculating the equivalency of icing conditions between insulator and transmission line. The method comprises the following steps. Step 1: The thickness of ice cover on transmission line (Ld) is measured. Step 2: The thickness of ice cover on insulator (Ld) is calculated based on the thickness of ice cover on transmission line (Ld). Step 3: The distance betweenthe icicles (d) and the umbrella distance (L) are measured. Step 4: the bridging coefficient of ice cover (eta) is calculated. The invention solves the problem encountered in determining icing conditions of insulators, significantly reduces labor and costs and improves the reliability of transmission lines. The conventional technologies solely focuses on the ice cover around transmission lines with neither the measurement of ice cover around insulators nor the attention to the relations among the features of these two kinds of ice covers, resulting in the lack of effective technical means forobserving and assessing the severity of ice coating of power transmission lines in field.

The invention discloses an ice-breaking and snow-removing device suitable for stairs. The device comprises an ice collection box and an ice collection cavity formed in the ice collection box. A powercavity is formed in the left side of the ice collecting box; a moving plate capable of sliding up and down is arranged in the power cavity; a spring is arranged between the lower part of the moving plate and the bottom wall of the power cavity; an ice breaking cone extending to the lower side of the power cavity is fixedly arranged on the lower end surface of the moving plate; a fixed plate is arranged under the power cavity; a connecting shaft is arranged in the fixed plate; and a rolling ice crushing wheel is arranged on the connecting shaft in a rolling manner. The ice-breaking and snow-removing device is placed at stairs needing to be cleaned so that stairs can be cleaned one by one, industrial salt is uniformly sprayed to prevent icing again, ice breaking and snow removing treatment can be conducted on the placement position of the upper-layer stair, the direction of a box body can be changed, and the treatment effect is greatly improved.

The invention discloses a cable inspection robot capable of automatically removing icicles, belonging to the technical field of robotics. The cable inspection robot comprises a robot body, a power source, a walking mechanism, a conical ice removing cutter, an ice breaking mechanism, an ice beating mechanism and a detection mechanism. The cable inspection robot is simple in structure, can continuously detect a cable, and does not need to stop to conduct deicing before detection of the cable, so the advancing speed of the robot and cable detection efficiency are improved, and a power system of the robot can be better protected; a detection head rotates along the cable while moving, so detection effect is further improved; by arranging the ice beating mechanism and the ice breaking mechanism, the icicles on the outer surface of the cable can be effectively removed, and ice removing effect is improved; and meanwhile, residual water on the surface of the cable can be sucked dry through annular water absorption cotton and annular cleaning cotton, the surface of the cable is cleaned, and when the robot body cannot walk, the water absorbed by the annular water absorption cotton and the annular cleaning cotton is squeezed out to keep the cable dry.

An icicle attachment for a light bulb which includes a hollow tube having a shape simulating a pendant spear of ice. The tube is tapered and receives a standard string light bulb with two radially inwardly directed spokes for enabling a bulb socket to be inserted therepast and thereafter retain the bulb socket in the tube top. Slits formed in the walls of the tube proximate the open body and communicating therewith enhance water drainage from the tube and light escape or sparkle of the icicle attachment.

The invention relates to an electric tracer heating system capable of preventing icicle falling hazards and an implementation method of the electric tracer heating system. The electric tracer heating system comprises metal cover plates, heat tracing cables, set bolts and bolt holes. The electric tracer heating system capable of preventing the icicle falling hazards is characterized in that the curved-line-shaped metal cover plates or the broken-line-shaped metal cover plates or the U-shaped metal cover plates and the heat tracing cables are arranged on a building where the icicle falling hazards are likely to be caused, the set bolts penetrate into the bolt holes to fix the metal cover plates on the building, and the electric tracer heating system capable of preventing the icicle falling hazards is formed. Icicles are made to be formed on the metal cover plates, when the icicles achieve a certain scale, the electric tracer heating system is turned on to melt the icicles, and the hazards caused by icicle falling can be prevented.

A system and method for preventing buildup of snow, ice and icicles (200) from the sides of a roof, a building or the vertical front of a gutter, a tunnel or a roof wall or a cliff along roads or railroads outside a tunnel comprising a set of rails (103, 203) and a cart (100, 201) moving along said rails (103, 203), further characterized in that protruding from the cart (100, 201) is a tool (101, 202) for removing said snow, ice and icicles (200).

The invention relates to an umbrella-shaped ice blocking device preventing conductor beneath interphase short circuit caused by de-icing of a conductor above and a mounting method thereof. The umbrella-shaped ice blocking device is composed of a mandrel, an umbrella skirt, a lap joint piece, a plastic rivet and an open heat-shrinkable sleeve. According to the device, the length of an ice layer which is possibly formed by the conductor above a line corridor or in a substation can be effectively limited; and conductor beneath interphase short circuit caused by insufficient conductor beneath interphase insulation distance or long icicles which are formed by the molten ice layer, fall and are in direct lap joint with the conductor beneath interphase is prevented.

System and method to easily install and remove hangers for a string of decorative lights around a house or a tree, while standing on the ground and without the use of a ladder. The system and method are particularly intended for attachment to gutter lips, but could be used to attach light strings to a variety of hard to reach surfaces found on and around buildings. The system is comprised of two components, a hanger clip which holds the light string and which is adapted to be suspended by a gutter or tree branch, for example, and an elongated staff configured at one end to temporarily hold the clip until it can be positioned and attached. The staff and hanger clip are engaged by corresponding locking means configured in each, to selectively and temporarily lock the hanger clip at a desired rotation angle relative to an axis defining the elongated staff. In an exemplary embodiment, the hanger clip is configured to simulate an icicle or ornamental object.