22 results about "Snowmaking" patented technology

A snow making apparatus includes: an ice particle generator that generates ice particles that can be used for making or as high-quality artificial snow; and a system for remotely discharging ice particles from the ice particle generator by sealing one or more of the pneumatic air delivery system using the fan impeller assembly and cold air. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus further includes a water droplet or particle distributor positioned remote from the ice particle generator and preferably adjacent an outlet of the apparatus where the ice particles are discharged from the outlet conduit, whereby the water droplets mix with the ice particles to produce snow. The use of a combination of ice particles and water droplets allows snow to be efficiently and largely produced.

The invention belongs to the field of ski field snowmaking, and particularly discloses a method for measuring the dynamic characteristics of a snow pile produced by all-weather snowmaking equipment, and the method comprises the steps: test area arrangement: area delimiting, snow pile marking, reference object arrangement, and tool calibration; producing a snow pile; starting measurement; full life cycle circulation and the like. According to the method, the dynamic characteristics of the snow heap can be effectively monitored, the measurement data is more comprehensive, the measurement precision is higher, and the characteristics of the snow heap are associated with the environmental parameters, so that the influence of the environment on the melting rate of the snow heap can be effectively analyzed, and a basis is provided for equipment optimization.

The present invention discloses an intelligent combined snowmaking machine and its control method, comprising a snowmaking machine housing, a water tank, a low-temperature snowmaking device, a high-temperature snowmaking device, and an electrical control box. The low-temperature snowmaking device comprises a snowmaking cylinder, which is located at the top of the snowmaking machine housing. The cylinder is equipped with a motor, a filter, and a fan, and a first snow outlet is provided at one end of the snowmaking cylinder. The high-temperature snowmaking device comprises an ice-making device, an ice-crushing device, and a refrigeration system. The ice-crushing device comprises a centrifuge and centrifuge pipes. The refrigeration system comprises a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator, the evaporator being located within the ice-making device. A second snow outlet is provided on one side of the ice-making machine housing. When the refrigeration system starts cooling, flake ice is generated within the ice-making device. The ice-crushing device crushes the flake ice and blows it out of the second snow outlet to form snow. The present invention combines both cannon-type and crushed-ice snowmaking methods, enabling snowmaking in both subzero and above-freezing temperatures.

The present invention relates to the field of artificial weather modification operations and discloses a method for controlling artificial snow enhancement operations based on meteorological radar data, comprising: obtaining a farmland distribution map and location information of a target snow enhancement area; determining the target meteorological radar number and obtaining radar data; mapping the farmland distribution map to a radar echo map and dividing covered and uncovered areas; obtaining sounding balloon data; screening uncovered areas pointing toward farmland as secondary selected areas based on wind direction and radial velocity maps; forming a group of areas to be evaluated by combining the covered and secondary selected areas; evaluating the snow enhancement cloud layer and ground conditions in the area to be evaluated; determining an area that meets both cloud layer and ground conditions as a catalyst placement area; obtaining a catalyst placement plan and generating an artificial snow enhancement plan. Thus, a method for controlling artificial snow enhancement operations based on meteorological radar data is implemented.

The utility model relates to the technical field of snowmaking machines, and discloses an indoor suspension snowmaking machine which comprises an installation assembly, a fan assembly and a snowmaking assembly, the installation assembly comprises an installation block and a fan base, the installation block and the fan base are fixedly connected through an inclined column, the fan assembly and the snowmaking assembly are fixed to the two ends of the fan base respectively, and the fan assembly and the snowmaking assembly are fixedly connected through an inclined column. An air duct is arranged in the middle of the fan base so as to guide air generated by the fan assembly to the snow making assembly; the snowmaker is simple in overall structure, light and convenient to hoist, free of requirements for installation positions, suitable for snowmaking in designated areas and large in snowmaking amount.

1. Name of the product under this design: Snowmaking Machine (FY‑70). 2. Purpose of this design product: for artificial snowmaking. 3. The key point of the design of this product lies in its shape. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the design points: three-dimensional picture. 5. The top view of the product with this design is omitted for the parts that are difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use; the bottom surface of the product with this design is omitted for the parts that are difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use.

The invention belongs to the technical field of refrigeration and snow making, and particularly relates to a refrigeration and snow making system which comprises a water collection and distribution unit, a jet air supply unit and a compression refrigeration unit. The water gathering and distributing unit comprises a snowmaking water tank, a water pump and a water gathering and distributing pipe, the water pump is used for connecting the snowmaking water tank with the water gathering and distributing pipe, the water gathering and distributing pipe is provided with a first distributing pipe and a second distributing pipe, and the unit water yield of the first distributing pipe is larger than that of the second distributing pipe; the jet air supply unit comprises a driving fan and a nucleon device nozzle, the driving fan is provided with an impeller, the first distribution pipe is used for spraying a high-pressure water column on the impeller, the impeller is used for scattering and atomizing the water column to form high-pressure water mist under high-speed operation, and the nucleon device nozzle is connected with the second distribution pipe; the nucleon device nozzle is used for spraying a stable snow nucleus formed by the high-pressure water column to be in contact with the high-pressure water mist, attached and condensed into the stable snow nucleus; the heat absorption end of the compression refrigeration unit is connected with the nucleon device nozzle and used for cooling the nucleon device nozzle.

The invention discloses a snow making parameter matching system based on snow quality demand reverse regulation and control, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence and ice and snow engineering cross technology, and the system comprises the steps: receiving a target snow quality demand of a user through a demand input module, mapping the target snow quality demand into a quantitative index set through a demand analysis module based on a constructed knowledge graph, and carrying out the calculation of the quantitative index set; through a lightweight neural network model of a reverse solving module, under the environment vector condition, the snow physical quantitative index set is inverted into initial matching snow making parameters, and through an edge execution module, the matching parameters are analyzed in real time and precisely executed in a local controller of the snow maker, so that the snow making quality is improved. An initial snow making result is subjected to hyperspectrum, dielectric and laser particle size three-source fusion perception to obtain an actually measured snow quality vector, a deviation calculation module generates weighted comprehensive deviation accordingly, and in combination with an enhanced deviation signal of digital twin simulation prediction, a model correction module is driven to carry out online fine adjustment on a reverse neural network, so that the snow quality is obtained. And the whole body forms a closed loop through subsequent in-situ sensing, deviation calculation and model correction modules.

The utility model relates to the technical field of snowmaking machines, and discloses a double-air-duct crawler snowmaking machine which comprises crawler assemblies, air duct assemblies, nozzle assemblies and a vehicle body frame, the crawler assemblies are fixed to the two sides of the bottom of the vehicle body frame, the air duct assemblies are rotationally arranged on the upper side of the vehicle body frame, and the nozzle assemblies are arranged on the lower side of the vehicle body frame. The nozzle assembly is fixedly arranged at one end of the air duct assembly, the air duct assembly comprises two air ducts and a connecting assembly, the connecting assembly comprises a connecting rod and a pushing electric cylinder, the two ends of the connecting rod are rotationally connected with mounting plates respectively, and the mounting plates are fixed to the bottoms of the two air ducts respectively. The connecting rod is rotationally connected with the pushing electric cylinder, and the bottom of the pushing electric cylinder is fixed to the vehicle body frame. The vehicle body frame is stable in structure, other parts are evenly distributed and fixedly installed on the vehicle body frame, the whole stability of the snowmaker is high, the double air ducts are arranged, the directions of the double air ducts can be adjusted together, the snowmaking amount in unit time is increased, and the snowmaker can meet various different snowmaking environments.

1. The name of the product under this design: Snowmaking Machine (Snow Star). 2. Purpose of this design product: for artificial snowmaking. 3. The key point of the design of this product lies in its shape. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the design points: three-dimensional picture. 5. The top view of the product with this design is omitted for the parts that are difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use; the bottom surface of the product with this design is omitted for the parts that are difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use.

The utility model relates to the technical field of snowmaking machines, and discloses a single-cylinder type crawler snowmaking machine which comprises a crawler module, an air cylinder module and an air cylinder support, the crawler module comprises a crawler support and crawler assemblies fixed to the left end and the right end of the crawler support, and the air cylinder support is fixed to the crawler support. The air duct module is rotationally arranged in the middle of the air duct support through a rotating assembly, the rotating assembly comprises a bearing seat and a bearing, the bearing seat is fixedly arranged on the air duct support, one end of the bearing is rotationally arranged in the bearing seat, and the other end of the bearing is fixedly connected with the air duct module; the air duct support adopts the form of the base and the supporting frames, the supporting frames used for being connected with the air duct on the two sides are semi-arc-shaped, the middles of the supporting frames are connected through the connecting rods, the base extends towards the outer sides of the supporting frames, and meanwhile when the crawler belt support is connected with the base, the connecting area is increased, shaking is small when the snowmaker moves, the air duct module is stable when rotating, and the overall structure is stable and firm. The damage cannot easily occur.

The present invention relates to an artificial snowmaking facility (1), comprising: snowmaking equipment (2); a jet water pipe (3) for supplying water to the snowmaking equipment (2); optionally, a jet air pipe (4) for supplying air to the snowmaking equipment (2); a control device (5) for managing the operation of the snowmaking equipment (2); and an energy supply source for supplying electricity to the control device (5). According to the invention, the energy supply source includes an energy generator (6) arranged on one of the jet pipes (4), the energy generator (6) including a turbine (61) adapted to be fluid-driven by the jet pipe (4).

To provide a self-propelled snow machine capable of easily adjusting the inclination of a loading platform even when stopped on an inclined surface. [Solution] Self-propelled snow machine 1 is provided with a lift device 13 that tilts loading platform 31 between loading platform 31 and chassis 32 of traveling device 3 to adjust the inclination of loading platform 31. Even when performing snow making operations with traveling device 3 stopped on a slope, lift device 13 adjusts the inclination of loading platform 31, allowing snow machine 5 to be easily placed in a nearly horizontal position for use.

The invention belongs to the technical field of artificial snow making, and provides an ice-like snow preparation vehicle, a final assembly and a method for calculating the amount of water injected to a target position by the ice-like snow preparation vehicle. The ice-like snow preparation vehicle includes a vehicle frame including a snowboard; the water injection assembly comprises a water pump, a fixing plate, a water distribution plate and a plurality of water injection pipes assembled on the water distribution plate; the fixing plate is provided with a limiting hole, and a water passing channel is formed in the water diversion plate. The push-pull mechanism can drive the water diversion plate to do reciprocating rectilinear motion in the height direction of the frame; the pressure sensor is used for acquiring the pressure value of the target snow layer; the control module calculates the water supplementing amount needed by the corresponding snow layers according to the pressure values, obtained by the pressure sensor, of the different target snow layers, and the water distribution plate is driven by the push-pull mechanism to drive the multiple water injection pipes to synchronously move downwards; the tail ends of the plurality of water injection pipes pass through the corresponding limiting holes and then extend into corresponding snow layers of the snow accumulation blocks to be made of the ice-like snow, and quantitative water is supplemented into the corresponding snow layers of the snow accumulation blocks to be made of the ice-like snow at the same time.

1. The name of the product of this design: Double-drum crawler snowmaking machine. 2. Purpose of this product with design: This product with design is used for artificial snowmaking. 3. The design key point of this appearance design product lies in the shape. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the design points: three-dimensional picture.

A method for managing the production of an artificial snowmaking plant having a plurality of snowmaking apparatuses arranged along a ski slope, comprising the operating steps of:comparing historical forecast values (VSP) of a parameter with respective one or more historical values of the realistically measured weather parameter (VSR1,2,3) at said one or more snowmaking apparatuses arranged in said predefined geographical area;determining future forecast values (VFP) of said parameter as a function of a historical difference value (D1,2,3) determined at one or more apparatuses so as to determine one or more realistic future forecast parameter values (VFR1,2,3) at each snowmaking apparatus on which the historical difference value (D1,2,3) has been determined.

1. Name of the product under this design: Snowmaking Machine (FY‑60). 2. Purpose of this design product: for artificial snowmaking. 3. The key point of the design of this product lies in its shape. 4. The picture or photo that best illustrates the design points: three-dimensional picture. 5. The top surface of the product with this design is the part that is difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use, so the top view is omitted; the bottom surface of the product with this design is the part that is difficult to see or cannot be seen when in use, so the top view is omitted.

This invention discloses a low-carbon automated intelligent control system for refrigeration and snowmaking, relating to the field of refrigeration technology. It acquires image data of the surface of a cold air blower using a mobile industrial camera and performs preprocessing. The preprocessed image data is converted to the HSV color space, and adaptive threshold calibration is performed based on component differences. Frost layer regions are initially separated. The frost layer candidate regions are input into a deep convolutional neural network configured with three parallel feature extraction branches for color, contour, and brightness. A three-dimensional mutual reward function is embedded into a pre-set frost physical model based on heat and mass transfer principles to calculate the frost coverage rate. An equivalent thermal resistance model for the fins is established based on the frost coverage rate to calculate the deviation of the actual refrigeration system's energy efficiency ratio from the theoretical frost-free state. Based on the multi-dimensional features output by the frost layer identification module, the influence coefficient of frost thickness on heat exchange efficiency is calculated. An energy efficiency scheduling algorithm based on a reward function dynamically calculates and outputs the optimal defrosting intervention command.

The invention relates to the technical field of snowmaking machines, in particular to a stable multi-angle snowmaking machine. Comprising a movable frame, the movable frame is fixedly connected with a supporting shell, and a first motor is fixedly connected into the supporting shell; the rotating plate is fixedly connected to an output shaft of the first motor; the first support is arranged on the rotating plate, and the first support is rotationally connected with a snow making barrel; the second support is connected to the rotating plate in a sliding mode, and the snow making barrel is fixedly connected with guide frames which are symmetrically distributed; the rotating frame is rotationally connected to the supporting shell; and the adjusting frame is slidably connected to the rotating frame, and an arc-shaped plate is fixedly connected to the inner side of the adjusting frame. By changing the supporting position of the second support on the snow making barrel, the nozzle of the snow making barrel deflects upwards when facing the wind coming direction, the elevation angle of the snow making barrel is increased, the moving time of water mist in the air is prolonged, the water mist can move farther in the horizontal direction, and therefore the moving distance of the water mist affected by wind is increased.

This invention discloses a hoisted snowmaking machine. It includes: a mounting cylinder, the upper end of which is connected to the roof of an indoor ski resort; a bearing consisting of an outer bearing ring, an inner bearing ring, and balls disposed between the outer and inner bearing rings; the upper end face of the inner bearing ring is connected to the lower end of the mounting cylinder; a first gear tooth is provided on the outer peripheral wall of the outer bearing ring; a motor, disposed on one side of the mounting cylinder and connected to the inner bearing ring; a drive wheel meshing with the first gear tooth is provided on the output shaft of the motor; an inner core, disposed within and connected to the inner bearing ring, and having an axially arranged water source connection port and air source connection port on the inner core; an inverted U-shaped bracket, with a connecting ring at the center of its upper end, the connecting ring being connected to the outer bearing ring; and a snow cannon body. The beneficial effects of this invention are: the presence of a bearing and a motor enables the snow cannon body to rotate, increasing the snowmaking area.

The utility model discloses a cannon type snowmaker convenient for angle adjustment, which comprises a support frame, the upper surface of the support frame is rotatably connected with a rotating seat, the upper surface of the rotating seat is fixedly connected with a support seat, the interior of the support seat is rotatably connected with a snow outlet cylinder, and the cannon type snowmaker is characterized by further comprising an angle adjusting mechanism; the angle adjusting mechanism comprises a second worm, a second worm gear, a transmission shaft, a gear and a quarter inner gear ring, the second worm is rotationally connected to the upper surface of the rotating base, the transmission shaft is rotationally connected to the middle of a fixing block on the upper surface of the rotating base, the second worm gear is fixedly connected to the middle of the outer surface of the transmission shaft, and the second worm gear is connected with the second worm in an engaged mode; according to the cannon type snowmaker convenient to adjust the angle, through the angle adjusting mechanism, the driving assembly drives the gear and the gear ring to rotate, so that the snow outlet angle is adjusted, the production and maintenance cost is low, meanwhile, effective self-locking can be provided, and damage caused when the machine breaks down is prevented.