2361 results about "Utility pole" patented technology

There is disclosed an apparatus for mounting antennas on a utility pole. The apparatus comprises a group of brackets that encircle the utility pole and support the antennas. Each bracket comprises at least one support arm capable of attaching to an antenna and a faceplate that presses against the surface of the utility pole. The apparatus also includes tightening or closure means, such as nut and bolt assemblies, that connect the brackets together. When tightened, the tightening means draw the brackets encircling the utility pole closer together, thereby pressing the faceplates of each bracket more firmly against the utility pole. This clamps the apparatus tightly in place at selected points on the utility pole.

The invention relates to a full-automatic utility pole centralizer comprising a hoop, a hydraulic mechanism, a length adjuster, a connecting shaft, a right hand thread screw, a left hand thread screw, a base, a mercury switch and an electric hydraulic pump. The hoop is connected with the hydraulic mechanism through the connecting shaft. The hydraulic mechanism and the right hand thread screw are welded together. The right hand thread screw and the left hand thread screw are screwed in two ends of the length adjuster, respectively. A limit stopper is arranged at the end of each of the screws screwed into the length adjuster. The other end of the left hand thread screw is connected with the base through the connecting shaft. The hydraulic mechanism is provided with a relief valve and a hydraulic joint. The electric hydraulic pump is connected with the hydraulic joint through a high-pressure rubber pipe. The mercury switch is parallelly attached to a utility pole and is connected with the electric hydraulic pump through a circuit. The full-automatic utility pole centralizer has the advantages that when tilting, the utility pole can be automatically centralized with no power outage; power supply reliability is ensured, work efficiency is improved, and risks caused by power outage are reduced.

A system and method for providing grid connected utility pole distributed solar power generation is disclosed. The system includes a utility pole, an inverter and one or more solar panels. Each of the one or more solar panels is mounted on the utility pole. The method includes receiving solar energy at the one or more solar panels. The one or more solar panels convert the solar energy to direct current (DC) electrical energy. Further, the method includes transmitting the DC electrical energy to the inverter, which is mounted on the utility pole. The inverter can be integrated with one or more solar panels to form an alternating current photovoltaic (AC PV) module. Furthermore, the method includes converting the DC electrical energy to alternating current (AC) electrical energy by the inverter and transmitting the AC electrical energy to a grid for power distribution.

A LED lamp includes a main body surrounded by a fin assembly on the periphery at an upper side and a lower side, a power supply holder located at the upper side and a plurality of LED lamp assemblies located at the lower side. The LED lamp assemblies are encased by a light converging plate which is further encased by a transparent lamp shade fastening to the lower side of the main body. The LED lamp thus formed may be fastened to a ceiling for indoor use through an upper cap of a fastening assembly, or an outdoor electric wire pole through a fastening tray. Each of the LED lamp assemblies has a heat transfer tube to transfer the generated heat to the main body for dispersing through the fin assembly. Thus desired heat dissipation can be accomplished.

Contact structures exhibiting resilience or compliance for a variety of electronic components are formed by bonding a free end of a wire to a substrate, configuring the wire into a wire stem having a springable shape, severing the wire stem, and overcoating the wire stem with at least one layer of a material chosen primarily for its structural (resiliency, compliance) characteristics.

There is provided an environment recognizing device for a vehicle capable of reducing false detections for an artificial object such as a utility pole, a guardrail and road paintings with smaller processing load, at the time of detecting a pedestrian by using a pattern matching method. The environment recognizing device for a vehicle includes an image acquisition unit (1011) for acquiring a picked up image in front of an own vehicle; a processing region setting unit (1021) for setting a processing region used for detecting a pedestrian from the image; a pedestrian candidate setting unit (1031) for setting a pedestrian candidate region used for determining an existence of the pedestrian from the image; and a pedestrian determination unit (1041) for determining whether the pedestrian candidate region is the pedestrian or an artificial object depending on a gray-scale variation rate in a predetermined direction within the pedestrian candidate region.

A method of producing a battery-connecting plate by providing busbars which connect batteries together, attaching terminals to one end of wires to produce terminal-attached wires for detecting voltage of desired ones of the batteries, placing the terminal-attached wires in a predetermined layout in a wire protector, setting the busbars and wire protector in a mold with the burbars positioned corresponding to an arrangement of the batteries, injecting resin into the mold to produce a molded piece with the burbars and the terminal-attached wires therein, and cutting an element mount portion of each of the terminals and connecting a respective circuit protector element to the element mount portion in a bridging manner across the cut.

A multi-sectional utility pole includes at least two sections of straight pipe, which are joined and connected by a slip joint connection. The slip joint preferably consists of two mating conical sections, with one attached to each section of the pole. The slip joint is compressed with the aid of rings, which are attached to the pipe, and a key and slot. The two conical sections are fastened together with bolts that pass through the female conical section and thread into the male conical section of the slip joint. The pole is easily assembled on the ground and the pole sections are fungible with other sections of the same diameter. The sections are also inexpensively manufactured. The conical sections can be swaged from the ends of the pipe, or can be fabricated separately and welded on to the ends of the pipe.

An apparatus and a method of using the apparatus to temporarily support a utility pole is disclosed. The apparatus is comprised of a plurality of structural elements which are hinged together to form an articulated frame. The frame is adapted to be connected to a pole and caused to conform to the slope or angle of the pole with respect to the ground. The frame is also adapted to conform to the slope of the ground in which the pole is embedded. The articulated frame of this invention finds particular utility in supporting a utility pole installed in ground subject to collapse due to excavation in the vicinity of the pole. In this regard, the frame is useful to obviate the need to temporarily reroute a power line erected in the vicinity of earth removal operations.

A lineman's pole having telescoping sections is connected by a push button assembly for temporarily fixing the length of the pole by holding sections together. The push button assembly is accessible from an end of the pole and can be installed, removed, and positioned via a connector accessible from one open end of the pole. A tool engages the connector on the push button, allowing for pulling, pushing, and rotating the button into a desired position. One connector includes a threading. A threaded tool engages the threads, allowing the user to pull the push button out of the telescoping pole. The connector, such as the threads within a bore in an adapter holding the push button, allows for removing the push button assembly. The push button assembly connects and releases cylindrical sections of the telescoping lineman's pole via openings in the surface of the telescoping sections.

A planter capable of attachment at a vertical surface to a tree trunk or utility pole. The planter comprises at least one segment having an arcuate inside wall to conform to the central tree trunk or pole. Each segment extends partially around the circumference of the tree or pole. Segments may be interconnected using any one of four alternative fasteners: the first fastener is a resilient cable wrapped around a tree trunk with each segment having a pair of hooks to attach it to the cable; the second fastener interconnects segments using a pair of latches having holes therethrough with a bolt that is secured through the holes; the third fastener also interconnects segments by each segment having a pair of pins extending from the outer wall and near the end walls with a gasket having complementary holes securing the segments; and the fourth fastening means interconnects the segments using interlocking female and male edges.

The invention relates to a zebra crossing pedestrian monitoring and warning device based on laser inspection. The current devices have bad using effects. The device of the invention comprises a pedestrian monitoring device, a control box and signal lamps, wherein the pedestrian monitoring device comprises two trigger gates respectively arranged at the start and end of a zebra crossing; each trigger gate comprises a laser emission column and a laser pick-off column arranged on a sidewalk respectively at two ends of the zebra crossing; the laser emission column of each trigger gate emits laser beam and the laser pick-off column of each trigger gate picks off the laser beam; when a pedestrian passes through the trigger gates, the laser beam is cut off; two rows of signal lamps are respectively arranged at two sides of the zebra crossing; and the control box is arranged on a telegraph pole of the sidewalk. The device of the invention adopts the pedestrian monitoring systems arranged at two ends of the zebra crossing, and each pedestrian monitoring system is additionally provided with a passing in and out direction judging function, thereby improving the efficiency of system operation. The device of the invention is more conductive to remind drivers to avoid collision to reduce hidden danger of traffic accidents.

The invention discloses a cement telegraph pole erecting cart comprising a frame, a telegraph pole lifting device and a telegraph pole support device. The telegraph pole lifting device and the telegraph pole support device are arranged on the frame, the front end of the frame is provided with a shaft bush, a connecting rod is arranged on the frame, and one end of the connecting rod is connected with a first snap ring. The telegraph pole support device comprises groove steel and sliding rails on the upper surface of the groove steel, the groove steel is provided with a slide groove, and a pin shaft is penetratingly arranged on the groove steel and provided with a wheel. The end of the slide rails is provided with a second snap ring used for restraining a cement telegraph pole. The telegraph pole lifting device comprises a lifting oil cylinder, a central shaft and a connecting lever on the frame, the connecting lever is movably connected on the central shaft and comprises a short arm and a long arm, the short arm is movably connected with a cylinder rod of the lifting oil cylinder, and the long arm is connected with the pin shaft. The central shaft is connected with the shaft bush through a support rod. The telegraph pole lifting device comprises the connecting lever and the lifting oil cylinder, lifting is realized by the lever principle, operation is quite convenient and time and labor saving, and operation efficiency is greatly improved.

A distribution transformer adapted for mounting to a utility pole. The distribution transformer includes a plurality of coil assemblies mounted to a ferromagnetic core. Each of the coil assemblies includes a low voltage coil and a high voltage coil. The low voltage coils are connected together and the high voltage coils are connected together. An encasement comprised of an insulating resin encapsulates the core and the coil assemblies. The encasement includes a substantially annular body and a pair of high voltage bushings extending outwardly from the body. Terminals extend from the high voltage bushings and are connected to the high voltage coils.

A method for reading a utility meter utilizing broadband infrastructure is provided. The method may include transmitting utility usage data from a plurality of customer premises to a remote enclosure, coupled with a utility pole, using a power line communications infrastructure. The utility usage data may be received at the remote enclosure. The remote enclosure may include a digital subscriber line (“DSL”) modem for modulating the utility usage data. The modulated utility usage data may be transmitted over a public broadband network infrastructure to a utility provider.

The invention provides an electric lifting type telegraph pole climbing device, which comprises two pedals which are symmetrically arranged on the left and right sides, wherein supporting frames are fixedly arranged at the lower sides of the pedals; both the pedals and the supporting frames are arranged at the outer side of a telegraph pole body; protective fences and mounting blocks are arranged on the pedals; a safety bandage, by which the entire device is bound to the telegraph pole body, is fixedly connected to the mounting blocks; the supporting frames are of semi-arc structures and are fixed by virtue of hoops; climbing assemblies, clamping assemblies and force measuring assemblies which are connected to the climbing assemblies are radially arranged on the inner surfaces of the semi-arc supporting frames; the climbing assemblies, the clamping assemblies and the force measuring assemblies are electrically connected to a PLC control system; and the PLC control system, by receiving feedback signals of the force measuring assemblies, is in charge of controlling the working statuses of the climbing assemblies and the clamping assemblies in real time. The electric lifting type telegraph pole climbing device provided by the invention, which achieves real-time automatic control on the basis of a feedback mechanism, is safe and reliable to operate and is free from limitation of the shape and the size of the telegraph pole body; and the electric lifting type telegraph pole climbing device can greatly save the labor of constructors and accelerate construction efficiency.

The invention discloses a power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device. The power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device comprises a vehicle frame. A support is installed below the vehicle frame. Wheels are installed on the support, and universal wheels are installed at the front end of the vehicle frame. The power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device is characterized in that lead screws are installed on the two sides of the vehicle frame, and sliding blocks controlled through lead screw hand wheels to slide on the lead screws back and forth are installed on the lead screws; a first clamping sleeve formed by assembling a fixing-fastening-frame upper cover and a fixing-fastening-frame lower cover is installed at one end of the middle of the vehicle frame, and rotating shafts are arranged on the two sides of the first clamping sleeve and inserted into the vehicle frame. The power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device and a construction method of the power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device have the advantages that when a telegraph pole is erected, use is convenient, labor is saved, walking is stable, the construction speed is high, and meanwhile the power-grid telegraph-pole erecting self-loading-unloading device and the construction method are suitable for a flat-road region with sufficient power in a construction region and a remote mountain road rough region, high in practicability and suitable for use and popularization.

The invention relates to a wire pole climbing tool, in particular to a portable wire pole climbing mechanism. Side edges (14) which are connected are arranged on semicircular cylinders (12) at the end parts of two semicircular convex rings (1); the climbing mechanism comprises two clamping rods (4), a supporting wheel (2) and a climbing wheel (7); a positioning board (10) is fixedly connected with the inner side surfaces of the two semicircular cylinders (12) movably through a positioning board supporting rod (20), and a pull wire seat (15) on the back surface of the positioning board (10) is penetrated through the thin end of a tower spring (16); and one end of an unlocking pull wire (11) is connected with the pull wire seat (15), and the unlocking pull wire (11) respectively passes through a hole (18) and a pull wire lock (17) and then is mutually wound with other unlocking pull wires (11) or independently extends downward. By surrounding the two semicircular cylinders on the body of a wire pole and using a climbing traction belt to drive the climbing wheel to climb upward, the invention realizes the purposes of installing an operating platform and conveying operating tools to the top of the wire pole.

A composite utility pole or the like is shown, having an elongate member, where a deformable material is co-extruded over the outer surface. The elongate member can have any configuration, but is shown as a circular cross section, and can have structural ribs. Concrete fills the substantial portion of the pole to give it rigidity.

An antenna enclosure is designed to be suspended from a line such as a messenger strand which extends in a first direction between a pair of utility poles, in a similar manner to other aerial strand mounted communication system components. At least one antenna element is mounted in the enclosure. The antenna enclosure in one example is elongated in the first direction and tapers inwardly in a vertical direction between the upper and lower ends of the enclosure. Two spaced connecting brackets mounted on the upper end of the enclosure are configured for connection to spaced positions on a line to suspend the enclosure from the line.

A vertical axis wind turbine for attaching to a utility pole includes a plurality of support arms, a housing, a generator and a plurality of blades. The support arms attach to the utility pole. The housing is coupled between the arms. The housing includes an outer wall defining a space within the housing. The housing rotates on a vertical axis of rotation and with respect to the arms. The generator is stationed within the space. The generator generates an electric current in response to a rotation of the housing. The plurality of blades coupled to an external surface of the outer wall, one of the blades extends in a vertical direction.