Ground-Embedded Camera Drainage Structure for Clear Imaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional ground embedded imaging devices with drainage functions face issues with ineffective water discharge when roads lack drainage ditches, leading to image distortion due to moisture accumulation.
Innovation Solution
A ground embedded imaging device with a barrel housing unit, electronic element unit, and automatic draining unit, featuring a water collecting chamber, water conducting hole, and a water expelling driver to automatically expel water from the chamber, ensuring smooth water flow and preventing moisture accumulation around the imaging module.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a drainage pipe extending downwardly from the barrel is used to discharge water, then water discharge function is provided, but water cannot be discharged smoothly when drainage ditches are absent
Solution Approach 1:
The drainage system transitions from a static downward-extending pipe to a dynamic ejection system using a water pump and ejection hole. The pump can actively expel water in both upward and downward directions, adapting to varying environmental conditions such as presence or absence of drainage ditches, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliable water discharge and adaptability to different road conditions.
2Quantity of substance
If water flows into the barrel without effective discharge, then water accumulates in the barrel, but image distortion occurs due to moisture captured by the lens
Solution Approach 1:
A water pump is introduced as an intermediary device between the water accumulation problem and the image capture function. The pump actively removes water from the barrel interior, preventing moisture from reaching the lens while maintaining the water collection function, thus resolving the contradiction between water quantity management and image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The passive gravitational drainage system is replaced with an active mechanical pumping system. The water pump provides controlled water ejection, replacing the insufficient passive drainage mechanism and ensuring reliable water removal to protect image capture quality.
3Device complexity
If a conventional drainage pipe system is used, then the structure is simple, but water discharge effectiveness is poor without drainage ditches
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates a water pump that utilizes hydraulic principles to actively eject water through the ejection hole. This hydraulic mechanism provides reliable water discharge effectiveness by generating sufficient pressure to expel water regardless of external drainage conditions, justifying the increased structural complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively prevents water accumulation, allowing the imaging module to operate correctly by guiding water into the chamber and expelling it automatically, thus maintaining image capture functionality.
Implementation Method 1
the water expelling driver comprises a hollow cylindrical-shaped electromagnetic force driving component
Data Source
AI summary
A ground embedded imaging device includes a barrel housing unit, an electronic element unit and an automatic draining unit. The barrel housing unit has a water collecting chamber, a translucent window portion at an upper end of the barrel housing unit, a water conducting hole to conduct water from outside to the water collecting chamber, and a water deflecting recess portion in spatial communication with the water conducting hole and disposed below the ground surface. The electronic element unit includes an imaging module oriented toward the window portion. The automatic draining unit includes a water expelling driver which is actuated to expel water from the water collecting chamber. Water is prevented from accumulating around the window portion so that the imaging module operates correctly.