Leak Detection Probe With Integrated Lighting for Dark Pipelines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gas detectors are inconvenient to operate in areas with poor lighting.
Innovation Solution
A gas detector with a detection probe integrated with a sensor, alarm lamp, and lighting device, equipped with a button to control lighting, and drive circuits for LED, sensor, voice broadcasting, and motor operation, allowing it to function as both an alarm and a searchlight.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional gas detector uses a simple sensor connected to housing or a universal shaped tube, then the device structure is simple, but it is inconvenient to operate in areas with poor lighting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the alarm lamp and lighting device into a single integrated LED module within the detection probe. This merging of functions allows the device to provide both alarm indication and illumination capabilities without requiring separate components, thereby improving operability in poor lighting conditions while maintaining relatively simple device structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The detection probe is designed to serve multiple functions: gas detection, alarm indication, and illumination. By making the probe multi-functional, the device can operate effectively in poor lighting conditions without significantly increasing overall device complexity, as the same structural element performs multiple roles.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the gas detector includes integrated alarm lamp and lighting device in the detection probe, then it can illuminate and indicate alarm simultaneously, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alarm lamp and lighting device are merged into a single LED module with dual-color capability. The LED module can emit different colors (e.g., red for alarm, white for illumination) using the same physical component, thereby providing versatile detection and illumination capabilities while minimizing the increase in device structure complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The LED module is designed as a universal component that can perform multiple functions: alarm indication through specific color emission and general illumination through different color emission. This multi-functionality allows the device to adapt to various operational conditions without requiring separate dedicated components for each function.
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
Enables accurate detection and illumination in poorly lit areas, facilitating the search and positioning of gas leaks, with additional features like voice broadcasting and vibration alerts.
Implementation Method 1
the LED module includes the alarm lamp and the lighting device
Data Source
AI summary
A gas detector includes a gas detector body; the gas detector body includes a detection probe, a gas detector housing, and a universal shaped tube. An end of the universal shaped tube is connected with the gas detector housing, the other end of the universal shaped tube is connected with the detection probe, and the detection probe is internally integrated with a sensor used to detect a leakage gas, an alarm lamp used for an alarm indication when the leakage gas is detected, and a lighting device used to illuminate. According to the gas detector, an extending portion of the universal shaped tube is provided with the protection probe, and the alarm lamp and the lighting device are added therein, realizing the alarm indication, and being used to illuminate as a searchlight in an area with poor lighting of a gas pipeline during non-alarm.