DEVICE FOR THE LIGHTING AND/OR DEMARCATION OF PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

• US 20100214129A1
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Smarten 2000 S.L.
• Original Assignee: Smarten 2000 S.L.
• Inventors: Brualla Marti, Jordi, Serrat Llorens, Jordi, Marti Charlo, Xavier, Sánchez Acosta, Jordi
• Application Number:
  US12/532,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20100214129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/944
• CPC Class Codes: E01F 9/617 Illuminated or wired-up posts, bollards, pillars or like upstanding bodies or structures for traffic guidance, warning or control E01F9/559 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/22 Advertising or display means on roads, walls or similar surfaces, e.g. illuminated

Abstract

A device is for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings. Normally pedestrian crossings are in many cases difficult to identify by users, because they are insufficiently lit or demarcated. Posts or columns are provided with lighting means formed by lighting advertising lamps which light and/or demarcate pedestrian crossings perfectly. The correct lighting of pedestrian crossings is achieved by lighting lamps placed mainly in the lower part of the posts or columns, with the effect that the light beams thereof spread out and light the surface of the pedestrian crossing. The demarcation of pedestrian crossings is achieved by positioning posts or advertising columns in at least one corner at each end of the pedestrian crossing.

Claims

1. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, comprising a plurality of posts or columns attached to the ground on the corners of the pedestrian crossing, wherein the demarcation posts or columns, are placed on at least one corner at each end of the pedestrian crossing, and wherein the posts or columns are provided with lighting lamps placed mainly in the lower part of said posts or columns, the light of which is distributed over the surface of the pedestrian crossing.

2. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said posts or columns have housings for signs on their side surfaces.

3. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said housings have a plurality of lamps placed between the signs and the back wall of the housing, the back wall being covered with a reflective layer.

4. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said lamps arranged between the signs and the back wall of the housing are connected parallel to said lamp placed on the lower part.

5. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said lamps have a plurality of diode light sources or energy-saving lights.

6. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said posts or columns comprise on their exterior surface one or more solar panels connected to an electric power accumulator placed on the inside of the post, said accumulator being connected to said lamp by a circuit.

7. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, comprising means for closing said circuit when the solar panel provides a current of less than a certain first threshold.

8. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, comprising means for opening said circuit when the solar panel supplies a current greater than a certain second threshold.

9. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said lamps are placed in a housing having an opening delimiting the projection of the light cone onto the surface of the pedestrian crossing.

10. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said posts or columns comprise anchoring means to the ground.

11. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein said posts or columns have a rectangular base on the surface of which is a solar panel.

12. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, comprising an opening substantially provided on the high part of one or more side surfaces, giving access to an ashtray.

13. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein the advertising columns or posts are connected to an electrical power infrastructure, or provide their own energy by solar wind power means, and the like.

14. A device for lighting and/or demarcation of pedestrian crossings, according to claim 1, wherein the electric power provides for lighting the advertising and lamps of the advertising posts or columns and producing sounds, flashes, etc. to allow handicapped pedestrians to pass.