Spray Device to be Mounted on an Electric Vehicle

• US 20130228940A1
• Filed: 11/03/2011
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chan Yong Ahn, Rye Soon Lee
• Original Assignee: Chan Yong Ahn, Rye Soon Lee
• Inventors: Ahn, Chan Yong, Lee, Rye Soon
• Application Number:
  US13/884,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20130228940A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 261/34.1
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2221/16 Separation devices for cleaning ambient air, e.g. air along roads or air in cities
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 47/06 Spray cleaning
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 13/10 Tunnel systems pneumatic tubes conveyors B65G ; B61C15/045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B61K 3/00 Wetting or lubricating rails or wheel flanges
• CPC Class Codes: E21F 5/02 by wetting or spraying
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 8/133 by direct contact with liquid, e.g. with sprayed liquid
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 50/20 Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters

Abstract

A spray device mounted on a non-motor vehicle (T-car) selected from among commercial or novel electric vehicles so as to improve air quality inside a tunnel by spraying water during operation, collecting pollutants floating inside a subway tunnel, and collecting and sinking fine dust generated by means of the operation of a train onto the road. The spray device is mounted on a lower portion of the non-motorized vehicle (T-car) from among commercial or new electromotive cars, pressurized water is supplied to a distribution pipe on a discharging side by means of a pressurizing motor and a pump, and a jet is sprayed through a spray nozzle coupled to the distribution pipe. Also, it is possible to automatically spray a jet onto a rail surface while a train moves on a ground-level railway using a sensor and a control board.

Claims

1. A spray device which is mounted on an electric vehicle in order to improve air quality in a subway tunnel, the spray device comprising:

a water supply port disposed at one side of a doorway of a trailer car (T-car) on which the spray device is mounted, the water supply port being supplied with water using a water supply gun at a platform (A) of a subway station;

a water supply tank which contains the water therein, the water supply tank having partition plates therein;

a compression motor and a pump which supply pressurized water to the spray device;

distribution pipes which guide the pressurized water so that the pressurized water is automatically sprayed to a road and both sides of the subway tunnel and to a surface of ground rails;

spray nozzles disposed in the distribution pipes to spray the pressurized water to the road and both sides of the subway tunnel and to the surface of ground rails;

a pressure adjustment valve for adjusting the pressurized water supplied to the spray nozzles to a proper pressure;

automatic valves disposed on the distribution valves at front ends of the spray nozzles; and

a control panel which controls the automatic valves, the compression motor and the pump based on operations of a plurality of sensors and a control unit which are provided in the spray device,

wherein the spray device operates in real time to spray the pressurized water through the spray nozzles by supplying the pressurized water through the automatic valves and the distribution pipes while the electric vehicle is driving.

2. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors include a temperature sensor protruding from a lower portion of the spray device, the temperature sensor detecting a temperature around rails, and a level sensor which detects a water level inside the water supply tank, wherein, when the temperature around the rails detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or higher than a set temperature and the water level detected by the level sensor stays equal to or higher than a low-level, the spray device operates in response to an operation of the control panel to concentrically spray the pressurized water to the surface of the ground rails.

3. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors include a sensor which detects an operation of an electric vehicle, a tunnel structure sensor which detects a tunnel structure, and a level sensor which detects a water level inside the water supply tank, wherein, when the operation of the electric vehicle is detected and the tunnel structure is detected and the water level detected by the level sensor stays equal to or higher than a low-level, the pressurized water is automatically sprayed in real time in response to the operation of the control panel to the surface and the both sides of the ground rails while the electric vehicle is driving.

4. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the partition plates are provided in lateral and longitudinal directions inside the water supply tank, and upper and lower ends of the partition plates are perforated at a plurality of positions in order to facilitate movement of air and water.

5. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the water supply port and a water supply port formed at an upper side of the spray device is connected to each other via a hollow pipe, such that water is supplied using a water supply gun at the platform of the subway station.

6. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the spray device has a water supply port at one side thereof, and the water supply port has a water supply port cover, the water supply port cover has a hollow portion from a central portion of a contact surface which closely adjoins the water support port to a downward protruding end, wherein a level sensor which detects a water level inside the water tank interworks with the control panel when the water is being supplied, so that, when the water supplied inside the water supply tank is equal to or higher than a high-water level, a buzzer operates and a portion of the water that is at or higher than the high-water level is discharged to an outside via the hollow portion of the water supply port cover.

7. The spray device of claim 1, wherein the spray device has a heater unit therein and a heat-retaining insulation material covering an outer portion thereof, heat-generating elements are provided on outer portions of the distribution pipes and are covered with the heat-retaining insulation material and a heat-retaining insulation material cover.