VEHICLE INSPECTION SYSTEM

• US 20160054469A1
• Filed: 12/23/2014
• Published: 02/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited (Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd.), Tsinghua University
• Original Assignee: Nuctech Company Limited (Tsinghua Tongfang Co., Ltd.), Tsinghua University
• Inventors: LI, Jianmin, LI, Ying, LI, Yuanjing, LI, Yulan, HU, Yu, WU, Yucheng, SONG, Tao
• Granted Patent: US 9,817,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 23/083 the radiation being X-rays
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 5/22 Active interrogation, i.e. by irradiating objects or goods using external radiation sources, e.g. using gamma rays or cosmic rays

Abstract

The present invention discloses a vehicle inspection system, comprising: a radiation source;

an inspection passage enabling a vehicle to pass; a dragging system comprising a first dragging means and a second dragging means, which are sequentially arranged along a vehicle dragging direction; in the vehicle dragging direction, the first dragging means is arranged at the upstream of the second dragging means, and a separating section is arranged between the first dragging means and the second dragging means, so that the first dragging means is separated from the second dragging means by a preset distance in the vehicle dragging direction; and the first and second dragging means both include a supporting plate, an elongated traction element and a pushing element connected with the elongated traction element, the elongated traction elements of the first and second dragging means are continuous and integrated, thus the elongated traction elements and pushing elements extends on the separating section; the supporting plates of the first and second dragging means are separated and two pieces type, and no supporting plate is provided on the separating section.

Claims

1. A vehicle inspection system, comprising:

a radiation source;

an inspection passage enabling a vehicle to pass;

a dragging system comprising a first dragging means and a second dragging means, which are sequentially arranged along a vehicle dragging direction;

in the vehicle dragging direction, the first dragging means is arranged at the upstream of the second dragging means, and a separating section is arranged between the first dragging means and the second dragging means, so that the first dragging means is separated from the second dragging means by a preset distance in the vehicle dragging direction; and

the first and second dragging means both include a supporting plate, an elongated traction element and a pushing element connected with the elongated traction element, the elongated traction elements of the first and second dragging means are continuous and integrated, thus the elongated traction elements and pushing elements extends on the separating section;

the supporting plates of the first and second dragging means are separated and two pieces type, and no supporting plate is provided on the separating section.

2. A vehicle inspection system according to claim 1 wherein said radiation source providing X-ray beams for scanning a vehicle and further comprising:

a detector used for receiving the X-ray beams emitted from the radiation source;

a scanning means frame being arranged within the range of the inspection passage, the radiation source is arranged at the top of the scanning means frame for scanning the vehicle passing the inspection passage, and the detector is arranged at a position opposite to the radiation source;

at least a part of paths of the beams of the radiation source passes through the separating section between the first dragging means and the second dragging means.

3. The vehicle inspection system of claim 2, further comprising:

the dragging means is arranged on the ground at one side within the range of the inspection passage, and is able to drag the vehicle which is driving into the inspection passage to pass the inspection passage.

4. The vehicle inspection system of claim 3, wherein

the width of the inspection passage is arranged in such a manner that the vehicle is able to pass the inspection passage by means of the dragging means, and the vehicle is also able to pass the inspection passage along the ground provided with no dragging means.

5. The vehicle inspection system of claim 2, further comprising:

the radiation shield walls arranged at the two sides of the inspection passage

a pedestrian passage arranged behind the radiation shield walls, for enabling a driver to walk from a starting point where the vehicle drives into the inspection passage to the destination where the vehicle is about to leave the inspection passage.

6. The vehicle inspection system according to claim 1, wherein said dragging system is arranged in the inspection passage;

and further comprising;

a radiographic inspection system for inspecting a vehicle,

wherein said radiation source is comprised in said radiographic inspection system, said radiation source for emitting beams of penetrating radiation and a detector for receiving the beams emitted by the radiation source and penetrating through the inspected vehicle;

at least a part of paths of the beams of the radiographic inspection system passes through the separating section between the first dragging means and the second dragging means.

7. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, wherein the pushing element is used for pushing wheels to move so as to drive the vehicle to advance.

8. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, wherein the radiation source is arranged above the inspection passage.

9. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, further comprising a driving passage arranged in the inspection passage and used for enabling the vehicle to voluntarily pass, wherein the driving passage is arranged to be substantially parallel to the dragging means.

10. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, further comprising a controller, wherein the controller corrects an acquired image of the inspected vehicle according to a scanned image acquired by the vehicle inspection system during no load of the dragging means, in order to remove the image of the dragging means from the acquired image of the inspected vehicle.

11. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, further comprising a controller, wherein the controller corrects an acquired image of the inspected vehicle according to a scanned image acquired by the vehicle inspection system during no load of the dragging means, in order to remove the image of at least one of the elongated traction element and the pushing element from the acquired image of the inspected vehicle.

12. The vehicle inspection system of claim 10, wherein the controller corrects the acquired image of the inspected vehicle according to the position relationship of the inspected vehicle and at least one of the elongated traction element and the pushing element along the vehicle transfer direction, in order to remove the image of at least one of the elongated traction element and the pushing element from the acquired image of the inspected vehicle.

13. The vehicle inspection system of claim 10, wherein the pushing element of the dragging means contacts the wheels of the vehicle and pushes the wheels, in order to determine the position relationship of the inspected vehicle and at least one of the elongated traction element and the pushing element along the vehicle transfer direction.

14. The vehicle inspection system of claim 10, further comprising:

a position detecting means for detecting whether the pushing element arrives at a preset position, and sending a signal to the controller when the pushing element pushing the wheels of the vehicle or the pushing element during no load of the dragging means arrives at the preset position, in order to start the radiographic inspection system to scan the vehicle or the no-load dragging means.

15. The vehicle inspection system of claim 14, wherein the position detecting means is an optical transceiver, the optical transceiver is arranged at one side of the dragging means and emits a light beam towards one side of the dragging means, when the light beam irradiates a reflector at the end part of the pushing element, the optical transceiver receives the light beam reflected by the reflector at the end part of the pushing element, in order to determine that the pushing element arrives at the preset position.

16. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, wherein

the first dragging means comprises a first elongated traction element and a first pushing element connected with the first elongated traction element, and the first pushing element is adapted to push the wheels to move so as to drive the vehicle to advance;

the second dragging means comprises a second elongated traction element and a second pushing element connected with the second elongated traction element, and the second pushing element is adapted to push the wheels to move so as to drive the vehicle to advance.

17. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, wherein

the vehicle passes the inspection passage under a first mode, a second mode or a third mode, under the first mode, the vehicle voluntarily passes the inspection passage, and the radiographic inspection system does not inspect the vehicle,

under the second mode, the vehicle voluntarily passes the inspection passage, and the radiographic inspection system inspects the vehicle by adopting a dosage lower than a first preset value, and

under the third mode, the dragging system drags the vehicle to pass the inspection passage, and the radiographic inspection system inspects the vehicle by adopting a dosage larger than or equal to a second preset value.

18. The vehicle inspection system of claim 17, wherein

under the first mode and the second mode, the wheels of at least one side of the vehicle drive on the first dragging means and the second dragging means or the vehicle drives on a road beside the first dragging means and the second dragging means.

19. The vehicle inspection system of claim 17, wherein the pushing element is adapted to push the wheels to move so as to drive the vehicle to advance,

the vehicle inspection system further comprises a driving passage arranged in the inspection passage and used for enabling the vehicle to voluntarily pass, and the driving passage is arranged to be substantially parallel to the dragging means, and

under the first mode, the vehicle voluntarily passes the inspection passage.

20. The vehicle inspection system of claim 6, wherein the elongated traction element is a chain or a plate link chain.