JP2004314926A - Wheel light-emitting device with illumination for motorcycle - Google Patents
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【０００１】
【発明の属する技術分野】
この発明は、回路用筐体に前照灯もしくは尾灯等の機能を担う照明手段を付加し、低コスト化、軽量化、意匠の向上等を実現した二輪車用照明つき車輪発光装置の発明に関するものである。
【０００２】
【従来の技術】
従来、二輪車用の前照灯や尾灯等の照明手段と車輪発光装置および車輪照明手段は別々の部品であり、別々の筐体に納められ、別々に車体に取り付けられていた。
【０００３】
【発明が解決しようとする課題】
これらには、次のような欠点があった。
回路を納める筐体（３）、本体もしくは回路筐体を車体に固定する取り付け手段（６）、回路中の自動スイッチ回路（１２）、整流回路（１３）、平滑回路（１４）、電池（Ｂ１）等の前照灯や尾灯などの照明手段（２）と車輪発光装置に夫々必要なものを別々に備えるため、コストが重複し、車体の重量が増え、電力の利用効率も悪くなっていた。
また、これらを別々に取り付けた場合、車体の外観意匠が雑然となってしまい、ファッション性を損ねていた。
本発明は、これらの欠点を失くすためになされたものである。
【０００４】
【課題を解決するための手段】
車輪照明手段（１）を駆動する回路を収めた筐体（３）の車体前方側もしくは後方側に照明手段（２）を備え、これを点灯させるための電気回路の一部を、車輪照明手段（１）を点灯させるための回路と共有して備えた。
本発明は以上の構成よりなる二輪車用照明つき車輪発光装置である。
【０００５】
【発明の実施の形態】
以下、本発明の実施の形態について説明する。
二輪車の車輪（４）の一部に蓄光機能部位（５）を設け、これに光を照射することによって発光せしめる二輪車用車輪発光装置には、車輪照明手段（１）を駆動する電気回路と、これを収めた筐体（３）が備わる。
この筐体（３）の車体前方側もしくは後方側に、照明手段（２）を備える。車体前方側に照明手段（２）を備える場合は、前照灯として機能し、車体後方側に備える場合は車体後方からの視認性を向上させるための尾灯として機能する。照明手段（２）を尾灯として車体後方側に備える場合の実施例を図１に示す。
照明手段（２）は図２に示すように、光源（７）、反射板（８）、レンズカバー（９）から構成され、光源（７）から発せられた光が反射板（８）によって適切に集光、配光され、透明素材で形成したレンズカバー（９）を透過して車体前方もしくは後方に向けて照射される。
【０００６】
このように、車輪発光装置の回路を収めた筐体（３）を照明手段（２）と一体化することによって、回路、筐体だけでなく、電源から装置までの配線の長さも減らすことが出来る。
また、使用する電源が電池（Ｂ１）の場合、上記筐体（３）内に電池（Ｂ１）を収めることで、筐体（３）外部の配線を更に減らすことが出来る。
また、車輪に近い位置に筐体（３）を備える場合は、図１に示す様に、車体への取り付け手段（６）を筐体（３）と車輪照明手段（１）で共有することが可能となる。
【０００７】
車輪発光装置と尾灯の電源に発電機（Ｇ１）を用いる場合、これらの光源を安定して発光させるために図３に示す様に整流回路（１３）、平滑回路（１４）が用いられる。これらの回路は特に光源（７）に発光ダイオード等の発光反応速度が速いものを用いる場合に、ちらつきを防ぐために必要とされる。
また、特に自転車においては、周囲の明るさをＣｄＳ素子等の光量センサにより読み取り、これによって自動点灯を行う夜間自動点灯機能や、走行状態を磁気センサや振動センサ等により検知して自動点灯するなどの機能を担う自動スイッチ回路（１２）が備わる場合が多い。
これらを車輪発光装置と照明装置（２）でそれぞれ別々に備えるのはコストの重複であり、無駄である。
そこで、これらの回路をひとつにまとめ、車輪照明手段（１）と照明手段（２）の両方を点灯させる回路として兼用して備える。
車輪照明手段（１）と照明手段（２）はいずれも周囲が暗い走行条件下で使用するものであるため、同時に点灯、消灯させればよく、自動スイッチ回路（１２）は兼用しても問題がないのである。
尚、図３および図４中の車輪照明手段駆動回路（１０）と尾灯点灯回路（１１）は、各光源に流す電流値を適正化する等の機能を有する。また、自転車においては、照明手段（２）を尾灯とする場合、点滅発光させることがあり、この場合、発振回路等もこの照明手段点灯回路（１１）に含まれる。
【０００８】
車輪発光装置には前後の車輪とその左右を発光させるため、複数の車輪照明手段（１）が備わる。
これらの車輪照明手段（１）に別々に自動スイッチ回路（１２）、整流回路（１３）、平滑回路（１４）、回路を収める筐体（３）を備えるのは非効率的である。そこで、筐体（３）内部に収める回路は、車体の前後輪および車輌左右側面等に備える全ての車輪照明手段（１）を駆動し、発光せしめるようにする。
したがって、図３および図４中の車輪照明手段駆動回路（１０）と車輪照明手段（１）は複数備えるが、自動スイッチ回路（１２）、整流回路（１３）、平滑回路（１４）および回路を収める筐体（３）は兼用し、ひとつとする。
【０００９】
【発明の効果】
本発明により、車輪発光装置と照明手段の両方を導入する場合のコストを減らすことが出来、軽量化にもなる。
また、筐体と配線が減ることによって、取り付け施工が容易になると同時に装着車体の外観意匠がシンプルになり、安全性とファッション性を両立することが出来る。
【図面の簡単な説明】
【図１】本発明の実施例
【図２】照明手段部位断面図
【図３】電源に発電機を用いる場合の回路構成例
【図４】電源に電池を用いる場合の回路構成例
【符号の説明】
（１） 車輪照明手段
（２） 照明手段
（３） 筐体
（４） 車輪
（５） 蓄光機能部位
（６） 取り付け手段
（７） 光源
（８） 反射板
（９） レンズカバー
（１０） 車輪照明手段駆動回路
（１１） 照明手段駆動回路
（１２） 自動スイッチ回路
（１３） 整流回路
（１４） 平滑回路
（Ｇ１） 発電機
（Ｂ１） 電池[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an invention of a wheel-equipped light emitting device for a motorcycle, which achieves low cost, light weight, improved design, and the like by adding an illuminating means having a function of a headlight or a taillight to a circuit housing. It is.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, lighting means such as a headlight and a taillight for a motorcycle, and a wheel light emitting device and a wheel lighting means are separate parts, are housed in separate housings, and are separately mounted on a vehicle body.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
These have the following disadvantages.
A housing (3) for housing the circuit, mounting means (6) for fixing the main body or the circuit housing to the vehicle body, an automatic switch circuit (12) in the circuit, a rectifier circuit (13), a smoothing circuit (14), a battery (B1 ), The lighting means (2) such as a headlight and a taillight and the wheel light-emitting device are separately provided, so that the cost is duplicated, the weight of the vehicle body is increased, and the power use efficiency is deteriorated. .
In addition, when these are separately mounted, the appearance design of the vehicle body becomes cluttered, and the fashionability is impaired.
The present invention has been made to eliminate these disadvantages.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
A lighting unit (2) is provided on the front or rear side of the vehicle body of a housing (3) containing a circuit for driving the wheel lighting unit (1), and a part of an electric circuit for turning on the lighting unit is provided as a wheel lighting unit. (1) is shared with a circuit for lighting.
The present invention is a wheel-equipped light emitting device for a motorcycle having the above-described configuration.
[0005]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described.
A motorcycle light emitting device for providing a light storing function part (5) on a part of a wheel (4) of a motorcycle and irradiating the part with light to emit light is provided with an electric circuit for driving wheel lighting means (1), A housing (3) containing this is provided.
An illuminating means (2) is provided on the front side or the rear side of the body of the housing (3). When the illumination means (2) is provided on the front side of the vehicle body, it functions as a headlight, and when it is provided on the rear side of the vehicle body, it functions as a taillight for improving visibility from the rear side of the vehicle body. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment in which the illuminating means (2) is provided as a taillight on the rear side of the vehicle body.
As shown in FIG. 2, the illuminating means (2) comprises a light source (7), a reflector (8), and a lens cover (9), and light emitted from the light source (7) is appropriately reflected by the reflector (8). Then, the light is condensed and distributed, and passes through a lens cover (9) formed of a transparent material, and is emitted toward the front or rear of the vehicle body.
[0006]
In this way, by integrating the housing (3) containing the circuit of the wheel light emitting device with the lighting means (2), it is possible to reduce not only the circuit and the housing but also the length of the wiring from the power supply to the device. I can do it.
When the battery (B1) is used as the power source, the battery (B1) is housed in the housing (3), so that the number of wires outside the housing (3) can be further reduced.
When the housing (3) is provided at a position near the wheels, as shown in FIG. 1, the means (6) for attaching to the vehicle body may be shared by the housing (3) and the wheel lighting means (1). It becomes possible.
[0007]
When a generator (G1) is used as a power source for the wheel light emitting device and the taillight, a rectifier circuit (13) and a smoothing circuit (14) are used as shown in FIG. 3 to stably emit light from these light sources. These circuits are required in order to prevent flickering, particularly when using a light source (7) such as a light emitting diode having a high light emitting reaction speed.
In particular, especially for bicycles, the surrounding brightness is read by a light quantity sensor such as a CdS element and the like, so that the function is automatically turned on at night. In many cases, an automatic switch circuit (12) having the above function is provided.
Providing these separately for the wheel light emitting device and the lighting device (2) is a costly and wasteful one.
Therefore, these circuits are combined into one and provided as a circuit for lighting both the wheel lighting means (1) and the lighting means (2).
Since both the wheel illuminating means (1) and the illuminating means (2) are used under running conditions where the surroundings are dark, they need only be turned on and off at the same time. There is no.
The wheel illuminating means driving circuit (10) and the taillight lighting circuit (11) in FIGS. 3 and 4 have functions such as optimizing the value of the current flowing through each light source. In a bicycle, when the lighting means (2) is used as a tail light, the lighting means (2) may emit light in a blinking manner. In this case, an oscillation circuit and the like are also included in the lighting means lighting circuit (11).
[0008]
The wheel light emitting device is provided with a plurality of wheel illuminating means (1) for illuminating the front and rear wheels and the left and right wheels.
It is inefficient to provide these wheel lighting means (1) separately with an automatic switch circuit (12), a rectifier circuit (13), a smoothing circuit (14), and a housing (3) for housing the circuit. Therefore, a circuit housed in the housing (3) drives all the wheel illuminating means (1) provided on the front and rear wheels of the vehicle body and on the left and right side surfaces of the vehicle to emit light.
Therefore, although a plurality of wheel lighting means driving circuits (10) and wheel lighting means (1) in FIGS. 3 and 4 are provided, the automatic switch circuit (12), the rectifying circuit (13), the smoothing circuit (14) and the circuit are provided. The housing (3) to be accommodated is also used, and is one.
[0009]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, the cost for introducing both the wheel light emitting device and the lighting means can be reduced, and the weight can be reduced.
In addition, since the number of housings and wirings is reduced, the mounting work is facilitated, and at the same time, the appearance design of the mounted vehicle body is simplified, so that both safety and fashion can be achieved.
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FIG. 1 is an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a lighting means portion. FIG. 3 is a circuit configuration example in which a generator is used as a power supply. FIG. 4 is a circuit configuration example in which a battery is used as a power supply. Description】
(1) Wheel illuminating means (2) Illuminating means (3) Housing (4) Wheel (5) Luminescent function part (6) Mounting means (7) Light source (8) Reflector (9) Lens cover (10) Wheel illumination Means drive circuit (11) Lighting means drive circuit (12) Automatic switch circuit (13) Rectifier circuit (14) Smoothing circuit (G1) Generator (B1) Battery
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