EP2335793A1 - Rest area provided with recreation and/or fitness and/or sporting equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The area (A) has a refresh system (1-4) with refresh devices (300, 310) that are triggered by person presence detection devices (100, 200) i.e. pressure and passage detectors, where the detection devices are realized by person detection slabs. The detection devices detect the person in a given detection perimeter. The refresh systems are in a form of ultrasound or air blast facial spritzers (301, 311) i.e. guide track and nozzle tip, and diffuse the mist within a diffusion perimeter and refresh the person in the diffusion perimeter.

Description

Field of the invention

The invention relates to relaxation areas provided with recreational equipment and / or fitness and / or sports. Recreational areas generally include children's play areas and healthy areas, parks and gardens equipped with fitness or sports equipment. Areas equipped with fitness or sports equipment are developing more and more and there are, to date, equipment suitable for all ages: children, adults including seniors.

Indeed, areas designed for physical exercise are more numerous. These areas include fitness equipment, intended for an increasingly wide audience and more particularly adapted to the elderly. This is particularly the case in Spain where circuits of "saludales", that is to say health and wellness circuits are already established in parks and gardens or retirement homes.

In this context, the invention applies to the areas equipped with equipment for carrying out exercises of maintenance as can be found in Spain, in China, but also to the playgrounds for children and health courses as one can find some in France.

In order to improve the well-being of the people frequenting such relaxation areas, the applicant had the idea of providing these areas with cooling systems, namely systems that allow to bring freshness without wetting as can a water jet or shower. The refreshment system proposed by the Depositor is suitable for all types of public, children, adults, but also the elderly because it is not necessary to wear a bathing suit or to have to change clothes after passing nearby the proposed refresh system. In addition, people do not need to wiggle in front of the detection systems, nor play to trigger them. The proposed cooling system is not a set of water jets as described in the patents US 6,702,687 or 6746334 . Indeed, the devices described in these documents relate to games for projecting water by jets on people who solicit games.

Thus, in the present invention is not intended to achieve water games, but to equip relaxation areas equipped with recreational equipment and / or shaping and / or sporting refresh systems without the users have to jump or make signs or press a trigger to activate the system.

The invention also makes it possible for town halls to meet regulatory obligations during periods of heatwave.

According to the present invention, the refreshment systems are very easy to implement on existing areas or under construction. The systems can be connected to the public network or to the water supply of one or more fountains located on the relaxation area. The power supply of each system can be achieved by cables connected directly to the public network or by means of cables used to supply street lights installed on the relaxation area. Preferably, each system will be autonomous in energy, each being for that purpose powered by a battery or a solar generator.

Thus, the subject of the present invention is a relaxation area provided with recreational and / or shaping and / or sports equipment comprising a refresh system comprising one or more devices for detecting the presence of persons and one or more cooling devices triggered by at least one detection device having detected a person in its detection perimeter, these refreshing devices being able to diffuse water in the form of fog in a diffusion perimeter, and thus to refresh the persons within this perimeter.

The subject of the invention is also a refreshment system for a relaxation area equipped with recreational and / or shaping and / or sports equipment, comprising one or more devices for detecting the presence of persons and one or more devices for detecting the presence of persons. each of which can be triggered by one or more detection device (s), the detection device (s) having detected at least one person for it in a given detection perimeter, these refreshing devices being in the form of atomizers capable of diffusing a fog in a diffusion perimeter, thereby refreshing the persons in this perimeter and in which devices for detecting the presence of persons are made by passage detection devices such as infrared or radiofrequency detectors or photocells or by pressure sensing devices and pre erected by pressure sensing devices using pressure detection slabs, placed in the ground, between a hard floor and a flexible floor covering

According to another characteristic, each pressure detection plate has a rigid upper face in contact with the flexible ground, a rigid lower surface in contact with the ground made of hard material, an elastic material sandwiched between the upper face and the lower face of the slab, and at least one deformation sensor housed in the elastic material, capable of being activated under the effect of a pressure exerted on the flexible ground in a zone Z above the slab pressure detection.

Advantageously, the relaxation area may comprise one or more presence detection devices. The passage of one or more persons in the detection perimeter of a detection device triggers the activation of one or more refreshing devices. The triggering control of the cooling devices is controlled by at least one detection device. This trigger command is also able to control an automatic shutdown of the refreshing devices.

These foggers may be in the form of ramps or nozzles or centrifugal atomizers.

Mist means an assembly of several elements, including a pump, a fan and sprinklers also called nozzles. These elements make it possible to create fine droplets of water that evaporate instantaneously, the mist is powered electrically by the electrical network. In the present invention it is preferentially supplied by a battery or a solar generator. A high-pressure pump is conventionally used to produce fog by spraying the nozzles. The transformation of water into steam (gas) occurs when water comes into contact with cold air at the outlet of the nozzles. The fogger then produces billions of water droplets whose drop size does not exceed 5 microns. Instant evaporation takes place and reduces the ambient temperature.

According to a first exemplary embodiment, the detection device or devices comprise a pressure detector.

According to a preferred embodiment, the pressure detector comprises at least one pressure detection slab placed on a hard floor covered by a flexible floor. Flexible floors are elastomer floors commonly used on children's playgrounds or sports fields as they are designed to cushion shocks. It is shock absorbing elastomer floor. The elastomer floors are a coating meeting the European safety standards EN 1176 and EN 1177, the soils are called soils security.

Each pressure detection slab comprises at least one pressure sensor that can be activated under the effect of a pressure exerted on the surface of the flexible floor in a zone Z above said detection slab.

Reference or the pressure sensors are strain sensors such as strain gauges.

According to a second exemplary embodiment, the detecting device or devices comprise passage detectors, for example infrared or microwave detectors. In the case of passage detectors, these are placed on gantries near the cooling devices.

• la figure 1 représente le schéma en vue de dessus d'une aire de détente A munie d'équipements récréatifs et/ou de mise en forme et/ou sportifs selon la présente invention,
• la figure 2 représente le schéma d'une coupe partielle AA, du revêtement de sol dans la zone 1 du dispositif 1, illustrée sur la figure 1,
• la figure 3 représente le schéma d'un premier mode de réalisation pour un dispositif de détection de présence en coupe transversale,
• la figure 4 représente le schéma d'une vue de dessus de la dalle selon la figure 3,
• La figure 5 représente le schéma d'implantation d'un système de rafraîchissement muni d'un dispositif de détection de présence selon le deuxième exemple de réalisation.
• La figure 6 représente une réserve d'eau autonome pour un dispositif de rafraîchissement.

Other features and advantages of the invention will become clear from reading the description which is given below and which is given by way of illustrative and nonlimiting example and with reference to the figures in which:

• the figure 1 represents the diagram in plan view of a relaxation area A provided with recreational and / or shaping and / or sports equipment according to the present invention,
• the figure 2 represents the diagram of a partial section AA, of the floor covering in zone 1 of the device 1, illustrated on FIG. figure 1 ,
• the figure 3 represents the diagram of a first embodiment for a presence detection device in cross section,
• the figure 4 represents the diagram of a top view of the slab according to the figure 3 ,
• The figure 5 represents the layout diagram of a refresh system provided with a presence detection device according to the second embodiment.
• Fig. 6 shows an autonomous water supply for a cooling device.

To illustrate the various applications of the invention, the same figure, namely the figure 1 , A relaxation area A provided with recreational equipment B1, B2, B3, shaping C1, C2, C3 and sports D1, D2, D3. Banks E1, E2, E3, bushes F1, F2, F3, F4 and trees G1, G2, G3 are also present on this area A.

In order to improve the well-being of the people frequenting this recreation area, the area has three cooling systems 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The four systems are spread over the entire area of Area A to provide multiple refresh areas.

In the example illustrated by this figure 1 each refresh system 1, 2, 3 and 4 comprises a person detection device 100 or 200 in connection with one or two refreshing devices 300 or 310.

Two embodiments of a device for detecting people are described below and illustrated on the same figure 1 . The first embodiment is a pressure sensor referenced 100 and the second example is a passage detector referenced 200.

Two embodiments of a refresh device are also described and illustrated on this same figure 1 . The first exemplary embodiment is referenced 300 and includes a ramp 301; the second example is referenced 310 and comprises a nozzle 311.

Device for detecting people First example of embodiment (devices 1,2) : The device comprises a pressure detection device 100.

According to a preferred embodiment, the pressure detection device is produced by a slab 100 housed in the ground, comprising one or more pressure sensors 105.

For this purpose, the soil comprises a damping coating, that is to say a flexible soil. The zones of implantation of the pressure detection devices in the form of slabs are covered with a flexible floor generally made of elastomer 30.

In playgrounds soft floors meet the aforementioned safety standards.

Of course, in the case where these standards need not be respected, a flexible elastomer coating is sufficient without the two layers described below being necessary.

It is recalled for this purpose, that most of the time the damping coatings for obtaining security floors, are made by a first layer of material called base layer or underlayer. This underlayer is based on synthetic rubber and comprises recycled rubber granules (SBR abbreviation for styrene, butadiene crosslinked) of particle size 1 to 10 mm. These granulates are mixed with polyurethane resin (PU) in precise proportions and have a hardness set by standards. In general, this underlayer is black in color. The underlayment is laid on the rough ground of the playground (usually concrete, paved surface, cement, compacted gravel). This underlayer can be cast as one extends a screed of a liquid product with hardenability or be in the form of prefabricated slabs.

After setting up the underlayer and having waited for its drying in the case of a cast underlayer, a second layer is poured, called the surface layer. The surface layer is also an elastomer based on rubber granules. In general, it consists of bulk-dyed rubber granules or EPDM (abbreviation for Ethylene, Propylene, Diene Monomer or else called synthetic rubber), mixed with a binder which is a polyurethane resin. The mixture (generally of a thickness of 5 to 25 mm) thus obtained is cast on the first layer as a screed.

The surface layer has a coefficient of elasticity greater than that of the underlayment meeting the standards in force, the objective being to cushion the fall of a child playing on a toboggan or on any other game.

Thus, according to a first embodiment of the people detector device, the area in which is installed a pressure detection plate 100 is covered by a flexible floor covering 30 as described for example above. The pressure detection plate 100 is subjected to surface pressure when a person passes overhead. The pressure exerted on the soft ground in zone Z as illustrated on the figure 2 , above the detection panel, triggers a detection that can activate one or more refreshing devices.

Each detection plate 100 is connected to at least one cooling device 300 or 310. Several pressure detection plates can be connected to one and the same refreshing device 300. The refreshing device 300 (or 310) is triggered when a person is on the surface of the coating above the slab. The cooling device 300 then diffuses water in the form of fog or jet, and refreshes the people within its diffusion perimeter.

The connection 10 between the pressure detection slabs and the cooling device 300 may be wired as shown in FIG. figure 1 or non-wired.

As can be seen on the figure 3 this connection 10 is made by son son conductors 11 housed in a sheath 10 placed under the floor covering. The sheath 10 is preferably buried in the hard ground 120, for example in a concrete screed on which the floor covering 30 has been deposited.

In practice, the pressure detection slabs 100 are placed on the hard floor 120.

Each slab 100 comprises a rigid upper face 102 in contact with the flexible ground 30, a rigid lower face 101 in contact with the hard ground 120, an elastic material 104A and 104B sandwiched between the lower face and the upper face, and a or a plurality of strain sensors 105 housed in the elastic material 104A, 104B. These sensors are likely to be activated under the effect of a pressure exerted on the surface soft surface.

The Figures 2, 3 and 4 illustrate this first exemplary embodiment corresponding to a pressure detector 100.

The partial transverse AA section of an area around the slab 100 is represented on the figure 2 , and allows to illustrate on the one hand, the location of this slab 100 in the ground and on the other hand, a section of this slab.

The floor covering 30 comprises a first layer called underlayer 32 and a second layer called surface layer 31. It is a flexible coating meeting the safety standards as described above.

The underlayer 32 is cast on the floor 120 and on the detection slabs 100 present on the floor 120. After drying of the underlayer 32, the surface layer is cast and the coating 30 is obtained, seen in cut on the figure 2 .

Thus, all the faces of the detection slabs, except the underside, are covered by the material constituting the sub-layer of flooring.

Of course, if the floor covering consisted of a single layer of elastomeric material, the slab 100 would be arranged in the same way on the hard floor 120 and would be covered by this single elastomeric layer.

The pressure detection plate or plates 100 are positioned near a misting device 301 as illustrated by the example of FIG. figure 1 .

According to a preferred embodiment, the detection plate 100 comprises an upper face 102 and a lower face 101 both rigid material. These faces may, for example, be made of a metal plate or a plate of rigid or composite plastic material.

A seal 103 sealing the detection plate is fixed between the two faces 101 and 102. This seal 103 is placed at the periphery so as to form with the faces 101 and 102 a sealed cabin. One or more deformation detectors are disposed between two contact seals 104A and 104B sandwiched between the two faces 101 and 102 of the slab. The lower face of the slab 100 rests on the hard floor 120. The seals 104A and 104B are seals made of material flexible, elastic, deforming under the effect of a pressure exerted on the surface in zone Z.

The material of the contact seals will preferably have an elasticity of 10 to 40 hs.

The detection plate 100 preferably has a total thickness of 13 mm, ie 4 mm thick for each plate 104A, 104B and 5 mm high for the joints. In the example and advantageously, the slab has a square shape of 70cm side.

The sensor or the deformation sensors 105 are disposed between the contact seals 104A and 104B so that the deformation of the seals is communicated to the sensor 105 which in turn deforms. These deformations make it possible to obtain detection signals. This detection takes place when pressure is exerted by the weight or the jump of a child on the zone considered or by the weight of an adult. At each impact on the zone Z, that is to say, with each jump of children, or passage of adult, a pressure is exerted on the flexible ground and is transmitted by compression of the joints to the sensor (or to the sensors ).

Advantageously, the strain sensors 105 are strain gauges.

We chose to equip each slab 100 with four sensors 105 to ensure that a detection takes place when a pressure is exerted on the surface defined by a zone Z. Each sensor 105 is independent of other sensors and is likely to trigger a detection.

We can see from this cut illustrated on the figure 3 , the passage of the electrical conductors 11 connecting the sensor or sensors to the outside through a sealed connection sleeve 106, surrounded by the seal 103.

In the case of wired links, the conductive son 11 connected to the (x) sensor (s) of each slab 100 are connected to the electric triggering control 320 of the foggers. These wires may, for example, be connected to conducting wires passed through the protective sheaths 10. Their connection can be made in a waterproof sleeve 106, illustrated on FIG. figure 3 .

On the figure 4 , the detection plate 100 is seen from above. The upper face W of the contact seal 104B in contact with the inner side of the upper face 102, is shown in dotted lines. This figure illustrates the example of a detection plate 100 comprising four deformation sensors 105.

In the case of a slide B2 game, when a child goes down, it exerts during the impact on the ground, a pressure on the slab housed below the zone Z, which activates the fogger.

Device for detecting people Second embodiment (devices 3 and 4):

The person detection devices comprise passage detectors 200 such as for example conventional infrared or microwave detectors or photocells. The passage detectors are placed on gantries 400 near the cooling devices 300 as shown in FIG. figure 5 . A wired or non-wired connection 20 makes it possible to transmit the piloting signals of the foggers 301 to the electric tripping control 320 of the foggers 301.

Refreshment device: Example of realization:

The cooling device 300 comprises a mist maker 301 or 311 1 connected to a water inlet E of said device. This arrival is itself connected to mains or fountain supply lines. The fogger is also connected to an AR pulsed air inlet and a commercial electric trip control 320, electrically powered to be able to activate the triggering of the operation of the fogger. The power supply is preferably provided by a battery or a solar generator or by the public network. Preferably the power supply is the same as that of the fogger pump.

The triggering control 320 of the foggers is detailed on the figure 5 . This figure also represents a particular embodiment for the detection device. Indeed, in this figure, the presence detection device corresponds to a passage detection device. However, the operating principle of the trigger control 320 is the same regardless of the detection device 105 or 210.

The control 320 can for example be connected to a power supply AL preferably made by a battery and transformer, and controls the controls 35 and 33 for opening and closing the air inlets AR and water E. The order Electrical or radioelectric 320 is thus able to control the triggering of the fogger (s) 301 on reception of a detection signal emitted by the presence detector 105 or 210. The control 320 also preferably comprises a device 34 able to drive automatically stop the This device 34 is made by a delay that will allow to act after a predefined time on the controls 35 and 33 for closing air inlet and water mist fogger. For example, the controls 35 and 33 are solenoid valves and the control 320 is performed by any commercial circuit capable of controlling the solenoid valves on receipt of a trigger signal, here the signal sent by the detectors or sensors.

- First example of realization.

• the device comprises a fogger in the form of a ramp 301 as can be seen with the device 1, or 3 or two ramps 301 as can be seen with the device 4. These ramps 301 comprise fog diffusion nozzles . As illustrated on the figure 5 , the crawls are preferably mounted on a gantry 400.

- Second embodiment ,

• the device comprises a fogger in the form of a nozzle 311 implanted in the ground as can be seen with the device 2. The triggering of the operation of the nozzle is operated by the command 320 electric or radio that on receipt of a signal emitted by the pressure detector 100 to which this command is connected, activates the operation of the fogger as described above.

In the two previous examples, the detection signals are capable of allowing the opening of, for example, a solenoid valve 33 placed on the water circuit E coming from the water supply and a solenoid valve 35 placed on the circuit. pressurized air vent 301.

Mists may be pressurized or ultrasonic air misters.

In the two embodiments which have just been described, the power supply of the trip commands 320, the cooling devices 300, 310 is preferably the same as that of the foggers and preferably the energy supplied by a battery or a battery. solar generator to have energy autonomy for each cooling system.

The power supply of the presence detection devices 100, 200 may be provided by lithium batteries or by the electrical network or by a solar generator. When the link between the presence detectors 100, 200 and the refreshing devices 300, 310 is wired, the electrical wires transmitting the control signals pass through a sheath 10 or 20 of protection. These sheaths can then be used also to pass the power supply son of the presence detection devices.

In addition, each refresh device 300 may be connected to a pressure sensing device 100 (device 2), or to a plurality of pressure sensing devices 100 (device 1) or to a pass detection device 200 (device 3 or 4) or more than one person detection device 100

Claims (15)

Relaxation area provided with recreational and / or fitness and / or sporting equipment, characterized in that it comprises at least one cooling system (1, 2, 3, 4) comprising one or more detection devices of the presence of persons (100 or 200) and one or more refreshing devices (300 or 310), each of which can be triggered by one or more detection devices (100 or 200), the one or more detection devices (100, 200) having detected for it at least one person in a given detection perimeter, these cooling devices (1, 2,3, 4) being in the form of foggers (301, 311) able to diffuse a fog in a perimeter of diffusion, and thereby refresh the people in this area. Relaxation area provided with recreational and / or shaping and / or sports equipment, according to claim 1, characterized in that the foggers (301, 311) comprise a triggering control (320) controlled by at least one device of people detection (100, 200). Relaxation area provided with recreational and / or fitness and / or sporting equipment, according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the person detection device or devices are made by means of pressure detection devices ( 100) made by means of pressure detection slabs (100), housed in the ground, between a hard floor (120) and a flexible floor covering (30). Expansion area according to claim 3, characterized in that each pressure detection plate (100) has a rigid upper face (102) in contact with the flexible ground, a rigid lower face (101) in contact with the ground of hard material , an elastic material (104A, 104B) sandwiched between the upper face and the lower face of the slab, and at least one deformation sensor (105) housed in the elastic material, which can be activated under the effect of a pressure exerted on the flexible ground in a zone Z above the pressure detection slab (100). Expansion area according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that each pressure detection plate (100) comprises a peripheral seal (103) placed between the upper face (102) and the lower face (101). Expansion area according to claim 4, characterized in that the elastic material comprises a first contact seal (104A) and a second seal (104B). contact, the joints being superimposed, the deformation sensor (s) (105) being placed between these seals. Relaxation area according to any one of claims 3 to 6, characterized in that the slab comprises at least four deformation sensors so as to detect a pressure exerted whatever the location of the impact on the ground placed above the slab. Expansion area according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the one or more sensors (105) are strain gauges. Relaxation area according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the one or more detection devices (200) comprise passage detectors such as infrared or radiofrequency detectors or photocells. Expansion area according to claim 10, characterized in that the passage detectors (200) are fixed on poles (400) located opposite one another or near one or more foggers (301). Relaxation area according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises connecting means between the detection devices (100, 200) and the refreshing devices and in that these connecting means are wired or not. wired, the link being in this case radio. Relaxation area according to claims 4 and 11, characterized in that , in the case of a wired connection, each detection plate (100) comprises a sealed connection sleeve (106) allowing the passage of the electrical conductor wires connecting each sensor to the trip command (320) and the power supply of the sensors. Expansion area according to claim 4 or 11, characterized in that in the case where the connection is non-wired, for example radiofrequency, the detectors (105 or 210) comprise a long-duration power supply preferably a lithium battery. Relaxation area according to claim 2, characterized in that the triggering control (320) controls the automatic stop of the refreshing devices (300, 310). Refreshment system (1, 2, 3, 4) for relaxation area, characterized in that it comprises one or more presence detection devices (100 or 200) and one or more refreshing devices (300 or 310) , each of which can be triggered by one or more detection devices (100 or 200), the detection device or devices (100, 200) having detected therefor at least one person within a given detection perimeter, these detection devices cooling (1, 2,3, 4) in the form of foggers (301, 311) capable of diffusing a fog in a diffusion perimeter, and thereby cooling the persons in this perimeter, in which the device or devices for detecting persons comprises pressure detection devices (100) made by means of pressure detection plates (100), housed in the ground, between a hard floor (120) and a flexible floor covering (30) and in which the said slabs comprise a rigid upper face (102) in contact with the flexible ground, a rigid lower face (101) in contact with the ground made of hard material, an elastic material (104A, 104B) sandwiched between the upper face and the lower face of the slab, and at least one deformation sensor (105) housed in the elastic material, which can be activated under the effect of a pressure exerted on the flexible ground in a zone Z above the slab of pressure detection (100).

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