JP2013181825A - Illumination unit - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination unit capable of more surely making surrounding people recognize the possibility that shaking due to an earthquake arrives.SOLUTION: An illumination unit 1 includes lighting equipment 3 for performing lighting and is attached to a ceiling. The illumination unit 1 further includes an acoustic device 2 for outputting warning sound and an emergency earthquake advance report receiving device 11. When the emergency earthquake advance report receiving device 11 receives an emergency earthquake advance report, the lighting equipment 3 performs an alarm operation, and the acoustic device 2 outputs the warning sound to thereby cause the possibility that shaking due to an earthquake arrives to be notified.

Description

  The present invention relates to a lighting unit.

  In order to improve the convenience of the lighting unit, it is required to provide the lighting unit with a more advanced function and mutual linkage. As an example, Patent Document 1 describes a technique for incorporating a speaker into a lighting device.

JP 2011-55331 A

  By the way, as emergency information that is currently distributed to the public, there is an emergency earthquake bulletin that the Japan Meteorological Agency distributes the seismic intensity, the epicenter, etc. of the earthquake before reaching a large shake due to the earthquake. An electrical device (for example, a mobile terminal) that has received an earthquake early warning will notify that there is a possibility that a shake will arrive by notifying the seismic intensity, the epicenter, etc. There was a case that I didn't need.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide an illumination unit capable of more reliably recognizing surrounding humans that a shake due to an earthquake may be reached. It is to provide.

In order to achieve the above object, a lighting unit according to the present invention includes:
An illumination unit including an illumination device that performs illumination,
An acoustic device for outputting sound;
A receiving device for receiving information,
When the receiving device receives the earthquake information predicted to be shaken by the earthquake, the lighting device changes the lighting mode in a predetermined mode, and the acoustic device outputs a predetermined sound, Announce that the shaking may reach,
It is characterized by that.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to make the surrounding humans more surely recognize that there is a possibility of a shake due to an earthquake.

It is a block diagram of the illumination unit which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is an external view of the remote controller of FIG. FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram in the vicinity of a connection portion between an illumination-side control unit and an acoustic-side control unit in FIG. 1.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows a lighting unit in the present embodiment. Hereinafter, this lighting unit has an acoustic function. The lighting unit 1 includes an acoustic device 2 and a lighting device 3, which are connected and combined. The lighting unit 1 is installed on the ceiling by being attached to a system power source 13 such as a ceiling hanging ceiling. Electric power necessary to operate each of the acoustic device 2 and the lighting device 3 is supplied from the system power supply 13.

  The illuminating device 3 includes an illuminating unit 6 made of an illuminating device such as a fluorescent lamp or LED illumination. The illumination device 3 further includes an IR (infrared) receiving unit 7 and an illumination side control unit 8. The user can control the lighting device 3 by operating the remote controller 4.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the remote controller 4. The remote controller 4 includes a power button 17-1 and illuminance buttons 18 and 19. When the user operates the power button 17-1, the infrared output unit included in the remote controller 4 outputs an infrared signal instructing power on or off in accordance with the operation. When the IR receiving unit 7 receives the infrared signal, the microcomputer of the illumination side control unit 8 decodes the signal and controls the illumination unit 6 to be turned on or off according to the command. The remote controller 4 further includes illuminance buttons 18 and 19. When the user operates the illuminance buttons 18 and 19, the illumination side control unit 8 controls the illuminance of the illumination unit 6 in the same manner as the power operation.

  The acoustic device 2 has a function of bidirectionally transmitting and receiving radio waves 14 and 15 that carry signals for short-range wireless communication with a mobile terminal 5 exemplified by a mobile phone or a smartphone. Instead of the portable terminal 5, an information processing apparatus such as a PC (Personal Computer) may be used. The communication partner of the acoustic device 2 may be an external device outside the lighting unit. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the short-range wireless communication is based on the Bluetooth (registered trademark) standard. When using this function, the user establishes a communication connection between the two by performing a predetermined pairing operation on each of the mobile terminal 5 and the audio device 2.

  After the communication is established, the user performs a predetermined operation on the mobile terminal 5 to select, for example, a certain voice (including music) and store the voice data in the storage device of the mobile terminal 5 (For example, music data) is conveyed to the radio wave 15 and transmitted to the acoustic device 2. The Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 included in the audio device 2 receives the audio data. The acoustic-side control unit 9 and the speaker 10 included in the audio device 2 have an amplifier function and an audio output function included in a general audio device, respectively, and based on the audio data received by the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12, this audio Play the music represented by the data. The music is played back by the speaker 10 of the audio device 2 suspended from the ceiling, so that the place for installing the audio equipment and the wiring place can be reduced, and further, the sound different from that of the floor-mounted or wall-mounted speaker can be obtained. It is done.

  The illuminating device 3 is connected to the acoustic device 2 also by an electric signal line. The electric signal line communicates the electric signals 16 and 17 bidirectionally between the lighting device 3 and the acoustic device 2. FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram showing the vicinity of the connection between the illumination side control unit 8 and the acoustic side control unit 9. By connecting the plug 32 of the illumination side control unit 8 and the plug 33 of the acoustic side control unit 9, bidirectional communication of the electrical signals 16 and 17 shown in FIG. 1 is realized.

  Using the communication function between the lighting device 3 and the acoustic device 2, the linkage between the acoustic device 2 and the portable terminal 5 can be further simplified. As an example, the remote controller 4 has a function of transmitting a signal instructing connection of a short-distance wireless communication line between the audio device 2 and the portable terminal 5. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the remote controller 4 includes a BT pairing button 22 for pairing Bluetooth communication between the audio device 2 and the mobile terminal 5. In the example of FIG. 2, the remote controller 4 itself does not have a Bluetooth communication function, but has a function of assisting the Bluetooth communication pairing of the audio device 2.

  When the user wants to link the audio device 2 and the portable terminal 5, the user performs a predetermined pairing operation on the portable terminal 5 and operates the BT pairing button 22 of the remote controller 4. In response to the operation, an infrared signal for a pairing command is transmitted. When the IR receiver 7 receives the pairing command signal, the IR code is transmitted as an electric signal 17 from the illumination side controller 8 to the acoustic side controller 9. In the circuit diagram of FIG. 3, the IR code signal received by the IR receiver 7 is transmitted to the illumination microcomputer 30 of the illumination-side controller 8, and via the buffer 35, plugs 32 and 33, and the photocoupler 36. A speaker microcomputer 31 (CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the sound side control unit 9, a RAM (Random Access Memory) that functions as a main memory of the CPU, a ROM (Read Only Member) that stores programs, data, etc. The processing executed by the speaker microcomputer 31 is performed by performing processing using data stored in the ROM in accordance with the program stored in the ROM.

  In response to the transmitted IR code, the speaker microcomputer 31 of the sound side control unit 9 executes pairing by controlling the Bluetooth transmitting / receiving unit 12. As a result, a communication connection between the acoustic device 2 (sound side control unit 9) and the portable terminal 5 is established. In this way, when the user operates the mobile terminal 5 and the remote controller 4 at hand, the mobile terminal 5 and the audio device 2 can be paired.

  The lighting unit 1 in the present embodiment further includes an emergency earthquake bulletin receiving device 11 that receives an earthquake early warning via a public wireless communication line. When receiving the earthquake early warning, the earthquake early warning receiving device 11 issues an instruction to output an emergency sound to the acoustic device 2 and issues an emergency control command to the lighting device 3.

  The earthquake early warning receiving device 11 may be placed anywhere, but in the example of FIG. 1, the earthquake early warning receiving device 11 is installed inside the housing of the acoustic device 2. Such an arrangement is preferable in that the basic function of earthquake early warning is an acoustic warning. With such an arrangement, for example, when the user who owns the lighting device 3 additionally purchases the acoustic device 2, the emergency earthquake warning function can be used without the need for special installation.

  When the earthquake early warning receiving device 11 receives an earthquake early warning (for example, transmitted as a signal), the acoustic side control unit 9 (for example, the speaker microcomputer 31) outputs a specific warning sound by the speaker 10. Although a dedicated audio output device may be provided for outputting the earthquake early warning, the device can be simplified if the speaker 10 for reproducing the music transmitted from the portable terminal 5 is also used for the emergency earthquake warning. The warning sound can notify that there is a possibility of a shake due to an earthquake. The earthquake early warning is warning information that the Meteorological Agency distributes the seismic intensity, the epicenter, etc. of the earthquake before reaching a large shake due to the earthquake.

  There are home-use dedicated devices for outputting the earthquake early warning, but in the case of this embodiment, unlike the general dedicated devices, there is no need to provide an installation place on the floor or wall. Furthermore, since the system power supply 13 which is always connected for illumination can be used as the power supply, there is little fear that the power supply is cut off, and wiring is simple.

  When the earthquake early warning is transmitted to the acoustic side control unit 9, the speaker microcomputer 31 in FIG. 3 transmits the emergency earthquake early warning to the illumination microcomputer 30 via the photocoupler 37, plugs 33 and 32, and the AND circuit 34. The illumination microcomputer 30 that has received the earthquake early warning (CPU, RAM that functions as the main memory of the CPU, ROM that stores programs, data, etc., and the data stored in the ROM according to the program stored in the ROM) The processing executed by the lighting microcomputer 30 is performed by performing the processing using, for example, the control of the lighting unit 6 so as to perform a predetermined warning operation. For example, when the lighting unit 6 is turned off and when dimming at night, it is considered that there is a possibility that the room is sleeping at night or is not used at night. . Therefore, in such a case, the illumination side control unit 8 turns on the illumination unit 6 and performs a warning operation so that the brightness is equal to or higher than a predetermined level. Since the room is bright and visibility is good, the user can take appropriate actions before and after the arrival of the seismic wave. Furthermore, when the illumination unit 6 is normally lit, for example, the user can be notified of an emergency by repeating lighting and extinction alternately. By such a warning operation, the lighting device 3 changes the lighting mode (including the lighted state as well as the lighted state) to a predetermined mode (lighted state, blinking state, turned off state, etc.). It is possible to notify that there is a possibility of shaking due to an earthquake.

  Preferably, while the lighting unit 1 receives the earthquake early warning, the operation from the remote controller 4 is blocked, and even if operated by the user, the sound device 2 (sound side control unit 9) or the lighting device 3 is operated. The (illumination side control unit 8) does not perform an operation in response thereto (for example, invalidates the IR code). In particular, it is desirable to block the operation on the turn-off button for turning off the lighting device 3. With such control, it is possible to prevent inconveniences such as the user accidentally pressing the extinguishing button of the remote controller when the earthquake early warning is generated to stop the warning operation.

  In the present embodiment, it is possible to allow the surrounding humans to recognize that there is a possibility that the shaking caused by the earthquake will be reached by both sound and light. It can be recognized with certainty. Moreover, since the lighting fixture is installed in each room, if the lighting unit 1 demonstrated above is employ | adopted for each room, emergency information by a sound and light can be caught regardless of a place and the condition. In particular, since the lighting unit 1 is installed on the ceiling, there is no obstacle in particular, it is possible to notify the surrounding people about the earthquake, and there is a possibility that the shaking due to the earthquake may reach the surrounding people. Can be recognized more reliably. Furthermore, since the lighting unit 1 is often installed in the center of a room by being installed on the ceiling, information can be quickly received regardless of the situation of work or the like. Moreover, in this embodiment, since notification is performed by light and sound, a person with visual or auditory disabilities can be made aware of an earthquake notification.

  In the above embodiment, it is preferable at the point which the lighting unit 1 can always receive an emergency earthquake bulletin. On the other hand, the modified example described below has an advantage that it can be realized with a simple configuration in which the emergency earthquake warning receiver 11 inside the lighting unit 1 is omitted.

(Modification)
In this modification, instead of the earthquake early warning receiving device 11 of the acoustic device 2, the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 functions as a receiving device that indirectly receives the earthquake early warning via the mobile terminal 5. The portable terminal 5 in this modification has a function of receiving an emergency earthquake bulletin. For example, in order to output music stored in the mobile terminal 5 from the speaker 10 or to output an emergency earthquake warning from the speaker 10 and the illumination unit 6 during sleep or the like, the user uses the mobile terminal 5 and the remote controller 4. The B / T pairing button 22 is operated. By the operation, communication connection between the mobile terminal 5 and the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 is established. Since the BT pairing button 22 can be operated at hand, it is easy to set, for example, at bedtime.

  The user can perform a predetermined operation on the mobile terminal 5 so that the earthquake early warning is transmitted to the pairing partner of the Bluetooth communication when the earthquake early warning is received. The user performs pairing between the mobile terminal 5 and the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 after performing such transfer settings.

  When the mobile terminal 5 receives the earthquake early warning with the above transfer setting and pairing set, the earthquake early warning is transferred to the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 by the radio wave 15. When the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 receives the earthquake early warning, the acoustic side control unit 9 outputs a warning sound through the speaker 10. Further, the earthquake early warning is transmitted to the illumination side control unit 8, and the illumination unit 6 performs a warning operation.

  In order to output the warning sound of the earthquake early warning by the speaker 10, the sound side control unit 9 may store the sound data of the warning sound in advance. On the other hand, if the sound data of the warning sound is transmitted from the portable terminal 5 to the Bluetooth transmitting / receiving unit 12 and the warning sound is output by the sound data, it is necessary to store the dedicated data of the warning sound on the lighting unit 1 side. No sound can be output in the same way as normal music playback.

  With such an operation, the function of outputting music stored in the portable terminal 5 from the speaker 10 on the ceiling is used to output the earthquake early warning received by the portable terminal 5 from the speaker 10, and the lighting unit 6 also performs a warning operation. It becomes possible to do.

  The information received by the receiving device such as the earthquake early warning receiving device 11 and the Bluetooth transmission / reception unit 12 is earthquake information that is predicted to reach a tremor due to an earthquake (particularly, a tremor greater than a predetermined seismic intensity (for example, seismic intensity 5)). Any information other than the earthquake early warning may be used. The earthquake information may be information for notifying the possibility of an earthquake in the near future, such as prediction information for the Tokai earthquake. Moreover, the information based on the earthquake early warning may be sufficient. For example, in the above-described modification, the mobile terminal 5 transfers the emergency earthquake bulletin, but the mobile terminal 5 responds to the reception of the emergency earthquake bulletin and uses a signal having a predetermined content as earthquake information to generate Bluetooth. You may transmit to the transmission / reception part 12. When the receiving device receives the earthquake information, the receiving device may supply the illuminating device 3 and the sound device 2 to the effect that the information is received. The lighting device 3 and the acoustic device 2 may output a warning operation or a warning sound when the receiving device receives earthquake information. The acoustic device 2 may be a dedicated buzzer that outputs a warning sound when the receiving device receives earthquake information.

  The acoustic device 2 and the illuminating device 3 only need to be combined to form an illuminating unit. At least a part of the acoustic device 2 may be disposed inside the lighting device 3. The lighting unit including the acoustic device 2, the lighting device 3, and the earthquake information receiving device may be one in which each device is housed in one housing. The lighting device 3 includes a light emitting unit that emits light in a color different from a normal color (for example, white) such as red and blue, for example, and the different color when the receiving device receives earthquake information. By causing the light emitting unit that emits light to emit light, the illumination color may be changed to a predetermined color by changing the illumination color to a normal color, and the possibility of the arrival of shaking may be notified.

  The lighting unit may be attached to an upper position above the human head, and may be a utility pole in addition to the ceiling. In other words, the lighting unit can be a streetlight or the like. Even in such a case, it is possible to make the surrounding humans more surely recognize that there is a possibility that the shake due to the earthquake will reach.

  Part or all of the above-described embodiments and the like can be described as in the following supplementary notes, but is not limited to the following.

(Appendix 1)
An illumination unit including an illumination device that performs illumination,
An acoustic device for outputting sound;
A receiving device for receiving information,
When the receiving device receives the earthquake information predicted to be shaken by an earthquake, the lighting device changes the lighting mode to a predetermined mode, and the acoustic device outputs a predetermined sound, Announce that the shaking may reach,
A lighting unit characterized by that.

(Appendix 2)
The lighting unit is mounted in an upper position;
The lighting unit according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein

(Appendix 3)
The earthquake information is an emergency earthquake bulletin supplied from a public wireless communication line.
The lighting unit according to appendix 1 or 2, characterized in that.

(Appendix 4)
The receiving device receives the earthquake information by wireless communication from a terminal device;
The lighting unit according to any one of appendices 1 to 3, characterized in that:

(Appendix 5)
The acoustic device includes a speaker that outputs the predetermined sound, and the speaker can reproduce the sound represented by the predetermined audio data.
The lighting unit according to any one of appendices 1 to 4, characterized in that:

(Appendix 6)
The lighting device is remotely operated by a remote controller,
The lighting device does not respond to an operation from the remote controller while changing the lighting mode when the receiving device receives the earthquake information.
The lighting unit according to any one of appendices 1 to 5, characterized in that:

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Illumination unit 2 Acoustic apparatus 3 Illumination apparatus 4 Remote controller 5 Portable terminal 6 Illumination part 7 IR receiving part 8 Illumination side control part 9 Acoustic side control part 10 Speaker 11 Emergency earthquake early warning receiver 12 Bluetooth transmission / reception part 13 System power supply 14 Radio wave 15 Radio wave 16 Electrical signal 17 Electrical signal 17-1 Power button 18 Illumination button 19 Illumination button 20 Volume button 21 Volume button 22 B / T pairing button 30 Illumination microcomputer 31 Speaker microcomputer 32 Plug 33 Plug 34 AND circuit 35 Buffer 36 Photocoupler 37 Photo coupler

Claims (6)

An illumination unit including an illumination device that performs illumination,
An acoustic device for outputting sound;
A receiving device for receiving information,
When the receiving device receives the earthquake information predicted to be shaken by an earthquake, the lighting device changes the lighting mode to a predetermined mode, and the acoustic device outputs a predetermined sound, Announce that the shaking may reach,
A lighting unit characterized by that. The lighting unit is mounted in an upper position;
The lighting unit according to claim 1. The earthquake information is an emergency earthquake bulletin supplied from a public wireless communication line.
The lighting unit according to claim 1, wherein the lighting unit is a lighting unit. The receiving device receives the earthquake information by wireless communication from a terminal device;
The lighting unit according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein The acoustic device includes a speaker that outputs the predetermined sound, and the speaker can reproduce the sound represented by the predetermined audio data.
The lighting unit according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein The lighting device is remotely operated by a remote controller,
The lighting device does not respond to an operation from the remote controller while changing the lighting mode when the receiving device receives the earthquake information.
The lighting unit according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein

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