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    brandstofelementen (5) van het beeld, hoofdzakelijk wordt overgenomen door de brandstofelementen (5) in de behuizing (2). Artificial fire for simulating a burning fire, which artificial fire (1) comprises a housing (2) with an opening (3), the following elements being arranged in the housing (2): - fuel elements (5) in the housing ( 2), - means (7) for displaying an image of a burning fire, - a decorative rear wall (8), - a translucent plate (11) with a reflecting surface (12), which reflects the image of a burning fire through projects on a virtual plane (18), whereby one obtains a merging of the real decorative back wall (8) by transmitting light and the virtually projected fire on the virtual plane (18); characterized in that the image of the burning fire contains fuel elements (5), the exact shape and position of the fuel elements (5) of the image, is mainly taken over by the fuel elements (5) in the housing (2).
    公开号:BE1025489B1
    申请号:E2017/5571
    申请日:2017-08-21
    公开日:2019-03-25
    发明作者:Bert Verplancke
    申请人:Verplancke & Cie Bvba；
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    Artificial fireplace.
    The present invention relates to an artificial fireplace.
    It is known that a fire in houses - and in buildings in general - used to be used for heating.
    Nowadays buildings are often heated in other ways, for example with central heating with radiators or with electric accumulators.
    Yet many people still prefer the presence of a fire in one or more rooms of the home, because a fire is attractive and cozy.
    A classic fireplace, however, has a number of important disadvantages.
    Firstly, as a result of the open fire, there will be smoke that may end up in the room in question. There is also a chance that sparks or flames from the fire will splash into the room.
    Moreover, a fireplace must be provided for a fire, which is not always possible.
    Logs must also be provided as fuel for the fire.
    Another disadvantage is that a fire will generate heat, which may be undesirable in the summer period. Given the current and certainly the future standard for room insulation, no additional heat source is required even in the winter period.
    Another disadvantage is the fact that real fires produce fine dust and CO2.
    The present invention has for its object to provide a solution to at least one or more of the aforementioned disadvantages and other disadvantages.
    To this end the invention relates to an artificial fireplace for simulating a burning fire, wherein the artificial fireplace comprises a housing with an opening, the following elements being arranged in the housing: - fuel elements in the housing, - means for displaying an image of a burning fire, - a decorative back wall, - a translucent plate with a reflecting surface, which projects the image of a burning fire through reflection onto a virtual surface, resulting in a merging of the real decorative back wall by transmitting light and the virtual projected fire on the virtual plane; characterized in that the image of the burning fire contains fuel elements, the exact shape and position of the fuel elements of the image being mainly taken over by the fuel elements in the housing.
    An advantage is that such an artificial fire will allow you to simulate a real fire without all of the aforementioned disadvantages.
    No chimney must be provided, as a result of which an artificial fireplace according to the invention can be used practically everywhere.
    As a result, the invention can be applied in spaces where a traditional wood or gas fire is more difficult or impossible to achieve due to the heat emission or because no smoke extraction is possible in these spaces.
    The invention can be used in, inter alia, bedrooms, offices, wine cellars, bathrooms and shops. But care institutions such as hospitals and rest homes, apartment buildings, hotels, hotel rooms, boats, restaurants, cafés and public institutions such as libraries, town halls and swimming pools are also possible.
    Moreover, there is no real fire or no real flames, so that any fire hazard can be avoided as a result.
    Also, no fine dust or CO2 will be produced and the artificial fireplace will have a very low energy consumption.
    By working with a virtual projection through the translucent plate that is merged with a transmitted image to arrive at a combination of the image of a burning fire with a decorative back wall, a realistic simulation of a burning fire is achieved, which is much more truthful than when just an image of a burning fire would be applied.
    This is further reinforced by the fact that the fuel elements in the image are mainly taken over by the fuel elements in the housing, so that the combined image of the burning fire with a decorative rear wall is in accordance with the fuel elements.
    The fuel elements can be, for example, logs, coal, charcoal, boulders or the like.
    Means are preferably provided in the housing for targeted lighting of the fuel elements.
    These means can for example be LEDs or LED strips and will ensure that the fuel elements become visible through the transparent plate.
    By specifically illuminating the fuel elements, the light from a burning fire that falls on the fuel elements can be simulated without this burning fire actually being present.
    Preferably, the intensity, color and / or other parameters of the light emitted by the aforementioned means to illuminate the fuel elements can be adjusted based on or in accordance with the variations of the generated image of a burning fire.
    That will only make the artificial fireplace more realistic.
    According to a preferred embodiment, the reflective surface of the translucent plate reflects the image of the burning fire and projects it into a virtual plane, whereby this virtual plane does not end up in the same plane as the rear wall.
    This will produce an effect of depth in the combined image of the burning fire with the back wall.
    Because the rear wall is not reflected, the real image of the rear wall will be perceived through the translucent plate.
    The virtual image is preferably located at least five centimeters in front of the rear wall.
    This will ensure that the effect of depth is sufficiently realistic and clear. In addition, because the virtual image is located in front of the rear wall, it will run through the fuel elements on the bottom of the housing, so that the flames of the virtual image appear to come from the fuel elements.
    Preferably, the image of a burning fire is a real filmed burning fire, where the image is filmed on a black background, since "black" does not become visible during the projection in the virtual plane.
    This is important because only a real, real-filmed image will give a realistic representation. A computer-programmed image is not excluded, but a real filmed fire is preferred.
    With the insight to better demonstrate the features of the invention, a preferred embodiment of an artificial fireplace according to the invention is described below as an example without any limiting character, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: figure 1 shows diagrammatically and in perspective represents an artificial fireplace according to the invention; figure 2 schematically represents a cross-section according to the line II-II in figure 1.
    The artificial fireplace 1 shown in figures 1 and 2 essentially comprises a housing 2 with an opening 3.
    Through this opening 3 one can look at the inside 4 of the housing 2, where the artificially burning fire will be visible.
    Fuel elements 5 are arranged in the housing 2.
    In this case, but not necessarily for the invention, these fuel elements 5 are arranged on the bottom 6 of the housing 2.
    The fuel elements 5 are wood blocks in the example shown, but the invention is not limited thereto.
    The housing 2 also further comprises means 7 for generating an image of a burning fire.
    In this case, but not necessarily for the invention, these means 7 comprise a monitor.
    This monitor is mounted on top of the housing 2.
    The monitor 7 will be able to display an image of a burning fire, this image being a real filmed burning fire filmed in front of a black background.
    According to the invention, the filmed burning fire also comprises a number of fuel elements 5, the shape and position of the fuel elements 5 of the image being mainly taken over by the fuel elements 5 present in the housing 2.
    By "mainly taken over" is meant that most, for example, at least 50% or 75% of the fuel elements 5 present in the image, are also effectively present in the housing 2, in exactly the same position. In other words, that there is at least 50% or 75% correspondence between the fuel elements 5 shown in the image and the fuel elements 5 in the housing 2. The invention is of course not limited to the aforementioned values and these are only for example or illustration.
    It is not excluded here that additional fuel elements 5 are provided in the housing 2, which are not shown in the image of the burning fire.
    The housing 2 also contains a decorative rear wall 8. In the example shown, this is arranged on the rear side 9 of the housing 2.
    In the example shown, the rear wall 8 is a non-flat black rear wall which is provided with ridges 10.
    Although the rear wall 8 is preferably not flat, this is not necessary for the invention.
    Moreover, it is also possible that the rear wall 8 is not black, but has a different color. A decorative pattern such as an image or a geometric pattern is also possible.
    The housing 2 is further provided with a translucent plate 11 with a reflective surface 12, which is placed at an angle with the bottom 6 of the housing 2.
    It is possible, but not necessary, that this plate 11 is a so-called dichroic mirror.
    In this way, the image of the burning fire displayed by the monitor 7 will be reflected by the reflective surface 12.
    The decorative rear wall 8 will be directly visible through the transparent plate 11 to an observer 13.
    In this case, means 14 are present in the housing 2 for illuminating the rear wall 8, so that the rear wall 8 is better visible through the plate 11. This can be, for example, LEDs or LED strips.
    Preferably, the intensity, color and / or other parameters of these means 14 can be adjusted based on the displayed image of a burning fire.
    Since in a real fire the flames will also illuminate the back wall 8 of the fire 1, this will only enhance the realistic effect.
    For the same reasons, means 15 are also provided in this case for targeted lighting of the fuel elements 5, the intensity, color and / or other parameters of the light emitted by these means 15 being adjusted on the basis of or in accordance with the variations of the generated image of a burning fire.
    These means 15 will not only ensure that the fuel elements 5 are clearly visible through the plate 11, they will also ensure that the flames of the image of a burning fire illuminate the fuel elements 5 as it were.
    In order to realize a realistic simulation of a real fire, not only visually but also audibly, the housing 2 is provided with one or more loudspeakers 16 which can reproduce the sound of a burning fire.
    This sound is preferably a sampled recorded sound of a burning fire or a digitally generated sound, in which short fragments of the recorded sound are played in random order.
    Finally, the artificial fireplace 1 is also provided with the necessary electronics in the form of a control 17, which will control all components.
    The operation of the artificial fireplace 1 is very simple and as follows.
    The translucent plate 11 will reflect the image of the burning fire represented by the monitor 7.
    As a result of this reflection, the image for the observer 13 of the artificial fire 1 will be projected into a virtual plane 18, as indicated by the lines in Figure 2.
    As a result, it will appear to the observer 13 that the burning fire is effectively in front of the decorative rear wall 8 or that they form, as it were, a very realistic whole.
    Preferably the placement of the monitor 7, the transparent plate 11 and the decorative rear wall 8 is such that the virtual surface 18 is not in the same plane as the decorative rear wall 8 and is preferably at least five centimeters in front of the rear wall 8.
    This will ensure that a realistic depth view is created, partly due to the lighting of the rear wall 8 by the means 14.
    Moreover, the image of the burning fire will hereby be projected onto the fuel elements 5 in the housing 2, the corresponding fuel elements 5 in the housing 2 and in the image of the burning fire will overlap or coincide. As a result, it will be very difficult for the observer 13 to distinguish which elements of the observed burning fire are really present and which are a reflection.
    In a preferred embodiment, the virtual plane 18 extends through the fuel elements 5.
    This has the effect that it will appear that the flames of the burning fire come, as it were, from the fuel elements 5 which are arranged in the housing 2, so that a realistic view is obtained.
    Another alternative embodiment of the invention relates to an artificial fireplace for simulating a burning fire, wherein the artificial fireplace 1 comprises a housing 2 with an opening 3, the following elements being arranged in the housing 2: - fuel elements 5 in the housing 2 - means 7 for displaying an image of a burning fire, - a decorative rear wall 8, - a translucent plate 11 with reflective surface 12, which merges the rear wall 8 and the image of the burning fire because the reflective surface 12 of the translucent plate 11 reflects the image of the burning fire and projects it into a virtual plane 18, whereby this virtual plane 18 does not come to lie in the same plane as the rear wall 8.
    Hereby it is not necessary, but possible, that the image of the burning fire contains fuel elements 5, the exact shape and position of the fuel elements 5 of the image being mainly taken over by the fuel elements 5 in the housing 2.
    It is clear that all other features of a fire 1 according to the invention, as claimed in the claims, are also applicable to the aforementioned alternative embodiment of a fire 1 according to the invention.
    The present invention is by no means limited to the embodiment described by way of example and shown in the figures, but an artificial fireplace according to the invention can be realized in all shapes and dimensions without departing from the scope of the invention.
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    Claims (15)
    [1]
    Conclusions.
    1. - Artificial fire for simulating a burning fire, which artificial fire (1) comprises a housing (2) with an opening (3), the following elements being arranged in the housing (2): - fuel elements (5) in the housing (2), - means (7) for displaying an image of a burning fire, - a decorative rear wall (8), - a translucent plate (11) with a reflecting surface (12), representing the image of a burning fire project fire through reflection onto a virtual surface (18), whereby a real decorative rear wall (8) is merged by transmitting light and the virtually projected fire onto the virtual surface (18); characterized in that the image of the burning fire contains fuel elements (5), the exact shape and position of the fuel elements (5) of the image being mainly taken over by the fuel elements (5) in the housing (2).
    [2]
    An artificial fire according to claim 1, characterized in that additional fuel elements (5) are provided in the housing (2), which are not shown in the image of a burning fire.
    [3]
    An artificial fireplace according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the fuel elements (5) are arranged on the bottom (6) of the housing (2).
    [4]
    An artificial fire according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that means (15) are provided in the housing (2) for targeted lighting of the fuel elements (5) so that they become visible through the transparent plate (11).
    [5]
    The artificial fireplace according to claim 4, characterized in that the intensity, color and / or other parameters of the light emitted by said means (15) for illuminating the fuel elements (5) can be adjusted on the basis of or in accordance with the variations of the generated image of a burning fire.
    [6]
    An artificial fireplace according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the reflecting surface (12) of the translucent plate (11) reflects the image of the burning fire and projects it into a virtual plane (18), said virtual plane (18) 18) does not lie in the same plane as the rear wall (8).
    [7]
    The artificial fireplace according to claim 6, characterized in that the virtual surface (18) is at least five centimeters in front of the rear wall (8).
    [8]
    An artificial fire according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that the virtual surface (18) runs through the fuel elements (5).
    [9]
    An artificial fire according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the rear wall (8) is a non-flat black rear wall, which is provided with ridges (10) or has a decorative pattern.
    [10]
    Artificial fire according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that means (14) are provided in the housing (2) for illuminating the rear wall (8), so as to become more visible through the transparent plate (11).
    [11]
    The artificial fireplace according to claim 10, characterized in that the intensity, color and / or other parameters of the light emitted by said means (14) to illuminate the rear wall (8) can be adjusted on the basis of or in accordance with the variations of the generated image of a burning fire.
    [12]
    An artificial fire according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing (2) is provided with one or more loudspeakers (16) which can reproduce the sound of a burning fire.
    [13]
    An artificial fire according to claim 12, characterized in that the sound reproduced by the loudspeakers (16) is a sampled sound of a burning fire, short fragments of the recorded sound being played in random order.
    [14]
    An artificial fire according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the image of a burning fire is a real filmed burning fire, the image being filmed on a black background.
    [15]
    Artificial fireplace according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the means (7) for generating an image comprise a monitor.
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