An electrically-operated umbrella comprises a column (1), an upper tray (2), a lower tray (3), a plurality of long rods (4) and short rods (5); one end of each short rod (5) is hinged to the lower tray (3), while the other end of each short rod (5) is hinged to each long rod (4); a housing (30) is attached to a lower portion of the column (1); a rotatable rope shaft (8), a motor (10) and a transmission mechanism are placed inside the housing (30); a rope (80) is disposed on the rope shaft (8); a battery (40) and a circuit board are further disposed inside the housing (30); two control buttons (17,18) are disposed outside the housing (30). The present invention is rational and compact in structure, capable of electrically opening or folding the framework without manual operation, and low in cost.

The present application discloses a smart vehicle sunshade with storage function, which includes a box body, an umbrella body, a drive mechanism, a wind speed sensor and a controller. The box body includes an umbrella body compartment, a trunk and a sealed compartment. An umbrella body compartment door is arranged on an upper side of the umbrella body compartment. The umbrella body includes an umbrella handle, an umbrella opening mechanism, a folding rib and an umbrella surface arranged outside the folding rib. The drive mechanism includes a connecting spindle, an umbrella rotating mechanism, an umbrella rotating drive mechanism and a swing mechanism. The present application can not only detect the wind speed in real time, automatically close the umbrella body when the wind speed is too high, and can automatically restart by a preset time, which effectively improves the service life of the umbrella body.

An opening and closing structure for an umbrella combining automatic and non-automatic modes including an electric mechanism, a cranking mechanism and a clutch structure is described herein. The electric mechanism includes a screw rod, a motor and a first transmission element. The motor is configured to drive rotation of the screw rod, and the first transmission element is mounted at the screw rod. The cranking mechanism includes a second transmission element and a cranking handle. The second transmission element is engaged with the first transmission element, and the second transmission element is connected with the cranking handle via the clutch structure. The invention overturns a conventional method of using an electric umbrella, and provides a manual lifting-and-lowering function under the premise of maintaining a electric lifting-and-lowering function, that is, in case of insufficient or no power supply, the umbrella can be opened and closed through the cranking handle.

Some umbrellas include a support assembly, canopy assembly, and a toroidal air bladder. The support assembly includes a pump and a handle. The canopy assembly includes a plurality of support ribs attached to the handle, and a sheet attached to each of the support ribs. The toroidal air bladder is coupled to the air pump, and the air bladder disposed about the handle and engages the support ribs.

An intelligent shading umbrella comprises a base assembly, an umbrella support assembly coupled to a base assembly, a first memory, a first processor coupled to the first memory, and a computing device, wherein the computing device has a non-volatile memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, a second memory, and a second processor. A first processor communicates commands and/or signals to the umbrella support assembly to cause movement of the umbrella support assembly. A second processor, of the computing device, is enclosed within the intelligent shading object fetches computer-readable instructions from the non-volatile memory, loads the computer-readable instructions from the non-volatile memory into the second memory, and executes the computer-readable instructions to communicate with external computing devices and/or to generate commands and/or signals to the first processor to request movements of the umbrella shading assembly.

A method of automatically operating an intelligent umbrella includes automatically capturing sensor measurements from detection sensors without user intervention and communicating captured sensor measurements, automatically analyzing captured sensor measurements, and automatically generating, at a controller, commands and/or signals, based at least in part on the analyzed sensor measurements. The method of automatically operating an intelligent umbrella further includes communicating the generated commands and/or signals to one or more of a first motor assembly, a second motor assembly or a third motor assembly; and automatically generating signals and/or commands to cause movement of an umbrella by rotating about an azimuth axis, rotating about an elevation axis, or deploying or retracting one or more arm support assemblies.

An intelligent shading charging system, comprises a housing having a rechargeable battery installed therein, a lower support assembly connected to the housing and an upper support assembly, the upper support assembly comprising one or more arm support assemblies. The intelligent shading charging system further comprises a hinging assembly connecting a lower support assembly to an upper support assembly to allow an upper support assembly to rotate with respect to the lower support assembly, one or more arms connected to the one or more are support assemblies, a shading fabric; and one or more solar cell arrays mounted on or integrated within the shading fabric.

An article comprises a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer implementable instructions executable by a processor in a computing device to receive measurements from one or more environmental sensors of an intelligent shading device, analyze and compare received sensor measurements to preset user-defined weather-based thresholds, and generate and communicate alert messages to identify that user-defined weather-based thresholds have been met or exceeded.

An intelligent umbrella includes an array of solar panels/cells for capturing sunlight and converting into electrical energy, a solar panel charging assembly to receive power from one or more solar assemblies, a rechargeable battery to receive power generated from the solar panel charging assembly, and a processor and a memory, the processor and the memory to receive power from the rechargeable battery; and a wireless transceiver to receive power from the rechargeable battery, the wireless transceiver to communicate messages and/or signals when no external power source is connected to and/or available for the intelligent umbrella. The intelligent umbrella may further comprise a cellular transceiver to receive power from the rechargeable battery, the cellular transceiver to communicate messages and/or signals when no external power source is connected to and/or available to supply power for the intelligent umbrella.

The present application discloses a smart vehicle sunshade with storage function, which includes a box body, an umbrella body, a drive mechanism, a wind speed sensor and a controller. The box body includes an umbrella body compartment, a trunk and a sealed compartment. An umbrella body compartment door is arranged on an upper side of the umbrella body compartment. The umbrella body includes an umbrella handle, an umbrella opening mechanism, a folding rib and an umbrella surface arranged outside the folding rib. The drive mechanism includes a connecting spindle, an umbrella rotating mechanism, an umbrella rotating drive mechanism and a swing mechanism. The present application can not only detect the wind speed in real time, automatically close the umbrella body when the wind speed is too high, and can automatically restart by a preset time, which effectively improves the service life of the umbrella body.