US 12,332,404 B1
Device for measuring an amount of snowfall in consideration of a weight of snowfall
Yu Jeong Kim, Seogwipo-si (KR); and Mi Eun Park, Seogwipo-si (KR)
Assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES, Seogwipo-si (KR)
Filed by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES, Seogwipo-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/091,695.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2024-0043184 (KR), filed on Mar. 29, 2024.
Int. Cl. G01W 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC G01W 1/14 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for measuring an amount of snowfall in consideration of a weight of the snowfall, comprising:
a housing;
a snow depth measuring unit configured to measure a depth of the snowfall outside the housing;
a snow holding container configured to hold the snowfall whose depth has been measured by the snow depth measuring unit, wherein at least part of the snow holding container is positioned inside the housing;
a heating unit configured to melt the snowfall held in the snow holding container, wherein the heating unit is formed in or on at least part of the snow holding container; and
a snow weight measuring unit configured to hold meltwater and to measure a weight thereof, wherein the meltwater has been acquired by melting the snowfall with the heating unit;
wherein the snow holding container includes:
an outer container where the heating unit is formed, whose upper end is interlinked with an outer container gate formed on an upper surface of the housing and whose lower end is connected to a funneling part configured to direct the meltwater into the snow weight measuring unit; and
an inner container having (i) an inner container sidewall coupled with a 1-st movable column such that the inner container sidewall moves up and down according to a movement of the 1-st movable column and (ii) an inner container gate coupled with a 2-nd movable column such that the inner container gate moves up and down according to a movement of the 2-nd movable column, wherein at least part of the inner container is located inside a hollow structure of the outer container.