JP2006102382A - Vertically movable clothes-drying apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vertically movable clothes-drying device for performing the hanging/fetching work of laundry to/from a clothes-drying member in a comfortable posture by a simple operation. <P>SOLUTION: A wire 10 is provided so as to be freely wound around a winding drum 9 driven by a motor 8, and an apparatus body 1 composed by hanging the clothes-drying member 2 for hanging the laundry on the wire 10 is disposed on a ceiling 7. In the vertically movable clothes-drying apparatus, the winding drum 9 is made to wind or rewind the wire 10 and the clothes-drying member 2 is vertically moved by pressing an elevating operation button 20 and a lowering operation button 21 provided on an operation device 3 and driving the motor 8. A control part 6 for automatically lowering the clothes-drying member 2 to a prescribed position and stopping it in the case that the lowering operation button 21 is pressed when the clothes-drying member 2 is positioned above the prescribed position set between the upper limit position and lower limit position of the clothes-drying member 2 is provided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a lifting / drying apparatus for drying laundry in a room.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a lifting / drying apparatus for drying laundry in a room is for operating an apparatus main body provided with a clothes drying member that is arranged on a ceiling and hangs laundry, and for raising and lowering the clothes drying member. (See, for example, Patent Document 1). Here, the operating device is provided with a raising operation button and a lowering operation button. When the raising operation button is pressed, the clothes drying member rises for the amount of time the raising operation button is pressed, and when the lowering operation button is pressed, the drying member is moved to the lower limit position. It keeps descending until.

By the way, in this lifting / drying apparatus, if the laundry is hung or taken in on the clothes drying member that has been lowered to the lower limit position by pushing the lowering operation button of the operating device, the physique such as height is increased. Depending on each different user, there are cases where the laundry must be hung and taken up in an unreasonable posture. Therefore, in order to prevent the laundry from being hung or taken up in an unreasonable posture with respect to the clothes-drying member, it is not necessary to hang up and take in the laundry in an unreasonable posture. In order to position the clothes-drying member at the position, the user is required to perform a complicated operation such as adjusting the position of the clothes-drying member by operating the ascending operation button and the descending operation button of the operation device each time. .
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-44088

  The present invention has been invented in view of the above-described conventional problems, and is a lifting / drying apparatus capable of easily hanging and taking-in laundry on a clothes drying member with a simple operation. It is a problem to provide.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the lifting / lowering apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention is provided with a wire 10 on a winding drum 9 driven by a motor 8 so that the wire 10 can be freely wound, and a clothes drying member 2 for hanging laundry. Is disposed on the ceiling 7, and the motor 8 is driven by pressing the ascending operation button 20 and the descending operation button 21 provided on the operation device 3, thereby winding the winding drum 9. In the hoisting and drying apparatus in which the wire 10 is wound up and returned to raise and lower the drying member 2, the drying member 2 is located above a predetermined position set between the upper limit position and the lower limit position of the drying member 2. When the descent operation button 21 is pressed while the position is on, a control unit 6 is provided that automatically lowers the clothes-drying member 2 to the predetermined position and stops it. According to this, when the drying member 2 is lowered by pressing the lowering operation button 21, the control unit 6 automatically stops the drying member 2 at a predetermined position before reaching the lower limit position. The laundry member 2 can be made to hang and take in the laundry, and the laundry member in the conventional lower limit position is forced to hang and take in the laundry in an unreasonable posture. For users who have been forced to adjust the position of the clothes drying member by operating the ascending operation button and the descending operation button of the operating device in order to hang and take up the object in an easy posture, washing the clothes drying member 2 This makes it possible to suspend and take in objects with a simple operation and an easy posture.

  A lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in claim 1, setting means 26 for changing the setting of the predetermined position is provided. According to this, it is possible to set a predetermined position according to the individual user to stop before the descending clothes-drying member 2 reaches the lower limit position, and for the clothes-drying member 2 at a position suitable for the individual user. Thus, the laundry can be hung and taken in, and the laundry can be hung and taken into the clothes-drying member 2 in a comfortable posture of the user.

  According to the present invention, the laundry can be hung and taken in by the control unit, which is automatically stopped at a predetermined position before reaching the lower limit position, and the laundry is hung on the clothes drying member. It has the effect that it is possible to allow the user to perform the hanging and taking-in work with a simple operation and an easy posture, and when the predetermined position is set according to the individual user by the setting means, It has the effect of ensuring that the laundry can be hung and taken up on the clothesline member according to the user's comfortable posture.

  1 to 9 show examples of embodiments of the present invention. The lifting / drying apparatus of the present example includes an apparatus main body 1 in which a clothes drying member 2 for hanging laundry is provided so as to be movable up and down, and an operating device 3 for performing the lifting operation of the clothes drying member 2. The apparatus main body 1 includes a drive unit 4 that drives the clothes-drying member 2 that hangs the laundry up and down, a storage unit 5 that stores the raised clothes-drying member 2, and a control unit 6 that controls the operation of the drive unit 4. It is configured. The clothes-drying member 2 is formed by a pair of basket receivers 2a provided on both sides and a plurality of clothes-drying baskets 2b installed on the basket receivers 2a on both sides. The clothes-drying basket 2b is extendable in the longitudinal direction, and the clothes-drying member 2 can be stored in the storage section 5 when the clothes-drying basket 2b is contracted, but the clothes-drying member 2 is stored in the storage section when the clothes-drying basket 2b is extended. 5 cannot be stored.

  Here, the storage portion 5 is formed of a rectangular box-shaped storage box 5a that opens downward and is embedded in the ceiling 7. The storage box 5a can store the clothesline member 2 at the upper limit position. The drive unit 4 is housed in a rectangular drive box 4 a disposed above the storage unit 5, and the winding drum 9 is attached to the output shaft of the motor 8 disposed at the central portion in the length direction of the drive box 4 a. The pair of wires 10 are mounted on the winding drum 9 so as to be freely wound from the base end side, and the pair of wires 10 are respectively attached to pulleys 11 pivotally supported at both longitudinal ends of the drive box 4a. The hanging member 2 is suspended by the wire 10 by connecting the tip of each hanging wire 10 to the central portion of each basket receiver 2 a of the hanging member 2. Thus, according to the drive unit 4, when the motor 8 is driven in one direction and the wire 10 is wound around the winding drum 9, the clothes drying member 2 rises, and the motor 8 is driven in the reverse rotation direction to drive the winding drum 9. When the wire 10 in the wound state is returned, the clothes drying member 2 is lowered. The pair of pulleys 11 are supported by the drive box 4a via springs 12. When the wire 10 is loosened, the pulleys 11 are pulled by the spring 12 and the loosening of the wire 10 is detected. The limit switch 13 can detect it. The slack detection limit switch 13 is connected to the control unit 6. When the slack detection limit switch 13 detects that the wire 10 has slackened, the control unit 6 reverses the rotation direction of the motor 8 before detection. The slack of the wire 10 can be removed by rotating the motor 8.

  Further, the clothes-drying member 2 is provided with a pantograph-type telescopic arm 14 that secures a certain posture and guides the lifting and lowering operation of the clothes-drying member 2. The pantograph-type telescopic arm 14 has a left-right symmetric structure, and is formed by connecting the drive box 4 a of the drive unit 4 and the collar receiver 2 a with a plurality of link pieces 15. Specifically, the upper end portion of the uppermost link piece 15a is supported so as to be slidable in the lateral direction along the laterally long laterally long holes 16 provided in the drive box 4a, and the lower end portion of the lowermost link piece 15b is supported by a hook. It is supported so as to be slidable in the lateral direction along the laterally long holes 17 provided in 2a, and each link piece 15 is foldable in the vertical direction. In addition, a sliding projection 18 is projected from the center of the uppermost link piece 15a, and the sliding projection 18 is slidable up and down in a vertically long hole 19 that is perforated in the drive box 4a. Even if the laundry is hung arbitrarily on the laundry basket 2b and the weight balance of the laundry member 2 itself deteriorates, the laundry basket 2b of the laundry member 2 is kept horizontal even during the lifting operation by the telescopic arm 14 as the guide member. The posture can be maintained.

  Moreover, the operating device 3 is comprised with the portable wireless remote control in this example, and can be hung on a wall surface etc. As shown in FIG. 5, the operating device 3 is provided with an ascending operation button 20 and a descending / stopping operation button 21 and is connected to the control unit 6 through a wireless line. Basically, the motor 8 is driven so that the clothes-drying member 2 is raised via the control unit 6 by continuing to press the raising operation button 20, and when the pressing of the raising operation button 20 is stopped, the control unit The motor 8 is stopped via 6. Further, when the descent / stop operation button 21 is pressed and turned on, the motor 8 is driven so that the clothes drying member 2 is lowered via the control unit 6, and the descent / stop operation button 21 in the on state is pushed again. The motor 8 is stopped via the control unit 6. Further, the operation device 3 is provided with a key switch 22, and the ascending operation button 20 and the descending / stopping operation button 21 work only when the key is inserted into the key switch 22 and the lock is released.

Further, the drive unit 4 includes a lower limit detection limit switch 23 that detects a lower limit position of the lifting / lowering member 2 and an upper limit detection limit that detects an upper limit position of the drying member 2 that is a storage position of the drying member 2 in the storage unit 5. A switch 24 and a dry position detection limit switch 25 for detecting the dry position of the clothes drying member 2 are provided. Specifically, the lower limit detection limit switch 23 is provided at the edge of the horizontally long hole 16 of the drive box 4a, and the upper end of the uppermost link piece 15a in the horizontally long hole 16 when the clothes drying member 2 is positioned at the lower limit. By detecting the position, it can be detected that the clothes-drying member 2 is at the lower limit position. The upper limit detection limit switch 24 and the drying position detection limit switch 25 are provided at the edge of the vertically long hole 19, respectively, and detect the position of the sliding protrusion 18 in the vertically long hole 19 when the clothes drying member 2 is positioned at the upper limit. In addition, by detecting the position of the sliding projection 18 in the vertically long hole 19 when the clothes drying member 2 is positioned at the drying position, it is possible to detect that the clothes drying member 2 is at the upper limit position or the drying position. . Each of these detection limit switches 23, 24, 25 is connected to the control unit 6. When the detection limit switches 23, 24, 25 detect that the clothes drying member 2 is in each position, the control unit 6 Thus, the driving of the motor 8 is stopped, and the clothes drying member 2 is automatically stopped at each position. Further, as will be described later, depending on the control unit 6, the clothes drying member 2 is automatically stopped at a predetermined position before reaching the lower limit position. Although the clothes drying member 2 is moved up and down by driving the motor 8 and winding the wire 10 back and forth by driving the motor 8 as described above, the position shown in FIG. 7A is the upper limit position of the clothes drying member 2. The position indicated by B is a drying position for hanging the laundry, the position indicated by C is the predetermined position, and the position indicated by D is the lower limit position of the clothes drying member 2. The clothes-drying basket 2b can be expanded and contracted in the longitudinal direction, but the state where the clothes-drying basket 2b is extended is illustrated at the positions B, C, and D in FIG. 7, and at the position A in FIG. 5 shows a state in which the clothes-drying basket 2b is shrunk because the clothes-drying member 2 is stored.

  As shown in the time chart of FIG. 8, when the ascending operation button 20 of the operation device 3 is continuously pressed, the motor 8 is rotationally driven by the control unit 6 so as to wind the wire 10 with the winding drum 9, and the clothes-drying member 2. Is raised and the pressing of the raising operation button 20 is stopped, the motor 8 is stopped and the raising of the clothes-drying member 2 is stopped. Here, when the clothes-drying member 2 is positioned below the clothes-drying position (position B), when the clothes-drying member 2 is raised by continuing to press the lifting operation button 20 of the operation device 3, the clothes-drying position (position B) ) Is detected by the dry position detection limit switch 25, the motor 8 is stopped by the control unit 6, and the raising of the clothes drying member 2 is stopped. The stop of the motor 8 is preferentially performed over the continuous pressing of the ascending operation button 20. In order to raise the stopped clothes drying member 2 again, the lifting operation button 20 of the operation device 3 is continuously pressed again, and the clothes drying member 2 is moved to the upper limit position (A Position). When the clothes drying member 2 is positioned at the upper limit position, which is the storage position in the storage unit 5, the motor 8 is stopped by the cooperation of the upper limit detection limit switch 24 and the control unit 6 and the clothes drying member 2 is stopped. According to the fact that the ascending drying member 2 is always stopped at the drying position (position B), when the laundry is hung on the drying basket 2b, the indoor drying is performed at an appropriate drying position near the ceiling 7. In addition, when the laundry is removed from the clothes-drying basket 2b and the clothes-drying member 2 is stored in the storage section 5, whether the clothes-drying basket 2b is shortened and can be stored in the storage section 5 can be confirmed in the drying position. After this confirmation, the clothes drying member 2 can be stored in the storage unit 5. That is, when the clothes drying member 2 is stored in the storage portion 5, it is possible to prevent the drying basket 2b from being forgotten to be shrunk and to suppress the occurrence of a harmful effect that the clothes drying member 2 hits the ceiling 7 surface.

  When the lowering operation button 21 of the operating device 3 is pressed once, the motor 8 is rotationally driven so that the wire 10 is returned from the take-up drum 9 by the control unit 6, and the clothes drying member 2 continues to be lowered. At this time, the clothes drying member 2 is stopped at an arbitrary predetermined position (C position) by the control unit 6 before reaching the lower limit position. The predetermined position (C position) is initially set to a position between the drying position (B position) and the lower limit position (D position), but the drying position (B position) is set by the setting means 26 provided in the control unit 6. ) To a lower limit position (D position), it can be newly set at the user's will.

  Specifically, the setting means 26 provided in the control unit 6 includes an input recognition unit 27, a time measurement unit 28, and a recording unit 29 as shown in FIG. The new setting of the predetermined position (C position) is as follows. As shown in the time chart of FIG. 9, the user newly sets a predetermined position at a position between the drying position (B position) and the lower limit position (D position). The clothes drying member 2 is positioned at a position where the position is desired to be set, and in this state, the ascending operation button 20 and the descending operation button 21 are simultaneously pressed for a predetermined time (for example, 5 seconds in this example). The setting operation of the predetermined position is recognized by the input recognition unit 27 and the setting change mode M of the control unit 6 is entered. When the setting change mode M is entered, the control member 6 automatically raises the clothes drying member 2 to the drying position (B position). At this time, the time required for the drying member 2 to rise to the drying position is measured by the time measuring unit 28, and this measured time is recorded in the recording unit 29 as the set time ΔT.

  The time measuring unit 28 is basically interlocked with the drying position detection limit switch 25 and is reset when the drying member 2 is located at the drying position, and always measures time while the drying member 2 moves up and down. I am doing. Specifically, the time measuring unit 28 measures -5 seconds when the clothes-drying member 2 is lowered for 5 seconds and measures +3 seconds when the clothes-drying member 2 is lifted for 3 seconds. The rising time and the falling time after passing through the drying position of the clothes drying member 2 are measured by distinguishing positive and negative. The control unit 6 integrates the rising time and the falling time measured by the time measuring unit 28 to obtain an integrated time. For example, in the above example, the descent time −5 seconds of the clothes-drying member 2 and the descent time +3 seconds of the clothes-drying member 2 are integrated to obtain an integrated time of −2 seconds. That is, the accumulated time is the difference between the current position of the clothes-drying member 2 and the position of the clothesline. Therefore, the control unit 6 determines the current position of the clothes-drying member 2.

  In order to stop the descending clothes-drying member 2 at the predetermined position, the controller 6 compares the accumulated time with the set time ΔT to obtain the required descending time of the clothes-drying member 2, and this necessary descending time. Accordingly, the clothes drying member 2 is lowered. For example, if the set time recorded in the recording unit 29 is +8 seconds and the current accumulated time is −2 seconds, the clothes-drying member 2 can be obtained by lowering the clothes-drying member 2 by the required descending time of 6 seconds. It is lowered to the set predetermined position. Depending on the control unit 6, the clothes drying member 2 descending as described above is stopped at a predetermined position, and this is similarly performed for a newly set predetermined position. In addition, when the descent operation button 21 of the operation device 3 is further pressed in a state where the clothes drying member 2 is stopped at a predetermined position, the clothes drying member 2 is lowered to the lower limit position (D position). When the clothes drying member 2 reaches the lower limit position, the motor 8 is stopped by the cooperation of the lower limit detection limit switch 23 and the control unit 6 and the clothes drying member 2 is stopped.

  Here, in the lifting / hanging clothes drying apparatus of this example, even if each user has a different physique such as height, the laundry can be hung and taken into the clothes drying member 2 in an easy posture. It has a special feature. Specifically, as described above, the clothes drying member 2 lowered by the control unit 6 is temporarily stopped at a predetermined position before reaching the lower limit position, and the predetermined position is set by the setting means 26 provided in the control unit 6. It has a feature that it can be arbitrarily set. That is, when the predetermined position is set to the hanging / take-in position of the laundry on the clothes-drying member 2 according to the user by the setting means 26, the clothes-drying member 2 that is lowered is sent to the user by the control unit 6. The laundry is automatically stopped at the corresponding hanging / taking-in position of the laundry, that is, the user can easily obtain the position of the clothes-drying member 2 that is suitable for the user simply by pressing the lowering operation button 21. The hanging work and the taking-in work can be performed in an easy posture, and the usability of the lifting / lowering clothes drying apparatus corresponding to individual users having different physiques such as height is improved.

  In this example, the setting change mode M of the control unit 6 is an operation until the clothes drying member 2 is raised from the setting position to the drying position, but the predetermined position set again after raising the clothes drying member 2 to the drying position. It is good also as operation | movement until it descends automatically. According to this, the user can confirm the newly set predetermined position, and the user-friendliness of the lifting / drying apparatus can be improved.

It is a sectional side view of the raising / lowering object drying apparatus of the example of embodiment of this invention. It is front sectional drawing same as the above. It is front sectional drawing of the principal part when raising the clothes drying member same as the above. It is a perspective view of the whole raising / lowering object drying apparatus same as the above. It is a front view of an operating device same as the above. It is a block diagram of a control part same as the above. It is a side view explaining the position of the clothes drying member same as the above. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing of the raising / lowering clothes drying apparatus same as the above. It is operation | movement explanatory drawing of the raising / lowering clothes drying apparatus same as the above.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Apparatus main body 2 Drying member 3 Controller 4 Drive part 5 Storage part 6 Control part 7 Ceiling 8 Motor 9 Winding drum 10 Wire 20 Lifting operation button 21 Lowering operation button 26 Setting means A Upper limit position B Drying position C Predetermined position D Lower limit Position M Setting change mode

Claims (2)

  A winding is provided on a winding drum driven by a motor so that the wire can be freely wound, and an apparatus main body formed by hanging a laundry hanging member for hanging laundry on the wire is arranged on the ceiling, and the ascending unit provided on the operating device. In the hoisting and drying apparatus in which the operation member or the lowering operation button is pressed to drive the motor so that the wire is wound or returned to the winding drum to raise or lower the drying member, the upper limit position and the lower limit position of the drying member A control unit is provided for automatically lowering the clothes drying member to the predetermined position and stopping when the lowering operation button is pressed when the clothes drying member is positioned above the predetermined position set between A lifting and drying apparatus characterized by that.   The lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising setting means for changing the setting of the predetermined position.

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