JP2009028272A - Liftable clothes-drying apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thin liftable clothes-drying apparatus while securing the favorable detection accuracy of an upper limit position of the clothes-drying apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: This liftable clothes-drying apparatus includes a body part 2 disposed on a ceiling, a clothespole 4 suspended from the body part 2, a driving part provided in the body part 2 and lifting/lowering the clothespole 4, a pole storage part 5 provided in the body part 2 and storing the clothespole 4 in the upper limit position, a position detection sensor 6 for detecting the upper limit position of the clothespole 4 in the pole storage part 5, and a control part 7 stopping the driving part 3 when the position detection sensor 6 detects the clothespole 4 at the upper limit position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a lift / drying apparatus.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a lifting / drying apparatus 1 that lifts and lowers a hanging basket 4 suspended from a ceiling as shown in FIG. 4 (for example, Patent Document 1). Specifically, the lifting / lowering apparatus 1 includes a main body 2 disposed on a ceiling, a clothes rack 4 that is lifted / lowered by a driving unit 3 provided on the main body 2, and a drying rack at an upper limit position provided on the main body 2 4 for detecting the upper limit position of the hanging basket 4, and the amount of rotation of the winding drum of the hanging basket 15 for holding the hanging basket provided in the driving section 3 (drawing of the wire 15). Although a method of detecting the winding amount) is employed, there is a problem that good detection accuracy cannot be obtained due to looseness of the wire 15 or variations in parts such as sensors. The hanging basket 4 is raised and stopped at the detected upper limit position, but the accuracy of detection of the upper limit position of the hanging basket 4 is not good. 5 must be formed deeply, and the main body 2 provided with the bag receiving portion 5 must have a large vertical thickness, which obstructs the thickness reduction of the lifting / lowering apparatus 1. Met.
Japanese Patent No. 3475823

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide an elevating and drying apparatus that ensures good detection accuracy of the upper limit position of the hanging basket and facilitates thinning. is there.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the lifting / lowering apparatus according to claim 1 is provided on the main body 2 disposed on the ceiling, the hanging basket 4 suspended from the main body 2, and the main body 2. A driving unit 3 for raising and lowering the hanging basket 4, a basket housing part 5 provided in the main body 2 for accommodating the hanging basket 4 at the upper limit position, and a position detection sensor for detecting the upper limit position of the drying basket 4 in the basket housing part 5 6 and a control unit 7 that stops the driving unit 3 when the position detection sensor 6 detects the clothes basket 4 at the upper limit position. According to this, it is possible to accurately stop the lifting of the hanging basket 4 by directly detecting the hanging basket 4 at the upper limit position, that is, the basket can be accommodated because the raised hanging basket 4 can be accurately accommodated in the basket housing portion 5. Since the recessed depth of the portion 5 can be reduced, the body portion 2 provided with the basket housing portion 5 and thus the lifting / lowering apparatus 1 can be reduced in thickness.

  Further, in the elevator / drying apparatus according to claim 2, in claim 1, the basket housing part 5 is formed in a concave shape opening downward in the main body part 2, and the uppermost part of the bowl shaped basket housing part 5 is formed. The position detection sensor 6 is disposed in the back. According to this, even if the hanging basket 4 rises while swinging, the swinging of the hanging basket 4 is controlled by the inner side surface 5a of the recessed bowl receiving portion 5 when being introduced into the basket receiving portion 5. After being suppressed, the laundry basket 4 can be accurately stopped at the upper limit position by the position detection sensor 6 disposed in the innermost part of the recessed bowl housing part 5.

  Moreover, in the lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 3, in claim 1 or 2, the position detection sensor 6 includes a contact member 8 provided so as to be able to project and retract in the basket housing part 5, and a raised clothes basket 4. It is characterized by comprising a sensor part 9 for detecting the operation of the contact member 8 pushed into the main body part 2 by contact. According to this, the upper limit position of the hanging basket 4 can be detected by the physical contact of the hanging basket 4 with the contact member 8, and the certainty of raising and stopping the hanging basket 4 can be improved.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the elevator / drying apparatus according to the third aspect, wherein the contact member 8 is disposed in the main body 2 via a spring 10 that biases downward. According to this, the impact at the time of the contact with the contact member 8 of the hanging basket 4 can be relieved, and durability of the lifting / lowering drying apparatus 1 can be improved.

  In the lifting / lowering object drying apparatus according to claim 5, in claim 3 or 4, the sensor unit 9 is configured by an optical sensor 12 that detects light shielding by the shielding unit 11 provided in the contact member 8. And According to this, since the sensor unit 9 is constituted by the optical sensor 12 that does not depend on the electrical contact, it is possible to eliminate the possibility of contact failure or short circuit applied to the electrical contact, and it can be suitably used on an outdoor ceiling.

  In the present invention, it is possible to ensure good detection accuracy of the upper limit position of the hanging basket, and to have an advantage that the lifting / drying apparatus can be thinned.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the lifting / drying apparatus 1 of the present example is provided with a main body 2 disposed on the ceiling, a hanging basket 4 suspended from the main body 2, and a lifting / lowering basket 4 provided on the main body 2. A drive unit 3 and a bag storage unit 5 provided in the main body unit 2 to store the clothes rack 4 at the upper limit position are provided. Then, in order to reduce the thickness of the lifting / lowering apparatus 1, the position detection sensor 6 that detects the upper limit position of the drying basket 4 in the basket housing portion 5 and the clothes basket 4 that is at the upper limit position are detected by the position detection sensor 6. The control part 7 which stops the drive part 3 by this is provided. Details will be described below.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the main body 2 is formed long in the length direction of the clothes-drying basket 4. Specifically, the main body 2 covers a plate-shaped main housing 13 attached to the ceiling and a lower portion of the main housing 13. The main body cover 14 is attached in this manner. The drive unit 3, the position detection sensor 6, and the control unit 7 are attached to the main body housing 13. The drive unit 3 is wound via the mechanism unit 16 having a pair of wires 15 that suspends both ends in the lengthwise direction of the clothes basket 4, a pair of winding drums that winds each wire 15, and the mechanism unit 16. The motor 17 is configured to rotate the take-up drum to take up or draw out the wire 15. The main body cover 14 is provided with a concave bowl-shaped receiving portion 5 that opens downward. The main body cover 14 is attached to the main body housing 13 so as to cover the driving unit 3, the position detection sensor 6, and the control unit 7, but the driving unit 3 and the control unit 7 surround the bag housing unit 5. Therefore, the main body 2 and, consequently, the lifting / lowering object drying apparatus 1 are reduced in thickness by minimizing unnecessary space in the main body 2.

  In detail, the mechanism part 16 is each arrange | positioned in the longitudinal direction both ends of the main body housing 13 located so that the length direction may be pinched | interposed, and the longitudinal direction of the main body housing 13 may be located in the longitudinal direction one end part. A motor 17 is disposed, and a shaft 18 that transmits the output of the motor 17 is provided so as to pass between the pair of mechanism portions 16. The shaft 18 is disposed at an end portion in the short direction of the main body housing 13 so as to face the control unit 7 constituted by a long circuit block via the bag housing unit 5. The main body 2 of the conventional lifting / drying apparatus 1 of FIG. 4 has a configuration in which the driving unit 3 is disposed so as to be superimposed on the upper position of the basket housing part 5. It is clear that the thickness is reduced. In the figure, reference numeral 19 denotes a through hole for inserting a distribution line for supplying power to the motor 17.

  The hanging basket 4 suspended from the main body 2 is moved up and down by the drive unit 3, and the lifting operation is performed by the remote controller. The transmission signal from the remote controller is received by the receiver. Light is received and drive control of the drive unit 3 is performed via the control unit 7. However, when the clothes rack 4 is raised to the upper limit position or lowered to the lower limit position, the drive section 3 is forcibly stopped by the control section 7. In the figure, reference numeral 20 denotes a light transmitting window provided in the main body cover 14, and a receiving unit connected to the control unit 7 is disposed inside the light transmitting window 20.

  In this example, in order to stop the hanging basket 4 at its upper limit position, the position detection sensor 6 detects the hanging basket 4 at the upper limit position of the hanging basket 4 in the basket housing portion 5 as described above, and this detection signal is The operation is performed by stopping the driving unit 3 by the received control unit 7. In this way, in this example, it is possible to accurately detect the hanging basket 4 by directly detecting the hanging basket 4 at the upper limit position. The raised laundry basket 4 can be securely stored in the basket housing part 5 without forming an extra space in the vertical direction that allows an error in the upper limit position of 4. The depth can be made approximately the same as the vertical thickness of the hanging basket 4, that is, the recessed depth of the basket housing part 5 can be made as shallow as possible when the clothes basket 4 is housed, and therefore the main body part 2 provided with the basket housing part 5 The (main body cover 14) and, consequently, the elevating / drying apparatus 1 is made thinner.

  Here, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the position detection sensor 6 of the present example has a structure in which the contact member 8 provided so as to protrude and retract in the basket housing portion 5 and the raised clothes basket 4 come into contact with each other. A contact-type sensor is used which is composed of a sensor unit 9 that detects the operation of the contact member 8 pushed into the contact member 8, that is, the upper limit of the clothes basket 4 by physical contact with the contact member 8 of the clothes basket 4. The position is detected, and the certainty of the lifting and stopping of the clothes hanger 4 is improved.

  Specifically, the position detection sensor 6 is unitized by attaching the contact member 8 and the sensor unit 9 to the sensor housing 21. The sensor housing 21 is provided with a central boss 22 that holds the spring 10 on the outer periphery from the center of the lower surface of the plate-like main portion 21a, and a guide boss having a non-circular cross section (rectangular cross section in this example) on both sides thereof. 23 are respectively suspended. The contact member 8 is provided with a bottomed cylindrical contact boss 24 that opens upward from the center of the lower surface of the rectangular horizontal plate-shaped main plate portion 8a, and guide holes 25 are formed on both sides thereof. Further, a vertical plate-shaped shielding portion 11 is projected from the side edge of the main plate portion 8a to the side. This contact member 8 is in a state where each guide boss 23 is inserted into each guide hole 25, and the central boss 22 and the spring 10 are inserted into the contact boss 24 to connect the lower end of the spring 10 to the contact boss. In the state where it is elastically contacted with the inner surface of the bottom surface portion 24a of 24, the sensor housing 21 is engaged with the peripheral edge of the main plate portion 8a by the retaining projection 26 protruding from the main portion 21a of the sensor housing 21. In a state in which the guide is guided, it is mounted so as to be movable up and down while being urged downward by the spring 10. The sensor unit 9 is mounted on the side edge of the main body 21 a of the sensor housing 21, and includes a photosensor 12 (photo interrupter) that detects light shielding by the shielding unit 11 of the contact member 8. 1B, the position detection sensor 6 is attached to the main body housing 13 above the heel housing portion 5, and the outer surface (lower end surface) of the bottom surface 24a of the contact boss 24 is the heel housing portion 5. It protrudes from the innermost part of the bag into the bag housing part 5.

  Therefore, as shown in FIG. 1 (a), when the clothes hanger 4 that has been driven up by the drive unit 3 is positioned at the upper limit position in the bag housing 5, the clothes hanger 4 is brought into contact with the boss for contact. 24 is pressed from below to move the contact member 8 upward against the bias of the spring 10, and the shielding portion 11 of the contact member 8 that has moved upward blocks the light path of the optical sensor 12. Reference numeral 9 indicates that the hanging basket 4 is in the upper limit position in the basket housing part 5, and the control unit 7 that receives this detection signal performs stop control of the driving unit 3.

  Even if the clothes basket 4 rises while swinging, the inner side surface 5a of the recessed bowl housing part 5 is restricted to suppress swinging when introduced into the bowl housing part 5. As described above, since the hanging basket 4 can be positioned at the upper limit position while suppressing the swinging of the hanging basket 4, the stop control of the drying basket 4 at the upper limit position is performed accurately. Further, when the raised clothes basket 4 comes into contact with the contact member 8, the impact is alleviated by the spring 10, so that the durability of the lifting / drying equipment 1 is improved. Furthermore, since the sensor unit 9 is composed of the optical sensor 12 that does not depend on the electrical contact, the sensor unit 9 can eliminate the possibility of contact failure or short circuit on the electrical contact, and can be applied to the outdoor ceiling. It can be preferably used.

  The elevator / drying apparatus 1 of the above embodiment is a type in which the main body 2 is suspended along the lower surface of the ceiling, but may be a type in which the main body 2 is disposed on the back of the ceiling (see FIG. 4). As shown in this example, the main body 2 that accommodates the hanging basket 4 and, consequently, the lifting / lowering apparatus 1 is thinned, and in the former case, the hanging length from the ceiling of the lifting / lowering apparatus 1 becomes small and is not noticeable. In the latter case, it is possible to obtain an effect that it can be arranged even in a ceiling space with a narrow vertical dimension.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is the raising / lowering clothes drying apparatus of the example of embodiment of this invention, (a) is a sectional side view in the state before accommodation to the basket housing part of the drying basket, (b) is accommodation to the basket housing part of the drying basket. It is a sectional side view in a state (state in which the clothespin is in an upper limit position). It is a position detection sensor same as the above, (a) is a perspective view, (b) is an exploded perspective view. (A) is a whole perspective view of a lifting / lowering object drying apparatus, (b) is a perspective view of the main-body part in the state which removed the main-body cover. It is front sectional drawing of the lifting / lowering object drying apparatus of the example of a prior art.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Lifting / drying apparatus 2 Main-body part 3 Drive part 4 Drying basket 5 Trap storage part 6 Position detection sensor 7 Control part 8 Contact member 9 Sensor part 10 Spring 11 Shielding part 12 Optical sensor

Claims (5)

  A main body portion disposed on the ceiling, a hanging basket suspended from the main body section, a drive section provided on the main body section for raising and lowering the drying basket, and a basket housing provided on the main body section for accommodating the drying basket on the upper limit position And a position detection sensor for detecting the upper limit position of the clothes basket in the bag storage unit, and a control unit for stopping the driving unit when the position detection sensor detects the clothes basket at the upper limit position. Elevating clothes drying equipment.   2. The lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bag housing part is formed in a concave shape opening downward in the main body part, and a position detection sensor is disposed at the innermost part of the bowl-shaped bag housing part. .   The position detection sensor is configured to include a contact member provided so as to be able to project and retract in the basket housing portion, and a sensor unit that detects an operation of the contact member that is pushed into the main body when the raised laundry basket comes into contact therewith. The lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 1 or 2.   4. The lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the contact member is disposed on the main body through a spring biased downward.   5. The lifting / drying apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the sensor unit is configured by an optical sensor that detects light shielding by a shielding unit provided on the contact member.

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