JP2010064700A - Automatic/manual selection-type vehicle washing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic/manual selection-type vehicle washing device making a user freely select either of automatic washing and manual washing, enabling a user to selectively wash with water and detergent or apply water repellent agent corresponding to degree of dirt since the user performs washing procedure by operating an operation stick in manual washing, and providing satisfactory washing to the user. <P>SOLUTION: A pair of right and left guide rails 3, 3 are disposed at upper both sides of a vehicle washing area 1 through support bodies 2. A vehicle washing mechanism 5 mounted between the pair of guide rails 3, 3 consists of an arm driving body 6 that can advance and retract in a fore-and-aft direction, and an injection pipe 11 that is an inverted L-shaped pipe, rotatably driven in a horizontal direction by the arm driving body 6. An operation part 18 selectively operating automatic washing or manual washing of the vehicle washing mechanism 5 and operating the manual washing process is disposed at the support body 2, and the operation stick 28 is provided at a casing 19. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to an automatic / manual selection type car wash apparatus in which a user can freely select an automatic car wash and a manual car wash, and the manual car wash is performed by operating a device with an operation stick.

  The car wash equipment is an automatic car wash equipment that performs each car wash process such as washing water jetting, detergent jetting, foam detergent, and water repellent application evenly on the vehicle automatically, or any course from multiple courses with different car washing processes There is a course selection type automatic car washing device that selects and wash the car. However, since all car wash devices perform a uniform car wash process on the vehicle, there are places where users want to wash intensively based on the degree of dirt, and places where they want to apply water repellent carefully. There is a disadvantage that even if there is, it can not be handled.

As a method for solving the above-described drawbacks, a car wash apparatus is proposed in which a hand washing car washing process is performed in the middle of the car washing process. The car wash device is configured by suspending a pair of left and right swing arms so as to sandwich the automobile on a carriage traveling rail attached to a frame arranged so as to straddle the automobile, and by providing an injection nozzle on the swing arm. After performing high-pressure washing and foam spraying, the car washing operation is temporarily stopped, and hand washing and washing by a user or the like is performed (Patent Document 1).
JP 2005-193732 A

  Although the technique shown in Patent Document 1 described above can carefully clean dirt by incorporating a hand washing process into an automatic car washing process, since high-pressure washing and foam spraying are performed automatically, mud is particularly strong. Careful high-pressure washing or foam application is not performed on the area where the scum is attached. For this reason, there is a drawback that the user must perform washing with water and foam application by hand washing the place where the dirt is conspicuous.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and allows the user to freely select automatic car washing or manual car washing. When manual car washing is selected, the user operates the operation stick in all of the car washing processes. Automatic and manual selection type car wash device that can perform a car wash that users can satisfy themselves because it can be performed with water and detergent applied according to the degree of dirt. The purpose is to provide.

  The means of the present invention configured to solve the above-described problems is mounted between a pair of left and right guide rails disposed via a support body on both upper sides of the car wash booth as viewed from the front and rear, and between the pair of guide rails. An inverted L-shaped tube having a plurality of injection nozzles, and an arm drive body that is guided by the guide rail and can be moved forward and backward. And an injection pipe that is pivotally driven in the horizontal direction by the arm drive body, the operation unit is disposed in the vicinity of the car wash booth, and the car wash mechanism is selectively operated for automatic car wash or manual car wash. And a function for operating the car wash mechanism when manual car wash is selected.

  And the manual car wash by the said car wash mechanism is good to set it as the structure performed by operating the operation stick provided in the said operation part.

  Further, the operation stick may be capable of displacing the spray pipe in the front-rear and left-right directions.

  Moreover, it is preferable that a sign for recognizing whether or not the operation direction of the operation stick is acceptable is displayed on the operation unit in accordance with the operation state of the car wash mechanism.

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained.
(1) A user of an automatic car wash or a manual car wash with a car wash mechanism that rotates the injection pipe in a horizontal direction can be selected by the operation unit, and the user can manually perform all the steps of the manual car wash by the operation unit. Therefore, the user can perform a careful car wash according to the degree of dirt.
(2) Since manual car washing can perform all car washing steps with the operation stick provided in the operation section, the user can carefully wash with water, apply foam, etc. according to the degree of dirt, so the finish is good Car wash can be performed efficiently.
(3) Since the spray tube is configured to be displaceable in the front-rear and left-right directions by operating the operation stick, it is possible to perform a intensive car wash according to the degree of dirt, and a troublesome car wash operation can be performed with a sense of play.
(4) Since the operation unit is provided with a sign for recognizing whether or not the operation direction of the operation stick is recognized each time depending on the operation state of the car wash mechanism, even a novice makes the injection tube contact the vehicle Can be surely prevented, and is highly safe.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a car wash booth, and a drainage groove is provided behind the floor of the car wash booth 1. Reference numerals 2 and 2 denote a pair of support bodies each composed of a support column standing on both the left and right sides when viewed from the front and rear of the car wash booth 1, and each of the support bodies 2 stands up and away in the front-rear direction. Reference numerals 3 and 3 are guide rails installed between the pair of support columns 2 and 2, and the guide rails 3 are supported on the support column 2 by brackets 4.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes a car wash mechanism mounted between the pair of guide rails 3 and 3. Reference numeral 6 denotes an arm driving body constituting the car wash mechanism 5. The arm driving body 6 is provided at a pair of front and rear support members 7, 7 and both ends of the support materials 7, 7 and is engaged with the guide rail 3. Parts 8, 8, and an arm driving unit 9 that is mounted in the middle of the support members 7 and 7, and that drives a later-described injection pipe 11 to turn, and a support arm 10 that turns horizontally by the arm driving unit 9. It is designed to run in the front-rear direction in the direction indicated by arrows i and b.

Here, the traveling unit 8 includes a base 8A, a reversible motor provided on the base 8A, and includes a travel motor 8B that directly drives the guide rail 3 and a travel limit detection sensor 8C that prevents excessive travel. .

The arm drive unit 9 includes a base 9A fixed to the support members 7 and 7, an arm drive motor 9B composed of a reversible motor supported by the base 9A and turning the support arm 10, a turning origin detecting sensor 9C, and an injection tube 11 and a turning pulse detection sensor 9D for detecting the turning amount.

  The support arm 10 is connected to the drive shaft of the arm drive motor 9B, and has a rectangular tube-shaped arm portion 10A extending in the lateral direction at a position below the support members 7 and 7, and is suspended from the tip of the arm portion 10A. It is formed in a substantially inverted L shape from the provided vertical support portion 10B made of a long material.

Reference numeral 11 denotes an injection pipe which is bent obliquely from the arm portion 10A of the support arm 10 and is supported in a substantially inverted L shape along the vertical support portion 10B and swivels in the horizontal direction. The injection pipe 11 is composed of three systems of a water / water repellent hose 12 for jetting cleaning water and a water repellent, a detergent hose 13 and a foam liquid feeding hose 14 (see FIG. 6). The water / water repellent spray nozzle 12A, the hose 13 are provided with detergent spray nozzles 13A, and the hose 14 is provided with foam spray nozzles 14A at appropriate intervals.

Further, a foam jet movable nozzle 14B is pivotally supported at the lower end of the vertical support portion 10B, and the foam jet movable nozzle 14A includes a nozzle drive motor 15A and a crank mechanism provided on the vertical support portion 10B from the distal end side of the arm portion 10A. The bubble nozzle up-and-down moving mechanism 15 including the portion 15B and the connecting rod 15C moves up and down.
Thus, the injection pipe 11 injects the cleaning water, the detergent, the foam detergent, and the water repellent agent on the roof, side surface, front surface and rear surface of the vehicle A to be cleaned (hereinafter referred to as the cleaning vehicle A), and around the tires and the like. In particular, the undercarriage that is easily contaminated by mud adherence can be widely and evenly jetted by moving the foam jetting movable nozzle 14B up and down.

  Reference numeral 16 denotes a sensor mounting pipe suspended from each traveling portion 8 of the arm driver 6, and the sensor mounting pipe 16 is disposed outside the turning radius of the injection pipe 11 so as not to obstruct the turning movement of the injection pipe 11. It is. The sensor mounting pipe 16 is provided with vehicle detection sensors 17 and 17 made of photoelectric sensors which are separated from each other in the vertical direction, so that the front end and the rear end of the cleaning A are detected and the signals are sent to the operation unit 18. It has become.

  Although not shown, the car wash booth 1 has a pair of car wash booths 1 arranged in parallel. A machine room is provided between the car wash booths 1 and 1 and car wash water and foam detergent. A water supply unit including a water repellent storage tank and a pump is arranged, and the injection pipe 11 communicates with the cleaning water, detergent, foam detergent, water repellent storage tank and a liquid supply hose.

  Next, reference numeral 18 denotes an operation unit for selecting the car wash mechanism 5 for automatic car wash or manual car wash, and for operating the equipment when manual car wash is selected. The operation unit 18 is configured by accommodating a control panel made of a microcomputer, a charge counter, a card reader, a timer, etc. in a waterproof casing 19, and the control panel includes a limit detection sensor 8C of the car wash mechanism 5, an arm. A drive motor 9B, a turning origin detection sensor 9C, a turning pulse detection sensor 9D, a nozzle drive motor 15A, and a vehicle detection sensor 17 are electrically connected to each other.

The one side panel 19A of the casing 19 includes an operation explanation section 20, a fee payment section 21 including a coin insertion slot 21A and a card insertion slot 21B, a change return slot 22, a timer display section 23, an automatic car wash 24A, an automatic car wash + An automatic car wash selection switch group 24, a start button 25, and an emergency stop switch 26 that can select an arbitrary automatic course from a plurality of courses such as a hand washing course 24B, an automatic car wash + water repellent course 24C, and the like are provided. On the other hand, the other side panel 19B is an operation surface for manual car washing, and includes a manual car wash selection switch group 27 for selecting high-pressure water, foam detergent, water repellent, operation stick 28, travel speed selection switch 29, and start. Each button 30 is provided.

  Here, the function of the operation stick 28 which is a feature of the present embodiment will be described. The operation stick 28 is used by the user to operate the injection tube 11 in the front and rear, left and right directions with the operation stick 28. The operation stick 28 has the same feeling as an operation of a certain type of game machine or a so-called radio control operation. There is a pleasure that the car can be washed, and since the operation stick 28 is operated only in the four directions of the cross, even an unfamiliar user can easily operate it. In addition to the travel speed selection switch 29, the operation stick 28 can be operated to automatically increase the speed of the injection pipe 11 every elapse of a predetermined time if the operation stick 28 is kept in a tilted state.

The front, rear, left, and right characters 28A to 28D shown in the operation directions of the operation stick 28 are lit only when the operation can be performed according to the operation status. By allowing operation only in the direction, erroneous operation is surely prevented.

  Next, the operation of the automatic / manual selection type car wash apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described. First, the washing car A is put into the car washing booth 1. When the washing car A has not entered the predetermined position in the car washing booth 1 due to overrun or wheel removal, the photoelectric sensor detects it and sends a signal to the control panel to warn the user. Reinsert in the appropriate position. Thereafter, the user selects an automatic car washing course or a manual car washing course, pays a predetermined fee with cash or a card, and presses the start button 25 (30).

When automatic car washing is selected, a water washing process, a detergent application process, a foam washing process, a rinsing process, and a water repellent application process are automatically performed sequentially by sequence control by the control panel. This sequence control itself is not fundamentally different from conventional car wash devices. Moreover, it is also possible to set it as the automatic car washing course which incorporated the hand-washing process by selecting beforehand.
On the other hand, when manual car washing is selected, the user selects the traveling speed of the injection pipe 11 and the water pressure of the washing water, and moves the operation stick 28 to “front” 28A, “rear” 28B, “left” 28C, “right”. By operating in the direction of each character of 28D, the arm drive unit 9 is moved, and as shown in FIG. Each cleaning step can be performed by moving the front surface, the side surface, and the rear surface in this order.

In this case, by operating the operation stick 28, the user can focus on each process such as washing with water, applying detergent, foaming detergent, washing, etc. on the heavily contaminated part, so that strong dirt is also present. It can be removed reliably and a satisfactory car wash can be achieved. Further, in these operation processes, the letters “left” 28C and “right” 28D are not lit when the injection tube 11 is positioned on the side surface of the washing car A and should not be turned with respect to the washing car A, for example. Operational safety is ensured by the announcement of warning and voice.

  The car wash mechanism 5 injects wash water (detergent, water repellent) from the injection pipe 11 according to the user's selection while moving the guide rails 3 and 3 in the direction indicated by the arrow at the selected speed, and the vehicle detection sensor 17. , 17,... Detect the front side of the washing vehicle A, the jet tube 11 is determined to be able to turn, and the character “left” 28C of the operation stick 28 is lit, so that the user moves the operation stick 28 to the right. By operating, the front side of the cleaning vehicle A can be cleaned by turning the injection tube 11 to the right. Similarly, the rear side of the cleaning vehicle A can be cleaned by operating the operation stick 28. In this way, the user can freely operate the injection tube 11 by operating the operation stick 28, and thus can perform a satisfactory car wash.

When the operation of the cleaning mechanism 5 is delayed because the user is careless or unfamiliar, the limit detection sensor 8C of the arm driver 6 detects the end of the guide rail 3 and sends a signal to the control panel. The traveling of the arm driver 6 is stopped.

  In the present embodiment, a car wash device for one vehicle has been described, but two car wash devices may be connected side by side. By comprising in this way, an installation cost can be reduced by sharing the support body 2, machine room, etc., and operation efficiency can be improved.

1 is a perspective view showing an overall configuration of an automatic / manual selection type car wash device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a partial plan view showing a part of the same device in a broken state. It is a front view which fractures | ruptures and shows a part of the apparatus. It is an enlarged view which shows the structure of a support arm and an injection pipe. It is a VV arrow direction sectional view in FIG. FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross-sectional view in the direction of arrows VI-VI in FIG. 5. It is a perspective view of the operation part which comprises the apparatus. It is explanatory drawing which shows the operating range of an injection pipe.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Car wash booth 2 Support body 3 Guide rail 5 Car wash mechanism 6 Arm drive body 11 Injection pipe 12A Water / water repellent injection nozzle 13A Detergent injection nozzle 14A Foam injection nozzle 14B Foam injection movable nozzle 18 Operation part 28 Operation stick

Claims (4)

  A pair of left and right guide rails arranged via a support, a car wash mechanism mounted between the pair of guide rails, and an operation unit for operating the car wash mechanism. The car wash mechanism is composed of an arm drive body which is guided by the guide rail and can be moved forward and backward, and an inverted L-shaped tube having a plurality of injection nozzles, and is supported by the arm drive body and driven to turn horizontally. The operation section is arranged in the vicinity of the car wash booth, and functions to select the car wash mechanism as automatic car wash or manual car wash, and operates the car wash mechanism when manual car wash is selected. Automatic / manual selection type car wash device characterized by having a function.   The automatic / manual selection type car wash apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the manual car wash by the car wash mechanism is performed by operating an operation stick provided in the operation unit.   3. The automatic / manual selection type car wash device according to claim 2, wherein the operation stick is capable of displacing the injection pipe in the front-rear and left-right directions.   An automatic / manual selection type car wash apparatus characterized in that a sign for recognizing each time whether or not the operation direction of the operation stick is recognized is displayed on the operation unit in accordance with an operation state of the car wash mechanism. .

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