JP2013121780A - Car washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car washing machine capable of improving convenience by immediately injecting liquid agents to a washed vehicle without prolonging the use time of the car washing machine.SOLUTION: The car washing machine WA includes: the going step of performing washing by moving a body part 1, moved back and forth relatively to a washed vehicle CA, in one direction; and the returning step of reversing and moving the body part 1 in an opposite direction. The car washing machine includes an injection nozzle 30 for injecting liquid agents to the washed vehicle CA in the returning step. In the going step, the liquid agents are injected from the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 only for a predetermined period after the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 passes through the washed vehicle CA in the going step.

Description

  The present invention relates to a car wash machine provided with a liquid agent injection nozzle.

  A conventional car wash machine installed in a gas station or the like is disclosed in Patent Document 1. This car wash machine includes a main body that straddles the vehicle to be cleaned. The car wash machine includes an outward path process that moves in one direction with respect to the vehicle to be cleaned, and a backward path process that performs cleaning by inverting the main body with respect to the forward path process. A rotating brush and a liquid agent injection nozzle are provided on the upper part and the side part of the main body. The rotating brush is rotated by a motor for rotation, and slides toward and away from the vehicle to be cleaned in the forward path process and the backward path process.

  The liquid agent injection nozzle injects the liquid agent when it reaches the end face of the vehicle to be cleaned in the return path process. The liquid agent is composed of a water repellent or wax that forms a film on the surface of the vehicle to be cleaned. Thereby, water repellency and glossiness are improved. And after a liquid agent injection nozzle passes a to-be-cleaned vehicle at a return path process, a liquid agent injection nozzle injects water by switching of a valve. Thereby, the inside of the liquid agent injection nozzle is washed to prevent clogging.

  In the pipe of the liquid agent injection nozzle, water injected at the time of the previous injection and air that enters through the passage of time remain. For this reason, it takes a predetermined time for the liquid agent injection nozzle to reach and eject the liquid agent at the tip when the injection operation starts. For this reason, when the return path process is started, a preparation period for injecting the liquid agent for a predetermined time by the liquid agent injection nozzle is provided, and water and air remaining in the liquid agent injection nozzle are discharged. Thereby, the liquid agent can be immediately injected from the tip of the liquid agent injection nozzle.

JP 2009-51434 A

  However, according to the above-described conventional car wash machine, depending on the traveling speed of the main body, there may be a case where all the water and air remaining in the liquid agent injection nozzle cannot be discharged within the preparation period. For this reason, the traveling of the main body has been temporarily stopped until the traveling speed of the main body is reduced or the preparation period elapses. Accordingly, there is a problem that the management of the preparation period becomes complicated, and the use time of the car wash machine becomes long and the convenience is lowered.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a car wash machine that can immediately improve the convenience by injecting a liquid agent onto a vehicle to be cleaned without increasing the use time of the car wash machine.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a forward path process in which a main body part that moves relative to a vehicle to be cleaned is moved in one direction to perform cleaning, and the main body part is reversed and moved in the other direction. A car wash machine provided with a return path process, comprising: an injection nozzle for injecting a liquid agent to the vehicle to be cleaned in the return path process, and the liquid agent injection after the liquid agent injection nozzle has passed through the vehicle to be cleaned in the forward path process The liquid agent is ejected by a nozzle for a predetermined time.

  According to this configuration, when the car wash is started, the main body moves relative to the vehicle to be cleaned in one direction in the front and rear direction in the forward path process, and the vehicle to be cleaned is cleaned. When the liquid agent injection nozzle passes through the vehicle to be cleaned, the liquid agent is injected from the liquid agent injection nozzle for a predetermined time. Thereby, the air and water in the pipe | tube of a liquid agent injection nozzle are discharged | emitted, and a liquid agent is filled in a pipe | tube. When the forward path process is completed, the main body portion is reversed and relatively moved in the other direction, and the process moves to the backward path process. The liquid agent is jetted from the liquid jet nozzle to the vehicle to be cleaned. At this time, when the injection operation of the liquid agent injection nozzle is started, the liquid agent is immediately injected because the liquid agent is filled in the pipe.

  In the car wash machine having the above-described configuration, the present invention further includes a rotating brush that slides on the vehicle to be cleaned, and the liquid agent injection nozzle is arranged behind the rotating brush in the advancing direction of the return path process. Features. According to this configuration, after the vehicle to be cleaned is cleaned by the rotating brush in the return path process, the liquid agent sprayed from the liquid agent injection nozzle is applied to the vehicle to be cleaned.

  In the car wash machine having the above-described configuration, the liquid agent injection nozzle starts an injection operation when the liquid agent injection nozzle reaches the end surface of the vehicle to be cleaned in the return path process.

  According to this configuration, since the liquid agent is injected as soon as the liquid agent injection nozzle is opened, the liquid agent is injected from the end face of the vehicle to be cleaned.

  Further, in the car wash machine having the above-described configuration, the liquid agent injection nozzle is configured to be able to inject water by switching a valve, and the liquid agent injection nozzle passes through the vehicle to be cleaned for a predetermined time in the return path process. The water is jetted by a liquid jet nozzle.

  According to this structure, after the said liquid agent injection nozzle passed the said to-be-cleaned vehicle at the said return path process, the said water agent was injected by the said liquid agent injection nozzle only for the predetermined time, It is characterized by the above-mentioned. According to this configuration, the inside of the liquid agent injection nozzle is washed with water, and clogging with the liquid agent is prevented.

  According to the present invention, since the preparation period for injecting the liquid agent by the liquid agent injection nozzle for a predetermined time after the liquid agent injection nozzle has passed through the vehicle to be cleaned in the forward path process is provided, immediately without being increased in the usage time of the car wash machine The convenience can be improved by injecting the liquid agent to the vehicle.

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  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are a side view and a front view showing an overall configuration of a car wash machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. The car wash WA includes a main body 1, a rail 2, and a remote panel 7A. The main body part 2 is formed in a gate shape having two left and right stand parts 90 facing each other and a ceiling part 91 connecting the upper ends of the stand parts 90.

  A pair of left and right rails 2 are provided on the ground, and wheels 3 provided on the bottom surface of the main body 1 are arranged on the rails 2. Accordingly, the main body 1 is erected so as to travel on the rail 2 by driving of a travel motor (not shown) and to move relative to the vehicle CA to be cleaned back and forth.

  The remote panel 7A is arranged on the approach path of the main body 1. The vehicle to be cleaned CA stops in front of the remote panel 7A, and performs operations such as receiving a car wash by operating the remote panel 7A.

  The main body 1 is provided with a plurality of rotating brushes that slide on the vehicle to be cleaned CA and perform brushing. The rotating brush is rotated by a rotating motor (not shown), and includes a top brush 4, a side brush 5 and a rocker brush 6.

  The top brush 4 is formed by radially fixing brush hairs (not shown) made of cloth (woven fabric, knitted fabric, non-woven fabric, etc.) or resin fibers on a rotating shaft (not shown). The rotation axis of the top brush 4 is connected to a lifting / lowering motor (not shown) via a wire (not shown). The top brush 4 is moved up and down by driving of the lifting motor, and is brought into contact with and separated from the vehicle CA to be cleaned. Thereby, the top brush 4 moves along the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA, and the upper surface of the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA is cleaned.

  A pair of left and right side brushes 5 are provided to clean both side surfaces of the vehicle CA to be cleaned. A pair of left and right rocker brushes 6 are provided to clean the lower portion of the side surface including the tire of the vehicle CA to be cleaned. The side brush 5 and the rocker brush 6 also have the same rotating shaft and brush hair as the top brush 4.

  On one side of the main body 1, there is disposed a tank storage 50 for storing a plurality of liquid storage tanks (not shown) that store various liquid agents such as detergents and waxes. Distributing piping 51 for distributing water and the liquid agent from each liquid storage tank is provided above the tank storage 50. The first and second water purification nozzles 11 and 13, the first and second detergent nozzles 12 and 15, and the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 are led out to the distribution piping unit 51 through electromagnetic valves (synonymous with valves).

  The first and second water purification nozzles 11 and 13 are respectively arranged on the front side and the back side of the main body 1 and inject water into the vehicle CA to be cleaned. The first and second detergent nozzles 12 and 15 are respectively arranged on the front side and the back side of the main body 1 and inject cleaning liquid such as shampoo to the vehicle CA to be cleaned. Further, high-grade detergent is ejected from the first and second detergent nozzles 12 and 15 by switching the electromagnetic valve.

  The liquid agent injection nozzle 30 has a water repellent coating nozzle 14 and a wax nozzle 16, and is disposed on the front upper portion of the main body 1. The water repellent coating nozzle 14 injects a liquid agent of the water repellent coating agent onto the vehicle CA to be cleaned. Further, a high-grade water-repellent coating agent or a special coating agent is ejected from the water-repellent coating nozzle 14 by switching the electromagnetic valve (not shown). The wax nozzle 16 injects wax to the vehicle CA to be cleaned. Further, high-grade wax is jetted from the wax nozzle 16 by switching the electromagnetic valve.

  Therefore, the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 injects the liquid agent that forms a film on the vehicle CA to be cleaned. The water repellent coating nozzle 14 and the wax nozzle 16 can inject water by switching valves to prevent clogging by the liquid agent.

  Further, the main body 1 is provided with a blower 20 for generating airflow and drying the vehicle to be cleaned CA. A top blowing nozzle 21 and a side blowing nozzle 22 are connected to the blower 20. The top blowing nozzle 21 is provided at the upper center of the main body 1. The top blow nozzle 21 moves up and down along the vehicle to be cleaned CA by driving an elevating motor (not shown) and blows air toward the upper surface of the vehicle to be cleaned CA.

  The side air blowing nozzles 22 are provided on both sides of the main body 1 and blow air toward the side surface of the vehicle CA to be cleaned. The to-be-cleaned vehicle CA is dried by the ventilation of the top blowing nozzle 21 and the side blowing nozzle 22.

  A vehicle sensor 8 is provided on the front upper portion of the main body 1. The vehicle sensor 8 includes a photoelectric sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, and the like, and detects an outer surface shape of the vehicle CA to be cleaned that enters the main body 1. Thereby, the vehicle length of the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA is detected and the travel range of the main body 1 is determined.

  An operation panel 7 is disposed on the front surface of one stand 90 of the main body 1. The operation panel 7 has the same operation buttons as the remote panel 7A, and accepts a car wash and sets car wash conditions by the operation of a user who gets off the vehicle to be cleaned CA.

  With the buttons provided on the operation panel 7 and the remote panel 7A, shampoo, waxing, water-repellent coat, etc. can be added to the water wash to set the car wash conditions. Further, buttons for performing high-grade shampoo, high-grade wax, high-grade water repellent coating, special coating, and the like are also provided on the operation panel 7 and the remote panel 7A. In addition, equipment setting buttons such as a front guard, a fender pole, a door mirror, a rear wiper, and no corresponding equipment are provided.

  In the car wash machine WA having the above configuration, the main body 1 starts washing based on the car wash conditions set. At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, it moves forward (arrow D1) with respect to the vehicle CA to be cleaned as an outward path process (arrow D1), and the plurality of rotating brushes slide on the vehicle CA to be cleaned and perform cleaning.

  Further, when the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 passes the vehicle CA to be cleaned, the liquid agent is injected from the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 for a predetermined time (about 6 seconds). Thereby, the air and water in the pipe | tube of a liquid agent injection nozzle are discharged | emitted, and a liquid agent is filled in a pipe | tube.

  When the rotating brush passes through the vehicle to be cleaned CA, a return path process is performed in which the main body 1 is reversed and moved in the direction of the arrow D2, as shown in FIG. In the return path process, the vehicle CA to be cleaned is cleaned by the rotating brush. At this time, the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is arranged behind the rotating brush in the traveling direction of the main body 1.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 5, when the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 reaches the rear end surface 100 of the vehicle CA to be cleaned, the liquid agent injection operation is started and compressed air is supplied. Thereby, a liquid agent is immediately injected from the liquid agent injection nozzle 30, and a liquid agent can be apply | coated to the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 6, the liquid injection nozzle 30 starts the water injection operation by switching the valve while the vehicle CA to be cleaned is passing. Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the liquid spray nozzle 30 jets water when the front end of the vehicle CA to be cleaned passes. Thereby, the inside of the pipe | tube of the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is wash | cleaned with water, and clogging by a liquid agent can be prevented.

  Then, the advancing direction of the main-body part 1 is reversed and a drying process is performed in the same direction as an outward process. At this time, an air flow is generated from the blower 20 to dry the vehicle to be cleaned CA. In addition, a liquid agent may be injected after a drying process, and a drying process may be performed again after that.

  According to the present embodiment, since the preparation period for injecting the liquid agent by the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is provided for a predetermined time (about 6 seconds) after the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 passes through the vehicle CA to be cleaned in the forward path process, the usage time of the car wash machine The convenience can be improved by immediately injecting the liquid agent onto the vehicle to be cleaned CA without increasing the flow rate.

  Moreover, since the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is disposed behind the rotating brush in the forward direction of the return path process, the liquid agent can be injected from the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 while performing cleaning with the rotating brush in the return path process. Therefore, the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA can be cleaned in the forward path process and the return path process, and the cleaning power of the to-be-cleaned vehicle CA can be improved.

  Further, since the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is opened when the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 reaches the rear end surface 100 of the vehicle CA to be cleaned in the return path process, the liquid agent can be easily injected to the entire vehicle CA to be cleaned.

  Further, the liquid injection nozzle 30 is formed so that water can be injected by switching the valve, and the liquid injection nozzle 30 injects water by the liquid injection nozzle 30 only for a predetermined time after passing through the vehicle CA to be cleaned in the return path process. The inside of the nozzle 30 can be washed to prevent clogging.

  In the present embodiment, the liquid agent injection nozzle 30 is disposed at the front portion of the main body 1, but may be disposed at another location. Alternatively, cleaning with a rotating brush may be performed only in the forward path process, and only the liquid agent may be applied in the backward path process. Further, a cleaning liquid for cleaning the vehicle CA to be cleaned may be jetted from the liquid jet nozzle 30.

  According to the present invention, it can be used for a car wash machine provided with a liquid agent injection nozzle.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main-body part 2 Rail 3 Wheel 4 Top brush 5 Side brush 6 Rocker brush 7 Operation panel 8 Vehicle sensor 14 Water repellent coat nozzle 16 Wax nozzle 20 Blower 21 Top ventilation nozzle 22 Side ventilation nozzle 30 Liquid agent injection nozzle 90 Stand part 91 Ceiling part WA car wash machine CA

Claims (4)

  In a car wash machine provided with a forward path process in which the main body part that moves relative to the vehicle to be cleaned is moved in one direction for cleaning, and a return path process in which the main body part is reversed and moved in the other direction, An injection nozzle that injects the liquid agent to the vehicle to be cleaned in a return path process, and the liquid agent injection nozzle injects the liquid agent for a predetermined time after the liquid agent injection nozzle has passed through the vehicle to be cleaned in the outbound path process; Car wash machine characterized by.   2. The car wash machine according to claim 1, further comprising a rotating brush that slides on the vehicle to be cleaned, wherein the liquid agent injection nozzle is disposed behind the rotating brush in a traveling direction of the return path process.   3. The car wash machine according to claim 1, wherein an injection operation of the liquid agent injection nozzle is started when the liquid agent injection nozzle reaches an end surface of the vehicle to be cleaned in the return path process.   The liquid agent injection nozzle is formed to be capable of injecting water by switching a valve, and the liquid agent injection nozzle injects the water by the liquid agent injection nozzle for a predetermined time after passing through the vehicle to be cleaned in the return path process. The car wash machine according to claim 1.

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