JP2715124B2 - Refueling device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a refueling device installed in a refueling station for supplying oil such as gasoline to automobiles and the like.

[Conventional technology]

At the refueling station, for example, a campaign is conducted as a service to acquire customers, and during this period, gifts are given to refueling customers, or women's days especially for female customers are set, and refueling is performed on that day. Various means such as discounting the amount of refueling for female refueling customers and conducting various inspections free of charge, and discounting the amount of refueling for customers who have refueled more than a specified amount. There are many places that take.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, since most of these services are not always provided, it is difficult to obtain fixed customers depending on such services.

In addition, for example, it is necessary to notify the customer each time that the service period is in progress. For example, such an advertising work or a person in charge of delivering the service product may be required separately, which requires human labor and increases costs.

Furthermore, in the case where a clerk different from the refueling worker hands over the prize, the prize may be missed and the service may not be sufficiently provided.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, and to always provide service to refueling customers, to reliably acquire fixed customers, and furthermore, the service operation is interlocked with the refueling operation. Refueling does not require any extra labor, and refueling customers can receive reliable service near the refueling point.In addition to providing service products to all refueling customers, It is an object of the present invention to provide a refueling device capable of providing detailed services such as provision of different types of prizes according to the conditions.

[Means for solving the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a towel release mechanism as a service product that is activated by an ON signal from a nozzle switch when a refueling nozzle is removed from a nozzle hook at the start of refueling, and a refueling amount is constant at a minimum amount or more. The gist is that a service case having a first prize releasing mechanism that operates when the amount is less than the amount and a second prize releasing mechanism that operates when the refueling amount is equal to or more than a certain amount is attached to the refueling machine case. Is what you do.

[Action]

According to the present invention, in order to refuel a refueling customer, if the refueling nozzle is removed from the refueling machine case, the service case automatically releases towels and the like from the service case in conjunction with the refueling nozzle. This service is offered to all refueling customers. Then, depending on the refueling amount, for example, a candy is released from the release mechanism as a first prize for a refueling customer with a refueling amount of 10 or more and less than 20, and a second candy is supplied for a refueling customer with a refueling amount of 20 or more. It is released from the juice release mechanism as a prize, and provides services according to the amount of refueling.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a fueling station in which a fueling apparatus of the present invention is installed, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a fueling apparatus of the present invention. As is well known, the upper part of the site 1 is covered with canopy 2 and the site 1
A building 3, such as an office, is installed at the end of.

The refueling device A of the present invention is installed substantially at the center of the site 1 of such a refueling station, and as shown in FIG.
On top of this, a service case 6 is provided integrally with a refueling machine case 5 in close contact therewith.

The lubricator case 5 raises a lubrication pipe communicating with a ground oil storage tank (not shown) in the case 5 in the same manner as a conventionally known fixed lubricator case on the ground, and lubricates the lubrication pipe as a lubrication mechanism. An oil supply pump connected to a motor 10 (not shown in FIG. 2) and a flow meter connected to a flow pulse transmitter 11 (not shown in FIG. 2) are provided. An oil supply hose 8 having an oil supply nozzle 7 at the tip is connected to the upper front surface. In addition,
In the illustrated example, the refueling machine case 5 is of a so-called double type in which two sets of refueling mechanisms are arranged inside, and one refueling hose 8 is provided on each of the left and right sides at the front of the refueling machine case 5. Nozzle hooks 12, 12 are provided on the front surface of the refueling machine case, and nozzle switches SW that are turned on and off in conjunction with hooking / removing of the refueling nozzles 7, 7 are attached to the nozzle hooks 12, 12, respectively.

Numerals 9 and 9 in the figure denote indicators for displaying the amount of refueling and the like corresponding to the left and right refueling hoses 8 and 8, respectively.

The service case 6 is arranged side by side (left side in the illustrated example) and closely attached to the refueling machine case 5, and has a display portion 13 formed thereon for indicating that it is a service case,
Here, for example, a display 14 using an advertising character such as “Tsumita Sabisu” is given according to the season.

In this case 6, as a service product, a towel is provided, and as an example of a service provided in accordance with a refueling amount, three types of candy are provided as a first prize and juice is provided as a second prize. Selection button switch 16 for selecting the type of juice below
Were provided side by side. In the figure, reference numeral 15 denotes a display such as a beverage can for indicating the type of the juice.

The towel and the juice are provided with a cooler or a warmer in the case 6 to cool and cool in summer and warm in winter to warm.

Towels, candy and juice outlets 17, 18, and 19 are provided side by side below the selection button switch 16, and an additional release button switch 20 for adding an additional towel is provided above the towel outlet 17. In addition, a coin insertion slot 21 for separately purchasing juice for a fee and a return port 22 for change are provided above the juice outlet 19.

The outlets 17, 18, and 19 may be formed at the lower part of the case 6 as shown in the figure, but may be formed at a height position that can be reached by reaching from the driver's seat of the automobile, or may be formed at the lower part. 18,
In the case where the robot arm 19 is provided, a lifting table is mounted in front of the outlets 17, 18, 19 so as to reach the driver's seat, or a robot arm is provided on the side of the case 6, for example. Various modifications are conceivable, such as a configuration for moving between the exits 17, 18, 19 and the driver's seat. An indicator 29 for displaying various information and guidance is integrally provided at the upper end of the refueling machine case 5 and the service case 6 configured as described above. The guide display section 29a of the display 29 is, for example, a dot type constituted by a group of minute inverted display meters or light emitting diodes (LEDs), and the displayed characters appear to move horizontally and flow. It was formed into a so-called flow sign.

The service case 6 is provided with an electric device for generating an electric arc, such as a cooler and a motor and a switch of a service product delivery device, while the oil supply case 5 in which the electric device is closely arranged is provided. The service case 6 has an explosion-proof structure because it handles highly flammable dangerous substances such as gasoline.

The configuration of the explosion-proof structure is similar to the vending machine shown in Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-9273, which was previously proposed by the applicant, as an example.
The service case 6 is a sealed case, and a service item delivery hole provided in the case 6 and an outlet provided in a lower portion of the case 6.
17, 18 and 19 are connected by a closed passage, air leakage prevention lids are provided at both ends of the closed passage to form a pressure lock portion, and the inside of the closed case 6 is maintained at a positive pressure at the top of the closed case 6. An air inlet is provided to prevent air outside the case from entering the inside when taking out service products from the outlets 17, 18, and 19, and highly flammable gas or vapor exists outside the case 6. However, it is possible to prevent the electric arc generated in the case 6 from igniting these gases and the like without entering the case 6.

And, the towel as the service product, the candy as the first prize, and the juice as the second prize are provided free of charge to all refueling customers, and
For example, candy is set to be provided only to refueling customers whose refueling amount is 10 or more and less than 20, and juice is set to be provided only to refueling customers whose refueling amount is 20 or more.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of such a control. The switch of the additional towel release button 20 and the ON signal from the nozzle switch SW when the refueling nozzle is removed from the nozzle hook 12 are introduced into the towel release mechanism 23. What is necessary is just to employ | adopt this discharge | release mechanism suitably employ | adopted by the well-known vending machine, such as a drink can.

Further, the on / off signal from the nozzle switch SW is introduced into the refueling motor 10 and the counting circuit 24 for counting the amount of refueling in which the pulse signal from the flow rate pulse transmitter 11 is introduced. It is introduced into the display 9 and into the candy discharging mechanism 25. It is set to output to the candy discharge mechanism 25 when the value counted by the counting circuit 24 is 10 or more and less than 20.

The selection signal from the juice selection button switch 16 and the counting signal from the counting circuit 24 were introduced into the AND circuit 26, and the output signal from the AND circuit 26 was introduced into the juice discharging mechanism 27. The count value of the counting circuit 24 is supplied to the AND circuit 26.
Set to output when the number is 20 or more.

Also, a selection signal from the juice selection button switch 16 and a coin insertion signal from the coin insertion slot 21 are connected to an AND circuit 28.
, And the output signal from the AND circuit 28 is introduced to the juice release mechanism 27.

Candy release mechanism 25 and juice release mechanism 27
As in the case of the towel release mechanism 23, a release means used in a conventionally known vending machine is used.

 Next, usage and operation will be described.

During the operation of the gas station, guidance characters such as "Is 12 month regular maintenance required?" In addition, a display 14 such as "Tsumita Sabisu" is provided on the display section 13 of the service case 6 therebelow in accordance with the season.

The display 29 and the display unit 13 show the presence of the entire refueling device A and the service case 6 so that the driver of the car traveling on the road can be alerted. Knowing the presence of the case 6, the vehicle stops at the front of the refueling machine case 5 and the service case 6 to enter the gas station and receive the fuel.

When a refueling staff removes the refueling nozzle 7 from the nozzle hook 12 formed on the refueling machine case 5 for refueling, the nozzle switch SW is turned on in conjunction therewith, and the refueling motor 10 is rotated by the ON signal. Starts, and the refueling pump turns to be in a refuelable state. At the same time, this ON signal is also output to the towel release mechanism 23, whereby a cool towel is discharged from the release mechanism 23 to the outlet 17 in summer. Therefore, a refueling station worker takes out the towel from the exit 17 and hands it to the refueling customer, or the driver takes out the towel by reaching out of the window.

As described above, the operation of starting the refueling automatically provides the towel as a service product in conjunction with the operation.

In the case where the addition of a towel is desired due to the presence of a passenger or the like, if the additional release button switch 20 is pressed, the towel release mechanism 23 is activated and the towel is discharged to the outlet 17.

Then, if the fueling nozzle 7 is inserted into the fueling port of the automobile and the nozzle valve is opened to perform fueling, the flow rate is output to the counting circuit 24 as a pulse signal by the flow rate pulse transmitter 11, where the fueling amount is counted and the fueling amount is counted. The refueling amount is displayed on the display 9.
The counting circuit 24 starts counting when an ON signal is output from the nozzle switch SW.

The value of the refueling amount counted by the counting circuit 24 is 10 or more and 20
If the output is less than this, the output from here activates the candy discharging mechanism 25, and the candy is discharged to the outlet 18 as a service item and delivered to the refueling customer.

Also, the value of the refueling amount counted by the counting circuit 24 is 20
In the above case, this count signal is output to the AND circuit 26, and when a selection signal is output to the AND circuit 26 from the selection button switch 16 for selecting the type of juice, the output of the AND circuit 26 causes The discharge mechanism 27 operates to discharge the juice can into the outlet 19, which is delivered to the refueling customer as a service product.

Note that juice can be purchased for a fee regardless of the presence or absence of refueling or the value of refueling amount.In this case, insert a predetermined amount of coins into the coin slot 21 and press the selection button switch 16. For example, signals from both of these enter the AND circuit 28, and the output from the AND circuit 28 activates the juice discharging mechanism 27 to discharge the juice can into the outlet 19.

As described above, the towel is provided as a service product to all refueling customers at the start of refueling, and candies, juices, and the like are given as prizes according to the amount of refueling. The release of these service goods and prizes is automatically performed at the refueling site by a service case arranged close to the refueling machine case, and all in conjunction with the refueling operation.

When the refueling is completed, the refueling nozzle 7 is pulled out from the refueling port and returned to the nozzle hook 12, and in conjunction with this, an off signal is output from the nozzle switch SW, the refueling motor 10 stops, and the refueling pump stops. Is completed.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, in the refueling apparatus of the present invention, the towel is released as a service product to all refueling customers free of charge in conjunction with the operation of refueling start, and a prize such as a beverage can or a candy can be refueled. Since the service is automatically provided to some extent, a detailed service suitable for the refueling amount can be reliably provided to all refueling customers, and fixed customers can be obtained.

Also, the refueling staff can be saved, and the refueling customer can receive the service near the refueling point, which is convenient.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a fueling station provided with a fueling device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a fueling device of the present invention,
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the embodiment. 1 ... site 2 ... canopy 3 ... building 4 ... island 5 ... refueling machine case 6 ... service case 7 ... refueling nozzle 8 ... refueling hose 9 ... indicator 10 ... Refueling motor 11… Flow pulse transmitter, 12… Nozzle mount 13… Display unit, 14,15 …… Display 16… Selection button switch, 17,18,19… Extraction outlet 20 …… Additional release button switch , 21 ... Coin slot 22 ... Return slot, 23 ... Towel release mechanism 24 ... Counter circuit, 25 ... Candy release mechanism 26 ... And circuit, 27 ... Juice release mechanism 28 ... And Circuit, 29 Indicator 29a Indicator, A, Oiling device

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A towel release mechanism as a service product operated by an ON signal from a nozzle switch when a refueling nozzle is detached from a nozzle hook at the start of refueling, and when a refueling amount is more than a minimum amount and less than a certain amount. A first prize discharging mechanism that operates and a second prize mechanism that operates when the refueling amount is equal to or more than a certain amount.
A refueling device, characterized in that a service case having a prize discharging mechanism is provided to a refueling machine case.