JPH08188128A - Washing device of vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To expand a washing area in combining both rotary and rectilinear motions together by converting the rotary motion of an electric motor into the rectilinear motion, and changing this rectilinear motion into the rotary motion as a washing means. CONSTITUTION: Rotary motion in a driving shaft 11 of a motor 1 as a first converting means is converted into rectilinear motion in a link 3. This rectilinear motion in the link 3 is converted into the rotary motion of sponge 6 as a second converting means. Then, this sponge 6 is made possible to perform the rectilinear motion as long as a size portion of a long hole 41. For example, when a car roof is waxed, this sponge 6 reciprocates rectilinearly from an end of the roof to the central part even if a user will not expend his own hands as riding over the his car, and it is rotates simultaneously as varying its own position, whereby waxing is thus efficiently performed. Therefore, the user can conduct this waxing coting for a half side of the roof only by moving along the sidepiece of the car.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cleaning device for vehicles such as automobiles, and more particularly to a small handy type cleaning device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional handy type automobile cleaning device or waxing device is one in which a single or a plurality of cleaning brushes or a wiping sponge only rotates around a single rotation axis with respect to the main body of the device, Some brushes and sponges rotate themselves and revolve around the outer periphery of the main body like a planetary gear mechanism.

[0003]

By the way, when the user actually cleans the car, the brush is only driven to rotate when cleaning the roof surface, so that the brush or the like is hard to reach the center of the bonnet or the roof. There is a problem that various cleaning cannot be performed.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems in the prior art, and an object thereof is to enlarge a cleaning area by mixing a rotary motion and a linear motion.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a rotating disc connected to an electric motor as a first converting means for converting a rotational movement of the electric motor into a linear movement, and a rotating disc connected to a rotating shaft of the electric motor. Link means, one end of which is rotatably supported on the outer peripheral portion of the disc and the other end of which is connected to a rotary drive shaft of a second converting means, which will be described later, and guide means for smoothing linear movement of the link means. Gear means that is connected to the first converting means and that rotates integrally with the rotary drive shaft as second converting means that converts linear motion into rotational motion, and the link means that meshes with the gear means. Rack means for rotating the rotary drive shaft in accordance with the linear movement of the second conversion means, and cleaning means connected to the rotary drive shaft of the second converting means for rotary drive.

[0006]

In the above construction, the rotation of the electric motor causes the link means to move linearly via the guide means, and the linear movement causes the cleaning means to be rotationally driven by the gear means and rack means.

Therefore, the cleaning means changes its position linearly while rotating itself.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a waxing machine will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2 are a front sectional view and an external perspective view of a drive mechanism component, wherein 1 is a motor, 2 is a disk rotatably connected to a rotary drive shaft 11 of the motor 1, and 3 is a disk. A link whose one end is connected to the outer peripheral portion of the disk through a fixing pin 31, 32 is a shaft connected to the other end of the link 3, and 4 is a guide plate having a long hole 41 into which the shaft 32 is loosely fitted. And the motor 1
The first conversion means for converting the rotational motion of the drive shaft 11 into the linear motion of the link 3 is configured.

Next, as shown in FIG. 3, a gear 5 having a bearing 51 is fitted to the upper portion of the shaft 32, and a sponge 6 for waxing is fitted to the lower end of the shaft 32.
Is rotatably connected by the rotation of.

A rack 7 meshes with the gear 5,
The linear movement of the shaft 32 by the link 3 is performed by the shaft 32.
It has the function of converting into rotational motion.

Each of these parts constitutes second converting means for converting the linear motion of the link 3 into the rotary motion of the sponge 6.

With the above-mentioned structure, the sponge 6 has the long hole 4
It becomes possible to perform a linear motion for the length dimension of 1.

When waxing the roof of a car, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, the sponge 6 is straight from the edge of the roof to the central portion without the user having to reach for the car and reach for it. It reciprocates to and rotates simultaneously while changing the position, and waxing is efficiently performed.

Therefore, the user can wax the half surface of the roof simply by moving the location along the side of the vehicle.

If the length of the long hole 41 is large and the link 3 having a length corresponding to this is used, the entire surface of the roof can be moved by the user only by moving one side of the vehicle. .

In this case, since the link 3 cannot be housed in the main body case 8 provided with the handle 81, it is necessary to connect the link 3 to the shaft 32 so as to be located outside the main body case 8 as shown in FIG.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the cleaning means is configured not only to rotate itself but also to move linearly. Therefore, the variation of the posture of the user and the movement of the position can be minimized and the vehicle can be efficiently used. Can be washed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front sectional view showing an embodiment of a mechanical portion of a cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view showing an embodiment of the mechanical portion of the cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an external perspective view of the vicinity of a cleaning unit.

FIG. 4 is an external perspective view for explaining a use state.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a front main part showing another embodiment of the mechanism part.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Electric Motor 2 Disc 3 Link 4 Guide Plate 5 Gear 6 Cleaning Means 7 Rack

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A first conversion means connected to an electric motor for converting a rotational movement of the electric motor into a linear movement, and a second conversion means connected to the first conversion means for converting a linear movement into a rotational movement. And a cleaning unit that is connected to the rotary drive shaft of the second conversion unit to drive the rotation thereof. 2. The first converting means includes a rotary disc connected to a rotary shaft of the electric motor, one end of which is rotatably supported by an outer peripheral portion of the disc and the other end of which is the second disc. 4. The linking means connected to the rotary drive shaft of the converting means, and the guide means for smoothing the linear movement of the linking means.
The vehicle cleaning device described. 3. The second converting means includes gear means that rotates integrally with the rotary drive shaft, and rack means that meshes with the gear means and rotates the rotary drive shaft with linear movement of the link means. The vehicle cleaning device according to claim 2, further comprising: