JPH0948330A - Car washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To resolve the setting mistake of car washing conditions by a driver, prevent the damage of a vehicle to be washed, facilitate setting, and quickly wash the vehicle by inserting a medium into an input device, and setting the washing conditions when the vehicle to be washed advances to the front of an operating device. SOLUTION: When a car washing machine is used, a vehicle 3 to be washed is advanced to the front of an operation box 20 constituting an operating device 18, and a card indicating the car washing course, vehicle type, and accessories is inserted into the code reader (input device) of the operation box 20. When it is confirmed by an on-vehicle limit switch 15 and a control device 16 that a preceding washed vehicle 3 is not left on the front conveyor 14 a of a roller conveyor (conveying device) 4a, a shutting body 25 is rotated and retreated, and the vehicle 3 to be washed rides onto the front conveyor 14a. The roller conveyor 4a is driven to convey the vehicle 3, and the vehicle 3 is washed in a car washing machine main body 2 provided with various brushes 6-10 and a nozzle 12 inside.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a car washing machine for washing a vehicle to be washed while being carried by a carrying device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a car washing machine of this type, for example, FIG.
There is one shown in 10. That is, the stationary car washer body 72 and the vehicle to be washed 73 are placed on the floor 71 from the front.
A roller conveyer 74 is provided to carry the vehicle inside and to carry it backward from inside the car wash machine main body 72. A plurality of rotating brushes 75 for cleaning are provided in the car wash machine body 72. In front of the roller conveyor 74, a car wash course, car type,
An operation box 77 through which a car wash condition of the equipment can be set from the outside by operating a setting button 76 is provided via a support leg 78.

[0003] According to this, the driver stops the vehicle 73 to be cleaned in front of the operation box 77, and operates the setting button 76 to select a desired car wash course, vehicle type, and accessories. Thereafter, the vehicle 73 to be cleaned is driven to enter the start end of the roller conveyor 74 and is stopped. When the roller conveyor 74 is driven, the vehicle 73 to be washed is washed in the car washer body 72 while being conveyed. After washing, the vehicle 73 to be washed is carried out to the floor 71 from the end of the roller conveyor 74.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional type, when the driver operates the setting button 76 to set the car washing conditions, if the setting of the vehicle type and the accessories is wrong, the rotating brush 75 is used. The cleaning vehicle 73 could be damaged. For example, although the vehicle to be cleaned 73 equipped with a carrier as an accessory, if the existence of the carrier is not set, the carrier may be damaged.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a car washer capable of avoiding a setting error caused by a setting button.

[0006]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention according to claim 1 of the present invention provides
A stationary car washer body and a carrier for loading the vehicle to be washed into the car wash body from the front and unloading from the car wash body to the rear are provided, and in front of the carrier, a medium for which car wash conditions are set. Is provided with an input device for inputting the car wash conditions.

With the above arrangement, the driver of the vehicle to be cleaned advances the vehicle to be cleaned to the front of the input device. afterwards,
The driver inputs and sets the car wash condition set in the medium by the input device, runs the vehicle to be washed, and gets into the starting end portion of the transport device. After that, the transport device is driven,
The vehicle to be cleaned is washed in the car wash machine body while being transported.

A car wash machine according to a second aspect of the present invention is the car wash machine according to the first aspect, characterized in that the vehicle type and accessories of the vehicle to be washed are shown on the surface of the medium. . According to the above configuration, since the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle to be washed are shown on the surface of the medium, the driver can confirm whether the medium matches the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle to be washed. It is possible to reduce the mistake of setting the car wash condition due to the wrong medium.

Further, a car washing machine according to a third aspect of the present invention is the car washing machine according to the first or second aspect, wherein the vehicle to be washed is provided with an access path to the transportation device between the transportation device and the input device. A blocking body that can freely move in and out is provided, and the blocking body is configured to open the entry route on condition that the car wash condition is set by the input device.

According to the above construction, the blocking body opens the approach route when the car wash condition is set by the input device. Therefore, the vehicle to be washed is prevented from entering the transport device without setting the car wash condition.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG.
Is a stationary car wash machine body 2 formed in a front view gate shape.
And a pair of left and right roller conveyors 4a, 4 which penetrate the inside of the car wash main body 2 to carry the vehicle 3 to be washed into the car wash main body 2 from the front and to carry it out from the car wash main body 2 to the rear.
b (an example of a transfer device).

Inside the car washer body 2, a top brush 6, a side brush 7, and a rocker brush 8 for cleaning the vehicle 3 to be cleaned, a top brush 9 and a rocker brush 10 for applying wax, and a drying brush Top nozzle
11 and a side nozzle 12 are provided. A sonic sensor 13 that detects the height of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned is provided on the front surface of the car wash machine body 2.

The one roller conveyor 4a supports and conveys the front and rear wheels on one side of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned, and the other roller conveyor 4b supports the front and rear wheels on the other side of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned. It supports and transports the wheels. The width of one roller conveyor 4a is narrow, and the width of the other roller conveyor 4b is wide so as to accommodate various vehicle widths. In addition, these roller conveyors 4a, 4
b is divided into three parts, and an in-vehicle limit switch 15 for detecting entry of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned is provided on the front conveyor 14a.
Is provided.

An entry path 17 for the vehicle 3 to be cleaned is formed in front of the roller conveyors 4a and 4b.
An operation device 18 is installed on one side (right side). As shown in FIG. 5, the operating device 18 is composed of a quadrangular prism type supporting leg 19 fixed to the floor surface 1 and an operating box 20 provided at the upper end of the supporting leg 19. The operation surface 20A of the operation box 20 faces the approach path 17 from one side of the vehicle entry direction, and the operation surface 20A has a code reader 21 (input) for reading a code of a card (an example of a medium) described later. An example of a device), a car wash course, a car type, a setting button 22 for setting car wash conditions of equipment, a coin insertion hole 23, a member card insertion port 24, and the like are provided.

At the front ends of the roller conveyors 4a and 4b, one side (right side) of the approach path 17 is provided with a blocking body 25 which can freely move in and out of the approach path 17. That is, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the blocking body 25 has a rectangular flat plate shape when viewed from the front, a message “please wait” is displayed, and one side of the blocking body 25 is attached to the spindle 26. Has been. The support shaft 26 includes a pair of upper and lower pillow type units 27.
It is attached to a frame 29 erected on the floor 1 so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis 28 via.

Further, the frame 29 is provided with an air cylinder device 30 which is an example of a drive device for moving the blocking body 25 in and out. The piston rod 31 of this air cylinder device 30
The tip of is connected to the lower part of the support shaft 26 via a joint 32. As shown in FIG. 8, the main body 33 of the air cylinder device 30 contains a compression coil spring 34 for urging the piston rod 31 in the extension direction. As a result, the interrupting body 25 is urged by the compression coil spring 34 so that
It is urged to rotate in a projecting direction with respect to the transport path 17 around 28. In addition, in the body 33 of the air cylinder device 30,
An air pipe 36 communicating with the working chamber 35 on the piston rod 31 side is connected. The main body 33, the piston rod 31, and the piston 37 that form the air cylinder device 30 are a retracting device.
As shown in FIG. 9, as shown in FIG. 9, compressed air is supplied to the working chamber 35 through the air pipe 36 to generate the compression coil spring 34.
By shortening the piston rod 31 against the biasing force of, the blocking body 25 is retracted and rotated from the transport direction to one side.

An example of the above card is shown in FIG. Card 41
Shows the car type and equipment of the vehicle to be washed 3 designed and illustrated, the car wash course is clearly indicated, and the bar code 43 encoding the car wash course and the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle to be washed 3, that is, the car wash condition. Are printed and formed.
This card 41 is created for each car wash condition. The card 41 shown in FIG. 1 has a passenger car as the vehicle to be cleaned 3 and a carrier 42 as the equipment, and when the washing course is selected,
It is a card selected by a clerk, a passenger car with a carrier is illustrated, and it is clearly indicated that the car wash course is a water wash course.As an example of encoded data, the car wash course is a water wash course, and the vehicle type is a passenger car, Barcode encoded information with equipment 42 carrier
43 is printed. The card 41 is handed to the driver by a staff member, the driver inputs it to the code reader 21 of the operation device 18, and the bar code 43 is read, whereby the car wash condition is set.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the car wash main body 2 is
Is provided with a controller 16 for controlling the brushes 6 to 10, the nozzles 11 and 12, and the roller conveyors 4a and 4b. The sonic sensor 13, the vehicle-mounted limit switch 15, and the operation box 20 are provided.
The air cylinder device 30 and the air cylinder device 30 are connected to the control device 16, respectively.

The operation of the above structure will be described below with reference to FIG. The approach route 17 is assumed to be blocked by the blocking body 25. First, the driver of the vehicle 3 to be washed selects and transmits the desired car wash course to the staff, and the staff visually recognizes the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle 3 to be washed, and clearly indicates the car wash course, vehicle type, and equipment. The selected card 41 is selected and given to the driver of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned.

The driver who receives the card 41 advances the vehicle to be cleaned 3 to the front of the operation box 20, and then the driver inputs the card 41 into the code reader 21 from the driver's seat of the vehicle to be cleaned 3. The car wash condition is set by paying the amount corresponding to the car wash course by inserting a coin into the coin insertion hole 23 or inserting a membership card into the membership card insertion slot 24.

The control device 16 includes a code reader 21 for the operation box 20.
Enter the car wash conditions and confirm that the amount equivalent to the car wash course has been paid.
It is confirmed whether the preceding vehicle to be cleaned 3 is parked on the front conveyors 14a and 14b. If the preceding vehicle to be cleaned 3 is not parked, the air pipe 36 is connected to the working chamber 35 of the air cylinder device 30. Compressed air is supplied through the compression coil spring 34.
By shortening the piston rod 31 against the biasing force of, the blocking body 25 is retracted and rotated from the transport direction to one side.

By retracting the shut-off body 25, the driver of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned runs the vehicle 3 to be cleaned and the front conveyor 36a,
Get on 36b. The control device 16 controls the front conveyors 14a and 14b by means of the vehicle-mounted limit switch 14 so that the vehicle 3
When it is confirmed that the shut-off body 25 has stopped, the compressed air in the working chamber 35 of the air cylinder device 30 is evacuated so that the shut-off body 25 can enter the access path 17
The vehicle 3 to be washed is prevented from entering, and then the conveyors 4a and 4b are driven to convey the vehicle 3 to be washed and wash the inside of the car wash machine body 2.

In this way, the clerk hears the desired car wash course from the driver, confirms the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle 3 to be washed, selects the corresponding card 41 and hands it to the driver. By setting the car wash conditions with the card 41,
It is possible to eliminate the driver's mistake in setting car wash conditions,
It is possible to prevent the vehicle 3 to be cleaned from being damaged due to a setting error. In addition, since the vehicle type and accessories of the vehicle 3 to be cleaned are shown on the surface of the card 41, the driver can
It is possible to check whether or not is the same as the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle to be washed 3, and it is possible to reduce the mistake of setting the car washing condition by the wrong card 41. Further, the driver does not need to set the car wash condition with the setting button 22 of the operation box 20 as in the conventional case, so that the driver does not have to spend time on the setting and the car wash tact can be speeded up.

In the above embodiment, the pair of left and right roller conveyors 4a and 4b are provided as an example of the conveying device.
For this, one roller conveyor wider than the vehicle width of the vehicle to be cleaned 3 may be used, or a belt conveyor or a chain conveyor may be used.

Further, the car wash condition is set by using the bar code 43. Instead of the card 41 of this system, data (car wash condition) transmission / reception by magnetic coupling, data transmission / reception by optical communication, and data by microwave are used. It is also possible to use a magnetic card, an IC card, an ID tag, or the like that enables a transmission / reception system. At this time, it goes without saying that input devices corresponding to these methods are installed in the operation box 20.

[0026]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the driver of the vehicle to be cleaned advances the vehicle to be cleaned to the front of the operating device and inputs the medium into the input device to set the car wash condition. By doing so, it is possible to eliminate the driver's mistake in setting the car wash conditions, and to prevent the vehicle to be washed from being damaged due to the mistake. In addition, the driver does not need to set the car wash condition with the setting button as in the conventional case, so that the setting is not troublesome and the car wash tact can be speeded up.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the vehicle type of the vehicle to be washed and the equipment are shown on the surface of the medium, so that the driver can see that the medium is the vehicle type of the vehicle to be washed,
It is possible to confirm that the equipment matches the equipment, and it is possible to reduce mistakes in setting car wash conditions due to an incorrect medium.

Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, when the car wash condition is input to the interrupting body by the input device, the entrance route is opened to prevent the car wash condition from being set on the carrier device without setting the car wash condition. It is possible to prevent the vehicle from entering.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a card input to a code reader of a car wash machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the car washer.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway side view showing the configuration of the car washer.

FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway plan view showing the configuration of the car washer.

FIG. 5 is a front view of an operating device of the car wash machine.

FIG. 6 is a front view of a blocker of the car wash machine.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a blocking body of the car wash machine.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing an internal structure of a drive device for a blocking body of the car wash machine.

FIG. 9 is a plan view for explaining the operation of the blocking body of the car wash machine.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a configuration of a car wash machine in a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 floor surface 2 car wash machine body 3 vehicle to be cleaned 4a, 4b roller conveyor (transport device) 16 control device 18 operation device 20 operation box 21 code reader (input device) 25 interrupter 30 air cylinder device 41 card (medium) 42 carrier 43 Bar Code (Code)

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A floor-mounted car wash main body, and a transfer device for loading a vehicle to be washed into the car wash main body from the front and unloading the car wash body rearward from the front of the transfer device. A car wash machine characterized in that an input device for inputting the car wash condition from a medium in which the car wash condition is set is provided. 2. The car wash machine according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle type and equipment of the vehicle to be cleaned are shown on the surface of the medium. 3. The car wash machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a blocking body is provided between the carrier device and the input device, the interrupter body being capable of freely moving in and out of an entry path of the vehicle to be cleaned into the carrier device. This interrupting body is characterized in that the entry route is opened on condition that a car wash condition is set by an input device.