JPS6198659A - Car washer system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the management manpower by containing a hot water unit, a pump unit and control unit in single body then controlling centrally to provide output to plural terminals thereby performing central maintenance, management, etc. CONSTITUTION:The body 1 is comprised of a hot water unit 9, a pump 12 and a control unit 13. The control unit 13 will control power supply to respective section in accordance to an incorporated program while connected through a pair of signal lines with respective terminal unit in secondary circuit to perform time shared transmission/reception of signal thus to start car wash operation on the basis of car wash instruction at the terminal. The hot water unit 9 is comprised of water storage section forming water tanks 14, 15, 16 and heating means having boilers 10, 11. The pump 12 is coupled through solenoid valves 25, 26 to the water tanks 14, 16 to suck the liquid from a water feed path 27 to be opened/closed selectively through the solenoid valves 25, 26 and to pressure feed the detergent to a nozzle unit 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an 11-type car wash station system in which a customer arbitrarily operates a car wash machine that sprays high-pressure water to wash the car.

This type of self-service car wash has been developed in recent years to accommodate drivers who do not have the space to wash their cars at home, and is gaining popularity. Because it is a configuration where only 410 independent well-known water spray acid car washes are arranged, it is necessary to replenish consumables such as detergent and maintain and inspect the mechanical parts for each car, making it a management task! Not only is it difficult, but it also requires a space to install and hold 1ttFt for one tlt in each space, and it requires a large space per compartment. .

This invention was made in response to the above-mentioned problems, and will be explained in detail below based on the embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of this system, and FIG. 2 is an external view of an embodiment of this system.

1 is a main unit; 2 is the main unit, a water supply pipe 3, and an electric wire 4;
A plurality of terminal devices 2 are appropriately arranged according to the capabilities of the main body device 1. The terminal device 2 is provided with a nozzle unit 6 which is connected to the water pipe 3 and has a car wash/zzle 5 at its tip, and a terminal unit '7 which is connected to the electric wire 4 and sends and receives car wash signals.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of the main device 1, where ; ; is the exterior body of the main device 1, 5 is the soil hot water unit, 12 is the pump, and 1:) is the control unit. ,
The interior is divided into 1:, 114, 15, 16
1. Hot water tanks 14 and 16 receive water from a water supply pipe 19 via ball taps 17 and 18, respectively. Water for rinsing, detergent liquid is stored in the water tank 15, and an aqueous solution of the detergent liquid in the water tank 15 is stored in the water tank 161. The detergent solution in this water tank 16 is transferred to the water supply side.
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4 through a circulation pipe 21 equipped with a pump 22,
The water in the water tank is strongly circulated into the boiler and heated to an appropriate level of humidity 9. The boiler 11 is connected via a circulation pipe 23 equipped with a pump 24 in the same way as the water tank 16 described in 1, and circulates. A suitable number of pumps 1 and 12 for heating the detergent solution to an appropriate temperature are provided depending on the number of terminal devices 2 to be connected, and the water tanks 14 and 16 are connected to the electromagnetic valves 2 and 12, respectively.
5 and 26, and sucks liquid from a water supply channel 27 that is selectively opened and closed by the electromagnetic valves 25 and 26, and pressure-feeds rinsing water or detergent water to the terminal nozzle unit 6. The control unit 13 controls the energization of each section listed in 1-1 according to the inner frame program, and is connected to each of the terminal units 2 through a pair of signal lines 28 in its secondary circuit, and transmits and receives signals by time-division multiplexing. Then, the washing operation is started by the washing instruction from the terminal. The control unit 6 is also equipped with a data input/output device consisting of a display device, a printer, and a keyboard, and a memory device for storing input data and execution data. You can manage the settings, cleaning meeting Fi data, human output, setting of operation details during cleaning, maintenance operations, etc. 29 connects the circulation pipe 21 and water supply channel 27 described in Contact Freeze Protection 11-
When the control unit detects in winter that the temperature has reached a certain level or below that requires anti-freeze measures by a temperature sensor (not shown) built in a suitable place in the bypass pipeline, the circulation pump 22 is activated. When S-7(~), the electromagnetic valve 25.;)0 is opened and the water in the water tank 14 is discharged from the nozzle unit 6 through the bypass pipe.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged explanatory diagram of the terminal device 2. As shown in FIG. The nozzle unit 6 includes a stand 31 of an appropriate height and the stand 11.
The id ball: A2 supported by the rotation El, and the corresponding
It consists of a flexible hose 3 extending from the tip of the idle ball (2) and a cleaning nozzle (1 m long) at the tip of the hose 33.
2, the hose 7 (3) is supported at a high position, and the idle ball 32 rotates to follow the movement of the nozzle 5, and the hose (7) is placed on the ground 1-. It is configured so that the nozzle can be easily moved by keeping it to a minimum.In addition, the nozzle during washing has an I/O function to start and stop water spraying.
・A hand switch that can be switched arbitrarily is provided, and the signal for operating the switch is the hose 7 (;)
The terminal unit 7 sends the second signal onto the electric wire 4 to the control unit 1: (, which starts the energization operation of the pump 12 corresponding to that terminal. The terminal unit 7 is on a stand:
Raise the unit body 35 to an appropriate height according to dimension 4,
It is configured to be easy to repeat and to prevent splashes from the 1L nozzle 5, and the unit body 35 includes an operation panel 36 for inputting instructions and a display panel 37 for displaying the washing work to be executed and the progress process. We are prepared.

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the transmission and reception of electrical signals in each part.
The solid line part shows the power supply voltage circuit on the primary side, and the broken line part shows the control voltage circuit on the secondary side.

40 is a main board having a C PtJ built in the control unit 13, and 41 is a control signal from the main board to control the electric equipment 4 such as the pump, boiler, solenoid valve, etc.
2 and the terminal device 2. Therefore, all terminals and electric parts can be centrally controlled by using this control unit 13, and efficient operation can be achieved, for example, by having a built-in timer and automatically shutting down when the market is not in use, such as at night, to save energy. can. Reference numeral 43 denotes a group of sensors provided in each part of the main unit 1, and each of the water tanks 14 and
It consists of a water level sensor, a water temperature sensor, and an air temperature sensor that detects the safety of Freeze Protection +1 installed in 15 and 16.

The main device 1 and the terminal device 2 are connected by an electric wire 4 consisting of a power supply line and a signal line 45, respectively, as shown in the figure (E).In particular, this signal line 44 is used for time division multiplexed signal transmission Using Type 11, open signals are sent and received between the main unit and the number of terminals using a pair of wires.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart showing the operation of this example, and the operation will be explained below based on this figure.

(1) In the power-on state, the control unit 11 (hereinafter referred to as 1) reads the detection signal from the sensor Ji74: (1f) and adjusts the cleaning water tl:, 1! If the car cannot be washed, boilers 1(), 11, circulation pumps 22, 24
It operates by energizing the cap to put it in the washable state/recovery, and also outputs a signal 1 for each terminal 2-\wash request receiving/1 prohibited city.
In response to this, the -1 terminal 2 stops the car wash reception on the operation panel 36, and displays a lamp or outputs an alarm on the display 7 to announce the stop of the car wash 1-.

(At 21 m, wash Q [1! is rejected, a signal is output to terminal 2 to receive a car wash request, 10 is output 17, and terminal 2 waits for a car wash input. 1 (3) Wash qL at terminal 2 If there is an input signal, one of the solenoid valves 25 and 26 will be opened in response to the instruction of the input signal, and the washing will be on standby. switch 3
When 8 is turned on, the pump 12 corresponding to that terminal is energized and watering starts.

1 (4) During water sprinkling, when the hand switch 38 is pressed 011, the pump 12 is stopped and the water sprinkling is temporarily stopped. This stop +l state is canceled by turning on the switch 28 again and watering is resumed, but if this stop 1'' state or the watering period exceeds a certain period of time, the water stop will be stopped at that terminal. After outputting an alarm to notify that the time limit has elapsed, the system automatically cancels the Stop 1 state and restarts watering, in order to improve efficiency so that specific people do not occupy the car wash area for an unnecessarily long time. .

(5) During water sprinkling, it is constantly detected whether the water sprinkling time has reached a predetermined time, and when the water sprinkling time has reached the predetermined time, the water sprinkling is stopped +I- to complete the car washing operation and return.

The present invention is constructed as follows, and the hot water unit, pump unit, and control unit are each housed in one main unit, and in order to perform centralized control and output the wash 1 to each of a plurality of terminals, The management of consumables such as detergent, the management of water piping and electrical wiring, maintenance, etc. are all done in one place, making it possible to significantly reduce the management effort compared to the older brother, the Jumei Washing Center mentioned in M.

In addition, since the terminal only needs to be provided with a terminal unit for IIL input and a nozzle unit, the installation area occupied by the terminal unit is not an obstacle, and a significant space saving can be achieved compared to the conventional method.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the configuration of a system according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the external appearance of an embodiment system! (The figure is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of the main unit of the embodiment. Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram of the external appearance of the terminal device of the embodiment. Figure 5 is an explanatory diagram showing the transmission and reception of electrical signals of the embodiment.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A main unit that includes at least a hot water unit that heats and stores cleaning water, a pump unit that pumps the cleaning water, a control unit that electrically controls each part, a nozzle unit that sprays the cleaning water that is pumped from the pump unit, and an operation that is provided. A plurality of terminal devices including at least a terminal unit that outputs a car wash command to the control unit in response to an input on the panel are provided, and the main device is operated in response to the operation input on the terminal unit to obtain spraying of high-pressure water from the nozzle unit. A car wash system characterized by: