CAR WASHING DEVICE

• Main Authors: MATSUMURA YOSHIRO, AOKI TETSUO, DENDA TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 30.11.2017
• Subjects: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SERVICING, CLEANING, REPAIRING, SUPPORTING, LIFTING, ORMANOEUVRING OF VEHICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car washing device capable of surely recognizing a self traveling state of an own car at moving backward time or second or succeeding moving forward time during car washing, without performing wasteful free running.SOLUTION: A car washing device performs, during first moving forward time of a body frame, steps for: continuously detecting travel positions of a body frame by a travel encoder, while determining a start position SP where the a first vehicle body sensor 10 detects a vehicle body and a second vehicle body sensor 11 does not detect the vehicle body; determining a travel position P2 where the second vehicle body sensor 11 comes to detect the vehicle body; determining a travel position P3 where the first vehicle body sensor 10 comes to no longer detect the vehicle body; determining an end position EP where the body frame comes to complete moving forward; calculating and storing a travel distance c between the start position SP and the travel position P2, a travel distance d between the travel position P2 and the travel position P3, a travel distance e between the travel position P3 and the end position EP. Then, the car washing device determines, during moving backward time or second or succeeding moving forward time of the body frame 1, that a vehicle is in a self-traveling state when the respective travel distances actually measured by the travel encoder are different from the respective travel distances recorded at the first moving forward time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】無駄な空走を行わず、洗車中の復行時もしくは２回目以降の往行時に自動車の自走を確実に認識することができる洗車装置を提供する。【解決手段】本体フレームの最初の往行時に、第１車体センサ１０で車体検出・第２車体センサ１１で車体非検出の状態を開始位置ＳＰとして走行エンコーダで本体フレームの走行位置を検出していき、第２車体センサ１１で車体を検出した走行位置Ｐ２と、第１車体センサ１０で車体が非検出に転じた走行位置Ｐ３と、本体フレームが往行を終了する停止位置ＥＰとを検出し、開始位置ＳＰから走行位置Ｐ２までの走行距離ｃと、走行位置Ｐ２から走行位置Ｐ３までの走行距離ｄと、走行位置Ｐ３から停止位置ＥＰまでの走行距離ｅを算出して記憶し、本体フレーム１の復行時もしくは２回目以降の往行時に、走行エンコーダで実測される各走行距離が最初の往行時に記憶した各走行距離と異なるとき自動車の自走を判断する。【選択図】図４