JP2955240B2 - Simple body maintenance facility - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a simple vehicle body maintenance facility capable of efficiently repairing relatively small damage to a vehicle body at low cost.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional body maintenance facility for repairing damage to a vehicle body has a large maintenance space so that any repair can be performed regardless of the size of the damage.
In addition, expensive large-scale equipment has been deployed in the factory.

[0003]

However, even relatively minor repairs such as line scratches, dents, bumper scratches, etc., are performed at the large-scale maintenance facility, so the maintenance cost is naturally high. . Also, if a certain process is delayed for repairing a severely damaged vehicle, the delivery between processes will not be performed smoothly despite the repair of minor damage, so the waiting time for the next process will be shortened. There was also a problem that the repair took a long time, such as becoming longer.

The present invention is mainly intended for repairing minor damage to a vehicle body. The repair can be efficiently performed in a short time, and the cost can be reduced at a low cost by arranging simple equipment in a narrow maintenance space as much as possible. The purpose is to provide a simple body maintenance facility that can be repaired.

[0005]

The present invention employs the following means to solve the above-mentioned problems. That is, a simple vehicle body maintenance facility according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as a vehicle body maintenance facility) is provided with a first room and a second room at predetermined intervals in the front and rear of a building, and a left and right side of the first room. Along the sides and back,
Forming a continuous U-shaped bent work passage for body maintenance consisting of a side passage along the right side surface, a side passage along the left side surface, and a rear passage along the rear surface,
Each of the preparatory working spaces provided to the left and right of the second chamber is connected to the rear passage so that the side passages and the preparatory working space on the same side on the left and right are linearly connected via the rear passage. None, and one ends of the left and right side passages, which are both ends of the U-shape of the work passage, are opened for entry and exit of the vehicle. In addition, a guide rail is provided on the bottom surface of the rear passage in the extension direction thereof, and a support base for mounting front, rear, left and right tires of the vehicle is provided on the guide rail so as to be movable along the guide rail. A structure in which a vehicle moved to both ends of the rear passage can move to a required side passage or a spare working space, or a vehicle can be mounted on the support from the required side passage or the spare working space. In the rear passage, a working chamber for performing a painting process is formed, which is closed in the circumferential direction and is closed up and down by using the rear surface of the first chamber and the front surface of the second chamber as front and rear wall surfaces. . Walls located at both ends in the rear passage extending direction of the work vacant chamber can be opened and closed, so that a vehicle supported by the support base can enter and exit the work vacant chamber through the opened wall. It is assumed that.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2, a vehicle body maintenance facility 1 according to the present invention has a first room 3 and a second room 5 provided before and after in a building 2, and both side surfaces 6, 7 and a rear surface of the first room 3. 9, a work passage 10 for vehicle body maintenance, which is bent in a continuous U-shape, is formed. The U-shaped work passage 10 extends along one side surface 6 of the first chamber 3 and has an introduction-side side passage 11 for introducing an automobile to be maintained. A side passage 13 extending along the other side surface 7 and extending along the rear surface 9 of the first chamber 3 for projecting the car after the maintenance is completed, and extending along the rear surface 9 of the first chamber 3 and protruding from an end of the rear surface 9. The both side passages 11, 13
And a rear passage 15 connected to an end of the rear passage. A required work machine (not shown) is arranged in each of these passages, and a required maintenance process is performed. Note that the first room 3 is, for example, an office room and a waiting room, and the second room 5 is, for example, a dining room, and both rooms have the same width (left and right width).

On the bottom of the rear passage 15,
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 and FIGS. 3 and 4, a pair of guide rails 16, 16,
The guide rails 16 are provided at relatively front and rear intervals, and the upper end 16a of the guide rail 16 is flush with the passage bottom surface 14 of the rear passage. Each of the front and rear guide rail sets 17 and 17 supports a support 20 for mounting front and rear and left and right tires 18 of an automobile 19 (FIG. 6) via wheels 21 running on the guide rail 16. It becomes. However, the front, rear, left and right tires of the car that has traveled straight through the side passage 11 on the introduction side are:
As shown in FIG.
The vehicle 19 is supported by the supports 20, 20, 20, 20, and the vehicle 19 can move in the extension direction of the rear passage 15 by the subsequent movement of each support 20.

[0008] Between the first chamber 3 and the second chamber 5, there is formed a working empty chamber 22 for performing a coating process. As shown in FIGS. 1-2 and 5-6, the work vacant room 22 is located slightly below the ceiling 23 (FIG. 6) of the building 2 between the first room 3 and the second room 5. The ceiling part 25 so as to be bridged between
Is provided, and a closed blower chamber 26 is formed between the ceiling 23 and the ceiling 25. The ceiling 25
On the lower surface of the lighting equipment row 2, a required interval in the horizontal direction
7 is provided, and an opening (supply port) 29 is provided in the ceiling except for the lighting fixture row 27, and the opening 29 is covered with a filter 30 made of, for example, glass fiber.

The entire surfaces of both end walls 31, 31 in the rear passage extending direction of the working vacant chamber 22 can be opened and closed by opening and closing members 32, 32. In the present embodiment,
The opening / closing body 32 has a double-opened accordion curtain shape whose one end is fixed to one side portion 35 of the first and second chambers 3 and 5. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 and FIGS. 6 to 8, the floor space 37 of the working vacant space 22 is located on both sides in the extension direction of the rear passage 15 so as to extend substantially the entire length of the working vacant room 22 in the front-rear direction. Rectangular upper end opening (suction port) 3
Exhaust recesses 40, 40 having 9, 39, in parallel,
The floor is dug down. Double exhaust recess 40,
40 is the building 2 at one end side, for example, the rear end side.
Are communicated by a communication passage 41 extended so as to be open to the outdoors.

In addition, air supply fans 43 for taking in air into the blower chamber 26 are provided in the left and right side surfaces 42, 42 of the blower chamber 26 shown in FIGS.
The air taken into the blowing chamber 26 is
The air is discharged into the working space 22 through the filter unit 30 provided in the apparatus 5.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 8, an exhaust duct 45 extending upward is connected to the opening at the outer end of the communication passage 41. The operation of the installed exhaust fan 46 (FIG. 8) causes the
The inside air can be exhausted as shown by arrows in FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 7, the upper end opening 39 of the exhaust recess 40 provided on the floor 37 has a lengthwise direction.
The guide rail 16 is divided into five by four,
Each of the divided recesses 47 can be opened and closed by a slide-type opening / closing tool 49. As shown in FIGS. 9 to 10, the opening / closing tool 49 is fixed so as to cover an upper end opening 47 a of each of the divided recesses 47 at a position near the upper end of the exhaust recess 40.
It comprises a fixed box member 50 having a rectangular box shape with an open upper end, and a plate-shaped movable plate member 52 which is superimposed on the bottom upper surface 51 of the fixed box member 50 and can slide in the left-right direction.

At the front, rear, left and right of the center of the fixed box member 50, four rectangular through holes 53, 53, 53, 53 are formed.
The movable plate member 52 is provided with rectangular through holes 55, 55, 55, 55 which are offset to one side edge thereof and can be matched with the respective through holes 53, 53, 53, 53. Have been. An operation piece 56 made of, for example, a round shaft is provided upright at the center of the upper surface of the movable plate member 52. By moving the operation piece 56 laterally, the movable plate member 52 can be moved in the left-right direction. .

[0014] Then, as shown in FIG.
2 are located on one side of the fixed box member 50 and the respective through holes 55
The exhaust recesses 40 are in communication with the working vacant chamber 22 in a state in which the holes match the through holes 53 of the fixed box member 50. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 12, when the movable plate member 52 is moved to the other side, each through hole 53 of the fixed box member is closed by the movable plate member 52. Note that, in the present embodiment, the upper end of the exhaust recess 40 is shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIGS. 6 and 9 to 10, it is covered with a grating 57, and the operation piece 56 can be moved laterally as shown by an arrow in FIG. 10 in a groove 59 (FIG. 9) of the grating. .

Each opening / closing member 49 can be opened and closed independently. Regardless of the opened state of the opening / closing member 49, the accordion curtain-shaped opening / closing members 32, 32, 3 are provided.
In the state where the working chambers 22 are closed, the air supply fan 43 (FIG. 7) and the air supply fan 43 (FIG. 7) are arranged so that the pressure in the working chamber 22 always becomes a positive pressure.
6 (FIG. 8) is set. The reason why the positive pressure is set as described above is to prevent inflow of dust and dirt into the work space due to air entering from outside the filter unit 30 into the work space 22.

In this embodiment, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, a lifting and reversing device 60 is provided at the center of the floor surface of the work space 22. The lifting and reversing device 60 can be extended upward to lift the automobile on the support base 20 and rotate it 180 degrees,
By contracting in this state, the front, rear, left and right tires are mounted on the support bases 20 again, and FIG. 1 shows only the lower end portion.

In addition, along the length direction of the side passage 11 on the introduction side and the length of the side passage 13 on the outlet side, and along the length direction of the rear passage 15, the lower surface of the ceiling of the building 2 is provided. And a support rail (not shown) for guiding a heater panel (not shown).

Further, preliminary working spaces 66, 66 are provided on both left and right sides of the second chamber 5, and relatively large damage is repaired in the preliminary working spaces 66, 66. Vehicles may enter and exit the preliminary work space 66 through the side passage 11 on the introduction side or the side passage 13 on the exit side, and may be provided at the rear of the building. You may be made to enter and exit through an entrance (not shown).

The car body maintenance is completed while passing through the U-shaped work passage 10 of the car body maintenance facility 1 having the above configuration. Next, the process will be described with reference to FIGS. I do.

A service vehicle 19 having relatively slight damage to the vehicle body such as a line scratch, a dent, a bumper scratch, etc., enters the side passage 11 on the introduction side by advancing forward (a state indicated by a symbol A in FIG. 2). . A normal sheet metal process is performed in the side passage 11. During this process, after peeling off the paint film of the car body with a sander etc., bake the iron plate of the car body and form it by hitting with a hammer,
Thereafter, a step of putting putty on polyester or the like and molding with a sander is included.

After performing this sheet metal process, the automobile 19
Is the inlet side 1 of the rear passage 15 as indicated by the arrow in FIG.
Moved to 5a. At this time, the front, rear, left and right tires are supported by the support bases 20 and 2 supported by the guide rails 16.
0, 20, 20 (the state indicated by reference numeral B in FIG. 2). In this state, a pretreatment step for coating is performed. This pretreatment step includes a step of priming and rusting with a primer or surfacer. The undercoat is dried in a predetermined manner by the heater panel. In addition, the pre-treatment step includes a toning step in which a paint is prepared in accordance with the color of the body of an automobile to perform color matching. This toning process is standardized so that toning can be performed based on past data, so that a required color can be easily toned in a short time, thereby shortening the toning time and reducing the toning cost. be able to.

Thereafter, the automobile 19 is moved with the guide rail 16 as shown by the arrow in FIG. 2, the opening / closing body (accordion curtain) 32 on the exit side is closed, and the opening / closing body (artion curtain) on the entrance side. Shape) 3
2 is introduced into the open working space 22. In this state, the left and right side portions 70, 70 of the automobile are
The exhaust recesses 40, 40 covered by the grating 57
It is located on the upper side (indicated by reference numeral C in FIG. 2 and shown in FIG. 6). Thereafter, the opening / closing body (accordion curtain-shaped) 32 on the entrance side is closed, and the automobile 19 is placed in the closed working empty room 22 (the state shown in FIG. 5). In the work vacant room 22, an overcoating step of spraying the toned resin paint such as acrylic, silicon, or melamine on the undercoated surface is performed.

At the time of this overcoating, the opening / closing tool 49 for the required divided recess 47 is placed on the front portion 71, the intermediate portion 72, the rear portion 73, etc. of the left and right side surfaces of the vehicle body (FIG. 6). Open (the other divided recesses are closed), and the exhaust recess 40 is partially opened. Thereafter, the supply fan 43 and the exhaust fan 46 are rotated. The amount of air supplied by the air supply fan 43 depends on the exhaust recess 40.
In consideration of the degree of opening, the air volume is adjusted to a lean air flow so that the inside of the work vacant chamber 22 has a slightly positive pressure. For example, 0.2 to 0.4 m / sec from the top to the bottom in the working vacant room 22.
The supply amount is set so that the wind speed is generated. In this state, the resin paint is sprayed to apply a top coat. The spray mist other than the one to be coated on the part to be coated is removed by suction in the exhaust recess 40, and the spray mist is prevented from adhering to other parts. Is done.

When the lifting and reversing device 60 (FIG. 1) is provided on the floor of the working vacant room 22, the front and rear directions of the vehicle having completed the topcoating process are changed by the expansion and contraction and the reversing action. Place on the support base 20.

Thereafter, the opening / closing body (accordion curtain type) 32 on the exit side is opened, and the automobile 19 is moved to the outlet side 15b of the rear passage 15 as indicated by an arrow in FIG. State). In the work space on the outlet side, a baking-drying process is performed on the finish-coated portion. In this step, the heater panel is moved to an appropriate place to perform a drying process at a necessary place. At the same time, final finishing is performed by polishing or waxing the surface.

The automobile 19 finished in this way is
In FIG. 2, the side passage 13 on the outlet side is advanced toward the outlet 61 side (back if the lifting and reversing device 60 is not provided), and the side passage 13 is moved as shown by an arrow in FIG. 2 ( The state indicated by reference sign E in FIG. 2) is delivered to the customer. The side passage 13 may be subjected to a finishing process such as the above-mentioned wax coating. The support is then removed from the guide rails and the rear passage entry side 1
It is returned to 5a.

The above is the basic maintenance process, but if the degree of damage to the preceding vehicle is large, a waiting time may occur in the maintenance process for the next vehicle. Therefore, in such a case, an automobile is introduced into the preliminary work space 66 to perform a sheet metal process. Thereafter, the process is moved to the above-mentioned pretreatment process for painting, a finishing process for painting, and a baking process. In addition,
When the degree of damage is small and a painting process is not required, the vehicle may be appropriately treated and delivered in the side passage 11 on the introduction side or the preliminary work space 66.

[Other Embodiments] The opening / closing tool 49 for opening and closing the exhaust recess 40 is always open, or only one of the left and right exhaust recesses is open. May be done. However, in consideration of economy, it is preferable that one exhaust recess is divided into at least both side portions and an intermediate portion so that each of the divided recesses can be independently opened and closed. As the opening and closing structure, the above-mentioned slide method is simple, but various known opening and closing means can be adopted.

The structure of the opening / closing body 32 that opens and closes the walls on the entrance side and the exit side of the working vacant chamber 22 is simple in structure by using the accordion curtain to open sideways, but it can be opened and closed in the vertical direction. It may be possible.

The vehicle body maintenance facility according to the present invention may be configured by omitting the second room 5. In that case,
With the rear surface 9 of the first chamber 3 as one of the wall surfaces, a working vacant room 22 closed in the circumferential direction and also closed vertically is formed.

The configurations of the guide rail and the support that moves along the guide rail are not limited to those described in the above embodiment.

The air supply port may be provided at a portion on an upper end side of a wall forming a working vacant chamber. This supply port is preferably covered with a filter section made of, for example, glass fiber. The air suction port may be provided at a lower end portion of a wall forming the working empty chamber. Thereby, for example, an air flow can be generated in a diagonal direction of the working vacant room.

The air supply fan provided in the blower room having the ceiling portion of the work vacant room as the lower surface portion may be provided on the upper surface portion or inside the blower room.

[0034]

According to the present invention, it is possible to solve the problem that the smoothness of delivery between processes is impaired, such as the case where a minor repair is performed in a conventional large-scale body maintenance facility, and the efficiency of maintenance can be improved. As well as shortening the time required for delivery and reducing maintenance costs.
In addition, the facility can be simplified and the space can be saved, so that capital investment can be suppressed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing a vehicle body maintenance facility according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view thereof.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a support table supported by a guide rail.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view thereof.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating the overall configuration of a working vacant room.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view as seen from the entrance side.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view illustrating an air suction portion provided on the floor surface of the working vacant room.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which an exhaust duct is continuously provided at an outer end of a communication path communicating the left and right exhaust recesses.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating an opening / closing tool that opens and closes a divided recess.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view thereof.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a state in which the opening / closing tool has opened the split recess.

FIG. 12 is a plan view showing a state in which the opening / closing tool closes a split recess.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Body maintenance facility 2 Building 3 1st room 5 2nd room 10 Work passage 11 Side passage 13 Side passage 15 Rear passage 16 Guide rail 20 Support base 22 Work vacant room 23 Ceiling 25 Ceiling part 26 Ventilation room 32 Opening / closing Body 37 Floor surface 40 Exhaust recess 41 Communication passage 43 Air supply fan 46 Exhaust fan 47 Divided recess 49 Opening / closing tool 60 Lifting reversing device 66 Preliminary work space

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A first room and a second room are provided at predetermined intervals in front and rear of a building, and a side along the right side surface along left and right side surfaces and a rear surface of the first room. A work passage for vehicle body maintenance, which is bent into a continuous U-shape, comprising a main passage, a side passage along the left side surface, and a rear passage along the rear surface, and is located on the left and right of the second chamber. Each of the preparatory work spaces provided is connected to the rear passage,
The side passages on the same side as the left and right sides and the spare work space are arranged so as to be linearly connected via the rear passage, and one end of each of the left and right side passages which are both ends of the U-shape of the work passage is formed of an automobile. It is opened for entry and exit, and a guide rail is provided on the bottom surface of the rear passage in the extension direction,
On the guide rail, a support base for mounting tires on the front, rear, left and right of the vehicle is provided movably along the guide rail,
The vehicle moved to both ends of the rear passage can move to a required side passage or a spare working space, or
The vehicle can be mounted on the support base from a required side passage or a spare working space, and the rear passage has a rear surface of the first chamber and a front surface of the second chamber with front and rear wall surfaces. A work chamber for performing a painting process, which is closed in the circumferential direction and is also closed vertically, is formed, and the walls located at both ends of the work chamber in the direction in which the rear passage extends can be opened and closed, and are supported by the support base. A simple vehicle body maintenance facility, wherein the vehicle can enter and exit the work vacant room through the open wall surface.