JP3087466B2 - Gas station - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a filling station for supplying fuel such as gasoline to automobiles and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a refueling station is a place where a refueling machine is installed to refuel a car or the like with fuel such as gasoline.
Oil change and tire change are also performed, and these campaign information is displayed, and various service information such as road information is displayed as a service for refueling customers.

Conventionally, as a display device of such information, for example, a device provided with a large number of light emitting diodes (LEDs) as display elements is incorporated in a housing of a refueling machine, or as a separate and separate display, a doorway to a gas station. And so on.

[0004]

For example, those which are incorporated in a housing of a refueling machine need to have a safety structure in terms of explosion protection, which not only complicates the structure but also increases the cost. In addition, an object installed at the entrance of a gas station can be easily seen by a driver of an automobile running on a road, but may obstruct access to the gas station.

[0005] Therefore, it is conceivable to install the apparatus on a wall surface of a building such as an office in a gas station. In this case, it does not hinder access to the gas station, but is difficult to see from a car running on a road. The effect of displaying campaign information and the like is reduced.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, to make it easy to see from a car traveling on a road, not to obstruct the access to a gas station, and to use existing facilities at the gas station. To provide a gas station equipped with a cheap and inexpensive display device.

[0007]

According to the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, a laser light emitting device is provided on a lower surface of a canopy, and an information display surface by the laser light is provided at a lower portion of a housing of a refueling machine and at an office or the like. A car detection sensor formed on the wall of the building and detecting a car stopped at a refueling area is provided at a refueling point, and the laser light emitting device has a laser light oscillation device and a reflection angle with respect to the laser light oscillation device in a case. A reflective mirror that is freely changeable is provided to face through a shutter, and an information display surface formed on a housing of a refueling machine and a wall surface of a building are formed by changing an angle of the reflective mirror and opening and closing the shutter. The information is displayed alternately on the formed information display surface, and the output of the detection signal indicating that the vehicle has been detected by the vehicle detection sensor, the housing of the refueling machine at the refueling point is output. The information display screen formed on the grayed It is an gist in that a control device for controlling the reflecting mirror or the shutter so that the information display is not performed.

[0008]

According to the present invention, the lower part of the housing of a refueling machine or the wall surface of a building such as an office is used as an information display surface, and the campaign information and the like are alternately switched and displayed on the information display surface by laser light, so that the display is conspicuous. In addition, the information can be displayed at a position that does not hinder the traveling of the vehicle entering and exiting the gas station, and that can be easily seen from the vehicle traveling on the road.
Then, an existing one at a gas station, such as a fueling machine or a building, can be used as a display surface and can be installed at low cost. Further, when the vehicle stops at the refueling point, this is detected by the vehicle detection sensor, and is not displayed on the information display surface formed on the refueling machine installed at the refueling point by the output of the detection signal.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an embodiment of a gas station according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional front view of a laser light emitting device which is a main part of the gas station according to the present invention. A plurality of islands 3 (2 in the example shown in the figure) are fixed on the ground 1
And the housing 4 of the refueling machine 4 on the island 3
a is erected.

A building 5 such as an office is located in the corner of the site 1.
Is installed, and the upper part of the site 1 is covered with the canopy 6.

In the gas station having such a structure, a laser light emitting device 10 is provided on the lower surface of the canopy 6, and a flat portion at the lower front part of the housing 4a of the fueling machine 4 and the building 5 are provided.
, And a flat wall surface above the office were formed on the information display surfaces 7 and 8, respectively. In this case, the information display surface 8 of the wall surface of the building 5 can be formed on a large screen. The vehicle detection sensors 9a and 9b are provided on the front side of the island 3, for example.

As shown in FIG. 2, the laser light emitting device 10 is such that a laser light oscillating device 11 and a reflecting mirror 12 are disposed in a case 10a so as to face each other, and a shutter 13 is provided between the two. . In the figure, 14 is a transmission window for laser light, 15 is a driving device for the reflecting mirror 12, 16 is a driving device for the shutter 13,
The reflecting mirror 12 is driven by the driving device 15
Is arranged so that the reflection angle can be freely changed.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of the laser light emitting device 10, and includes detection signals of the vehicle detection sensors 9a and 9b, information signals from the information storage means 17 such as campaign information to be displayed, and storage of the display position. The position signal from the means 18 is introduced into a control device 19 using a microcomputer or the like, and the drive control signal from the control device 19 is introduced into the driving device 15 for the reflecting mirror 12 and the driving device 16 for the shutter 13. .

Next, the operation will be described. When the vehicle is not stopped in the refueling area in front of the refueling machine 4 and there is no output of the vehicle detection signal from the vehicle detection sensors 9a and 9b, the control device 19 uses the display position information from the position storage means 18 based on the display position information. The position of the information display surface 7 formed on the housing 4a of the refueling machine 4 and the position of the information display surface 8 formed on the wall surface of the building 5 are determined, and a position signal is output to the drive device 15 of the reflector 12.

As a result, the reflecting mirror 12 is driven by the driving device 15, and the laser light emitted from the laser light oscillating device 11 passes through the window 14 and the information display surface 7 formed on the housing 4a of the refueling machine 4 and the building The display reaches the information display surface 8 formed on the wall surface of No. 5, where campaign information and the like stored in the information storage means 17 are displayed. In this case, information is alternately displayed on the information display surface 7 of the housing 4a of the refueling machine 4 and the information display surface 8 of the building 5, but for example, a reflection mirror is provided from one information display surface 7 to the other information display surface 8. When the laser beam moves through 12, the shutter 13 closes, so that the laser beam irradiates the inside of the gas station and does not become unsightly.

As a result, the driver of the vehicle running on the road can read the information display surface 7 of the housing 4a of the refueling machine 4 or the building 5
After seeing the campaign information and the like displayed on the information display surface 8 of the vehicle, the vehicle enters the gas station and stops at the fueling point in front of the island 3. In this case, the displayed information is clearly noticeable because the laser light is used. In particular, the large information display surface 8 formed on the building 5 can be easily seen from a distant automobile running on a road.

When the vehicle stops at a refueling point in front of the island 3, for example, the vehicle detection sensor 9a detects the vehicle and outputs a detection signal to the control device 19. The control device 19 outputs to the drive device 15 of the reflecting mirror 12 based on the detection signal and the display position information in the position storage means 18 to display the information display surface 7 of the refueling machine 4 on the island 3 on which the sensor 9a is provided. Drives the driving device 15 of the reflecting mirror 12 so that no display is made. Note that the display may be turned off by closing the shutter 14 when the laser light is reflected in the direction of the information display surface 7 of the refueling machine where the car has stopped.

Therefore, after the vehicle enters, the refueling machine 4 provided with the large information display surface 8 of the building 5 and the sensor 9b is provided.
The information is displayed on the information display surface 7 as it is,
The display on the information display surface 7 formed on the refueling machine 4 on the island 3 detected by the sensor 9a disappears. Then, after refueling is completed, the car exits the refueling point and the vehicle detection sensor 9a
When the output of the detection signal from the control unit 19 disappears, the information display surface 7 of the refueling machine 4 whose display has disappeared by the output from the control device 19 has been used.
Again, the campaign information and the like are displayed.

[0019]

As described above, when the information display device is installed at a gas station, the gas station of the present invention displays the information with a laser beam so that it can be easily seen from a car traveling on the road, and enters and exits the gas station. In addition, it is possible to install a simple and inexpensive display device that can use facilities such as a housing of an existing refueling machine and a wall surface of a building at a refueling station, and improve customer guiding ability. Further, when the housing of the refueling machine and the wall surface of the building are used as the information display surface, the information display surface can be alternately displayed on the information display surface, and the information display formed on the housing of the refueling machine when the vehicle stops at the refueling point. Since the information is not displayed on the surface, the display efficiency does not decrease.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a gas station of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional front view of a laser light emitting device which is a main part of a gas station according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control block diagram of a laser light emitting device installed in a gas station according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Site 2 ... Road 3 ... Island 4 ... Refueling machine 4a ... Housing 5 ... Building 6 ... Canopy 7 ... Information display surface 8 ... Information display surface 9a, 9b ... Car detection sensor 10 ... Laser light emitting device 10a ... Case 11 ... Laser light oscillator 12 ... Reflection mirror 13 ... Shutter 14 ... Window 15 ... Driver 16 ... Driver 17 ... Information storage means 18 ... Position storage means 19 ... Control device

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A laser light emitting device is provided on a lower surface of a canopy, and an information display surface by laser light is formed on a lower portion of a housing of a refueling machine and a wall surface of a building such as an office. A vehicle detection sensor for detecting is provided at a refueling point, and the laser light emitting device is provided with a laser light oscillating device in a case and a reflecting mirror disposed so as to be capable of changing a reflection angle with respect to the laser light oscillating device via a shutter. The information display surface formed on the housing of the refueling machine and the information display surface formed on the wall surface of the building are alternately displayed by changing the angle of the reflecting mirror and opening and closing the shutter, provided opposite to each other, No information is displayed on the information display surface formed on the housing of the refueling machine at the refueling point due to the output of the detection signal indicating that the vehicle has been detected by the vehicle detection sensor. A control device for controlling a reflecting mirror or a shutter as described above.