专利摘要:
Vehicle Cleaning Device Nozzle and Vehicle Cleaning Device Nozzle Assembly Method A vehicle cleaning device nozzle (10) injects a cleaning fluid onto an object to be cleaned which is mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle cleaning device nozzle (10) comprises a housing (12), a nozzle tip (14) received within an interior of the housing (12), and a carrier (16) configured to support the housing (12) in a state where the housing (12) receives the nozzle tip (14). A return flow passage for sweeping and injecting the cleaning fluid is formed by receiving the nozzle tip (14) in the housing (12). Figure for the abstract: Fig. 2.
公开号:FR3078901A1
申请号:FR1902636
申请日:2019-03-14
公开日:2019-09-20
发明作者:Masaru Sakai
申请人:Koito Manufacturing Co Ltd;
IPC主号:
专利说明:

Title of the invention: Vehicle cleaning device nozzle and vehicle cleaning device nozzle assembly method This application claims priority from Japanese patent application No. 2018-047864, filed on March 15 2018.
Technical Field [0002] The present disclosure relates to a nozzle for a vehicle cleaning device and to a method of assembling the nozzle for a vehicle cleaning device.
PRIOR ART [0003] A nozzle for cleaning a lens of a camera in the vehicle is described in patent document 1.
Patent document 1: US 2015/0138357 A1 [0005] The nozzle exposed in patent document 1 is supported by a support fixed to a camera module and a flow passage for scanning and injecting d a cleaning liquid from an injection port is formed in a nozzle tip received in a space provided in a nozzle housing. An additional size reduction is required for such a nozzle which allows sweeping and injection of the cleaning liquid.
Disclosure of the Invention The purpose of this disclosure is to provide a vehicle cleaning device nozzle that is capable of sweeping and injecting cleaning fluid and is small. In addition, the present disclosure aims to provide a method of assembling a nozzle of a vehicle cleaning device, which is capable of improving the efficiency of work during assembly.
[0007] In order to solve the problem, a nozzle for a vehicle cleaning device is a nozzle for a vehicle cleaning device intended for injecting a cleaning fluid onto an object to be cleaned which is mounted on a vehicle, the device nozzle vehicle cleaning including:
a housing ;
a nozzle tip received in an interior of the housing; and a support configured to support the housing in a state where the housing receives the nozzle tip, a return flow passage for sweeping and injecting the cleaning fluid is formed by receiving the nozzle tip in the housing.
According to the vehicle cleaning device nozzle of the present disclosure, the return flow passage of the cleaning fluid is formed between the housing and the nozzle tip received in the housing. Therefore, it is possible to provide the vehicle cleaner nozzle which is capable of sweeping and injecting the cleaning fluid and is small.
In order to solve the problem, a method of assembling a nozzle of a vehicle cleaning device is a method of assembling a nozzle of a vehicle cleaning device provided in the vicinity of a front end of a piston received so as to be movable forwards and backwards with respect to a cylinder so as to inject a cleaning fluid onto an object to be cleaned which is mounted on a vehicle, the method comprising:
a step of assembling a nozzle tip on a housing along a first direction so as to form a return flow passage for sweeping and injecting the cleaning fluid by receiving the nozzle tip in an interior of the housing, and a step of assembling the housing in a state where the housing receives the nozzle tip on a support supported by the piston along the first direction.
According to the method of assembling the nozzle of the vehicle cleaning device of the present presentation, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the work during assembly.
According to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide the vehicle cleaning device nozzle which is capable of sweeping and injecting the cleaning fluid and is small. In addition, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to provide the method of assembling the nozzle of the vehicle cleaning device, which is capable of improving the efficiency of work during assembly. Aspects of some nonlimiting embodiments of this disclosure deal with the features discussed above and / or other features not described above. However, aspects of the non-limiting embodiments are not required to deal with the above features, and aspects of the non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure may not deal with the features described above. Example embodiments of the present description will be described in detail on the basis of the following figures, in which:
Brief description of the drawings [fig.l]
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sensor cleaning device according to one embodiment of this talk;
[Fig.2]
Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view of an injection nozzle included in the sensor cleaning device of Figure 1;
[Fig.3A]
Figure 3A is a perspective view from above of a nozzle housing included in the injection nozzle of Figure 2;
[Fig.3B]
Figure 3B is a perspective view from below of the nozzle housing;
[Fig.4A]
FIG. 4A is a perspective view from above of a nozzle tip included in the injection nozzle of FIG. 2, [0017] [fig.4B]
Figure 4B is a perspective view from below of the nozzle tip;
[Fig.5]
Figure 5 is a side view of the front side of the sensor cleaning device;
[Fig.6]
Figure 6 is a sectional view along line A-A in Figure 5;
[Fig.7]
Figure 7 is a sectional view along line B-B in Figure 5;
[Fig.8]
Figure 8 is a sectional view along line C-C in Figure 5;
[Fig.9]
Figure 9 is a top view of the sensor cleaning device showing a state in which the cleaning liquid is injected from the injection nozzle;
[Fig.10]
Figure 10 is a perspective view of the sensor cleaning device showing a rotated state of the injection nozzle; and [fig 24] [fig.ll]
Figure 11 is a perspective view of the sensor cleaning device showing a rotated state of the injection nozzle.
Description of the embodiments An example of a sensor cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present description will be described with reference to the drawings. Furthermore, for the sake of explanation, "left and right direction", "front and rear direction" and "top and bottom direction" in this example refer to relative directions provided for the cleaning device of sensor shown in the drawings.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sensor cleaning device 1 according to one embodiment. FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of an injection nozzle 10 included in the sensor cleaning device 1. The sensor cleaning device 1 is a cleaning device intended to clean foreign bodies fixed on an external sensor (not shown; an example of the object to be cleaned) mounted on a vehicle and which acquires information outside the vehicle by blowing a cleaning liquid (an example of the cleaning fluid) onto the external sensor. Examples of the external sensor include a laser radar, a camera, a millimeter wave sensor, and the like.
As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the sensor cleaning device 1 comprises a cylinder 2, a piston 3, and a pair of injection nozzles 10, 10 (an example of the device nozzle vehicle cleaning).
The cylinder 2 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and a connecting part 4 is formed on the rear side thereof. A pipe connected to a cleaning liquid tank (not shown) in which cleaning liquid is stored is connected to the connecting portion 4, so that the cleaning liquid is supplied from the cleaning liquid tank into the cylinder 2. The cylinder is provided in an opening part (not shown; corresponding to a second opening part) formed in a part of a body panel (not shown) of the vehicle (not shown).
The piston 3 is slidably received in the cylindrical cylinder 2. The piston 3 can move back and forth along the central axis of the cylinder 2.
The injection nozzles 10, 10 are provided in pairs on the left and on the right in the vicinity of the front end of the piston 3. The injection nozzles 10, 10 are nozzles capable of injecting liquid cleaning to a sensor (not shown) of a vehicle. The pair of injection nozzles 10, 10 has the same configuration. Consequently, in the description which follows, the injection nozzle 10 on the right side will be described. Furthermore, the injection nozzle 10 can be provided only on one side in the vicinity of the front end of the piston 3.
The injection nozzle 10 comprises a nozzle housing 12, a nozzle tip 14, and a nozzle holder 16. The nozzle housing 12 receives the nozzle tip 14. The nozzle housing 12 is assembled on the nozzle holder 16 in a state where the nozzle tip 14 is received in the nozzle housing 12. As shown in Figure 2, the nozzle housing 12, the nozzle tip 14, and the nozzle holder 16 can be assembled along the same direction D. That is, the nozzle housing 12 receives the nozzle tip 14 along the direction D and is assembled on the nozzle support 16 along the direction D in a state where the nozzle tip 14 is received.
FIG. 3A is a perspective view from above of the nozzle housing 12, and FIG. 3B is a perspective view from below of the nozzle housing 12.
As shown in Figures 3A and 3B, the nozzle housing 12 has a cylindrical base part 21, and a tip receiving part 22 provided above the base part 21. The interior of the base 21 and the tip receiving part 22 function as a receiving space 23. A projecting part 24 intended to form an oscillation chamber 50 (to be described later) is provided to protrude into the receiving space 23. An injection port 25 for injecting cleaning liquid towards an external sensor is formed on the rear side of the tip receiving part 22.
Figure 4A is a perspective view from above of the nozzle tip 14, and Figure 4B is a perspective view from below of the nozzle tip 14. As shown in Figures 4A and 4B, nozzle tip 14 has a flat base portion 31, and a pair of protrusions 32 provided to project upward from the base portion 31. In addition, a recessed portion 33 is formed on a bottom surface of the portion base 31 so as to be recessed upwards. The recessed portion 33 is surrounded by a frame portion 34 constituting a portion of the base portion 31. The front side of the frame portion 34 is cut. This cut portion 35 constitutes a communication passage 52 through which cleaning fluid flows from the recessed portion 33 to the oscillation chamber 50 (see Figures 7 and 8) in a state where the nozzle tip 14 is received in the nozzle housing 12.
Returning to FIG. 2, the nozzle support 16 has a piston connection part 41 connected to the piston 3, and a nozzle holding part 42 provided so as to extend to the right of the piston connection part 4L A cylindrical nozzle connection part 43 is provided on an upper surface of the nozzle holding part 42. The base part 21 of the nozzle housing 12 is connected to the nozzle connection part 43, so that the nozzle housing 12 is assembled on the nozzle support 16. An opening part 44 is formed inside the nozzle connection part 43.
Figure 5 is a side view of the front side of the sensor cleaning device 1. Figure 6 is a sectional view along the line AA in Figure 5, Figure 7 is a sectional view along the line BB in Figure 5, and Figure 8 is a sectional view taken along line CC in Figure 5. As shown in Figures 6 and 8, in a state where the nozzle housing 12 receives the nozzle tip 14 is assembled on the nozzle support 16, a space 51 is defined between the recessed portion 33 of the nozzle tip 14 and the nozzle connection portion 43 of the nozzle support 16. In addition, the oscillation chamber 50 (l the receiving space 23) is defined between the tip receiving portion 22 of the nozzle housing 12 and the base portion 31 of the nozzle tip 14. In addition, the communication passage 52 communicating the space 51 and the oscillation chamber 50 with each other is defined by the peak receiving part 22 of the nozzle housing 12 and the cut-out part 35 of the nozzle tip 14. In this way, the cleaning liquid supplied from the connection part 4 of the cylinder 2 passes through the interior of the holding part of the nozzle. nozzle 42 via the piston connection part 41, is further supplied to the space 51 via the opening part 44, and is then supplied to the oscillation chamber 50 by the communication passage 52.
As shown in Figure 7, the injection nozzle 10 operates as a fluid type nozzle (oscillating injection nozzle) by means of the oscillation chamber 50 which is formed by the receiving part of tip 22 of the nozzle housing 12 and of the nozzle tip 14. The fluid type nozzle relates to a nozzle which performs a control by interfering with the flow of fluid and by deflecting its flow passage. As shown in FIG. 9, the injection nozzle 10 such as the fluid type nozzle can change an injection direction P of the cleaning liquid in the left and right direction by deflecting the flow passage of the cleaning liquid. cleaning injected from injection port 25.
More specifically, as shown in Figure 7, in a state where the nozzle tip 14 is received in the tip receiving portion 22 of the nozzle housing 12, the communication passage 52, the chamber oscillation 50, a pair of return flow passages 55, 56, and the injection port 25 are formed inside the injection nozzle 10. The oscillation chamber 50 is formed continuously with the communication passage 52, and the cleaning liquid is supplied to the oscillation chamber 50 from the communication passage 52.
The passages of the pair of return flow passages 55, 56 are flow passages defined between the projecting part 24 of the tip receiving part 22 and the projecting parts 32 of the nozzle tip 14 and are provided respectively on the left and right sides of the oscillation chamber 50. The return flow passages 55, 56 have inlets 55A, 56A which open onto the oscillation chamber 50 on the outlet side of the oscillation chamber 50 (on the side of the injection orifice 25) and outlets 55B, 56B which open onto the oscillation chamber 50 on the inlet side of the oscillation chamber 50 (on the side of the communication passage 52). In this way, the return flow passages 55, 56 are configured to respectively branch and guide a part of the cleaning liquid supplied from the communication passage 52 to the oscillation chamber 50 from the inputs 55A, 56A to the outlets 55B, 56B and to return the cleaning liquid to the oscillation chamber 50 again.
More specifically, part of the cleaning liquid flowing in the oscillation chamber 50 from the communication passage 52 first flows in the return flow passage 55 through the inlet 55A of the return flow passage 55 and flows into the oscillation chamber 50 through the outlet 55B. Then, part of the cleaning liquid in the oscillation chamber 50 flows into the return flow passage 56 through the inlet 56A of the return flow passage 56 and flows into the return chamber. oscillation 50 through output 56B. Then, part of the cleaning liquid in the oscillation chamber 50 again branches to the return flow passage 55 and flows back into the oscillation chamber 50 through the outlet 55B. When this cycle is repeated, the cleaning liquid alternately guided by the return flow passages 55, 56 becomes what is called a "return control flow" to self-oscillate the cleaning liquid which flows to through the oscillation chamber 50, so that the cleaning liquid can be swept and injected (diffused and injected) in the left and right direction from the injection port 25. In this way, the nozzle housing 12 and the nozzle tip 14 are assembled, so that the injection nozzle 10 can be configured as the fluid type nozzle. As a result, the injection nozzle 10 can inject the cleaning liquid to the external sensor at high pressure while sweeping the cleaning liquid in the left and right direction.
Figures 10 and 11 are perspective views of the sensor cleaning device 1, showing a pivoted state of the injection nozzle 10. As shown in Figure 10, the injection nozzle 10 is mounted so that the nozzle housing 12 can pivot relative to the nozzle holder 16 about an axis along the up and down direction. In addition, as shown in Figure 11, the injection nozzle 10 is mounted such that the nozzle holder 16 can pivot relative to the piston 3 about an axis along the left and right direction. In this way, by appropriately rotating the nozzle housing 12 and the nozzle holder 16 when fixing the injection nozzle 10 on the piston 3, the injection orifice 25 of the injection nozzle 10 can be oriented in an appropriate position depending on the positional relationship between the external sensor and the injection nozzle 10. In this way, the position of the injection nozzle 10 can be adjusted so that the cleaning properly hits the external sensor.
As described above, the injection nozzle 10 for the sensor cleaning device 1 according to the present embodiment comprises the nozzle housing 12 (an example of the housing), the nozzle tip 14 received inside the nozzle housing 12, and the nozzle support 16 (an example of the support) for supporting the nozzle housing 12 in a state of reception of the nozzle tip 14. In addition, in the nozzle d Injecting 10, the nozzle tip 14 is received in the nozzle housing 12, so that the return flow passages 55, 56 for sweeping and injecting the cleaning liquid are formed. According to this configuration, the return flow passages 55, 56 are formed between the nozzle housing 12 and the nozzle tip 14 received in the nozzle housing 12, so that the cleaning liquid can be swept and injected. In addition, since the nozzle housing 12 itself is configured as part of an element for forming the return flow passages 55, 56, the nozzle housing 12 and the nozzle tip 14 can be formed in a small size, and the injection nozzle 10 can be miniaturized.
In addition, according to the injection nozzle 10 of the present embodiment, the nozzle housing 12 has the inner wall (the projecting part 24) intended to form the receiving space 23 (first opening part ) in which the nozzle tip 14 is received, and the nozzle tip 14 has the pair of projections 32 forming the oscillation chamber 50 (the oscillation space) between the receiving space 23 of the nozzle housing 12 and the nozzle tip 14. In a state where the nozzle tip 14 is received in the nozzle housing 12, the pair of return flow passages 55, 56 is formed between the projection 24 of the nozzle housing 12 and each part of the pair of protrusions 32 of the nozzle tip 14. According to this configuration, the oscillation chamber 50 and the return flow passages 55, 56 can be easily formed with a simple configuration to receive in a manner single nozzle tip 14 in the receiving space 23 of the nozzle housing 12.
In addition, according to the injection nozzle 10 of the present embodiment, during the assembly of the injection nozzle 10 on the piston 3, first of all, the nozzle tip 14 is assembled on the nozzle housing 12 along direction D (an example of the first direction) shown in Figure 2. In this way, the return flow passages 55, 56 for sweeping and injecting the cleaning liquid injection port 25 are formed. Then, the nozzle housing 12 in a state of reception of the nozzle tip 14 is assembled on the nozzle support 16 supported by the piston along the direction D. In this way, the nozzle housing 12, the tip of nozzle 14, and the nozzle holder 16, which constitute the injection nozzle 10, can be assembled along the same direction (direction D), so that it is possible to improve the working efficiency at when the injection nozzle 10 is assembled.
Furthermore, the present description is not limited to the embodiments described above, but can be freely modified or improved as it turns out to be appropriate. In addition, the materials, shapes, dimensions, numerical values, shapes, number, and arrangement locations and the like of each component in the embodiments described above are arbitrary and are not limited, as long as this presentation can be implemented.
The injection nozzle 10 in the above embodiments is fixed on the sensor cleaning device 1 to inject a cleaning liquid to an external sensor which acquires information outside of a vehicle. However, the injection nozzle 10 is not limited to this example. The injection nozzle having the above configuration can be fixed on a fire cleaning device which is used to clean a vehicle fire by injecting a cleaning liquid on the vehicle fire. The foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the present invention has been provided for the purpose of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise forms set out. Obviously, many modifications and variations will be obvious to those skilled in the art. The embodiments have been chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and its practical applications, thus allowing other persons skilled in the art to understand the invention for different embodiments and with various modifications which are adapted to the particular use envisaged.
1: Sensor cleaning device, 2: Cylinder, 3: Piston, 4: Connection part, 10: Injection nozzle (an example of the vehicle cleaning device nozzle), 12: Nozzle housing (an example of the housing), 14: Tip of nozzle, 16: Support of nozzle (an example of support), 21: Base part, 22: Reception part of point, 23: Space of reception, 24: Protruding part, 25: Injection port, 31: Base part, 32: A pair of protruding parts, 33: Recessed part, 34: Frame part, 35: Cut out part, 41: Piston connection part, 42: Holding part nozzle, 43: Nozzle connection part, 44: Opening part.
权利要求:
Claims (1)
[1" id="c-fr-0001]
Vehicle cleaner nozzle (10) for injecting a cleaning fluid onto a cleaning object which is mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle cleaner nozzle comprising: a housing (12);
a nozzle tip (14) received in an interior of the housing (12); and a support (16) configured to support the housing (12) in a state where the housing (12) receives the nozzle tip (14), a return flow passage (55, 56) for sweeping and injecting the fluid being formed by receiving the nozzle tip (14) in the housing (12).
Vehicle cleaning device nozzle (10) according to claim
1, in which the housing (12) has an inner wall intended to form a first opening part in which the nozzle tip (14) is received, in which the nozzle tip (14) has a pair of projecting parts ( 32) which form an oscillation space therebetween, and in which, in a state where the nozzle tip (14) is received in the housing (12), the return flow passage (55, 56) is formed between the inner wall and each of the parts of the pair of projections (32).
A vehicle cleaner nozzle (10) according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the vehicle cleaner nozzle is provided in the vicinity of a front end of a piston (3) received to move forward and behind a cylinder (2) provided in a second opening part formed in a part of a vehicle body panel, and in which the vehicle cleaning device nozzle is configured to inject the cleaning fluid on the object to be cleaned in a state where the piston (3) protrudes from the second opening part. A vehicle cleaning device nozzle according to claim 3, wherein the housing (12) is pivotally attached to the support (16), and wherein the support (16) is pivotally attached to the piston (3) . Method for assembling a nozzle of a vehicle cleaning device provided in the vicinity of a front end of a piston (3) received to be movable forwards and backwards relative to a cylinder (2) so as to inject a cleaning fluid on an object to be cleaned which is mounted on a vehicle, the method comprising:
a step of assembling a nozzle tip (14) on a housing (12) along a first direction so as to form a return flow passage (55, 56) to sweep and inject the fluid cleaning by receiving the nozzle tip (14) in an interior of the housing (12), and a step of assembling the housing (12) in a state where the housing (12) receives the nozzle tip (14) on a support (16) supported by the piston (3) along the first direction.
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