1-6. Canceled
7. An automatic drive-through vehicle wash, comprising:
a conveying stretch along which a vehicle to be washed is conveyed in a feed direction;
means for conveying a vehicle along the conveying stretch;
wash rotors arranged on both sides of the conveying stretch;
a rotating cleaning element extending transversely to the feed direction of the vehicle, the cleaning element being operable to contact at least one of the front, the hood, the roof, and trunk areas of the vehicle;
a shaft extending overhead the conveying stretch and being rotatably supported for rotation about an axis of the shaft;
two pivotable carry levers arranged on both sides of the conveying stretch and supported by the shaft, the cleaning element being supported by the two pivotable carry levers;
two spacer bar levers each non-rotatably secured to the shaft on a respective side of the conveying path, each carry lever being coupled, via an interposed link, with one of the spacer bar levers, each spacer bar lever having an extension arm that extends beyond the spacer bar lever’s securement to the shaft, and the extension arms supporting a counter-weight thereon;
two links;
two tie rods;
two lever arms, each lever arm being rotatably supported by a rotational support on the shaft and each lever arm supporting, on an extension arm thereof extending beyond its rotational support on the shaft, a counter-weight; and
two links, each carry lever being connected in a linked manner via one of the links with one of the tie rods and each lever arm being connected, via one of the links, with a tie rod so as to thereby form a parallelogram spacer bar, whereupon the cleaning element is balanced relative to the vehicle in any position via self-displacing parallelogram spacer bars with the counter-weights and contacts the vehicle with a set contact force.
8. A drive-through vehicle wash according to claim 7, wherein the counterweights supported on the extension arms of the spacer arms and the lever arms of the parallelogram spacer bars are displaceably arranged.
9. A drive-through vehicle wash according to claim 7, wherein the counterweights are arranged extending overhead the conveying stretch parallel to the shaft and are respectively connected with the extension arms of the spacer arms and the lever arms of the parallelogram spacer bars arranged on both sides of the conveying stretch.
10. A drive-through vehicle wash according to claim 7, wherein, in an inactive position of the cleaning element with the carry levers being vertically oriented, the spacer bar levers, which are non-rotatably connected with the shaft, extend obliquely downwardly in the feed direction of the vehicle such that the lever arms that are linked via the tie rods with the carry levers and that support the counterweight extend parallel to the carry levers.
11. A drive-through vehicle wash according to claim 7, wherein the cleaning element is configured for switching between one rotational direction and the respective opposite rotational direction.
12. A drive-through vehicle wash according to claim 7, wherein the drive of the cleaning element is configured as a motor disposed relative to the rotational axis of the cleaning element.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An illuminating system comprising:
a system casing, having a first air-hole area and a plurality of second air-hole areas, wherein adjacent two of the second air-hole areas keep a first distance apart from each other, one of the adjacent second air-hole areas keeping the first distance apart from each other keeps a second distance apart from the first air-hole area, the other one of the adjacent second air-hole areas keeping the first distance apart from each other keeps a third distance apart from the first air-hole area, the first distance is smaller than or equal to the second distance, and the first distance is smaller than or equal to the third distance; and
a plurality of illuminating modules, disposed at the system casing, wherein each of the illuminating modules comprises:
a diversion casing, having a third air-hole area and a fourth air-hole area;
a light source, capable of generating a light beam emitted outside the system casing;
a heat sink, disposed within the diversion casing and thermally coupled to the light source; and
a fan, disposed at the third air-hole area and capable of generating an airflow passing through the third air-hole area, the heat sink, and the fourth air-hole area;
wherein the third air-hole areas are located within the system casing and communicate with the first air-hole area, one of the adjacent second air-hole areas keeping the first distance apart from each other is corresponding to and communicates with the fourth air-hole area of one of the illuminating modules, the other one of the adjacent second air-hole areas keeping the first distance apart from each other is corresponding to and communicates with the fourth air-hole area of another of the illuminating modules.
2. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second air-hole areas are symmetrical to an axis and located at opposite sides of the axis.
3. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first air-hole areas and the second air-hole areas are sequentially arranged along an axis.
4. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fan and the light source of each of the illuminating modules are disposed at opposite sides of the heat sink, respectively.
5. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heat sink of each of the illuminating modules comprises:
a heat-dissipating plate, wherein the light source is disposed on the heat-dissipating plate; and
a plurality of fins, disposed on the heat dissipating plate, wherein each of the fins and the light source are disposed at opposite sides of the heat-dissipating plate, respectively.
6. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the fan of each of the illuminating modules is disposed on the fins.
7. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the fans is an axial fan.
8. The illuminating system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a controlling device electrically connected to the illuminating modules, wherein the controlling device is capable of detecting the operation state of the fan of each of the illuminating modules so as to control the illumination brightness of the light source of each of the illuminating modules.