Patent ID: 7811385
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: B60S

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a vehicle washing installation by utilizing a light section process, wherein at least one treatment device and a vehicle to be washed are moved relative to one another in a washing direction, wherein vehicle surfaces are illuminated by light fans emitted from two different positions, wherein a first and a second two-dimensional image of the vehicle surfaces illuminated by the light fans are recorded from angles that extend obliquely referred to planes of the light fans and are stored in a control unit together with relative position and/or relative movement between the treatment devices and the vehicle, wherein above-described steps are repeated during traversing from one end of the vehicle to an other end of the vehicle, wherein a three-dimensional depiction of the vehicle surfaces is calculated during or after the end of traversing movement from the two-dimensional images stored in the control unit, recording angles, relative position and/or relative movement and position data of the light fans, and wherein this three-dimensional depiction is used for controlling the vehicle washing installation.