Transport vehicle cleaning device and article transport equipment including the same

A transport vehicle cleaning device that cleans a transport vehicle transporting an article along a driving rail and including a driving module and a frame connected to a lower part of the driving module and having a storage space for the article, the transport vehicle cleaning device comprising:

• a housing wrapping the driving rail and a movement path of the transport vehicle and including a cleaning space accommodating the transport vehicle for cleaning;
• a plurality of fans disposed at an upper part of the housing and generating a downward airflow in the cleaning space;
• a cleaning gas injector disposed at a ceiling of the housing and injecting a cleaning gas towards the transport vehicle in the cleaning space of the housing;
• an exhaust unit provided at a lower part of the housing and exhausting the cleaning gas supplied to the cleaning space and a foreign matter removed from the transport vehicle from the cleaning space;
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• a frame cover disposed in the housing and configured to completely cover opposite openings of the frame in the housing to form a closed internal space of the frame separated from the cleaning space, thereby preventing particles scattered by the cleaning gas from the upper part of the transport vehicle from adhering to the lower part of the transport vehicle.