EP2003269B1 - Parking device for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a parking device for vehicles, in particular a parking device for passenger cars, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.

In particular in the conurbations of the cities, but also in densely populated other residential areas more and more underground garages and garages are built to provide sufficient parking. In such parking garages, which are driven by the driver of the vehicle itself, are systemic the search for a free garage space, long walkways from the vehicle to the exit, high gasoline consumption, combined with high exhaust emission levels in the search for a free parking in the parking garage, often difficult Maneuvering to park with ever-larger vehicles in relatively narrow parking niches, corresponding fear of users, subjective malaise of the user due to bad air, dark corridors and stairwells as well as intersecting footpaths and lanes caused systemic disadvantages. Other system disadvantages are theft, vandalism and, especially in the case of women and older people, as well as in the late evening hours a discomfort, which was inadequately taken into account by providing so-called women's parking near the exit. In addition, in such passable car parks a systemic poor use of the available space and the available space.

Due to the above-mentioned disadvantages, more and more automatic parking devices have been proposed and used in the past. Automatic parking devices offer the fundamental advantage that the available space and the available volume of construction can be better used for the storage of vehicles. The DE 40 42 646 C2 describes an automatic parking device for passenger cars with an entry / exit sector. A einzuparkendes vehicle can be retracted by the driver through an outside gate in the entrance / exit sector and parked on a pallet-shaped carrier. After the driver has left the entry / exit sector through the outer gate, it is closed and an inner gate located at the opposite end of the entry / exit sector is opened. Through this inner gate, the pallet with the vehicle parked on it by means of an automatic direction of movement and an elevator platform in spent a parking sector inside the parking device. The parking of a vehicle is done in an analogous way.

This known automatic parking device overcomes many of the aforementioned disadvantages of the prior art. However, it still has the disadvantage that the footpaths and routes to the parking device cross each other.

To avoid such a crossroads of footpaths and driveways suggests the GB 2 162 503 A a generic parking device in the form of a car park house with several levels before. In this case, vehicles to be parked are fed by a main access passage lifting devices for transferring the vehicles in a parking area and the passengers leave the vehicle in the direction of a pedestrian path before the lifting device is activated. The pedestrian walkway is located between the main access passageway for the vehicles and a passageway in which the vehicles are re-provisioned to the passengers after a parking operation and through which the vehicles leave the parking garage.

The object of the invention is to provide an automatic parking device for vehicles in which possible obstructions of pedestrians and vehicles are best prevented.

To solve this invention, a parking device for vehicles is proposed, in which the parking and Ausparken can be performed so that there is no crossing between the foot and roads.

According to the invention, a parking device for vehicles according to claim 1 is proposed for this purpose.

The provision of two separate transfer rooms, ie a transfer room entrance and a transfer room exit, whereby between the two transfer rooms a pedestrian zone which can be reached by appropriate person locks, prevents pedestrian traffic and traffic from interfering with each other.

Furthermore, the entrance person lock and the exit lock can be opened at any time from the inside of the respective transfer rooms. This ensures that, if a person is unintentionally located in one of the transfer rooms, they can at any time from the inside open the security gate and leave the transfer room.

In a preferred embodiment, a Einfahrweg may be provided, which adjoins the entrance gate and over which the vehicle can be retracted in the transfer room entrance, and a Ausfahrweg, which adjoins the exit gate and on which the vehicle from the transfer area exit are driven out can, with the pedestrian area, the Einfahrweg and Ausfahrweg crossing each other.

Preferably, aids are provided in the transfer area, which facilitate the driver an exact parking of the vehicle at a desired position.

The internal dimensions of the transfer spaces are preferably such that all the doors of the vehicle can be opened and the occupants of the vehicle can get in and out of the transfer rooms. In this way, it is avoided that passengers have to get off the entryway before the transfer room, and thus may leave the parking facility in other ways than the pedestrian zone, which is particularly safe. It is understood that the transfer rooms are barrier-free, handicapped accessible and friendly equipped and brightly lit.

In the transfer room entrance, a monitoring device is preferably provided, which detects the presence of persons in the transfer room entrance. In this case, the control device is preferably embodied such that the automatic movement of the vehicle from the transfer area into a parking sector can only be triggered if the monitoring device does not detect the presence of persons in the transfer area entrance. This prevents people who are still in the transfer room entrance are endangered when moving the vehicle from the transfer room entrance to a parking sector. For this purpose, the monitoring device preferably comprises a motion detector.

In the vicinity of the transfer room entrance, in particular in the vicinity of the entrance person lock, a parking terminal is preferably provided, via which the user can initiate the movement of his parked vehicle in the transfer room entrance from the transfer room entrance into a parking sector.

In the vicinity of the transfer area exit, in particular in the vicinity of the exit gate, a Ausparkterminal is preferably provided, via which the user can initiate the removal of his vehicle from a parking sector in the transfer area exit.

The control device preferably permits opening of the exit passenger lock only when the vehicle is ready for departure in the transfer area exit. This also serves to prevent a hazard to persons in the automatic movement of the vehicle.

Preferably, the controller causes an automatic closing of the exit gate as soon as the vehicle has left the transfer room exit.

Once the exit gate is closed, the next vehicle can be transferred to the transfer room exit.

• Fig. 1 eine schematische Draufsicht auf einen Übergaberaum Einfahrt und einen Übergaberaum Ausfahrt sowie eine dazwischen angeordnete Fußgängerzone zeigt.
• Fig. 2 eine schematische Schnittdarstellung durch einen Übergaberaum zeigt,
• Fig. 3 einen Längsschnitt durch eine Hochgarage zeigt,
• Fig. 4 einen Längsschnitt durch eine Tiefgarage zeigt und
• Fig. 5 einen Querschnitt durch eine Tiefgarage und einen Übergaberaum Einfahrt zeigt.

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to a preferred embodiment with reference to the drawings, in which

• Fig. 1 a schematic plan view of a transfer room entrance and a transfer room exit and a pedestrian zone arranged therebetween shows.
• Fig. 2 shows a schematic sectional view through a transfer room,
• Fig. 3 a longitudinal section through a high garage shows
• Fig. 4 a longitudinal section through an underground car park shows and
• Fig. 5 a cross section through an underground car park and a transfer room entrance shows.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation in plan view of a parking device according to the invention for vehicles. Basically, such a parking device for each type of vehicles usable. Preferably, it is designed so that standard vehicles with different heights up to about 2 meters according to the VDI directive 4466 can be parked in the parking device.

Such a passenger car is marked with the reference numeral 1. He stands in the direction of travel in front of a transfer room entrance 3, in which he can be driven by passing through an entrance gate 2 on a pallet 5 after passing an induction loop. After the vehicle 1 has reached its desired position on the pallet 5, for which purpose corresponding auxiliary devices, for example in the form of scanners, motion detectors, scales and video equipment, are available, the entrance gate 2 closes automatically. To control these and other automatic functions of the parking device, a control device (not shown) is provided.

After the vehicle has reached its desired position, the driver and any other occupants can leave the vehicle on both sides and leave through a Einfahrpersonenschleuse 6, which is located at the entrance gate 2 opposite end of the transfer room driveway, making them in a Pedestrian zone 7 arrive. It is understood that the Einfahrpersonenschleuse 6 can also be arranged at other points of the transfer room entrance 3.

On the other side of the pedestrian zone 7, opposite the transfer area entrance 3, a transfer room exit 11 is arranged. This is executed essentially symmetrically to the transfer area entrance 3. It has an exit lock 9, through which people can enter from the pedestrian zone 7 in the transfer room exit 11. There they can board from both sides in an already automatically spent there vehicle and exit through an exit gate 12. It is understood that in this case the exit passenger lock 9 can be arranged at other locations.

In the vicinity of the entrance person lock 6 a parking terminal 8 is provided. An exit parking terminal 10 is located near exit gate lock 9.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic sectional view through the transfer room entrance 3. The transfer room exit 11 is executed accordingly. In the bottom center of the transfer rooms a pallet 5 is arranged, which can be lowered and raised via a lowering / lifting system. As a result, a parked on the pallet 5 vehicle can be spent in the interior of the parking device.

It is understood by those skilled in the art that in an above-ground parking garage, the pallet would be raised with the vehicle thereon up.

The transfer of vehicles in an automatic parking system with pallets is known in the art. She is particular in the DE 40 42 646 C2 , the contents of which are incorporated by reference in their entirety into the content of the present patent application.

It is understood by those skilled in the art that the inventive arrangement of the transfer rooms and pedestrian zone in any embodiment of the automatic vehicle transport in the parking garage itself is applicable.

Fig. 3 schematically shows an upstanding parking garage 13, ie a parking garage in which the parking sectors are arranged above ground.

Fig. 4 schematically shows an underground car park, in which the parking sectors are located underground. In both cases, a pedestrian zone 7 between a transfer room entrance 3 and a transfer room exit 11 in principle as in the illustration according to Fig. 1 arranged.

It is understood that the parking device according to the invention for vehicles can also be used in a parking garage in which parking sectors are arranged both above ground and underground.

Fig. 5 shows a cross section through the transfer room entrance 3 and the parking levels of a parking garage according to Fig. 4 , Two displacement units 16 and 17 are arranged in alignment to the left and right of the transfer room entrance 3.

The process of parking and parking is as follows:

As described above, the vehicle 1 passes an induction loop 4 (see Fig. 1 ), whereby the entrance gate 2 opens and the vehicle on the pallet 5 in the middle of the transfer room entrance 3 can be parked. The driver and possibly other occupants leave the transfer room entrance 3 through the entrance person lock 6 and get to the pedestrian zone 7. By operating the parking terminal 8, the movement of the vehicle 1 is initiated in a parking sector. For this purpose, the pallet 5 (see Fig. 5 ) and passed to the left or right of the displacement unit 16 and 17, at the same time a blank pallet can be pushed from the left or right to the lowering / lifting system. From the displacement unit 16 or 17, the vehicle is lowered or raised as needed and spent in a park sector.

To pick up the vehicle, the driver actuates the parking terminal 10. The vehicle 1 is pushed together with the pallet on which it stands out of its parking sector by means of the displacement unit 16 or 17 on the lowering / lifting system and simultaneously moves the displacement unit 16 or 17 the Empty pallet located on the lowering / lifting system. Subsequently, the vehicle 1 is raised or lowered together with the pallet on which it stands in the transfer area exit 11. As soon as it has reached its final position there, the exit passenger lock 9 opens or can be opened by the driver. With the opening of the exit locker 9 or in dependence thereon, optionally with a certain time interval, the exit gate opens 12. The driver and possibly other passengers can thus together with the vehicle 1 through the exit gate 12 from the transfer room exit 11th drive out.

It is understood that several of the parking devices outlined above can be arranged together within a parking garage. In particular, several of the parking garages according to Fig. 5 be arranged side by side, in which case in the Representation according to Fig. 1 on both sides of the pedestrian zone 7 each have several transfer rooms opposite each other.

Claims (10)

1. A parking device for vehicles with a handover area entrance (3), which has an entrance gate (2) through which a vehicle (1) can be driven in by a driver into the handover area entrance (3), and a person entrance lock (6), through which the driver can leave the handover area entrance (3),
   with a handover area exit (11), which has an exit gate (12) through which a vehicle (1) can be driven out by a driver from the handover area exit (11), and a persons' exit lock (9), through which the driver can enter the handover area exit (11),
   with a control device for the controlling of functions of the parking device and
   with a transport arrangement for automatically bringing the vehicle (1) from the handover area entrance (3) into a parking sector and from a parking sector into the handover area exit (11),
   wherein the person locks (6, 9) lead to a pedestrian zone (7) which runs through between the handover areas (3, 11), characterized in that the person entrance lock (6) and the person exit lock (9) can be opened at any time from the interior of the handover areas (3, 11).
2. The parking device according to Claim 1, characterized in that
   an entry lane is provided, which adjoins the entrance gate (2) and via which the vehicle (1) can be driven into the handover area entrance (3),
   an exit lane is provided, which adjoins the exit gate (12) and onto which the vehicle can be driven out from the handover area exit (11), and
   the pedestrian zone (7), the entry lane and the exit lane run free of intersection with respect to each other.
3. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the handover area entrance (3) assistance means are provided which facilitate for the driver a precise parking of the vehicle (1) in a required position.
4. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the interior dimensions of the handover areas (3, 11) are dimensioned so that all the doors of the vehicle (1) can be opened and the occupants of the vehicle (1) can step into and from the handover areas (3, 11).
5. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the handover area entrance (3) a monitoring arrangement is provided, which detects the presence of persons in the handover area entrance (3), and that the control arrangement can only activate the bringing of the vehicle (1) from the handover area entrance (3) into a parking sector when the monitoring arrangement is not detecting the presence of persons in the handover area entrance (3).
6. The parking device according to Claim 5, characterized in that the monitoring arrangement comprises a motion sensor.
7. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a parking terminal (8) is provided, via which the user can initiate the bringing of his vehicle (1), which is parked in the handover area entrance (3), from the handover area entrance (3) into a parking sector.
8. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a retrieval terminal (10) is provided, via which the user can initiate the bringing of his vehicle (1) from a parking sector into a handover area exit (11).
9. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control arrangement only permits an opening of the person exit lock (9) when the vehicle (1) is situated, ready for driving out, in the handover area exit (11).
10. The parking device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control arrangement brings about an automatic closing of the exit gate (12) as soon as the vehicle (1) has left the handover area exit (11).

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