EP0386073A1

EP0386073A1 - Parking system.

Info

Publication number: EP0386073A1
Application number: EP19880909726
Authority: EP
Inventors: Albert Blum; Horst Tadday
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1987-11-19
Filing date: 1988-11-18
Publication date: 1990-09-12
Anticipated expiration: 2008-11-18
Also published as: EP0386073B1; DE3739159A1; DE3739159C2; WO1989004901A1; DE3866879D1

Abstract

Un système de stationnement comprend une pluralité de places de stationnement (3) adjacentes et superposées et au moins un convoyeur (9) qui transporte des véhicules stationnés sur le plan d'entrée jusqu'à une place de stationnement, ainsi que les véhicules stationnés sur une place de stationnement jusqu'au plan de sortie. Afin de rendre le système de stationnement facile à utiliser et de permettre une entrée et une sortie rapides des véhicules, plusieurs ou toutes les places de stationnement situées du côté de l'entrée sur le plan d'entrée forment des boxes d'entrée, alors que plusieurs ou toutes les places de stationnement situées du côté de la sortie sur le plan de sortie forment des boxes de sortie. Un agencement d'entrée de la durée probable de stationnement relié à une installation électronique de traitement de données est disposé à une station centrale (20) de contrôle des entrées. Des détecteurs (24) agencés dans chaque place de stationnement (3) déterminent si la place est occupée ou non. Le convoyeur est commandé, selon un programme prédéterminé qui exploite les données des détecteurs (24) et les durées de stationnement entrées, par l'installation de traitement de données (25), de telle sorte que les véhicules (4) sont transportés jusqu'à un boxe de sortie avant l'heure programmée de retrait. Une caisse automatique (22) également reliée à l'installation de traitement de données (25) indique le boxe de sortie correspondant lorsque le client a payé la taxe de stationnement.A parking system comprises a plurality of adjacent and superimposed parking spaces (3) and at least one conveyor (9) which transports vehicles parked on the entrance plane to a parking space, as well as the vehicles parked on a parking space to the exit plan. In order to make the parking system easy to use and to allow rapid entry and exit of vehicles, several or all of the parking spaces located on the entry side on the entrance plan form entry boxes, so that several or all of the parking spaces located on the exit side on the exit plan form exit boxes. An arrangement for entering the probable duration of parking connected to an electronic data processing installation is arranged at a central station (20) for controlling the entries. Detectors (24) arranged in each parking space (3) determine whether the space is occupied or not. The conveyor is controlled, according to a predetermined program which uses the data from the detectors (24) and the entered parking times, by the data processing installation (25), so that the vehicles (4) are transported to to an exit boxing before the scheduled withdrawal time. An automatic cash register (22) also connected to the data processing installation (25) indicates the corresponding exit boxing when the customer has paid the parking fee.

Description

"P a r s s t e m '

The invention relates to a parking system, in particular in the form of a parking garage, with a plurality of zu¬ least above the other and arranged side by side plots and at least one conveyor for conveying a is parked in the entrance level vehicle to a parking space and for conveying _a, auszuparkenden vehicle from is nem _^ Position 1 place to the exit level.

In known parking systems of the type mentioned, the vehicles to be parked drive into a conveyor device and are transported by this to a parking space. When parking, the respective vehicle is picked up from the parking space with the aid of the conveyor device and brought into the parking position, from which the vehicle can be picked up. With this system, not only is the parking or ₄ collection process time-consuming, but there can be a considerable traffic jam if several vehicles are to be picked up and / or parked at the same time.

The invention has for its object to provide a parking system that is easy to use and allows a quick parking and parking. According to the invention, this object is achieved in that several or all of the parking spaces located on the entry side in the entry level are designed as entry boxes, that several or all of the positions on the exit side in the exit level are configured as exit boxes that at a central entrance con trol 1 stati on or at each entrance box a device connected to an electronic data processing system for inputting the expected parking time is arranged that sensors are arranged at the individual parking spaces for determining the case of the egt state and the unoccupied state and with are connected to the electronic data processing system in such a way that the conveyor device can be controlled according to a predetermined program by linking this program with the data from the sensors and the entered parking times via the electronic data processing system such that the respective Vehicle can be transported into an exit box before the programmed pick-up time, and that a cash machine, also connected to the electronic data processing system, displays or prints out the relevant exit box from which the vehicle is to be picked up after payment of the parking fee.

The parking system according to the invention makes it possible for a large number of vehicles to be parked in and out at the same time. This not only eliminates waiting times when several people want to park or pick up their vehicle at the same time, it also shortens the individual parking and unloading process optimally. The user is offered the same level of comfort as if he parked his vehicle in a single garage from which he could pick it up at any time. At the same time, the parking system according to the invention has the advantage that it is large in a confined space with relatively simple means Number of vehicles can be accommodated.

Should the case occur that collisions occur despite a large number of entry and exit boxes, for example due to the fact that several users do not keep to the programmed parking time and the boxes are blocked by vehicles that cannot be picked up at the time entered, This means that the system can already carry out preparatory work to shorten the subsequent cycle. In this case, the respective vehicle to be picked up is preferably transported to a parking space near an exit box before the programmed pick-up time when all exit boxes are in the egt state, and after payment of the parking fee for the vehicle to be picked up, an occupied exit box is cleared via the electronic data processing system with the conveying device and the vehicle to be picked up is transported in the shortest possible way to this exit box, so that the user can only park his vehicle with a slight delay.

The system naturally also works for long-term parkers who have their own code card, this code card replacing a parking ticket and the parking fee.

The exit level is expediently at the same level as the entry level. The parking spaces can then be above and below this level.

The entry and exit boxes can be on the same side, and the entry boxes can also be used as exit boxes at the same time.

If there is enough space, the entry and exit boxes can also be arranged on opposite sides, which makes them easier to use is even improved and collisions with other users who have incorrectly pre-programmed their parking time are practically excluded.

The parking spaces are preferably arranged one above the other and next to one another in two vertical blocks separated by a space. The conveying device can then be arranged in the space between the two vertical blocks.

The conveying device expediently consists of at least one lift which transports the vehicles in the manner of an elevator in the vertical direction and which can also be moved in the horizontal direction. By combining the two lift movements, the vehicles can be transported directly from one place to another using the shortest route, which in turn saves time.

Pallets can be provided to accommodate the vehicles, on which the vehicles remain during the entire parking period, the pallets being able to serve both as standing areas in the parking spaces and as conveyor platforms when transporting the vehicles with the conveyor. Because of this construction, the interior of a parking garage can be designed as a simple steel skeleton, with only lateral horizontal rails need to be present for the parking spaces, onto which the pallet with the vehicle is pushed.

The lift is preferably provided with receptacles for a replacement pallet which, after a pallet occupied by a vehicle has been removed from a parking space, is immediately pushed into the empty parking space. This ensures that pallets are always available in all parking spaces, especially in the entrance boxes. they are. This means that there is also no need for a separate pallet depot.

To increase the security of the system, each entrance or exit box can be assigned an external lock, which can be locked into a reader located outside the box after reading the parking ticket or a code card, and a security lock located on the side facing the lift be closed when the outside lock is open and open when the outside lock is closed. In this way it is ensured that the end is provided with a safety lock while the vehicle is being driven into an entry box, so that the vehicle cannot drive beyond the respective pallet. On the other hand, when the pallet occupied by a vehicle is pulled into the lift, the box is closed to the outside by the outside lock so that an unauthorized person cannot enter the box.

The outer lock and the safety lock can be designed as vertically displaceable locking grids, which are each mounted in guides between two corner posts of the box. The locking grill can hang on common ropes guided over upper rollers, so that the opening of one

Locking grille automatically closes the other locking grille.

The closure grid forming the outer lock is expediently heavier than the lock grid forming the safety lock, wherein only a cable pull connected to the heavy lock grid and operable by a motor needs to be provided to actuate the lock grid. Such a system is relatively simple and requires very little driving force. The method for operating a parking system described above comprises the following method steps: First, a parking ticket is released or a code card is read in at a central control station 1 and the expected parking time is entered, whereupon an admission lock is opened; the user then parks the vehicle in a free entry box in which the vehicle is detected by the sensors and the condition is displayed; after leaving

10 of the vehicle, the user has his parking ticket or the code card acknowledged in a reading device provided outside each drive box; on closing the vehicle is automatically conveyed by the conveying device to a parking space, _each said pitch in dependence on the ein¬ programmed expected parking time in accordance with a predetermined program processing system automatically by the Daten¬ is selected; before the programmed pick-up time, the vehicle is in

_2Q an exit box or, if all exit boxes are in the egt condition, transported to a parking space near the expected exit box; when picking up the vehicle, after paying the parking fee or after reading the code card, the relevant one

₂₅ Exit box displayed or printed from which the vehicle can be picked up.

The invention is illustrated in the drawing, for example, and in detail below

30 described with reference to the drawing. Show it:

1 a parking garage, partly in section, which enables automatic parking and uncovering,

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Fig. 2 is a block diagram of the overall system, and Fig. 3 is an entrance box in enlarged representation 1 ung.

1 shows a parking garage 1 which has 2 parking spaces 3 for vehicles 4 on several floors above and below the street level. The parking spaces 3 are arranged one above the other and next to one another in two mutually opposite vertical planes 5 and 6.

The parking spaces 3 are formed by a steel frame, which provides two lateral stationary roller rails 7 for each individual parking space 3. The roller rails 7 serve to receive transport pallets 8, on each of which a vehicle can be parked and transported with a lift 9.

A total of two lifts 9 are provided which can be moved in a free space between the parking spaces 3 arranged in the vertical planes 5 and 6. The lifts 9 each consist of a tower-like frame 10, which extends over the entire height of the parking garage and can reach both the top and the bottom parking spaces 3.

The tower-like frame 10 is suspended from a trolley 11 which is guided on mounting rails 12. The support rails 12 run a short distance below the roof 13 of the parking garage 1, so that the entire height of the parking garage can be equipped with parking spaces arranged in close succession and can be operated using the two lifts 9.

In each lift there are receiving rails for a transport pallet 8 occupied by a vehicle and, at a distance below, a further pair of rails for receiving a replacement pallet 8a which is fitted with a 1 drive not shown in the drawing after removing an occupied pallet 8 from a

Parking space 3 is inserted into this.

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Those parking spaces, which are located on the long side of the parking garage 1 shown in the drawing at the level of the street level 2, serve as entry and exit boxes 14 Parking and parking can be used.

On the back of parking garage 1, which is not visible in the drawing, there is the same number again

15 of boxes arranged, which can also be used both for entry and exit.

Of course, it is also possible to use the one marked on the visible side of car park 1

_? o to use sixteen boxes only for parking and the sixteen boxes arranged on the opposite side only for parking.

The area on which parking garage 1 is located is

25 shielded from the outside. The entrance 15 can be blocked with the help of an entrance barrier 16 and the exit 17 with an exit barrier 18. A red / green traffic light 19 indicates whether there is still parking space in parking garage 1 or not.

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At a distance in front of the entrance barrier 16 there is an entrance terminal 20 which only responds when a parking space is free for the vehicle in question. Long-term parkers enter 21 in the entrance terminal

35 insert their code card and short-term parkers request a parking ticket at the push of a button. In addition, the arriving parkers must operate a keypad which is provided either directly at the input terminal 20 or at a reading device 21 assigned to each entry box. By pressing the keypad, the expected parking time is programmed.

Furthermore, a pay machine 22 is provided to pay the parking fee or, in the case of long-term parkers, to read in the code card.

An exit terminal 23 is arranged at a distance in front of the exit barrier 18, into which the acknowledged parking tickets or code cards for opening the barrier 18 can be read.

Furthermore, each parking space is assigned 3 sensors 24, which can work, for example ^, photoelectrically or with ultrasound. Furthermore, sensors, not shown, are provided in the drawing for determining the respective lift positions.

Each entry and exit box 14 is assigned an external lock 31, which is automatically locked after reading the ticket or code card into the reader 21 arranged outside the box. As a result, each box is reliably protected from the outside, so that an unauthorized person cannot get into a box during a maneuvering process and can be injured there.

In addition, each entry and exit box 14 has a safety lock 32 on the side facing the lift, which is closed when the external lock 31 is open and is open when the external lock 31 is closed. When a vehicle enters the box, an effective lock is provided at the end of each box that the vehicle cannot drive past the end of the pallet 8. The same applies to parking, where the safety lock 32 is also locked and prevents the vehicle from falling off the pallet 8 on the lift side when pi el swei se when the wrong gear is engaged.

The outer lock 31 and the safety lock 32 are designed as vertically displaceable locking grids 33 and 34, which are each mounted between two corner stands 35 of the box 14 by means of rollers 45 in vertical straight guides 36. The locking grids 33 and 34 hang on common ropes 37 and 38, which are guided over upper rope rollers 39, 40 and 41, 42. In this way, the locking grids 33 and 34 can be actuated in opposite directions. When the shutter grid 33 serving as an external lock is closed, i.e. is pulled down, so that serves as the rear safety lock 32 locking grill 34 goes up and gives access to the lift.

The locking grille 33 serving as an external lock is heavier than the internal locking gate 34, i.e. the external lock automatically pulls the safety lock up when it is lowered. For this reason, only a relatively weak drive for the external lock 31 is required, specifically in the form of a motor 44, which has a cable pull connected to the locking grid 33

43 drives. To lift the locking grid 33, a rope attached to it is attached to one of the motor

44 driven cable spool 47 wound. At the same time, the rear locking grill 34 lowers. To lower the outer grille 33, the motor 44 is not driven, but runs as a motor brake, while the grille 33 by its own gravity into its lower Position reached.

The overall system works according to a predetermined program, which is linked to the individual data from the devices described.

As can be seen from FIG. 2 of the drawing, the heart of the data processing system is a computer 25, which is combined with a diskette station. The individual steps can be followed on a monitor 26. The computer 25 is combined with a memory 27 which, as the main data carrier, has a hard disk on which the program and parking process-specific data are stored. After switching on the computer, the program is automatically loaded from the disk into the computer. To increase the operational safety of the system, e.g. at

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In the event of a power failure, the parking box occupancy is also temporarily stored on the disk, which can then be read back into the computer after a fault. The individual parking processes are also stored here, which can then be used for billing and statistical evaluation. The proposed diskette station has the task of transferring data via diskettes from and to other computers.

The individual devices, such as entrance terminal 20, entrance barrier 16, exit terminal 23, exit barrier 18 as well as automatic teller machine 22 and the sensors 24 provided in the parking spaces 3, the lift sensors 29, the injection devices 21, the traffic light 19 and a control cabinet 30 a power unit for the two lifts 9 correspond to an adaptation unit 28, which in turn is connected to the computer 25. Due to this circuit, all data from the individual devices of the parking system can be linked to a predetermined computer program, so that the parking system can operate fully automatically.

The evaluation of the files as well as the settlement of the regulars will on another computer, for example in an administrative office, done ^'. The data is then saved to disk using the diskette station. The disks can be read and processed by compatible computers. The reverse route is of course also possible, ie system changes which have been worked out on external computers can be transferred to the car park computer.

Operation d, par ^' ksyste s is described in detail below.

A vehicle reaches the entrance terminal 20 and the

The driver requests a parking ticket either at the push of a button or, if he is a long-term parker using a code card, has his card scanned. A parking process number is assigned and the start time and customer status are determined. The parking duration is entered via a keypad provided at the entrance terminal, which means that the parking ticket or the code card is encoded. Then the parking ticket or code card is issued and the entrance barrier 16 is opened.

Free entry boxes are indicated by light signals and the vehicle can then be parked in any free box. At the same time, sensors 24 record the occupancy of the parking space. After the driver has got out, he must acknowledge the parking space with the aid of his parking ticket or his code card on the reading device 21 outside the respective entry box. Then the box is automatically temporarily locked with the help of the external lock 31 and at the same time the safety lock 32 on the side of the box facing the lift is opened, so that the transfer system of the lift has free access to the box.

This is followed by a computer-assisted allocation of a parking space for the parked vehicle. This allocation takes place according to a predetermined program for access time optimization, whereby the parking garage occupancy, the expected parking time, the time of day and the days of the week can be taken into account. t

Depending on the given constellation, the vehicle to be parked is transported to an exit box at a greater or lesser time interval before the end of the entered parking period.

To pick up his vehicle, the driver is first his parking ticket or its code card into the cash machine 20 a, possibly paid. Bühr his Parkge¬ and receives the coded ^'parking ticket or the code card back. At the same time, the exit box is shown on the parking ticket or code card or displayed directly on the box. The driver can then drive his vehicle out of the respective exit box.

A release message is sent to the data processing system via the respective sensor 24, so that this exit box is released for the further process of the parking system can be taken into account.

The driver then drives to exit 17 and has his parking ticket or code card read in at exit terminal 23. The code card is issued again after reading in, while the parking ticket is retained. The exit barrier 18 is then opened so that the driver can leave the premises with his vehicle.

Reference list

1 parking garage

2 street level

3 parking spaces

4 vehicles

5 vertical level

6 vertical level

7 stationary roller tracks

8 transport pallet

8a Replacement - Trans po rtp al et te

9 Lift 0 tower-like frame 1 trolley 2 mounting rails 3 roof entrance and exit box 5 entrance, entrance barrier 7 exit exit barrier red / green traffic light entrance terminal 1 reading machine ticket machine exit terminal 24 sensors

25 computers

26 monitor

27 memory 28 adaptation unit

29 lift sensors

30 control cabinet

31 external lock

32 Security lock 33 Lock grille

34 locking grille

35 corner stands

36 tours

37 rope 38 rope

39 pulley

40 - pulley

41 pulley

42 Rope pulley ⁴³ Rope pull

44 engine

45 castors

46 rope

47 rope spool

Claims

Parking system, in particular in the form of a parking garage, with a multiplicity of parking spaces arranged at least one above the other and next to one another, and at least one conveyor device for conveying a vehicle parked in the entry level to a parking space and for transporting a vehicle to be parked from its parking space to the exit level, thereby "t that several or all of the parking spaces (3) located on the entry side in the entry level (2) are designed as entry boxes (14), that several or all of the positions located on the exit side in the exit level are configured as exit boxes that at a central location Entry control station (20) or at each entry box (14) with an electronic data processing system (25) connected device for entering the expected parking time is arranged that at the individual parking spaces (3) sensors (24) for determining the case egt state It and the non-occupied state are arranged and connected to the electronic data processing system (25), that the conveyor (9) according to a predetermined program by linking this Program with the data from the sensors (24) and the parking times entered can be controlled via the electronic data processing system (25) in such a way that the respective vehicle (4) can be transported into an exit box (14) before the programmed pick-up time, and that a ticket machine (22), also connected to the electronic data processing system (25), displays or prints out the relevant exit box (14) from which the vehicle is to be collected after payment of the parking fee.

2. Parking system according to claim 1, characterized in that the respective vehicle to be picked up can be transported into a parking space near an exit box before the programmed pick-up time when all exit boxes (14) are in the egt state and after ^* Payment of the parking fee for the vehicle to be picked up via the electronic data processing system (25) with the conveyor (9) cleared an occupied exit box and the vehicle to be picked up is transported to this exit box.

3. Parking system according to claim 1 or 2, so that the exit level (2) weighs in the same level as the entry level 1.

4. Parking system according to claim 3, so that the entry and exit boxes (14) are on the same side.

5. Parking system according to claim 4, dadurchge¬ indicates that the entry boxes are exit boxes at the same time.

6. Parking system according to claim 1 or 2, so that the entrance and exit boxes (14) are arranged on opposite sides.

7. Parking system according to one of claims 1 to 5, so that the parking spaces (3) are arranged one above the other and next to one another in two vertical blocks separated by an intermediate space.

8. Parking system according to claim 7, d a d u r c h g e¬ k e n n z e i c h n e t. That the conveyor (9) is arranged in the space between the two vertical blocks.

9. Parking system according to one of claims 1 to 8, dadur "chgekennz ^* eichnet that the conveyor consists of at least one elevator (9) which transports the vehicles (4) in the manner of an elevator in the vertical direction and also in the horizontal direction is movable.

10. Parking system according to claim 9, dadurchge¬ indicates that for receiving the vehicles (4) pallets (8, 8a) are provided, on which the vehicles remain during the entire parking time, the pallets (8, 8a) both as a stand in the parking spaces (3) as well as conveyor platforms when transporting the vehicles with the conveyor.

11. Parking system according to claim 10, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the lift (9)

Pick-up devices for a replacement pallet (8a) which, after a pallet (8) occupied by a vehicle (4) has been removed from a parking space (3), can be inserted into the empty parking space immediately thereafter.

12. Parking system according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that each entry or exit box (14) has an external lock (31) which, after reading the parking ticket or a code card, is arranged in an outside of the box (14) is reading device (21) closable and on the side facing the lift side angeordne¬ te safety lock (32) is associated with the closed when outdoor lock (31) and closed at ^"outer barrier (31) is open.

13. Parking system according to claim 12, characterized in that the Außenensp.erre (31) and the safety lock (32) are designed as vertically displaceable locking grille (33, 34), each between two corner stands (35) of the box (14) in guides (36) are stored.

14. Parking system according to claim 13, so that the locking grids (33, 34) hang on common ropes (37, 38) guided over upper rollers (39, 40 or 41, 42).

15. Parking system according to claim 14, characterized in that the outer lock (31) forming the locking grill (33) is heavier than the security lock (32) forming the locking grill (34) and that only one for actuating the locking grill (33, 34) provided with the heavier locking grille (34) connected with a motor (44) operable cable (43) Z λ is seen.

16. A method for operating a parking system according to one of the preceding claims, g e k e n n- z e i c h n e t d u r c h the combination of the following features:

- First a parking ticket is released or a code card is read in at a central control station 1 and the expected parking time is entered, whereupon an admission lock is opened,

the user then parks the vehicle in a free entry box in which the vehicle is detected by the sensors and the condition is displayed,

- After leaving the vehicle, the user leaves his parking ticket or code card

'acknowledge in a reading device provided outside each entrance box,

- subsequently the vehicle is automatically changed with the conveying device to a parking space beför¬, wherein the pitch as a function of the programmed expected parking time in accordance with a predetermined program ^is automatically selected by the data processing system>

- before the programmed pick-up time, the vehicle is transported to an exit box or, if all exit boxes are in an egt condition, to a parking space near the expected exit box, when collecting the vehicle, after paying the parking fee or after reading the code card, the exit box in question is displayed or printed out from which the vehicle is to be collected.