EP0475912B1 - Parking plant for motor vehicles - Google Patents

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EP0475912B1
EP0475912B1 EP91830328A EP91830328A EP0475912B1 EP 0475912 B1 EP0475912 B1 EP 0475912B1 EP 91830328 A EP91830328 A EP 91830328A EP 91830328 A EP91830328 A EP 91830328A EP 0475912 B1 EP0475912 B1 EP 0475912B1
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Ruggiero Valerio
Massimo Galliani
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H6/00—Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels or like vehicles, e.g. garages
    • E04H6/08—Garages for many vehicles
    • E04H6/12—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles
    • E04H6/18—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions
    • E04H6/28—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions characterised by use of turntables or rotary rings for horizontal transport
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
    • E04H6/00—Buildings for parking cars, rolling-stock, aircraft, vessels or like vehicles, e.g. garages
    • E04H6/08—Garages for many vehicles
    • E04H6/12—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles
    • E04H6/18—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions
    • E04H6/182—Garages for many vehicles with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles with means for transport in vertical direction only or independently in vertical and horizontal directions using car-gripping transfer means

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  • the present invention relates to a plant for the shelter of motor vehicles and in particular to a parking plant which is automatically operable such as that known from US-A-2 791 338.
  • Parking problems especially in the centre of big cities, are known to everybody.
  • the most common solution is one which provides an area where the motor vehicles are to be parked, usually by the drivers themselves, all aligned to each other, in appropriate places, or parking places, which are of predetermined extent inside the same area.
  • Another known solution requires digging to obtain extended underground rooms for the use as a parking plant. Such a solution, however, even if it is realizable, is expensive, and in any case, it requires considerable space for approaching and maneuvering the vehicle as for the case of parking plants at ground level.
  • Another known solution provides the construction of buildings with many floors where the motor vehicles are parked in appropriate places inside extended rooms. Due to the vertical extension of the buildings, the urban area employed is much less than that needed by ground-level-plants.
  • the known buildings and plants for the parking of vehicles require uneasy maneuvering in order to put the motor vehicle inside the plant, and such maneuvering will be particularly difficult in the case in which the space, for approaching and maneuvering of the vehicle is reduced to a minimum, as is often the case when the number of parking places inside the plant is maximized.
  • the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking plant in which the approaching and maneuvering spaces are very limited compared to those of the known plants. Another purpose is to provide such a plant which can be used easily without involving personally the driver of the motor vehicle to be parked in the maneuvering.
  • One object of the present invention is to provide means capable of easily transforming an already existing building into a plant.
  • the translating platform of the invention is rotatable and can be aligned with the parking place.
  • the angle of rotation can be arbitrary, and preferably, if enough space is available, the parking places can all be arranged orthogonally to the translational path of the translating platform, so that said angle of rotation is of 90°.
  • a further object of the present invention is to realize the translating platform in two parts, an upper part and a lower part or truck, the upper part being capable of translating relative to the truck so as to approach the parking place.
  • the means provided by the invention can be used also in a building expecially constructed for the purpose of realizing a parking plant.
  • the parking plant comprises a structure with two floors which is divided into small rooms, or boxes, indicated by reference numeral 1.
  • the boxes are such as to be able to contain two motor vehicles each.
  • the division into boxes is not necessary, and the boxes could have such dimensions as to contain only one vehicle or more than two vehicles.
  • the structure comprises also closely located columns, indicated by 3, which, in general could also not be present or be more spaced apart from each other, to more clearly illustrate the fact that the plant according to the invention can be realized in confined areas.
  • a supporting structure generally indicated by reference numeral 5, which is made of a pair of steel beams 5a fixed to the floor and parallel to each other. Between each pair of beams 5a, a band 5b is mounted in such a way as to be able to move freely sliding on two rollers, or between a pair of gear wheels at the end of the beams (not shown).
  • the bands can be made of hard reinforced rubber as is usual for transporting bands, or they can be replaced by metallic tracks.
  • the dimensions of the transporting bands or the tracks and the distances between them are such as to allow every type of vehicle to be put on them, with the wheels on one side of the vehicle being set on the surface of a band.
  • blocking means of the wheels can be provided (not shown).
  • the space defined by a pair of transporting bands used to accept a motor vehicle will be called parking-place in the following.
  • the plant also comprises a loading platform 7 and a hydraulic cylinder 8 for the lifting of the platform 7 from the lower to the upper floor.
  • the hydraulic cylinder 8 is mounted in the interior of a space 11 and is guided into the space 11 by a truck 13 whose wheels 13a slide along the walls of the space 11.
  • the loading platform 7 also rotates around a vertical axis passing through its center by means of a suitable device, for example an electro-mechanical or hydraulic actuator (not shown).
  • a suitable device for example an electro-mechanical or hydraulic actuator (not shown).
  • the plant also comprises a translating platform, indicated generally by 15, mounted on a truck 17.
  • the latter is pulled by an appropriate actuating device (not shown), by means of a chain 19, along the floor which separates two series of parking places and is guided by two rails 21 which engage with four wheels 17a of the truck 17.
  • the translating platform 15 comprises a pair of transporting bands, or tracks 23, similar to those of the parking places, and arranged at the same height of these. These bands however, instead of being free to slide on their respective bearing, are actuated by an actuating assembly, indicated generally by 25 in fig. 5, mounted by means of members not shown in the figure, to the frame 24 of the translating platform 15.
  • an electric motor 25a rotates by means of a cog belt 25b, a worm 25c, which in turn sets a gear 25d into rotation, which is keyed on a shaft 25e together with a belt pulley 25f.
  • the latter transmits the motion, by means of a cog belt 25g, to a pulley 23a keyed on an axis 23b on which two pairs of driving wheels 23c of the transporting bands 23 are keyed.
  • Friction wheels 29, whose way of operation will be described later, are connected to the axes 23b and 27a by means of arms 31 so as to be rotated by the transporting bands 23.
  • the platform 15, is also rotatable around a vertical axis a-a passing through the center of the truck 17 by means of a crown wheel, a pinion and an electric actuator, schematically shown and indicated by 36 in the drawing.
  • the motor vehicle enters the plant in the lower floor and is set by the driver himself directly on the transporting bands 9 of the loading platform 7, which is located, in this situation, in the lowest position, that is at the same level of the lower floor.
  • the motor vehicle is brought to the upper floor and precisely with loading platform 7 on the same level of translating platform 15.
  • the loading platform 7 is then rotated by 90° so that its transporting bands 9 are aligned to the transporting bands 23 of the translating paltform 15, which in the meantime is set near the point of arrival of the lifting device, as shown in figures 1 and 2.
  • hydraulic cylinder 33 is actuated so as to displace translating platform 15 with respect to the truck 17, until the ends of the relative transporting bands 23 are located near the ends of transporting bands 9 of the loading platform 7 and precisely until the friction wheels 29 are in contact with said bands 9 in such a way as to be engaged by way of friction with the adjacent bands of both platforms.
  • motor 25a of the actuating assembly 25 is actuated in such a way as to move the transporting bands 23 of the translating platform 15 clockwise, that is so as to move from left to right, looking at the drawing, an object placed on them.
  • the motion is transmitted, by means of friction wheels 29, to the transporting bands 9 of the loading platform 7, and so the latter move in the same sense of the transporting bands 23 of the translating platform 15.
  • the motor vehicle is thus displaced to the right, looking at the drawing, and is transferred from the loading platform 7 to the translating platform 15.
  • the motor 25a is stopped exactly at the time when the motor vehicle 37 is entirely on the transporting bands 23 of the translating platform 15.
  • Hydraulic cylinder 33 is again actuated so as to bring the translating platform 15 in a central position with reference to the truck 17.
  • the truck 17 is then displaced along the passageway by means of the chain 19 until it reaches a position adjacent to an empty parking place, and the platform 15 is rotated by 90° so as to align its transporting bands with those of the parking place.
  • the described parking plant can be equipped with means and devices for the automatic and programmed execution of all parking operations.

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IT04821490A IT1247704B (it) 1990-08-07 1990-08-07 Impianto automatizzabile di parcheggio per autoveicoli
IT4821490 1990-08-07

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FR619874A (fr) * 1925-12-15 1927-04-11 Système de construction et d'aménagement pour garages de voitures automobiles ou autres
US2791338A (en) * 1955-02-23 1957-05-07 Saint-Andre Andre Thaon De Storage installations, in particular parking installations for automobile vehicles
EP0041241A1 (en) * 1980-05-29 1981-12-09 Rohde Hartwig Self-controlled automotive vehicle parking
WO1986003246A1 (en) * 1984-11-23 1986-06-05 Collins Earl R Modular storage and retrieval system for automobiles and the like
IT1181845B (it) * 1985-01-10 1987-09-30 Paolo Pietropaoli Posteggio automatico multipiano con movimentazione delle auto su pianili

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DE69110223D1 (de) 1995-07-13
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