EP0504750A2 - Garage automatique - Google Patents

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EP0504750A2
EP0504750A2 EP92104353A EP92104353A EP0504750A2 EP 0504750 A2 EP0504750 A2 EP 0504750A2 EP 92104353 A EP92104353 A EP 92104353A EP 92104353 A EP92104353 A EP 92104353A EP 0504750 A2 EP0504750 A2 EP 0504750A2
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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
    • E04H6/182—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
    • E04H6/183—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 without transverse movement of the car after leaving the transfer means

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  • the invention relates to an automatic, computerized, multistory silo for automobiles.
  • Computerized silos for automobiles are known at present which comprise a parallelepipedal ensilage structure, made of steel framework and/or reinforced concrete, covered and protected on each side against weather, built up from ground level, or underground, or within floating structures, adapted to contain side-by-side compartments, superposed on each other in a multistory arrangement, preferably opposite to each other and open towards a service corridor provided with longitudinal rails on which a powered tower structure (transelevator) may run, said tower being as high as said ensilage structure and being provided with an elevator unit designed to pick up the vehicle to be parked and to ensile it automatically into one selected compartment, and designed to effect as well the contrary operation of withdrawing the vehicle from the selected compartment and returning it to the exit station.
  • a powered tower structure transelevator
  • the longer dimension of said compartments is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the service corridor and the platform of the elevator is provided with telescopic structures which may be extended in cantilever fashion from any one of the sides of the elevator, to introduce the vehicles into and withdraw them from any one of the selected compartments, by translating said vehicles perpendicularly to their longitudinal axis and by supporting said vehicles by their wheels.
  • the ensilage compartments are provided at the bottom with combs the teeth of which are directed perpendicularly to the service corridor and, therefore, parallelly to the axes of the wheels of the vehicles which are disposed on said combs and which are thereafter picked up therefrom by a complementary comb-like structure which is associated telescopically with the elevator platform and which, as stated above, is adapted to be extended in cantilever fashion from any one of the sides of said elevator.
  • a silo of this type basically, has the following disadvantages:
  • the invention aims to overcome these and other disadvantages and limitations, by providing the following solution.
  • the bottom of the parking compartments is provided with powered conveyors, for example chain conveyors, which are independent of each other.
  • a compartment may be constructed with such a depth as to accommodate more than one vehicle.
  • each compartment section capable of accommodating one vehicle comprises its own bottom-powered conveyor, which is interlinked in comb-like fashion with the powered conveyor of the adjacent compartment section.
  • the platform of the elevator on which the vehicle to be parked rests comprises powered conveyors similar to those in said compartments and adapted to co-operate therewith in comb-like fashion.
  • the conveyors of the platform and the compartments are activated automatically, whereby the vehicle is quickly transferred from the platform into the compartment.
  • the elevator platform may be moved away from said compartment because it has no comb-like structures to be withdrawn from said compartment, as occurring in the known art.
  • the vehicle in the outer portion of the compartment may be then trasferred into the inner section of the same compartment by activating the bottom conveyor of said compartment, and all the above regardless of the presence of the elevator.
  • the de-ensilage step of a vehicle is similarly quick and simple.
  • the conveyors of said platform and compartment are activated automatically and simultaneously, and the vehicle is transferred immediately from the compartment to the elevator.
  • Figures 1, 2 and 7 show a simplified parking silo 31, built up on the ground and comprising a plurality of compartments 29 superposed on each other in a multistory arrangement and opposite to each other so as to constitute two towers separated by a corridor C having in plan view the same dimensions as one of said compartments.
  • an elevator 4 which, when in its lowermost position, has its horizontal loading platform 3 flush with an entrance ramp 1 and an exit ramp 2 for the automobiles, arranged at the opposite ends of the corridor C.
  • the elevator 4 moves along vertical fixed guides 6, and by means of grooved pulleys 7 and hoisting ropes 8 said elevator co-operates with a capstan 9 arranged, for example, in the upper portion of the corridor C.
  • the platform 3 comprises two transverse, aligned and opposite rows of chain conveyors T formed by tubular beams 10, (see also Figure 6) presenting on their upper and lower portion longitudinal guides 11 for rolling engagement with the rollers 12 of chains 13 passed around sprockets 15, 16 arranged at the ends of said beams.
  • the outer sprockets 16 are freely rotatable, while the inner ones 15 are keyed on shafts 19 which are supported on bearings 20 and are connected through a drive 18 to a reversible geared motor 17.
  • the chains 13 are of the bridge type ( Figure 6) with externally knurled shoes 14 on which the tires of the vehicles will rest (see below).
  • a group of conveyors supports the front wheels of a vehicle and comprises a centering device (see below) for fixedly positioning said wheels.
  • the other group of chain conveyors has a larger extension than the former to match every wheel base of the vehicles to be parked.
  • running boards 21 of ridged plate are arranged between the groups of chain conveyors, and parallel and co-planar between said conveyors there are provided tubular bars 22 which are connected to each other by beams 23 ( Figures 1, 2, 3, 4) which, in turn, are connected to rocking arms 24 which are actuated by hydraulic cylinders 25, whereby said bars 22 can be selectively lowered below said chain conveyors (see below).
  • a free compartment is provided beside it and comprises a stationary platform 28 for entrance and exit of the driver.
  • a compartment 29 adapted for parking a vehicle.
  • each compartment 29 comprises at the bottom a row of chain conveyors T1 similar to the conveyors T of the platform 3, directed in the same direction and staggered for co-operating therewith in comb-like fashion.
  • the chain conveyors in the compartments are also provided with tubular bars 30 on which said chains 13 can slide, said bars being connected to a fixed structure 31 by means of spacing and supporting members 32 and respective tierods 33.
  • the chains 13 in the compartments are also powered, through sprokets 15, by a geared motor 34 and a shaft 35 resting on supports 36.
  • the chain conveyors in a compartment constitute the supporting base for the automobiles being parked. In order to protect the automobiles parked therebelow from any dripping of oil, mud, water, each compartment is provided with shields P with respective drains.
  • the described silo for automobiles operates as follows.
  • An automobile A with only the driver therein, after passing beyond conventional electronic checks ascertaining its weight and dimensions (not shown), proceeds onto the platform 3 via the ramp 1 ( Figure 1) until its front wheels abut against the stops 26, moved to their top position by the respective cylinder 127 ( Figure 3).
  • the abutment of the wheels against the stops 26 causes, by means of a signal processed by a sensor (not shown), the rear stops 126 to be raised by the cylinder 27.
  • the automobile is centered and suitably locked on the platform 3 of the elevator.
  • the computer which manages the automatic operation of the silo selects the compartment at which the automobile shall be parked and activates the capstan 9.
  • the platform 3 is lifted and is positioned with its chain conveyors T into co-planar, comb-like relation with respect to the similar chain conveyors T1 of the selected compartment. As soon as the platform is aligned with the compartment, the transfer of the vehicle is started.
  • the bars 22 which were in their lifted position upon the access of the vehicle onto the platform 3, will be lowered so that the tires of said vehicle will rest only on the chains 13 of the conveyors of the platform.
  • the geared motors 17 and 34 are activated simultaneously, in the same direction and at the same speed.
  • the vehicle will be transferred from the chain conveyors T of the loading platform to those T1 of the selected compartment, with no jolts, thanks to the comb-like penetration of the consecutive ends of said conveyors.
  • a sensor of any suitable type will stop said geared motors when the vehicle A has been suitably arranged in the compartment.
  • the platform 3 is now ready for a successive operation and will be lowered to ground floor to pick up a new vehicle, or else it may be given a different command if in the meantime the computer has been instructed to discharge a vehicle.
  • the de-ensilage of a vehicle is effected with a contrary procedure.
  • the vehicle to be returned may have of a through-exit, i.e. opposite to the entrance as shown on the drawings, or else the exit may be effected by driving in reverse over the same entrance ramp, or by other solutions.
  • the silo may be provided with a plurality of stacked compartments arranged longitudinally on each side of the corridor C, and in this case the loading platform 3 shall be mounted on a powered tower capable of being displaced along said corridor to bring the platform in line with the selected column of compartments.
  • the chain conveyors T of the platform are constructed so as to be able to effect a small retraction and extension movement longitudinally at their free ends.
  • the conveyors in the compartments may not be provided with an actuation geared motor and may be actuated by the geared motor of the conveyors of the elevator platform 3, through a suitable plug-and-socket power takeoff system of the automatic quick-coupling and uncoupling type.
  • the compartments may present such a depth as to contain more than one vehicle A and each compartment section 29-129 capable of containing more than one vehicle will be provided with its own bottom chain conveyors T1, T2 provided with their respective actuating means and inter-engaged in comb-like fashion.
  • the compartment sections 129 which are farther from the service corridor C will accommodate the vehicles with longer parking periods.
  • the computer will actuate the loading platform 3 so as to remove any obstructing vehicle by transferring it into a free compartment and by storing the transfer into memory.

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ITBO910084A IT1246104B (it) 1991-03-18 1991-03-18 Autosilo automatico computerizzato pluripiano.
ITBO910084 1991-03-18

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EP0577075A1 (fr) * 1992-06-30 1994-01-05 Tsubota Takahiro Parc de stationnement
US6077017A (en) * 1997-06-06 2000-06-20 Park Plus, Inc. Vehicle handling system
CN111456514A (zh) * 2020-04-15 2020-07-28 孙景云 一种交换梳齿式停车设备
CN113622724A (zh) * 2021-08-24 2021-11-09 青岛茂源停车设备制造有限公司 一种协调升降的立体车库及存取方法

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US2899086A (en) * 1959-08-11 Thaon de saint-andre
FR1430244A (fr) * 1965-01-08 1966-03-04 Installation de garage parking pour véhicules automobiles
FR1501747A (fr) * 1966-05-18 1967-11-18 Système de transfert des véhicules automobiles entre élévateur et box dans les parkings à étages
FR1585920A (fr) * 1968-06-17 1970-02-06
EP0275004A1 (fr) * 1987-01-07 1988-07-20 Giorgio Bragaglia Garage automatique

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US2899086A (en) * 1959-08-11 Thaon de saint-andre
FR1430244A (fr) * 1965-01-08 1966-03-04 Installation de garage parking pour véhicules automobiles
FR1501747A (fr) * 1966-05-18 1967-11-18 Système de transfert des véhicules automobiles entre élévateur et box dans les parkings à étages
FR1585920A (fr) * 1968-06-17 1970-02-06
EP0275004A1 (fr) * 1987-01-07 1988-07-20 Giorgio Bragaglia Garage automatique

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0577075A1 (fr) * 1992-06-30 1994-01-05 Tsubota Takahiro Parc de stationnement
US5470185A (en) * 1992-06-30 1995-11-28 Takenaka Corporation Parking garage
US6077017A (en) * 1997-06-06 2000-06-20 Park Plus, Inc. Vehicle handling system
CN111456514A (zh) * 2020-04-15 2020-07-28 孙景云 一种交换梳齿式停车设备
CN113622724A (zh) * 2021-08-24 2021-11-09 青岛茂源停车设备制造有限公司 一种协调升降的立体车库及存取方法

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