EP2679747A1 - Device for storing bicycles - Google Patents

Abstract

A multi-tiered structure (8) is provided for positioning pallets (4) having parking spaces (6,7) to receive two-wheeler (2), which is arranged in superposed floors (10,11a-11d). A transporting unit (14) is provided for transporting a pallet between floors in vertical and horizontal directions. The bearing floors (11a-11d) are used for storing pallets, when other floor (10) is set in and/or removed from parking spaces. A stationary release and/or closing device (15,16) is arranged in door, so that palettes can be released and/or closed with respect to spaces.

Description

The present invention relates to a device for storing two-wheeled, in particular bicycles, comprising at least a plurality of pallets, each pallet having a plurality of juxtaposed parking spaces for receiving a two-wheeler, a multi-layered structure for positioning the pallets in a plurality of vertically stacked floors a laterally arranged adjacent transport means for vertically transporting a pallet between the floors and for horizontally transporting the pallet within a floor, wherein at least one floor serves as setting and / or removal days for setting or removal of two-wheeled vehicles in or out of the parking spaces , and the remaining floors serve as storage floors for storing the pallets.

Space-saving storage facilities for bicycles, for various reasons with increasing traffic and dense population increasingly important. Thus, the document discloses DE 200 04 845 U1 a device according to which bicycles are sheltered from the weather and from theft or vandalism unterstellbar. For this purpose, a device accessible from two opposite sides is proposed with a plurality of doors on each side. Each door is used to close a storage space which is tapered starting from the door in its longitudinal direction. This special design means that the bikes are only backward adjustable in the storage rooms, which based on the base of the device, a large number of bicycles is turned off.

The maximum number of bicycles that can be received by the device is determined by the total length of the device, which in turn is determined by the local conditions. An increase in the number to be kept Bicycles per square meter of claimed base area is excluded.

The preamble of claim 1 is of the DE 198 31 886 A1 out. It discloses a device in which - based on the base of the device - significantly more bikes are receivable. This device has a plurality of floors, which are designed for receiving pallets on which bicycles can be parked side by side and one above the other. A pallet is moved to loading or unloading on a loading or unloading days, where users have the opportunity to come from one side to load the bikes on the pallet or to remove them. Each pallet has several stands that are freely accessible. Each floor of the device is due to the arranged on the pallets bike racks the same height and to recognize from the outside by a grid. This device has the disadvantages that the individual users interfere with the simultaneous loading and unloading each other and, above all, that each user's foreign bicycles, which are on the same range, are freely accessible.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a device for storing two-wheelers, which can accommodate based on the base of the device a high number of two-wheelers protected from weather conditions, theft and vandalism.

The solution of this object is achieved according to the invention by the fact that a number of release and / or locking devices, in particular doors, is arranged in the adjustment and / or removal floor in a manner corresponding to the number of storage spaces formed on a pallet, and that through this release and / or or closure device corresponding to each other parking spaces of any pallets are releasable and / or closed.

This results in the advantage that a release and closure device is required only in the setting and / or removal days, but not in the storage floors. The solution according to the invention is therefore characterized by extremely low production costs. Furthermore, each storage space has its own release and / or closure device, so that the user foreign bicycles are not accessible. Last but not least results from the several floors a large storage capacity with a small footprint.

According to a preferred embodiment, the storage levels are formed above and / or below the setting and / or removal days, wherein the setting and / or removal floor has a greater room height than the storage floors. Preferably, the height of a storage floor, only slightly higher than the maximum height of a bicycle, that is about 80 cm to about 140 cm, preferably about 120 cm. The height of the setting and / or removal days corresponds in contrast to the normal housing height, that is about 220 cm to about 250cm.

The low bearing floor height offers the advantage that about twice as many storage levels are possible as if they had the same height as the setting and / or removal days.

According to a further preferred embodiment, the pallets are accessible in the setting and / or unloading days from two opposite sides, i. from both sides several parking spaces are accessible. This has the advantage that many users can simultaneously set and / or remove two-wheelers without hindering each other, and the entire removal and / or setting process is accelerated.

A further increase in the storage capacity results from the fact that each parking space, starting from a front handlebar area in which the rear parking wheel can be fed to the two-wheeler with his handlebar, has a rear approximately V-shaped tapered base.

Suitably, the individual parking spaces are separated by side walls, so that no access to adjacent parking spaces is possible. At the same time a colliding of the two-wheelers during removal or adjustment is prevented by the side walls.

In a further development of the invention, it is recommended to provide the storage positions in the individual storage floors on both sides of the transport device, so that the access capacity and the storage capacity doubles.

In terms of construction, it is recommended to provide a ceiling element below or above at least one storage position, which roofs a residence area upstream of the release and closure devices. As a result, the user when setting and / or removal of the two-wheelers are protected from the weather.

Suitably, this ceiling element is formed by the bottom of the overlying storage floor.

According to a further preferred embodiment, each storage space or storage position is assigned a specific pallet. Thus, each pallet is moved in normal operation only between their storage space or their storage position and the removal and / or setting position. This makes the automatic control easy, inexpensive and error-prone.

In this context, there is the advantageous possibility that at least some pallets are automatically connected to the power grid when they reach their storage position in one of the storage floors, so that the batteries of electrically operated vehicles can be charged during the setting period.

According to a further preferred embodiment, the transport device has both a lifting drive for transporting the pallets in the vertical direction and a shuttle system for horizontal movement of the pallets in the storage levels.

Regarding the transport device is on the DE 297 15 008 and DE 201 200 30 the same applicant, in which a shuttle system is described as part of a transport device. The subject matter of the two abovementioned publications is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety, in particular with regard to all features of the shuttle system disclosed therein, by reference to the disclosure content of the present application.

In a further development of the invention, an automatic control device for the transport device and for the accessibility of a concrete parking space is provided as a function of a credential.

This has the advantage that the user easily gets to the set of two-wheeler and / or automatically assigned an optimal parking space. Preferably, the controller performs a user identification and assigns each user at least one parking space.

It can be chosen between several, in particular two, user concepts. The permanent user option is aimed at users who rent the parking space for a longer period of time. In this case, the user receives an identification means, such as a smart card, whereas the variant spontaneous user is aimed at users who want to use the parking space spontaneously, while the payment can be e.g. done by credit card on the controller or the operator terminal.

The course of a parking process is preferably such that the user selects between two operator terminals, i. the operator terminal on one side with preferably odd parking lot numbers and the operator terminal on the other side with preferably even parking lot numbers. The user receives a chip on the operator terminal. Each chip has a code associated with a particular slot, or the chip's code is first assigned a slot number by the operating system. The control device then ensures that the corresponding pallet is transported to the setting and / or removal floor and opens the locking mechanism on the corresponding door.

The user sets his bike and locks the door again. When the door is locked, the system receives a signal that the parking process has been completed so that the pallet can be stored again.

The parking out takes place preferably adequately, i. the user corresponds via his chip with the control device and the system brings him his bike.

Preferably, two symbol-oriented high-resolution 10.4 "touch-screen operator terminals with signal receivers are provided for activation on both sides of the parking garage, the chip preferably being a so-called my-fair chip with transponder.

Furthermore, a teleservice for remote diagnostics can be optionally provided. In addition or alternatively, a web cam can be installed in the area of the transfer station. With visual connection through this web cam, for example, reset, start or stop functions can be initiated or program updates can be transferred. The web cam is particularly preferred for security and service purposes only.

Fig. 1

einen schematischen Vertikalschnitt der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;

Fig. 2

eine schematische Vorderansicht der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;

Fig. 3

einen Grundriss der Einstell- und/oder Entnahmeetage; und

Fig. 4

einen Grundriss einer Lageretage.

Further features and advantages of the present invention were apparent from the following description and from the figures, in which an exemplary device for storing two-wheeled vehicles is shown. Components of the device, which in the figures substantially coincide with regard to their function, can hereby be identified by the same reference numerals. Show:

Fig. 1

a schematic vertical section of the device according to the invention;

Fig. 2

a schematic front view of the device according to the invention;

Fig. 3

a floor plan of the setting and / or removal floor; and

Fig. 4

a floor plan of a warehouse floor.

In Fig. 1 the device 1 according to the invention in the form of a building for storing two-wheeled vehicles 2 is shown. The two-wheelers 2 are preferably bicycles and / or pedelecs or e-bikes. The inventive device 1 has a multi-layered structure 8, for example, the multi-storey structure 8 of five floors.

An adjustment and / or removal floor 10 is preferably designed as a ground floor, so that two-wheelers can be adjusted or removed at ground level.

Above the setting and / or removal floor 10 four storage levels 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d are arranged. They are preferably identical.

In the adjustment and / or removal floor 10, a first and a second location area 30, 31 are formed in the usual room height, in which the users can stop for setting and / or removal of the two-wheeled 2. The two residence areas 30, 31 are separated from one another by a transport shaft 14, which traverses the floors vertically, of a transport device 14.

In the area of the setting and / or removal floor 10, a transfer device 36 is formed, which encloses the transport shaft 34 at least in sections by means of walls 13 and 33. The walls 13 and 33 can be formed like a fence, window-like and / or wall-like. The transfer device 36 provides a structural delimitation of the transport shaft 34 from the location areas 30, 31. The transport shaft is accessible from a first side 18 and from an opposite second side 19. The residence area 30 formed on the first side 18 of the transfer device 36 and the residence area 31 formed on the second side 19 of the transfer device 36 are roofed by ceiling elements 28 which form the floor of the overlying storage floor 11a.

In the vertical direction, just above the first and second location areas 30, 31, a first and a second storage position 26, 27 for receiving at least one pallet 4 are provided on each storage floor 11a to 11d. The storage positions 26, 27 in the storage floors are like the first and second residence area 30, 31 separated by the transport device 14 and its shaft 34 from each other or spaced.

In Fig. 2 an external view of the device 1 according to the invention is shown. It can be seen columns 38, which the ceiling elements 28 (see. Fig. 1 ) are supported above the residence areas 30, 31. Furthermore, inner supports are preferably present in the vertices of the transport device 14. These inner supports can also serve to guide the transport device 14.

Also shows FIG. 2 Release and / or locking devices 15 and 16. These preferably designed as doors devices are stationary in the setting and removal days and can be opened to set or remove the two-wheeled 2. They are installed in the wall 13 and form an access to the transport shaft 34. For example, 6 doors 15 on the first side 18 and as many doors 16 on the second side 19 of Transport shaft 36 arranged, see. FIG. 3 , The doors 15, 16 are each pivotable about a space-fixed, vertical axis. Between the upper edge of the individual doors 15, 16 and the ceiling element 28, the transfer device 36 forms the wall 13, which allows access to the shaft 34 (see. Fig. 1 ) prevented. As a result, therefore, the bicycles can be adjusted within the shaft cross-section through the doors 15 and 16. In contrast, the later storage of bicycles in the storage floors 11 a to 11 d takes place laterally next to the transport shaft 34 in storage positions 26 and 27th

In addition, the device 1 has at least one control device 32, preferably on both sides 18, 19. This control device 32 is associated with at least the release and / or locking devices 15 of a page 18 such that it controls the opening and / or closing of individual release and / or locking devices.

The release and / or closure devices 15, 16 are preferably designed as electronic locks. They may have an indicator to let the user know if the door is locked or not.

In Fig. 3 the setting and removal floor 10 is shown in plan.

It will be appreciated that the doors 15, 16 of each side are each spaced equidistantly from each other and that opposite doors are each offset by about one-half the width of the door.

A particularly advantageous embodiment of the doors 15 and 16 is that they are not formed as in the drawing as swing doors, but as lifting doors. This results in the advantage that the open doors are not in the way and thus can not hinder the retraction or retraction of the bicycles from the parking spaces.

Suitably, these lifting doors are moved from their closed position upwards. This can be realized, for example, by installing vertical guides for the lifting doors in the wall 13.

Regardless of whether it is swing doors or lift doors, these doors can be opened either manually or by motor. The latter is expediently carried out via a control device which makes available a concrete parking space as a function of a credential.

It is also essential that the parking spaces 6, 7 for the bicycles are each arranged on pallets 4. These pallets expediently extend over the entire cross section of the transport shaft 34 and can be raised and lowered in this shaft by means of said transport device 14, so that they can be moved into the desired storage floor 11a to 11d. Of course, a plurality of juxtaposed, independently movable pallets can be provided in the shaft cross-section, so in parking systems with very many parking spaces, the waiting time for setting or removal of a bicycle is shortened.

One of the 4 palettes can be seen in FIG. 1 , as it is currently driven horizontally by the transport device 14 from the transport shaft 34 out into the storage floor 11 c. This horizontal movement of the pallets expediently takes over a shuttle built into the transport device 14. Instead, however, it is also possible to use the transport device 14 only for transport in the vertical direction and provide additional transport facilities for horizontal pallet transport.

On each pallet 4 numerous first and second parking spaces 6, 7 are arranged side by side. The first parking spaces 6 are accessible only from one direction 18 and the second parking spaces 7 are accessible only from the opposite direction 19. The first parking spaces 6 and the second parking spaces 7 each have a V-shaped basic shape 22, but are oriented in opposite directions.

The individual parking spaces 6, 7 are in their the doors 15, 16 facing areas 20 wider than at the opposite rear end. A bicycle 2 can therefore only be introduced backwards into its parking space, so that the handlebar 21 of the bicycle 2 remains in the front wider area 20. Adjacent parking spaces 6 and 7 are separated from each other by intermediate walls 24. This ensures that the user after opening a door 15 or 16 is always only an individual parking space available and that no interference with an adjacent parking space is possible. Therefore, can easily be deposited in the parking lots shopping bags or valuables.

Regardless of this, further securing devices (not shown) may be provided in individual or all parking spaces 6, 7, so that the users can, for example, fix their bicycles 2 with their own locks on the respective parking space 6, 7 or on the pallet 4.

In Fig. 4 one of the bearing floors 11a to 11d is shown, on which two pallets 4 in two different bearing positions 26, 27 are arranged. The storage positions 26, 27 are arranged on both sides of the transport shaft 34, in which the pallets 4 can be moved vertically by means of the transport device 14. The pallet 4 can be transferred by the shuttle of the transport device 14 horizontally out of the storage position 26 out in the shaft 34, whereupon then the vertical transport of the pallet 4 in the discharge days 10 is possible. It is also conceivable that by means of the shuttle a repositioning of the pallet 4 within the same floor or between different storage levels can be performed.

To simplify the automatic control of the transport device 14, it is recommended, however, if each pallet 4 is associated with a fixed storage location in one of the storage floors, that is, each pallet has its own storage position in a particular storage floor.

In summary, the present invention thus distinguished by the fact that in the input or removal station only access to the one, assigned bike and not on foreign bikes, because each parking space is assigned its own door, further characterized in that the doors are stationary only in the adjustment and / or removal days are provided and the setting and removal of the wheels in the stroke of the transport device takes place, so that there is an extremely compact and inexpensive construction.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

contraption

2

bicycle

4

palette

6

First parking spaces

7

Second parking spaces

8th

Multi-layered structure

10

Adjustment and / or removal days

11a to 11 d

warehouse floors

12

partition

13

Side wall

14

transport means

15

First release and / or locking devices

16

Second release and / or locking devices

18

First page

19

Second page

20

handlebar area

21

handlebars

22

Floor space

24

Side wall

26

First storage position

27

Second storage position

28

ceiling element

30

First lounge area

31

Second lounge area

32

control device

33

wall

34

shaft

36

Transfer device

38

pillar

Claims (14)

Device (1) for storing two-wheeled vehicles (2), in particular bicycles, at least comprising
a plurality of pallets (4), each pallet (4) having a plurality of storage spaces (6, 7) arranged next to one another for receiving a respective two-wheeled vehicle (2),
a multi-layered structure (8) for positioning the pallets (4) in a plurality of stacked levels (10, 11a to 11d),
a transport device (14) arranged laterally next to it for vertically transporting a pallet (4) between the floors (10, 11a to 11d) and for horizontally transporting the pallet (4) within a floor (11a to 11d), wherein at least one floor as Setting and / or removal floor (10) for setting or removing two-wheeled vehicles (2) in or out of the parking spaces (6, 7) is used, and
the remaining floors serve as storage floors (11a to 11d) for storing the pallets (4),
characterized in that
in the setting and / or removal floor (10) for each on a pallet (4) formed parking space (6, 7) a stationary release and / or closure device (15, 16), in particular door, is arranged, and that by these parking spaces (6, 7) of any pallets (4) that can be released and / or closed can be released and / or closed by a release and / or closure device (15, 16). Device according to claim 1,
characterized,
that above and / or below the adjustment and / or removal floor (10), the bearing floors are formed, wherein the adjustment and / or removal floor (10) is formed higher than the individual bearing floors (11a to 11d). Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the pallet transport in the horizontal direction only in the storage days (11 a to 11 d) takes place. Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the release and / or closure devices open into a shaft (34) of the transport device (14). Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the release and / or closure devices (15, 16) are designed as lifting doors. Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the storage spaces (6, 7) in the setting and / or removal floor (10) are accessible from two opposite sides (18, 19) such that each storage space (6, 7) is accessible from one of the release and closure means (15, 16 ), in which the the parking space (6, 7) fed backward two-wheeler (2) with its handlebar (21), a in its longitudinal direction approximately V-shaped tapered base (22), such that in the case of two parking spaces (6, 7) formed directly adjacent to one another, one of these two parking spaces (6) can be fed and / or removed exclusively from one side (18) and the other parking space (7) is a two-wheeler exclusively from the opposite side (19) can be supplied and / or removed. Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the parking spaces (6, 7) are separated by lateral walls (24). Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that the pallets (4) in the storage floors (11a to 11d) in different storage positions (26, 27) are transportable or that preferably each pallet (4) is associated with a specific storage position. Device according to claim 8,
characterized in that
in the individual storage levels (11, 12, 13) on both sides of the transport device (14) bearing positions (26, 27) are provided. Device according to claim 8 or 9,
characterized in that
the pallets (4) upon reaching their storage position (26, 27) receive a power connection. Device according to one of claims 8 to 10,
characterized in that
below or above at least one storage position (26, 27) is a ceiling element (28) is formed, which overlaps a the release and locking devices (15, 16) upstream storage area (30, 31) as a roof. Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that
the transport device (14) has a vertical drive for transporting the pallets (4) in the vertical direction and a shuttle system for horizontal movement of the pallets (4) in the storage levels (11a to 11d). Device according to one of the preceding claims,
characterized in that they
a control device (32) for making available a certain parking space (6, 7) in dependence on a credential. Device according to claim 12,
characterized in that
the control device (32) performs a user identification and assigns each user at least one individual parking space (6, 7).

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