ES2279285T3 - GARAGE. - Google Patents

Abstract

Parking garage having at least two parking areas inside said parking garage, each parking area comprising a plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, a wall segment of said wall extending along said plurality of parking spaces, said wall segment having a color pattern comprising at least two contrasting colors, whereby the color patterns of wall segments of different parking areas differ in color and in the pattern of the color patterns.

Description

Parking garage.

The present invention relates to a garage of parking lot that has an improved number of garage users of parking.

Parking garages are widely used in urban settlements to allow for temporary storage  of cars. Parking garages are often very large since they have several hundred parking spaces which can be located in different plants. When a user of a parking garage leads to a parking garage, normally he drives through a parking floor and, if if necessary, through several floors of the car park until which finds a parking space and uses it to park a car. When the user later returns to the parking garage To find your car, users often have trouble remembering the particular parking area or floor from the parking lot where they left their car. The systems of numbering used in general such as the assignment of letters to the parking floors are not very helpful, since the Users tend to forget the letter or number that designates the area of parking where they left their car. Therefore, the users frequently have to search in several areas of parking or on several floors of a garage parking lot parking to find your car, which wastes a valuable time to the user. Also, this valuable time waste for the owner of the parking garage and for other people  who need a free parking space, since the parking spaces Parking remains occupied more than necessary. Thus, the overall efficiency of using parking garages Conventional is low. In addition, parking garages They are generally not attractive sites, which makes searches of a parked car, particularly at the last minute of the afternoon or for a woman, very unpleasant.

US 4,674,937 describes a car parking facility multi-level, each level being identifiable with numbers and / or letters and / or colors and / or an audible sound such as a song. Describe a parking garage that has the characteristics of the preamble of claim 1.

Therefore, it is an object of the invention provide a parking garage that allows a greater number of users shortening the time required to find a car parked Another object of the invention is to provide a garage of Improved commercial efficiency parking. Another object of the invention is to provide a parking garage that is more attractive to a user.

The invention provides a garage of parking that has at least two parking areas within said parking garage, each zone comprising parking a plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, extending a wall segment of said wall to the along said plurality of parking spaces, said having wall segment a color pattern comprising at least two contrasting colors, where the color patterns of the Wall segments of different parking areas are different and differ in color and in the pattern of the patterns of color and as further defined in claim 1.

The invention also provides a use of a color pattern in a parking garage as defined in this document to guide a user of said garage of parking to a vehicle parked by said user. The invention additionally provides a system to memorize the location of a parking space in a parking garage, said system comprising a parking garage and a skipper of color as defined in this document.

It has been discovered that the use of patterns specific colors that designate the parking areas of a parking garage allows the user of a garage of parking memorize easily and remember the area of parking in which the car is separated. In the invention, the color pattern is chosen and arranged so that it affects the a user's memory without the user having to memorize Actively the parking area. If a user leaves their car in a particular area, the user is exposed to the color pattern of the wall segment corresponding to the parking area chosen The color pattern is unconsciously memorized by the Username. When the user subsequently returns to the garage of parking to find your car, the parking areas that they have wall segments with different color patterns than memorized by the user are immediately recognized as false, and the parking area that has the memorized color pattern It is recognized as correct. This system provides a guide for user to the parked car. This system is based on the surprising finding that the color patterns of the invention can be easily memorized by users of a garage of parking. Compared to an otherwise parking garage comparable from the prior art, garage users of parking of the invention need, on average, less time To find their cars. In this way, the process of Parking is more efficient. On average, more users can use the parking garage of the invention for a period of time default of for example one day. In addition, the garage of Parking of the invention is more attractive and attractive to users, thus improving the garage renovation of parking.

An important advantage is obtained if used corporate identity colors or logos of very companies known in or as said color patterns. The use of sayings color patterns in this invention leads to an intense effect about memory and an intense impression / perception of the pattern of color by a user and vice versa. These two effects can amplify each other.

The parking garage is divided into at least Two parking areas inside the parking garage. Every parking area comprises a plurality of parking spaces parking adjacent to a wall, where a segment of said wall extends, in horizontal direction, along said plurality of parking spaces. Said plurality of places of parking comprises at least two parking spaces, preferably at least three parking spaces, more preferably at least four parking spaces. There is no strict upper limit for the number of parking spaces of said plurality of parking spaces that are located adjacent to said wall. This upper limit is determined in general by the length of said wall segment and can be greater than 100. Preferably, the upper limit is 50 seats of parking. In this document, a parking space is considers that it is located adjacent to a wall, if the limits from said parking space are 2 meters, preferably 1  meter of said wall. The number of parking spaces in a plurality of parking spaces in different areas of Parking can be the same or different.

Not all parking spaces in an area parking must be located adjacent to a wall, with the condition that a plurality of parking spaces be locate adjacent to a wall. Preferably, said segment of wall that carries the color pattern must be visible essentially from all parking spaces in the parking area correspondent. The minimum number of parking spaces per parking area is 2. The maximum number of parking spaces Parking by parking area is not limited. Without However, the maximum number of parking spaces in an area of parking should be such that it provides an effective guide for a User up to your car. Therefore, the maximum number of places of parking in a parking area must be a maximum of 200, preferably at most 100, more preferably at most 50 parking spaces

Said wall may be an outer wall of said parking garage or an interior wall of said garage of parking. Said wall serves at least the purpose of incorporate said color pattern. Said wall can be made of concrete, brick, drywall or any other material that provides a solid support for said pattern of color. Said wall typically extends from the floor of a parking floor to the roof. Support walls They are typically made of reinforced concrete or bricks, where non-support walls can be made of materials less stable such as drywall.

The segment of a wall extends along of said plurality of parking spaces. Extending to what along said plurality of parking spaces forces the user of a parking space of said plurality of places parking to approximate said color pattern in said wall. A segment of said wall is defined as having a type of color pattern in it. A segment of a wall can have the same color pattern repeated several times near another. A wall of said parking garage may comprise more than a wall segment, where the color patterns of said Wall segments will be different. It is not necessary that all parking spaces of a particular parking area are locate adjacent to the wall, provided that a plurality of parking spaces in a parking area is Locate adjacent to a wall. It is the plurality of squares of parking that is located adjacent to a wall, which defines said parking area. In this way, each of said at least two parking areas has a segment of wall. Different wall segments carry different patterns of color and a parking garage user can assign them easily in this way to the parking area where you have He left his car. In this document, a parking space is considers that it is adjacent to the wall if it is 2 m away from said wall wall.

The color pattern of each wall segment It comprises at least two colors that contrast. To give a Easily memorizable color pattern, at least 40, preferably at least 50, more preferably at least 60, and more preferably still at least 70% of the surface of a Selected wall segment should be covered with a color chromatic. "Chromatic" means a color that is not found on the vertical luminous axis in the solid color, that is, it is not a achromatic color A chromatic is one that has a chromaticity in the CIELab system of at least 20. Calculating the surface area of a wall segment, the total height of said wall from the part upper to lower is used in the vertical direction, that is the height from floor to ceiling of a plant (floor) of the garage of parking. In the horizontal direction, the length of the wall segment along a plurality of squares of parking. This length is at least the sum of the width of two parking spaces, that is approximately 3.5 m. Saying Chromatic color has a chromaticity in the CIELab system of at minus 20, preferably at least 30, more preferably at least 40. Preferably, the brightness of the chromatic color that covers the minus 40 (preferably at least 50, 60, or 70)% of the surface of said wall segment is between 20 and 90, preferably between 30 and 85, more preferably between 40 and 85, and even more preferably between 50 and 80 in the CIELab system. He CIELab system used in this document is the 1976 CIE system. See also: CIE: Colorimetry, 2nd ed., CIE, Vienna, 1986. In addition, Chapters 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5 of Volume 11 of the Ullman's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, 6th edition, Wiley-VCH, 2003, They are incorporated into this document as a reference.

In said color pattern, said at least two contrasting colors alternate to produce a pattern of those colors that make contrast. What "alternate" means that said at least two different colors cover different parts of the surface of said wall segment, ie they do not mix (exclusively) and are not used (exclusively) over each other to give the impression of a single color. The disposition of surface areas of the wall covered by different colors that make contrast to each other defines the pattern of the color pattern. The colors of said color pattern can be disposed of any way. Said pattern may comprise any combination of straight and curved dividing lines between surface areas of Different colors that make contrast. In this way, a pattern of color is defined in this document by the colors they make used contrast and patterns formed by these colors that They make contrast. Examples of color patterns according to the invention are numbers, letters, words, symbols or any combination of these in a first color in a background that has a second color, in which the first and second colors are colors They make contrast.

In a preferred embodiment, the color pattern of the invention is the logo of a company on the background of a corporate identity color of said company. Plus preferably, the color pattern is the logo of a company Well known in the parking garage location. In this case, the best effect on user memory can be obtained of the parking garage, since this produces an association in the user's memory of a famous name or company with the area of parking where the user has left his car. Such association allows the user to easily remember the color pattern of the area of used parking.

To make contrast, those colors that make contrast differ in at least one property selected from luminosity, hue and chromaticity. More preferably, said Contrasting colors of a color pattern differ in hue and in chromaticity. Even more preferably, said at least two different colors differ in luminosity, hue and chromaticity Differences in hue should be at least 30º, preferably at least 50 °, more preferably at least 70º, and even more preferably at least 90º in the plane a-b of the CIELab color space. The differences in the chromaticity must be at least 20, preferably at least 30, more preferably at least 40, and even more preferably at least fifty.

In an important embodiment, both different Contrasting colors of a selected color pattern are chromatic colors In another embodiment, said color pattern It comprises three, four or more colors that contrast.

Embodiments are also preferred in the that:

said two contrasting colors differ in hue at least 50º and in chromaticity at least 20;

said two contrasting colors differ in hue at least 70º and in chromaticity at least 20;

said two contrasting colors differ in hue at least 70º and in chromaticity at least 30;

said two contrasting colors differ in hue at least 50º, in chromaticity at least 30, and in luminosity in at least 30. These embodiments can be applied to one, two or more different color patterns.

As the parking garage of the invention it comprises at least two parking areas that each has a wall segment that has a color pattern, the garage of parking has at least two color patterns that are different. The parking garage can have three, four, or more parking areas, each having a wall segment with a color pattern, where all the color patterns are different.

The difference between these color patterns is preferably in color and in the pattern formed of said at least Two colors that contrast. The difference in color means that a first color pattern has at the selected point a color different from color at a corresponding point of one second color pattern The difference in the pattern means that the Color arrangement of different color patterns is different. In general, two color patterns may differ in color or in pattern, or in color and in pattern. In the present invention, two color patterns differ more preferably in color and in Pattern.

In this document, a first color pattern that differs in color from a second color pattern preferably it has at least one essentially absent color in the second pattern color. A color not present in another color pattern preferably it covers at least 10, preferably at least the 20, more preferably at least 30, and even more preferably at least 40% of the surface area of the wall segment that carries  said color pattern. "Essentially absent" means that the essentially absent color covers a maximum of 5% of the area surface of the wall segment.

Preferred embodiments of different Color patterns are as follows: a color of a first pattern colored covers at least 40% of the surface area of a first wall segment and a different color from a second pattern of color covers at least 40% of the surface area of a second wall segment, where said color of said first pattern of color and said color of said second color pattern differ in hue at least 50 ° or chromaticity at least 30; plus preferably, said colors differ in hue by at least 70 ° or in chromaticity in at least 40; even more preferably, said colors differ in hue by at least 50º and in chromaticity in at minus 20; even more preferably, said colors differ in hue at least 70º and chromaticity at least 20; even more preferably, said colors differ in hue by at least 70 ° and in chromaticity in at least 30; even more preferably, each of the colors of the previous embodiments cover more than 50% of the surface area of the respective wall segments.

The proportion of the repetition period of a color pattern according to the invention in its wall segment to the repetition period of the parking spaces adjacent to said wall is preferably between 0.25 and 10, preferably of 0.5 to 5. A proportion of 0.25 corresponds to a situation in the that a color pattern is repeated four times in a length of said wall (in the horizontal direction) corresponding to the width of a parking space (measured in parallel to said wall). A proportion of ten corresponds to the situation of a color pattern that extends over a length corresponding to ten parking spaces without repeating said color pattern in this length In this way, this proportion is a measure of number of repetitions of a color pattern on said segment of wall by parking space adjacent to said wall. For him purpose of calculating this proportion on an absolute scale, you can assume that the size of a parking space is 1.75 m for parking spaces arranged orthogonally with respect to the adjacent wall. For parking spaces arranged in parallel to the adjacent wall, the size of a square of Parking can be assumed to be 4 m. The orientation of a parking space with respect to said wall may be such that the Longest extension of the parking space can be parallel or orthogonal to the direction of said wall. In any case, the The size of a parking space is always measured in parallel to said wall.

A selected color pattern is present at least once over a length of the wall segment corresponding, which gives a ratio of 2 if said plurality of parking spaces consists of 2 parking spaces and a proportion of 10 if said plurality of parking spaces It consists of 10 parking spaces. A color pattern selected can be repeated one, two, three or more times in the length of the corresponding wall segment, that is, it can be present twice, three times, four or more times, respectively, in a length of the wall segment correspondent. If a color pattern is repeated once in the length of the corresponding wall segment, said proportion is of 1 if said plurality of parking spaces is composed for 2 parking spaces and said proportion is 5 di said plurality of parking spaces consists of 10 spaces of parking. Preferably, said proportion of the period of repetition of said color pattern to the repetition period of the Parking spaces adjacent to said wall is 0.5 to 5, plus preferably from 1 to 5, even more preferably from 2 to 5. The proportion of wall segments in different areas of Parking may be the same or it may be different.

There are no limitations regarding the mode of application of the colors that form these color patterns in said wall segments. In one embodiment, said patterns of color are painted on panels, for example drywall, and the Painted panels are mounted on said wall segment. In other embodiment, said color patterns are applied or printed on a sheet (for example, of paper or plastic) and said sheet is then apply (for example, stick) on said segments of wall.

The paint used to paint or print said color pattern may contain fluorescent dyes or may contain reflective particles to provide the pattern of Color an attractive appearance. This embodiment must be combined with a lighting system that illuminates these color patterns.

Said parking garage may have said color patterns not only on a wall but also on the floor and / or on the ceiling adjacent to the wall carrying said color pattern to improve the effect of the color pattern on the user's parking garage. For the same purpose, the garage of parking must include a light installation capable of Illuminate the at least two color patterns.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 shows a view of a wall side in a parking garage. Figure 1 indicates 3 zones of parking, each parking area having a plurality of parking spaces (partially shown). The area of parking in the middle of the figure is composed of two spaces parking numbered as 110 and 111. The plurality of places of parking 110 and 111 are located adjacent to a wall side. The wall segment that belongs to the zone of parking in the middle of the figure extends along the parking spaces 110 and 111. The wall segment that is extends along parking spaces 110 and 111 has a color pattern that has at least three colors that make contrast, that is, foreground green, blue for the sky and white for the clouds. The blue color of the sky covers at least 40% of the surface of said wall segment and it has a luminosity of at least 50 and a chromaticity of at least 30 in the CIELab system. The color pattern further comprises a symbol in the form of an arrow directed upwards and the words "Space for the car." Parking garage It also has a light installation comprising four lights above the central segment of the wall, illuminating said installation of lights the color pattern under that light, where the Color pattern can be easily seen by users of the parking area. Figure 1 also shows two zones of additional parking that flank the central area of parking on the left and on the right. These other areas of parking have, on the same wall, wall segments that are extend along the respective parking spaces (partially shown) and color patterns (shown partially) in the respective wall segments. The bosses Color of the three color patterns shown in Figure 1 are different.

Figure 2 shows a plan view of a parking floor of a parking garage according to the invention. The filled arrows indicate entry and exit, respectively, to the parking floor. The grid area Indicates the gear path for cars entering or leaving from the parking floor, where the direction of travel is indicated by the arrows. Rectangular fields represent parking spaces 10 indicates a side wall supporting the parking garage. 12 indicates a first wall segment of said side wall, said wall segment extending to 20 parking spaces long. 14 indicates a second segment wall of said side wall, said segment extending from wall along 20 parking spaces. 16 indicates a wall non-support side that extends vertically from the top to the bottom of the floor of the parking. The parking floor shown in Figure 2 is It is divided into two parking areas by the side wall 16. The side wall 16 serves as a wall segment for the first parking area with its surface directed towards the segment of wall 12. The side wall 16 also serves as a segment of wall for the second parking area with its surface directed towards the wall segment 14. The surfaces of the segment of wall 12 and the side wall surface 16 directed towards the wall segment 12 carries a first color pattern (not shown). The surfaces of the wall segment 14 and the wall surface side 16 directed towards the wall segment 14 carry a second color pattern (not shown). In each parking area, The respective color pattern can be repeated several times. A Color pattern can extend over 4 squares of parking and will be present 4 times on the side wall 16 and 5 times in wall segments 12 and 14.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the parking floor shown in Figure 2.

Preferred embodiments

Parking garage that has at least two parking areas within said parking garage,

each parking area comprises a plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, a wall segment of said wall that extends along said plurality of parking spaces, said segment having wall a color pattern comprising at least two colors that make contrast, where the color patterns of the segments of wall of different parking areas differ in color and in the pattern of color patterns and in which at least 40% of the surface of a wall segment is covered by color that has a chromaticity of at least 20, preferably at least 30 in the CIELab system.

Parking garage that has at least two parking areas within said parking garage,

each parking area comprising one plurality of parking spaces adjacent to a wall, a wall segment of said wall that extends along said wall plurality of parking spaces, said segment having wall a color pattern comprising at least two colors that make contrast, being the proportion of the repetition period of said color pattern to the repetition period of the squares of parking adjacent to said wall from 0.25 to 10, where color patterns of wall segments of different areas of Parking are different.

Claims (12)

1. Parking garage that has minus two parking areas inside said garage of parking, each parking area comprising one plurality of parking spaces (110, 111, 112) and a wall (10) adjacent to said plurality of parking spaces (110, 111, 112), a wall segment (12) of said extending wall along said plurality of parking spaces, having said wall segment (12) a color pattern comprising the minus two contrasting colors where the color patterns of wall segments of different parking areas differ in color and in the pattern of color patterns, characterized because at least 40% of the surface of said wall segment is covered by a color that has a chromaticity of at least 20 in the CIELab system and a first standard colored of a first parking area comprises at least one color that covers a maximum of 5% of the surface area of a second color pattern of a second parking area, covering said color color at least 10% of the surface area  of the wall segment that carries said first color pattern. 2. The parking garage according with claim 1, wherein said two colors that make contrast of a selected wall segment differ at least in hue and chromaticity. 3. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 or 2, wherein said color which covers at least 40% of the surface of said segment has a chromaticity of at least 30 in the CIELab system. 4. The parking garage according with one of claims 1 to 3, which comprises an installation  luminous that can illuminate these color patterns. 5. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the roof above the parking spaces of a wall segment selected has a color pattern corresponding to the pattern of color of said selected wall segment. 6. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 5, wherein said Color pattern comprises letters or words. 7. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 6, wherein said Color pattern comprises the logo of a company. 8. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 7, wherein said at minus one chromatic color of said first color pattern of a first parking area that covers a maximum of 5% of the area surface of a second color pattern of a second zone of parking covers at least 20% of the surface area of the wall segment carrying said first color pattern. 9. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 8, said garage having parking at least two floors, each floor constituting a parking area. 10. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 9, wherein said at minus two parking areas are present within a plant of said parking garage. 11. The parking garage according with any of claims 1 to 10 wherein in said wall segment that has a color pattern that comprises the minus two contrasting colors, being the proportion of repetition period of said color pattern to the period of repetition of parking spaces adjacent to said wall of 0.25 to 10. 12. Use of a color pattern in a garage parking as defined in any one of the claims 1 to 11 to provide guidance to a user of said parking garage to a vehicle parked by said Username.