JP2011094434A - Pallet for multistory parking device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pallet for a multistory parking device that can prevent a charging cable from projecting from the pallet capable of charging an electric vehicle without giving a feeling of tension to a vehicle driver. <P>SOLUTION: The multistory parking device provided with a plurality of parking rooms for storing vehicles is adapted to mount the vehicle on the pallet to carry it to the parking room and to park the vehicle together with the pallet. The pallet includes a tiltable fence body having an outlet; a power receiving contact unit provided to be engaged with and detached from a power supply contact unit provided on the building side; and a wiring cable for connecting the power receiving contact unit to the outlet. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a pallet for a multi-level parking apparatus for charging an electric vehicle during parking in a parking room of the multi-level parking apparatus.

  Multi-story parking devices are widely used in densely populated houses as parking facilities that can efficiently park a large number of vehicles on land with little space, and have various structures that take into account the size and economics of the land used. Is provided. As one type of this multi-story parking apparatus, there is a so-called pallet type multi-story parking apparatus that mounts a vehicle on a pallet and moves the vehicle. Further, there is also provided a pallet-type three-dimensional parking apparatus that combines a lifting lift and a three-dimensional parking hierarchy to further increase the parking efficiency.

  As an example of such a pallet type three-dimensional parking apparatus, for example, an elevator type parking lot is configured as follows. In an elevator parking lot, a hoistway for a lifting lift is formed in a vertical direction in the center of a building standing on the ground, and parking rooms are provided in a hierarchical manner in the space on both sides or one side of the hoistway. A pallet is mounted on the upper part of the lift, the vehicle is placed on the pallet, and the lift is moved up and down to transport the vehicle between the loading / unloading floor and the parking room. At the loading / unloading floor, the lift is stopped so that the pallet and the floor of the loading / unloading floor are at the same height when the vehicle is loaded / unloaded, and the vehicle gets on and off the pallet by self-propelled. When the lift is moved and positioned in each parking room, the pallet is slid on the lift and the vehicle is stored and taken out together with the pallet.

  Recently, an electric vehicle has been attracting attention as an alternative to a vehicle of an internal combustion engine due to an increase in interest in environmental problems. Although this electric vehicle is excellent in environmental conservation because it does not emit exhaust gas, it is necessary to supply electricity to a battery mounted on the electric vehicle instead of liquid fuel and charge it. Therefore, in order for this electric vehicle to spread widely in the world, a lot of facilities for charging the battery in the city and highway service areas are required. For this reason, conventionally, a multi-story parking apparatus has been proposed that is configured to be able to charge an electric vehicle being stored (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  Patent Document 1 discloses the following configuration. A stand is erected on the pallet on which the electric vehicle is mounted, and the stand is provided with a charging side connection portion that is connected to the electric vehicle and supplies electricity. The charging side connecting portion is connected to a female connector provided on the end face of the pallet via a cable. On the other hand, the parking shelf is provided with a male connector connected to the charging device, and this male connector is adapted to be disengaged from the female connector by an electromagnetic solenoid. With such a configuration, when the electric vehicle is stored in the parking shelf, the male connector and the female connector are engaged with each other by an electromagnetic solenoid to perform charging, and when the electric vehicle is delivered, the male connector and After detaching the female connector, the pallet is moved to the lifting device to transfer the electric vehicle.

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  The currently developed electric vehicle can be charged from a household outlet, and for this purpose, a charging cable is installed in the electric vehicle as a standard product. Since this charging cable is premised on connection with a house, its length is set to be slightly longer and is generally about 5 m. In the configuration as in the above conventional example, if the charging cable equipped in the electric vehicle is diverted for connecting the power source, it is only necessary to provide an outlet for connecting the ordinary charging cable on the pallet side. The structure can be simplified.

  However, as described above, since the charging cable attached to the electric vehicle is long, if it is used for connection between the electric vehicle and the pallet on the pallet, a considerable length is left, and this surplus portion protrudes from the pallet. There is a possibility that. The interior of the multi-story parking device is set so that the space between each member is reduced as much as possible so as to make effective use of the space, and if a charging cable or the like protrudes outside the pallet during transport of the pallet, this is a member in the device Or in danger of contact with equipment.

  Further, when the stand is erected on the pallet as in the above-described conventional example, when the vehicle gets on the pallet, the stand enters the driver's view and the driver feels nervous. I will have. The present invention has been made in view of these circumstances, and in a pallet capable of charging an electric vehicle, the charging cable can be prevented from protruding from the pallet, and the vehicle driver can be prevented. An object of the present invention is to provide a pallet for a multi-story parking apparatus that does not give a sense of tension.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention of claim 1 is provided with a plurality of parking rooms for storing vehicles, mounted on a pallet, transported to the parking room, and parked with the pallet. The pallet is connected to a collapsible fence body provided with an outlet, a power receiving contact unit provided on the building side so as to be detachable, and the power receiving contact unit and the outlet. And a wiring cable to be provided.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the upper portion of the fence body is positioned at a position lower than the position of the power feeding port of the electric vehicle when the fence body is erected.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, the fence body includes a beam and a plurality of support members, and one end of the support member is pivotally attached to the upper part of the pallet so as to be rotatable in the longitudinal direction of the pallet, A beam was pivotally attached to the other end of the material so as to be rotatable in the longitudinal direction of the pallet.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the collapsible fence body including the outlet, the power receiving contact unit, and the wiring cable are provided at diagonal positions of the pallet.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, by folding the fence body when the vehicle enters, the driver does not care about this and can perform a driving operation without feeling nervous. Moreover, if a fence body is stood up, it can prevent that a charging cable protrudes out of a pallet.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the movement of the charging cable is restricted at a position below the power supply port, the charging cable can be more effectively prevented from protruding outside the pallet.

  According to invention of Claim 3, a fence body can be folded compactly so that it may not interfere with vehicle passage on a pallet.

  According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, even if the pallet is rotated by 180 °, the same configuration as before the rotation is obtained, so that unnecessary rotation of the pallet is not required.

Front view showing outline of multi-story parking device Side view showing outline of multi-story parking device Front view of pallet Side view of pallet Pallet top view Front view of the pallet with the fence folded

  Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG.1 and FIG.2 is the front view and side view which show the outline of a multi-story parking apparatus. Inside the multi-story parking apparatus 10, a hoistway 11 that penetrates the center up and down is formed, and an elevating lift 12 is provided so that the hoistway 11 can be raised and lowered. The lift 12 connects wire ropes 14 to the four corners of the carrier 13 on which the vehicle 19 is mounted, and winds or rewinds the wire ropes 14 by a hoisting device (not shown) provided on the top of the three-dimensional parking device 10. Thus, the transporter 13 is driven up and down.

  On both sides of the hoistway 11, a plurality of parking chambers 17 are formed in upper and lower multi-stages, and each parking chamber 17 is provided with a pallet 18 for mounting a vehicle 19. In this multi-story parking apparatus 10, the first floor portion above the ground is used as an entry / exit floor 15 of the vehicle 19, and the entry / exit direction 16 of the vehicle 19 is set in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the transporter 13. An empty pallet 18 in any parking room 17 in which the vehicle 19 is not stored is slid (transverse) onto the transporter 13 and then descends to the entrance / exit floor 15 together with the transporter 13 and stops. Below the loading / unloading floor 15, a pallet turning device 20 that turns the pallet 18 to change the direction is provided. The pallet 18 that has arrived at the loading / unloading floor 15 is turned 90 ° by the pallet turning device 20. Then, the vehicle changes its direction so that its longitudinal direction becomes the entrance / exit direction 16 of the vehicle 19 and waits.

  When the vehicle 19 enters the vehicle 19, the vehicle 19 travels on the pallet 18, and then the vehicle 19 and the pallet 18 are turned 90 ° by the pallet turning device 20 and placed on the transporter 13. The rear transporter 13 takes the vehicle 19 and the pallet 18 to the position of the original parking chamber 17, that is, the pallet 18 is taken out and transports the pallet 18 to the empty parking chamber 17. Store. The side surface of the pallet 18 is provided with a power receiving contact unit 22 which will be described later, and the parking chamber 17 is provided with a power supply contact unit 21 at a position corresponding thereto. Electricity is supplied from the outside to the power supply contact unit 21 of the parking chamber 17, and when the pallet 18 is stored in the parking chamber 17, the power supply contact unit 21 and the power receiving contact unit 22 are engaged to the pallet 18 side. Power is supplied.

  3, 4 and 5 are a front view, a side view and a plan view of the pallet 18, respectively. In the following description, the longitudinal direction of the pallet 18, that is, the same direction as the traveling direction of the electric vehicle 36 is expressed as the front-rear direction, and the width direction of the electric vehicle 36 is expressed as the left-right direction, the side direction, and the like. I do. At the upper part of the side edge of the pallet 18, a fence body 35 is provided at a position slightly away from the center in the front-rear direction of the pallet 18 toward the end.

  The fence body 35 includes a plurality of support members 31, a beam 30, and an outlet 32. The support member 31 has a lower end pivotally attached to the pallet 18 and is rotatable from a horizontal state to a vertical state. Beams 30 are pivotally attached to the upper end portions of the respective support members 31 so as to be rotatable in the front-rear direction, and can be folded and raised in the front-rear direction (arrow A) together. Although not shown in the drawing, the folding and standing operations may be performed manually, or a driving device such as an actuator may be provided and operated. In a state where the support material 31 and the beam 30 are erected, the beam 30 is positioned below the position of the power supply port 37 of the electric vehicle 36 and extends in the front-rear direction in parallel with the electric vehicle 36. One end of the beam 30 is provided with an outlet 32, while the side of the pallet 18 is provided with a power receiving contact unit 22, which are connected by a wiring cable 34. The same configuration as that of the fence body 35 or the power receiving contact unit 22 can be provided at a diagonal position of the pallet 18 as shown in FIG.

  With the above configuration, the electric vehicle 36 is charged as follows. As shown in FIG. 6, when the pallet 18 is waiting for the entry of the electric vehicle 36 on the entry / exit floor 15, the fence body 35 is folded on the pallet 18, and the electric vehicle 36 moves forward in this state. To enter the pallet 18. At this time, the pallet 18 does not have a portion that protrudes greatly upward, and is in a state almost the same as that of a general pallet. Therefore, the driver advances the electric vehicle 36 onto the pallet 18 without feeling nervous. Can do.

  After stopping the electric vehicle 36 on the pallet 18, the fence body 35 is pulled up to stand up, and the outlet 32 and the power supply port 37 are connected by the charging cable 33 provided in the electric vehicle 36. By raising the fence body 35, a beam 30 of the fence body 35 is arranged on the side of the electric vehicle 36 in a state extending in parallel with the electric vehicle 36 at a position below the power supply port 37. The charging cable 33 hanging from 37 is regulated by this beam 30 so as not to protrude from the pallet 18, and the remaining part is placed on the pallet 18. Thereafter, even if the pallet 18 moves, the movement of the charging cable 33 is restricted so that the beam 30 does not swing outside the pallet 18, so that the charging cable 33 does not protrude outside the pallet 18.

  Next, when the driver leaves the entry / exit floor 15 after the above operation is completed, the pallet 18 and the electric vehicle 36 are transported through the hoistway 11 by a predetermined operation and stored in a predetermined parking chamber 17. In the parking room 17, the power supply contact unit 21 and the power receiving contact unit 22 are engaged as described above, and power is supplied to the battery of the electric vehicle 36 via the wiring cable 34, the outlet 32, and the charging cable 33. Charging is performed before leaving. At the time of delivery, the pallet 18 is pulled out onto the transporter 13, and accordingly, the power supply contact unit 21 and the power receiving contact unit 22 are detached, and the power supply to the pallet 18 side is stopped. Thereafter, the pallet 18 and the electric vehicle 36 are transferred to the loading / unloading floor 15, and then rotated and stopped so that the front of the electric vehicle 36 faces the entrance / exit, and the electric vehicle 36 is moved forward. As described above, the direction in which the pallet 18 stops at the warehousing floor 15 differs by 180 ° at the time of warehousing and at the time of warehousing. If the pallet 18 is provided in each direction, the same state is obtained regardless of which direction the pallet 18 stops, and there is no need to change the direction of the pallet 18 separately.

  In the above description, the three-dimensional parking apparatus 10 in which the pallet 18 moves up and down the hoistway 11 has been described as an example. Any type of multi-story parking apparatus using a pallet is applicable.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Three-dimensional parking apparatus 11 Hoistway 12 Lifting lift 13 Carrying device 14 Wire rope 15 Entrance / exit floor 16 Entrance / exit direction 17 Parking room 18 Pallet 19 Vehicle 20 Pallet turning device 21 Power supply contact unit 22 Power receiving contact unit 30 Beam 31 Support material 32 Outlet 33 Charging cable 34 Wiring cable 35 Fence body 36 Electric vehicle 37 Feed port A Arrow

Claims (4)

  In the multi-story parking apparatus for mounting a vehicle on a pallet and storing a plurality of vehicles, the pallet is provided with a collapsible rail at the lateral end of the pallet, and the rail is an outlet for supplying electric power to the vehicle. A pallet for a multi-story parking apparatus, comprising:   The pallet for a multi-story parking apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper part of the fence body is located at a position lower than the position of the power feeding port of the electric vehicle when the fence body stands up.   The fence body includes a beam and a plurality of support members, and one end of the support member is pivotally attached to the upper part of the pallet so as to be rotatable in the longitudinal direction of the pallet, and the beam is attached to the other end of the support member. 3. A pallet for a multi-story parking apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pallet is pivotally attached so as to be rotatable in a longitudinal direction of the pallet.   The pallet for a multilevel parking device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a tiltable fence body including the outlet is provided at a diagonal position of the pallet.

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