JP2679752B2 - Multi-level parking - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle storage rack which is provided at least above an external communication portion for loading or unloading a vehicle. A plurality of shelves configured by juxtaposing a pair of receiving frames for mounting and supporting the edge portions are arranged side by side in the vertical direction, and provided with an elevating unit that conveys pallets between the external communication unit and the plurality of shelves. The present invention relates to a multistory parking lot provided with a vehicle transport device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a multi-storey parking lot of this type, a pallet to be mounted and supported on a shelf adjacent above an external communication portion is mounted on the shelf even if no vehicle is mounted. It was placed.

[0003]

However, in order to provide a three-dimensional parking lot of this type with a high construction cost and a high vehicle accommodation capacity per occupied space, the vehicle storage efficiency per height is improved. Therefore, the vertical distance between the shelves and the vertical width of the external communication portion are formed as narrow as possible. For this reason,
According to the above-mentioned conventional technique, there is an inconvenience that a driver who enters the external communication portion for entering or leaving the vehicle must always use the external communication portion having a narrow vertical width, and thus the inconvenience is eliminated. Therefore, if the upper and lower widths of the external communication portion are formed wide, there is a disadvantage that the vehicle storage efficiency per height is reduced. An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional disadvantages.

[0004]

A characteristic structure of a multi-storey parking lot according to the present invention is that a pallet to be mounted and supported on a shelf is mounted and supported at a position above the shelf adjacent to above the external communication portion. The point is that a shelf is provided.

[0005]

According to the characterizing feature of the present invention, when the vehicle is not mounted on the pallet to be mounted and supported on the shelf adjacent above the external communication portion, the pallet is positioned above the shelf. It can be placed on a temporary shelf that is placed on and supported by.

[0006]

According to the characterizing feature of the present invention, in a normal state with an empty vehicle, a pallet to be mounted and supported on a shelf adjacent above the external communication portion can be mounted on the temporary shelf. From this, it is possible to form an external communication part having a wide vertical width, and when the vehicle is full, if the vehicle is also stored in a shelf adjacent above the external communication part, the vehicle storage efficiency per height decreases. Therefore, it is possible to provide a multi-story car park that eliminates the inconvenience of the driver using the external communication part having a narrow vertical width while improving the construction cost and the vehicle accommodation capacity per occupied space.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the multi-storey parking lot shown in FIG. 1, a vehicle storage rack A having a plurality of shelves 1 accommodating a pallet P on which a vehicle can be freely mounted is arranged in an up-down direction, and an external communication section having an entry / exit port 2 for entry or exit. The vehicle transporting device C is provided in a state of being located above B and has a lifting unit 3 that transports the pallet P between the plurality of shelves 1 and the external communication unit B.

Thereafter, in this embodiment, the direction which faces the interior of the external communication portion B from the entrance / exit 2 is defined as the depth direction of the multi-story parking lot, and the direction which is orthogonal to the depth direction and extends across the lateral width of the opening of the entrance / exit 2. The width direction of the multi-storey car park.

The vehicle storage rack A has a pair of rack portions on both sides in the depth direction inside the vehicle storage rack A, each of which has a plurality of shelves 1 arranged in the vertical direction. The shelf 1 is configured by arranging a pallet P on which a vehicle can be freely mounted and a pair of receiving frames a, a for mounting and supporting both longitudinal edge portions of the pallet P, and a vehicle G mounted on the pallet P. It is stored in the state where it was opened. An elevating passage S for elevating the elevating part 3 is formed between the pair of rack parts along the side of each rack part, and its lower end projects into the external communication part B.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a pallet Pa to be mounted on and supported by the shelf 1A is provided at a position above the shelf 1A which is adjacent above the external communication portion B in the vehicle storage rack A, as shown in FIGS. A temporary shelf 4 for mounting and supporting is provided.
The temporary shelf 4 is configured by juxtaposing a pair of receiving frames b, which mount and support both end edges of the pallet Pa in the longitudinal direction, and when the vehicle is not mounted on the pallet Pa, the pallet Pa is not used.
Mount and support. The pallet Pa is constructed by mounting the auxiliary shield 5 on the lower surface of the pallet P. The auxiliary shield 5 is a plate-shaped member that covers the lower surface of the pallet Pa, and is configured to shield the upper visual field that faces the vehicle storage rack A from the external communication portion B.

As shown in FIG. 3, the vehicle carrying device C comprises an elevating part 3 for mounting a pallet P and elevating the inside of the elevating passage S, and an elevating drive mechanism D for elevating the elevating part 3. ing. The elevating unit 3 includes a frame 3a, two telescopic forks 3b for mounting and supporting the pallet P and for transferring between the shelf 1 and the temporary shelf 4, and both end portions in the longitudinal direction of the frame 3a. Side plates 3c standing vertically on each
, A shield 3d attached in a roof shape to the upper part of the side plate 3c, and a floor plate 3e. As shown in FIG. 2, in the shield 3d, the floor plate 3e of the elevating part 3 and the floor surface 6 of the external communicating part B are at the same height when the elevating part 3 is located in the external communicating part B. When it is stopped as described above, it is attached to the elevating part 3 so as to be at the same height as the auxiliary shield 5 mounted on the lower surface of the pallet Pa mounted and supported on the temporary shelf 4. The lifting drive mechanism D is
Elevating part 3 and balance weight 8 by the cord 7 of the system
, The cord 7 is connected to the suspension pulleys 9a, 9b, 9
c, 9d and the drive pulley 10a of the elevating and lowering drive device 10 are wound. Therefore, the elevating part 3 has its longitudinal direction oriented in the lateral width direction, is suspended and supported by the cord 7 in the elevating passage S, and the elevating drive device 10 is provided.
Is moved up and down by the operation of.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the external communication portion B has a raising / lowering portion 3 located therein and has a loading / unloading opening 2 when the vehicle G is loaded or unloaded. A pit 11 is provided in the lower part so as to be connected to the lower end of the ascending / descending path S, and a turning device 12 having a turntable 12a capable of ascending / descending and turning operations is provided in the pit 11. In the state shown in FIG. 1, the revolving device 12 lifts the turntable 12a to levitate the pallet P from the floor surface 6 and rotates it by 90 degrees.
As shown in FIG. 5, the turntable 12a can be lowered to transfer the pallet P onto the upper surface of the telescopic fork 3b of the elevating part 3, and vice versa. Further, in FIG. 2, the shelf 1 on the front side in the depth direction is shown.
The pallet Pa to be mounted and supported on A is the temporary shelf 4
It is mounted and supported by the vehicle, and forms an external communication portion having a wider vertical width than the lower portion of the shelf 1A on the rear side in the depth direction in which the vehicle G is stored.

FIG. 4 shows a control mechanism H which manages the warehousing work and the warehousing work. The control mechanism H has a control unit 13 of a microcomputer as a main part, and a warehousing status memory 14 for memorizing a warehousing status of a vehicle in the vehicle storage rack A, and a management device 15 to which a vehicle leaving command is inputted by a manager. And is configured to control the warehousing operation and warehousing operation of the elevating part 3 based on the information in the warehousing status memory 14 and the warehousing command. The storage status memory 14 has a storage area corresponding to each of the plurality of shelves 1 in the vehicle storage rack A and each of the shelves 1A, and is configured to store storage information and empty vehicle information.

The multistory parking lot of this embodiment is used as follows. In a normal state with an empty vehicle, as shown in FIG. 1, the pallet Pa is mounted on and supported by the temporary shelf 4, and an external communication portion B having a wide vertical width is formed. The vehicle G is stored on a shelf 1 other than the shelf 1A, and a warehousing operation and a warehousing operation are repeated. The control mechanism H manages the warehousing situation by storing warehousing information when the vehicle is warehousing and empty vehicle information when the vehicle is warehousing in each storage area of the warehousing situation memory 14 corresponding to the shelf 1, and ascending and descending. Part 3
It controls the warehousing operation and the warehousing operation. The storage work of the vehicle G is performed as follows. The vehicle G self-propels, passes through the loading / unloading port 2, and is mounted on the pallet P. The driver dismounts from the vehicle G and leaves the external communication portion B through the loading / unloading port 2. The turning device 12 raises the turntable 12a to levitate the pallet P from the floor surface 6 and rotates it by 90 degrees, and then lowers the turntable 12a.
As shown in FIG.
Transfer to the upper surface of b. Under the control of the control mechanism H, the elevating unit 3 ascends in the elevating passage S and stops at a predetermined side of the shelf 1, and the extension / contraction fork 3b is extended to cause the pallet P to enter the shelf 1. The pallet P is transferred onto the receiving frame a of the shelf 1 when the elevating unit 3 descends, and then the retractable fork 3b is retracted, and the storing operation of the vehicle G is completed. The delivery work is performed as follows. The leaving command of the vehicle G is input to the management device 15 by the manager. Lifting part 3
After moving to the side of the shelf 1 in which the vehicle to be delivered is stored, the pallet P is loaded by performing the operation opposite to the warehousing operation, and the elevator passage S is lowered to stop inside the external communication portion B. To do. The turning device 12 raises the turntable 12a to levitate the pallet P from the upper surface of the telescopic fork 3b of the elevating part 3 and rotates it by 90 degrees to support the front of the vehicle G so that it faces the loading / unloading port 2. . And turntable 12
a is lowered to transfer the pallet P onto the floor surface 6. The driver enters from the entrance / exit 2 and gets into the vehicle G. The vehicle G is self-propelled and is exited through the entry / exit opening 2 to complete the exit operation of the vehicle G. In addition, the external communication part B after the completion of the warehousing work is in the warehousing waiting state, and the warehousing work and the warehousing work can be continuously performed. When performing only the warehousing work continuously, it is sufficient to carry out the pallet P of the shelf 1 in which the vehicle G is not yet stored in the external communicating portion B in the above-mentioned warehousing work. When only the warehousing work is continuously performed, In the above warehousing operation, only the pallet P needs to be stored in the predetermined shelf 1.

When the shelves 1 other than the shelves 1A are full, the control mechanism H performs the following control.
That is, the control mechanism H monitors the warehousing status memory 14 at any time, and when the vehicle G is loaded into the shelf 1 and all the ledges 1 other than the ledge 1A are full, then the temporary shelf 4
The pallet Pa placed on is transferred to the external communication part B by the elevating part 3. Then, the vehicle G is mounted on the pallet Pa and stored in the shelf 1A. After that, shelf 1A
Until the vehicle G stored in is unloaded, the same vehicle loading and unloading operations as in the normal state are repeated.

When the vehicle G stored in the shelf 1A is unloaded, the following control is performed. That is, the shelf 1A is based on the leaving command input to the management device 15.
After the pallet Pa stored in is stored in the external communication section B and the loaded vehicle G leaves the external communication section B, the control mechanism H inspects the storage status memory 14. Then, when there is an empty car on the shelf 1 other than the shelf 1A,
The vehicle G is not mounted on the pallet Pa, and the pallet P stored in the shelf 1 of the empty vehicle is transported to the external communication portion B without transporting the vehicle G to the temporary storage rack 4 and stored therein. Mount. Therefore, thereafter, the external communication portion B having a wide vertical width is formed again. In addition, when there is no empty vehicle in the shelf 1 other than the shelf 1A, the vehicle G is mounted on the pallet Pa and stored in the shelf 1A. After that, until the vehicle becomes full again, the same vehicle loading and unloading operations as in the normal state are repeated.

[Other Embodiment] The control procedure of the control mechanism H is as follows. The pallet Pa is stored in the temporary shelf 4 when the vehicle G is not mounted, and is stored in the shelf 1A when the vehicle G is mounted. Anything can be changed as appropriate. The presence or absence of the auxiliary shield 5 attached to the pallet Pa, the structure, and the material can be appropriately changed. In the above-described embodiment, the shield 3d provided in the elevating part 3 is at the same height as the lower surface of the pallet Pa mounted and supported on the temporary shelf 4 when the elevating part 3 is located in the external communication part B. It was attached so that it became a shelf 1
It may be attached so as to have the same height as A, and the intermediate height can be changed as appropriate. Further, the height may be freely changed according to the mounting position of the pallet Pa.

In the claims, reference numerals are provided for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration shown in the attached drawings.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of the entire structure.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing an external communication portion.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the structure of the vehicle transport device.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a control mechanism.

[Explanation of reference symbols] A vehicle storage rack B external communication section C vehicle transport device G vehicle P pallet Pa pallet 1 shelf 1A shelf 3 lifting section 4 temporary storage shelf a receiving frame

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A vehicle storage rack (A) is provided in a state of being located at least above an external communication part (B) for loading or unloading a vehicle (G), and the vehicle storage rack (A) is A plurality of shelves (1) configured by juxtaposing a pair of receiving frames (a) for mounting and supporting the end edges of a pallet (P) on which the vehicle (G) can be mounted are arranged side by side in the vertical direction, A multi-storey parking lot provided with a vehicle transfer device (C) having an elevating part (3) for transferring the pallet (P) between the external communication part (B) and the plurality of shelves (1). Then, a temporary shelf (4) for mounting and supporting the pallet (Pa) to be mounted and supported on the shelf (1A) at a position above the shelf (1A) adjacent to and above the external communication portion (B). ) Is provided in the multistory parking lot.