JP2789062B2 - Multi-level parking device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multi-story parking device capable of parking a plurality of vehicles such as an electric vehicle, and more particularly to a measure for charging an electric vehicle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a multi-story parking device is disclosed in
As disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 91363, there is a structure in which parking shelves for storing cars are vertically arranged in layers on both sides of a hoistway for elevating a hoist in a parking tower. Then, when entering the car, the car is transferred to an elevator while being placed on a pallet, and the elevator is raised to the side of a predetermined parking shelf to store the automobile together with the pallet in the parking shelf, When leaving the car, the above operation is reversed.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned multi-story parking apparatus, conventionally, an automobile to be parked is one that is driven by a gasoline engine diesel engine.

[0004] In recent years, however, electric vehicles have become widespread, and inevitably these electric vehicles are also parked. This electric vehicle is powered by a battery,
This battery needs to be charged, and while a battery having a sufficient capacity is being developed, various kinds of charging devices are being developed.

[0005] However, the conventional multi-story parking device does not have any charging device, and there is a problem that the efficiency is poor for electric vehicles. In other words, various vehicles in the multi-story parking device are simply parked, and it is desired that the vehicles can be charged during parking without newly providing a charging time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to enable charging during parking to reduce the time and effort of charging.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a battery charging device.

[0008] Specifically, the measures taken by the invention according to claim 1 are based on the premise that a multi-story parking device provided with a plurality of parking sections for storing vehicles is first used.

[0009] A charging device is provided for charging the battery of an electric vehicle driven by the battery. On the other hand, the parking section is a movable palette on a parking shelf.
Is mounted.

[0010] Further, the pallet is provided with a charging-side connection portion which is connected to a charging device and is detachable from a battery-side connection portion of the electric vehicle parked on the pallet.
I have. In addition, between the parking shelf and the pallet,
Circuit connection for detachably connecting the charging side connection and the charging device
One or two or more connecting portions are provided .

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the charging-side connection portion is provided in each parking portion.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a plurality of charging-side connection portions are provided in the parking portion.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to any one of the first to third aspects, the charging device includes a plurality of batteries having different voltages corresponding to the batteries of the electric vehicle. A power supply for charging is provided. Further, a switching means is provided between each of the charging power sources and the charging-side connecting portion to switch and connect the charging-side connecting portion to any one of the charging power sources.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the invention as set forth in any one of the first to fourth aspects, further comprising a charge detecting means for detecting a charge amount of the battery when charging the electric vehicle. Configuration.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the fifth aspect of the present invention, when charging is completed upon receipt of a detection signal from the charging detecting means, the electric vehicle is taken out of the parking section. Is provided with a delivery permission means for permitting

[0016]

According to the present invention, when a vehicle such as an electric vehicle is stored in a parking portion, the battery of the electric vehicle is charged when the electric vehicle is parked. To the battery-side connection of the electric vehicle to charge the battery.

At this time, in the invention according to claim 4 , the switching means switches to a charging power supply corresponding to the voltage of the battery to charge the battery.

According to the fifth aspect of the invention, the charging detecting means detects the state of charge of the electric vehicle in each of the parking sections. The means will permit leaving from the parking section.

[0019]

Therefore, according to the first and second aspects of the present invention, the charging device is provided, and the charging-side connection portion connected to the battery-side connection portion of the electric vehicle is provided. Since charging can be performed, charging of the electric vehicle can be efficiently performed by reducing charging time, and it is possible to efficiently cope with the spread of the electric vehicle.

In addition, the charging side connection between the parking shelf and the pallet
Since the the connection portion and the charging device can and removable child, Pas
Even if the let turns, etc., the electric vehicle
Since charging can be performed, it is possible to sufficiently cope with various storage methods.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since a plurality of charging-side connection portions are provided, it is possible to sufficiently cope with the storage direction of the electric vehicle, so that the storage convenience is improved. can do.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, since a plurality of charging power supplies are provided, it is possible to handle various types of batteries.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the charging detecting means is provided, it is possible to reliably detect the completion of charging, and to perform a charging operation with high accuracy.

Further, according to the invention of claim 6 , since the exit permission means for the electric vehicle is provided, the traveling safety of the electric vehicle can be improved.

[0025]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a multi-story parking device for storing various vehicles. A parking device 3 is stored in a parking tower 2 having an entrance (not shown) on the ground. It is configured.

The parking device 3 employs an elevator system provided with a lifting device 4 having a vehicle lifting platform 41, and a large number of parking spaces for accommodating vehicles on both sides of a hoistway 21 on which the lifting platform 41 moves up and down. The unit 5 is configured by being arranged in a multilayer structure in the vertical direction. The lowermost portion of the hoistway 21 is an entrance / exit unit 22, and the entrance / exit unit 22 is open to the entrance. In each of the parking sections 5, two shelf rails (not shown) are laid on a parking shelf 51 integrally formed continuously with the parking tower 2, and a rectangular pallet 52 on which a vehicle is mounted moves. The pallet 52 is mounted on the parking shelf 51 with the vehicle mounted thereon.

The lifting device 4 has a rectangular lifting table 41 on which the pallet 52 is placed and raised.
The lifting platform 41 is suspended by wire ropes 42 connected to the four corners of the parking section 5 so as to be able to move up and down from the uppermost stage of the parking section 5 to the entry / exit section 22. That is, the wire rope 42 is provided at the upper end of the hoistway 21 and is suspended by drive pulleys 43 and 45 that are driven to rotate by the drive motor 44. One end of the wire rope 42 is connected to the lift table 41 and the other end is a balance weight (not shown). The lifting and lowering platform 41 is moved to a predetermined parking shelf 51 by the travel of the wire rope 42.
It is designed to be moved to the connection position.

The multi-story parking device 1 is provided with a charging device 6 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, and the charging-side connecting portion 8 connected to the charging device 6 is connected to each of the parking portions 5. It is provided in. That is, the multi-story parking device 1 includes a battery 71 in addition to a vehicle driven by a gasoline engine or the like.
An electric vehicle 7 or the like, which is an electric vehicle driven by the vehicle, is stored therein, and the electric vehicle 7 can be charged.

The charging-side connecting portion 8 is connected to a battery 71 mounted on the electric vehicle 7.
The battery-side connection portion 72 is connected to the battery 71 via a cable 73.

On the other hand, the charging side connecting portion 8 is connected to the pallet 5
2 is provided so as to be able to engage and disengage with a stand 81 provided upright, and is connected to the charging device 6 via a cable 82. The cable extends through a circuit connecting portion 61 between the pallet 52 and the parking shelf 51 and extends to a charging device 6 provided outside the parking tower 2 or the like. The circuit connecting portion 61 is configured so as to be able to move and disconnect the pallet 52, and as shown in FIGS.
Is arranged at the front or rear of the vehicle. 4, the male connector 61a is provided on the parking shelf 51, and the female connector 61b is provided on the end face of the pallet 52, as shown in FIG.
a is a female connector 61b by an electromagnetic solenoid 61c.
Are disengaged.

As shown in FIG. 4, the charging device 6 includes a main circuit 6a and a monitor circuit 6b, and the main circuit 6a has a voltage corresponding to the voltage of the battery 71 mounted on the electric vehicle 7. A different first charging power source 62 and different second charging power source 63 are provided. Further, the main circuit 6a includes:
The two charging power sources 62, 63 are
A switch 64 serving as switching means for switching the switch 63, a charge switch 65, and the circuit connection unit 61 are sequentially connected, and one of the charging power sources 62 and 63 is switched to the charging-side connection unit 8. It is to be connected. The monitor circuit 6b is connected between the charge switch 65 in the main circuit 6a and the circuit connecting portion 61. The charge switch 65 cuts off the conduction of the main circuit 6a and cuts off the conduction of the monitor circuit 6b. The charging-side connection unit 8 is connected to both charging power sources 62 and 63 or the monitor circuit 6.
b.

The monitor circuit 6b also serves as charge detection means, has a charge detection display section 69, and is connected to two monitor loads 66, 67 via a changeover switch 68. The two monitoring loads 66 and 67 are set to loads having different resistance values corresponding to the two charging power sources 62 and 63, and are manually or automatically turned off as appropriate according to the capacity of the battery 71 in the electric vehicle 7. It has been replaced.
The charge detection display unit 69 is provided, for example, on an external operation panel, and is configured to select and monitor the charge state of the electric vehicle 7 in each parking unit 5. When the charging is completed, a discharge completion permitting means for displaying the charge completion and permitting the discharge is configured.

Next, the charging operation of the multi-story parking device 1 will be described.

First, when storing various vehicles such as the electric vehicle 7, the elevator 41 is lowered to the lowermost entrance / exit 22, the vehicle is mounted on the pallet 52 and the side of the empty parking section 5 is placed. The elevator 41 is moved. Subsequently, the pallet 52 is moved to the parking shelf 51 to store the vehicle.

When the vehicle is to be taken out of the car, the above-described operation is performed in reverse, and after moving the elevator 41 to the side of the car to be taken out, the pallet 52 and the car are moved to the parking shelves 51.
From the loading / unloading port 22
And leave the vehicle.

On the other hand, when charging the battery 71 of the electric vehicle 7 when the electric vehicle 7 is parked, the charging-side connecting portion 8 is connected to the battery-side connecting portion 72 of the electric vehicle 7 and the battery 71 is charged. The changeover switch 68 is switched to the charging power supplies 62 and 63 corresponding to the voltage. And
The charging switch 65 is turned on to the main circuit 6a to charge the battery 71.

Thereafter, the charge switch 65 is switched,
When the main circuit 6a is cut off, the monitor circuit 6b conducts, and the charging status of the electric vehicle 7 in each parking unit 5 is displayed. At this time, the monitoring loads 66 and 67 corresponding to the charging power supplies 62 and 63 are connected, and the charging is detected by the loads 66 and 67. When the completion of charging is displayed on the charging detection display section 69, the leaving of the electric vehicle 7 is permitted. Thereafter, when the electric vehicle 7 is taken out of the car, at the circuit connecting portion 61,
The male connector 6 is released by releasing the operation of the electromagnetic solenoid 61c.
When 1a is detached from the female connector 61b on the pallet 52 side, the charge switch 65 is switched to the neutral off position, and the charge detection display section 69 is released from operation.

Therefore, as described above, the charging device 6 is provided, and the charging-side connecting portion 8 connected to the battery-side connecting portion 72 of the electric vehicle 7 is provided.
Since the vehicle can be charged while the vehicle is parked, the charging of the electric vehicle 7 can be efficiently performed by reducing the trouble of charging, and the spread of the electric vehicle 7 can be efficiently handled.

Further, since the main circuit 6a of the charging device 6 is provided with two charging power sources 62 and 63, it can be used for various types of batteries 71.

Further, since the charging device 6 is provided with the monitor circuit 6b, it is possible to reliably detect the completion of charging, so that accurate charging can be performed.
In addition, since the completion of charging is displayed, traveling safety of the electric vehicle 7 can be improved.

The pallet 52 is provided with one charging-side connecting portion 8, and two pallets 52 are provided on the front and rear sides of the pallet 52.
A plurality or four or more charging-side connection portions 8 may be provided. Thereby, since it is possible to sufficiently cope with the storage direction of the electric vehicle 7, the storage convenience can be improved.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the charging-side connection portion 8 provided on the pallet 52. Two charging-side connection portions 8 are provided . That is, in this embodiment, the pallet 52 is provided so as to be able to turn. For example, in FIG. 1, a turning means for the pallet 52 is provided below the loading / unloading section 22, and the pallet 52 is turned to make the electric vehicle 7 is easy to leave.

On the other hand, to the pallet 52, two charging side connecting portion 8 are provided two diagonal positions. And
The circuit connector 61 includes a male connector 61a connected to the parking shelf 5.
1, a female connector 61b is provided on both front and rear end surfaces of the pallet 52,
1a is provided on the electromagnetic solenoid 61c, and the pallet 52
The fixing member is also used.

Therefore, when the pallet 52 moves to the parking shelf 51, the electromagnetic solenoid 61c is operated to connect the two connectors 61a and 61b and fix the pallet 52 to the parking shelf 51.

As a result, the parking device 3 which turns the pallet 52 can also be charged, so that it is possible to sufficiently cope with various storage methods.

In the present embodiment, the charging connection section 8 is provided in each parking section 5, but the charging connection section 8 may be provided only in a part of the parking sections 5.

Although the parking system 3 of this embodiment employs an elevator system, various systems such as a vertical circulation system, a horizontal circulation system, a multi-layer circulation system, a two-stage system or a three-stage system may be employed. Things.

Although two charging power supplies 62 and 63 and two monitoring loads 66 and 67 are provided, three or more charging power supplies may be provided according to the voltage of the battery 71.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a schematic configuration of a multi-story parking device.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a charged state of the electric vehicle.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a charged state of another electric vehicle.

FIG. 4 is an electric circuit diagram of the charging device.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of a pallet showing another embodiment of the charging-side connection portion.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Multilevel parking device 2 Parking tower 3 Parking device 4 Lifting device 5 Parking part 6 Charging device 6a Main circuit 6b Monitor circuit (charge detection means) 7 Electric vehicle (electric vehicle) 8 Charging side connection part 51 Parking shelf 52 Pallet 61 Circuit connection Section 62, 63 Power supply for charging 64 Changeover switch (switching means) 69 Charge detection display section (shipping permission means) 71 Battery 72 Battery side connection

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A multi-story parking device having a plurality of parking portions for storing vehicles, wherein a charging device for charging the battery of an electric vehicle driven by a battery is provided, while the parking portion is a parking device. A movable pallet is placed on the shelf
Is configured, with the said pallet is cooperative to the charging device, the path
A detachable charging-side connection portion is provided at a battery-side connection portion of the electric vehicle parked at the pallet, and the charging-side connection portion is provided between the parking shelf and the pallet.
One or more circuit connections for detachably connecting to the charger
A multi- story parking device characterized by being provided with two or more . 2. The multi-story parking device according to claim 1,
The multi-story parking device, wherein the charging-side connection unit is provided in each parking unit. 3. A multistory parking apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the charging-side connecting portion, multilevel parking apparatus, characterized in that it plurally provided in the parking portion. In the three-dimensional parking system as claimed in any one of 4. The method of claim 1 to 3, the charging device, a plurality of charging power supply composed that the voltage provided to correspond to the electric vehicle battery, for each of said charge A multi-story parking device is provided between a power source and a charging-side connection portion, wherein switching means for switching and connecting the charging-side connection portion to any of the charging power sources is provided. In the three-dimensional parking system as claimed in any one of 5. A method according to claim 1 to 4, multilevel parking apparatus characterized by charge detection means for detecting a charge amount of the battery during charging of the electric vehicle is provided. 6. The multi-story parking device according to claim 5 ,
A multi-story parking device, comprising: exit permission means for permitting the electric vehicle to exit the parking section when charging is completed upon receiving a detection signal from the charging detection means.