JPH01260173A - Car exit device for mechanically operated parking garage - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to communicate waiting time to users at inexpensive maintenance cost, by installing a controller which controls entrance and exit of cars, and a car exit demanding device and by providing indicators separately across a public road, being connected to the aforementioned devices with optical signal transmission devices. CONSTITUTION:A car exit demanding device 20 is installed in a waiting room 15 adjoining an exit 13 and entrance and exit of cars are controlled by a controller 40. In a store built across a public road 5 on the side of the parking garage, an exit reservation devices 60, connected to communication devices 75 and 76 composed of optical signal transmission equipment, are installed. When a user inserts his parking card into the reservation device 60, information including waiting time is indicated to help the user decide whether or not to make a reservation. If the reservation is selected, the user pushes a reservation confirmation button and goes to the waiting room 15. The controller 40 operates car exit operation according to filing orders. The user can open a door at the exit 13 by inserting the parking card into a card reader at the exit 13. When the door is opened, the user can take his car and drives it away.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a request for parking in a mechanical parking lot, and particularly to a relatively large mechanical parking lot installed in parallel with a large-scale store or the like.

[Prior art] A relatively large mechanical parking lot is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-27047.
There are three-dimensional parking lots consisting of a stacker crane and a three-dimensional warehouse as shown in Publication No. 3, and three-dimensional parking lots with circulation as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open Nos. 113972/1982 and 117374/1983. be.

In such a mechanical parking lot, a request for leaving the parking lot is made near the exit exit of the mechanical parking lot.

Such parking lots are often located alongside large-scale stores.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, due to the relatively large size and the fact that requests for exits are made near the exit entrance, there are times when there is a rush of requests for exits, such as closing time, and requests for entering the warehouse. During times when the number of vehicles is relatively high, the waiting time from when you request to leave the garage until you are able to get into your own vehicle is often extremely long.

If the waiting time is long like this, it will become crowded and dangerous. In addition, when the vehicle is crowded, even if the vehicle leaves the parking lot, the person who is supposed to board the vehicle is often not there, and the waiting time is often even longer. As a result, various problems occur.

It is an object of the present invention to reduce substantial waiting times.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention provides a display for displaying elements related to the waiting time for exiting the parking device at a position further away from the exit requester when viewed from the exit of the parking device and via a public road, and the display device and the parking device It is characterized in that it is connected to the control device by an optical signal transmission device.

[Function] Since the waiting time can be displayed, congestion at the exit gate can be alleviated.
This can shorten the waiting time at the exit. Furthermore, even if there is a public road, it is possible to send messages with low maintenance costs.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.

The overall configuration will be explained with reference to FIG.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a mechanical parking lot, which, as is well known, is comprised of a hangar 11 for storing (parking) vehicles, an entrance (not shown) connected to the hangar, an exit entrance 13, and the like. Exit exit 1
There is a waiting room 15 near 3, where the exit requesting device 2
0 is set. The control device 40 includes a storage request device 20,
Based on the data of the exit reservation device, the storage entrance, the exit exit 13, etc., which will be described later, each of these devices is controlled to perform storage and exit.

On the other hand, 50 stores with many users using this parking lot
A delivery reservation device 60 is installed in the store.

For example, six exit reservation devices 60 may be installed at each necessary floor of the store 50, or one store 50 may have a plurality of them. Each exit reservation device 60 is connected to the control device 40 via communication devices 75 and 76. The communication devices 75 and 76 are optical signal transmission devices. There is a public road 5 between the parking lot 10 and the store 50.

The communication devices 75 and 76 are installed in the parking lot 10 and the upper part of the store 50.

In this multi-storey parking lot, a well-known parking card (
6fi card). Parking cards are received at the entrance (not shown). The control device 40 records the parking position, parking time, etc.

Next, the configuration of the exit reservation device 60 will be explained with reference to FIGS. 2 and 5. The exit reservation device 60 is equipped with a known card reader 61. When the parking card is inserted into the card reader 61 (step 510), information is supplied from the control device 40, so the display 63 shows the number of vehicles desired to leave the parking lot (the exit order of your own vehicle at the time of inserting the parking card); The waiting time display 64 and the parking fee display 65 display their respective information (step 515). The user refers to this data and decides whether to make or cancel the actual reservation. To make an actual reservation, press the reservation confirmation button 67, and to cancel, press the cancel button 68.
is pressed (step 517). Regardless of which button is pressed, the parking card is returned to the user, and the display 63.
The display of 64.65 is stopped (step 523).

The user refers to the waiting time etc. on the display 64, and if it is more crowded than expected, cancels and goes to rest or shopping, etc. On the other hand, if the user presses the reservation confirmation button 67, the waiting time is taken into consideration. While doing so, I went to waiting room 15.

When the reservation confirmation button 67 is pressed, the control device 40 registers the parking card number etc. at the end of the file of the vehicle desired to leave the parking lot (step 519).

This will result in files being filed in the order of delivery reservations. The number of vehicles and the waiting time on the display devices 63 and 64 are calculated based on the file of the vehicle desired to leave the warehouse. When the cancel button 68 is pressed, the data entered from the exit reservation device 60 is not registered (step 521).

The number of vehicles desired to leave the warehouse in the file of vehicles desired to leave the warehouse is the same as the number of vehicles desired to leave the warehouse displayed on the display 63.

This value is calculated for (1) vehicles that have been reserved from each exit reservation device 60, and (2) vehicles that have newly requested exit from the exit request device 20 (excluding vehicles that have already been registered in (1)). This refers to the number of vehicles that have not yet been taken out of the warehouse.

The waiting time displayed on the display 64 is the time until the user can board his or her own vehicle at the exit 13. This is calculated based on the number of vehicles desired to leave the warehouse. In addition, it is recommended to consider the degree of congestion at warehousing when making calculations. The congestion degree of warehousing may be a coefficient determined for each time period. The information on the display 64 is displayed as reference information.

The parking fee displayed on the display 65 is calculated based on the sum of the walking time from the installation position of the exit reservation device 60 to the exit request device 20 and the parking time up to the present time. This is for reference only.

In addition, if there are multiple parking devices including a hangar 11 and an exit 13 in one parking lot, the information on the display 63 and the display 64 is information on the parking device where the user's vehicle is parked. . Further, the control device 40 creates a file of vehicles desired to leave the parking device.

The configuration of the delivery request device 20 is shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 6, and 7.
This will be explained using figures.

The retrieval requester 20 gives a retrieval command, and in principle there is no cancellation. The exit requester 20 includes a card reader 21, a display 22 that displays the order in which the vehicle is exited, a waiting time display 23, a parking fee display 24, and the like. After paying the parking fee, the parking card will be returned to the user. In the waiting room 15, there is a shipping order display 30.
The number displayed on the parking card (visible) is displayed on the display 31.
will be displayed in the order of issue. However, only about 3 machines are displayed. This is displayed for each outlet 13. The delivery order is the order registered in the file of vehicles desired to be delivered.

When the parking card is inserted into the exit requester 20 (step 530), the control device 40 determines whether or not it is the parking card of the vehicle reserved with the exit reservation device 60 (step 53).
5). If the reservation has been made, the fact that the exit request has been made from the exit requester 20 is recorded in the own vehicle data section of the file for the vehicle desired for exit (step 537). If the parking card does not have an exit reservation, the parking card number etc. are registered at the end of the file for the vehicle desired to exit (step 539). That is, the shipping order is registered as the lowest at that time. The control device 40 performs the delivery work based on the order of the files of the vehicles desired to be delivered. As a result, the effect of reserving the exit from the warehouse by the exit reservation device 60 is produced.

Then, the exit order, waiting time, and parking fee are displayed on the exit requester 20 (step 541).

When the parking fee is paid, the parking card is returned according to the manager's instructions, and the display on the display 22, 23, 24 is stopped (step S43, 545).

There was a reservation made by the exit reservation device 60, but the exit request device 20
The case where there is no delivery command will be explained with reference to FIG. Before starting the task of leaving the vehicle, it is checked whether a request for leaving the vehicle has been received from the leaving requestor 20 (step S50.555). If yes, the unloading operation is performed according to the unloading order (step 557); if no, the reserved vehicle data is moved to the end of the file for the vehicle desired to be unloaded (step 559); that is, the unloading order is set to the highest at that point Lower level.

For example, in a parking system consisting of a stacker crane and a multistory warehouse, this check is performed before the stacker crane starts unloading the vehicle. As a result, it is possible to prevent a vehicle without a user (driver) from leaving the garage, shorten the waiting time of other vehicles, and equalize the order of departure of reserved vehicles and non-reserved vehicles.

This check is performed before displaying on the shipping order display 30.
It is best to do this when the order of delivery is about the third.

When one's own vehicle is taken out of the exit 13, the parking card is inserted into a card league (not shown) of the exit 13, and a command is given to open the door etc. of the exit 13. This allows you to board and depart.

The order of delivery, that is, the order displayed on the delivery order display 30 in the waiting room 15 is basically the order in which requests are made from the delivery reservation device 60 and the delivery request device 20; If this is the case, it may be possible to change the order slightly in order to speed up delivery.

As described above, this makes it possible to make a reservation for leaving the warehouse from a distance, thereby preventing crowding in the waiting room 15. Further, when making a reservation, if the waiting time is long, the reservation can be skipped, so it is possible to shorten the waiting time in the waiting room 15 and prevent the waiting room 15 from becoming crowded.

The communication devices 75, 76 may be wired, wireless, public line, etc. If a mechanical parking lot and a store are installed on the same site, the communication devices 75, 76 may be wired. However, if it is installed across a public road, it is difficult to use a wired system, and public line systems are expensive to maintain. do not have.

The exit reservation machine 60 may be installed in the waiting room 15.

There is a method of using the exit reservation machine 60 as a waiting time makeshift machine.

That is, the exit confirmation button 67 and the cancel button 68 are removed from the exit reservation device 60, and the exit reservation function is also removed. In this case, there is no leaving reservation function, but if the waiting time is calculated based on the number of vehicles that have received a leaving request from the leaving requester 20 and displayed on the display 64, the waiting time can be more accurately recognized. Therefore, the waiting time in the waiting room 15 can be shortened as a result.

Further, although there is no parking reservation function, the parking reservation device 60 is used to count the number of vehicles that have received an inquiry, and the parking request device 20 is also configured to count the total number of vehicles that have received a parking request and the count value. It is conceivable to calculate the waiting time etc. from the above and display it on the display 64. According to this, the waiting time for that time period can be displayed more accurately. However, vehicles for which a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the inquiry was made from the exit reservation device 60 are deleted from the targets of the count value.

As a method of notifying waiting time, various displays such as display by time, number of vehicles, length, etc. can be considered.

In the above embodiment, the waiting time can be recognized by inserting the parking card, but the waiting time may be displayed continuously based on data from the exit requesting machine.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, even if there is a public road between the parking lot and the store or the like where the user is located, the waiting time can be communicated to the user at low maintenance costs.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of a delivery reservation device, Fig. 3 is a front view of a delivery request device, Fig. 4 is a front view of a delivery order indicator, and Fig. 5 is a front view of a delivery reservation device. FIG. 6 is a flowchart when a parking card is inserted into the exit reservation device. FIG. 6 is a flowchart when a parking card is inserted into the exit requester. FIG. 7 is a flowchart when there is no exit request. 5-----1 public road, 10-----1 mechanical parking lot, 11-----1 hangar, 13-----1 exit, 15-----1 waiting room, 2Q-----1 retrieval request device, 21-----1 card league, 30-----1 control device, 5O-----1 store, 60------1 retrieval reservation machine , 61----1--Card League, 64-11111 Waiting time display, 6 Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-zu-e-guu

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A mechanical parking device capable of parking a plurality of vehicles; A control having a function of controlling entry and exit of the parking device and calculating a waiting time from the number of vehicles that have requested exit. a parking device; an exit requester for requesting the control device to exit the parking device; and a parking device installed at a location further away than the exit requester when viewed from the exit of the parking device via a public road. A mechanical parking lot exit device comprising: a display device for displaying elements related to the waiting time; and an optical signal transmission device for connecting the control device and the display device.