JPH047335Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a vertical circulation parking system for storing a mixture of vehicles of different heights, such as high-roof vehicles and regular passenger cars.

[Prior Art] A vertical circulation parking device generally has a plurality of cages suspended at equal intervals from an endless drive chain installed vertically, and is driven in circulation.

Each cage 4, 6 has the same attachment to the drive chain 2, as shown in FIG. 2 when storing an ordinary passenger car, and as shown in FIG. 3 when storing a high roof vehicle. 7 and bearings 8, but if the cage 4 for ordinary passenger cars and the cage 6 for high roof cars are installed together in the same parking device, the cage for ordinary passenger cars The height h of 4 and the height h' of the high roof car cage 6 are approximately 400
Because of the difference of about 1 mm, the positions of the floor surfaces of the cage 4 for a normal passenger car and the cage 6 for a high roof car at the lowest position do not match, and as shown in FIG. There was a problem that caused a step i with the position of .

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

For this reason, it may seem like a good idea to provide the entrance 14 with a step 15 that can be raised or lowered as shown in FIG.
If the vehicle has to pass through a sloped section like this, a person with considerable skill in driving a vehicle must enter and exit the garage, and an extra space is required in front of the entrance of the parking device to provide a step 15. This also creates a new drawback that requires

Also, JP-A-62-137368 and JP-A-62-
A parking device has also been proposed in which the suspension position of a cage for a normal passenger car is configured to be movable so that the entry position is aligned with the entry position of a cage for a high roof car, as in Publication No. 182368. An oil pan is installed below to catch the oil that falls from the drive chain 2, etc., but because it is installed at a height below the cage attachment for normal passenger cars (which is longer than the attachment for high roof cars), This caused problems when high-roof vehicles entered and exited the garage, making it difficult to enter and exit the garage safely and smoothly.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above points, and in a parking system in which cages for storing cars of different heights are arranged in a mixed manner, the height of the cage floor is adjusted when entering and leaving the parking lot. To provide a vertical circulation parking device which not only eliminates wasted space by simply arranging the parking spaces, but also causes no hindrance when entering and exiting the garage.

[Means for solving problems]

In this invention, a drive chain that circulates in the vertical direction is installed between the entrance and exit side and the back side of the tower, and the drive chain is connected to a low-height ordinary passenger car cage for storing ordinary passenger cars and a high roof through attachments. High-roof car cages for storing cars, etc. are suspended at appropriate intervals, and attachments for ordinary passenger car cages are provided with elongated holes, and joints are provided to connect the front and rear cage frames of the ordinary passenger car cage. The member passes through the long hole of the attachment having a long hole, and is engaged so as to be movable along the long hole, so that the entry position of the normal passenger car cage is at the same level as the entry position of the high roof car cage. In a changeable parking device, an oil pan provided below an attachment on the entrance/exit side is provided so as to be movable in the vertical direction.

[Effect]

With the above configuration, when a high-roof vehicle enters or leaves the garage, the oil pan is raised to a position where the vehicle does not collide with the oil pan.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an example of the structure of a cage for a regular passenger car according to the present invention (the left side is the inner side of the tower);
Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing an example of the structure of the high-roof car cage according to the present invention (the left side is the inner side of the tower);
FIG. 6 is a side view showing an example of the first engagement state between the cage for a normal passenger car shown in FIG. 1 and the device according to the present invention for guiding the cage, and FIG. a side view showing an example of an engaged state of a cage for use in a car and a device according to the present invention for guiding the cage;
FIG. 8 shows a second engaged state of the cage for an ordinary passenger car shown in FIG. 1 and the device according to the present invention for guiding the cage, that is, the floor surface of the cage and the floor surface of the entrance 14 are on the same level. A side view showing an example of a certain state, FIG. 9 is a rear view (back side inside the tower) of the device according to the present invention in the case shown in FIG. 6, and FIG. 10 is a side view showing the device according to the present invention in the case shown in FIG. Rear view of the device (back side inside the tower), Figure 11 is a view taken along the - line in Figure 10, Figure 12 is a view taken along the - line in Figure 10, and Figure 13 is a view taken along the - line in Figure 10.
Figure 14 is a front view (entrance/exit side) of the device according to the present invention as shown in Figure 8;
- line arrow view in Figure 4, Figure 16 is the 15th
It is a - line arrow view in a figure.

In the figure, 1 and 1' are well-known lower sprockets around which drive chains 2 and 2' are wound.Lower sprocket 1 is rotatable toward the back of the tower of the parking device, and lower sprocket 1' is attached to the entrance and exit of the parking device. It is rotatably installed on the side. 3, 3' are drive chains 2,
These attachments 3 and 3' are respectively attached to the cages 2' and 3' to support the cage 4 for an ordinary passenger car.Elongated holes 3a and 3'a are provided in the attachments 3 and 3', respectively. Reference numerals 5 and 5' designate attachments that are similarly attached to the drive chains 2 and 2', respectively, and are used to support the high-roof vehicle cage 6, and are shorter in size than the aforementioned attachments 3 and 3'. Reference numerals 41 and 41' denote shoulder rollers that are rotatably provided on both shoulders of the cage frame 4a located at the innermost side of the tower of the parking device, for example, among the cage frames 4a and 4b constituting the cage 4 for a normal passenger car. Connecting the upper parts of the front and rear cage frames 4a, 4b, and passing through the long holes 3a, 3'a of the attachments 3, 3',
A joint member 4 supported by attachments 3, 3' so as to be movable along the elongated holes 3a, 3'a.
3 and 43' are guide rollers rotatably provided at both ends of the joint member 42, and 61 and 61' are cage frames 6a and 6 that constitute the high roof vehicle cage 6.
For example, among b, shoulder rollers are rotatably provided on both shoulders of the cage frame 6a located at the back of the tower of the parking device, and 62 is a joint member connecting the upper parts of the front and rear cage frames 6a and 6b. is attachment 5,
5' is rotatably supported. 10, 10' are guide rollers 43, 4 of the cage 4 for ordinary passenger cars.
3', and is attached to the entire circulating operation area of the cage 4 for an ordinary passenger car, but as shown in Figs. 10 and 14, only the elongated hole 10a, 10'
a are provided respectively. 11, 11' are shoulder rollers 41, 41' of the cage 4 for ordinary passenger cars and shoulder rollers 61, 61' of the cage 6 for high roof cars.
The guide rails are attached to approximately half of each of the upper and lower rotational circulation parts, and as shown in FIG. Each is provided. 20, 20' has weights 21, 2 at one end.
1' are respectively provided, and the middle part is rotatably provided at the upper end of the guide post 22, 22' with an H-shaped cross section, which stands upright on the inner side of the tower, and has a sprocket 23,
23', and from the other end, the left and right upper ends of a support frame 30, which will be described later, are suspended.
As shown in FIG. 8, it has a recess 30a that does not hinder the installation of the oil pan 24, and two rollers are installed on the front and back surfaces of both sides of the recess 30a, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11. 31, 31' are provided, and are guided by the two sides of the guide posts 22, 22' and supported so as to be able to rise and fall freely, and the upper surfaces of the two protrusions 30b, 30c have cutouts for the guide rails 11, 11', respectively. Shoulder roller receivers 32, 32' that close 11a, 11'a and guide rail 10
A guide roller receiving member 33 is provided to close the elongated hole 10a. Reference numerals 25 and 25' denote a driving device such as a power cylinder, which pushes up the lower part provided below the support frame 30 and raises and lowers the support frame 30 by an appropriate distance;
70, 70' shown in the figure has weights 71, 7 at one end.
1' are respectively provided, and the intermediate part has a guide post 72 with an H-shaped cross section erected on the entrance/exit side, and a sprocket 73 rotatably provided at the upper end of 72'.
73', and from the other end the left and right upper ends of the support frame 80 are suspended, respectively, and on the front of both sides of the support frame 80, as shown in FIGS. 13 and 15, there are lifting chains. Two rollers 81, 81' are provided,
It is guided by one side of the guide posts 72, 72' and supported so as to be able to rise and fall freely, and a guide roller receiving member 83 is provided on the upper surface to close the elongated hole 10'a of the guide rail 10'. 74 is the guide post 72, 7 as shown in FIGS. 15 and 16.
A movable oil pan 76 is provided on the other side of 2' so as to be movable up and down while being guided by guide rollers 75. A movable oil pan 76 pushes up the lower part provided below the movable oil pan 74 to raise and lower the movable oil pan 74 by an appropriate distance. The drive devices 77, 77', such as power cylinders, are provided below the support frame 80 and push up the lower part of the support frame 80 to raise and lower the support frame 80 by an appropriate distance.

Next, the operation of the device of the present invention will be explained.

First, in normal times, the support frame 8 on the entrance/exit side
0 and the support frame 30 at the back of the tower are in a state where the guide rail receiving members 33, 83 close the elongated holes 10a, 10'a, and the shoulder roller receiving members 32, 32' close the notches 11a, 11'a. up to drive device 77,
77', 25, 25' and is in the raised position as shown in Figs. 9 and 13, so in the case of the high roof car cage 6, it is pushed up as shown in Fig. 17 (on the back side of the tower). , shoulder rollers 61,6
1' is guided by the guide rails 11, 11', and the circular rotation movement is performed smoothly, while the ordinary passenger car cage 4 is also guided by the shoulder rollers 41, 41' as shown in Fig. 18 (on the back side of the tower). Guided by guide rails 11, 11', and guided by guide rollers 43, 43'
As shown in FIGS. 18 and 19, it is guided by guide rails 10, 10' and smoothly performs circular rotational motion and linear motion.

When the ordinary passenger car cage 4 stops at the entrance/exit position, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 19,
Although there is a step between the floor of the cage 4 and the floor of the entrance 14, the support frame 80 can be lowered by its own weight by operating the drive devices 77, 77' shown in FIG. 13 on the entrance side. As a result, the guide roller 43' of the passenger car cage 4 is lowered while being supported by the guide roller support member 83, and at the same time, the drive devices 25, 25' shown in FIG. Similarly, by lowering it by its own weight, the guide roller 43 of the cage 4 for a normal passenger car is supported by the guide roller support material 33, and the shoulder rollers 41, 41' are supported by the shoulder roller support material 32,
32', the cage 4 for a regular passenger car is lowered along the long holes 3a, 3a' of the attachment, and the floor surface of the cage 4 and the floor surface of the entrance 14 are lowered as shown in FIGS. To make it easier for cars to enter and exit the warehouse by matching the levels of the vehicles.

On the other hand, when the high-roof car cage 6 stops at the entrance/exit position, the floor surface of the cage 6 and the floor surface of the entrance 14 should be designed so that they are at the same level in advance as shown in FIG. However, the height position of the movable oil pan 74 on the entrance/exit side is lower than the bottom surface of the attachment 3 of the cage 4 for ordinary passenger cars, as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. Since it collides with the movable oil pan 74, loading and unloading cannot be performed. Therefore, the drive device 76 shown in FIG. 16 is operated to push the movable oil pan 74 up to just below the attachment 5' of the high roof car cage 6 shown in FIG. raise.

Next, when the operation of entering and leaving the car in and out of the high-roof car cage 6 is completed, and when performing circulation operation, the drive device 76 shown in FIG. 74 is pulled down to the position shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 17, so that circulation operation can be performed freely.

Furthermore, when the operation of loading and unloading the car into the cage 4 for ordinary passenger cars is completed, the support frames 30, 80 are raised by the driving devices 25, 25' and 77, 77' shown in FIGS. 10 and 14. The guide roller 43 and shoulder rollers 41, 4 of the cage 4 are operated by the guide roller receiving member 33 and the shoulder roller receiving members 32, 32' on the inner side of the tower.
1', and on the entrance/exit side, the guide roller 43' of the cage 4 is pushed up by the guide roller receiving member 83, and the guide rails 10, 10', 11, 1
1', where each roller can be guided, that is, the guide roller receiving members 33, 83 close the elongated holes 10a, 10'a of the guide rails 10, 10', and the shoulder roller receiving members 32, 32' close the guide roller receiving members 32, 32'. 11,
The support frames 30 and 80 are raised to a position where they close the notches 11a and 11'a of the support frames 11', and circulation operation can be performed freely.

[Effect of idea]

As described above, according to the present invention, an elongated hole is provided in the attachment for suspending a cage for a normal passenger car, and the cage can be moved up and down along the elongated hole. The cage is operated cyclically at the same hanging position as the hanging position, and the cage is lowered only when the car is in and out of the garage, so that the floor of the cage is easily brought to the same level as the boarding position of the high-roof car cage. In addition to being able to change the position of the oil pan on the entrance/exit side,
The entry and exit operations of high-roof vehicles can be carried out extremely safely and smoothly. In addition, when changing the level, the guide rollers at the front and rear of the cage are supported, and the shoulder rollers are also supported, making it extremely safe. It also eliminates the need for space-consuming equipment.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of the structure of a cage 4 for an ordinary passenger car according to the present invention, FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing the hanging state of the conventional cage 4 for an ordinary passenger car and the cage 6 for a high roof car, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the problems of the conventional device, FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an example of the structure of the cage 6 for a high roof vehicle according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is for a regular passenger car shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 7 is a side view showing an example of the first engaged state of the cage 4 and the device according to the present invention for guiding the cage 4, and FIG. 7 shows the high roof vehicle cage 6 shown in FIG. 5 and the device for guiding the cage 6. FIG. 8 is a side view showing an example of the engagement state with the device according to the present invention, and FIG. 8 is a second engagement between the ordinary passenger car cage 4 shown in FIG. 1 and the device according to the present invention for guiding the cage 4. FIG. 9 is a rear view of the device according to the present invention as seen from the inside of the column in the case shown in FIG. 6, and FIG. 10 is a side view showing an example of the state. The rear view of such a device, FIG. 11, is shown in FIG.
A line arrow view, Fig. 12 shows - in Fig. 10.
13 is a front view of the device according to the present invention seen from the entrance/exit side in the case shown in FIG. 6, and FIG. 14 is a front view of the device according to the present invention seen from the entrance/exit side in the case shown in FIG. A front view, FIG. 15 is a view taken along the - line in FIG. 14, FIG. 16 is a view taken along the - line in FIG. Figures 18 and 19 are diagrams showing a state in which the cage 4 for a regular passenger car is operated in circulation in the device of the present invention, and Figure 20 is a diagram showing a state in which the cage 4 for a regular passenger car can enter and exit a car in the device of the present invention. FIG. 2, 2'...drive chain, 3, 3', 5, 5'
...Attachment, 3a...Attachment 3
Elongated hole, 4... Cage for regular passenger cars, 6... Cage for high roof cars, 4a, 4b, 6a, 6b...
Cage frame, 42, 62... joint member, 43, 4
3'...Guide roller, 41, 41', 61, 6
1'... Shoulder roller, 10, 10', 11, 11'...
...Guide rail, 10a, 10'a...Elongated hole, 1
1a, 11'a... Notch, 30, 80... Support frame, 33, 83... Guide roller receiving material, 32, 32'... Shoulder roller receiving material, 72, 7
2'...Guide post, 74...Movable oil pan,
25, 25', 76, 77, 77'... Drive device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A drive chain that circulates in the vertical direction is installed between the entrance and exit side and the back side of the tower. A low cage for a normal passenger car and a high cage for a high roof car that stores a high roof car etc. are hung at an appropriate interval, and the attachment of the cage for a normal passenger car is provided with a long hole,
A joint member connecting the front and rear cage frames of the ordinary passenger car cage passes through the elongated hole of the attachment having the elongated hole, and is engaged so as to be movable along the elongated hole. In the parking device, the entry position of the vehicle can be changed to the same level as the entry position of the high-roof car cage, characterized in that an oil pan provided below the attachment on the doorway side is provided to be movable in the vertical direction. Vertical circulation parking device. (2) The vertical circulation according to claim 1, wherein the oil pan is guided by a guide roller so as to be able to rise and fall along a guide post with an H-shaped cross section that stands upright on the entrance/exit side. type parking device.