JPH07279467A - Vertically circulating parking device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the attached interval of respective cages and increase the contained number of the cage within a limitted height of the whole device. CONSTITUTION:A turning device 21 of trays is constituted of a tray support 22 supporting the tower race or a tray 13 of each cage 11, a tray lifter 24 vertically transferring the tray supports 22 to move up and down the tray 13, and a tray rotary device 23 rotatably driving the tray support 22 to turn the tray 13. The tray is turned by the lifting and rotary motion of the tray support 22 supporting the lower face of the tray 13 and various necessary devices and parts required for the turning motion of the tray 13 are contained in a pit. The space 133 right under the lower face of the tray 13 of each cage 11 is used as the attaching part for the cage of an attachment 15. In this way, the attaching pitch of the cage 11 is compacted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vertical circulation type parking device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of parking system, an endless chain is stretched on a pair of sprocket wheels installed vertically on both sides of a building, and a plurality of cages for storing automobiles are attached to the endless chain. It is configured to be suspended and supported via a sprocket wheel so as to be vertically circulated by rotational driving of a sprocket wheel. In addition, each cage has a cage frame and a tray for automatic vehicle mounting that is detachably supported on the cage frame, and is installed in the pit of the vehicle loading / unloading part set at the lowest position of each cage. The tray turning device is adapted to turn the tray in each cage to change the direction of the automobile.

FIG. 5 shows a cage of a conventional parking device of this type,
The structure of the tray turning device is shown. In FIG. 5, 5
Reference numeral 1 is a cage, and a cage frame 52 forming the outer shape thereof
And a tray 53 for automatic vehicle mounting which is detachably supported by the cage frame 52, and fences 54 which are tiltably attached to both sides of the cage frame 52 via brackets to protect the vehicle. A center pin 55 is attached to the tray 53 at the center of the lower surface thereof by being supported by a support member 56, and a rotating ring 57 is attached around the center pin 55. The plurality of cages 51 thus configured are attached to the endless chain 59 by the attachment 58, as shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 61 is a tray turning device, which is a tray 53.
Tray rotating device 62 for rotating the tray, and tray rotating device 6
And a tray elevating device 63 for elevating or lowering 2 to elevate the tray 53. The tray rotation device 62 is
Friction roller 621 and its rotation drive device 62
2. It has a supporting roller 623 and is disposed on the elevating frame 631. The tray lifting device 63 has a power cylinder unit (not shown) and a lifting arm 632 that is driven by the operation of the power cylinder unit to lift the lifting frame 631. Reference numeral 64 denotes a base frame arranged in the pit, and the tray turning device 61 is installed on the base frame 64. A pusher (not shown) for tilting the fence 54 of the cage 51 is provided on the base frame 64.

Next, the operation of the above conventional example will be described with reference to FIGS. In the above-mentioned conventional example, when a plurality of cages 51 are cyclically driven and the designated cages 51 land in the pit, first, the fences 54 on both sides of the cages 51 are tilted by the operation of the fence tilting device. Next, the operation of the power cylinder unit of the tray elevating / lowering device 63 drives the elevating arm 632 to rise, and the elevating frame 631 is raised by the elevating arm 632, and the friction roller 62 on the elevating frame 631 is lifted.
1. Rotating ring 5 on the lower surface of tray 53 with support roller 623
The tray 53 is lifted from the cage frame 52 while supporting the tray 7. Then, when the friction roller 621 is rotated by the operation of the tray rotation device 62, the rotation ring 5 moves on the friction roller 621 and the support roller 623.
7 rotates, the tray 53 turns in the cage 51, and the direction of the automobile mounted on the tray 53 is changed.

As described above, in the above-described conventional vertical circulation type parking apparatus, the tray 5 detachably supported by the cage 51 is used.
The tray turning device 61 installed in the pit raises and turns the car 3 in the cage 51 to turn the car.

[0007]

However, in the above-described conventional vertical circulation type parking apparatus, since the tray 53 is swung by the rotation of the friction roller 621 of the tray swivel unit 61, the center pin 55 and its support are provided on the lower surface of the tray 53. Various parts such as the member 56 and the rotating ring 57 are required, and as shown in FIG. 6, since these parts project to the lower part of the cage 51, the mounting pitch P between the cages is equal to the mounting dimension of these parts. Becomes larger,
There is a problem that the number of cages 51 accommodated cannot be increased within the limited height of the entire apparatus.

The present invention solves such a conventional problem, and it is possible to increase the number of cages accommodated within the limited height of the entire apparatus by compressing the mounting intervals of the cages. An object is to provide a vertical circulation type parking device.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a tray swivel device in a pit, a tray support portion for supporting the lower surface of the tray of each cage, and the tray support portion in the vertical direction. It comprises a tray elevating device that moves and elevates the tray and a tray rotating device that rotates the tray support to rotate the tray. By carrying out the rotation operation, various devices and parts necessary for the pivoting operation of the tray are housed in the pit, and the space directly below the bottom surface of the tray of each cage is used as the cage attachment part of the attachment, so that It is a compressed installation interval.

[0010]

Therefore, according to the present invention, with the above structure, the space directly under the tray lower surface of each cage is used as the cage mounting portion of the attachment to compress the mounting interval of each cage, thereby limiting the entire apparatus. The accommodation space of the cage can be increased in the enclosed space.

[0011]

1 and 2 show the construction of a cage and tray turning device for storing a vehicle used in a vertical circulation type parking device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, 11 is a car storage cage, and 21
Is a tray turning device installed in the pit at the lowest position of the cage 11.

First, the structure of the cage 11 will be described. 12 is a cage frame, which is a cage member 12
1, a gate-shaped hanger 122 standing on both ends in the longitudinal direction thereof, and a rod 123 connecting the upper parts of these hangers 122. Reference numeral 13 denotes an automatic vehicle-mounting tray that is detachably supported on the cage member 121. The tray 13 has a recess 131a for supporting both front and rear wheels of an automobile and an intermediate projection 132a on its upper surface, and a tray on the lower surface side. It has a concavo-convex shape having opposite convex portions 131b and concave portions 132b.
On the lower surface of the tray 13, the center pin and its supporting member as well as various parts such as a rotating ring, which have been conventionally used, are completely eliminated to secure a space 133 directly below the lower surface of the tray 13, and the space 133 is attached. It is used as a cage attachment part for 15. Reference numeral 14 is a fence that protects both sides of the automobile, and is pivotally supported between swing levers 141 pivotally supported by spring means at both ends of the side surface of the tray 13 and upper end portions of these pivot levers 141. The tray 13 and the connecting rod 142 form parallelogram links on both side surfaces of the tray 13 and are tiltably attached along the side surface of the tray 13. These fences 14 are normally erected on both side surfaces of the tray 13 by spring means, and are tilted by the operation of a fence tilting device 31 described later.

Next, the structure of the tray turning device 21 will be described. Reference numeral 22 denotes a tray support portion capable of supporting the lower surface of the tray 13 of each cage 11, which is provided on the upper end of the swivel shaft 231 and which supports a pair of vertical support members which can be fitted along both sides of the recess 132b of the lower surface of the tray 13. The portion 221 and the concave portion 1 on the lower surface of the tray 13 that is orthogonal to the lower portion of the vertical support portion 221.
It has a pair of two lateral support portions 222 capable of supporting the convex portions 131b on both sides of 32b, and is assembled in a cross beam shape as a whole. Reference numeral 23 denotes a tray rotation device that rotates the tray support portion 22 to rotate the tray 13.
1 and its slewing bearing 232 with external teeth, and this slewing bearing 23
Drive gear 233 meshing with 2 and this drive gear 233
And a motor 234 for operating. Reference numeral 24 denotes a tray elevating device that moves the tray rotating device 23 in the vertical direction to elevate the tray 13. The elevating frame 241 that supports the tray rotating device 23, the power cylinder unit 242, and the operation of the power cylinder unit 242. And an elevating arm 243 that vertically moves to elevate the elevating frame 241.

Reference numeral 25 denotes a centering device for aligning the center of the tray turning device 21 with the center of each cage 11. The sensor 251 detects the stop position of the cage 11 in the pit, and the tray based on a signal from the sensor 251. The traverse device 254 that moves the center of the swivel device 21 to the center of the cage 11 is provided. Two phototubes 251a are used for the sensor 251, and these two phototubes 251a are used.
1a is a pillar 25 standing upright at a predetermined position in the pit.
2 are mounted side by side via a mounting plate in parallel with each other, while a light shielding plate 253 for a photoelectric tube is attached to a predetermined position on the side surface of the cage 11, and two photoelectric tubes 251a are irradiated to both sides of the light shielding plate 253. It is designed to reflect. The traverse device 254 includes a pair of slide rails 255 installed at both ends in the pit, a slide frame 257 slidably arranged on the pair of slide rails 255 via rollers 256, and a signal from the sensor 251. And a traverse drive mechanism 258 for traversing the slide frame 257 in a predetermined direction based on
A tray swivel device 21 is installed on top of 7.

Reference numeral 31 is a fence tilting device, which supports a support shaft 311 mounted on a slide frame 257 of the traverse device 254, a crank arm 312 pivotally supported by the support shaft 311, and rotationally drives the crank arm 312. The crank arm 312 is composed of a motor 313, and is configured to abut against the swing lever 141 of the fence 14 and push and rotate as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG.

The turning operation of the tray 13 by the tray turning device 21 will now be described with reference to FIG. When the cage 11 is landed on the pit, the sensor 251 in the pit first detects the stop position of the cage 11. That is, the light from the two photocells 251a is emitted from the cage 11
When the light is blocked by the light blocking plate 253 of the cage 1,
The center of 1 is in the center of the pit, and the tray turning device 21
The centering device 25 does not operate because the center position of the center of the cage coincides with the center of the cage 11. In addition, the light of one of the two phototubes 251a is light-shielding plate 2a.
When the light is blocked by 53 and the other photoelectric tube 251a is not blocked, the center position of the tray turning device 21 is deviated from the center of the cage 11 in the direction in which the light of the photoelectric tube 251a is not blocked. The sensor 251 detects this deviation and sends a detection signal to the centering device 25. The centering device 25 operates based on this detection signal, and the traverse drive mechanism 258 causes the slide frame 257 to traverse on the pair of slide rails 255 in a predetermined direction, and the center position of the tray revolving device 21 on the slide frame 257 and the cage. Correct the deviation from the center of 11.

Next, the operation of the power cylinder unit 242 of the tray elevating device 24 causes the elevating arm 243 to rotate upward to elevate the elevating frame 241 and elevate the tray support 22 in a cross-beam shape on the elevating frame 241. . The vertical support portion 221 of the tray support portion 22 is the tray 1
3 is fitted into and supported by the recesses 132b on the lower surface, and the lateral support portions 222 are provided with the projections 131 on both sides of the recesses 132b.
Supporting b, lifting the tray 13,
Raise from 21.

The motor 23 of the tray rotating device 23
4 drives the drive gear 233 to rotate, and the rotation of the swivel bearing 232 that meshes with the drive gear 233 causes the tray support 22 to rotate and the tray 13 placed on the tray support 22 to rotate. To do.

During this series of operations, the fence tilting device 31
Does not work, and the fences 14 on both sides of the tray 13 protect the doors on both sides of the vehicle. When the cage 11 is stopped on the pit and the occupant gets on and off the vehicle, the fence tilting device 31 operates to tilt the fence 14. That is,
The crank arm 312 is rotated upward by the operation of the motor 313, and the swing lever 141 of the fence 14 is pressed to tilt the entire fence 14 along both sides of the tray 13.

In this vertical circulation type parking apparatus, as is clear from the respective configurations of the cage 11 and the tray turning apparatus 21 and the tray turning operation, the tray support portion 22 for supporting the turning operation of the tray 13 on the lower surface of the tray 13. The tray 13 is moved up and down and rotated.
The various devices and parts necessary for the turning operation of the tray are housed in the pit, and various parts such as the center pin and its supporting member and the rotating ring are removed from the bottom surface of the tray 13 and the space 133 is secured there. As shown in FIG. 4, the tray 13
By utilizing the space 133 directly below the lower surface as a cage attachment portion of the attachment 15, the plurality of cages 11 are suspended on the endless chain 16 by compressing the attachment pitch P.

As described above, according to the above-described embodiment, by compressing the mounting pitch P of each cage 11, it is possible to increase the accommodation space of the cage 11 in the space of the entire device, which limits the entire device. The number of cages 11 accommodated can be increased within the height.

Further, according to the above embodiment, each cage 11
In each of the trays 13, the fence 14 for protecting the automobile is attached.
Since it is mounted so that it can be tilted along the side surface of the vehicle, unlike the conventional case, it is not necessary to tilt the fence when the tray 13 is turning, and both sides of the vehicle are protected during turning of the vehicle to prevent the door from being opened by a half door. Can be prevented. Further, in this compression type parking device, as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 3, when the fences 14 are attached to both sides of the cage frame 12 as in the conventional case, each cage 11
In the vertical circulation of the above, the mounting portion thereof may enter into the restricted space of the lower cage 11, but by mounting the fence 14 on the side surface of the tray 13, this point is greatly improved, and the lower cage. There is an advantage that the 11 restricted spaces can be sufficiently secured.

Further, according to the above embodiment, the tray turning device 21 is installed on the centering device 25, and the sensor 2
Since the stop position of the cage 11 in the pit is detected by 51 and the center of the tray turning device 21 is aligned with the center of the cage 11 based on the detection signal, the turning stop position of the tray 13 can be accurately determined. As a result, the reliable turning operation of the tray 13 can be realized.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A tray turning device is installed in the pit, a tray support part that supports the bottom surface of the tray of each cage, a tray elevating device that moves the tray support part up and down to raise and lower the tray, and a tray support part that is driven to rotate. And a tray rotating device for rotating the tray, and the tray is swung by raising and lowering and rotating the tray support that supports the lower surface of the tray. Since the space between the cage trays and the space directly below the bottom surface of each cage is used as the cage attachment portion of the attachment, the cage mounting interval is compressed, so the number of cages accommodated within the limited height of the entire device. Can be increased.

According to the present invention, a fence for protecting automobiles is attached to the side surface of each tray so that the fence can be tilted along the side thereof, and a fence tilting device having a crank arm capable of tilting the fence is provided in the pit. By not tilting the fence when turning the tray, it is possible to reliably protect the doors of the car during turning of the car, and the mounting position of this fence allows each cage to operate during vertical circulation operation. It is possible to prevent a part of the fence from entering the regulation space of the cage and secure a sufficient regulation space.

The present invention also includes a centering device for aligning the center of the tray swivel device with the center of each cage in the pit, so that an accurate swivel stop position of the tray can be obtained, so that the tray is more reliable. A turning motion can be realized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partial front view of a vertical circulation type parking device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial side view of the device.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view showing a vertical circulation operation of a cage in the device.

FIG. 4 is a partial front view showing a state in which a mounting interval between cages in the device is compressed.

FIG. 5 is a partial front view of a conventional vertical circulation type parking device.

FIG. 6 is a partial front view showing an arrangement state of cages in the device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Cage for Car Storage 12 Cage Frame 121 Cage Member 122 Hanger 123 Rod 13 Tray for Automatic Vehicle Mounting 131a Recess 131b Convex 132a Convex 132b Recess 133 Space 14 Fence 141 Swing Lever 142 Connecting Rod 15 Attachment 16 Endless Chain 21 Tray Rotating Device 22 Tray Supporting Part 221 Vertical Supporting Part 222 Horizontal Supporting Part 23 Tray Rotating Device 231 Slewing Axis 232 External Slewing Bearing 233 Drive Gear 234 Motor 24 Tray Lifting Device 241 Lifting Frame 242 Power Cylinder Unit 243 Lifting Arm 25 Centering device 251 Sensor 251a Phototube 252 Support 253 Light-shielding plate 254 Traverse device 255 Slide rail 256 Roller 257 Slide frame 258 traverse drive mechanism 31 fence tilting device 311 support shaft 312 crank arm 313 Motor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of automobiles suspended and supported via an attachment by endless chains stretched on a pair of sprocket wheels vertically installed on both sides and vertically circulated by rotational driving of the sprocket wheels. A cage for storage is provided, and each cage is arranged on both sides of the cage frame, an automatic vehicle mounting tray detachably supported on the cage frame, and both sides of the cage frame to protect an automobile door. With a fence and a tray turning device installed in the pit of the vehicle loading / unloading section set at the lowest position of each cage, the tray is turned in each cage to change the direction of the vehicle. In the vertical circulation type parking device, the tray turning device is supported in the pit, and the lower surface of the tray of each cage is supported. A tray support part for moving the tray support part in the vertical direction to elevate and lower the tray; and a tray rotating device for rotationally driving the tray support part to rotate the tray, The tray is swung by raising and lowering and rotating a tray support portion that supports the lower surface of the tray, and various devices and parts required for the swiveling operation of the tray are housed in the pits and the cages are accommodated. The vertical circulation parking apparatus, wherein the space between the tray and the space directly below the lower surface of the tray is used as a cage mounting portion of the attachment to reduce the mounting intervals of the cages. 2. A fence for protecting automobiles is equipped with a fence tilting device which is tiltably attached to a side surface of each tray and has a crank arm capable of tilting the fence in a pit. When the tray is turned, the fence tilting device is provided. The vertical circulation type parking device according to claim 1, which is not tilted. 3. A pit has a sensor for detecting the stop position of each cage from the side, supports the tray swivel device in a traversable manner, and detects the center of the tray swivel device based on a signal from the sensor. A centering device for aligning the center of each cage is provided.
The vertical circulation type parking device described.