WO2018215655A1 - Method and device for simulating a pit stop on a model motor racing track - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for simulating a pit stop on a model motor racing track, said method comprising the following steps: A) driving a model car into an marked holding area on an upper side of a track part and stopping the model car when the model car is inside the holding area, B) raising a raising section level from a track part height to a pit stop height by means of a raising device built into the track part, a raising section edge of the raising section level being arranged inside the holding area marked on the upper side of the track part such that the model car stopped in the holding area is raised to the raising section level, C) keeping the raised raising section level containing the model car at the pit stop height for a pre-determined waiting period, D) lowering the raising section level containing the model car back to the track part height by means of the raising device once the waiting period is over, and E) driving the model car out of the holding area. The invention also relates to a raising device for raising and lowering the model car, which can be built into a track part of the model motor racing track due to the low structural height thereof.

Description

 "Method and apparatus for simulating a pit stop on a model car racing track"

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for simulating a pit stop on a model loudspeaker track.

A model car racing track, also known as a fashion race track, car race track, slot car track or slot track, consists in conventional construction of roadway parts which are connected to one another to a closed roadway, the roadway parts generally having two or more lanes, with one slot each (English "Slot") and tracks for guiding and powering electrically powered model cars.

By changing the supply of electrical energy and / or by transmitting digitally coded commands by means of a manual controller, the drivers can in each case control the speed and the braking behavior of the model cars. The aim of the game is to run races (English "slot racing") and to drive as fast as possible without the model cars, in particular by centrifugal forces in curved areas of the closed lane, lose the lead and get off the road.

In addition, model car racing tracks are known on which the model cars are not guided with a slot. For example, Austrian Patent Specification AT 413 337 B, in its introduction to the description, discloses several technical devices in which the Model 1 cars are not or only partially track-bound. In such devices, the model lautos are steerable and usually radio controlled. The power supply and partly also the control of the model cars takes place e.g. by obliquely arranged on the closed roadway conductor rails. If the energy supply is only partially realized via at least one lane part 1 of the closed carriageway, then the model cars have accumulators which charge up when they are driven over the tracks or tracks supplied with track.

The German utility model DE 92 00 879 Ul even discloses a model lautorennbahn in which the model cars on the roadway parts are neither supplied with energy, nor controlled. The model cars have their own power supply via batteries and are radio remote controlled.

In order to make racing more attractive and interesting, manufacturers of Model lautorennbahnen are developing extensions that Simulate typical events of a real car race, supported by computer technology and programming using apps. For example, the Austrian Stadlbauer Marketing + Vertrieb GmbH, the current owner of the brand "Carrera" (Spanish for "race"), has been offering the "Carrera Go! ! i Plus "extension functions, such as a pit stop rail or a lane section with pit lane functions, the" Carrera DIGITAL 124/132 Control Unit "became a" pit stop lane "even before the" Carrera Goi! i Plus "pit lane function. respectively . Pit lane offered in which refueling of race cars was simulated.

Pit lanes are areas of a race track or. Lane sections, which generally run parallel to the start / finish straight and at both ends with the actual racetrack resp. connected to the closed lane. In the pit lanes are the so-called boxes of competing racing teams. The pits are the place where the individual teams maintain their racing cars and where the pit stops are carried out, in particular for changing tires and for repairing and refueling racing cars. A racing car actually stops in front of the box for tire changes, spoiler changes, short repairs and refueling. In a real race, a racing car only comes into the pits when it can not be repaired at short notice.

A pit stop in the sense of this application is the short-term stopping of a model lautos for simulating activities that are performed by the j eweiligen racing team in a real pit stop, such as tire changes, short repairs and refueling of racing cars, the box a designated holding area on a roadway part represents, which the driver can control by means of a hand controller with the model lauto. A box in this application is therefore a marked holding area for a model car on a roadway part, ie no "box" or garage for more extensive repairs and maintenance on a racing car. At the above mentioned "Carrera Go! ! ! Plus "pit lane function, the model cars are randomly ordered to pit stop because of a" tire change "," engine failure "or" nearly empty tanks ". These reasons are accompanied by a break in driving through different sounds from a loudspeaker of the connection rail resp. of the roadway part. Illuminated displays, such as a wrench with a wrench, an engine symbol and a fuel nozzle, together with the background noise, are intended to improve the simulation of the pit stop.

The disadvantage of this symbolic event with sounds and lights is that you can just wait on the marked shark area until the hold time, depending on the event and programming, is over. The effect of being close to reality is lacking in these symbolic events and may soon lose their appeal.

Object of the present invention is to increase the Real itätsnähe in the simulation of a pit stop on a model car racing track.

This object is achieved by a method for simulating a pit stop, in which a model car can be lifted on the model car track, according to the independent method claim 1 and by a device with a lifting device, which is due to their low height in a roadway part of the model lautorennbahn integrable , solved according to the independent device claim 5.

Advantageous developments of the invention are given in the dependent claims. In a model car raceway, at least one pit lane is laid parallel to its closed lane, in particular to a start / finish line, by means of at least one lane section. It can also be laid by means of several lane parts several pit lanes, the pit lanes parallel to each other and to the closed lane. On at least one of the roadway parts, a holding area is marked on an upper side of the roadway part, wherein such a Haitebereich may be marked both on a roadway part in a pit lane and on one of the lane parts of the closed roadway. The holding area on the roadway part is dimensioned such that a model car together with its four wheels can stop within the designated holding area.

When entering with the model lauto in the designated holding area on the top of the roadway part and when stopping the model car, so that the model car and its wheels is within the holding area, the driver must by means of a hand controller his driving skills on the model car racing track and in particular in the Prove pit lane. It has to start, accelerate, decelerate and stop correctly; unless he uses not only the hand control, but a partially - or fully automatic option. This skill training makes the whole racing action resp. Racing game more attractive, diverse and challenging. In addition, even with a real pit stop, the race car must be stopped in a marked holding area.

Within the marked holding region, a lifting cutout is cut out into the roadway part having the holding region, so that a lifting cutting plane and a lifting cutout opening are formed. The Hubausschnittsebene is a preferably rectangular cutout or. a cut out of the carriageway part of the smaller part of the roadway part, which, for example, from the roadway part is milled. As a result, the lifting cutout opening into which the previously cut-out part of the roadway part, which is referred to here as the lifting cut-out plane, can be reused, is created in the roadway part. The stroke section or its Hubausschnittsränder should be located within the marked on the top of the Fahrbahntei ls holding area so that stopped in the holding area model car, with his or her four wheels, either on the wheels or on an underbody of the model car, on the cut or. milled Hubausschnittsebene rests when the Hubaus- cut level is raised by an integrated in the carriageway Hubvor- direction.

In a real pit stop for a tire change, the racing car must be raised so that the wheels are relieved and hang freely in the air just above the ground. In order to increase the proximity to reality for simulating a pit stop on the model car racing track, it is an essential step of the method according to the invention to lift the model car on the liftable lifting cutout level. With a lifting device, such as an electrically operated scissor lift, the Hubausschnittsebene of a Fahrbahntei height is raised to a predetermined pit stop height. It is advantageous if the four wheels of the model car do not rest on the liftable Hubausschnittsebene, so if the size of Hubausschnittsebene or. the arrangement of Hubausschnittsränder compared to the designated holding area and compared to the underbody size of the model car are tuned so that stopped within the designated holding area model car rests when lifting the Hubausschnittsebene on the pit stop height with its underbody on Hubausschnittsebene, so that the wheels of the model lautos for simulation a tire change over the Hubausschnittsebene also hang freely in the air. For the desired realism, pitstop heights would not have to be high, because for a real change of pace, a small Air gap or distance between the freely suspended in the air tire and the ground. However, the visual impact is more impressive for those involved in the racing game when the distance between the wheels resp. Tire of the model car to the top of the roadway part is chosen slightly larger.

With a Slotcar course the model cars are led in lanes. For this purpose, the roadway parts have a slot and tracks for guiding and powering the electrically powered model cars. The guide rails are usually made of plastic, the tracks usually stainless steel, the tracks are preferably U-shaped profile and run in guides within the plastic fschienen. For this reason, a roadway part 1 is often referred to as a rail, although the plastic rails with the conductor tracks, which in the case of a single track part run centrally on the roadway part, are only a narrow part of the roadway part. The carriageway parts are made of plastic. But there are also Hol zbahnen with milled groove as a guide and with glued conductor tracks.

The inventive method step to raise the model car with liftable Hubausschnittsebene can be applied to al len model car racecourses, whether these now - as described above in the Be - introduction to the prior art - are completely, only partially or not rail or track bound ,

The lifting of a model car on a Hubausschnittsebene a road section without a guide rail is not as expensive as a slot car track. Because a slotcar lane has guide rails with integrated tracks, which must be lifted in sections on the lifting cutout level. In the case of a roadway part with a guide rail running on the roadway part with tracks, from which the travel cutting plane eg is milled out, with the Hubausschnittsebene also cut out a section of the guide rail and the tracks. The guide rail cutout or the printed circuit cutouts in the Hubausschnittsebene must be supplied separately with electrical energy. This is necessary so that the model car has an energy connection, in particular for starting on the Hubausschnittsebene and for extending from the designated Haitebereich. It would not be necessary to provide a separate energy supply for the trace sections if the model car also has its own energy supply, such as accumulators.

However, a double-lane or multi-lane roadway part, on which two or more rails run parallel to each other next to each other, may also have a stroke cutting plane or even several stroke cutting planes.

When the model car is raised from a lane height to a certain pit stop height on the lift cut level, the raised lift cut level lingers for a certain waiting time at the pit stop height. For the desired proximity to reality, this waiting time would have to be chosen very short, because since the existence of the Formula 1 World Cup - the first to counting race was held in 1950, has the time for a pit stop with tire change of over a minute to about 2 , 5 seconds reduced. The waiting time can be controlled by the driver with the hand controller, better, however, via a control unit, depending on the previous setting, or controlled by a random number generator.

After the waiting time is lifted by means of the lifting device raised with the Hubausschnittsebene model car back to the roadway part height. The Hubausschnittsebene is lowered so far into the Hubausschnittsöffnung the carriageway part, that - As before, when driving in the model, it is noisy in the marked holding area - the lifting cut-out level or an upper side of the lifting cut-out level is at the same height as the top of the carriageway part. Due to the separate power supply of the conductor track cut - outs in the lifting cutout plane, the model car can start immediately after lowering, ie when the guide rail cutout with its two rail ends is brought back into contact with the respective guide rail end of the guide rail of the roadway part extend marked holding area of the roadway part.

In the process step of lowering or. When adjusting the lifting device, lifting cutout level, lifting cutout opening, carriageway 1, rail ends of the guide rail cutout and tracks in the lifting cutout level as well as guide rail ends of the guide rail and tracks in the carriageway section, make sure that the slots resp. Guide rails and the tracks fit exactly to each other, both in height and height, as otherwise the model cars could get stuck at the junctions of the respective guide rail ends.

If the model car racecourse is a slotcar lane, where the Model 1 cars are led in the lanes so that they always drive with a certain lane width on a straight stretch of road, then the holding area marked on the upper side of the lane part, in which the j Not to be completely surrounded by a single model car with its wheels. A Haltel inie across the lane is sufficient in such a slot car track as a designated holding area. If the model car arrives correctly in front of this stop line from its direction of travel, it is already in the marked stop "area".

The designated holding area can also be seen as a rectangular area in which the model enter loudly and should stop centrally. Central means that the distance between the outside outlines of the model cars and the rectangular holding area should be uniform, ie parked correctly. Thus, model cars of different sizes or with different outer contours can be placed correctly in marked holding areas, as long as the rectangular holding area is always larger than the largest outer contour of a model car or as long as the holding area is visible to the driver. Or several rectangular Haitebereiche according to the different model car sizes centrally around the Hubausschnittsebene on the Fahrbahntei 1, so that even model cars with different track widths and lengths can be detected by only one Hubausschnittsebene when lifting this centrally. In a slot car lane several different stop lines, for example, in different line length or in different colors, can be arranged across the lane at the appropriate location on the lane part for different model so that the driver can see on which line this car size is to stop. If the race on the Mode11 autodrome is usually driven only with the same amount of cars in a race, but in the same smaller or larger car sizes in another race, the marked stopping areas can also be changed. For example, by stickers as stop lines whose positions are easily changed, for example, in a smaller car size of Haltel inien sticker on the roadway part closer to the Hubausschnittsrand the Hubausschnittsebene is glued and with a larger car size farther away from the corresponding Hubausschnittsrand.

The various steps of the method, such as driving the model car into the designated holding area and stopping the model car within the designated holding area, lifting, staying and lowering the Hubausschnittsebene with the lying on the Hubausschnittsebene model car and the extension of the model car from the designated holding area, can exclusively hand-controlled by the driver by means of the manual control or partially or fully automated, by means of the manual control and / or sensors and a control unit.

Random generators can also be switched on with the control unit, for example for the number of pit stops in a race and the time of a pit stop or its duration or duration. for the waiting time of the Hubausschnittsebene in the pit stop height. And / or the individual model cars are controlled so that they gradually become slightly slower from a predetermined number of driven laps to simulate an effect of the tires "worn out" in the predetermined number of laps traveled Again, this "with the new tires" can drive a snow. This makes the racing game more realistic, tactically more interesting and increases the tension.

The simulation of the pit stop can be extended by further details from the real racing events, such as by moving models of pit crew members or marshals. Thus, a model 1 of a pit crew member can simulate, while the model car is entering the designated holding area, displaying the intended holding area, moved by a first moving means, e.g. an electrically driven rotary motor, and controlled by sensors and / or the control unit. Upon detection of the model car entering the pit lane, a sensor integrated in the pit lane triggers a stop movement of the model box team member, such as a rotational movement of the pit crew member model fi gure holding a trowel as a display means. so that the trowel blocks the carriageway of the model car.

Thereafter, when the model car is stopped within the designated holding area on the upper side of the roadway part, it releases another sensor that confirms the correct stopping of the model car within the designated holding area, lifting the Hubausschnittsebene from the Hubausschnittsöffnung or from the lane part by a signal to the integrated in the lane part lifting device. Alternatively, upon confirmation by the sensor that the model car is correctly stopped within the designated stop area, the signal to the lift device for lifting can be manually released by the driver with the hand controller. Also, the sensor for confirming the correct stop could be omitted within the designated holding range, that is, the stopping and lifting only manually done with the hand controller. However, there is the danger that the model car is not stopped correctly, for example, that it has traveled too far beyond the marked holding area or not enough into the holding area, and thus tilted forward or backward when raising the stroke cutting plane could.

After a certain waiting time, in which the model car lingers on the stroke cutting plane in the pit stop height, the control unit or the driver triggers a manual signal to the lifting device with the hand controller, to lower the Hubausschnitts - plane together with the model car back into the Hubausschnittsöffnung and to on the roadway section height.

Once the Hubausschnittsebene is lowered into the Hubausschnittsöffnung the roadway part so far that the top of the Hubaus - cut level is at a clear height with the top of the lane part, a sensor and / or the control unit first triggers a release movement of the model -Boxenteam member to release the exit from the Holding area, such as a rotational movement of the model figure of the pit crew member, so that the trowel, which holds the model figure in the hands, no longer blocks the road of the model car. Alternatively or additionally, the marked holding area or the Haltel inie with bulbs, such as light emitting diodes or. LEDs to be highlighted. For example, a model car or. the driver can be convened via a flashing of the illuminated stop line and / or a flashing of LEDs in a dashboard display of the relevant model car and / or via acoustic signals for pit stop.

The request for a pit stop can also via a computer or. an electronic computer voice, the computer being integrated, for example, via the control unit into the control of the model loudspeaker race, or the model car raceway being controlled by the computer itself.

In the real race, the race cars are waved by panning certain flags in the pit lane. For such a scenario, prior to driving the model car into a pit lane, a moving model train post, moved by a second moving means and controlled by sensors and / or the controller, may simulate the model car being waved to a pit stop.

On a model loudspeaker track composed of a plurality of roadway parts, one of the roadway parts may have a stroke cutting plane movable between a roadway height and a pitstop height, as well as a lifting cutout opening, a cutout gap and a lifting device. However, several of the roadway parts can also have such a stroke cutting plane, a cutout opening, a cutout gap, and a lifting device. It is also possible for a single roadway section 1 to have a plurality of such cutout planes with j ewei 1s of a stroke opening opening, a cutout gap and a lifting device. It would also be conceivable that only one lifting device moves a plurality of lifting cutout levels arranged on a roadway part. If the Hubausschnittsebene in the carriageway part height, it is received by the Hubausschnittsöffnung so that an upper surface of Hubausschnittsebene is at a clear height with an upper side of the roadway part. In this case, it is important that the cut-out gap formed between the roadway part and the lifting cutout plane received by the lifting cut-out opening has an almost constant gap width. Because this makes it possible that the two tops, the top of Hubausschnittsebene and the top of the roadway part, form a passable for a model car roadway. Would both top sides not in 1 ichter height each other or. If the height difference between the upper side of the lifting cutout plane at its stroke cut edge and the upper side of the carriageway lane does not lead to a heel between the two upper sides whose heel height can not be exceeded for a model, the lane part and the Hubausschnittsebene are separated from each other at their Hubausschnittsrand by the cut-out gap. The necessity for the cut-out gap to have an almost constant gap width contributes, on the one hand, to the cut-out gap which the model has to cross twice at the stroke cut-out edges of the stroke cut-out plane lying opposite in the direction of travel, namely the first time when entering the designated holding area and second time when extending from the designated Haitebereich, almost the same width. Thus, the Überfahrbarbarkeit the cut-out gap is ensured by the model car, even in the case of an additional height paragraph between the tops of Hubausschnittsebene and the roadway part.

However, an almost constant gap width of the cut-out gap is even more essential for ensuring the movability of the stroke cutting plane between the roadway part height and the pit stop height. Because with a very small gap width, which is Mobility of the cutting gap is advantageous by the model car, even the slightest change in the gap width could lead to a touch of Hubausschnittsebene with the Fahrbahntei1 or an uncontrolled contact an outer Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsebene with an inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung, or even to the fact that when lifting the stroke cutting plane so far that a lower side of the lifting cutting plane is located above the upper side of the roadway part, so that the lifting cutting plane falls out of the "guide" formed by the inner lifting cutout side of the lifting cutout opening by friction of the two components together or even lead to a hooking of the two compo le and affect the mobility of Hubausschnittsebene The plane of the "guiding" of the inner stroke-side of the lifting cut-out opening could lead to a blocking of the lifting cut-out plane during lowering if the lifting cut-out plane on its underside touches the upper side of the roadway part.

The width of the gap width of the cut-out gap depends in particular on how the stroke cut-out plane is produced. When milling the Hubausschnittsebene from the roadway part of this would be wider than other separation methods, such as cutting process, such as laser, plasma or water jet cutting. In a separate production of Hubausschnittsebene, with or without use of the cut out of the roadway part to create the Hubausschnitts - opening piece of material, the cutout gap could be particularly narrow ausfal len and also could be made of different materials roadway and Hubausschnittsebene. The track part can also be used with the lifting cutout during its production, for example in a plastic injection mold. Opening, which requires separate production of Hubaus- cut level.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment variant, in the lower region of the outer lifting cutout side, the lifting cutout plane which faces the lifting cutout opening when the lifting cutout plane is positioned on Fahrbahntei 1 height is separated by the cutout gaps of the inner lifting cutout, a lifting cutout guide arranged which moves the outer lifting cutout side downwards extended, so that when moving the Hubausschnittsebene by means of the hub orrichtung between the roadway part height and the pit stop height Hubausschnittsführung through the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung is feasible. Such a stroke cutting guide allows a controlled contact of the lifting cutout guide with the inner stroke cutout side, so that the lifting cutout plane is guided in a controlled manner with the lifting cutout guide arranged on its outer stroke cutout side through the lifting cutout opening on its inner stroke cutout side.

The Hubausschnittsführung used with an upper guide portion as a guide in the Hubausschnittsöffnung and may be connected in a lower mounting area with the lifting device and / or forming a Absenkauf läge to block a lowering of Hubausschnittsebene below the roadway part height. The height of the upper guide area of the lifting cutout guide must be selected such that a guide of the lifting cutout level is provided in its entire movement or movement. Guiding area between the carriageway height and the pit stop height is possible. In any case, the upper guide area must be higher than the difference between the pit stop height and the Fahrbahntei lhöhe.

The Hubausschnittsführung should be mounted so in the lower area of the outer Hubausschnittsseite at Hubausschnittsebene be that when the Hubausschnittsebene position on Fahrbahnteil - height, an upper part of the upper guide portion of Hubaus - cut guide exactly between the outer Hubausschnittsseite and the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung is, so exactly fills the cutout column. This ensures that the gap width of the cut-out gap between the Hubausschnittsebene and the Hubausschnittsöffnung or. the carriageway part is almost constant.

In general, the basic shape of Hubausschnittsöffnung and be absorbed by the Hubausschnittsöffnung Hubausschnittsebene will be rectangular, with other basic shapes are possible, such as hexagonal or oval-shaped.

If the cut-out shape of the Hubausschnittsebene rectangular, then it should be sufficient if only two opposite outer Hubausschnittsseiten the Hubausschnittsebene be extended in each case with a Hubausschnittsführung, preferably the longer of the two opposite to a rectangular Hubausschnittsebene page pairs. Only one of such pairs of guides is particularly sufficient if at least one of the two opposing Hubausschnittsführungen extends preferably on both sides over a side length of the Hubausschnittsebene so far that the at least one Hubausschnittsführung both the rectangular elbow cutting surface over a large area on the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung performs that the outer Hubausschnittsseiten the guide pair opposite, as well as small area on one or both of the two other inner Hubausschnittsseiten the Hubausschnittsöffnung.

In a separate production of the Hubausschnittsebene, with or without the use of the cut out of the roadway part to create the Hubaus - cut opening piece of material, the height of the outer Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsebene already higher be made as the pit stop height or as the difference between pit stop height and roadway section height, so that an extension of the outer Hubausschnittsseite with a Hubaus - cutout guide is unnecessary. In a separate production, the shape of the Hubausschnittsebene can be optimized for several functions, such as for guidance in the Hubausschnittsöffnung, for fixing the Hubausschnittsebene in their Fahrbahnteilhöhe, for connecting the Hubausschnittsebene with the lifting device, etc.

In a special production of a Fahrbahntei1 with a Hubausschnittsöffnung, so not only cutting the Hubaus - cut level of a serially moderately produced roadway part, the shape of the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung can be optimized in particular for functions such as guidance and fixation of Hubausschnittsebene.

In a separate production of Hubausschnittsebene, and even better with an additional special production of a roadway part, the cutting gap formed between the roadway part and the Hubausschnittsöffnung trained cutting gap can be set so that its gap width is almost constant zero, so that without an additional Hubausschnittsführung between the outer Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsebene and the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittöff ung forms a precisely fitting slide.

To raise a model lautos on a Model1autorennbahn, which is not a slotcar track, so no guide rail needed, other embodiments are conceivable. For example, a stroke cutting plane could be a flat plane embedded in a roadway part, with a lift neck opening in the roadway part 1 not being a through hole, but only a shallow depression on the roadway part receiving the flat stroke cutting plane such that one from a surface of the roadway part 1s and egg - ner surface of the flat Hubausschnittsebene formed roadway for the model car is passable. To lift this flat Hubausschnittsebene would be sufficient at least one through hole through the track part in the region of the shallow depression through which runs a nearly vertical push rod, which is disposed at an upper rod end at a lower side of the flat Hubausschnittsebene and at a lower rod end at a Posit ionizer drive.

If the model car racecourse is a slotcar lane and the model car does not have a self-sufficient energy supply, then the lane part must have at least one guide rail with conductor tracks for guiding and powering the model cars, with the course of the guide rail with the conductor lanes on the carriageway part 1 passing through The cutout section is cut twice, the cutout plane having a guide rail cutout and printed circuit cutouts which correspond to the guide rail and the printed conductors on the roadway part such that when the cutout level is at the partial height of the carriageway, the model cars are over Cutout - column away feasible and can be supplied with electrical energy, wherein the conductor cutouts on the Hubausschnittsebene separately from the tracks on the roadway part with electrical Energi e are available.

This embodiment has already been discussed earlier in the description. It is particularly important here that the slots on the road section fit exactly to the slots on the stroke cutting plane, both laterally and vertically, because otherwise the guided model car will not be able to reach the slots or slots. Guide rail transitions could get stuck. Such accuracy of fit, if the Hubausschnittsebene and the roadway part not - with the advantages described above - separately or. specially made to be achieved by an additional Hubausschnittsführung and a fixation of Hubausschnittsebene in their Fahrbahnteilhöhe.

In a preferred embodiment, the lifting device has a scissor lift with an upper side, a lower side and a lower non-locating bearing side, the upper side of the scissor lift being arranged on an underside of the lifting cutout plane and / or on the lifting cutout guide, the scissor lift, a thrust unit and a positioning drive are integrated by means of a arranged on a lower side of the carriageway part housing in the Fahrbahn- part, wherein the underside of the scissor lift and the positioning drive are arranged on an inner side of the housing, wherein the lower movable bearing side of the scissor lift with the push unit and the push unit are connected to the positioning drive in such a way that the stroke cutting plane arranged on the scissor lift can be moved between the carriageway part height and the pit stop height and can be detected at least on the carriageway height and on the pitstop height.

The thrust unit has a push rod with a lift-side and a drive-side end, a drawbar with two drawbar ends, a push link and a seat guide, wherein the seat guide is arranged on the inside of the aluminum profile of the housing, the scissor lift on its end lower floating bearing side on the one hand with the thrust carriage and on the other hand with the drawbar ends j ewei ls pivotally connected, wherein the lift-side end of the push rod is arranged on the drawbar center between the drawbar ends and the drive-side end of the push rod is connected to the positioning drive.

Preferably, the positioning drive has an electrically driven servo motor whose rotational movement by means of a the rotational axis of the servo motor rotatably arranged crank arm is convertible into a pushing movement. To connect this positioning drive with the push unit, an outer end of the crank arm is connected via a rotary joint to the drive-side end of the push rod.

For actuating the lifting device, however, all possible positioning drives which generate a linear movement are conceivable. Advantageously, it is possible for the positioning drive to ascertain itself precisely at the roadway height and at the pitstop height or at any desired height, which obviates the need for mechanical adjustments of the lifting cutout level at certain heights. With a servo motor, this can be programmed by means of a servo controller. Can be used in addition to servo motors, e.g. Stepper motors and linear motors, or magnetic switches, but also non-electric driven positioning drives, such as hydraulic drives or manually operated Bowden cables. All above and below in the picture description called electrically operated components, such as tracks, lights or. LEDs, motors, controllers, controllers and computers can be powered by one or more transformers. Without the use of a scissor lift, for example, the lifting cut-out plane could be moved up and down directly by a linear motor, which would, however, make the desired low construction more difficult. The advantage of the scissor lift is that it converts the horizontal pushing movement of the positioning drive into a vertically oriented up and down movement of the stroke cutting plane.

The stroke cutting plane fulfills the function of an upper lifting platform of the scissor lift. Due to the direct arrangement of the Hubausschnittsebene to the top of the scissor lift or. The lifting platform on the upper scissor ends of the scissor lift is a compact design of the scissor lift. The push unit as drive - Transmission, in combination with the powered scissor lift and the positioning drive, allows the arrangement of the positioning drive, preferably a servomotor, next to the scissor lift within the carriageway part. With this arrangement, a low height of the lifting device is achieved and thus their integration into the road part of the model car raceway.

Special features of the assembly, arrangement and mode of operation of the scissors, in particular in the lifting device and within the carriageway part, are not discussed here, since they should be obvious to the person skilled in the art. The operation of scissors bearings, such as the slide guide for the lower bearing side of the scissor lift or. the guidance of lower scissor ends by means of the slide carriages in the throat guides as well as a slide bearing for the upper floating bearing side of the scissor lift resp. The guidance of upper scissors ends by means of a sliding bolt in the sliding bearing, which can move horizontally when the scissor lift is raised or lowered vertically, as well as details for the adjustment of the scissor lift in the housing, are described below.

The lifting device and scissor lift may also be used in toy garages, toy car garages, toy loading ramps, etc. be applied . The device can be found everywhere in the toy sector where you could need a lifting device and / or a scissor lift.

Further details, features, possible applications and advantages of the subject matter of the invention will become apparent from the following description of the associated figures, in which a preferred exemplary embodiment is shown by way of example. The features to be taken from the description and the drawings can be applied individually according to the invention individually or in combination in any combination. In the drawings show:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a roadway part of a slot car track with a Hubausschnittsebene and a scissor lift as a lifting device;

FIG. 2 shows a side view of the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, wherein the lifting cut-out plane is at the height of the roadway part;

FIG. 3 shows a side view of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1, wherein the lifting cutting plane is above the pit stop height.

In the figures, the same or corresponding elements are denoted by the same reference numerals and will therefore not be described again, unless expedient. If reference symbols indicated in a figure are not mentioned in the associated description part, reference is made to their explanation in the preceding or following description parts. The disclosures contained in the entire description are mutatis mutandis to like parts with the same reference numerals or. Designations transferable. Also, the location settings chosen in the description, such as above and below, right and left, laterally etc. refer to the immediately described and illustrated figure and are to be transferred to a new position analogously to a new position.

FIGS. 1, 2, 3 show an exemplary embodiment, which the applicant has developed himself as a first prototype and has successfully tested it in a slot car model racing track. In Figure 1, a Fahrbahntei 1 1 a slot car track on a Hubausschnittsebene 2, which is taken up by a Hubausschnittsöffnung 3, wherein the Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 is a passage - opening through the carriageway part 1. To produce the prototype shown in the drawings, the Hubausschnittsebene 2 was milled out of the lane part 1, so that between the lane part 1 and recorded by the Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 Hubausschnittsebene 2 a cut-4 is formed with a gap width, the gap width in particular from the milling used tool is determined.

In the middle above the single-lane roadway part 1 runs a guide rail 5, in which (not shown here) tracks run. A model (not shown) is guided through the guide rail 5 and supplied with electrical energy via the conductor tracks. A holding region 7 marked on an upper side 6 of the roadway part 1, in which the model car together with its wheels must stop, is shown here only by a stop line 8. If the model car coming from its direction of travel RF enters the designated holding "area" 7 and stops just before the stop line 8, this is already due to his leadership by the guide rail 5 within the designated holding "area" 7. The distance the Haltel 8 of a Hubausschnittsrand 17 of Hubausschnittsebene 2 or. the size of the marked holding "area" 7 is dependent on the size of the outside outlines of the model cars .. Model cars with different car lengths can be placed correctly on a slotcar lane by several stop lines 8 with the appropriate distance to the stroke cut edge 17 of the stroke cutout plane 2 They can also be used to correctly detect different types of fashion cars by only one size of the lifting cutout level 2. The model cars are correctly picked up by the lifting cut level 2 when lifting, when the cars are either on their own Rests or preferably on their subfloors on Hubaus - cut level 2 rest.

The guide rail 5 with the strip conductors is interrupted twice by the cutout gap 4 formed between the roadway part 1 and the lifting cutout plane 2, so that the further guidance and energy supply of the model cars on the lifting cutout plane 2 is ensured by a guide rail cutout 9 with printed conductor cutouts, wherein the conductor track cutouts on the Hubausschnittsebene 2 are supplied separately from the tracks on the lane part 1 with electrical energy, for example by a (not shown) separate wire connection to a (not shown) control unit or by a j eweilige bridging the cutout column 4 with a (not shown ) Wire connection to the conductor tracks on the roadway part 1.

It is important that the guide rail cutout 9 and thus also in the guide rail cutout 9 extending conductor cutouts on the Hubausschnittsebene 2 with the guide rail 5 and the run in the guide rail 5 traces on the roadway part 1 so correspond that the model cars to the Führungsschienen- and The conductor track transitions can be guided over the cut - back gaps 4 and can be supplied with electrical energy. In FIG. 1, it is clearly visible that the slot ends or the respective ends of the guide rail 5 and that of the conductor tracks on the carriageway part 1 laterally fit exactly to the respective ends of the guide rail cutout 9 and the printed conductor cutouts on the lifting cutout plane 2. This lateral accuracy of fit of the slot ends and the almost constant gap width of the cut-out gap 4 is ensured in the prototype shown here by Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11.

Once the model car by the driver by means of a manual controller and / or sensors and the controller correctly short before stop line 8 is stopped, the Hubausschnittsebene 2 and thus also the above the Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 Hubausschnittsebene 2 stopped model car is raised by a built in the lane part 1 lifting device 12 of a roadway part height HF to a specific pit stop height HB.

The integrated in the lane part 1 lifting device 12 1 iegt in the plan view of Figure 1 under the lane part 1 and is therefore drawn in Strichl inien. Shown are the following components of the lifting device 12: a scissors 13, a positioning drive 14 with a servo motor 141 and a crank arm 142, a thrust unit 15, a push rod 151, a drawbar 152, a Schubsehl itten 153A, 153B and a Sehl ittenführung 154A , 154B, and a housing 16 that includes at least three L-shaped aluminum profiles 161A, 161B, and 162.

Basically, the lifting device 12 shown in the figures is constructed symmetrically, wherein the axis of symmetry passes through the middle of the well visible in Figure 1 slot, ie longitudinally through the guide rail 5 and the guide rail cutout 9. Therefore, the reference numerals of features or. Components which are doubly present due to the symmetry are each marked 1 A with A and B. For example, a lower floating bearing surface 134 of the scissors 13 is present on both the left 134A and the right side 134B of the axis of symmetry, with the lower left floating side 134A being the lower shear 134A and the lower right floating bearing 134B being the lower shear 134B.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show a side view of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 1, wherein the lifting cutout plane 2 in FIG. 2 is on the road surface height I HF and in FIG. 3 on the pit stop height HB. In FIG. 2, it is clearly visible that an upper side 18 of the lifting cutout plane 2 is at the level of the upper side 6 of the roadway part 1, so that the two upper sides 18 and 6 form a roadway which is easily passable for a model car. This accuracy of fit of the top 18 of the Hubausschnittsebene 2 with the top 6 of the lane part 1 and thus the slot ends in height and the constant gap width of the cutting gap 4 is in the prototype shown here by additional Hubausschnitts - guides 19 and 20 ensured.

The Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11, which ensure the lateral accuracy of fit are in the prototype shown here ewei1s cut from an aluminum sheet and formed and attached to the Hubausschnittsebene 2 with adhesive. The bonds are preferably made with two-component adhesive, which guarantees a firm connection, here between the stroke cut-off plane 2 made of plastic and the aluminum profile of the Hubaus - cut guides 10 and 11. The profiles bent at right angles in an L-shaped manner are in each case adhesively bonded on their inner profile side of the horizontal profile part to a lower side 21 of the lifting cut-out plane 2 and the vertical profile 1 runs in each case in the two opposite longitudinal sections of the cut-out gaps 4 , So on the opposite longer sides 22 and 23 of the rectangular Hubausschnittsebene 2, between the Hubausschnittsebene 2 and the Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 or. With the course of Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11 in the two opposite longitudinal areas of the cut-4, it is ensured that the gap width of the cut-4 between the Hubausschnitts - level and the roadway part on the longer sides 22 and 23 of the rectangular Hubausschnittsebene 2 is almost constant.

The L-shaped profiles of the lifting cutout guides 10 and 11 each have two outer profile ends, wherein in the area of these outer profile ends of the vertical profile part of the L-shaped profiles in each case is extended downward, so that the L-shaped profiles are T-shaped in these areas. These extension areas or mounting extensions 24A, 24B and 25A, 25B are used to arrange the lifting cutout guides 10 and 11, respectively. the Hubausschnittsebene 2 attached to the Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11 at an upper side 131, 132 of the scissor lift 13 and. directly to upper scissors ends 131A, 131B and 132A, 132B of the scissor lift 13, the upper scissors ends 131A, 131B and 132A, 132B being respectively disposed on the inner sides of the mounting extensions 24A, 24B and 25A, 25B, so that the guiding function of the outer sides the mounting extensions 24A, 24B and 25A, 25B in the Hubausschni11söf opening 3 is not affected.

The vertical profile part of the L-shaped profiles of the Hubaus - cutting guides 10 and 11 form an upper guide portion of Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11. The drawn in Figure 3 height 26 of the upper guide portion of Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11 is selected so that a guide the Hubausschnitts level 2 in their entire movement or Guide area between the roadway height HF and the pit stop height HB is possible. In any case, the height 26 of the upper guide region must be higher than the difference between the pit stop height HB and the road surface height HF. If the height 26 of the upper guide area were not high enough, then the lifting cutout level 2, which was raised to pit stop height HB, together with its lifting cutouts 10 and 11, would fall out of the guide area of the lifting cutout opening 3. A similar situation in which the lifting cutting plane 2 together with its lifting cutouts 10 and 11 is raised far beyond the pit stop height HB, so that the lifting cutouts 10 and 11 are no longer covered by the guide region of the lifting cutout opening 3, FIG. The additional Hubausschnittsführungen 19 and 20, which ensure the accuracy of fit in height, are in the prototype shown here in each case cut from an aluminum sheet and shaped and fixed with adhesive f at the Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 and on the Fahrbahntei 1 1. The bent at right angles L-shaped profiles are glued on its outer profile side of the vertical profile part on an inner Hubausschnittsseite 27 of Hubausschnittsöf opening 3. This vertical profile part runs in each case in the two oppositely lying transverse regions of the cutout gap 4, ie on the opposite shorter sides 28 and 29 of the rectangular stroke cutout plane 2, between the lifting cutout plane 2 and the lifting cutout opening 3 or. With the course of Hubausschnittsführungen 19 and 20 in the two opposite transverse sides of the cut-4, it is ensured that the gap width of the cut-4 between the Hubausschnittsebene 2 and the lane part 1 on the shorter sides 28 and 29 of the rectangular Hubausschnittsebene 2 is almost constant. The accuracy of fit in height is ensured by j ewei 1s the inner profile side of the horizontal profile portion of the L-shaped profile of the Hubausschnittsführung 19, 20 is a Absenkauf 30, 31 forms, so that two Absenkauflagen 30 and 31 lowering the Hubausschnittsebene second block under the road surface height HF.

These lowering supports 30 and 31 can, in addition to the function to ensure the accuracy of fit in the height of the top 18 of Hubausschnittsebene 2 with the top 6 of the lane part 1, also the lateral accuracy of the slot ends already described above at the transitions of the guide rail between the Hubausschnittsebene second and the Fahrteitei 1 1 ensure. For this purpose, in each case the horizontal profile part of the L-shaped profile of the lifting cutout guide 19, 20, which j ewei 1s the lowering counters 30, 31 forms, corresponding to a profile of the bottom 21 of the Hubausschnittsebene 2 ausgebi Ldet. Since the carriageway parts 1 in their cross section on Länsseitigem course of the slot usually a Vert iefung (not shown), when the slot is deeper than the thickness or. the material thickness of the Fahrbahntei ls 1, this depression when lowering the Hubausschnittsebene 2 on their Fahrbahnteilhöhe HF serve as a guide in a depression corresponding to recess (not shown), this sinking j is in each case in the profile of the Absenkauflagen 30 and 31 is formed.

The housing 16 for integrating the lifting device 12 into the roadway part 1 is realized in the prototype shown here by L-shaped aluminum profiles 161A, 161B and 162 which j ewei1s on the outer profile side of their horizontal profile part on a bottom 32 of the Fahrbahntei ls 1 are glued with two-component adhesive. Thus, the vertical profile parts of the L-shaped aluminum profiles 161A, 161B and 162 form side walls, on the insides of which the scissors lift 13, the slide guides 154A, 154B and the servomotor 141 are arranged. The slide guide 154A, 154B guides the slide carriages 153A, 153B, and thus the lower floating bearing side 134A, 134B of the scissor lift 13, which is pivotally connected to the slide springs 153A, 153B.

The electrically driven servo motor 141 converts its rotational movement into a pushing movement via the crank arm 142, which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to its axis of rotation, and the pusher unit 15 connected to an outer end of the crank arm 142 via a rotary joint. The drawbar 152 connects the two lower bearing sides 134A and 134B of the scissor lift 13 with each other, and thus also the two push carriages 153A and 153B, because the slide carriages 153A, 153B guided in the seal guide 154A, 154B are connected to the bottom floating bearing surface 134A, 134B pivotally connected. The drawbar ends 152A and 152B are each pivotally connected to the two opposing bottom bearing surfaces 134A and 134B. bound. The lift-side end of the push rod 151 is disposed on the drawbar 152 midway between the drawbar ends 152A and 152B. The drive end of the push rod 151 is connected to the outer end of the crank arm 142 via a hinge. The arrangement of the lift-side end of the push rod 151 on the drawbar 152 is adjustable, so that the distance between the lift-side and the drive-side end of the push rod 151 can be increased or decreased and the lift-side end of the push rod 151 laterally displaced and fixed on the drawbar 152.

In FIG. 2, the lifting cutout level 2 is at the height of the roadway part HF, because the crank arm 142 pivoted outwards to the right by the servomotor 141 pulls the lower movable bearing side 134 of the scissor lift 13 or. the lower scissors ends 134A and 134B interconnected by the drawbar 152 are extended to the right by means of the drawbar 152 and the push rod 151, with the two scissors 134A and 134B pivotally connected to the push carriages 153A and 153B together with the scoops 153A and 153B are guided horizontally by the slide guides 154A and 154B.

The scissors lift 13 has the upper scissor end 131A, 131B on an upper fixed-bearing side 131 and a lower scissor-end 133A, 133B on a lower fixed-bearing side 133. The upper scissor end 131A, 131B is pivotably connected to the mounting extension 24A, 24B and thus to the lifting cutout plane 2 via the lifting cutout guide 10, 11. The lower scissor end 133A, 133B is pivotally connected to the vertical profile part of the L-shaped aluminum profile 161A, 161B or 161B. connected to the housing 16. This connection of the lower scissor end 133A, 133B to the housing 16 is both by a vertically aligned in the vertical profile part of the aluminum profile 161A, 161B oblong hole 163A, 163B henversteilbar as well as slightly laterally adjustable, so that the scissor lift 13 is in his Einbauposit ion feinj ustierbar.

At an upper floating side 132, the scissors lift 13 has the upper scissors ends 132A and 132B disposed on the mounting extension 25A, 25B. This arrangement functions like a scissor bearing in which the scissor ends 132A and 132B of the upper floating bearing side 132 can move horizontally when vertically raising or lowering the scissor lift 13. To this end, the upper scissors ends 132A and 132B are interconnected by a slide pin 135 aligned parallel to the drawbar 152, the opposing scissor ends 132A and 132B being pivotally connected to the two ends of the slide pins 135A and 135B, respectively. On the underside 21 of Hubausschnittsebene 2, a sliding bearing 136 is disposed between the mounting extensions 25A and 25B, in which the sliding pin 135 is guided horizontally displaceable. The slide bearing 136, which acts as a scissor bearing, is formed in the prototype shown here by a simple aluminum sheet, which between the mounting extensions 25A and 25B in a distance corresponding to the diameter of the slide pin 135 from the bottom 21 of Hubausschnittsebene. 2 respectively . is spaced from the outer profile sides of the horizontal profile parts of the L-shaped profiles of the Hubaus - cutting guides 10 and 11. Since there must be a gap on both sides between the aluminum sheet of the sliding bearing 136 and the mounting extensions 25A and 25B, in which the scissor ends 132A and 132B connected to the sliding bolt 135 can move, the aluminum sheet is correspondingly narrower than the distance of the mounting extensions 25A and 25B to each other and protrudes centrally into the sliding bearing area between the mounting extensions 25A and 25B, in that the aluminum sheet outside the plain bearing area, ie outside the areas of the mounting extensions 25A and 25B on the underside 21 of the lifting cutout plane 2 or. on the outer profile sides of the horizontal Profile parts of the L-shaped profi le of Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11 is attached. The slide bearing 136 is to be arranged such that the slide pin 135 and the aluminum sheet projecting centrally into the slide bearing area do not collide with the additional stroke cutout guide 20, because when the stroke cut level 2 is lowered to the roadway height HF the underside 21 touches the stroke cutout plane 2 in this area the Absenkaufläge 31 and the horizontal profile part of the L-shaped profile of Hubausschnitts - management 20th

With the guidance of the lower scissors ends 134A and 134B of the lower movable bearing side 134 of the scissor lift 13 in the slide guides 154A and 154B as well as the upper scissor ends 132A and 132B of the upper movable bearing side 132 resp. the Gleitbolzes 135 in the sliding bearing 136, with the adjustability of the lower scissor ends 133A and 133B of the lower fixed bearing side 133 in the slots 163A and 163B, as well as the j ustierbaren arrangement of the push rod 151 on the drawbar 152, is a perfect and accurate guidance of the lifting device 12 guaranteed.

In Figure 3, the Hubausschnittsebene 2 is far beyond the box stop height HB addition, because the arranged on the opposite longer sides 22 and 23 of the rectangular Hubausschnittsebene 2 Hubausschnittsführungen 10 and 11 are no longer from the guide portion of Hubausschnittsöffnung 3 and. the Fahrbahntei 1 1 detected. The crank arm 142, pivoted outwardly by the servomotor 141 according to FIG. 1, pushes the lower movable bearing side 134 of the scissor lift 13 or. the lower scissors ends 134A and 134B interconnected by the drawbar 152 are extended to the left by means of the push rod 151, the j together with the scissors 153A and 153B pivotally connected lower scissors ends 134A and 134B together with the screeds 153A and 153B through the seal guides 154A and 154B are guided horizontally. As well as the lower scissor ends 134A and 134B of the lower loose bearing side 134 resp. When the scissor lifts 153A and 153B are displaced horizontally in the carriage guides 154A and 154B when the scissor lift 13 is raised, the upper scissor ends 132A and 132B of the upper floating bearing end 132 and 132, respectively, shift due to the leverage of the pairs of scissors of the scissor lift 13. the slide pin 135 in the slide bearing 136. Thus, in Figure 2, in which the lifting device 12 is shown in the lowered position, the slide pin 135 on the right side in the sliding bearing 136, and in Figure 3, in which the lifting device 12 in far raised Position is shown, the sliding pin 135 is located on the left side in the sliding bearing 136th

Due to the leverage effect of the pairs of scissors, the height position of the scissors can be 13 resp. the lifting cutting plane 2 are changed, because the scissors lift 13 converts the horizontally directed pushing movement of the servomotor 141 into a vertically oriented up and down movement of the lifting cutting plane 2.

The electrically driven servo motor 141 should be able to determine itself exactly at the roadway height HF and at the pitstop height HB or even at any height, which can be adjusted by means of a servo controller (not shown), with the servo control 1er in the control unit the Modellautorennbahn is to be integrated.

The above-described and claimed components to be used according to the invention described in the exemplary embodiments are not subject to any special conditions in terms of their size, shape, design, material selection and technical conceptions, so that the selection criteria known in the field of application can be used without restriction.

Claims

 Claims:

A method of simulating a pit stop on a model car track composed of a plurality of track parts (1), comprising the steps of:

A) driving a model car into a marked holding area (7, 8) on an upper side (6) of the roadway part (1) and stopping the model car so that the model car and its wheels are inside the holding area (7, 8),

B) raising a Hubausschnittsebene (2) of the lane part (1) by a in the lane part (1) integrated lifting device (12) from a Fahrbahnteilhöhe (HF) to a pit stop height (HB), wherein a Hubausschnittsrand (17) of Hubausschnittsebene (2) is arranged within the holding area (7, 8) marked on the upper side (6) of the roadway part (1) such that the model car stopped in the holding area (7, 8) is also lifted on the lifting cut-out level (2), C) holding the raised lifting cutting plane (2) and the resting on the Hubausschnittsebene (2) model car in the pit stop height (HB) for a predetermined waiting time,

D) Lowering the Hubausschnittsebene (2) with the model car back to the Fahrbahnteilhöhe (HF) by means of the lifting device (12) after the expiration of the waiting time and

E) extending the model car from the marked holding area (7, 8) of the roadway part (1).

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the Hubausschnittsebene (2) with its Hubausschnittsrand (17) and on the upper side (6) of the roadway part (1) marked holding area (7, 8) are arranged to each other that within of the marked holding area (7, 8) resting model car when lifting the Hubausschnittsebene (2) on the pit stop height (HB) with an underbody of the model car on the Hubausschnittsebene (2) rests, so that the wheels of the model car to simulate a tire change over the Hubausschnittsebene ( 2) hang out in the air.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the retraction of the model car in the marked holding area (7, 8) and the stopping of the model car within the marked holding area (7, 8), the lifting, staying and lowering the Hubausschnittsebene (2) with the resting on the Hubausschnittsebene (2) model car and the extension of the model car from the designated holding area (7, 8) by means of a hand controller and / or by means of sensors and a control unit.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a moving model of a boxing team member, moved by a Movement means and controlled by sensors and / or a control unit, the display of the holding area (7, 8) and the release for extending from the holding area (7, 8) simulated.

5. A device for simulating a pit stop on a multi-lane track (1) composite model car track by a method according to one of the claims 1 to 4, characterized in that at least one of the lane parts (1) a designated holding area (7, 8) for receiving a Model cars with their wheels on their upper side (6), that a lifting device (12) in the at least one lane part (1) is integrated with a between a Fahrbahnteil- height (HF) and a pit stop height (HB) movable Hubausschnittsebene (2), wherein a Hubausschnittsrand (17) of Hubausschnittsebene (2) within the on the upper side (6) of the roadway part (1) characterized holding area (7, 8) is arranged, that the roadway part (1) further comprises a Hubausschnittsöffnung (3) and a cutout gap ( 4), wherein the Hubausschnittsebene (2) is received in its Fahrbahnteilhöhe (HF) from the Hubausschnittsöffnung (3), the s between the roadway part (1) and the Hubausschnittöffnung (3) recorded Hubausschnittsebene (2) formed cut-gap (4) has a nearly constant gap width and that a top (18) of Hubausschnittsebene (2) in clear height with a Top side (6) of the roadway part (1) is, so that the two upper sides (6, 18) form a roadway passable for a model car. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that the Hubausschnittsebene (2) an outer Hubausschnittsseite and the Hubausschnittsöffnung (3) has an inner Hubausschnittsseite, the position of the Hubausschnittsebene (2) on the carriageway part height (HF) separated by the cutout column

(4), wherein in the lower region of the outer Hubausschnittsseite a Hubausschnittsführung (10, 11) is arranged, which extends the outer Hubausschnittsseite downwards, so that when moving the Hubausschnittsebene (2) by means of the lifting device (12) between the Fahrbahnteilhöhe (HF ) and the pit stop height (HB), the Hubausschnittsführung (10, 11) through the inner Hubausschnittsseite the Hubausschnittsöffnung (3) is feasible.

Apparatus according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the Modellautorennbahn is a slot car track, so that the track part (1) has at least one guide rail (5) with tracks for guiding and powering the model cars, the course of the guide rail (5). with the conductor tracks on the roadway part (1) through the between the carriageway part (1) and the Hubausschnittsöffnung (3) recorded Hubausschnittsebene (2) formed cut-gaps (4) is interrupted twice, wherein the Hubausschnittsebene (2) a guide rail cutout ( 9) and conductor cutouts, which with the guide rail

(5) and the tracks on the roadway part (1) correspond so that when the Hubausschnittsebene (2) on roadway part height (HF), the model cars on the cutout column (4) can be supplied and supplied with electrical energy, wherein the conductor cutouts on the Hubausschnittsebene (2) separately from the tracks on the roadway part (1) can be supplied with electrical energy.

8. Device according to one of claims 5 to 7, characterized in that the lifting device (12) has a scissors lift (13) having an upper side (131, 132), a lower side (133, 134) and a lower floating bearing side (134), wherein on a lower side (21) of the Hubausschnittsebene (2) and / or on the Hubausschnittsführung (10, 11), the upper side (131, 132) of the scissor lift (13) is arranged, wherein the scissor lift (13), a pushing unit (15) and a positioning drive (14) are integrated in the carriageway part (1) by means of a housing (16) arranged on a lower side (32) of the carriageway part (1), the underside (133, 134) of the scissor lift (13) and the positioning drive (13). 14) are arranged on an inner side of the housing (16), wherein the lower floating bearing side (134) of the scissor lift (13) with the thrust unit (15) and the thrust unit (15) with the positioning drive (14) are connected so that on the scissors lift (13) arranged Hubausschnittsebene (2) between the roadway part height (HF) and the pit stop height (HB) and at least on the roadway height (HF) and on the pit stop height (HB) is detectable.

9. Device according to claim 8, characterized in that the push unit (15) has a push rod (151) with a lift side and a drive end, a drawbar (152) with two drawbar ends (152A and 152B), a push carriage (153A, 153B) and a slide guide (154A, 154B), the slide guide (154A, 154B) being disposed on the inside of the aluminum profile (161A, 161B) of the housing (16), the scissor lift (13) being provided at its lower non-locating bearing surface (134A 134B) is pivotally connected, on the one hand, to the slide carriage (153A, 153B) and, on the other hand, to the drawbar ends (152A and 152B), the lift-side end of the push rod (151) being pivotally connected to the drawbar (152) midway between the drawbar ends (152A and 152B). orders and the drive-side end of the push rod (151) is connected to the positioning drive (14).

Apparatus according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the positioning drive (14) has an electrically driven servomotor (141) whose rotational movement by means of a on the axis of rotation of the servomotor (141) rotatably mounted crank arm (142) is convertible into a pushing movement.