Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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Field ~ the inventi~n
The present i~vention relates generally to structures for
a nultistorey parking building or parking attach~ent to an
~xisting building and to devices for auto~ated parking and,
~ore particularly, to steel structuxes ~ade of ~cdular
ele~ents ~nd to devices and platfor~s for automatic car
distribution uithin a multistorey parking space.
Background of the inverltion
At present time, parking spaces are in the ~orm of open
paved squares, basement storeys o~ buildings or as separate
concrete structures where a vehicle is being parked by its
driver ~or valet parking). Open parking spaces occupy
significant areas o~ alre~dy cro~deti cities. Multistorey
concrete parkin~ buildir~s with human parking (by driver or
valet~ are bulky, relatively expensive and iner~ective since
the area and the height are only partially us~i ~or vehicle
place~ent so that the volu~e of a parking building is used up
to 35X only. When ~ost parkin~ spaces are occupied, the
arriving vehicles are manoeuvring or waiting with runnir~
engine which leads to increased Pollution~ This invention
aios at solvin~ parking proble~s in downtowns o~ bi~ cities,
at aeroports, theatres, shoppin~ ~al:ls, stadiu~s and
universities; at eli~ination o~ street parkir~ in cro~ied
areasJ at decre~sing pollution and at providing olean, sare,
ineXpensiv~ and ~axt auto~ateci parking spaces.
Preli~inary search did not find any patents proposing
structures and devices ~or autooated ~ultistor~ parking
buildings.
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Sl~mnary of tlle in~ention
The object of th~ ~Ivention is the structure o~ the
~ultistorey parkir~ buil~in~ and the devices providing its
auto~atic operation at all stages o~ parking process. The
park~lg building or the parkin~ attach~ent to an existi~
buildir~ is ~anufactured as a steel fra~e in such a way that
the volume of the struGture is partitioned into boxes in which
vehicles are stationed and horisontal lanes ( corridors ) and
vertical lanes ~ with elevators ) ~here devices ( shuttles or
trolleys) are ~oving that distribute vehicles into boxes. Due
to different sizes of vehicles, there nay be several dif~erent
types o$ boxes which provides for better use of the volu~e oE
the parking building. Every box has a plat~orm on which to
park a vehicle. Plat~orns with or without vehicles can be
~oved through the building by shuttles moving on
special ~uides which serve si~ultaneously as supporting
structure of the build W . For better ventilation, boxes are
separated vertically by grid deck platir~ or solid floors with
holes. Walls of the ~Iderground part of the parking buildin~
ars ~ade o~ c~ncrete and the upper Part can be ~ade with any
appropriate materials, with or without windows. Vertical
transportation of shuttles or troll~ys i5 provided by special
elevators with guides. Guides in elevators and guides in
horiz~ntal corridors coincide when elevators stop. ~very
plat~orm has two ~uide track5 and the ~eohani~ to preoisely
check and ~ix the vehicle on the plat~orm.
The autaDatio parkir~ proce~s is as Pollows. At the
entrance, a driver put~ hi~ vehiole wl the plat~or~ set
~n a shuttle uhloh awaits oustomers, leaves the vehicle and
pays the ~ee to the autooatic parking-disPcnser uhioh
im~ediately gives the driver a code--nu~ber and directs the
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~huttle with the a vehicle to the v~cant ~ox with that code-
nunber. The driver leaves the pre~ises. Upon arrival to the
box, the plat~or~ with the ear is ~oved fro~ the shuttle into
the box, the vacant shuttle is directed to a vacant box with
the platform but without a vehicle,the plat~orm is transferred
ont~ the shuttle which returns to the entrance to wait for
another custo~er. There are several shuttles in the building;
anong them there is a vacant shuttle for vehicle deliverY and
another one with a plat~orm to take a vehicle for parking. I~
the parking is full, then the shuttles st~nd still where they
are until a driver arrives to pick up his vehicle. The driver
dials his code-nu~ber and pays the balance to the parkin~-
dispenser; then the closest shutt,le i5 direoted to the box,
~akes delivery of the vehicle and awaits another custo~er.
All operations are autooatic and cooputerized including the
inventory o~ vacant and ocoupied boxes, control of shuttles
and elevators and additional services, if any (e.g.,auto~atic
car wash~. In case of equipment ~ailure, a technician on duty
dslivers a vehicle by ~anual operations.
Brie~ description Or the drawines
Fig.1 is a plan view of the Dultistorey auto~atic Parkin~
building according to the e~bodi~ent o~ the present invention;
Fig.2 is a seetion on the line I-I in Fi~.1;
Fig.3 is a ~ection on th~ line II-II in Fig~1;
Fig.4 shows the plat~or~ ~or a parki~g vehicle;
Fig.5 i~ a view on the line III-III in Fi~.4;
Pig.6 is a section on the line IV-IV in Pig.4;
Fi~.7 is a vieu ~ron under the ~huttle;
Fig.~ is a view on the line V-V in Fi~.7;
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Fi~.~ is a sec-tion on the lme VI-VI m Fig.7;
Fi~.lO is a longitudinal vie~ of the shuttle ~ith the
platfor~;
Fig.11 is a ]on~itudinal vie~ o~ the trolley;
Fig.12 is a vie~ on the lme VII-VII in Fig.ll;
~i~ 13 is a transverse vie~ of the shuttle and the platfor~
with roller conveyer ~or ~ovIng the plat~orm to lateral
directions;
Fig.14 is a section on the line VIII-VIII in Fig.13.
~QIE~ Shuttles are devices Rhich distribute plat~oros with or
without vehicles into or out of boxes and are circulating in
lanes (corridors) and on elevators.
Trolleys represent moving platforos that are nor~ally
stationed in boxes (Rith or without vehicles) and are
circulating in lanes (corridors) and on elevators in order to
deliver a vehicle parked on a trolley into a box ~or stora~e
and to take it out o~ the box to the exit on request of the
driver o~ the vehicle.
~etailed description o~ the pre~erred eobodi~ents
An auto~ated ~ultistorey parkin~ building as seen in Figs. 1
to 3 consists o~ steel struotures: coluDn 1, horizontal
longitudinal ele~ents 2J horizontal tr~lsverse el0~ents 3,
longitudinal guides 4 and transverse 8uides 5 ~e.g.
ohannel~shaped). At interse¢tions o~ guides 4 ~ 5) the
vertical parts o~ 8uides 4 are truncated. The said eleuents
are assRbbled in such u way that th0 entire vol~Ine o~ the
building is partitioned into ~oxes 7 (where vehiole~ are
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parked~ and lanes (corridors~ M w~ere st~ttles or trollcys
are ~OVil~ that distribute va~hicles ~to vao~l~ boxes l~'lours
betweerl ~oxes 7 ar~ ~s~lu~aotllrerl as g~;d deck platin~ ~not
sho~n on drawings~. Guides 4 and 5 on ~hich shuttles are
mov~ represent also elements of supporting structures o~ the
~ultistorey parking building and si~ulteneously serve as a
base for installation of the grid deck plating~ Vertically,
between floors, shuttles or trolleys with vehicles are moved
by elevators 6, which also have guides 4 and 5. All guides of
each floor are on the sa~e horizontal level. ~levator 6 ~oving
a shuttle or a trolley with a ~ehicle to certain floor of the
parking, stops in such position that his guides 4 and 5
coincide with guides 4 and 5 of the ~loor so that shuttle or a
trolle~ with a vehicle can move horizontally in two perpen-
dicular directions.
In every box 7 there is platform 8 with edges bent up in
order not to spill dirt on the top of louer vehicle. Vehicles
are put on platfor~s at the entrance by drivers. The platfor~
8 ~see drawings 4 to 6) has tuo guide-tracks 9 of enough width
to acconoodate wheels 12 of dif~erent acceptable vehicles.
One or both tracks ~ have a ~echanisn fixing wheels oP a
vehicle on the platPorn. For exa~ple, there are two strips 10
~oved in transverse direction by ~echanis0s 11 (e.g.,
hydraulio jacks) that fasten wheels 12 in traoks 9. One, two
or all Pour wheels o~ a vehicle can be ~ixed. Plat~orn 8 is
~astened on a shuttle 14, e.g., by ~eans o~ studs (pins~ 13.
The shuttle 14 (see drawin~s 7 to ~) has a plate or ~ra~e
14 ~itted with wheel6 15 uith a ~otor 16. The shuttle 14 has
also the botton ~ra~e 18 with tr~n~ver~e wheels 17 a~d ~otor
19. The ~ra~e 18 is connected with the ~ra0e 14 o~ the
shuttle by jaeks 20 that oh~nee the vertioal position o~
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transverse ~heels 17. Meohanis~ 21 brings in Dotion
si~ultaneously all devices 20 Eor lowering or li~'tin~ wheels
17 Ln o~ler that the sh~ttle 14 could be trans~erred fro~
longitud mal notion along guides 4 onto trans~erse ~otion
along guides 5, and also for putting the platform 8 on
special suPPortS in a box 7 ~these suPPorts are not shown on
Fi~.3 of the box 7). Special holes 22 are for Pixing the
platforn 8 on the shuttle 14.
Shuttle 14 (uith plat~orm 8 and a vehicle) in ~otion along
the longitudinal guides 4 is sho~n in Fig.10. At a stop near
a va~ant box 7, the ~echanis~ 21 starts and hydraulic jacks 20
lower ~heels 17 into ~uides 5, slmultaneously lifting uheels
15; the shuttle 14 ~ovir~ alor~ ~uides 5 enters box 7, leaves
on special supports (not shown) the plat~or~ 8 with a vehicle
and returns to euides 4 ~or the next operation (next parking
or vehicle delivery).
In Pig~11, a version is shown where the plat~orn is fixed
per~anently to the shuttle to ~orn a trolley 23 which either
re~aines in a box 7 with a vehiole parked thereon or ~oves to
the exit (e~trance) to deliver a car and waits there ~or a new
vehicle. This solution is di~erent ~ron the previous one in
that there are no sh~ttles nor plat~or~s but there are as ~uly
trolleys 23 as there are boxes 7, and each trolley has a
plat~onn as its integral part and is used Por parking a
vehiole into a parking box.
In Fig.12 the tran~ver~e view en the llne VII~-VqI o~ a
trolley 23 with a vehicle on longitudinal E~lides 4 is sllown
(transverse wheels 17 are not shown).
As a possible version, in Fig.13 Dnd 14, a shuttle 14 is
s~K~n ~itted ~ith lon~itudinal wheels 15 only. For noving
plat~orn 8 in the transverse direction (arxo~ B or C),
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shuttles 14 and bcxes 7 are ritted with roller ccnnoyor~ 25,
and plat~or~ 8 has ~uid~s 2~. The platror~ 8 is ~nved in
and out o~ boxes 7 by th0 Fe~hanis~ 27, e.~.,hy~r~ulic
telescopic shaPt. In ord~r to d~crea~e the suinging Or shuttle
14 m speedy ~o~ion and wh~n Dechani3n Z7 is working, the
shuttle 14 is Pittsd with rollers 24 and lan~s (corridors) 7A
are fitted uith guide stryps 28.
Control equipnent i5 not shoon on drawings. The parkin3
process is co~puter-controlled. There is no parsonnel in the
parking building and no driver csn enter the parking uhich
~nsures absolute seourity ror the parked vebicles d their
contents. In ca~e ar a railure~ the alarn sYete~ callfi a
teohnician on duty ror inEpection d repairs. The parkin~
building ie ritt~d ~ith ventilation d rire prev~ntion
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