Material or article handling – Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a... – With means to transfer – or facilitate transfer of – vehicle...
Patent
1998-04-29
2000-05-23
Werner, Frank E.
Material or article handling
Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a...
With means to transfer, or facilitate transfer of, vehicle...
414234, 414253, 414261, 414240, E04H 600
Patent
active
060659211
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a method for parking a vehicle, to a method for retrieving a parked vehicle and to a device for parking vehicles for supplying and delivering at an entry/exit position.
2. Description of the Related Art
The parking of vehicles in urban areas is becoming an increasingly acute problem. A common solution is to build multi-storey car parks in which a vehicle can be driven to a parking place. However, these car parks are large in size and a significant part of the volume thereof is laid out as traffic lanes whereby this space cannot be employed as useful parking space. Automatic car parks also exist wherein a vehicle is automatically carried to a parking position by transporting means designed specifically for this purpose. In such a car park a significant part of the available volume is also set out with driving lanes whereby here also the number of parking positions per unit of volume is limited. In addition, automatic car parks entail very costly constructions which are susceptible to breakdown, wherein the waiting times during retrieval of a parked vehicle can be very long.
The French patent FR-A-1536359 discloses a mechanical parking device for cars. The parking device comprises a monorail along which cars are brought to and taken from several parking positions. The parking positions can be on several stores of a building in which lifting means are required. The parking positions can also be on equal level in which case a monorail shunting construction is provided. Also a combination of the parking position configurations as mentioned above is disclosed. A disadvantage of this construction is the complexity of construction which makes the parking device voluminous in relation to the effective volume used for parking positions.
The present invention has for its object to provide an improved method for parking and retrieving a vehicle in addition to a device for parking vehicles for supplying and delivering at an entry/exit position, with which vehicles can be parked and retrieved in relatively simple manner. It is of great importance here with a relatively limited investment to obtain a good ratio of the usefully employed parking volume to the total volume of a parking device.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides for this purpose methods as according to claims 1 and 2. The invention also provides a device for parking vehicles for supplying and delivering at an entry/exit position, comprising: supporting a vehicle, between the entry/exit position and a position contiguous to a parking position, and platform between a position contiguous to the parking position and the parking position, wherein the carrying platform comprises a support frame on which a carrying plate is suspended and the lifting means and the parking position are respectively provided with horizontal guides for receiving the support frame and in which the support frame may be situated.
The methods and device according to the invention make it possible with comparatively very simple means to park vehicles in parking positions which is contiguous to a vertical transport shaft. Use is hereby made in very efficient manner of available space for parking vehicles. The required entry/exit space is also very limited. The entry/exit space of a parking device according to the invention can be embodied in the size of a so-called standardized parking unit. The parking device can be placed above the entry/exit space, can be placed under the entry/exit space (i.e. underground) or it is possible to operate a combined underground and aboveground parking device with the single entry/exit space. These options make the parking device according to the invention very flexible and highly suitable for integration into already existing building developments and infrastructure. The energy costs for the use of such a device can remain very limited on account of the comparatively short transport distances and the hereby limited accelerations the vehicle must undergo.
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Designer & Licensee of Products and Projects, Inc.
Werner Frank E.
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