Horology: time measuring systems or devices – Time interval – Parking meter type
Patent
1986-07-17
1988-03-08
Miska, Vit W.
Horology: time measuring systems or devices
Time interval
Parking meter type
368108, 368276, 194902, G04F 100, G04F 800
Patent
active
047302852
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to an individual parking meter intended to be fitted in a vehicle so as to be visible for inspection from the outside, and comprising a parking time storage for storing of a prepaid parking time, a timing means, a display for displaying parking information, and a switch means for connection and disconnection of the parking meter.
As known, a parking meter is to show to an inspector that the parking charge for the topical parking place is paid, and that the time for which it is paid is not exceeded. It is also common that the parking charge varies in dependence on traffic density and building, and this is marked by division into zones of which each has its definite parking charge per hour.
Parking meters of the introductorily stated "individual" type in practice have a number of advantages over the traditionally used, stationarily mounted and mechanically working parking meters which are based on insertion of coins for a definite parking time. For the user, the substantial advantage is achieved that he pays only for the spent parking time. He becomes independent of coins and time-consuming or troublesome exchange. The parking meter can be used everywhere where a parking charge is demanded. It no longer becomes necessary to leave the vehicle when parking in order to buy a parking ticket or to change, since the user uses his individual parking meter which he has bought in advance and then paid for the parking time stored in the parking meter.
For the respective authority which is responsible for collecting parking charge, the following main advantages are achieved: Assembly of stationary parking meters or automatic ticket machines in the respective streets and roads is discontinued. Thus, the steet area can be better utilized, and obstables in connection with e. g. snow clearing disappear. Parking meter emptying for coins is discontinued and the control becomes safer. The costs in connection with purchase and assembly of stationary meters disappear, and maintenance of stationary parking meters is eliminated.
An individual parking meter of the introductorily stated type is known from DE publication print No. 3 235 668. This known parking meter includes a display which, as long as the totally allowed parking time is not spent, shows an indication that parking is allowed, and which also, after a certain spent parking time, shows that only a certain "reserve" of the parking time is left, to thus enable timely replacement of the parking meter. Further, the parking meter is provided with a blocking means to prevent continuous parking in places with shorttime parking. It is also provided with a reset button which is not accessible to the user, but which is provided to enable repeated use of the parking meter after the user has applied to a controlling authority which has reset the time storage and has received a charge for another parking time period from the user.
The above-mentioned known parking meter presupposes that the user chooses and sets a certain maximum parking time when switching on the parking meter. Further, it is based on user-application to and an active contribution from the controlling authority in question when used parking meters are to be reset for repeated use. It will also be subject to maintenance problems as it is based on repeated use and thus on a long service life. This is supposed to be some of the reasons for the fact that a parking system based on such a parking meter has not come into general use in practice. The problems to be solved in connection with a parking system are relatively complex, many interacting factors having to be taken into account. Primarily, the landowner needs a control system for parking in order to have necessary traffic performed. The system should be simple in operation, cost a little in basic investment and be simple in use and simultaneously righteous to the road-users.
Thus, the object of the present invention is to provide an individual parking meter which, in one system, in an optimal manner unites solutions of the problems a
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