WO2010062204A1

WO2010062204A1 - Parking-garage

Info

Publication number: WO2010062204A1
Application number: PCT/PL2009/000042
Authority: WO
Inventors: Tomasz Karlewski
Original assignee: Tomasz Karlewski
Priority date: 2008-11-28
Filing date: 2009-04-29
Publication date: 2010-06-03
Also published as: PL386632A1

Abstract

The parking-garage is designed for storing, i.e. parking, vehicles in a multi-storey, i.e. multi-level, facility. A car is parked on a floor (4) which is assignated to a specific level of the garage. The floor (4) is moved to the lifter (2) which carries it to the ground where the car is brought onto the floor (4), then the lifter (1) takes the floor with the car and carries it to the assigned level where the sliding mechanism takes the floor (4) and slides it back into its place. If a car has already been parked, then the floor (4) with the parked car is brought onto the ground where the car is removed, and the floor (4) is taken back to its place. Parking always involves the floor (4) assigned to a given level, i.e. storey. Parking-garages may and should be used in cities as it takes four times less space. Parking-garages should be used in the train stations where people would be able to leave cars and go to city by train.- Parking-garages offer an especially preferable solution when constructed against the walls of houses and stadiums. The driver may reach the car straight from the flat and together with it be moved onto the ground, and further to the stadium to the parking-garage, and from the parking-garage straight at the assigned level to the seat in the stadium.

Description

Parking-garage

The invention concerns a parking-garage intended for temporary storage of cars that is vehicles for transporting people. Temporary storage, i.e. parking, may involve shorter or longer periods, or long-term storage, i.e. garaging.

Generally known parking facilities include: small structures with single parking spaces and several-storey structures for multi-level car parking.

There are also multi-level parking structures where floor is lifted vertically upward by hydraulic cylinders, but cars parked on higher level may only leave its parking space upon removal of all cars from lower levels which is troublesome as special persons are needed to re-park the cars for this purpose.

The parking-garage according to the invention offers a different solution and it is world's first state-of-the-art multi-level car parking facility. The parking-garage provides standalone parking spaces for each vehicle separately and individually, on several levels, i.e. storeys. . In a preferred embodiment each car leaves its parking space separately, used for transport, and then re-parked, individually from other vehicles.

The parking-garage according to the invention may be constructed as a three-;, four- or five- level facility, and it is highly capacity-efficient as it occupies little space. The access road is shorter which gives an opportunity to reduce fuel consumption, and hence to reduce air pollution during parking. The parking-garage may be constructed as one individual multilevel parking facility or it may be a single segment of a few, a few dozen, or several dozen, parking-garages, constructed as segments attached one to another.

Parking-garages as segments may be adapted for needs and location in a given housing estate or region. The parking-garage structure involves steel beams, screwed with bolts. It means that if after some time it presents an obstacle in a given location, it may be disassembled and removed to another location.

Each level, i.e. each parking space, has a removable floor which can be extracted and retracted, with and without the car, individually from other vehicles. Each floor assigned to a parking space is extracted, placed onto the ground, and then taken back and returned to its space.

For carrying these removable floors, there is one special conveyor, shown in Fig. 3, which extracts floor, with or without car, and moves it onto the ground, i.e. to the level 0, and then takes it back to its space, while the conveyor itself goes back to its original position at the top of the parking-garage.

The floors in the parking-garage may be extracted and retracted: using a cogwheel and gear wheel or using two press wheels - factional movement, or they can be moved using hydraulic or air powered cylinders. The conveyor is moved up and down by means of chain 7 with wheels of the lifting mechanism 5, moved by means of electric motor with worm gear 14 and cogwheel 12 on the axis 11, protected with the cover 10, and this entire lifting mechanism is operated electrically or electronically. Each level, i.e. garage, has its own control box with buttons, possible to lock, and the parking-garage is inaccessible to anybody but a car owner or lessee. The parking procedure is as follows:

When a driver comes to leave, i.e. to park, the car, he opens the control box and presses the button to start the lifter 2, Fig. 3, which takes the floor from a given level and moves it onto the ground, then the driver moves the car onto the floor and presses the button to start the lifter which lifts the floor with the car and takes it to its parking space where it is put into place using the retracting mechanism.

If a vehicle has already been parked, then the driver presses the operating button to move the floor with the car onto the ground and moves the car from the floor, and then presses the button to start the lifter 2 which takes the floor back to its place in the parking-garage, and the driver leaves.

Parking-garages may and should be applied literally everywhere in towns and cities where there is always little space for parking. As parking-garages occupy little space and may be constructed in narrow passages, along streets or in small squares for they may be adapted for sites of all shapes.

In a preferred embodiment it would mean greater convenience for people and city transport, and in particular it would contribute to four-times space saving. Thus, it would at the same time eliminate bottlenecks caused by large concentration of cars in one place.

Then, it could be applied in train stations where people would leave their cars and commute to city by train. In a special embodiment, it could be constructed against walls of houses as almost each house has a wall without windows. Such blind wall is not more aesthetic than cars parked against it. And thus each resident would have his/her car at his/her level. In a mostly preferred embodiment, parking-garages would be constructed against external walls of a stadium while the space around stands is unutilized, i.e. unused.

It would be as follows:

A house resident has a garage against a wall at his/her level, i.e. such resident goes straight from the flat through the corridor to the car, goes down using the lifter and drives to the stadium and there on production of a ticket obtains a key to the parking-garage against the wall of the stadium at his/her level, drives into the parking-garage and parks the car while he/she is inside. Then, he/she leaves the car and goes straight to his/her place in the stands at his/her level without wandering up and down, and up again.

In such embodiment, parking-garages against walls of houses and stadiums, it would result in very beneficial fuel savings, shorter parking time, and additionally reduced air pollution with exhaust gases.

A parking-garage according to the invention would be the most up-to-date parking technique of the 21st century.

Claims

Patent claims

1. Parking-garage for car parking and garaging, i.e. for storing mechanical vehicles on several levels, characterised in that it is constructed of steel beams, screwed with bolts, Fig. 1, 2 and 3, with extractable and movable floors IAI, each assigned to a specific level, and they (these floors IAI) are moved by one lifter 121 which move down and up again, as necessary, by means of two chains 111, one on each side, placed in vertical beams guides /3/ with a worm gear /12/ driving the shaft /11/, in the cover /10/, with cogwheels 15/ on both ends of the shaft /11/ to drive the chains 111, and the entire lifting mechanism is driven with an electric motor 1141, operated by the box /16/ which has buttons for each floor IAI separately, and the floors IAI are moved horizontally in three ways, depending on their construction, and thus firstly the floors IAI are moved using cogwheels and gear wheels, and secondly these floors IAI are moved by means of press wheels 191, i.e. factional movement, and thirdly the floors IAI are moved by means of hydraulic or air powered cylinders, and all the parking mechanisms in the parking-garage are operated by a person driving the parked car using two buttons in the box /16/ which is locked, and the key is held only by the parking-garage owner and driver of the parked car.

2. The parking garage according to the claim 1 characterised in that in a preferred embodiment it is constructed of profiled steel beams called C-bars, screwed together with bolts for easier assembly and disassembly, and removal to another location, and for easier re-assembly, and such construction is very strong, and at the same time light and easy to assemble in each location, even where there is only one parking space, then there will be space for at least four or five cars following the completion of parking-garage facility.

3. . The parking-garage according to the claim 2 characterised in that the horizontal beams, forming a part of the parking-garage structure that supports it, are at same time bed for the floors IAI which are slid into them, thus these horizontal beams form parking space, i.e. garaging space, at a given level.

4. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 characterised in that in the first embodiment, to each floor IAI there are anchored two toothed bar strips, each on one side for their horizontal movement by means of cogwheels mounted on the initial segments of each horizontal beam forming the bed of such floor IAI.

5. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 in the second embodiment characterised in that the floors IAl are moved horizontally by means of a frictional system and therefore each floor IAI is provided on each side with strips, one per each side, so that the floors IAI are moved using press wheels 19/ driven with an electric motor, which are mounted, the press wheels 191, at the beginning of each horizontal beam forming the parking bed of the floor Al, at least four press wheels 191, two per each side, to cause movement by means of frictional mechanism.

6. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 in the third embodiment characterised in that the floors IAl are moved horizontally by means of a system of hydraulic or air powered cylinders, and for horizontal movement of the floors IAl there should be at least two cylinders, one per each side, and each floor IAI has catches to mount these cylinders on one end, and the other ends of cylinders to the initial segments of beams forming the bed for the floors IAI.

7. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 characterised in that it is provided with one lifter 111 to move all the floors IAI in a given parking-garage, which are extracted from the original position and retracted to be moved to level 0 to park the car thereon, and after the car is placed thereon, the lifter 111 lifts the floor IAl with the car and takes it to the respective parking level where it is extracted from the lifter 111 and at the same time retracted into the respective bed, i.e. the respective parking place with the car standing thereon or empty, if the car previously parked thereon has been removed, and the lifter 111 always returns to the original position at the top over the floors, Fig. 1 in one constructional embodiment, and in the other constructional embodiment, the lifter 111 remains where it has been left after the immediately preceding parking event or where the floor IAI returned to its place, thus in the second constructional embodiment, the parking- garage shall not be provided with the parts /15/ which are over the garaging spaces.

8. The parking- garage according to one of claims 1 or 7 characterised in that the lifter 111 is mounted, Fig. 3, on two vertical beams-guides 131, one per each side where there are chains 111 and this lifter 111 is constructed of two side slabs to which at least four wheels referred to as rolls /6/ are mounted, at least two per each side, designed for supporting it on the guides 131 and sliding up or down thereon, and the side slabs with rolls 16/ are connected by means of a flat slab supporting the stable construction of this lifter 111, and at the connection point between the flat slab and side slabs two C-bars are mounted, each per one side, forming the bed during movement for the moved floors IAI.

9. The parking-garage according to the claim 8 characterised in that the lifter 111 is mounted to the chains 111 with screw-bolts on two sides and for this purpose the chains 111 are provided with a special connector /8/, at least one for each chain 111 per each side, i.e. to side walls with rolls 161, and the chains 111 revolve on the chain wheels 151, and thus by means of the connecter 181, the chains 111 move the lifter 111 up or down along the guides /31, and for these operations the lower chain wheels /5/ are driven by the shaft /11/, and the upper chain wheels ISI remain free.

10. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 characterised in that the chains 111 are placed and operate inside the C-bars referred to as the guides /31, and their work of lifting the lifter 111, then the lifting process is started at the ground level with the electric motor provided with worm gear /14/ which set in motion the shaft /11/ in the cover /10/, chain wheels 15/ on its both ends, i.e. on both ends of the shaft /11/ setting the chains 111 in motion.

11. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 characterised in that in the second embodiment, the mechanism moving the floors IAI is placed in the lifter 111 instead in the proximity of the parking bed.

12. The parking-garage according to the claim 11 characterised in that the lifter 111 at the initial segments of the C-bars which form the movable bed, is provided with at least two gear wheels, one per each side, for taking and sliding inside, i.e. into the lifter 111, the floor IAI so that it may be moved, and thus it shall be provided with electric motor to drive the gear wheels in the first embodiment, and in the second embodiment it shall be provided with press wheels 19/ for taking the floor IAI by means of Junctional system, and in the third embodiment it shall be provided with hydraulic or air-powered cylinders.

13. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 and characterised in that it is controlled via the box /16/ by the driver parking the car as only the driver has a key to the box /16/, thus by pressing the button the floor /4/ is brought by means of the lifter 121 downward, and having parked on the floor IAI in the lifter 12/, by pressing the second button, the floor /4/ in the lifter 121, together with the parked car, is carried back to its place at a given level and is extracted from the lifter 121 and retracted into the parking bed in the parking- garage, and the lifter 121 remains at this level or returns to its place at the top as in the first embodiment, and it provides full protection against car theft.

14. The parking-garage according to the claim 1 and characterised in that it may be adapted for lateral parking when there is little space for front or back parking, i.e. the resulting construction shall be wider by the length of cars, and at the same shorter, as adapted only to the width of cars.

15. The parking-garage according to the foregoing claims characterised in that it may be constructed against the wall of residential houses, against the wall without windows, and thus they should be constructed against the walls of stadiums around the stands.

16. The parking-garage according the claim 15 characterised in that it is provided with one more lockable control box /16/ at the top of each parking level, so that before parking the driver operates the box /16/ outside at the ground level, and after parking another box /16/ from the other side, at the top of driver's parking space at a given level, and the driver is able to go straight from his/her parking space at the assigned level to go to the flat or the seat in the stadium.