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US 12,600,606 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for automatically lifting / lowering a vehicle
OwnerHongbin Weninventor
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A robot tool for automatically lifting/lowering a vehicle, including a control system, an image system, a plurality of jacks and a driving device. The image system has aiming devices and can capture images above the jacks. The control system can exchange data with the outside world and store data which includes commands, setup information, characteristic parameters and images of vehicles. The control system can obtain positioning images from image system containing information of relative position in horizontal direction between vehicle lifting points and the corresponding jacks. The control system can analyze said positioning images and compare them with the received data to navigate said driving device to move said jacks horizontally, so that each of at least two lifting points of said vehicle can be vertically aligned by a jack below, said control system is capable of operating the jacks to raise or lower the lifted vehicle.
Apparatus for lifting a vehicle comprising a plurality of jacks, and at least one driving device, wherein said driving device comprises a base seat fixed to a parking surface on which said vehicle is parking, at least three linear actuator groups each of which comprising two linear actuators whose telescopic directions angled to each other and also each of the two linear actuators include a stator end and a moveable end, the stator ends of said two linear actuators in a same linear actuator group are jointed together, wherein the movable end of one linear actuator in a first linear actuator group of the three linear actuator groups is connected with the stators of the a second linear actuator group of the three linear actuator groups, and the movable end of another linear actuator in the first linear actuator group is connected with the stators of a third linear actuator group of the three linear actuator groups, at least one of the jacks is connected to the movable end of at least one linear actuator in the second linear actuator group and the third linear actuator group respectively.
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