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US 5,470,185 AGranted
Parking garage
AssigneesTakenaka Corporation, Takahiro Tsubota, Hiroshi Kitajima
InventorsTakahiro Tsubota, Hiroshi Kitajima
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Abstract
A parking garage in which parking zones are arranged at both sides of a self-running lane, and slat conveyers are arranged at the lane and the parking zones, such that a vehicle that has run on the lane is conveyed to one of the parking zones by the slat conveyers. At exit, a vehicle in one of the parking zones is conveyed to the self-running lane by the slat conveyers, and it runs by itself on the lane to exit the garage.
Claims17
A parking garage comprising:
- a self-running lane for vehicles to move therethrough by means of a motor in each of the vehicles, said self-running lane having an entrance or entering the garage, said entrance being located near a first end of said self-running lane, and an exit for exiting the garage, said exit being located near a second end of said self-running lane;
- a plurality of individual parking zones arranged on a first side and a second side of said self-running lane;
- and
- a plurality of first crossfeeder means for front wheels and a plurality of second crossfeeder means for rear wheels of the vehicles;
- at least one first crossfeeder means of said plurality of first crossfeeder means and at least one second crossfeeder means of said plurality of second crossfeeder means arranged at each of the individual parking zones and extending into the self-running lane, respectively, for moving the vehicle to and from one of said parking zones and said self-running lane;
- said parking garage further comprising
- an entrance gate arranged at a front of the entrance of said self-running lane;
- safety sensors arranged at said entrance gate, said safety sensors for detecting the vehicle moving through said entrance gate;
- alarm means arranged at each of said plurality of individual parking zones, said alarm means for signalling a presence of the vehicle moving from said each zones, and for signalling a presence of the vehicle entering said self-running lane from said entrance gate;
- and
- means to light at least one of said alarm means when the vehicle approaches from said entrance gate and when the vehicle is taken out by said crossfeeder means.
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A parking garage comprising:
- a self-running lane for vehicles to move therethrough by means of a motor in each of the vehicles, said self-running lane having an entrance for entering the parking garage, said entrance being located near a first end of said self-running lane, and an exit for exiting the parking garage, said exit being located near a second end of said self-running lane;
- a plurality of individual parking zones arranged on a first side and a second side of said self-running lane;
- and
- a plurality of first crossfeeder means for front wheels and a plurality of second crossfeeder means for rear wheels of the vehicles;
- at least one first crossfeeder means of said plurality of first crossfeeder means and at least one second crossfeeder means of said plurality of second crossfeeder means arranged at each of the individual parking zones and extending into the self-running lane, respectively, said at least one first and said at least one second crossfeeder means being independently movable for moving the vehicle to and from one of said parking zones and said self-running lane;
- wherein each of said individual parking zones is equipped with a control unit including a manually operable entrance switch and a manually operable exit switch to control said first and second crossfeeder means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.