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    A motor vehicle parking installation with a parking space having multiple parking areas in a continuous parking lane, wherein the parking areas may be occupied by motor vehicles, according to an at least partly first-in-first-out sequence, whereby the orientation of a parked vehicle is substantially the same as the driving direction along the parking lane of said vehicle.
    公开号:NL1043061A
    申请号:NL1043061
    申请日:2018-10-31
    公开日:2020-01-06
    发明作者:Merien Ten Houten Ing；Pieter Penning Johannes
    申请人:Amber Int B V Voorheen P33 Holding；
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    专利说明:

    TECHNICAL FIELD
    The invention relates to motor vehicle parking installations and more particularly to parking installations for autonomous motor vehicles. The autonomous motor vehicles comprise in particular electric vehicles.
    BACKGROUND
    Parking installations usually have to meet multiple requirements which are often apparently in conflict with each other. On the one hand the parking space needs to be sufficiently large to offer sufficient space for as many vehicles as possible. On the other hand, the footprint of the parking installation, especially in urban environments, needs to be as small as possible. In practice this is partially solved by building multi-stories parking installations. A lot of space in these current parking installations is, however, taken by infrastructure for moving vehicles to and from a parking space within the installation. Another challenge is to optimize the use of the available parking spaces,
    i.e. to provide arrangements for filling each and every parking space efficiently and to allow vehicles to access these free spaces as fast and easy as possible. For the drivers of these vehicles it is nevertheless often cumbersome to find a free parking space. It is also challenging to provide these drivers with clues to find their vehicles easily and quickly as soon as they re-arrive at the parking installation for retrieval of their vehicle. Solutions have been proposed to facilitate parking of a vehicle after the driver has left the vehicle. In this case the driver should not be bothered with finding a parking space in the parking installation and the parking installation may be largely automated in moving the vehicle to an empty parking space. The other way around, the vehicle may be retrieved from the parking space and handed over to the driver without interference of the driver. Examples of these systems are often organized as a carousel or a Noria type vehicle moving system.
    European patent application EP2372046 by IHI Transport Machinery CO Ltd describes for example such an installation providing a Noria type vehicle moving system in which vehicles are placed in parking locations placed in a loop movable about a horizontal axis.
    EP2372046 by the same company discloses movable parking places in fixed storage cells, each place, after receiving a vehicle, being placed in a free cell, among a set of cells provided in these installations.
    Besides the need for efficient parking installations there is an increasing number of electrical vehicles on the roads. A common problem of these vehicles is a limited range of the vehicles as this range is usually limited by the battery capacity. This problem is already recognized and one of the solutions is to charge these vehicles while they are parked in the parking installation. This problem is also addressed in aforementioned patent application EP2372046.
    It has been found that managing available places is difficult to implement in the prior art solutions. Such management necessitates programming means and machinery that are relatively costly to provide. Furthermore, the operations of dropping off and recovering a vehicle are also relatively inconvenient and difficult to make compatible with the number of vehicles that these installations are able to accommodate.
    USA Patent application 2013/0142598 A1 by Dominique Mocquard et al. discloses a possible solution for the latter challenge, by providing an electric motor vehicle parking installation comprising a tower above ground and including vehicle parking places and at least one vehicle entry and/or exit area. The tower includes a pair of contiguous coaxial helical ramps of identical pitch, comprising a first ramp dedicated to parking vehicles and a fixed second ramp, the first ramp being mobile vertically and in rotation relative to the second ramp.
    A disadvantage of the above solutions is that the proposed solutions still require a relatively large infrastructure which cannot be efficiently put to use for parking vehicles.
    DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
    The object of the invention is therefore to alleviate these drawbacks and to provide a motor vehicle parking installation enabling some or all of the aforementioned drawbacks to be alleviated.
    The object is realized by a motor vehicle parking installation with a parking space having multiple parking areas in a continuous parking lane, wherein the parking areas may be occupied by motor vehicles, according to an at least partly first-in-first-out sequence, whereby the orientation of a parked vehicle is substantially the same as the driving direction along the parking lane of said vehicle.
    The invention is summarized in the following clauses.
    1. A parking installation for parking of multiple vehicles, said vehicles comprising motor vehicles, said parking installation comprising a vehicle parking space arranged for accommodating the multiple vehicles in parking areas, a vehicle entry area and a vehicle exit area, whereby the vehicle entry area is separated from the vehicle exit area, characterized in that the parking space comprises at least one continuous parking lane comprising said parking areas each of which arranged for being occupied by any one of the multiple vehicles, according to an at least partly first-infirst-out sequence, whereby the orientation of a parked vehicle is substantially the same as the driving direction along the parking lane of said vehicle.
    2. The parking installation according to clause 1, characterized in that the parking installation is arranged for facilitating that a vehicle of the multiple vehicles moves to an empty parking area autonomously.
    3. The parking installation according to clause 1, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a control unit arranged for supporting the movement of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles from a current parking area to a next parking area.
    4. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the size of a parking area varies according to the size of a vehicle accommodated in said area, which size comprises a size which is at least as big as the size of said vehicle.
    5. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the control unit is arranged for moving a vehicle of the multiple vehicles from a first position to an adjacent second position in the length of the parking lane.
    6. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the control unit is arranged for supporting the movement of a vehicle from a first parking area to an adjacent second parking area in the length of the parking lane only when the second parking area is at least as big as the size of said vehicle.
    7. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a vehicle detection system arranged for determining a position in the parking lane of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles, and for communicating position information comprising the position of said vehicle to the control unit.
    8. The parking installation according to clause 1, characterized in that the control unit is arranged for controlling, determining and/or registering a parameter of the group of parameters comprising:
    - number of empty and/or occupied parking areas;
    - number of vehicles in the vehicle entry area;
    - number of vehicles in the vehicle exit area;
    - number, identification and/or type of vehicles having a reservation for parking in the parking installation;
    - a reservation time and/or an estimated time of arrival of these vehicles at the parking installation;
    - number, identification and/or type of vehicles which are parked or planned to be parked in the parking installation and having a reservation for use by a client;
    - a reservation time and/or an estimated time of arrival of a client planning to use a vehicle which is parked or planned to be parked in the parking installation.
    9. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a vehicle information system comprising vehicle information of each vehicle of the multiple vehicles, wherein the vehicle information comprises any characteristic of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles information of the group comprising:
    - width, length, height, weight and/or turning radius;
    - wheel base, axle track and/or wheel size;
    - state of charge of a battery
    10. The parking installation according to clause 9, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a detection system arranged for determining said characteristics.
    11. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the vehicle detection system comprises an array of presence sensors positioned along the parking lane, said presence sensors comprising any sensor of the group of sensors comprising:
    - a coil array in or on the parking lane, arranged for detecting a metal body
    - a light transmitter combined with a light receiver
    - an ultrasound transmitter combined with an ultrasound receiver
    - a video recognition system for capturing images of a vehicle and its position and processing the captured images.
    - physical switches incorporated in the road paving of the parking lane.
    12. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking lane comprises one or more by-passes arranged for allowing one or more vehicles to enter or exit the sequence at a position between the enter area and the exit area.
    13. The parking installation according to clause 11 or 12, characterized in that a bypass of the one or more by-passes is arranged as a rotatable parking subsystem arranged for engaging with the parking lane for allowing the one or more vehicles to enter or exit the sequence.
    14. The parking installation according to any one of the clauses 11-13, characterized in that the by-pass is arranged as a horizontally rotatable and substantially circular vehicle carrousel.
    15. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the control unit is arranged for supporting the movement out of the parking installation through the exit of a first vehicle of the multiple vehicles, the first vehicle having at least one second vehicle ahead in the parking lane, by supporting the movement of said second vehicle from a current parking area to a next parking area until said second vehicle is moved out of the parking installation through the exit, until the first vehicle has no vehicle ahead anymore in the parking lane.
    16. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the exit area and/or the enter area comprises a vehicle access station respectively a vehicle leave station, arranged for a vehicle user to access respectively leave a vehicle before the vehicle exits the parking installation respectively enters the parking installation.
    17. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking lane comprises a vehicle charging system arranged for providing power to or charging of a battery of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles when occupying the parking lane, whereby the vehicle is arranged for being powered or its battery being charged respectively by means of the charging system, said vehicle charging system comprises an inductive or a conductive feeding system.
    18. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking installation comprises an automatic carwash.
    19. The parking installation according to clause 18, characterized in that the automatic carwash is arranged for washing a vehicle in the parking installation when the vehicle remains in the driving direction of the parking lane.
    20. The parking installation according to any one of the preceding clauses, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a double threaded helix circulation system with multiple levels.
    BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
    The figures show views of embodiments in accordance with the present invention. FIGURE 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention comprising a parking lane.
    FIGURE 2 shows an embodiment of the present invention comprising the parking lane with various positions of vehicles.
    FIGURE 3 shows an embodiment of the present invention comprising a parking lane having a shape of a double helix.
    DETAILED DESCRIPTION
    The invention is now described by the following aspects and embodiments, with reference to the figures.
    FIGURE 1 shows embodiment of the present invention 100 comprising a parking lane 103 with parked vehicles 201a,b,c,d. For reasons of clarity vehicles 201a,b,c,d have reference signs drawn on the figures of the vehicles 201a,b,c,d being A,B,C,D, respectively. The vehicles A,B,C,D are depicted in a position where they are parked in sequence, and head to tail with a relatively small distance between them. In principle the order of the sequence is determined by a first in first out system. Vehicle A has entered the current area of the parking lane first and vehicle B, for example, entered the space behind vehicle A at a later moment. If vehicle A is closest to the exit of the parking installation, then it may leave the parking installation as the first one. The invention, however, provides alternative arrangements to rearrange the sequence of the vehicles, by using for example a bypass or by other arrangements as disclosed in the above clauses. This may be desired, when, for example when vehicle B needs to be taken out of the parking lane for maintenance, or because of a special feature, only present in vehicle B, is desired by a user, and the first vehicle in line D is not equipped with such a feature.
    In a situation, wherein all vehicles 201a,b,c,d are mutually exchangeable for a user to be driven, there is no need to change the sequence. The first vehicle in line (vehicle D in this case) will be handed over to a user as soon as vehicle D has left the parking system through the exit. For example, in a scenario wherein all vehicles A,B,C,D are shared vehicles it may be part of the shared vehicle service that each user is assigned a vehicle first in line.
    The vehicles A,B,C,D are brought in position by movement in a direction indicated by arrow 101. In principle, the invention does not provide fixe parking places with a defined area. The parking areas come into existence by filling up empty space in the parking lane. Figure 1 typically depicts a situation wherein area 103 is empty. This empty area is referred to as area E1. Area E1 may for example just recently became empty after a vehicle, which previously occupied area E1 has left this area, preferably by moving forward. As all vehicles A,B,C,D are positioned for moving in the same direction 101, they may be moved to forward and on the one hand fill area E1 (by vehicle D), followed by a movement of vehicles A,B,C and on the other hand create a new empty area as left by vehicle B. The latter area may subsequently be filled by vehicle A.
    This sequence is further illustrated in figure 2, wherein parking lane 103 is depicted in four time sequences, wherein the parking lane 103a in the first time sequence depicts the starting situation and 103d depicts the end situation. Hereinafter, parking lane 103a,b,c,d, which represent the same parking lanes with a sequence in time, are referred to as situations 103a,b,c,d respectively. Situation 103a shows an order of vehicles A,B,C,D just like shown in figure 1. The next in sequence is situation 103b, wherein vehicle D has moved forward to fill area E1. This leaves a new open area E2. Area E2 is subsequently occupied by moving forward of vehicle C, as shown in situation 103c. In situation 103d vehicles B and A have moved forward , whereby vehicle B fil area E3 and vehicle A leaves empty area E4. A control unit of the invented parking system may be arranged for supporting this moving forward of vehicles A,B,C,D. Supporting may comprise providing information to the individual vehicles on the basis of which the vehicles may decide autonomously to move forward, or it may comprise full control of one or more of the vehicle’s movements.
    FIGURE 3 shows an embodiment of the present invention 100 comprising a parking lane 103,104 having a shape of a double helix. Parking lane 103 is arranged for movement of vehicles A,B in upward direction, whereas parking lane 104 is arranged for movement of vehicles C,D in downward direction. Preferably, parking lanes 103,104 are interconnected, such that when vehicles A,B, when moving forward on parking lane 103, arrive at the top of the helix, they automatically enter parking lane 104, in order to continue their journey downward. Parking lane 103, 104 are therefore preferably seamlessly connected.
    It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that a person skilled in the art will be able to design many alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. Use of the verb to comprise and its conjugations does not exclude the presence of elements or steps other than those stated in a claim. The term and/or includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The article a or an preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The article the preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. In the device claim enumerating several means, several of these means may be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The mere fact that certain measures are recited in mutually different dependent claims does not indicate that a combination of these measures cannot be used to advantage.
    权利要求:
    Claims (20)
    [1]
    CONCLUSIONS
    A parking installation for parking a plurality of vehicles, said vehicles comprising motor vehicles, said parking installation comprising a vehicle parking space adapted to accommodate the plurality of vehicles in parking spaces, a vehicle entrance area and a vehicle exit area, the vehicle entrance area is separated from the vehicle exit area, characterized in that the parking space comprises at least one continuous parking lane, comprising said parking spaces each arranged to be occupied by one of the plurality of vehicles, according to one at least partially first-in first-out sequence, wherein the orientation of a parked vehicle is substantially the same as the direction of travel across the vehicle's parking track.
    [2]
    The parking installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the parking installation is adapted to make it possible for a vehicle to move autonomously from the plurality of vehicles to an empty parking space.
    [3]
    The parking installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a control unit which is adapted to support the movement of a vehicle from the plurality of vehicles from a current parking space to a next parking space.
    [4]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the size of a parking space varies depending on the size of a vehicle accommodated in said location, which dimension comprises a dimension at least as large as the size of said vehicle.
    [5]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit is adapted to move a vehicle from the plurality of vehicles from a first position to an adjacent second position along the length of the parking track.
    [6]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the control unit is adapted to support the movement of a vehicle from a first parking space to an adjacent second parking space in the length of the parking lane only when the second parking space is at least as large is like the size of that vehicle.
    [7]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a vehicle detection system arranged for determining a position in the parking track of a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, and for communicating position information comprising the position of said vehicle, to the control unit.
    [8]
    The parking installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the control unit is arranged for controlling, determining and / or registering a parameter of the group of parameters, comprising:
    - number of empty and / or occupied parking places;
    - number of vehicles in the vehicle entrance area;
    - number of vehicles in the vehicle exit area;
    - number, identification and / or type of vehicles with a reservation for parking in the parking installation;
    - a reservation time and / or an estimated arrival time of these vehicles at the parking installation;
    - number, identification and / or type of vehicles that are parked or planned to be parked in the parking installation and that have a reservation for use by a customer;
    - a reservation time and / or an estimated arrival time of a customer who plans to use a vehicle that is parked or planned to be parked in the parking facility.
    [9]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a vehicle information system comprising vehicle information of each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, wherein the vehicle information comprises a characteristic of a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles information of the group consisting of :
    - width, length, height, weight and / or turning circle;
    - wheelbase, axle-track and / or wheel size;
    - charge status of a battery.
    [10]
    The parking installation according to claim 9, characterized in that the parking installation comprises a detection system adapted to determine said characteristics.
    [11]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the vehicle detection system comprises a row of presence sensors along the parking track, which presence sensors comprise a sensor of the group of sensors, comprising:
    - a coil array in or on the parking lane, arranged for detecting a metal body;
    - a light emitter in combination with a light receiver;
    - an ultrasonic transmitter combined with an ultrasonic receiver;
    - a video recognition system for capturing images of a vehicle and its position and processing the captured images;
    - physical switches incorporated in the road surface of the parking lane.
    [12]
    The parking installation according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the parking track comprises one or more diversions adapted to allow one or more vehicles to enter or leave the vehicle row at a position between the entrance area and the exit area.
    [13]
    The parking installation as claimed in claim 11 or 12, characterized in that a diversion of the one or more diversions is arranged as a rotatable parking subsystem adapted to connect to the parking lane for allowing the one or more vehicles to enter the vehicle row go or leave.
    [14]
    The parking installation according to any one of claims 11-13, characterized in that the diversion is arranged as a horizontally rotatable and substantially circular vehicle carousel.
    [15]
    The parking installation as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the control unit is adapted to support the movement from the parking installation through the exit of a first vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, the first vehicle being preceded by at least one second vehicle in the parking track, by supporting the movement of said second vehicle from a current parking space to a next parking space until said second vehicle is moved through the exit from the parking installation, until the first vehicle is no longer preceded by a vehicle in the parking lot.
    [16]
    The parking installation as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the exit area and / or the entry area comprises a vehicle access station or a vehicle exit station, arranged for a vehicle user to gain access to a vehicle or to leave a vehicle, respectively, before the vehicle leaves the parking installation or enters the parking installation.
    [17]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the parking track comprises a vehicle charging system adapted to supply power to or charge a battery of a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles during the occupation of the parking track, wherein the vehicle is arranged to be driven or its battery respectively being charged by means of the charging system, wherein the charging system of the vehicle comprises an inductive or a conductive supply system.
    [18]
    The parking installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the parking installation comprises an automatic car wash.
    [19]
    19. The parking installation according to claim 18, characterized in that the automatic car wash is adapted to wash a vehicle in the parking installation when the vehicle remains in the direction of travel of the parking track.
    [20]
    The parking installation as claimed in any of the foregoing claims, characterized in that the parking installation is a double-threaded helical circulation system with
    10 includes multiple levels.
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    A motor vehicle parking installation with a parking space having multiple parking areas in a continuous parking lane, the parking areas may be occupied by motor vehicles, according to an at least partly first-in-first-out sequence, subject the orientation of a parked vehicle is substantially the same as the driving direction along the parking lane or said vehicle.
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