A shared bicycle storage device, access method and operation management method

Abstract

The application relates to the technical field of shared bicycles, and discloses a shared bicycle storage device, a storage and access method and an operation management method. The shared bicycle storage device is used for lifting and storing and accessing a plurality of bicycles, and comprises a supporting arm, a moving platform, a lifting mechanism and a main support. The supporting arm is used for supporting the bicycle during lifting; the moving platform is used for horizontally moving the bicycle to enable the supporting arm to be inserted into or separated from the bicycle body; the lifting mechanism drives the supporting arm to ascend or descend; and the lifting mechanism is installed in the main support. The application uses the supporting arm with a simple structure to complete the task of parking the bicycle at a high place, does not need a plurality of parking plates with a relatively large size and more materials to carry the bicycle which is intended to be suspended in the air, can provide space utilization and reduce construction difficulty, adopts the mode of horizontally moving the bicycle to cooperate with the supporting arm, makes the automatic storage and access of the shared bicycle possible, and lays a foundation for realizing automatic unmanned operation management.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to the technical field of shared bicycles, and more particularly to a shared bicycle storage device, a storage and access method, and an operation management method. BACKGROUND

[0002] As a part of urban public transportation, the public bicycle system undertakes an extremely important traffic task, provides bicycle rental services that can be returned at different locations, solves the problem of the last mile of public transportation, and effectively improves the overall service level of urban public transportation.

[0003] In China, the public bicycle market has experienced three stages of development: 2007-2010, the first stage, the public bicycle mode started to be introduced into China from abroad, and was managed by the government in different cities, and was mostly single bicycles with poles; 2010-2014, the second stage, enterprises specializing in the bicycle market began to appear, but public bicycles were still mostly single bicycles with poles. Since 2014, the third stage, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, Internet shared bicycles led by Mobike have emerged, and more convenient poleless bicycles have begun to replace pole bicycles.

[0004] In addition, both pole bicycles and poleless bicycles have the problem of large land occupation, causing traffic congestion. In view of these problems, some vertical car parks for parking shared bicycles have appeared in the prior art, such as a shared bicycle intelligent vertical parking device disclosed in Chinese Patent Publication No. CN107060403A, an intelligent vertical car park for shared bicycle storage disclosed in Chinese Patent Publication No. CN106968474A, and a new public bicycle vertical car park system disclosed in Chinese Patent Publication No. CN105545029A, but these vertical car parks are generally complex in structure and have a high risk coefficient.

[0005] To solve the above technical problems, the applicant previously submitted a Chinese patent application with the publication number CN108678448A entitled a shared bicycle operation management method and its parking equipment, which is implemented by a parking equipment arranged in a foundation pit, and solves the technical defects of wide land occupation for bicycle parking, inconvenience of pole return, and disorder of poleless parking, but this scheme needs to dig a foundation pit, which increases the construction difficulty to some extent, especially when there is an optical cable or an electric cable buried underground. Therefore, it is necessary to provide another technical scheme to solve the contradiction between the inconvenience of pole return and the disorder of poleless parking. SUMMARY

[0006] Therefore, the application provides a shared bicycle storage device, a storage and access method and an operation management method to effectively solve the contradiction between the inconvenience of having a pile for returning the bicycle and the disorder of parking without a pile and greatly reduce the construction difficulty.

[0007] In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problems, the application adopts the following technical solutions:

[0008] The first aspect of the application provides a shared bicycle storage device for lifting and storing a plurality of bicycles, comprising

[0009] A supporting arm for supporting the bicycle during lifting;

[0010] A moving platform for translating the bicycle to enable the supporting arm to be inserted into or separated from the bicycle body;

[0011] A lifting mechanism for driving the supporting arm to rise or fall; and

[0012] A main body support, wherein the lifting mechanism is installed in the main body support.

[0013] The application enables the bicycle parked on the moving platform to be parked in the shared bicycle storage device along an L-shaped movement track from bottom to top, or enables the bicycle supported by the supporting arm in the air to be moved out of the shared bicycle storage device along an L-shaped movement track from top to bottom, so that the shared bicycle can be conveniently and orderly parked in a high place, the longitudinal space is better utilized, and the area occupied by the shared bicycle storage device is reduced, so that the number of shared bicycle storage devices can be increased accordingly, the distance between the shared bicycle storage devices can be reduced accordingly, and the contradiction between the inconvenience of having a pile for returning the bicycle, the large area occupied, the small application amount, the disorder of parking without a pile, and the ineffective management is effectively solved. The shared bicycle storage device has a small area, a simple structure and a low construction cost, so that it is possible to increase the density of shared bicycle access points, the reduction of the distance between two access points enables the operation management method applied to the shared bicycle storage device to be convenient for returning the bicycle, and in addition, the inherent attribute of the shared bicycle without a fixed access point determines that the consumer cannot necessarily take the shared bicycle within a short distance when taking the bicycle, so that the operation management method applied to the shared bicycle storage device is better than the shared bicycle without a pile in terms of borrowing the bicycle, and brings convenience to the consumer. The supporting arm is in transmission connection with the lifting mechanism, and the lifting mechanism is arranged in the main body support, that is, in addition to the moving platform, the components of the shared bicycle storage device, especially the components in motion relationship, are basically arranged in the main body support, and do not cause potential harm to pedestrians and vehicles.

[0014] In the present application, the supporting arms are used to support the bicycles during the lifting process, so that the bicycles can be orderly elevated in the air. Compared with the traditional scheme of parking bicycles on layer-by-layer platforms, the present application creatively proposes to use supporting arms to lift and support the bicycles, which has the characteristics of simple structure and small space occupation. In order to enable the bicycles to be stably lifted by the supporting arms, the supporting arms comprise

[0015] An A-shaped arm provided with a clamping position for clamping the bicycle frame; and / or

[0016] A B-shaped arm provided with a clamping block, and the bicycle is provided with a hook matched with the clamping block.

[0017] As known, the bicycle usually takes the frame as the main structure, the front lower side of the frame is connected with the front wheel, the rear lower side is connected with the rear wheel, the middle lower side is connected with the pedal driving mechanism for driving the front wheel or the rear wheel, the middle upper side is connected with the seat, and the front upper side is connected with the handlebar for controlling the direction. The frame is usually composed of pipes or rods, which have a plurality of hollow structures. The present application utilizes these hollow structures on the frame to lift the bicycle by inserting the supporting arms into the hollow parts. However, since the contact between the frame and the supporting arms is usually point contact or line contact, such mismatched contact may cause safety hazards such as overturning. Therefore, the structure of the supporting arms is designed, and two structural design schemes are given: one is to design only the structure of the supporting arms, and to set clamping positions on the supporting arms matched with the frame to limit the relative rotation freedom between the frame and the supporting arms, thereby effectively preventing the side turning; the other is to design the supporting arms and the bicycle respectively, to assemble a hook on the bicycle, and to set a clamping block matched with the hook on the supporting arms, which also can limit the relative rotation freedom between the frame and the supporting arms; preferably, the hook can be set as various cover structures or ring structures, such as square cover, square ring, round cover, round ring, etc., which not only can prevent the side turning, but also can limit the freedom of the forward and backward movement of the bicycle relative to the supporting arms.

[0018] In order to stably lift the bicycle, it is usually preferred to use two supporting arms to support each bicycle. In this case, the manufacturer or purchaser can select the scheme of "A-shaped arm + A-shaped arm", "B-shaped arm + B-shaped arm" or "A-shaped arm + B-shaped arm" for each bicycle according to the needs, and based on the consideration of the supporting stability and the bicycle modification cost, the scheme of "A-shaped arm + B-shaped arm" is preferably adopted.

[0019] The cooperation between the supporting arms and the moving platform not only provides a possibility of conveying a bicycle to a high altitude and stably parking the bicycle in the air, but also provides a space for parking multiple bicycles at the same height, for which, a plurality of clamping positions are arranged on the A-shaped arm in an array along the length of the arm, or a plurality of clamping blocks are arranged on the B-shaped arm in an array along the length of the arm. Each clamping position or each clamping block on the same supporting arm can correspondingly support a bicycle, so that the number of stored bicycles in the shared bicycle garage can be doubled. However, considering the stress condition of the supporting arms and the lifting mechanism and the overall structure and area of the shared bicycle garage, the number of clamping positions or clamping blocks of each supporting arm should not be too much, and is preferably 1-3.

[0020] In the present application, the lifting mechanism can be driven by a motor, a pneumatic cylinder, a hydraulic cylinder, etc. When the lifting mechanism is driven by a rotary driving mechanism such as a motor, the lifting transmission member can be configured as a ball screw for converting rotary motion into linear motion, and can also be configured as a transmission mechanism such as a chain transmission mechanism, a belt transmission mechanism, etc. that can make the supporting arm linearly ascend and descend or even ascend and descend in a J / U-shaped trajectory. For such a transmission mechanism, the present application refers to it as a J / U rail transmission mechanism.

[0021] When the lifting mechanism adopts the aforementioned J / U rail transmission mechanism, a plurality of supporting arms can be distributed at a distance on the J / U-shaped structure of the lifting mechanism, which is practically meaningful for ensuring a proper distance between the bicycles supported and lifted by the supporting arms, without the need for precise calculation and control of the lifting of the supporting arms. However, at this time, there will inevitably be a situation where part of the supporting arms move from one side of the J / U shape to the other side, forming a non-alphabetic state, so that the width of the shared bicycle garage is doubled. In this case, if the supporting arms are configured as a one-way foldable structure, the supporting arms are in an unfolded state on one side of the lifting mechanism to support the bicycles, and are in a folded state on the other side of the lifting mechanism, which can easily solve the contradiction between static control of the distance between the bicycles and the need to occupy less area.

[0022] In order to improve the smoothness of the switching of the supporting arms between the unfolded state and the folded state, the supporting arms automatically change from the unfolded state to the folded state during the movement from one side of the J / U rail transmission mechanism to the other side, and automatically change from the folded state to the unfolded state during the movement from the other side of the J / U rail transmission mechanism to one side. Specifically, the supporting arms are connected to the J / U rail transmission mechanism in a hinged manner, and an obstacle is arranged on the upper side or the lower side of the supporting arms to limit the rotational freedom of the supporting arms to 90°. Therefore, on one side of the J / U rail transmission mechanism, the obstacle is located on the lower side of the supporting arms, and the supporting arms cannot rotate downward due to the presence of the obstacle and are in an unfolded state for supporting the bicycles. When the supporting arms are moved to the other side of the J / U rail transmission mechanism under the drive of the J / U rail transmission mechanism, the relative positions between the supporting arms and the obstacle are reversed, the obstacle is located on the upper side of the supporting arms, and cannot block the downward rotation of the supporting arms due to their own gravity, at which time the supporting arms are in a folded state.

[0023] To ensure that the mobile platform with the bicycle can smoothly pass through the bicycle body during the translation of the mobile platform with the bicycle to the positioned support arm, or the support arm can smoothly separate from the bicycle body during the translation of the mobile platform with the bicycle out of the garage, at least a limiting mechanism for adjusting the bicycle is arranged on the mobile platform. In addition, the limiting mechanism can also be configured as a bicycle locking mechanism for anti-theft, or a bicycle locking mechanism for anti-theft is additionally arranged on the mobile platform.

[0024] To facilitate the control of the translation stroke of the mobile platform, a sensor for sensing the positioning of the mobile platform is arranged in the shared bicycle garage to ensure that the mobile platform is translated to the position. In addition, a travel switch for controlling the lifting amplitude of the support arm is arranged in the shared bicycle garage to ensure that the support arm can be positioned to the height capable of being inserted into or separated from the bicycle body.

[0025] The second aspect of the present application provides a shared bicycle access method, comprising the following steps:

[0026] Parking: translating the bicycle until the positioned support arm is inserted into the bicycle body, or the bicycle is lifted by the support arm;

[0027] Bicycle taking: or first lowering the bicycle by the support arm until the support arm is positioned, and then translating the bicycle to separate the support arm from the bicycle body.

[0028] The present application cooperates the relative translation of the bicycle and the support arm and the common lifting of the bicycle and the support arm, so that the bicycle on the ground can be parked in the air along the L-shaped movement track from bottom to top, or the bicycle supported by the support arm in the air can be lowered to the ground along the L-shaped movement track from top to bottom and moved out of the projection area of the bicycle on the ground, so that the shared bicycle can be conveniently and orderly parked in the high place, the longitudinal space is better utilized, and the area occupied by the shared bicycle is reduced. Therefore, the equipment for storing the shared bicycle can be correspondingly increased, and the distance between the equipment can be correspondingly reduced, thereby effectively solving the contradiction between the inconvenience of having a pile and the disorder of parking without a pile. The shared bicycle access method of the present application is simple and convenient, and the implementation difficulty is low, so that it is possible to increase the density of shared bicycle access points, and the reduction of the distance between two access points makes the convenience of the present application applied to the shared bicycle management in the process of returning the bicycle close to the no-pile bicycle. In addition, the no-pile bicycle has the inherent property that consumers cannot necessarily take the shared bicycle within a short distance when taking the bicycle, so the present application is better than the no-pile bicycle in the process of borrowing the bicycle, and brings convenience to consumers.

[0029] When parking a bicycle, a support leg hinged to the frame is usually used to keep the bicycle standing, when the support leg is hinged to the left and right sides of the frame symmetrically, the bicycle will keep a "attention posture", but when the support leg is hinged to one of the left and right sides of the frame, the bicycle will be in a "slight posture", which may cause a certain degree of obstacle to the insertion or removal of the support arm, especially when the support arm needs to be inserted into or removed from a plurality of bicycles arranged side by side, for this purpose, in the storing step, the bicycle is limited before the support arm is inserted into the bicycle body until the support arm supports the bicycle; in order to improve the smoothness of the support arm after being inserted into the bicycle body, the support arm can be positioned at a height that can be inserted into the bicycle body without touching the bicycle, therefore, before the limit is released, the support arm can be slightly lifted to support the bicycle. In the taking step, after the support arm supporting the bicycle is lowered to the bicycle, the bicycle is first limited and then slightly lowered until the support arm is in place, so that the support arm can be removed from the bicycle body with zero contact.

[0030] In the present application, the bicycle parked in the shared bicycle garage is suspended on the support arm, in order to prevent the bicycle suspended in the air by the support arm from falling off the support arm when the garage equipment is accidentally collided, in the storing step, the bicycle is locked into the garage by the garage mechanism or the bicycle's own lock when / after the support arm supports the bicycle; and / or in the taking step, the bicycle is unlocked by the garage mechanism or the bicycle's own lock when / after the bicycle is landed.

[0031] The third aspect of the present application is a shared bicycle operation management method, based on the shared bicycle garage provided by the first aspect of the present application or the access method provided by the second aspect of the present application, and the central management system connected with the shared bicycle garage, the user accesses the bicycle by establishing a connection with the central management system, when taking the bicycle, the user takes the bicycle from the mobile platform with the bicycle moving out of the garage, and when storing the bicycle, the user stores the bicycle on the mobile platform with the empty load moving out of the garage.

[0032] Firstly, the shared bicycle storage and the shared bicycle storage method provided by the application adopt a simple structure of a supporting arm to complete the task of parking the bicycle in a high place, without the need for a plurality of parking plates with relatively large size and more material consumption to carry the bicycle suspended in the air, which can provide space utilization and reduce construction difficulty; secondly, the application adopts a translation bicycle to cooperate with the supporting arm, so that the automatic access of the shared bicycle is possible, which lays the foundation for realizing automatic unmanned operation and management; finally, when the user accesses the bicycle, the mobile platform waits outside the library, and the user only needs to interact with the mobile platform, which is simple to operate, and more importantly, other components of the shared bicycle can be surrounded in the library, which is completely isolated from the outside, and safety hazards are eliminated. In addition, due to the simple structure, small area and low construction cost of the shared bicycle storage, it is possible to increase the density of shared bicycle access points, and the reduction of the distance between two access points makes the convenience of this operation and management method in the returning of the bicycle close to the pile-free bicycle, and in addition, the inherent attribute of the pile-free bicycle without fixed pickup and return points determines that the consumer may not be able to pick up the shared bicycle within a short distance when picking up the bicycle, so this operation and management method is better than the pile-free bicycle in the borrowing of the bicycle, which brings convenience to consumers.

[0033] The shared bicycle operation and management method specifically includes the following two schemes.

[0034] The first scheme, the user accesses the bicycle and needs to establish data connection with the central management system and is judged by the central management system whether to store or pick up the bicycle, specifically including the following steps:

[0035] S1. The manager stores the shared bicycle in the library by means of the supporting arm from bottom to top in sequence;

[0036] S2. The user establishes data connection with the central management system through the mobile device, the central management system identifies the user identity and judges the user's access behavior;

[0037] S3. The central management system detects that the user has no shared bicycle to return and sends a pickup instruction to the shared bicycle storage, the shared bicycle storage controls the mobile platform with the shared bicycle to translate out of the library, the user takes away the shared bicycle from the mobile platform, and at the same time the central management system starts timing or charging; or

[0038] The central management system detects that the user has a shared bicycle to return and sends a storage instruction to the shared bicycle storage, the shared bicycle storage controls the mobile platform with the shared bicycle to translate out of the library, the user stores the shared bicycle into the mobile platform, and the central management system stops timing or charging and settles.

[0039] The second scheme, the user needs to establish data connection with the central management system when picking up the bicycle, and only needs to store the shared bicycle into the shared bicycle storage when storing the bicycle, and the central management system will automatically identify the shared bicycle and settle, specifically including the following steps:

[0040] S1. The manager puts the shared bicycles into the library layer by layer from bottom to top by means of the supporting arms;

[0041] S2. The user establishes a data connection with the central management system through a mobile device, the central management system identifies the user identity, sends a bicycle taking instruction to the shared bicycle library, the shared bicycle library controls the moving platform with the shared bicycle to translate out of the library, the user takes the shared bicycle from the moving platform, the central management system binds the shared bicycle with the user identity, and starts timing or charging;

[0042] S3. The user stores the shared bicycle into the moving platform after reaching the destination, the central management system identifies the shared bicycle, stops timing or charging and settles, and unbinds the shared bicycle with the user identity.

[0043] Compared with the prior art, the present application has the following beneficial effects:

[0044] Firstly, the shared bicycle library and the shared bicycle storage method provided by the present application use a supporting arm with a simple structure to complete the task of parking the bicycle in a high place, without the need for a plurality of parking plates with a relatively large size and more materials to carry the bicycle suspended in the air, which can provide space utilization and reduce construction difficulty.

[0045] Secondly, the present application uses a translation bicycle to cooperate with the supporting arm, so that the automatic storage and taking of the shared bicycle becomes possible, laying a foundation for realizing automatic unmanned operation and management.

[0046] Thirdly, when the user stores and takes the bicycle, the moving platform waits outside the library, the user only needs to interact with the moving platform, the operation is simple, and more importantly, other components of the shared bicycle can be surrounded in the library and completely isolated from the outside, eliminating safety hazards.

[0047] Finally, due to the simple structure, small area and low construction cost of the shared bicycle library, it is possible to increase the density of shared bicycle storage and taking points, the reduction of the distance between two storage and taking points makes the convenience of this operation and management method in the bicycle returning link close to the no-parking bicycle, in addition, the inherent attribute of the no-parking bicycle without fixed taking and returning points determines that the consumer may not be able to take the shared bicycle within a short distance when taking the bicycle, therefore, this operation and management method is superior to the no-parking bicycle in the bicycle borrowing link, bringing convenience to consumers. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0048] Figure 1 is a schematic view of the three-dimensional structure of the shared bicycle library.

[0049] Figure 2 is a schematic view of the shared bicycle library storing the bicycle.

[0050] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the lifting mechanism lifting the bicycle with the cradle arm. Wherein, Figure 3a is the initial state diagram of the cradle arm in place, Figure 3b is a schematic diagram of the moving platform with the bicycle translating into the garage, so that the cradle arm is inserted into the bicycle body, Figure 3c is the intermediate state diagram of the cradle arm lifting the bicycle and the next cradle arm in place.

[0051] Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the lifting mechanism lowering the bicycle with the cradle arm. Wherein, Figure 4a is a state diagram of the moving platform emptying the garage, Figure 4b is a state diagram of the cradle arm lowering the bicycle and in place, Figure 4c is a schematic diagram of the moving platform with the bicycle translating out of the garage, so that the cradle arm is separated from the bicycle body.

[0052] Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the lifting mechanism.

[0053] Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of the assembly of the cradle arm and the lifting mechanism Figure 5 is an enlarged view of part B.

[0054] Figure 7 is a schematic diagram of the bicycle structure matched with the B-type arm Figure 2 is an enlarged view of part A.

[0055] Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the unfolded and folded state of the cradle arm.

[0056] Figure 9 is Figure 8 is an enlarged view of part C.

[0057] Figure 10 is a schematic diagram of the moving platform.

[0058] Figure legend: cradle arm 100, mounting plate 101, A-type arm 110, clamping position 111, B-type arm 120, clamping block 121, obstacle 130, travel switch 140, moving platform 200, sensor 210, limiting mechanism 220, lifting mechanism 300, motor 301, upper chain wheel 310, lower chain wheel 320, chain 330, upper transmission shaft 340, lower transmission shaft 350, main body support 400, bicycle 500, hook 510. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0059] The drawings are only used for illustrative description, and cannot be understood as a limitation to the present application; in order to better illustrate the present embodiment, some components in the drawings are omitted, enlarged or reduced, and do not represent the actual product size; it is understandable for those skilled in the art that some well-known structures and their descriptions in the drawings can be omitted; the positional relationship described in the drawings is only used for illustrative description, and cannot be understood as a limitation to the present application. The present application will be further described in detail below in combination with specific embodiments.

[0060] Embodiment 1

[0061] A shared bicycle storage device for lifting and accessing a plurality of bicycles 500 to better utilize the longitudinal space for storing the shared bicycles 500. As shown in Figures 1-2 , the shared bicycle storage device comprises a supporting arm 100, a moving platform 200, a lifting mechanism 300 and a main support 400; the moving platform 200 is used to translate the bicycle 500 to enable the in-situ supporting arm 100 to insert into or extract from the bicycle 500 body; the lifting mechanism 300 is installed in the main support 400 and used to drive the supporting arm 100 to rise or fall, and the supporting arm 100 supports the bicycle 500 inserted therein during the lifting process, thereby driving the bicycle 500 to rise or fall.

[0062] Among them, the in-situ supporting arm 100 refers to the supporting arm 100 being lifted to a height capable of inserting into or extracting from the bicycle 500 body, as shown in Figure 3a .

[0063] The present embodiment can make the bicycle 500 parked on the moving platform 200 enter the shared bicycle garage from bottom to top along the L-shaped movement track (as shown in FIG. 3) or make the bicycle 500 held by the supporting arm 100 in the air move out of the shared bicycle garage from top to bottom along the L-shaped movement track (as shown in FIG. 4) through the cooperation between the liftable supporting arm 100 and the translatable moving platform 200, so that the shared bicycle 500 can be conveniently and orderly parked in a high place, the longitudinal space can be better utilized, the floor area of the shared bicycle garage can be reduced, the number of shared bicycle garages can be increased accordingly, and the distance between shared bicycle garages can be reduced accordingly, thereby effectively solving the contradiction between the inconvenience of existing pile parking and the disorder of non-pile parking, the large floor area, the small application amount, and the effective management. The shared bicycle garage with small floor area, simple structure and low construction cost makes it possible to increase the density of shared bicycle 500 access points, and the reduction of the distance between two access points makes the application of the shared bicycle garage operation management method convenient for the consumer in the process of returning the bicycle. In addition, the inherent attribute of the non-pile bicycle 500 determines that the consumer cannot necessarily take the shared bicycle 500 within a short distance when taking the bicycle, so the application of the shared bicycle garage operation management method is better than the non-pile bicycle 500 in the process of borrowing the bicycle, which brings convenience to the consumer. The supporting arm 100 is in transmission connection with the lifting mechanism 300, and the lifting mechanism 300 is arranged in the main body support 400, that is, in addition to the moving platform 200, the components of the shared bicycle garage, especially the components in motion relationship, are basically arranged in the main body support 400, which will not cause potential harm to pedestrians and vehicles.

[0064] As Figure 5As shown, the lifting mechanism 300 is driven by the motor 301 and is configured to convert the rotary motion of the motor 301 into the linear lifting of the carrier arm 100 or even the lifting along the J / U-shaped trajectory. The embodiment is provided with two groups of chain transmission mechanisms which are symmetrically arranged left and right and longitudinally through the upper and lower parts of the main body support 400. Each group of chain transmission mechanisms includes an upper sprocket 310, a lower sprocket 320, and a chain 330 which is sleeved and engaged with the upper sprocket 310 and the lower sprocket 320. The upper sprockets 310 of the two groups of chain transmission mechanisms are respectively connected to the two ends of an upper transmission shaft 340 and are positioned and connected with the upper part of the main body support 400 through the upper transmission shaft 340. Similarly, the lower sprockets 320 of the two groups of chain transmission mechanisms are respectively connected to the two ends of a lower transmission shaft 350 and are positioned and connected with the lower part of the main body support 400 through the lower transmission shaft 350. The motor 301 is connected with the lower transmission shaft 350. It can be understood that the transmission mechanism which can convert the rotary motion of the motor 301 into the linear lifting of the carrier arm 100 also includes a ball screw and a belt transmission mechanism. Among them, the belt transmission mechanism can also convert the rotary motion of the motor 301 into the lifting of the carrier arm 100 along the J / U-shaped trajectory. Of course, the lifting mechanism 300 can also be driven by a driving mechanism such as an air cylinder or a hydraulic cylinder which can lift the carrier arm 100.

[0065] As shown in Figure 6 The carrier arm 100 is connected to the chain 330 on the left and right sides through a mounting plate 101. The chain 330 is connected with a plurality of mounting plates 101 which are arranged at a distance. The back surface of each mounting plate 101 is fixedly connected with the chain 330, and the front surface is connected with a group of carrier arms 100. The carrier arm 100 on the right is an A-shaped arm 110 which is provided with a clamping position 111 for clamping the frame of the bicycle 500. It can limit the relative rotation freedom between the frame and the carrier arm 100, thereby effectively preventing the bicycle 500 from rolling over. The carrier arm 100 on the left is a B-shaped arm 120 which is provided with a clamping block 121. As shown in Figure 7 The bicycle 500 is provided with a hook 510 which cooperates with the clamping block 121. Similarly, it can limit the relative rotation freedom between the frame and the carrier arm 100. The hook 510 is designed as a cover structure. It not only can prevent the bicycle 500 from rolling over, but also can limit the freedom of the bicycle 500 moving forward and backward relative to the carrier arm 100. In addition, the hook 510 can also be designed as various shapes of cover structures or ring structures, such as a round cover, a square ring, a circular ring, etc. It should be noted that in order to stably hold the bicycle 500, the embodiment adopts the scheme of "A-shaped arm 110 + B-shaped arm 120" to configure two carrier arms 100 for each bicycle 500. In addition, the scheme of "A-shaped arm 110 + A-shaped arm 110" or "B-shaped arm 120 + B-shaped arm 120" can also be adopted.

[0066] It can be understood that the cooperation of the supporting arm 100 and the moving platform 200 not only provides a possibility of conveying the bicycle 500 to the air and stably parking the bicycle 500 in the air, but also opens up space for parking multiple bicycles 500 at the same height by the arrangement of the supporting arm 100 waiting for the moving platform 200 to insert the bicycle 500. Therefore, a plurality of clamping positions 111 arranged along the length of the A-shaped arm 110 and a plurality of clamping blocks 121 arranged along the length of the B-shaped arm 120 can be arranged on the A-shaped arm 110 and the B-shaped arm 120. Each clamping position 111 or each clamping block 121 on the same supporting arm 100 can correspondingly support a bicycle 500, so that the number of stored bicycles in the shared bicycle garage can be doubled. However, considering the stress condition of the supporting arm 100 and the lifting mechanism 300 and the overall structure and area of the shared bicycle garage, the number of clamping positions 111 or clamping blocks 121 of each supporting arm 100 should not be too much, and preferably 1-3.

[0067] In the embodiment, the lifting mechanism 300 adopts a chain transmission mechanism, and a plurality of groups of supporting arms 100 are connected to the chain 330 at a distance through the mounting plate 101, which has practical significance for ensuring that the bicycles 500 supported and lifted by the supporting arms 100 have a proper distance between them, without the need for precise calculation and control of the lifting of the supporting arms 100. However, at this time, there will inevitably be a situation that part of the supporting arms 100 move from the front side to the rear side of the shared bicycle garage. From the left and right sides of the shared bicycle garage, the supporting arms 100 and the chain 330 together form a non-character shape, which doubles the width of the shared bicycle garage. Therefore, the supporting arm 100 is arranged as a one-way foldable structure in the embodiment, and the supporting arm 100 is in an unfolded state at the front side of the lifting mechanism 300 to support the bicycle 500, and is in a folded state when it is turned to the rear side of the lifting mechanism 300, which can easily solve the contradiction between the static control of the distance between the bicycles 500 and the requirement of occupying less area. As shown in Figure 6 The supporting arm 100 is connected to the mounting plate 101 in a hinged manner, and the lower side of the supporting arm 100 located at the front side of the lifting mechanism 300 is provided with an obstacle 130, which limits the supporting arm 100 to have only a 90° degree of freedom of rotation. Therefore, as shown in Figures 8-9 At the front side of the lifting mechanism 300, the supporting arm 100 cannot be rotated downward due to the existence of the obstacle 130 and is in an unfolded state for supporting the bicycle 500. When the supporting arm 100 is moved to the rear side of the lifting mechanism 300 under the drive of the chain 330, the relative position between the supporting arm 100 and the obstacle 130 is reversed, and the obstacle 130 is located on the upper side of the supporting arm 100 and cannot block the downward rotation of the supporting arm 100 due to its own gravity. At this time, the supporting arm 100 is in a folded state.

[0068] In order to ensure that the supporting arm 100 is in place at a height that can insert or extract the bicycle 500, as shown in Figure 6 A travel switch for controlling the lifting amplitude of the supporting arm 100 is arranged in the shared bicycle garage.

[0069] As shown in Figure 10 The mobile platform 200 is provided with a limiting mechanism 220 for positioning the bicycle 500, ensuring that the support arm 100 can smoothly pass through the bicycle 500 during the translation of the mobile platform 200 with the bicycle 500 to the positioned support arm 100, and that the support arm 100 can smoothly separate from the bicycle 500 during the translation of the mobile platform 200 with the bicycle 500 out of the garage. It can be understood that the limiting mechanism 220 can also have an anti-theft effect, or an anti-theft locking mechanism can be additionally provided on the mobile platform 200. In order to facilitate the control of the translation stroke of the mobile platform 200, a sensor 210 for sensing the positioning of the mobile platform 200 is provided in the shared bicycle garage, ensuring that the mobile platform 200 is translated to the position.

[0070] In order to eliminate safety hazards, an outer shell is formed outside the main support 400, and all mechanisms in the shared bicycle garage are surrounded in the garage and completely isolated from the outside. When the bicycle 500 is accessed, the mobile platform 200 is translated out of the garage, and the user only needs to interact with the mobile platform 200, which is simple and convenient to operate.

[0071] Embodiment 2

[0072] A shared bicycle access method, comprising the following steps:

[0073] Parking: translating the bicycle until the positioned support arm 100 is inserted into the bicycle body, or the bicycle is lifted by the support arm 100, as shown in FIG. 3;

[0074] Taking the car: or first lowering the bicycle by the support arm 100 until the support arm 100 is positioned, translating the bicycle to separate the support arm 100 from the bicycle body, as shown in FIG. 4.

[0075] The present embodiment can make the bicycle on the ground stop in the air along the L-shaped movement track from bottom to top, or make the bicycle suspended by the support arm 100 in the air fall to the ground along the L-shaped movement track from top to bottom and move out of the projection area of the bicycle in the air on the ground, so that the shared bicycle can be conveniently and orderly parked in a high place, better use of the longitudinal space, and reduce the floor area of the shared bicycle. In this way, the equipment for storing shared bicycles can be increased accordingly, and the distance between the equipment can be reduced accordingly, thereby effectively solving the contradiction between the inconvenience of having a pile and the chaos of parking without a pile. The shared bicycle access method proposed in the present embodiment is simple and convenient, and the implementation difficulty is low, making it possible to increase the density of shared bicycle access points. The reduction of the distance between two access points makes the convenience of the present embodiment applied to shared bicycle management in the returning process close to that of the pile-free bicycle. In addition, the inherent attribute of the pile-free bicycle without fixed pickup and return points determines that consumers may not be able to pick up a shared bicycle within a short distance when picking up a bicycle. Therefore, the present embodiment is superior to the pile-free bicycle in the borrowing process of shared bicycle management, bringing convenience to consumers.

[0076] When parking the bicycle, the support foot hinged to the frame is usually used to keep the bicycle standing. When the support foot is hinged to the left and right sides of the frame symmetrically, the bicycle will keep a "attention posture". However, when the support foot is hinged to one of the left and right sides of the frame, the bicycle will assume a "slight posture". At this time, it may form a certain degree of obstacle to the insertion or removal of the support arm 100, especially when the support arm 100 needs to be inserted into or removed from a plurality of parallel arranged bicycle bodies. Therefore, in the storing step, the bicycle is limited before the support arm 100 is inserted into the bicycle body until the support arm 100 holds the bicycle. In order to provide smoothness after the support arm 100 is inserted into the bicycle body, the support arm 100 can be positioned at a height that can be inserted into the bicycle body without touching the bicycle. Therefore, before the limitation is released, the support arm 100 can be slightly lifted to hold the bicycle. In the taking step, after the support arm 100 holding the bicycle is lowered to the bicycle falling position, the bicycle is limited first and then continues to be slightly lowered until the support arm 100 is positioned, so that the support arm 100 can be removed from the bicycle body without contact.

[0077] In the present embodiment, the bicycle 500 parked in the shared bicycle garage is suspended on the support arm 100. In order to prevent the bicycle suspended in the air by the support arm 100 from falling off the support arm 100 when the garage equipment is accidentally collided, in the storing step, the bicycle 500 is locked into the garage by the garage mechanism or the vehicle's own lock when / after the support arm 100 holds the bicycle; and / or in the taking step, the bicycle 500 is unlocked by the garage mechanism or the vehicle's own lock when / after the bicycle falls to the falling position.

[0078] Embodiment 3

[0079] A shared bicycle operation management method based on the shared bicycle garage provided in Embodiment 1 of the present application or the access method provided in Embodiment 2 of the present application, and a central management system in communication connection with the shared bicycle garage, a user accesses a bicycle by establishing a connection with the central management system, when taking a bicycle, the user takes the bicycle from the mobile platform 200 that brings the bicycle out of the garage, and when storing a bicycle, the user stores the bicycle on the mobile platform 200 that is empty and moves out of the garage.

[0080] Firstly, the shared bicycle garage and the shared bicycle storage method provided in the present embodiment uses the simple structure of the support arm 100 to complete the task of parking the bicycle in a high place, without the need for a number of parking plates with relatively large size and more material consumption to carry the bicycle that is intended to hover in the air, which can not only provide space utilization but also reduce construction difficulty; secondly, the present embodiment uses the way of moving the bicycle to cooperate with the support arm 100, so that the automatic access of the shared bicycle becomes possible, which lays the foundation for realizing automatic unmanned operation management; finally, when the user accesses the bicycle, the mobile platform 200 waits outside the garage, the user only needs to interact with the mobile platform 200, the operation is simple, and more importantly, other components of the shared bicycle can be surrounded in the garage, which is completely isolated from the outside, and safety hazards are eliminated. In addition, due to the simple structure, small land occupation and low construction cost of the shared bicycle garage, it is possible to increase the density of shared bicycle access points, the reduction of the distance between two access points makes the convenience of this operation management method in the process of returning the bicycle close to the bike without a pile, in addition, the inherent attribute of the bike without a pile determines that the consumer may not be able to take the shared bicycle within a short distance when taking the bicycle, therefore, this operation management method is superior to the bike without a pile in the process of borrowing the bicycle, which brings convenience to consumers.

[0081] The shared bicycle operation management method specifically includes the following two schemes.

[0082] The first scheme, when the user accesses the bicycle, a data connection with the central management system is established and the central management system judges whether the user is storing or taking the bicycle, which specifically includes the following steps:

[0083] S1. The manager uses the support arm 100 to park the shared bicycle in the garage in layers from bottom to top;

[0084] S2. The user establishes a data connection with the central management system through a mobile device, the central management system identifies the user's identity and judges the user's access behavior;

[0085] S3. The central management system detects that the user has no shared bicycle to return and sends a taking instruction to the shared bicycle garage, the shared bicycle garage controls the mobile platform 200 with the shared bicycle to move out of the garage, the user takes the shared bicycle from the mobile platform 200, at the same time, the central management system starts timing or charging; or

[0086] The central management system detects the shared bicycle to be returned by the user and sends a storage instruction to the shared bicycle garage, the shared bicycle garage controls the empty moving platform 200 to move out of the garage, the user stores the shared bicycle into the moving platform 200, and the central management system stops timing or charging and settles.

[0087] In the second scheme, the user needs to establish a data connection with the central management system when taking the bicycle, and only needs to store the shared bicycle into the shared bicycle garage when storing the bicycle, the central management system will automatically identify the shared bicycle and settle, which specifically includes the following steps:

[0088] S1. The manager stores the shared bicycles into the garage from bottom to top by means of the supporting arm 100;

[0089] S2. The user establishes a data connection with the central management system through the mobile device, the central management system identifies the user identity, sends a bicycle taking instruction to the shared bicycle garage, the shared bicycle garage controls the moving platform 200 with the shared bicycle to move out of the garage, the user takes the shared bicycle from the moving platform 200, the central management system binds the shared bicycle with the user identity, and starts timing or charging;

[0090] S3. The user stores the shared bicycle into the moving platform 200 after reaching the destination, the central management system identifies the shared bicycle, stops timing or charging and settles, and unbinds the shared bicycle with the user identity.

[0091] Obviously, the above embodiments of the present application are only examples for clearly illustrating the present application, and are not intended to limit the implementation modes of the present application. Based on the above description, other different forms of changes or variations can be made by those skilled in the art. Here, all the implementation modes are not required or can not be exhausted. Any modification, equivalent replacement and improvement within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. A shared bicycle storage apparatus for lifting access to a number of bicycles, characterized in that, Comprising a pair of arms for holding a bicycle during lifting, each bicycle is held by two arms; a moving platform for translating the bicycle to insert or extract the arms into the hollow structure of the bicycle body; a lifting mechanism for lifting or lowering the arms; and a main support for installing the lifting mechanism; wherein the lifting mechanism is a transmission mechanism for lifting the arms along a U-shaped trajectory, the device comprises multiple groups of arms distributed along the U-shaped trajectory, each group comprises two arms, the arms are provided as one-way foldable structure, the arms are connected to the lifting mechanism in a hinged manner, the upper side or lower side of the arms is provided with an obstacle connected to the lifting mechanism, the obstacle is used to limit the rotation freedom of the arms to 90°, so that the arms are in an unfolded state on one side of the lifting mechanism to hold the bicycle, and in a folded state on the other side of the lifting mechanism; the arms comprise A-type arms and / or B-type arms, the A-type arms are provided with a plurality of clamping positions arranged along the length of the arms, the clamping positions are used to hold the bicycle frame, the B-type arms are provided with a plurality of clamping blocks arranged along the length of the arms, the bicycle is provided with hooks matched with the clamping blocks, the hooks are provided as cover structures or ring structures, and each clamping position or clamping block holds one bicycle.

2. The bike share facility of claim 1, wherein, The moving platform is provided with a limiting mechanism for aligning the bicycle.

3. A shared bicycle access method for the shared bicycle storage apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that, Comprising the following steps: storing the bicycle: translating the bicycle until the arms are inserted into the hollow structure of the bicycle body, or lifting the bicycle with the arms; taking the bicycle: lowering the bicycle with the arms until the arms are in place, and then translating the bicycle to extract the arms from the hollow structure of the bicycle body.

4. The shared bicycle access method according to claim 3, wherein, In the storing step, the bicycle is limited before the arms are inserted into the hollow structure of the bicycle body until the arms hold the bicycle; and / or in the taking step, the bicycle is limited after it is lowered to the set position with the arms, and then it is further lowered until the arms are in place.

5. The shared bicycle access method according to claim 4, wherein, In the storing step, the arms are slightly lifted to hold the bicycle.

6. The shared bicycle access method of claim 4, wherein, In the storing step, the bicycle is locked in the storage through the mechanism in the storage or the lock of the bicycle itself when / after the arms hold the bicycle; and / or in the taking step, the bicycle is unlocked through the mechanism in the storage or the lock of the bicycle itself when / after it is set.

7. A shared bicycle operation management method characterized by comprising: Based on the shared bicycle storage of any one of claims 1-2 and the central management system in communication connection with the shared bicycle storage, the user stores or takes the bicycle by establishing connection with the central management system, and the user takes the bicycle from the moving platform with the bicycle when taking the bicycle, and stores the bicycle on the moving platform without the bicycle when storing the bicycle.

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