Parking facilities

The innovative parking facility design with overlapping floor members fastened to beam members addresses the inefficiency of existing installations by reducing construction time and costs while ensuring structural rigidity.

JP7847772B1Active Publication Date: 2026-04-20SILVER NEXT CO LTD +1
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JP · JP
Patent Type
Patents
Current Assignee / Owner
SILVER NEXT CO LTD
Filing Date
2025-10-21
Publication Date
2026-04-20

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Technical Problem

The existing mechanical parking facilities require time-consuming installation of multiple floor members, which increases construction time and costs.

Method used

A parking facility design featuring column, beam, and floor members made of highly corrosion-resistant steel plates, where adjacent floor members are fastened together with overlapping end portions to beam members, reducing the number of installation steps and parts, and ensuring uniform rigidity.

Benefits of technology

This design enhances rigidity, reduces construction time and costs by minimizing the number of installation points and parts, while maintaining structural integrity.

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Abstract

The present invention provides a parking facility equipped with a flooring material 4 having sufficient strength. [Solution] The parking facility comprises a pit section 1 consisting of a recess 5 with an opening at the top, a plurality of column members 2 arranged to extend upward from the bottom surface of the pit section 1, a plurality of beam members 3 arranged on the upper part of the column members 2, and a plurality of floor members 4 arranged on the upper part of the beam members 3. The floor member 4 has a floor surface portion 16, a side portion 19 extending perpendicularly downward from the floor surface portion 18, and an end portion 20 extending perpendicularly laterally from the side portion 19 and parallel to the floor surface portion 18. The floor member 4 is fixed to the beam members 3 with the end portions 20 overlapping each other.
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Description

Technical Field

[0001] This specification discloses technologies related to parking facilities.

Background Art

[0002] In recent years, mechanical parking lots in many condominiums have been aging, and furthermore, the vehicle ownership rate has been decreasing, so there is a tendency to flatten mechanical parking lots. Patent Document 1 describes a parking facility for flattening a mechanical parking lot. The parking facility of Patent Document 1 has a plurality of divided beam members attached to column members installed in a pit portion, and a plurality of floor members are attached to the beam portion.

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[0003]

Patent Document 1

Summary of the Invention

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

[0004] The parking facility of Patent Document 1 has a problem that it is necessary to attach a plurality of floor members to the beam members one by one, and the work of attaching a plurality of floor members takes time.

Means for Solving the Problems

[0005] The technology disclosed in this specification can be realized in the following forms. <() One form of parking equipment disclosed herein comprises a plurality of column members extending upward from the bottom surface of a recess, a plurality of beam members fastened to the upper parts of the column members, and a plurality of floor members formed by bending rectangular steel plates and fastened to the upper parts of the beam members. The floor member has a rectangular floor surface portion, a side portion extending downward perpendicular to the floor surface portion from one long side of the floor surface portion, a end portion extending parallel to the floor surface portion inward from the one side portion perpendicular to the one side portion and having a first long side of the steel plate, a other side portion extending downward perpendicular to the floor surface portion from the other long side of the floor surface portion, and a other end portion extending parallel to the floor surface portion inward from the other side portion perpendicular to the other side portion and having a second long side of the steel plate. Among the multiple floor materials, the adjacent first floor material and the second floor material are fastened together to the beam material with one end face of the first floor material and the other end face of the second floor material overlapping. Furthermore, among the plurality of flooring materials, the adjacent first flooring material and the second flooring material may be arranged so that one side surface of the first flooring material and the other side surface of the second flooring material face each other. Furthermore, the longitudinal direction of the floor surface portion of the flooring material may extend in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the beam material. Furthermore, the width of the floor portion in the shorter direction may be 200 mm to 600 mm, and the height of the side portion may be 100 mm to 160 mm.

[0006] (1) One form of parking equipment disclosed herein comprises a plurality of column members extending upward from the bottom surface of a recess, a plurality of beam members positioned above the column members, and a plurality of floor members positioned above the beam members. The floor member has a floor surface portion, a side portion extending downward perpendicularly from the floor surface portion, and an end portion extending laterally perpendicularly from the side portion and parallel to the floor surface portion. Adjacent floor members among the plurality of floor members are fastened together to the beam members with their respective end portions overlapping. With this form of parking equipment, the efficiency of the work of installing the plurality of floor members can be improved because the end portions are fastened together. Furthermore, with this form of parking equipment, the rigidity can be made uniform in the plurality of floor members because the end portions overlap.

[0007] (2) In the parking facility described above, adjacent floor materials among the multiple floor materials may be arranged so that their respective side surfaces face each other. With this form of parking facility, since the side surfaces face each other, the uniformity of rigidity among the multiple floor materials can be further improved.

[0008] (3) In the parking facility described above, the longitudinal direction of the floor material may extend in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the beam material. With this form of parking facility, the longitudinal direction of the floor material and the longitudinal direction of the beam material are perpendicular to each other, so the rigidity of the parking facility can be improved.

[0009] (4) In the parking facility described above, the width of the floor surface may be 200 mm to 600 mm, and the height of the side surface may be 100 mm to 160 mm. With this form of parking facility, sufficient strength of the floor material can be ensured.

[0010] (5) The parking facility described above may further include a connecting member that extends in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the beam member and connects the upper ends of the plurality of column members. With this form of parking facility, the longitudinal direction of the connecting member and the longitudinal direction of the beam member are perpendicular to each other, so the rigidity of the parking facility can be improved.

[0011] (6) In the parking equipment described above, both ends of the connecting member may be fixed to the inner wall of the recess. This form of parking equipment can further improve the rigidity of the parking equipment. [Effects of the Invention]

[0012] According to the parking equipment of the present invention, since the end faces overlap, the rigidity can be made uniform across multiple floor materials, and the number of columns and beams and the number of construction steps can be reduced, thereby lowering construction costs. [Brief explanation of the drawing]

[0013] [Figure 1] This is a front view of the parking equipment according to this embodiment. [Figure 2] This is a side view of Figure 1. [Figure 3] Figure 2 is a side view showing the flooring and beam materials. [Figure 4] This is a magnified view of the flooring, beams, and connecting members shown in Figure 2. [Figure 5] This is a partially enlarged cross-sectional view showing the fixing structure of the flooring material in Figure 2. [Modes for carrying out the invention]

[0014] Figures 1 and 2 show a parking facility according to this embodiment. This parking facility comprises a pit section 1, column members 2, beam members 3, and floor members 4. These components are made of highly corrosion-resistant steel plates. In the following description, with a vehicle V parked in the parking facility, the front-rear direction of the vehicle V will be referred to as the front-rear direction, and the width direction of the vehicle V will be referred to as the width direction.

[0015] The pit portion 1 is composed of, for example, a bottom wall 6 and four inner walls 7 obtained by excavating the ground to form a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped recess 5 and solidifying its inner surface with concrete. The upper surface of the bottom wall 6 is a rectangular bottom surface, and the surfaces of the four inner walls 7 are inner surfaces. The space surrounded by the bottom surface and the inner surfaces is the recess 5. A plurality of pedestal portions 8 made of non-shrinking mortar are formed on the bottom surface of the pit portion 1. The pedestal portions 8 support the column members 2 described later respectively. The pit portion 1 shown in FIG. 1 provides parking spaces for four vehicles. Here, the upper opening has a length of 7000 mm in the front-rear direction, a width of 10500 mm in the width direction, and a depth of 3500 mm.

[0016] The column member 2 is composed of a column body 9, an upper end plate 10 and a lower end plate 11 that are integrated with the upper and lower end faces respectively. The column body 9 is in a pipe shape with a plate thickness of about 3.2 mm and an outer diameter of about 76.3 mm. Both the upper end plate 10 and the lower end plate 11 are rectangular with a thickness of 12 mm, a length of 120 mm, and a width of 250 mm. The lower end plate 11 is placed on the pedestal portion 8 provided on the bottom surface of the pit portion 1, the column body 9 extends upward, and the upper end plate 10 is located on the side of the upper opening. In FIG. 1, the column members 2 are provided at 10 locations. Specifically, the column members 2 are arranged in five regions, which are two regions located on both sides in the width direction of the bit portion and three regions corresponding to the boundaries of the four parking spaces arranged in the width direction. In each region, two column members 2 are arranged in the front-rear direction.

[0017] The beam member 3 is made of H-shaped steel and is composed of opposing upper flanges 12 and lower flanges 13, and a web 14 connecting the central portions of both flanges. For the beam member 3, the lower flange 13 is placed on the upper end plate 10 of the column member 2 and fixed by screwing bolts into the upper end plate 10. Beam receiving angles 15 are fixed to both ends of the beam member 3.

[0018] As shown in FIG. 3, the beam receiving angle 15 has an L-shaped cross section and is composed of a horizontal surface portion 15a and a vertical surface portion 15b. The horizontal surface portion 15a is fixed to the lower flange 13 of the beam member 3 by bolts B and nuts N. The vertical surface portion 15b is fixed to the inner wall 7 of the pit portion 1 by bolts B.

[0019] The upper end plate 10 of the column member 2 is fixed by the connecting member 16. As shown in Fig. 4, the connecting member 16 is a long member with an L-shaped cross-section, composed of a horizontal surface portion 16a and a vertical surface portion 16b. The connecting member 16 is arranged along five column members 2 arranged side by side in the width direction, and the horizontal surface portion 16a is fixed together with the upper end plate 10 of the column member 2 and the upper flange 12 of the beam member 3 by bolts B and nuts (not shown). Connecting member receivers 17 are fixed to both ends of the connecting member 16. The connecting member receiver 17 has an L-shaped cross-section and is composed of a first vertical surface portion 17a and a second vertical surface portion 17b. The first vertical surface portion 17a is fixed to the connecting member 16 by bolts B and nuts (not shown). The second vertical surface portion 17b is fixed by screwing a bolt B to the inner wall 7 of the pit portion 1 through long holes 17c extending in the vertical direction provided at two locations, upper and lower.

[0020] The floor member 4 is obtained by bending a steel plate with a thickness of about 3.2 mm, and as shown in Fig. 5, includes a floor surface portion 18, a side surface portion 19, and an end surface portion 20. If the thickness of the floor member 4 is between 2.8 mm and 3.6 mm, sufficient strength can be obtained.

[0021] The floor surface portion 18 is formed such that its length dimension is slightly shorter than the width dimension of the upper opening of the pit portion 1. Specifically, it is set to a value such that a gap of 25 mm is formed between both ends of the floor surface portion 18 and the inner surface of the pit portion 1. Also, the floor surface portion 18 is formed with a width dimension of 250 mm, but only one arranged behind the pit portion 1 is for adjustment and is formed with a width of 250 - 500 mm. That is, by arranging a plurality of floor members 4 with a width dimension of 250 mm of the floor surface portion 18 side by side and arranging the adjustment floor member 4 in the last space formed on the rear side of the pit portion 1, the upper opening of the pit portion 1 can be covered almost without a gap. If the width of the floor surface portion 18 is between 200 mm and 600 mm, sufficient strength can be obtained.

[0022] The side portion 19 extends perpendicularly downward from the floor portion 18, and its length is 130 mm. However, if this portion is made of a steel plate with a thickness of approximately 3 mm that is easy to bend, and its length is around 100 mm to 160 mm, sufficient strength can be obtained. However, between adjacent floor members, the length differs by the thickness dimension of the end portion 20.

[0023] The end face portion 20 extends laterally perpendicular to the side portion 19 and is parallel to the floor portion 18. One end face portion 20 (first end face portion 20A) is bent in the same direction of extension as the floor portion 18 and faces it, while the other end face portion 20 (second cross-section portion 20B) is bent in the opposite direction to the floor portion 18 and extends. As a result, when floor materials 4 are placed adjacent to each other, the upper surface of the second end face portion 20B abuts against the lower surface of the first end face portion 20A and overlaps with it. The first end face portion 20A and the second end face portion 20B are fastened together to the upper flange 12 of the beam member 3. The first end face portion 20A has an elongated hole 20a (extending perpendicular to the plane of the paper in Figure 5). The second end face portion 20B has a circular through hole 20b through which the shaft portion of a bolt B can be inserted. The elongated hole 20a extends in the width direction of the first end face portion 20A. The shaft portion of the bolt B is inserted through these elongated holes 20a and through holes 20b, and the nut N is screwed on. Note that the bolt B and nut N are examples of fastening members.

[0024] The first end face portion 20A and the second end face portion 20B are placed in an overlapping state on the upper flange 12 of the beam member 3 and the horizontal surface portion 16a of the connecting member 16. The first end face portion 20A and the second end face portion 20B are fixed to the upper flange 12 of the beam member 3 by bolts B and nuts N. In this case, since an elongated hole 20a is formed in the first end face portion 20A, the positional accuracy of forming the hole is not required to a great extent. Also, the shaft portion of the bolt B can be easily inserted.

[0025] As shown in Figure 2, the adjustment floor material 4a has both end faces 20 bent inward so as to face the floor surface 18. In addition, two wheel stops 21 are fixed to each of the floor materials 4 at predetermined intervals in the width direction for each parking space.

[0026] The parking facility consisting of the above configuration is installed as follows.

[0027] The existing parking equipment is removed, and base sections 8 are formed at predetermined locations on the bottom surface of the pit section 1. Specifically, the base sections 8 are formed at a total of four locations for each of the four parking spaces: two on each side in the width direction and two at each boundary of each parking space in the front-to-back direction.

[0028] The lower end walls of the column members 2 are placed on each base section 8, and the connecting members 16 are positioned along the underside of the upper end plate 10 located at the upper opening of the pit. That is, the connecting members 16 are positioned along the five column members 2 that are arranged in parallel in the width direction of the pit. Then, the connecting member receiving angles 17, which are fixed to both ends of the connecting members 16 with bolts and nuts, are fixed to the inner wall 7 of the pit section 1 with bolts.

[0029] One beam member 3 is placed on each of the two column members 2 that are arranged side by side in the front-to-back direction. In other words, a total of five beam members 3 are placed. The lower flange 13 of the beam member 3 is fixed to the upper end plate 10 of the column member 2 with bolts and nuts. Both ends of the beam member 3 are fixed to the inner wall 7 of the pit section 1 with beam support angles 15.

[0030] Once the beam member 3 is installed, the floor material 4 is installed above it. The floor material 4 is installed by assembling a first floor material, whose first end face is bent in the same direction as the floor surface 18 and facing the second floor material, whose second end face is bent in the opposite direction to the floor surface 18. That is, the outer surfaces of the side portions 19 of both members are brought together so that the upper surface of the second end face abuts against the lower surface of the first end face. In this state, the first end face and the second end face are fixed to the upper flange 12 of the beam member 3 with bolts and nuts. Finally, the adjustment floor material 4 is placed and fixed to the beam member 3 with bolts and nuts to complete the installation of the parking equipment.

[0031] The parking facility with the above configuration can achieve the following effects. (1) The floor material 4 is fixed to the beam material 3 with bolts and nuts while the first end surface and the second end surface are overlapped, so sufficient strength can be obtained. Therefore, the number of points where bolts and nuts are used for fixing can be kept to a minimum, and the number of parts can be kept to a minimum without increasing the number of column materials 2 that support the floor material 4. In other words, it is possible to reduce the number of parts and installation work time, and thus reduce construction costs. (2) Since the length of the side portion of the floor material 4 is 100 mm or more, sufficient strength can be obtained. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the number of beam members 3.

[0032] The technologies disclosed herein are not limited to the embodiments, examples, and modifications described above. The technologies disclosed herein can be implemented in various configurations without departing from the spirit of the invention. The technical features of the embodiments, examples, and modifications described above that correspond to the technical features of each form described in the summary of the invention may be substituted and combined in order to solve some or all of the above-described problems or to achieve some or all of the above-described effects. Furthermore, technical features not described as essential in this specification may be deleted as necessary.

[0033] For example, although bolts and nuts were described as fastening members in the above embodiment, other means of fastening are also possible. For example, clamps, pin joints, or cotter pins can be used.

[0034] Furthermore, although the above embodiment described a pit section 1 that can accommodate four vehicles V, it may also accommodate two, three, or five vehicles. In the case of two or three vehicles, it is possible to further reduce the number of columns 2 and beams. Also, the location of the columns 2 and beams is not limited to both sides of the parking space, but may be in the center of the parking space. [Explanation of symbols]

[0035] 1…Pit section 2…Column material 3…Beam material 4…Flooring 5… recessed area 6...Bottom wall 7…Inner wall 8…Base 9…Main pillar 10…Top end plate 11...Lower end plate 12…Upper flange 13…Lower flange 14…Web 15…Beam support angle 16…Connecting material 17...Connecting material receiving angle 18...Floor section 19...Side part 20…End face part 21... Bollard

Claims

1. Parking facilities, Multiple columnar members extending upward from the bottom of the recess, Multiple beam members fastened to the upper part of the column member, Multiple flooring materials are formed by bending rectangular steel plates and fastened to the upper part of the beam material. Equipped with, The aforementioned flooring material is A rectangular floor surface, One side portion extends downward perpendicular to the floor portion from one of the longer sides of the floor portion, One end face portion extends from the aforementioned side portion perpendicular to the aforementioned side portion and inward toward the floor material parallel to the floor surface portion, and has the first long side of the steel plate, The other side portion extends downward perpendicular to the floor portion from the other long side of the floor portion, Extending from the other side portion perpendicular to the other side portion and outward from the floor material parallel to the floor surface portion, the other end portion having the second long side of the steel plate It has, Parking equipment in which a first floor material and a second floor material, which are adjacent to each other among the plurality of floor materials, are fastened together to the beam material with one end face of the first floor material and the other end face of the second floor material overlapping.

2. The parking facility according to claim 1, wherein, among the plurality of floor materials, the adjacent first floor material and the second floor material are arranged so that one side portion of the first floor material and the other side portion of the second floor material face each other.

3. The parking facility according to claim 1, wherein the longitudinal direction of the floor surface portion of the floor material extends in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the beam material.

4. The parking facility according to claim 1, wherein the width of the floor portion in the shorter direction is 200 mm to 600 mm, and the height of the side portion is 100 mm to 160 mm.

5. The parking facility according to claim 1, further comprising a connecting member that extends in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the beam member and connects the upper ends of the plurality of column members.

6. The parking equipment according to claim 5, wherein both ends of the connecting material are fixed to the inner wall of the recess.

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