Ceiling-Mounted Parking Space Protector with Rotating Shock-Absorbing Body
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for reserving parking spaces in car parks are labor-intensive and costly, and existing solutions like removable bollards interfere with cleaning machines and provide inadequate protection for vehicle bodywork against door shocks, while high-end vehicles often lack sidebars that could mitigate these issues.
Innovation Solution
A device that can be suspended from a car park ceiling, rotating between two positions to block access or absorb door shocks, featuring shock-absorbing bodies, wireless control for remote operation, and sensors to manage access and prevent unauthorized use, with optional features like retroreflective surfaces and sound signals for enhanced visibility and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If removable bollards are provided in the roadway to reserve parking spaces, then parking space reservation is achieved, but installation cost is prohibitive and cleaning machines are interfered with
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the parking space reservation function from complex ground-based systems (removable bollards) and relocates it to a simple overhead support structure. The support is permanently mounted on the ceiling, eliminating the need for expensive removable bollards while maintaining the reservation function through the positioning of protective bodies.
Solution Approach 2:
The protective body acts as an intermediary element that serves dual functions: it reserves the parking space by occupying the access area and simultaneously protects the vehicle bodywork from door shocks. This single element replaces multiple separate systems (reservation markers and protective barriers).
2Object-affected harmful factors
If screwed plastic sidebars are installed on vehicles to protect bodywork, then shock protection is provided, but manufacturing cost increases and high-end vehicles no longer include them
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of equipping vehicles with protective sidebars, the invention inverts the approach by providing protection from the parking infrastructure (overhead support with protective bodies) rather than from the vehicle itself. This eliminates the need to modify vehicle manufacturing processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The protective body is designed to automatically absorb door shocks through its shock-absorbing material without requiring active control systems or complex mechanisms. The passive shock absorption capability is inherent in the material design, eliminating the need for expensive active protection systems on vehicles.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively reserves parking spaces, protects vehicle bodywork from door shocks, and does not interfere with cleaning operations, while providing secure access management and visual guidance for users, thus reducing labor costs and enhancing safety and convenience.
Implementation Method 1
at least one shock absorbing body (115, 120) supported by each bracket (105, 110)
Implementation Method 2
Shocks that may impact a door of a parked vehicle, for example when opening a door of another vehicle, are absorbed by the shock absorption body
Implementation Method 3
at least one shock absorbing body includes a retroreflective device
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AI summary
The device (10) for reserving a space and protecting the bodywork of a land vehicle, comprises: - at least one support (105, 110) of at least one body (115, 120), the support comprising a means (150) for attachment to a ceiling of a premises, - a motor unit (175) for rotating the body support about a vertical axis between a first position and a second position perpendicular to the first position, a means (170) for controlling the motor unit to control the movement of the support between the first and second positions and - at least one shock-absorbing body supported by each support.