Parking Barrier Base System with Flexible Anchoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing parking barriers face challenges in installation on asphalt surfaces, requiring the destruction of asphalt to create concrete pads for anchoring, which is costly and leaves unsightly scars, and struggle with resistance to tearing and adaptation to uneven ground levels.

Innovation Solution

A parking barrier device with a pre-cut sheet base system featuring flexible connections and strategically placed openings for fasteners, allowing direct nailing or gluing to the asphalt without concrete pads, and adaptable to uneven surfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If conventional parking barriers are fixed to asphalt ground by creating concrete pads, then anchoring strength is improved, but installation cost and time increase and aesthetic appearance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanchoring strengthVSAvoidinstallation cost and complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the bases from the common support structure, allowing each base to be independently positioned and fixed to the ground. This eliminates the need for a rigid common support that requires large concrete pads, enabling direct fixation to asphalt surfaces through smaller, less invasive anchoring points.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The common support structure is segmented into multiple independent bases that can be separately positioned and fixed. Each base can be anchored independently to the asphalt ground, distributing the anchoring requirements across multiple small points rather than requiring one large concrete pad, thereby reducing installation cost and aesthetic impact while maintaining strength.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Strength

If three independent bases are used for parking barriers, then resistance to tearing is improved, but installation precision requirements increase and ground deterioration increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresistance to tearingVSAvoidinstallation precision
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The invention merges the positioning function into a single common support structure that guides the placement of all bases. This common support acts as a template ensuring precise positioning of the three independent bases relative to each other, thereby maintaining the tearing resistance benefits of multiple bases while reducing installation precision requirements through the guiding function of the common support.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If bases are rigidly attached to a common base, then installation is simplified, but adaptability to uneven ground deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation simplicityVSAvoidadaptability to uneven ground
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention introduces flexibility between the common support and the individual bases, allowing the bases to move independently relative to the common support. This dynamic configuration enables the bases to adapt to uneven ground surfaces while the common support maintains the overall structural integrity and guides positioning, thus preserving both installation simplicity and ground adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3296465B1Car park barrier device
Publication Date: 2019.05.01 ETAB MOTTEZ & CIE
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a parking barrier device (1) comprising: - a hoop (2), the two ends of which are pivotally connected to two bases (4), the hoop (2) being able to move by rotation from a lowered position, allowing a vehicle to be parked over the barrier, to a raised position, prohibiting parking, - a locking mechanism for the hoop (2) comprising: - a sliding system (3) having one end pivotally connected to the hoop (2) and another end pivotally connected to a third base (5), able to move from a deployed position in said lowered position of the hoop (2) to a retracted position in said raised position of the hoop (2), - a locking system (6) able to block sliding between the two tubes (32) and (33) in said retracted position, - a base system (7) connecting the two bases of the hoop 4 and the third base of the slide system (5).According to the invention, said base system (7) includes openings (71) near the bases (4) and (5) for fastening members (72) intended to anchor said base system (7) to the ground.