Transverse Automatic Parking System with Independent Carrying Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current automatic parking systems with transversely arranged parking spaces face issues with fault tolerance, parking and unparking efficiency, and user convenience due to limited space and the need for advanced driving skills, especially when carrying devices malfunction.
Innovation Solution
An automatic parking system with transverse arrangement featuring multiple parking levels, lifting tunnels, gateways, and carrying devices equipped with transverse moving mechanisms, lifting devices, and rotating and jacking assemblies, allowing vehicles to be moved vertically and rotated without requiring users to back in or out, enhancing fault tolerance and operational simplicity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If parking spaces are arranged in transverse rows with horizontally movable loading boards, then the system can accommodate topographic constraints and provide multi-level parking, but when a carrying device malfunctions, the entire parking level cannot execute parking work
Solution Approach 1:
The parking system is divided into multiple independent carrying devices (first carrying device and second carrying device), each capable of independently serving parking spaces. When one carrying device malfunctions, the other can still operate independently, allowing the parking level to partially execute parking work rather than completely failing.
2Ease of operation
If users back the vehicle into the automatic parking system from the gateway, then parking can be achieved, but the operation becomes inconvenient and requires higher parking technology
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of requiring users to back the vehicle into the parking system (reverse entry), the system enables users to drive forward into the parking system from the gateway (forward entry). The carrying device then automatically positions and orients the vehicle into the parking space, inverting the traditional manual reverse-entry process into an automated forward-entry process.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrying device performs the complex positioning and orientation tasks automatically after the user simply drives forward into the system. The system serves itself by using the carrying device's transverse movement and rotation capabilities to complete the parking maneuver without requiring user skill in reverse parking or complex driving techniques.
3Area of stationary object
If the automatic parking system uses limited space with transverse arrangement, then space utilization is improved, but users require higher parking technology to maneuver vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the need for manual mechanical vehicle maneuvering with an automated carrying device. The carrying device uses its transverse moving mechanism and rotating mechanism to position and orient the vehicle, substituting complex user driving maneuvers with automated mechanical operations that maintain high space utilization efficiency.
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AI summary
An automatic parking system with transverse arrangement includes at least two parking levels, a lifting tunnel, a gateway, at least two carrying devices, and a lifting device; each parking level includes a transverse passage and a transverse row of parking spaces connected to at least one side of the transverse passage; the lifting tunnel is connected to at least one of two ends of the transverse passages of the at least two parking levels; the gateway is formed in an outer side of the lifting tunnel; each carrying device includes a carrying frame and a transverse moving mechanism adapted for driving the carrying device to move along the transverse passage; the lifting device is disposed in the lifting tunnel for conveying the carrying device to a height corresponding to any of the parking levels so as to make the carrying device capable of moving to the corresponding transverse passage.