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EP 0220594 B1 19920520 - PARKING DEVICE FOR CARS

Title (en)

PARKING DEVICE FOR CARS

Publication

EP 0220594 B1 19920520 (DE)

Application

EP 86114188 A 19861014

Priority

DE 3538226 A 19851026

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0220594A2] The parking device consists of a plurality of platform combinations (31) arranged next to one another and having a plurality of platforms (21) and (4). For a plurality of platform combinations there is only one lifting drive (1) which is laterally displaceable at right angles to the direction of approach, specifically in a space (2) under the lower platform (4) and above the pit floor (3). <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

E04H 6/18

IPC 8 full level

E04H 6/06 (2006.01); E04H 6/18 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

E04H 6/188 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT CH DE GB IT LI

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0220594 A2 19870506; EP 0220594 A3 19880309; EP 0220594 B1 19920520; AT E76471 T1 19920615; DE 3538226 A1 19870430; DE 3538226 C2 19940526; DE 3685399 D1 19920625; JP H0733722 B2 19950412; JP S62101761 A 19870512

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 86114188 A 19861014; AT 86114188 T 19861014; DE 3538226 A 19851026; DE 3685399 T 19861014; JP 24855786 A 19861021