Global Patent Index - EP 0314837 A1

EP 0314837 A1 19890510 - Multistorey automatic garage for motor vehicles.

Title (en)

Multistorey automatic garage for motor vehicles.

Title (de)

Automatische mehrgeschossige Garage für Kraftfahrzeuge.

Title (fr)

Garage automatique à étages multiples pour véhicules à moteur.

Publication

EP 0314837 A1 19890510 (EN)

Application

EP 87202106 A 19871102

Priority

EP 87202106 A 19871102

Abstract (en)

The garage comprises a reception floor (12) and several parking floors (14, 16, 18); consignment docks and return docks (38, 40, 42; 44, 46, 48) at the reception floor, arranged to be accessible to the motor vehicles arriving at the reception floor; movable barriers (50, 52, 53) normally blocking access to and from each dock, and selectively switchable to allow access; several skids (54, 56, 58, 62, 64), normally placed in abutment of respective consignment docks, adapted to receive and support a vehicle arriving at the associated dock; magnetic card readers/markers (96) arranged at respective docks, and adapted to magnetically write at least a skid identification code a card of a user who has driven a vehicle onto a skid at a consignment dock and has inserted the card in the reader/marker, and adapted to read such code from a card that is inserted in the reader/marker of a return dock; several elevators (20) adapted to transfer a skid from one floor to another floor; several remotely controlled trucks (80, 82, 102, 104) movable on each of said floors, each truck being adapted to pick up a selected skid and transfer it from a desired dock to the elevator and vice versa; and a central controlling computer (108) for the movable barriers, the trucks and the elevators, and connected to the readers/markers.

IPC 1-7

E04H 6/22

IPC 8 full level

E04H 6/22 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

E04H 6/22 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE ES FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0314837 A1 19890510

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 87202106 A 19871102