Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Shigekazu Takaoka

Kazushi Tsujimoto

An automated high-raised parking system is disclosed. The system has a parking construction including a parking rack structure having a plurality of stories of parking racks for parking an automobile as mounted on a pallet, a lift passage for a lift-translator device, the passage being formed besides the parking racks. The lift-translator device includes a lift table and a translator device. An automobile entrance/exit section is provided for allowing entrance and exit of the automobile to and out of the construction. A holding unit is provided at a predetermined height of the entrance/exit section for holding the pallet so as to maintain a horizontal posture of this pallet mounting the automobile. The automobile as mounted on the lift table is vertically moved to a predetermined rack and then translated by the translator device onto this rack. A turntable device is provided at the entrance/exit section. This device includes a turntable which swivellably holds the pallet mounting the automobile thereon so that an orientation of the automobile on the pallet is changed by swiveling this turn table, and includes also an elevator mechanism for elevating the turntable so as to allow an upward movement of the pallet relative to the height of the entrance/exit section.

Automated high-raised parking system

A multi-deck parking structure includes a plurality of decks for storing pallets constructed to carry vehicles, respectively, an entrance section for receiving and delivering vehicles, and a movable unit for moving upward and downward through a vertical shaft extending laterally of the decks into the entrance section, to transport the pallets between the entrance section and the decks. The movable unit has pallet supporting fork assemblies extendible to and retractable from the decks, and footpath floors for allowing a person to walk thereon. The footpath floors are vertically movable relative to the pallet supporting fork assemblies. The entrance section includes an adjusting device for keeping the footpath floors substantially level with floor surfaces of the entrance section and supporting surfaces of the pallet supporting fork assemblies when the movable unit is placed in the entrance section, and lowering the footpath floors below the supporting surfaces of the pallet supporting fork assemblies when the pallet supporting assemblies are in a position to extend to or retract from the decks.

Multi-deck parking structure

An automated high-raised parking system includes a parking rack structure having a plurality of racks disposed one above another for parking an automobile, an entrance/exit section for allowing entrance and exit of the automobile and a lift-translator device for transporting the automobile between the entrance/exit section to the racks. The lift-translator device includes a lift table vertically movable along a lift passage extending along a side of the parking rack structure and communicating with the entrance/exit section. In this system, the invention provides a shielding member for shielding an upward view from the entrance/exit section up through the lift passage when the lift table is positioned at the entrance/exit section for entrance or exit of the automobile.

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Kasugai, Japan

Shigekazu Takaoka