Automated parking floor conveyor systems
View Patent ↗The invention relates to a system that allows pallets with or without vehicles to be transferred to and from the building or floors of the parking lot via palletized vehicle lifts or palletized horizontal carrier systems carrying vehicles in fully automated parking systems.
1. A floor conveyor system for automated parking, comprising:
a pallet made of water-proof and welded sheet steel material, with wheel cavities to allow vehicles to park comfortably, and with a smooth surface on two short sides in order to be driven by an elevator,
an electric gear motor that enables the system to work independently,
a conveyor mechanism consisting of a chassis made of steel box profile and welded sheet metal parts, positioned symmetrically on the right and left of the system, and transferring movement to the pallet,
a torsion bar assembly, enabling synchronous operation of the conveyor mechanisms on the right and left sides, having a power transmission function and the torsion bar assembly is connected to the conveyor mechanism with a chain gear coupling, and includes a gear group that is fixed on one side and has a conical lock mechanism on the other side,
conveyor chains,
a pallet transport wheel that ensures the contact of the pallet with the conveyor mechanism and is connected to the conveyor mechanism, and is supported by a double-row roller bearing and having a radiused upper surface,
a pallet guiding wheel that ensures the contact of the pallet with the conveyor mechanism, and is working sideways and is keeping the pallet aligned,
a floor locking mechanism which prevents the pallets on the floor conveyor from falling into the parking space in an undesired situation and locks the pallet, in the absence of a carrier system,
a motion control sensor part that reads the pallet movements, that is, receives and transmits data from chain wedges attached to the pallet on the conveyor chains.
2. The floor conveyor system of claim 1 wherein the short sides of the pallet contains pallet claws that snag to a conveyor chain chock and allow it the pallet to move together with the chain chock.
3. The floor conveyor system of claim 2 , wherein the pallet claws are positioned asymmetrically on the pallet.
4. The floor conveyor system of claim 1 wherein the conveyor chain contains the chain wedges in numbers equal to the pallet capacity of the floor conveyor system that enables the chain movement to be transmitted to the pallet in both directions by snagging to claws located under the pallet.
5. The floor conveyor system of claim 1 , wherein the floor locking mechanism contains a lock tongue that prevents the unintentional movement of the pallet by standing in front of pallet claws, which is active when there is no carrier at the level of the floor locking mechanism and, when the carrier is at the level of the floor conveyor, pulls in and releases the pallet by removing the obstacle in front of the pallet claws.