DE19626451A1 - Mobile parking card for billed parking slot - Google Patents

Abstract

The parking card is to be arranged in the carriage interior, in such way, that it is visible from the exterior, and comprises adjustable disks for the day of month and the time of arrival, and a fee disk for a multiple billing over variable parking time spaces through the vehicle user. The card is constructed, preferably from plexi-glass and metal parts, in such way, that a manipulation becomes, in terms of a visual check, impossible or only with a high expense, unaffordable to a private individual.

Description

State of the art

The prior art known to me as the applicant is derived directly from the Consideration of public parking systems.

Today's logistics and those used to carry out this logistics technical facilities can be explained as follows:

• I) A parking meter or a parking machine is assigned to the individual parking lot or several parking lots (large parking lot or parking zone). The start of the parking time, which is subject to charges, is either set on a parking meter or a receipt is printed by a parking machine, which is placed visibly in the interior of the car.
  To pay the corresponding parking fee (according to the fee rates determined by the municipalities), there is the insertion of money in the form of coins and banknotes, the insertion of parking coins specially made for this purpose, as well as electronic debiting devices for magnetic or chip cards.
• II) There are also those that are blocked off or enclosed parking areas limited by fences or by their location favors can be closed with barriers, as well as parking garages. The Fees are paid through money, parking coins or stakes electronic debiting procedure as described above.
• III) There is another procedure for regulating paid parking Parking with a legal entitlement to work in parking lots such as B. Exhibition and exhibition area, park and ride system, as well as the so-called Vignette parking. This includes long-term or permanent use from certain parking zones such as B. with residents of a street, at Commuters with a job near the designated Parking lots, the train station, etc. s. w., at fixed times.

Some disadvantages of different paid parking facilities

The systems listed under I and II for regulating the fee-based Parking has the obvious disadvantages of the enormously high technical and financial expenditure that the municipalities provide have to. On the one hand for the devices themselves and on the other hand for the construction and Development costs for the installation of these devices and their operation (e.g. Power supply).

Furthermore, the parking systems have to be supplied with high costs being repaired. Accidental or willful damage (vandalism), whose causes cannot be made known, also bear the Municipalities. Bishin to the concrete higher Kosats for other structural Measures such as for all earthworks where consideration is given to existing parking systems must be taken as part of the relocation or repairs to gas water pipes, electrical cables, telephone cables etc. Especially the parking meters for single parking spaces or so-called Double parking meters for two parking spaces lying together provide especially Accident risk points. Especially in bad weather conditions or in the dark.

Also shows the architectural design of the towns and cities in significant losses in this area.

The parking meters also need space, the sidewalk, and recently the sidewalk and bike path has also been lost. Also are Safety or clearance zones due to the risk of accidents mentioned in the include structural measures. These areas can be used otherwise not be used.

The final disadvantage here is the inflexible logistics extensive technical and structural measures pointed out by the new parking zones to be allocated and also changes to existing ones Parking zones - restriction, expansion or changes in arrangement - only can be carried out slowly or with a time delay. All quick Government reorientation efforts in this regard whatever the reasons, there is an almost technically inert system opposite.

The disadvantages of the high effort are also to be considered here Changes in parking fees and maximum parking duration, which in turn an intervention in the technical system of parking meters is required.

Finally, it should be noted that a correspondingly technical-structural complex system an adequately high administrative effort for the Authorities of the cities and municipalities presupposes that adversely affects the Profit generation through the paid parking.

The economic municipalities could use other administrative and Financing tasks better tackled by money saved there to take.  

Advantageous effects of the invention

The invention for which protection is claimed is immediate clear way of solving many of the disadvantages of the present parking systems listed under points I and II.

As a technical solution, it continues to complete those discussed under point III logistic parking systems.

It offers a high degree of commercialism since it is the cost of that fee-based parking at municipalities is drastically reduced by this Costs of the technical provision and the administrative effort minimized and also passed on to the parking lot user.

Detailed description of the technical design of the invention

Sheet A shows the technical solution of the patent claim as Compilation drawing of those shown on sheets 1 to 10 Individual parts. In the following, all individual parts in their construction, their material and their mode of operation with the other parts of the Construction described.

All parts are made of transparent plastic (plexiglass), so far this is not noted otherwise. This material is used in the Material thicknesses in the present construction largely understandable or transparent and can not with general technical procedures be edited without this becoming apparent.

The construction or the constructive individual parts elude because of Transparency and because of the material properties on a large scale a manipulative intervention from the private side.

Sheet 1 shows the lower holding plate. It has the depressions 1, 2 and 3 , which serve to hold the shims.

Recess 1 holds the disc for setting the day of the month (drawing on sheet 7). The recess 2 receives the disc for the start of the parking time with an adjustment accuracy of 15 minutes (drawing on sheet 8).

The recess 3 accommodates the parking fee disc holder (drawing on sheet 10). The webs 3.1 on the parking fee disc holder (sheet 10) serve to fix the parking fee disc made of cardboard (drawing on sheet 9), which has a thickness of about 1 to 1.5 mm and is provided with the following official imprints: value of a single parking flap (in Example 50 pfennig), total park value (in the example 17, - DM), sample or line printing such as. B. on banknotes or identity card and ID of the issuing community to make it difficult for counterfeiting or imitation.

Within this logistics there is the possibility of the value of the individual Change the parking flaps and the total value of the parking fee disc. This Values can also be varied independently of one another (change the number of tabs).

It is still possible, e.g. B. also a monthly pass Insert daily debiting tabs.

A specific parking period is set by counterclockwise placing the charge disc on a parking tab that has not been torn or destroyed. This applies exactly to the minimum parking period corresponding to the minimum parking fee. If a larger parking period or a larger amount is to be set and then debited, so many parking flaps must be rotated counter-clockwise undamaged over the tab marking so that the last tab in the marking window shows the parking fee amount (multiplication of the fee unit by the number of time units = parking fee) represents. In the subsequent debiting process, this tab is destroyed and all undamaged tabs counterclockwise up to there are made invalid. This logistical process requires a defined start 3.2 (sheet 9) on the parking fee disc, which was realized in this construction by two missing tabs.

All three discs are guided in a circle or ring and are held against falling out by the knobs marked with 4 (sheet 1).

The number 5 (sheet 1) shows the adjustment line, which - z. B. inserted in black in the plexiglass - for setting the two plexiglass panes (day of the month and time of day).

Section 6 (sheet 1) shows the adjustment window for the correct debiting of the used parking period in which the corresponding tab of the parking fee disc must be set.

Number 7 (sheet 1) refers to the circular depression that is used to guide the catch body at the bottom (drawing on sheet 5).

The upper guide of the latch body lies in the latch bracket in the assembled state (sheet 4). The springs (detent spring see on sheet 2) - 12 pieces in the example shown - are loosely inserted into the spring holder 7.1 (sheet 4). The latch body (sheet 5) and the latch handle (sheet 6) are firmly plugged together to form a system unit, as can be seen from the structural design. The latch body with the latch handle can only be rotated counterclockwise in the latch holder without causing mechanical damage.

The design elements designated with number 8 (sheet 1) serve to hold the locking spring with a locking bolt (see drawing on sheet 2), which prevents the catch body from being accidentally turned, i.e. accidentally invalidated when the lower retaining plate (sheet 1) is locked with the inserted ones Individual parts and upper holding plate (drawing on sheet 3), should prevent.

At the same time, this stop serves to turn the catch body or Detent handle in position A1 (see drawing on sheet A) up to prescribed position for immediate visual inspection of official People.

As a further feature, 9 (sheet 1) shows a quarter-circular undercut edge as a securing edge or contact edge for the quarter-circular profile of the upper holding plate (detail X in drawing on sheet 3).

The upper holding plate (sheet 3) and the lower holding plate (sheet 1) can be moved against each other in the open state in the joints 9.1 (sheet 1) with 9.2 (sheet 3). In the locked state, the structural parts 9 (sheet 1) and detail X (sheet 3) hinder an unintended opening by an elastic opening or loosening of 9.1 and 9.2 .

Number 10 (sheet 1) shows a sawtooth profile as a "one-way connection" with the sawtooth profile of the catch bracket (view of detail X in the drawing on sheet 4).

This configuration of the lower holding plate (sheet 1) and Detent holder in connection with the detent springs, the detent body and the catch handle is this debiting facility only by a high technical effort or can be interfered with in an impermissible manner by new parts.

After setting the day of the month and arrival time and the charges to be debited in the manner described above, the upper holding plate (sheet 3) is closed via the lower holding plate (sheet 1). The day disk of the month and the arrival time disk as well as the fee disk holder with the fee disk are locked or fixed by the design elements described in section 9.3 (see drawing on sheet 3). The catch handle and the catch body are then turned over the opening 9.4 (sheet 3) to position A1 (sheet A). The parking tab to be debited then lies in the slot of the catch body 9.5 (see sheet 5). When subsequently opening to reset the start of parking and the fee tab, the latch handle with the latch body must be turned counterclockwise, as a result of which the previously set fee tab is destroyed. The fee amount has now been debited.

Claims (1)

The claim of the invention is described as follows:
Device and method for simplified fee-based parking on designated parking spaces by means of a system to be designed inside the vehicle with dials for the day of the month and the time of arrival and fee disk for multiple debits over variable parking periods by the vehicle user, its flawless and uninterrupted mechanism for setting the start of parking and the subsequent self-debiting or self-debiting Self-devaluation of the set parking time as a result of the visual inspection cannot be avoided or can only be avoided with an unreasonably high effort by a private person.