JP2005336982A - Switching device for control panel - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a switching device capable of switching instantaneously without waiting replacement time by providing a change-over switch for switching an inverter causing failure with a normal inverter. <P>SOLUTION: Controllers 7 for carrying a vehicle in and out of parking rooms X, Y by ascent and descent of an elevating lift 2 and transverse movement of a transversely moving tray 3 are provided in each parking tower 1, 1a by arranging the parking towers 1, 1a on a plurality of bases. A switching means 17 for switching to a normal controller 7 in the other parking towers 1, 1a when any of the controllers 7 in the parking towers 1, 1a causes failure is provided to provide effect corresponding to carrying-in-and-out of the vehicle instantaneously. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a switching device for a control device that shares a normal control device for another parking base when one of the control devices for a parking tower in which a plurality of parking units are arranged in parallel breaks down.

In a conventional parking tower with a plurality of cars arranged in parallel, the vehicle is placed in a boarding area of each parking tower, the vehicle is mounted on a lifting lift, and the vehicle is transferred to the transverse tray of the parking room. become.
In the boarding area, the vehicle is driven to enter and exit.
When leaving the vehicle, the vehicle is transferred from the traversing tray to the lifting lift, and the lifting lift is moved up and down to the boarding place to complete the exit.

  The lifting / lowering lift is lifted and lowered by winding and unwinding the rotating shaft of the driving unit by a cord-like body suspended from the driving unit in the lifting / lowering space of the boarding place. The drive unit includes a control device that can adjust the ascending / descending speed and detect the ascending / descending position by changing the rotation speed of the rotating shaft by the rotation of the motor.

The control device includes an inverter that controls the rotational speed of the motor. The inverter can smoothly and smoothly control the rotation of the motor from low speed to high speed, and the position of the lift lift can be accurately detected by inputting the lift position in the number of rotations using the encoder built into the motor. In addition, the lift stop position can be determined at a plurality of locations.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-30355

  However, in a parking device with a plurality of units arranged in parallel, if the control panel that controls one lifting lift may break down, the operation of the entire parking device stops and any vehicle can enter and exit. It has been lost, and repairs have also been replaced to shorten the time. Most control panel failures are caused by inverters, and most can be recovered by replacing the inverters. The time required for restoration requires obtaining of the inverter, replacement time, and adjustment time, and may take ten to several days. Meanwhile, the parking device was in a stopped state, leaving the user's traffic to a taxi, which was expensive.

  In the present invention, when a failure occurs in the control panel, a switching means that can minimize the cost by switching to the control panel of another parking device and easily returning it temporarily by using it together is provided. Is.

In the first aspect of the present invention, a lifting lift for moving up and down the lifting space, a parking room provided on a plurality of floors adjacent to the lifting space, a traversing tray disposed in the parking room and reciprocating in the lifting space, and the lifting lift In the elevator type parking device that makes it possible to deliver vehicles by passing the traverse tray
A plurality of parking towers are arranged side by side, and each parking tower is provided with a control device having a control panel that moves into and out of the parking room by raising and lowering the lifting lift and traversing the transverse tray, and any of the control panels fails When it does, it is set as the structure which provides the switching means which switches to the normal control panel of another parking tower.

In the invention of claim 2, the control device comprises a control panel that manages the drive rotation of the drive device that raises and lowers the lift, a lift position of the lift, and an operation panel that manages the entry / exit state of the parking room, It connects with the control panel arrange | positioned at a normal parking tower by the changeover switch provided in the parking tower, and it is set as the structure which raises / lowers the raising / lowering lift of the parking tower provided with the malfunctioning control panel.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is an operation that can be temporarily restored immediately by the switching means that is used as a normal control panel among the plurality of units.

  In the configuration of the second aspect, the malfunctioning control panel can be restored by switching the inverter.

  In the invention of claim 1, since the parking tower in which the control panel has failed among the plurality of parking towers can be returned by switching the switch, it is possible to enter and exit without waiting for the user. There is.

  In the invention of claim 2, there is an effect that the failed inverter can be easily replaced.

  This invention is the control apparatus 7 of the parking tower 1 which conveys the vehicle C to the parking room X * Y of the parking tower 1 by the raising / lowering of the raising / lowering lift 2, and moves in and out of the parking room X * Y. When a failure occurs, the changeover switch 17 that can be switched to the normal control device 7 of the other parking tower 1 can be temporarily restored.

The control device 7 can perform storage / exit processing of the parking tower 1 using the command panel 12, the control panel 10, and the operation panel 11. The command panel 12 can operate the control panel 10 and the operation panel 11 when the user of the parking tower 1 commands the positions of the parking rooms X and Y by numbers. The control panel 10 can control the elevating speed and the elevating position of the elevating lift 2 with the inverter 14.
The inverter 14 can adjust the lifting / lowering speed of the lifting / lowering lift 2 by changing the rotation speed of the motor 15 of the lifting / lowering drive unit 9 that winds and unwinds the lifting / lowering lift 2.・ Can stop at Y position.

The operation panel 11 can store whether or not the vehicle C is present in the parking rooms X and Y, and can traverse the traverse tray 3 on which the vehicle C is mounted.
FIG. 1 shows a parking tower 1, which includes a boarding area S on the ground surface GL, an elevator space E in which a vehicle C can be loaded and unloaded, and a plurality of parking rooms X and Y adjacent to the elevator space E. Located on the floor. In the lift 2, a lift drive unit 9 is disposed above the lift space E.

  In the elevating space E, guide rails 4 are erected in the vertical direction at the four corners to guide the elevating lift 2 and elevate as the elevating drive unit 9 rotates. The guide rail 4 suspends the cord-like body 21 from the lifting drive unit 9 in a U-shaped cross section and supports both ends of the lifting lift 2. The lift 2 is a pair of left and right parts, and lift hawks 5 project from the outside to the inside. The traversing tray 3 is disposed in the parking rooms X and Y, and traverses the elevating space E horizontally and passes the elevating lift 2 that elevates and lowers the elevating space E to deliver the vehicle C. The traversing of the traversing tray 3 is provided with a traversing drive unit 8 horizontally in a line in the parking chambers X and Y and the elevating space E.

  The lift 2 has fork members on both the left and right sides in the longitudinal direction of the lift space E, and projects the lift forks 5 in a comb-tooth shape toward the inside. The transverse tray 3 is disposed so as to be able to pass the lift fork 5 by causing the tray fork 6 to protrude outward from the center frame in the opposite direction to the lift fork 5. The boarding area S is provided with an opening of the entrance 22 at the position of the ground surface GL in front of the parking tower 1, and can be operated safely by opening and closing the gate. The entrance 22 is provided with command panels 12 and 12a for specifying the parking rooms X and Y of the vehicle C. The command panel 12 operates the parking tower 1. The command panel 12a operates loading and unloading to the parking rooms X and Y of the parking tower 1a.

FIG. 2 shows the boarding place S of the parking towers 1 and 1a, and the warehousing vehicle C gets on the parking tower 1 or the lift 2 of the parking tower 1a. The lift 2 forms a comb-like path with a small gap with the floor surface 24. On both sides of the passage, a floor is formed of striped steel plates so that the driver of the vehicle C can pass. In the case of the parking tower 1 that processes the unloading vehicle C, the user can travel from the boarding place S of the parking tower 1 to the boarding place S of the parking tower 1a and get out of the exit 23. When entering / exiting, the gates of the entrance 22 and the exit 23 are closed to provide a safety fence that prevents the boarding area S from entering. The outer walls of the parking towers 1, 1 a are covered with wall surfaces 25 that are provided with openings at the entrance 22 and the exit 23 to be sealed.

There is a control device 7 at the boarding place S of the parking tower 1, which performs the delivery operation of the lifting lift 2 and the traversing tray 3 and the management of the parking rooms X and Y. The control device 7 designates the loading / unloading vehicle from the command panel 12 / 12a, thereby confirming the presence / absence of the parking room X / Y, the lifting / lowering speed / stop position of the lifting / lowering lift 2, the delivery operation, and the traverse tray. 3 traversing and delivery operation, and changes in the presence / absence of parking rooms X and Y are stored.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram in which the vehicle C is delivered by the control device 7 that manages the entering / exiting operation from the operation of the parking tower 1. When the command boards 12 and 12a designate the entry / exit vehicles by the numbers of the parking rooms X and Y, the signals are input to the integrated circuit 13. The integrated circuit 13 is connected to the control panel 10 and the operation panel 11. The control panel 10 rotates the motor 15 from a low speed to a high speed and then rotates again to a low speed, and the lifting and lowering of the lifting lift 2 can be smoothly performed without receiving an impact by moving from the low speed start to the high speed and stopping at a low speed. .

The operation panel 11 manages the presence of the parking rooms X and Y, moves the traversing tray to the elevating space E, delivers it, and returns it to the parking rooms X and Y. The control device 7 that manages the parking tower 1 and the parking tower 1 a connects the control panel 10 of the parking tower 1 and the control panel 10 of the parking tower 1 a via a changeover switch 17.

In FIG. 4, the control panel 10 includes an inverter 14 that controls the rotational speed of the motor 15. The inverter 14 changes the rotation speed from a low speed to a high speed by changing the frequency at which power is supplied to the motor 15. The motor 15 includes an encoder 16 that stores the number of rotations and outputs it to the inverter 14. The lift 2 is provided with switches 20 at several locations on the guide rail 4 to check whether the lift position is at the same position as the signal of the encoder 16. The parking tower 1 and the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a are of the same type, and can be switched instantaneously by the changeover switch 17 when one of them fails, and the parking tower 1 · 1a that does not operate due to the switching is switched off. Can be restored alternately.

FIG. 5 shows two inverters 14 and a changeover switch 17, which are disconnected from the failed inverter 14 and connected to a normal inverter 14. FIG. 5A shows that the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1 at the entrance 22 breaks down and the lift 2 cannot be lifted and repaired, but it takes several weeks to repair. become. Although the parking tower 1 at the entrance 22 is operating normally, the parking tower 1 · 1a cannot be used because the parking tower 1a at the exit 23 is out of order. Thus, when the parking tower 1 is operated, the connection line (chain line) of the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1 is disconnected by the changeover switch 17 and connected to the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a (solid line).

The inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a is changed from a connection line (chain line) to a disconnection (solid line). When the parking tower 1a is operated, as shown in FIG. 5B, the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1 is disconnected and the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a is connected as shown in FIG. Thus, when the inverter 14 fails, the inverter 14 that has failed with the changeover switch 17 can be easily switched to the normal inverter 14, and the parking towers 1 and 1a can be operated. The changeover switch 17 may be manually changed over, or may be changed over by input of a personal computer via a relay.

(Receipt operation)
The vehicle C will be described by entering the parking tower 1a. The vehicle C enters from the entrance 22 of the parking tower 1 and stops at the boarding place S of the parking tower 1a using the boarding place S as a passage. The inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a is out of order and the command panel 12a cannot be operated. The changeover switch 17 is operated to switch to the inverter 14 of the parking tower 1. The inverter 14 of the parking tower 1 places the first changeover switch 18 and the second changeover switch 19 in a disconnected state. The inverter 14 of the parking tower 1a disconnects the second changeover switch 19a and connects it to the first changeover switch 18a. The first changeover switch 18 a is connected to the normal inverter 14 of the parking tower 1.

When the number of the parking room X / Y is designated, the command panel 12a mounts the vehicle C in the boarding place S of the parking tower 1a by the lifting lift 2 ascending, and in the upper stage of the parking room X / Y. Stop. When the lifting / lowering lift 2 crosses the traversing tray 3 from the parking rooms X and Y to the lifting / lowering space E and closes, the lifting / lowering lift 2 descends and passes the lift fork 5 and the tray fork 6 to mount the vehicle C on the traversing tray 3. The traversing tray 3 traverses and opens the elevating space E, and the vehicle C can be mounted and stored in the parking rooms X and Y. When the lift 2 continues to descend after reaching the boarding place S after the vehicle C is transferred to the traversing tray 3, it forms an integral passage and enters a standby state.

(Outgoing operation)
The vehicle C stored in the parking tower 1 is delivered and described. In the parking tower 1a, the inverter 14 is out of order. When the command board 12 of the parking tower 1 commands the unloading car, the lifting / lowering lift 2 is lifted, and the traversing tray 3 on which the unloading car of the parking rooms X and Y is mounted is traversed in the lifting / lowering space E and is closed. 2 rises from below the transverse tray 3 and receives the vehicle C. The traversing tray 3 returns to the parking rooms X and Y, opens the elevating space E, and lowers the elevating lift 2. The lifting lift 2 descends and stops at the boarding place S, and meshes with the floor 24 to form an integral passage. The unloading vehicle is completed by exiting from the exit 23 of the boarding area S.

  The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the parking tower which employ | adopts this invention.   The top view of a parking tower.   The block diagram which shows the transmission command of a raising / lowering lift and a transverse tray from an operation command.   The block diagram which shows a changeover switch and an inverter.   The wiring diagram which shows a changeover switch and an inverter. (A) The wiring diagram in a state where the parking tower in failure has been switched to a normal inverter. (B) A wiring diagram in a state where a normal parking tower is switched to a normal inverter.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Parking tower 1a Parking tower 2 Lifting lift 3 Traverse tray 4 Guide rail 5 Lift hawk 6 Tray hawk 7 Control apparatus 8 Traverse drive part 9 Lift drive part 10 Control panel 11 Operation panel 12 12a Command panel 13 Integrated circuit 14 14a Inverter 15 Motor 16 Encoder 17 Changeover switch 18 First changeover switch 19 Second changeover switch 20 Switch (confirm lift position)
21 Cord 22 Entrance 23 Exit 24 Floor S Boarding point C Vehicle GL Ground E E Lifting space X / Y Parking room

Claims (2)

The lifting lift that moves up and down the lifting space, the parking room provided on multiple floors adjacent to the lifting space, the traverse tray that moves in the parking space and reciprocates into the lifting space, and the lifting lift and the traversing tray pass each other In the elevator parking system that enables the vehicle to be delivered at
A plurality of parking towers are arranged side by side, and each parking tower is provided with a control device having a control panel for entering and exiting the parking room by raising and lowering the lifting lift and traversing the transverse tray, and any of the control panels fails And a switching means for switching to a normal control panel of another parking tower.   The control device includes a control panel that manages the drive rotation of the drive device that raises and lowers the lift, a lift position of the lift, and an operation panel that manages the loading / unloading state of the parking room. 2. The control panel switching device according to claim 1, wherein the switch is connected to a control panel arranged in a normal parking tower by a switch to raise and lower a lifting lift of the parking tower provided with the failed control panel.

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