JPH09302974A - Car mounting pallet and multistory parking space making use thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to stably convey a car when the car is conveyed, prevent a wheel mounting member from lifting upward when the car is mounted on a car mounting pallet and is dismounted therefrom and to enable the mounting of the wheel on the wheel mounting member smoothly. SOLUTION: When a car is mounted on a pallet main body 1 in a proper position, a wheel mounting member 7 for mounting a wheel W of the car thereon is provided to the pallet main body 1, the wheel mounting member 7 is formed in a movable manner in the vertical direction between an upper mounting position and a lower conveying position, the wheel W of the car is mounted in a state to position the wheel mounting member 7 in the upper mounting position, and the car is conveyed in a state to position the wheel mounting member 7 in the lower conveying position. In that case, in a state to position the wheel mounting member 7 in the upper mounting position, a lifting prevention device 13 for preventing the wheel mounting member 7 from lifting upward is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention provides a wheel mounting member for mounting wheels of the vehicle on the pallet body when the vehicle is mounted at an appropriate position with respect to the pallet body. The vehicle wheel is configured to be movable in the vertical direction between an upper transfer position and a lower transfer position, and the wheel mounting member is positioned at the upper transfer position so that the wheel of the vehicle is moved relative to the wheel mounting member. And a vehicle mounting pallet configured to transfer the vehicle with the wheel mounting member positioned at a lower transfer position, and a multilevel parking lot using the vehicle mounting pallet. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A pallet for mounting on a vehicle having the above-mentioned structure is disclosed, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-32622 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-5.
It is disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 8061 and is conventionally known. In this conventionally known pallet, the wheel mounting member which is movable in the vertical direction with respect to the pallet body is located at the upper transfer position so that the step with the upper surface of the pallet body is reduced. Since the wheels of the vehicle can be placed on top of the wheels or the wheels can be retracted from the wheel placing member, the wheels can be smoothly transferred to the wheel placing member. Still, when the vehicle is transported, the wheel mounting member is held at the lower transportation position as the pallet body is lifted upward, and the pallet body reliably transports the wheels while preventing them from accidentally moving. Therefore, there is an advantage that the vehicle can be safely transported.

[0003]

However, this conventionally known pallet is not yet perfect, and when the wheels are transferred to the vehicle mounting member, the vehicle mounting member is lifted and the wheels are smoothly transferred. There was a risk of obstructing the listing. That is, as shown in FIG. 9, when the wheel W is mounted on or retracted from the wheel mounting member 7 provided on the pallet body 1,
When the wheel W is located at one end of the wheel mounting member 7, a part of the weight of the vehicle is concentrated at that end, so that the other end of the wheel mounting member 7 floats upward and the wheel W There is a risk that smoothing during transfer may be hindered.

An object of the present invention is to reliably prevent the wheel mounting member from being lifted upward during wheel transfer without impairing the advantages of the conventional pallet and to transfer the wheel to the wheel mounting member. It is intended to provide a vehicle-mounted pallet capable of smoothly carrying out a vehicle and a multi-level parking lot in which a vehicle can be reasonably mounted and dismounted using the pallet.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, according to the invention described in claim 1, in the vehicle mounting pallet as described above, the wheel mounting member is located at the upper transfer position. In this state, since the floating prevention means is provided to prevent the wheel mounting member from being lifted upward, the wheel mounting member is surely prevented from being lifted upward when the wheel is transferred to the wheel mounting member. This makes it possible to transfer wheels more smoothly and
It is possible to transport the vehicle safely as in the conventional case.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a protrusion is provided on either one of the wheel mounting member and the pallet body, and the other is provided with a guide portion that allows relative vertical movement with respect to the protrusion. Since the upper limit member of the guide portion and the protrusion form the levitation prevention means, it is possible to configure the levitation prevention means with a simple structure including the protrusion and the upper limit member of the guide portion. It is possible to reliably prevent the wheel mounting member from rising without increasing the manufacturing cost extremely.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the pallet body is provided with the recessed portion into which the wheel is inserted, and the wheel mounting member is configured to be movable in the vertical direction within the recessed portion. It is also possible to guide the vertical movement of the wheel mounting member by the insertion portion, and furthermore, since the wheel mounting member is provided with the protrusion and the guide portion is provided on the recessed portion side of the pallet body, the vertical direction It is possible to provide a guide portion that allows vertical movement of the protrusion on the wheel mounting member side by using the recessed portion having a certain length as it is. Therefore, in order to provide the floating prevention means, The structure does not become significantly complicated, and since only the protrusion is provided on the wheel mounting member side, the vertical thickness of the wheel mounting member can be reduced.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the recessed portion has a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view, the long side thereof is provided along the longitudinal direction of the pallet body, and the wheel mounting member is also the above-mentioned. Since the rectangular shape corresponding to the recessed portion is formed, the length of the long side of the rectangular recessed portion and the wheel mounting member is made slightly larger, so that the diameter of the wheel can be different depending on the type of vehicle. Even if there is a long or short wheelbase, it can handle them,
By slightly increasing the length of the short side, it is possible to correspond to the size of the wheel width and the length of the tread, and by providing the protrusions on both short sides of the rectangular wheel mounting member,
When moving in from one side of the wheel mounting member and evacuating to the riding side, of course, when moving in from one side and evacuating to the opposite side of the riding direction, ensure that the wheel mounting member floats upward Can be blocked.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, when the vehicle is mounted on the pallet body at an appropriate position, the wheel mounting members are provided at a total of four positions where a pair of left and right front wheels and rear wheels of the vehicle are located. Since the vehicle is provided, it is possible to more stably transport the vehicle while preventing unexpected movement of all wheels. Even so, if the recessed portion and the wheel mounting member are made rectangular as described above and the lengths of the long side and the short side thereof are made slightly larger, the wheel base and the tread may be long or short depending on the type of vehicle. The vehicle can be stably transported regardless of the type of the vehicle, and the vehicle can be loaded and unloaded from any of the longitudinal directions of the pallet, greatly improving the pallet usability.

According to the invention described in claim 6, the pallet for mounting on a vehicle described above is used in a multi-story parking lot,
In the external communication portion that communicates with the entrance and exit of the vehicle, when the pallet body is held in a loading / unloading posture in which the vehicle gets on and off, a holding member that lifts the wheel mounting member from below and holds it at the upper transfer position is provided to the external communication portion. Since the pallet body is provided, the holding member provided in the external communication portion holds the wheel mounting member in the transfer position as long as the pallet body is held in the riding position in the external communication portion. When moving in and out of the pallet, the wheels are smoothly transferred to the wheel mounting member with a small step between the upper surface of the pallet body and the wheel mounting member and with the lifting of the wheel mounting member prevented. Can be posted. Then, when the pallet body is lifted by the elevating table to transport the vehicle and store it in the storage rack, the wheel mounting member is located at the lower transport position and is held by the pallet body. On the other hand, the vehicle can be stably loaded and transported, and the same applies when storing it in the storage rack, and the functions of the vehicle-mounted pallet described above are fully exerted to enable rational operation of the multilevel parking lot. Is possible.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a vehicle-mounted pallet according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This vehicle-mounted pallet P is, as shown in FIGS.
It is equipped with a pallet body 1 made of metal, which is almost rectangular in plan view and is suitable for mounting the whole, and is entirely formed by using commercially available plate material, flat steel, and, if necessary, shaped steel, and has the required strength. For this purpose, a plurality of reinforcing curved portions 2 are formed along the longitudinal direction of the rectangle.

The edges of the pallet body 1 along the longitudinal direction, that is, the left and right edges are bulged slightly upward to form the wheel stopper 3, and the left and right intermediate portions 4 are bulged slightly upward. A pair of left and right wheel passage portions, through which the wheels W of the vehicle V pass, are formed between the left and right wheel stoppers 3 and the intermediate portion 4 over the entire length of the pallet body 1 in the longitudinal direction. The width and interval of the wheel passage portion in the left-right direction are formed with some allowance so as to correspond to the length of the tread and the width of the wheel W depending on the type of the vehicle V.

Of the wheel passage portion of the pallet body 1, a substantially rectangular recess for the wheel W to enter is provided at a total of four locations corresponding to a pair of left and right front wheels and rear wheels when the vehicle V is mounted at an appropriate position. The insertion portion 5 is provided with its long side along the longitudinal direction of the pallet body 1. Each of the recessed portions 5 is formed by cutting out a part of the wheel passage portion of the pallet body 1, and the edges 6 are integrally extended inward from the four lower sides inside thereof. There is. That is,
An edge portion 6 is formed by a part of the bottom wall of the recessed portion 5.

As shown in FIG. 3, a wheel mounting member 7 is located in each of the recessed portions 5, and the wheel mounting member 7 is located in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the pallet body 1 has a substantially rectangular shape corresponding to the recessed portion 5, and is formed by using a commercially available plate material or flat steel, as in the pallet body 1, and has a plurality of reinforcing curved portions. 8 are also provided. The length and the distance between the recessed portion 5 and the wheel mounting member 7 in the front-rear direction are also formed with a margin so as to correspond to the length of the wheel base and the diameter of the wheel W depending on the type of the vehicle V.

Each wheel mounting member 7 is constructed so that it can be mounted on the edge portion 6 provided in the recess 5 below.
It is configured to be held at a transport position described later while being placed on the top. The bulging portions 9 for surely mounting the wheels W are provided on the upper surfaces of both short sides of the wheel mounting members 7.
Is provided, and three projections 10 as projections along the longitudinal direction of the pallet body 1 are provided from both short sides of the wheel mounting member 7, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 2B, each of these protrusions 10 is located in a space 11 as a guide portion provided on the front and rear side portions of the recessed portion 5, and the wheel mounting member 7 is provided with the protrusions 10. As the protrusions 10 move in the space 11 as they move upward, as shown in FIG. 2A, by contacting a stopper 12 as an upper limit member formed by a part of the pallet body 1. Further, the wheel mounting member 7 is configured to be prevented from further moving upward.

That is, the wheel mounting member 7 is configured to be movable in the vertical direction in each recess 5 between an upper transfer position and a lower transfer position, which will be described later, and the upper transfer position. In this state, the protrusion 10 abuts the stopper 12 to prevent the wheel mounting member 7 from moving further upward. The protrusions 10 and the stopper 12 prevent the wheel mounting member 7 from moving further. Floating prevention means 13 for preventing the upward movement of 7 is configured. And
A cushioning rubber 14 is attached to a portion of the lower surface of each wheel mounting member 7 that comes into contact with the edge portion 6 to cushion the impact when the wheel mounting member 7 comes into contact with the edge portion 6.

The pallet P having such a structure is used, for example, in a multi-storey parking lot as shown in FIG. 1 so that a vehicle V is mounted on the pallet to be transported or stored while the vehicle V is mounted. A plurality of storage shelves 17 for storing the pallet P having the vehicle V in the left-right lateral direction when viewed from the doorway 15 are provided above the external communication portion 16 that communicates with the doorway 15 on the ground floor. Are provided at a certain interval in the front-rear direction.

A carriage 18 is also provided as an elevator for raising and lowering the upper and lower space between the pair of front and rear storage shelves 17 to convey the pallet P. The external communication section 16 is provided with the pallet P at the external communication section 16. When the vehicle V is held in a boarding / alighting posture, a total of four holding members 19 are provided for lifting the wheel mounting members 7 from below and holding the wheel mounting members 7 in the transfer position. A turning device 20 that turns and changes the posture of the pallet P is also provided.

In this multi-storey car park, the external communication section 1
The vehicle V is loaded / unloaded on / from the pallet P held in the loading / unloading posture in FIG.
The vehicle V is loaded onto the pallet P located at 6. At that time, since the four holding members 19 in total hold each wheel mounting member 7 at the upper transfer position as shown in FIG. It is possible to smoothly get on the vehicle 7, and since the bulging portion 9 is slightly bulging from the upper surface of the wheel passage portion, the driver can get on the wheel mounting member 7 while riding on the vehicle V. The transfer of the wheels W can be confirmed.

Thereafter, the turning device 20 carries the central portion of the pallet P and turns 90 degrees, places the pallet P on the carriage 18, and the carriage 18 rises. As the carriage 18 rises, as shown in FIG. 2B, each wheel mounting member 7 is held at the lower transport position,
The unexpected movement of the wheels W is prevented, the carriage 18 is raised to the position of the empty storage shelf 17, and the pallet P carrying the vehicle V is stored in the storage shelf 17 by the transfer device (not shown) provided in the carriage 18. Store. At the time of leaving the pallet, the pallet P carrying the vehicle V is lowered to the external communication portion 16 by the operation reverse to the above-mentioned warehousing, and the pallet P is rotated by the turning device 20.
The posture of the upper vehicle V is changed so that the vehicle V can leave the entrance 1 without moving forward.

[Other Embodiment] In the above embodiment,
Although the projection 10 provided on the wheel mounting member 7 and the stopper 12 provided on the pallet body 1 side constitute the floating prevention means 13, the floating prevention means 13 is as follows.
Various configurations are possible. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, protrusions 10 are formed on the front and rear side walls of the recessed portion 5 of the pallet body 1.
Of the wheel mounting member 7 is formed by forming a long hole 21 that allows the vertical movement of the wheel 10 and contacting the protrusion 10 with the upper edge 22 of each long hole 21.
The upper edge 22 of the long hole 21 acts as an upper limit member, and the protrusion 10 and the upper edge 22 of the long hole 21 form the floating prevention means 13. Will be done.

Further, in order to hold the wheel mounting member 7 at the upper transfer position, in addition to the structure in which it is held by the holding member 19 provided in the external communication portion 16, as shown in FIG. A leg member 23 is extended downward from the placing member 7, and the wheel placing member 7 is held at the transfer position by contacting the floor surface of the external communication portion 16 of the leg member 23. It can also be implemented. In this case, the levitation prevention means 13
As shown in FIG. 8, a stopper member 24 is provided below the leg member 23, and the bottom surface of the bottom wall of the recess 5 of the stopper member 24 is used as the stopper member 24. It is also possible to prevent the wheel mounting member 7 from being lifted up by abutting against it. In this case, the bottom wall of the recessed portion 5 acts as an upper limit member, and the stopper member 24 and the bottom of the recessed portion 5 act. The bottom surface of the wall constitutes the levitation prevention means 13.

[Brief description of drawings]

[Figure 1] Schematic side view of a multi-storey car park

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of a main part along the longitudinal direction of the pallet.

FIG. 3 is a view on arrow AA in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a wheel mounting member of a pallet.

[Figure 5] Plan view of the pallet body

[Figure 6] Front view of pallet body

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a main part along a longitudinal direction of a pallet showing another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of a main part along a longitudinal direction of a pallet showing another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view of a main part along the longitudinal direction of a pallet showing a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pallet main body 5 Recessed part 7 Wheel mounting member 10 Projection part 11 Guide part 12 Upper limit member of guide part 13 Floating prevention means 15 Doorway 16 External communication part 17 Storage shelf 18 Lifting table 19 Holding member P Vehicle mounting pallet V Vehicle W Wheel

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. When a vehicle is mounted at an appropriate position with respect to a pallet body, a wheel mounting member for mounting wheels of the vehicle is provided on the pallet body, and the wheel mounting member is provided at an upper transfer position. It is configured to be movable in the up-and-down direction between the lower transfer position, and the wheels of the vehicle are transferred to the wheel mounting member in a state where the wheel mounting member is positioned at the upper transfer position,
A vehicle mounting pallet configured to convey the vehicle in a state in which the wheel mounting member is positioned at a lower transfer position, wherein the wheel mounting member is positioned at an upper transfer position. , A pallet for mounting on a vehicle provided with a levitation preventing means for preventing the wheel mounting member from being lifted upward. 2. A projection is provided on one of the wheel mounting member and the pallet body, and a guide is provided on the other to permit relative vertical movement with respect to the projection, and the upper limit member of the guide and the guide are provided. 2. The pallet for mounting on a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the levitation preventing means is constituted by a protrusion. 3. The pallet body is provided with a recessed portion into which a wheel is inserted, the wheel mounting member is configured to be movable in the vertical direction within the recessed portion, and the wheel mounting member is provided with the protrusion. The vehicle-mounted pallet according to claim 2, wherein the guide portion is provided on the side of the pallet body that is recessed. 4. The recessed portion has a substantially rectangular shape in plan view, the long side thereof is provided along the longitudinal direction of the pallet body, and the wheel mounting member also has a substantially rectangular shape corresponding to the recessed portion. The vehicle mounting pallet according to claim 3, wherein the protrusions are provided on both short sides of the rectangular wheel mounting member. 5. The wheel mounting member is provided at a total of four positions where a pair of left and right front wheels and rear wheels of the vehicle are mounted when the vehicle is mounted at an appropriate position with respect to a pallet body. The vehicle-mounted pallet according to any one of items 1 to 4. 6. A multi-story parking lot using the vehicle-mounted pallet according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle-mounted pallets are arranged in a vertical direction and stored in a plurality of storage shelves. The vehicle includes an external communication section that communicates with a doorway through which a vehicle enters and exits, and an elevating platform that moves up and down along an elevating path that extends between the external communication section and a plurality of storage shelves, and the pallet body is used by the vehicle to get in and out of the external communication section. A holding member for lifting the wheel mounting member from below and holding the wheel mounting member at an upper transfer position when the holding position is maintained is provided in the external communication section, and the pallet body is lifted by the lifting platform. Along with this, a multi-level parking lot configured to hold the wheel mounting member at a lower transfer position and transfer the vehicle.