RU2399523C2 - Method of operating gas station and gas station - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to gas station design, equipment and operation. On entering gas station territory, in filling zone, and stopping nearby gas filling pump, automobile is filled and filling paid for. Automobile stopped nearby gas filling pump and filled, automobile is identified. Automobile exit is via intermediate zone given a clear light. Before exit from gas station, automobile is also indentified and lifting gate goes, first, up and, then, down. Gas station comprises fenced territory and entrance and exit, fuel columns, operators' rooms, fuel tanks with fuel tanks filling/emptying site, emergency tank, sewage treatment plant and service pipelines, ACS, fuel level metering system in tanks, security and fire signaling system, lightning protection system and grounding circuits. Intermediate zone is located between gas filling columns and operators' room, while signaling units and lifting gates mounted on exit from gas station are located along automobile exit direction. Each gas filling column area is equipped with video surveillance camera, inductive transducers and printers.

EFFECT: reduced time of staying in gas station territory.

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Description

The invention relates to the design, equipment, construction and operation of gas stations (gas stations) and gas stations (gas stations) and can be used during servicing during the holidays of oil products and related products.

A known gas station (gas station), consisting of an entry and exit zone, a gas station zone, a camera room, a canopy, tanks for storing various types of fuel, fuel dispensers (fuel dispensers), process pipelines, a tank discharge / loading platform, an emergency tank, treatment facilities, automatic control and management systems, systems for measuring the level of fuel in tanks, fire and security alarms, lightning protection and grounding systems, a technological system for filling tankers tanks is small of the volume of diesel fuel. See “Oil and Capital,” No. 7-8, 1999, p. 75. This gas station allows you to make payments in cash and using plastic cards. This gas station does not have protection against an unscrupulous consumer. At this gas station, payment involves the customer leaving the vehicle and payment for refueling in the operator room. It takes some time. At the same time, the client, leaving the refueling place and leaving the vehicle unattended at the refueling place, risks being left without a vehicle due to its carelessness. There were cases when a vehicle was stolen from a gas station with young passengers.

Known adopted for the prototype, a gas station (gas station), consisting of an entry and exit zone, a gas station zone, a control room, a canopy, tanks for storing different types of fuel, fuel dispensers (fuel dispensers), process pipelines, a tank discharge / loading platform, an emergency reservoir, treatment facilities, systems of automatic control and management, systems for measuring the level of fuel in tanks, fire alarm systems, lightning protection and grounding systems, barriers, technological systems for filling rez boulevard voyages of small volume diesel fuel. See patent RU 2287442 cl. B60S 5/02, publ. 11/20/2006. Bull. Number 32. This gas station in the presence of a barrier at the entrance does not increase the possibility of protection against an unscrupulous consumer, but at the same time allows payments to be made at the gas station at the operator’s site. At this gas station, payment involves the customer leaving the vehicle and payment for refueling at the operator’s window. It takes some time. At the same time, the client, leaving the refueling place and leaving the vehicle unattended at the refueling place, risks being left without a vehicle due to its carelessness.

There is a known method of operation of a gas station, in which the consumer makes unhindered entry into the area of a car gas station and stops at a free fuel dispenser, leaves the vehicle, goes to the operator’s room, announces the dose necessary for refueling, presents a credit card or cash to the ticket office, and refills the declared dose to the vehicle and freely leaves the area of the car gas station. See “Oil and Capital” No. 10, 2000, p. 71. The process of operating a gas station involves the customer leaving the vehicle and paying for refueling in the operator's room. It takes some time. At the same time, the client, leaving the refueling place and leaving the vehicle unattended at the refueling place, risks being left without a vehicle due to its carelessness.

There is a known method of operation of a gas station, in which the consumer makes unimpeded entry into the area of a car gas station and stops at a free fuel dispenser, leaves the vehicle, goes to the operator’s room, declares the dose necessary for refueling, while the operator controls the location of the vehicles, presents the ticket office in the operator’s credit card or cash, in the general order, refills the declared dose to the vehicle and leaves without hindrance Well automotive fueling station. See Rules for the technical operation of gas stations. RD 153-39.2-080-01. With amendments and additions - St. Petersburg: Publishing House DEAN, 2005, p. 32-34. The gas station operation process involves the client leaving the vehicle and paying for refueling in the operator's room. It takes some time. At the same time, the client, leaving the refueling place and leaving the vehicle unattended at the refueling place, risks being left without a vehicle due to its carelessness.

The objective of the proposed group of inventions is to obtain a rational device and method of refueling, convenient and convincing for both the client and the staff, to ensure the fastest and most effective service.

The technical result of the group of inventions is to reduce the length of time a vehicle stays in a gas station and to provide unauthorized departure from a gas station.

This is achieved by the fact that the way the gas station operates includes entering the territory of the refueling zone and stopping the vehicle at the fuel dispenser, refueling it with subsequent payment and leaving it at the gas station, while stopping and refueling at the fuel dispenser, identifies the vehicle and leaves the vehicle is carried out through the intermediate zone, into the exit zone to the traffic light allowing signal, the subsequent identification of the vehicle before leaving the gas station and leaving the gas station with an open barrier, which closes the passage to the next vehicle.

This is achieved by the fact that a gas station, including a partially fenced area with entry and exit, on which there are covered fuel dispensers, operator rooms and tanks for storing various types of fuel with a drain / fill area from a tanker, an emergency tank, treatment facilities and technological pipelines, a system automatic monitoring and control, a system for measuring the level of fuel in tanks, fire and security alarms, a system of lightning protection and grounding, also has an intermediate well, located between the fuel dispenser and the operator’s width 20 ± 5.0 meters, and the operator’s are located along the exit of the vehicle when leaving between the operator’s, which are made in the form of cash houses with signaling devices and barriers installed at the exit from the gas station, with each place fuel dispensers are equipped with a video surveillance camera, inductive sensors and print printers.

At the same time, at the exit from the territory of the gas station for each exit, video surveillance cameras are installed.

Figure 1 presents a part of the territory of a gas station from gas station to departure.

Figure 2 presents the preliminary check.

The device of a gas station includes a gas station 1, on which fuel dispensers (fuel dispensers) 2 with a canopy 3 and inductive sensors 4, printers 5, a video surveillance camera 6, and an exit zone 7 of a refueling vehicle 8. are located. Exit zone 7 of a refueling vehicle (TS) ) 8 is located between the stand-alone operator 9, made in the form of houses. The operator’s 9 in the form of houses are equipped with an alarm 10 and a barrier 11. Between the refueling zone 1 and the exit zone 7, an intermediate zone 12 is located.

The way a gas station operates includes unimpeded entry into the territory of a car gas station and stopping the vehicle 8 in the refueling zone 1 at a free fuel dispenser 2, fixing the entrance and stopping the vehicle with inductive sensors 4, removing or removing the dispensing tap from the lodgement, and refueling the required dose of fuel of the required brand to the vehicle with the identification of this vehicle. In this case, the removal of the dispensing tap is fixed and the received dose of fuel is fixed by this vehicle. Then these data go to the operator, and are also summarized in a preliminary check. A preliminary check (see figure 2), including the identification of the vehicle in the form of a barcode and a dose of fuels, is printed by a printer 5 installed at the column 13 supporting the canopy 3. The client receives a preliminary check and leaves the refueling zone, continuing to move the refueling vehicle through the intermediate zone 12 into the exit zone 7 to the enable signal of the detector 10. It stops at the operator’s at arm's length and presents the operator with a preliminary check. The scanner operator reads the preliminary check and the image of the refueled vehicle appears on the screen and a cash receipt for payment is automatically generated. The prohibitory signal of the signaling device 10 is turned on. The client pays for the received fuel, receives the fuel payment check and leaves the territory of the gas station when the barrier 11 is opened. An alarm signal is set on the signaling device 10. The barrier 11 is closed.

A device for implementing the method of operation of a gas station is made in accordance with the requirements for such objects even at the stage of designing a gas station and placement of gas equipment, it should be taken into account that a territory having certain zones, entry and exit must also have a certain sequence of location of these zones for the implementation of this group of the proposed inventions. So the refueling zone 1, on which the fuel dispensers (fuel dispensers) 2 are located, should be located parallel to the exit zone 7, on which are located stand-alone operator 9, made in the form of operator houses, and have barriers that prevent unauthorized departure of the vehicle with this control method refueling vehicles. Between refueling zone 1 and exit zone 7, an intermediate zone 12 of a certain width should be located, in our case (20.0 meters ± 5.0 meters), which ensures convenient movement of the vehicle from any of the dispensers to any operator 9 with optimal use of the gas station territory from the point view of economic benefits. If the intermediate zone 12 will be made less than 15.0 meters, then refueling on the first dispenser 2 located at the top in figure 1, the vehicle will not be convenient to move to the free extreme operator 9, located below in figure 1. And if the intermediate zone 12 is made more than 25.0 meters, then this will lead to a significant increase in the territory of the gas station, which is not economically profitable. Refueling zone 1 can have several double or separate fuel dispensers number one and number two, for access to the fuel station of the fuel dispenser both on the left and on the right. Figure 1 shows two refueling points, and there can be several such downstream refueling sites. In our particular case, four two-sided fuel dispensers were installed along axes 14 with a distance of 6.5 meters between them under one canopy, i.e. eight gas stations and three operator 9, made in the form of three operator houses. In our case, Dresser Wayne LHR C 44-44 with the Uniset SetOil Crystal controller are installed as fuel dispensers. Inductive sensors of type 4 M2N in loops provide recognition of the vehicle entering the fueling zone 1 or its departure. As printers 5, thermal printers of the Aura series (PP 7000 / 7000-11) are used. A Panasonic 6 WV-CP240 surveillance video camera 6 with an LZA61 / 2E lens, a focal length of 3.5-8 mm per 1/3 inch matrix, which are mounted on posts on the side of the driveway, so as not to interfere with traffic, is directed to each refueling point . Surveillance video cameras 6 can also be installed on top at a height of ~ 4 m under the roof of the canopy for each filling station of the fuel dispenser. The level of illumination of the fueling place of the fuel dispenser with the vehicle on it is controlled by a light relay, providing high-quality shooting of the vehicle at the time of the refueling session. A similar video surveillance camera 6 (not shown in FIG.) Is installed at the exit 15 with a similar aspect of the survey. Each operator’s house is equipped with a signaling device 10 in the form of a two-signal traffic light located on the side of the intermediate zone, sometimes called the queue zone, which regulates the access of customers' cars from columns to the ticket office. In our case, traffic lights and barriers of SCHEIDT & BACHMANN company with a control of +24 V were installed. Each exit from the operator’s house outside the territory of the gas station is equipped with a barrier 11 that regulates the exit of the vehicle from it. Each operator’s or cashhouse’s house is 3.2 x 2.7 meters in size and is equipped in accordance with the requirements for the operator’s office, which simultaneously functions as a cashier. The operator’s workplace is equipped with a personal computer with an application server, a barcode scanner for reading preliminary checks, called tickets, a card reader and a fiscal registrar. Camera houses can have a set of small goods for piece sales. One of the operator’s houses with a vehicle on one side may have a developed area for household and administrative needs on the other side of the road. The carriageway at the checkout cottage has a width of 3.5 meters.

The operation of the device and the implementation of the proposed method of operation of a gas station are as follows. The vehicle freely enters the territory of the gas station and follows to refueling zone 1, on which fuel dispensers (fuel dispensers) are located 2. For example, at the very first fuel dispenser, the number one gas station. This vehicle may be a car, motorcycle or moped. The inductive sensor 4 provides recognition of the fact of arrival and being in the refueling zone of the vehicle by its operation. A client or employee of the fuel dispenser extracts the dispensing tap from the lodgement and refills the required dose of fuel of the required brand in the vehicle. For example, I poured 30 liters of AI-95 gasoline into the tank of a vehicle. During the refueling process, this vehicle is identified by turning on the surveillance video camera 6 and obtaining a real image of the refueling real vehicle. At the same time, if the lighting is insufficient to obtain a clear image, then the camera adjusts to the illumination on its own, automatically, coma of which the video capture program does the same. The data that the fuel dispenser with the refueling place number one of such a date and at that time a vehicle with such a picture refueled is received by all three operator 9. This data is also sent to the printer 5 belonging to the fuel dispenser with the refueling place number one in in the form of a barcode and a dose of fuel, and is printed by the printer 5 in the form of a preliminary check (see figure 2). The client takes a preliminary check printed by the printer, or it is handed to him by an employee of the shopping center. With this preliminary check, he leaves the refueling zone and continues to move the refueling vehicle through the intermediate zone 12 to the exit zone 7 to the green light of the traffic light, which signals that this operator is free and ready to accept payment for refueling the vehicle. The barrier 11 is closed. The vehicle drives up to the free operator’s room and stops at her arm’s distance from the operator’s payment window, which is the calculation node. At the entrance to the exit zone, the enabling green traffic signal is turned off and the prohibiting red traffic signal is turned on. A preliminary check is presented to the operator. The operator reads the preliminary check with the scanner, and the image of the vehicle refueling at the fuel dispenser with the number one refueling place appears on the screen, which it compares with the image of the vehicle that arrived for payment, which the operator sees in real time from the surveillance video camera 6 installed at the exit. These two images are made in such a way that the state registration numbers of the vehicle are also viewed. If the vehicle is identified by the operator, then the received fuel is paid in cash or by credit card. In confirmation of payment, the driver receives a payment receipt. If at the same time the client wants to receive related products, then he can also purchase them with payment either in cash or by credit card (bank cards, cards of the owner of the filling station). After the payments made by the client, the barrier 11 opens and the vehicle leaves the gas station. The barrier 11 closes, and at the traffic light the prohibiting red light changes to the green allowing.

Identification by vehicle state registration numbers and with video surveillance cameras installed at the exit is made for the convenience and acceleration of the operator’s work.

Figure 1 does not represent the entry zone at the gas station and the zone of placement of standard technical and household equipment that meet the requirements included in the "Rules for the technical operation of gas stations" RD 153-39.2-080-01, since the tanks for storing different types of fuel, technological pipelines, tank discharge / loading platform, emergency tank, treatment facilities, automatic monitoring and control systems, fuel level measurement systems in tanks, fire alarm systems, lightning systems shields and grounding and are naturally present in this group of inventions. However, without this equipment, the functioning of any gas station is not possible.

This method and device can provide high throughput of the refueling complex while minimizing the downtime of the fuel dispenser, because the client releases her immediately after refueling. The customer service time at the settlement node is no more than 25 seconds. Refueling one vehicle is carried out in one minute at the rate that 40 liters are purchased on average. Therefore, the number of operator three is less than the number of refueling spots eight, i.e. the number of operator rooms is two or three times less than the number of refueling spots. This method and device allows for adequate control of the fuel dispensing process in real time with the prompt dispensing of the required dose to the client and 100% identification of the dose, client, date, time and place of fueling of the dispenser. This helps to ensure an adequate and "transparent" accounting of oil products sold with accurate calculation for an identified client.

Claims (3)

1. The method of operation of a gas station, including entering the territory of the refueling zone and stopping the vehicle at the fuel dispenser, refueling it with subsequent payment and leaving the gas station, characterized in that when stopping and refueling at the fuel dispenser, the vehicle is identified and the check-out the vehicle is carried out through the intermediate zone, into the exit zone to the traffic light enabling signal, the subsequent identification of the vehicle before leaving the gas station and exit from the gas station with an open barrier that closes travel for the next vehicle. 2. A gas station, including a partially fenced area with entry and exit, on which there are indoor fuel dispensers, operator rooms and tanks for storing various types of fuel with a tank discharge / loading platform, an emergency tank, treatment facilities and process pipelines, an automatic control system and control system, a fuel level measurement system in tanks, fire alarm, lightning protection and grounding system, characterized in that between the fuel dispenser and the operator an intermediate zone of 20 ± 5.0 m width is laid, and the operator’s are located along the exit of the vehicle and are made in the form of cash houses with signaling devices and barriers installed at the exit from the gas station, with each gas station equipped with a video surveillance camera, inductive sensors and printers print. 3. The gas station according to claim 2, characterized in that at the exit from the territory of the gas station for each exit CCTV cameras are installed.

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