JP3454342B2 - Article storage device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention has a plurality of carriages for accommodating articles arranged vertically so that the carriages can be raised and lowered, and each carriage is selective with respect to the floor surface for taking in and out the articles. In the state where each carriage is stopped with respect to the floor surface for loading / unloading, an opening / closing door for opening / closing an entrance / exit for the carriage is provided on the floor surface side for loading / unloading, and based on an ascending / descending command, The present invention relates to an article storage device provided with a control means for controlling the raising and lowering stop of a carriage.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As described above, a carriage for accommodating articles is provided in a plurality of stages in the vertical direction so that it can be raised and lowered, and an opening / closing door is provided on the floor surface side for taking in and out, usually, Since it is premised that a person or the like goes up and down without being placed on the carriage, there is no means for detecting whether or not an object such as a person other than an article is present on the carriage.

[0003]

Therefore, in the conventional article storage device, there is a possibility that the article storage device moves up and down in the presence of an object such as a person in the carriage, and there is room for improvement in this respect.

The present invention has been made paying attention to such a point, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of an object other than an article in the carriage so that the object is present in the carriage. The point is to provide an article storage device capable of avoiding the up / down movement of the carriage and using the sensor to detect whether or not the open / close door is normally closed. It is in.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, according to the invention described in claim 1, a detection wave for detecting an object is projected onto a portion of the carriage other than the planned article storage location, and the projection is performed. A non-contact type object detection sensor that detects the presence or absence of an object by injecting the detected wave is provided, and there is no object in a place other than the place where goods are to be stored, and there is a door that opens and closes the entrance to the carriage. In order to allow the detection wave to be incident in the normally closed state, the components of the object detection sensor are provided separately for the open / close door and each carriage, and the control means for controlling the raising / lowering operation of the carriage based on the raising / lowering command, When the raising / lowering command is issued, if the detected wave is incident, the raising / lowering operation of the carriage is executed. Therefore, since the raising and lowering operation of the carriage is executed only when there is no object, especially a child, in a place other than the place where the goods are to be stored in the carriage, a person or an object is placed in a place other than the place where the goods are stored in the carriage. It is possible to avoid raising and lowering the carriage while it is present. Then, the object detection sensor can detect both the presence or absence of an object in a place other than the place where the articles are to be stored in the carriage and whether or not the open / close door is properly closed, so that the cost can be reduced. In particular, it is effective for a simple type equipped with a manual type opening / closing door for opening / closing the opening / closing door by artificial force.

[0006] According to the invention described in claim 1, housing a motorcycle in carriage, towards the front-rear direction motorcycles when viewed from the doorway side on the floor of the carriage, and held in upright position motorcycles Is provided with a two-wheeled vehicle holder for specifying the storage location of the vehicle. Therefore, it is possible to easily carry out the work of putting in and out by simply moving the motorcycle in the front-rear direction,
Moreover, since the motorcycle is held in the upright posture, the motorcycle can be held without being damaged as much as possible. Then, the storage device for a motorcycle as this, because there is a possibility that such a child enters accidentally carriage becomes particularly effective.

[0007] According to the invention described in claim 1, each carriage motorcycle holders are provided two by two, and the opening and closing door, in three sliding door that opens and closes by sliding in the lateral direction Each of the three slide doors is provided with a component of the object detection sensor , and the opening / closing door is
For two motorcycles by opening two sliding doors
It is constructed so that the motorcycle can be taken in and out while holding
There is . Therefore, by opening the two slide doors and to allow out only one of the two bicycle, it is possible to prevent the theft of the other bikes. Since the components of the object detection sensor in each of the three sliding door is provided, it is possible to open the door closing is detected reliably closed state to the normal.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the object detection sensor has a projector that projects a detection wave, a reflector that reflects the projected detection wave, and a detection wave reflected by the reflector. The reflector is provided on the opening / closing door side, and the projector and the injector are provided on each carriage side. Therefore, a reflector is provided on the side of the opening / closing door that operates, and it can be fixed to the inside of the carriage side where the projector and the injector, which require precise functions, rarely come into contact with other things. The failure of the object detection sensor can be prevented as much as possible.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment as a three-dimensional bicycle parking apparatus for a bicycle using the article storage apparatus of the present invention will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the three-dimensional bicycle parking device is formed with a roof, and has a passage 1 for putting in and out a bicycle B and a floor for taking in and out on both sides of the passage 1 for taking in and out. It is composed of a lift tower 2 for storing the excavated and formed bicycle B underground from the surface, and a control device H for controlling the operation of the three-dimensional bicycle parking facility.

The elevating tower 2 is constructed in the shape of a turret in which a large number of columns 3 are connected by a connecting frame 4, and an elevating space K for elevating and lowering each of the storage bodies 5 is a set of two adjacent elevating spaces K. It is provided. The storage body 5 is configured by connecting a carriage 8 having a storage base 7 as a two-wheeled vehicle holder on which two bicycles B are placed in an upright posture, and which are connected in a vertical five-stage chain. The uppermost carriage 8 is provided with a ceiling panel 6 covering the upper part thereof, and each storage body 5 is lifted up and down along two vertical guide rails 9 provided inside the lift tower 2 for guiding the lift. Move up and down in space K.

On the upper part of the elevating tower 2, a pair of two accommodating bodies 5 for elevating two adjoining elevating spaces K are set,
A drive elevating unit Y for driving and elevating the two storage bodies 5 is provided. The drive lift unit Y connects the upper parts of two adjacent housings 5 with two chains, and wraps the chains around two drive sprockets 11 driven by the electric motor 10 so that the drive sprockets 11 have a normal shape. By the reverse rotation, the two storage bodies 5 are integrally driven and moved up and down with one storage body 5 rising and the other storage body 5 descending.
Is configured so that it can be selectively stopped with respect to the floor surface 12 for taking in and out the bicycle B.

The access passage 1 has a floor surface 12 for access.
A reception operation section 14 having a card reader 13 which is formed at the same height as that of each of the two storage bodies 5 and which allows a user to insert a magnetic card when the bicycle is taken in and out, is provided. There is a user doorway 15 leading to the. Then, in the portion facing the elevating tower 2, a manual slide-type opening / closing door 16 that is opened and closed by manpower is stored so that the user can push and pull the bicycle forward and backward in the carriage 8 to move it in and out. Body 5
This slide type door 16 is provided in correspondence with each
It is composed of one slide door, and by opening the two slide doors, the bicycle B can be put in and taken out of one of the two storage bases 7, and the other storage base 7 can be prevented from being stolen. There is.

Each carriage 8 has two bicycles B adjacent to each other.
Are arranged along the lateral width direction, and are configured by a storage stand 7 that mounts and supports them at different heights, and an enclosure wall U that surrounds the storage stand. The surrounding wall U is provided in a U shape in a plan view, which includes two lateral side walls 17 that surround both left and right lateral sides of the storage platform 7 along the bicycle loading / unloading direction and a back sidewall that surrounds the bicycle loading / unloading direction rear side. The space for placing the adjacent bicycles B is partitioned by a partition wall 19 having a low height.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, each of the storage stands 7 is constructed so as to support the bicycle B in an upright posture so that the bicycle B can be freely taken in and out, and the storage stands 7 of the carriages 8 are adjacent to each other. The heights of the handles are different from each other so that they can be overlapped with each other at different heights. Also,
The storage stand 7 is inclined so that it becomes lower toward the rear side in the direction of loading and unloading the bicycle B, so that the loading and unloading of the bicycle B can be performed easily.

In each carriage 8, a reflection type photoelectric SW 20 as an object detection sensor for detecting the presence or absence of an object such as a child other than a bicycle and detecting whether or not the opening / closing door 16 is normally closed is provided at the back of the carriage 8. The side wall 18 is provided with a recursive reflection plate 21 as an object detection sensor on the side of the carriage 8 of the open / close door 16. In addition, reflective photoelectric SW
Reference numeral 20 is for projecting a detection wave P1 for detecting an article and for injecting a reflection detection wave P2 reflected by the recursive reflection plate 21. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 6, a detection wave P is projected from the reflection type photoelectric SW 20, the detection wave P1 is reflected by the recursive reflection plate 21, and the reflected reflection detection wave P is reflected. It is provided so as to enter the photoelectric switch 20. A return type reflection plate 21 is provided on each of the three slide type opening / closing doors 16, and the reflection type photoelectric switch SW2 is provided at a position corresponding to both sides of the mounted and supported bicycle B.
0 and a recursive reflection plate 21 are provided.

In this way, the bicycle B placed and supported
Detects whether or not there is an object on both sides of, and
A reflection type photoelectric SW 20 and a return type reflection plate 21 are provided so as to detect whether or not the opening / closing door 16 is normally closed. That is, when an object such as a child is present in the carriage 8, the detection wave P projected from the reflection type photoelectric SW 20 is blocked by the object and reflected by the reflection type photoelectric SW SW.
Does not enter, it is possible to detect the presence of an object in the carriage 8 when the detection waves projected on all the reflection type photoelectric SWs 20 do not enter, and when the opening / closing door 16 is not normally closed, Since the detection wave P1 projected from the reflection type photoelectric SW20 does not enter the reflection type photoelectric SW as the reflection detection wave P2, all the reflection type photoelectric SW20
Thus, it is possible to detect that the open / close door is not normally closed when the reflected detection wave P2 does not enter.

Next, the operation of the three-dimensional bicycle parking apparatus will be described with reference to the control block diagram of FIG. 7 and the flowchart of FIG. A magnetic card has been issued to the user beforehand,
A code for instructing the storage table 5 or the like used by the user is recorded on the magnetic card, and the control device H electrically operates to selectively move the storage table 5 instructed by the magnetic card to the passage 1 for taking in and out. The operation of the motor 10 is controlled.

That is, when a magnetic card is inserted into the card reader 13 of the reception operation section 14 corresponding to the storage table 5 to be used, the control device H causes the code read by the card reader 13 and the instructed storage table 5 to be read. Based on the detection result of a lift position sensor S1 (not shown) that detects the current lift position, the electric motor 10 is driven, and lift control is performed to stop the designated storage base 5 at the same height position as the loading / unloading passage 1. The lock device L is unlocked so that the open / close door 16 can be opened and operated. Then, when the user finishes moving in and out of the bicycle B, the detection waves P1 projected from all the reflection type photoelectric SWs 20 are reflected by the recursive reflection plate 21, and the reflected reflection detection waves P2 are reflected in all the reflection type photoelectrics. SW2
When it is detected that the incident light is incident on 0, it is determined that there is no object in the carriage 8 and the opening / closing door 16 is normally closed, and the lock device L is locked to eject the magnetic card from the card reader 13. Then, it is configured to be returned to the user.

[Other Embodiment] (1) In the above embodiment, the bicycle B is stored in the carriage 8, but the carriage 8 is structured to store a two-wheeled vehicle such as a motorcycle or a minibike. May be. Further, the carriage 8 may be configured to store articles such as luggage. For example, in a case where storage shelves are provided at both ends of the carriage 8 and a passage for a worker is provided in the central portion, at locations other than the storage shelves at both ends,
The object detection sensor may be configured to detect whether or not an object exists.

(2) In the above embodiment, the reflection type photoelectric SW.
Although 20 is configured to project and enter the detection wave, a projector for detecting and an injector for injecting the detection wave may be separately provided. In this case, the regressive reflection plate 21 may be eliminated and one of the projector and the injector may be provided on the side of the opening / closing door 16 and the other may be provided on the back side wall 18 of the carriage 8. Further, instead of the reflection type photoelectric SW 20, an infrared ray may be projected or an ultrasonic wave may be projected.

(3) In the above embodiment, the reflection type photoelectric SW.
20 is provided on the back side wall 18 of the carriage 8 and the return type reflection plate 21 is provided on the opening / closing door 16. However, the reflection type photoelectric SW 20 is provided on the opening / closing door 16 and the return type reflection plate 21 is provided. May be provided on the back side wall 18 of the carriage 8.

(4) In the above embodiment, the elevating tower 2 is dug below the floor 12 for loading and unloading, but the tower 2 is formed so as to stand upright above the floor 12 for loading and unloading. It may have been done. In addition, floor 1 for taking in and out
As the opening / closing door 16 provided on the second side, a manual type that opens and closes by artificial force is shown, but for example, a door that automatically opens and closes by pressing a push button for opening and closing is provided. Good.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the main part of the three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the main part of the three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the main part of the three-dimensional bicycle parking device.

FIG. 7 is a control block diagram.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 7 Motorcycle holder 8 Carriage 12 Entry / exit floor 16 Opening / closing door 20 Projector and injector as object detection sensor 21 Reflector plate as object detection sensor B Motorcycle H Control means P Detection wave

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. Carriage for accommodating an article is vertically arranged in a plurality of stages to be movable up and down, and each carriage is configured to be selectively stopable with respect to a floor surface for taking in and out the article. An opening / closing door that opens and closes an entrance / exit for the carriage is provided on the side of the floor for loading / unloading while each carriage is stopped with respect to the floor for loading / unloading, and the lifting operation of the carriage is controlled based on a lifting command. An object storage device provided with a control means for projecting a detection wave for detecting an object to a position other than the planned storage position of the article in the carriage, and detecting the presence or absence of an object by injecting the detected detection wave. A non-contact type object detection sensor for detecting the object is provided, and there is no object in a place other than the place where the articles are to be stored, and the opening / closing door is normally closed in the front. The component parts of the object detection sensor are provided so as to be distributed to the opening and closing door and each carriage so that the detection wave is incident, and the detection wave is incident when the control means issues the up-and-down command. In the state, the carriage is configured to perform the raising / lowering operation, and the article to be stored in the carriage is a two-wheeled vehicle.
Front and rear of the motorcycle on the floor of the garage seen from the entrance side
Hold the motorcycle upright and in a standing position to store the motorcycle.
A two-wheeled vehicle holder is provided, and each of the carriages is provided with two two-wheeled vehicle holders.
And the opening and closing door slides laterally to open and close
It consists of 3 slide doors and 3 slides
Each of the doors is equipped with the components of the object detection sensor.
The opening / closing door can be opened by opening two slide doors.
One of the two holders for the two-wheeled vehicle
An article storage device that is configured so that it can be stored. 2. The object detection sensor projects the detection wave.
Projector that emits light and reflection that reflects the detection wave projected
A plate and an injector for injecting a detection wave reflected by the reflection plate
The reflector is on the side of the opening / closing door, and the projector is
An injector is provided on each side of the carriage.
On-board goods storage device.