Management system, management device, management method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12276131-B2
Application number	US-202017637822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2020
Priority date	Sep 24, 2019
Publication date	Apr 15, 2025
Grant date	Apr 15, 2025

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a management system includes a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, and a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle. The vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received.

First claim

What is claim is:

1. A management system comprising:
a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space; and
a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle,
wherein the vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received,
wherein the controller controls the vehicle conveying device so that a distance from another vehicle parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is less than a prescribed distance and the vehicle is parallel parked with respect to the another vehicle, and
wherein, when a plurality of vehicles are parallel parked in the parking space, the vehicle conveying device is on standby in a state in which at least one of a foremost vehicle and a rearmost vehicle among the plurality of vehicles that are parallel parked is able to be conveyed.

2. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the prescribed distance is a distance at which the vehicle is not able to be delivered from the parking space even if the vehicle moves in the forward-backward direction with a steering operation.

3. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein, when the plurality of vehicles are parallel parked in the parking space, the controller controls the vehicle conveying device so that at least one of a foremost vehicle and a rearmost vehicle among the plurality of vehicles that are parallel parked is parked in proximity to a boundary of the parking space.

4. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the vehicle conveying device so that a parking location of the vehicle that is a conveyance target is determined on the basis of location information of other vehicles parked within the parking space and the vehicle that is the conveyance target is conveyed to the determined parking location.

5. The management system according to claim 1 , further comprising an adjuster configured to cause a vehicle parked within the parking space to move by controlling the vehicle conveying device so that a distance between vehicles parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is less than the prescribed distance when the distance between the vehicles parked within the parking space in the forward-backward direction is greater than or equal to the prescribed distance according to the delivery of the vehicle.

6. The management system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle management device further includes a manager configured to calculate a parking time period of the vehicle on the basis of a start time point when conveyance of the vehicle from a prescribed location within the section has been started by the vehicle conveying device or a parking time point when the vehicle has been parked in the parking space and an end time point when the conveyance of the vehicle outside of the parking space has been ended by the vehicle conveying device or a delivery time point when the vehicle has been delivered.

7. The management system according to claim 6 , wherein, when the parking time period has exceeded a prescribed time period, the manager controls the vehicle conveying device so that a vehicle whose parking time period has exceeded the prescribed time period is conveyed outside of the parking space.

8. The management system according to claim 6 , wherein, when the parking time period has exceeded a prescribed time period, the manager requests conveyance of the vehicle whose parking time period has exceeded the prescribed time period by another device different from the vehicle conveying device.

9. A management system comprising:
a vehicle conveying device configured to convey a vehicle that has entered a management area; and
a management device configured to manage the management area,
wherein the management device includes
a determiner configured to determine whether or not it is necessary to convey a target vehicle that has entered the management area; and
a first controller configured to cause the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point by controlling the vehicle conveying device when the determiner determines that it is necessary to convey the target vehicle,
wherein the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle when the target vehicle is able to travel autonomously according to control of the management device,
wherein the management device further includes a second controller configured to cause the target vehicle to move to a target movement point by controlling the target vehicle when the determiner determines that it is unnecessary to convey the target vehicle, and
wherein the first controller causes the target vehicle to be conveyed to a target conveyance point within a range of a first area near a gate of the management area by controlling the vehicle conveying device, and
wherein the second controller causes the target vehicle to be moved to the target movement point within a range of a second area that is not near the gate of the management area by controlling the target vehicle.

10. The management system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the first controller designates target conveyance points in order from a location nearest a gate of the management area, and
wherein the second controller designates target movement points in order from a location farthest from the gate of the management area.

11. The management system according to claim 9 ,
wherein the management device limits a traveling area where the vehicle conveying device is able to travel,
wherein the first controller designates a location where a filling density of vehicles in the traveling area becomes high as the target conveyance point, and
wherein the second controller designates a location where parking/delivery efficiency for vehicles becomes high as the target movement point.

12. A management system for managing a vehicle within a multistory parking lot where an elevator is provided, the management system comprising:
a conveyor device configured to be able to travel autonomously and convey the vehicle; and
a control device configured to cause the conveyor device to travel autonomously on a floor of the multistory parking lot and cause the conveyor device to convey the vehicle,
wherein the control device causes the conveyor device to convey the vehicle into the elevator when the vehicle is moved from a first floor of the multistory parking lot to a second floor,
wherein the control device causes the elevator into which the vehicle has been carried to be moved from the first floor to the second floor,
wherein the control device further causes the conveyor device to be placed on the elevator by causing the conveyor device to travel autonomously,
wherein the control device further causes the conveyor device to be moved from the first floor to the second floor by lifting or lowering the elevator on which the conveyor device is placed, and
wherein the control device determines a conveyor device to be placed on the elevator and moved to the second floor from among a plurality of conveyor devices on the basis of a state of each of the plurality of conveyor devices.

13. The management system according to claim 12 ,
wherein the control device causes a conveyor device whose state is not more suitable than those of other conveyor devices among the pluralit

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shikano Naoto
• MUROZONO Tomoki
• Kondo Shuhei
• Masuda Koji
• Taguchi Ryoma

Classifications

• G08G1/148

  Management of a network of parking areas · CPC title

• E04H6/12

  with mechanical means for shifting or lifting vehicles · CPC title

• G08G1/146

  where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space · CPC title

• E04H6/424

  Positioning devices · CPC title

• E04H6/24 Primary

  characterised by use of dollies for horizontal transport {, i.e. cars being permanently parked on wheeled platforms} · CPC title