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Number: 414/227
Name: Material or article handling > Apparatus particularly adapted for charging or discharging a facility comprising one or more sites for the parking of wheeled vehicles
Description: Apparatus comprising means for carrying, moving, placing, transporting, etc., one or more wheeled vehicles from, in, into, on, onto, off from, out of, within, etc., a facility where it may be allowed to remain for a period of time. The facility may comprise only a site for parking one vehicle, or it may involve a plurality of parking sites; in the latter case, in particular, it may include building structure (e.g., as in a parking garage). Any parking site, or any or all of a plurality of such sites, may be either (a) fixed in nature, or (b) of a kind which is occasionally or frequently subjected to being moved bodily (e.g., orbitally, laterally displaced, etc.).


Sub-classes under this class:

Class Number Class Name Patents
414/261 Carrier-facility-site relationship 27
414/228 Facility includes structure (e.g., ramp, angularly related successive locations for a vehicle, etc.) necessitating self-propellability or steerability of vehicle 42
414/233 Including one or more movable sites 21
414/231 With control system responsive to changeable operating instructions 24
414/232 With means to sense condition of site 15
414/253 With means to transfer, or facilitate transfer of, vehicle from carrier to site or vice versa 38
414/252 With vehicle storage or retrieval system responsive to manual designation of destination 17


Patents under this class:

Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7546179 Method and apparatus for allowing mobile robot to return to docking station Jun. 9, 2009
7376487 Nesting negotiation for self-mobile devices May. 20, 2008
6974293 Material handling assembly Dec. 13, 2005
6858119 Mobile plating system and method Feb. 22, 2005
6851921 Automated parking garage Feb. 8, 2005
6503379 Mobile plating system and method Jan. 7, 2003
6389329 Mobile robots and their control system May. 14, 2002
6356808 Method for cell alignment and identification and calibration of robot tool Mar. 12, 2002
6330766 Dwelling structure adapted to enclose an oversized vehicle Dec. 18, 2001
6282459 Structure and method for detection of physical interference during transport of an article Aug. 28, 2001
6266609 Parking space detection Jul. 24, 2001
6161054 Cell control method and apparatus Dec. 12, 2000
5936550 Surveillance apparatus Aug. 10, 1999
5864995 Storage structure in particular a multi-story car park Feb. 2, 1999
5645388 Cantilever lift assembly for stationary small aircraft Jul. 8, 1997
5601390 Conveyor-type three dimensional parking system Feb. 11, 1997
5470185 Parking garage Nov. 28, 1995
5314284 Parking tower with a carrier handling device on a elevator May. 24, 1994
5267822 Automatic automobile parking garage Dec. 7, 1993
5185978 Place-on type assemblable structure Feb. 16, 1993
5049802 Charging system for a vehicle Sep. 17, 1991
4825927 Controlled shading device May. 2, 1989
4777416 Recharge docking system for mobile robot Oct. 11, 1988
4747242 Two level structure for parking vehicles or storing goods May. 31, 1988
4674937 Multi-level vehicle parking facility Jun. 23, 1987
4672280 Mobile robot calling system Jun. 9, 1987
4583902 Method and system for storing wheeled frames of detachable cargo container type trailers Apr. 22, 1986
4377227 Storage of hand-propelled vehicles Mar. 22, 1983
4362459 System for storing and transporting guided missiles and similar flying bodies Dec. 7, 1982
4109804 Vehicle parking system with a plurality of movable columns having vehicle supporting floors Aug. 29, 1978
4067469 Method of loading automobiles through the side opening of a rail car Jan. 10, 1978
4061237 Forklift truck Dec. 6, 1977
4041686 Method of and arrangement for transporting yarn packages Aug. 16, 1977



 
 
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