Patent ID: 6154685
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
A control apparatus for a motor vehicle parking system having a plurality of laterally moving pallets located on a ground-level floor, a plurality of lifting pallets located on an upper level column and whose number is at least one more than the number of the laterally moving pallets, a driving unit installed on each of the pallets supplying a driving force to move the pallets, and a control unit controlling the driving unit, the control apparatus comprising:a parking state backup unit storing both data indicating the identification of the lifting pallet called by the control unit during automatic parking operation and data indicating the operation status of the pallets caused by an operation of the lifting pallet; andan automatic parking resuming unit resuming the automatic parking operation by detecting the data indicating a current parking state of the system when power is recovered after a failure by comparing between the data stored in the parking state backup unit and data indicating the current parking state.