Patent ID: 9073591
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: B62H,E04H

Abstract:
1. A bicycle parking apparatus comprising: a rotational driving unit supplying power; a rotational storage unit constituted by multiple layers, rotated by power from the rotational driving unit, and partitioned into a plurality of bicycle storing sections to store a plurality of bicycles in a radial arrangement; an elevation unit disposed at a peripheral side of the rotational storage unit to raise or or lower a bicycle of the plurality of bicycles thereon; and a loading/unloading unit provided to the elevation unit and holding the bicycle to at least one of load the bicycle from outside onto the elevation unit and to unload the bicycle from the elevation unit to the outside; wherein the rotational storage unit is provided with a securing unit which secures one of the plurality of bicycles stored therein, the securing unit comprises a guide rail disposed on a bottom of the rotational storage unit to guide a wheel of the bicycle, and a holder provided to the guide rail to selectively compress the wheel of the bicycle at both sides of the wheel; wherein the holder comprises: a pair of hinge brackets longitudinally separated from each other and hingably coupled to opposite sides of the guide rail to be symmetrical to each other; a support roller rotatably coupled to each end of the hinge brackets to connect the pair of hinge brackets; and a tension spring connecting the hinge brackets to each other to maintain an initial state of the hinge brackets symmetrically disposed at the opposite sides of the guide rail.