公开(公告)号：US20210108433A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17068650

申请日：2020-10-12

申请人： CityLift Parking, LLC

发明人： Brandon Michael Richardson ,  Jian Biao Zhang

IPC分类号： E04H6/42 ,  E04H6/22 ,  G05D3/20 ,  H04L29/08

摘要： A vehicle lift and storage system (VLSS) can have distributed control and power networks. The VLSS includes a central control unit (CCU) and a plurality of distributed control units (DCUs). Each of the DCUs is associated with and can control one or more vehicle lifts within the VLSS. For instance, each DCU can include high voltage switches (e.g., contactors) for operating one or more motors for moving vehicle platforms on the vehicle lifts associated with that DCU. The CCU can generate and transmit commands to cause the DCU to activate or deactivate the motors in accordance with desired vehicle storage or retrieval operations. Furthermore, the DCUs are configurable to be daisy chained such that a first DCU can communicate with the CCU on the control network via a second DCU and the first DCU can further receive high voltage power for operating its associated motors via the second DCU.