Product Profile of K-park Mechanized Multi-level Car Parking Systems, Puzzle Type
Kinetic escalator & elevator company limited [keel] belongs to pune’s kinetic group. Two wheeler majors kinetic engineering limited and kinetic motor company limited are the flagship companies of the group.
Keel is exclusive india distributor of hyundai elevator company limited , korea’s pioneering manufacturers of escalators & elevators and korea’s first iso 9001. Keel’s also handles the group’s business of multi-level mechanized car parking systems, pioneered by kinetic group in india.
Semi-automatic auto parking systems have been pioneered by kinetic under the trademark ‘k-park`, with know-how from korea. These mechanized car parking systems make feasible seemingly infeasible car parking requirements.
As against cars being driven [on ramps] or carried [in car lifts] to different levels in conventional multi-level parking, cars are driven at only one level for parking or retrieval in k-park systems. Cars are parked in steel pallets and a target pallet comes up or down to the driveway level at the press of a button, for parking or retrieval.
Such car parking systems or auto parking systems are also referred to by various other names in different parts of the world, such as auto-parking, "stack-parking", "mechanized parking", "mechanical parking", "parkomat", modular parking etc.
K-park semi-automatic systems are of the following five types:
- Jack type
K-park range also includes a fully automatic system, horizontal circulation type, described below briefly.
Puzzle type parking systems
The puzzle range permits:
Near doubling of the parking capacity on a slab area with a clear height of only about 12 feet, near tripling with [i] clear height about 18 feet, or [ii] clear height 12 feet with pits of a little under 7 feet depth, and near quadrupling with a clear height of about 24 feet. The systems can be installed in basements, under stilts, in open grounds and even on a terrace [subject to it having been designed to take the load of the cars and the parking systems].
Puzzle parking systems are modular they come in modules of various capacities to suit column grid spacing and can be ordered and installed in a phased manner. The motors used in these are of low wattage [but with high gearing] and have low duty cycles. As a result, energy consumption cost per parking or retrieval operation averages only 10 to 25 paise [depending on the configuration] at electricity cost rs.5 a unit. The connected load of a module is low and a 5 kva generator can suffice to provide back up to a module - it can even serve many such modules with changeover switches. Further, in most cases, it is possible to manually bring a pallet from an upper level to the ground level in case of breakdown to retrieve the car parked on.
