Patents Assigned to Matex Gear and Pump Co., Inc.
  • Automated multistory parking system
    Patent number: 5000642
    Abstract: A multistory parking garage has an elevator constrained to move vertically within a central core to reach a plurality of vertically stacked parking cells. A vehicle transport carriage mounted on the elevator rolls the vehicle from the elevator into an empty parking cell and returns to the elevator or rolls a vehicle from the parking cell onto the elevator. The carriage includes resilient members for engaging and disengaging the underside of the vehicle without damage thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Matex Gear and Pump Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhito Matoba