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Technique for facilitating and monitoring vehicle parking

  • US 5,432,508 A
  • Filed: 09/17/1992
  • Issued: 07/11/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for determining and indicating to operators of vehicles availability of predetermined individual spaces for parking vehicles in a vehicle parking facility, comprising:

  • sensing means for determining presence and absence of said vehicles in said spaces and for generating an availability signal indicative of the absence of vehicles in said spaces;

    indicator means situated proximate to said spaces and operative upon receipt of an indicator signal for directing said operators to said spaces in which said sensing means has determined a vehicle to be absent; and

    control means connected to the sensing means and the indicator means and operative for polling each sensing means of the facility during each of a plurality of re-occurring repetitive intervals, for receiving the availability signal of each sensing means polled during each of said intervals, for determining the availability of said spaces in response to the availability signal, for generating said indicator signal corresponding to said spaces which are available, and for periodically addressing each indicator means and supplying the indicator signal to the addressed indicator means.

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