The earliest known three-dimensional garage was built at 19 18, located in the parking garage of a hotel at No.215, West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The designers are Holabird and Roche. The garage was demolished in 2005, and a 49-story apartment was built on the original site. Liu Yu En of Jupiter Realty Corp, the first inventor in the field of transportation and construction mentioned in the 15th National Invention Exhibition, said that this invention is an unoccupied three-dimensional garage, which includes: a passage frame that allows vehicles to pass normally; The garage group fixedly arranged on the traffic frame has a multi-layer structure, and each layer at least includes two or more unit garages for storing vehicles; The longitudinal elevator is arranged in the garage group and the passage frame; A transverse moving frame which can move between the elevator and the unit garage; Push-type exchange device, which can put the vehicle on the transverse moving frame of the unit garage, or retrieve the vehicle on the unit garage on the transverse moving frame; A control mechanism that controls the storage or movement of a vehicle.

The problem of nowhere to park vehicles is the result of the development of urban society, economy and traffic to a certain extent. The development of three-dimensional parking equipment in foreign countries, especially in Japan, has a history of nearly 30~40 years, and it is successful both technically and experimentally. China also began to develop mechanical three-dimensional parking equipment in the early 1990 s, which has a history of ten years. Because the ratio of residents to parking spaces in many newly-built communities is 1: 1, in order to solve the contradiction between residents' parking spaces and commercial spaces, three-dimensional mechanical parking equipment is accepted by the majority of users because of its unique characteristics of small average bicycle space.