GUIDANCE APPARATUS AND GUIDANCE SYSTEM

• US 20160341381A1
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Takahiro Imai
• Inventors: IMAI, Takahiro, Kondoh, Tsuneaki, Sugawara, Tomoaki, Arizumi, Yuko, Natori, Junichiro, Otagiri, Mizuki, Araumi, Mayuka
• Application Number:
  US15/145,181
• Publication Number:
  US 20160341381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 2290/026 for lighting
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 8/032 the surface being a floor or like ground surface, e.g. pavement
• CPC Class Codes: F21S 9/04 the power supply being a generator
• CPC Class Codes: H02N 2/18 producing electrical output from mechanical input, e.g. generators for measurement devices G01

Abstract

Provided is a guidance apparatus including a panel configured to be disposed on at least one of a floor on a predetermined region and a wall on a predetermined region in a passage, an electric-power-generating element configured to be disposed on an opposite side of the panel to a side to which external force is applied, the electric-power-generating element having flexibility, and at least one light source configured to be electrically coupled to the electric-power-generating element.

Claims

1. A guidance apparatus comprising:

a panel configured to be disposed on at least one of a floor on a predetermined region and a wall on a predetermined region in a passage;

an electric-power-generating element configured to be disposed on an opposite side of the panel to a side to which external force is applied, the electric-power-generating element having flexibility; and

at least one light source configured to be electrically coupled to the electric-power-generating element.

2. The guidance apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the electric-power-generating element comprises a first electrode, an intermediate layer, and a second electrode, the intermediate layer being between the first electrode and the second electrode, and

wherein the intermediate layer comprises silicone rubber.

3. The guidance apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the panel is divided into a plurality of panels.

4. The guidance apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein each of the plurality of panels has a size of 25 cm×

25 cm.

5. The guidance apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the electric-power-generating element is disposed on each of the plurality of panels, and

wherein the electric-power-generating element is disposed on the opposite side of the panel to the side to which external force is applied.

6. The guidance apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one light source comprises a plurality of light sources, and

wherein the plurality of light sources are disposed in parallel to and in contact with sides of a peripheral edge of the panel on the predetermined region, the sides being in parallel to a moving direction on the passage.

7. The guidance apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the plurality of light sources are disposed for a length from 1.5 times through 2 times as long as a length of the region in a length direction of the plurality of panels on the region, the length direction being in parallel to the moving direction on the passage.

8. The guidance apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the plurality of light sources comprise a first group of light sources and a second group of light sources,

wherein the first group of light sources are disposed obliquely to a same direction as the moving direction on the passage and the second group of light sources are disposed obliquely to an opposite direction to the moving direction on the passage, or

wherein the first group of light sources are disposed obliquely to an opposite direction to the moving direction on the passage and the second group of light sources are disposed obliquely to a same direction as the moving direction on the passage.

9. The guidance apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one light source comprises a plurality of light sources, and the plurality of light sources comprise at least one light source disposed on at least one of the floor and the wall, and at least one light source disposed on a ceiling.

10. A guidance system comprising

a guidance apparatus comprising:

a panel configured to be disposed on at least one of a floor on a predetermined region and a wall on a predetermined region in a passage;

an electric-power-generating element configured to be disposed on an opposite side of the panel to a side to which external force is applied, the electric-power-generating element having flexibility; and

at least one light source configured to be electrically coupled to the electric-power-generating element.