Braille information notification device

• US 6,942,068 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2005
• Issued: 09/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Locus Telecommunications Incorporated (Telrite Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Otis Elevator Company (Otis Worldwide Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Toshiro, Tanigawa, Jyoji, Tsukamoto, Yoshinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Salata, Jonathan
• Application Number:
  US11/082,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20050155822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 181 Days
• Field of Search: 187391-399, 187/247, 187/901, 340/825.19, 340/686.1, 340/691.1, 340/691.6, 340/691.7, 340/540, 340/407.1, 340/407.2
• US Class Current: 187/391
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/462 Mechanical or piezoelectric input devices
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/467 characterised by their mounting position
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4615 Wherein the destination is registered before boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/463 Wherein the call is registered through physical contact with the elevator system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4646 using voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4661 for priority users
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/10 using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 6/00 Tactile signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 187/901 Control modified for use by disabled individual

Abstract

A method for imputing a voice message recording for a particular floor served by an elevator car includes the steps of sensing elevator car positions (21), sensing that a selected car operating panel button has been held down (22) and enabling a voice input process (23).

A device for displaying Braille information to an elevator user includes an elongated panel (42) having a central Braille character panel (31) and two buttons (32, 33) disposed at opposite ends of the elongated panel for causing the displayed information to move backward and forward. A plurality of actuators (38), and probes (35) extruding through the Braille panel form Braille characters.

Claims

1. A Braille information notification device for an elevator comprising an information panel, wherein said panel is equipped with an elongated rectangular Braille character panel disposed in the center thereof and at least two buttons disposed on the left and the right of said Braille character panel enabling a user to selectively move the Braille information presented on the Braille character panel backward or forward.

2. The Braille information notification device described under claim 1 characterized in that said Braille character panel includes an upper and a lower panel layer, having a fixed space between the layers and wherein the layers are pierced with multiple probes for forming Braille characters, said probes being provided with upper limit stops and lower limit stops, each probe further being configured such that it can be moved vertically, a plurality of corresponding actuators controlled by an information processing part in response to input information from an information input part, said probes moved up and down by said actuators to create Braille characters in accordance with said information processing part.