Aerial tramway with monitoring of the number of passengers allowable in the tram car

• US 8,615,338 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2010
• Issued: 12/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Creissels Technologies
• Original Assignee: Creissels Technologies
• Inventors: Creissels, Denis
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Mary
• Assistant Examiner(s): MAZZARA, ANNE MARIE
• Application Number:
  US13/513,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20120245769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• Field of Search: 701/1, 701/19, 340/541, 187/391
• US Class Current: 701/19
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 12/022 Vehicle receiving and dispatching devices acceleration or deceleration devices B61B12/105; cable grippers B61B12/12

Abstract

The embarkation of passengers onto a vehicle of a transport installation with an aerial cable, comprising selectively served intermediate stations, is controlled by a programming device calculating the number of passengers allowed to go into a double-entrance security door and to embark onto a vehicle stopping at the station, according to the number of passengers in the vehicle and to the number of passengers disembarking from the vehicle at this station as they have compulsorily indicated when embarking.

Claims

1. Transport installation with an aerial cable, comprising vehicles coupled with the line cable and serving intermediate stations, said installation comprising:

at the entry of each station, a recording device for compulsorily recording the destination of a passenger,

a programming device centralizing data about the displacement and the destination of the vehicles and data about the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, said programming device calculating, from the number of passengers who have embarked and disembarked at the preceding stations, the number of passengers in the vehicle stopping at the station and subtracting therefrom the recorded number of passengers disembarking at the station in order to determine the number of passengers allowed to embark, and

a double-entrance security door for reaching the embarkation platform the passengers goes onto whose destination corresponds to the destinations served by the next vehicle stopping at the station, subject to availability.

2. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the recording device for compulsorily obligatory recording the destination is arranged at the entry of the double-entrance security door.

3. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the station comprises a display device for the destinations served by the next vehicle stopping at the station.

4. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the station comprises, at the entry of the double-entrance security door, a panel supporting (i) the recording device, (ii) a display device for the destinations served by the next vehicle stopping at the station, (iii) an indicator of the remaining number of passengers to be allowed in the double-entrance security door and (iv) a lamp indicator becoming on when the allowed number is reached, wherein the recording device is a keyboard.

5. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the programming device actuates a device for blocking the entry into the double-entrance security door when the number of passengers allowed to embark onto the vehicle is reached.

6. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the station comprises at the entry of the station a gate which indicates, inter alia, the stations served by the next vehicle stopping at the station and the time remaining before this vehicle arrives.

7. Installation according to claim 1, wherein the programming device can cancel a stop of a vehicle at a station when there is no passenger to be embarked or disembarked there.