US 10,655,389 B2 · Rotary gate

Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed to facilitate a rotary gate controller moving from one state to another in a manner wherein the gate controller uses the state condition to determine if an exit is taking place when an entry request has been sent. Once such an occurrence is determined to exist, the MID will send an exit request allowing the exiting customer to continue through the gate. When the internal state changes to going to a home position, the MID will send a new entry request, and the MID will indicate through MID display that the entering customer can pass through the rotary gate. The original payment of the entering customer will have been accepted and will allow the entering customer to proceed through the gate. On completion of the entry rotation, the rotary gate controller will revert back to free exit and restricted entry states.

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Dependent claims

A rotary gate system comprising a manually powered, bidirectional rotary gate and cage assembly having a bidirectional rotary gate, a rotation direction lock, a cage, an exit and an entry, an entry request controller at the entry, and a rotation direction sensor, the system further including:

a processor for recognizing a false entry sequence comprising an entry request from a first customer including an accepted entry payment transaction from the entry request controller whereby a lock against exit direction rotation is initiated, and for recognizing a contemporaneous rotating of the rotary gate moving in an exit direction from a first home position by a second customer by the rotation direction sensor by a manual pushing of the rotary gate by the second customer to cause the moving in the exit direction comprising the false entry sequence whereby the lock against exit direction rotation is precluded, wherein upon reading a second home position of the rotary gate after a continued movement of the rotary gate from the first home position in the cage in the exit direction by the second customer, the entry request is then enabled.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Rotary gate

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