Mobile operating unit, elevator and method
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsJaakko Kalliomaki, Juha-Matti Aitamurto, Jari Kantola, Jukka Lindberg, Pekka Laukkanen
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Abstract
The invention relates to a mobile operating unit for an elevator, comprising an operating interface manually operable by a user to control movement of an elevator car; and an orientation sensor for sensing orientation of the operating unit. The invention also relates to an elevator comprising said mobile operating unit and a method for monitoring elevator wherein said mobile operating unit is used.
Claims20
A mobile operating terminal configured to control movement of an elevator car of an elevator, the mobile operating terminal comprising:
- an operating interface manually operable by a user to control the movement of the elevator car;
- and
- an orientation sensor configured to sense an orientation of the mobile operating terminal, wherein
- the movement of the elevator car is controlled based on the orientation of the mobile operating terminal.
A method of monitoring an elevator, the method comprising:
- sensing an orientation of a mobile operating terminal via an orientation sensor configured to sense the orientation of the mobile operating terminal, the mobile operating terminal including an operating interface manually operable by a user to control movement of an elevator car;
- and
- preventing a normal elevator operation, in response to the orientation sensor sensing that the orientation of the mobile operating terminal does not fulfill one or more criteria.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.