Access barrier, related devices and related methods
AssigneeConduent Business Services, LLC
InventorSylvain Glayse
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Abstract
An access control device includes a primary access barrier configured move between a closed position and an open position. The primary access barrier may be configured to extend into an access passage of the access control device to prevent access through the access passage when in the closed position and to move away from the access passage to permit access through the access passage when in an open position. An entry access barrier is positionable in the access passage of the access control device on a first side of the primary access barrier, and an exit barrier is positionable in the access passage of the access control device on a second side of the primary access barrier opposite the first side. Systems and methods relate to access control devices.
Claims25
An access control device, comprising:
- a primary access barrier configured to move between a closed position and an open position, wherein the primary access barrier is configured to extend into an access passage of the access control device to prevent access through the access passage when in the closed position and is configured to move away from the access passage to permit access through the access passage when in an open position, wherein the access passage is defined between parallel first and second trunk portions, the first trunk portion having a first width and the second trunk portion having a second width, each of the first and second widths being uniform along an entire length and height of the respective first and second trunk portions, wherein at least one of the first and second trunk portions is configured to house the primary access barrier within at least one of the respective first and second widths, when the primary access barrier is in the open position;
- an entry barrier positionable in the access passage of the access control device on a first side of the primary access barrier;
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- an exit barrier positionable in the access passage of the access control device on a second side of the primary access barrier opposite the first side;
- wherein the entry barrier and the exit barrier each have a height less than a height of the primary access barrier.
A method of granting access to a restricted area through an access control device with an access passage defined between parallel first and second trunk portions, the first trunk portion having a first width and the second trunk portion having a second width, the method comprising:
- permitting a user passage beyond an entry barrier positioned at an entry to the access control device to provide the user access to an access passage in which a closed primary access barrier is positioned, each of the first and second widths being uniform along an entire length and height of the respective first and second trunk portions, and the primary access barrier having a height greater than a height of the entry barrier;
- subsequent to a user entering the access passage in which the closed primary access barrier is positioned, retracting the primary access barrier into a housing within at least one of the first and second trunk portions to allow the user to proceed beyond the primary access barrier in the access passage;
- closing an exit barrier positioned at an exit of the access passage beyond the primary access barrier, the exit barrier having a height less than the primary access barrier height;
- closing the entry barrier to enclose the user within the access passage;
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- opening the exit barrier to permit the user to exit the access passage into the restricted wherein closing the exit barrier occurs prior to the retracting the primary access barrier.
An access control system, comprising:
- at least one first access lane, the at least one first access lane having a width defined by first and second trunk portions, wherein the first and second trunk portions extend along a length of the at least one first access lane;
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- at least one second access lane, the at least one second access lane being adjacent to the at least one first access lane and having a width defined by the second trunk portion and a third trunk portion, wherein the second trunk portion has a first width and the third trunk portion has a second width, each of the first and second widths being uniform along an entire length and height of the respective second and third trunk portions
- wherein the at least one second access lane comprises:
- a primary access barrier configured to block access through the at least one second access lane in a closed position and allow passage through the at least one second access lane in an open position, the primary access barrier having a first height and being configured to move into a housing within at least one of the second and third trunk portions when in the open position;
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- two secondary access barriers positioned in the at least one second access lane, each on a different side of the primary access barrier, the secondary access barriers each having a second height less than the first height and being configured to at least partially retract into the second trunk portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.