Elevator call panel and method of controlling the panel
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorsLin Han, Paul Friedli
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Abstract
A panel for an elevator installation has a predetermined number of floor buttons for generating hall calls or car call commands wherein a single floor button or a floor button combination is provided for each floor. The panel can be converted by a converter button or a sensor so that all floors are also selectable by a decade keyboard formed by a portion of all the floor buttons. All floors are thus selectable comfortably and without restriction even by handicapped persons.
Claims15
A panel apparatus for generating floor calls in an elevator installation comprising:
- a panel having a front face and adapted to be mounted on one of an elevator car wall and a building hallway wall;
- a predetermined number of floor buttons mounted on said panel front face, said floor buttons being actuatable either individually or in combination for generating a floor call for travel to an associated destination floor for each destination floor in a normal mode of operation of the panel apparatus;
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- a converter means mounted on said panel front face and being actuatable for converting the panel apparatus from said normal mode of operation to a converted mode of operation whereby all of the destination floors are also selectable by actuation of a group of said floor buttons being less than all of said floor buttons.
A method of operating a panel apparatus in a elevator installation comprising the steps of:
- a. providing a predetermined number of floor buttons;
- b. actuating the floor buttons individually or in combination in a normal mode of operation to generate floor calls to associated ones of all destination floors of a building served by an elevator installation;
- c. providing converter means;
- d. actuating the converter means to switch from the normal mode of operation to a converted mode of operation;
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- e. actuating a group of the floor buttons being less than all of the floor buttons in the converted mode of operation to generate the floor calls for all of the destination floors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.