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US 2019/0270616 A1Published application
Passenger conveyor
AssigneeToshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki KIKUCHI
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Abstract
A passenger conveyor has a guardrail belt configured to run on a pair of right and left handrails in synchronization with footsteps; a camera provided at a platform of the handrail; and a control device configured to analyze an image obtained by photographing the platform with the camera, detect a passenger getting in from the platform, stop the footsteps or lower a running speed than a normal speed when detecting no passenger for a predetermined time, and move the running speed of the footsteps at the normal speed when detecting the passenger.
Claims10
A passenger conveyor comprising:
- a plurality of footsteps configured to move in a front-rear direction;
- a drive device configured to move the footsteps;
- a pair of right and left handrails erected on both right and left sides of the footsteps;
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- a guardrail belt configured to run on the pair of right and left handrails in synchronization with the footsteps,
- a camera provided at a platform of the handrail;
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- a control device configured to analyze an image obtained by photographing the platform with the camera, detect a passenger getting in from the platform, stop the footsteps using the drive device or lower a running speed than a normal speed when detecting no passenger for a predetermined time, and move the running speed of the footsteps at the normal speed, using the drive device, when detecting the passenger.
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