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US 2023/0382684 A1Published application
Method and operational panel for indcating elevator service status
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorXingang Gou
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AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorXingang Gou
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A method for indicating a service status of an elevator, an elevator car operating panel for implementing the method, an elevator call-out operating panel and a computer-readable storage medium. An elevator car operating panel includes: a plurality of buttons, each of the buttons corresponding to one of a plurality of floors; a control unit coupled with the plurality of buttons, including a controller and a memory coupled with the controller, on which a computer instruction that can be executed by the controller is stored, when the computer instruction is executed: A. determining, in response to an event that one of the buttons is operated, whether a car door associated with the car operating panel is allowed to open when a car stops at a floor corresponding to the button; B. if it is allowed to open, the button is made to be in a normally lit state, otherwise, the button is made to be in a flashing state.
An elevator car operating panel, comprising:
An elevator call-out operating panel, comprising:
A method for indicating a service status of an elevator, comprising:
A method for indicating a service status of an elevator, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.