Crime prevention apparatus for elevators
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazutoshi Ohta
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Abstract
A crime prevention apparatus for controlling the operation of an elevator which comprises a night detector for detecting night, a passenger detector for detecting the presence of only one adult passenger in an elevator cage and a start instructing unit for enabling the operation of the cage only when the passenger and the night detectors are operated, thereby allowing the operation of the cage only when one adult passenger rides in the cage during the night and thereby preventing most crimes from occuring in the cage during the night.
Claims12
A crime prevention apparatus for controlling the operation of an elevator to reduce crimes in an elevator cage, comprising:
- a crime prevention instructing unit automatically or manually operated at a predetermined time for commencing an operation for a crime prevention;
- a passenger detector for detecting whether or not the number of passengers in the cage is one;
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- a start instructing unit for enabling the operation of the cage only when said passenger detector detects that the number of passengers in the cage is one and said crime prevention instructing unit instructs a crime prevention operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.