US 9,181,066 B2Granted

Passenger conveyor

AssigneeKone Corporation

InventorsJinquan Fan, Antti Plathin, Yu Wei, Visa Rauta, Yimin Shi

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Abstract

A passenger conveyor comprising an endless conveyor track, a power source configured to supply power to said endless conveyor track, an entrance allowing a passage to the conveyor track, an exit allowing a passage away from the conveyor track, and a balustrade beside the conveyor track. Guide elements are positioned at the entrance/exit on a floor at proximity of an end of the balustrade. The guide elements are laterally elongated, and are configured to guide rolling or moving objects to/from the conveyor without contacting or being obstructed by the balustrade. The guide elements include a source of electromagnetic waves which radiate the electromagnetic waves to an entrance/exit zone of the passenger conveyor.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A passenger conveyor, comprising:

an endless conveyor track;
a power source configured to supply power to said endless conveyor track for moving said endless conveyor track;
an entrance allowing a passage to the endless conveyor track;
an exit allowing a passage away from the endless conveyor track;
a balustrade on the side of the endless conveyor track;
at least a guide element at least at one of the entrance, the exit, and the entrance and exit, on a floor at proximity of an end of the balustrade, forming an elongated lateral guide for rolling or moving objects on the floor to/from the endless conveyor track to guide the rolling or moving object to/from the endless conveyor track without contacting the balustrade;
wherein said guide elements comprises at least a source of electromagnetic waves, configured to output the electromagnetic waves to at least one of an entrance zone and an exit zone of the passenger conveyor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/205,731Filed 12 Mar 2014 · continuation
Priority: 15 Sep 2011
Published: US 2014/0190790 A110 Jul 2014
Granted: 10 Nov 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B66B 23/14
Component parts of escalators or moving walkways: guiding means for carrying surfaces
B66B 23/00
Component parts of escalators or moving walkways
B66B 27/00
Indicating operating conditions of escalators or moving walkways
B66B 29/08
Safety devices of escalators or moving walkways: means to facilitate passenger entry or exit