EP4004880A1

EP4004880A1 - Access control device and pedestrian gate for same

Info

Publication number: EP4004880A1
Application number: EP20735355.8A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Timo RAUER; Martin Steiert
Original assignee: Magnetic Autocontrol GmbH
Current assignee: Magnetic Autocontrol GmbH
Priority date: 2019-07-22
Filing date: 2020-06-26
Publication date: 2022-06-01
Also published as: AU2020317454A1; DE202019104045U1; US20220268076A1; BR112022001069A2; WO2021013474A1; CN114144566A

Abstract

The application relates to a pedestrian gate (3) for an access control device, having a blocking element (7) and having an actuating element (8), wherein the blocking element (7) is fastened to the actuating element (8) and is pivotable by means of said actuating element (8) about a vertical axis of rotation (11) between a blocking position and an access position. The blocking element (7) is, in a vertical projection, formed so as to run substantially rectilinearly and, here, defines a vertical blocking plane (12) which does not encompass the axis of rotation (11).

Description

Passage control device and pedestrian barrier for such

description

The present invention relates to a pedestrian barrier for a passage control device according to the preamble of claim 1 as well as to a passage control device with such a pedestrian barrier.

A pedestrian barrier of the present type accordingly comprises a blocking element and an actuating element, the blocking element being attached to the actuating element and the actuating element being able to pivot the blocking element between a blocking position and a passage position. It is a pedestrian barrier whose locking element can be pivoted about a vertical axis of rotation.

A passage control device of the present type contains at least one such pedestrian barrier which is arranged at the beginning, within the course and / or at the end of a corridor formed by right and left side boundaries. Usually, a pedestrian barrier present in such a passage control device comprises a total of two locking elements, each with an associated actuating element, the actuating elements being arranged on both sides of the side borders and the locking elements in their locking position only locking approximately half the width of the corridor. This reduces the bearing forces when the locking element is pivoted and minimizes the counter-torque against the pivoting movement that increases as the distance from the axis of rotation increases due to the leverage. This counter torque results in particular from the air resistance. But also the lower moments of inertia with such a double-wing pedestrian barrier are advantageous. Nevertheless extends The present invention also applies to pedestrian barriers with only one pivotable locking element.

Pedestrian barriers and passage control devices of the present type can be found in many areas of application in which specially secured areas should be accessible to people, but this access must be controlled. One function of the pass-through control device is to isolate the people who want to get into a protected or regulated area through the corridor of the pass-through control device. This function is often in the foreground at concert and sporting events as well as at the checkout terminals of supermarkets, but also when leaving specially protected areas such as the gate area of an airport. Another function of such a pass-through control device is important for protected areas that may only be entered with specific authorization. Such a specific authorization can be an entrance ticket, a membership card, a passport or, in airports, a boarding pass; this can also involve the presence of biometric data with which an authorized person can be clearly identified. Such specific authorizations are checked on passage control devices of the present type, in particular with reading devices, and depending on the test result, the pedestrian barrier or its locking element is pivoted from the locked position into the passage position or left in the locked position. Often, especially for use in airports, passage control devices of the present type are equipped with two successively arranged pedestrian barriers, a first in the entrance area of the corridor and a second at the end of the corridor, in order to form a passenger sluice. Such a lock is also within the scope of the present invention. Passage control devices of this type are known, for example, from WO 2010/078856 A1.

Especially in the case of passage control devices for protected areas through which a large number of people pass in a controlled manner in the shortest possible time. are to be sluiced, as is particularly the case in airports, it has proven useful to arrange a plurality of passage control devices next to one another, the left side boundary of the corridor of a first passage control device is at the same time the right side boundary of the corridor of a second passage control device. Such a shared use of side borders optimizes the space required for the passage control devices.

The necessary for the operation of such a pass-through control device, such as a switch cabinet, a scanner and the like must in this case also be arranged in the area of the Seitenbegrenzun conditions; these units are often integrated into the side delimitation. If such a functional unit is located in the pivoting range of the blocking element of a pedestrian barrier or passage control device of the present type, this blocking element either cannot be pivoted completely into the passage position, i.e. H. at a right angle to the blocking position, or the actuating element of the pedestrian barrier to which the blocking element is attached must be placed further into the corridor, so that the blocking element can be pivoted completely into the passage position.

This in turn has the disadvantage, on the one hand, that people with wheeled suitcases or with a wheelchair run the risk of getting caught when passing the actuating elements. On the other hand, a minimum passage width must be maintained between an actuating element of a pedestrian barrier and the opposite side boundary or between two opposing actuating elements, so that the corridor and thus the width of the individual passage control devices are wider or larger than this M minimum width got to. In the case of a plurality of passage control devices arranged next to one another, this can add up to such an extent that a passage control device can be installed less than is actually possible due to the spatial conditions. Since, especially in airports, the requirements for the blocking elements are increasingly such that they extend vertically up to a height of 1.60 m and beyond, the problem just outlined also arises because of the handrails usually provided on the side boundaries for the People walking in the corridor, because such handrails are then inevitably located in the pivoting range of the blocking element or elements.

The object of the present invention is to solve the problems outlined above and to propose a pedestrian barrier and a pass-through control device with such a pedestrian barrier, which makes it possible to build pass-through control devices of the present type with a smaller width than previously possible.

This object is achieved by a pedestrian barrier with the features of claim 1 and by a passage control device with the Merkma len of claim 10. Preferred developments of the pedestrian barrier according to the invention can be found in claims 2 to 9; Advantageous Ausgestal lines of the passage control device according to the invention are laid down in claims 1 1 and 12.

According to the present invention, a pedestrian barrier comprising a locking element and an actuating element, wherein the locking element is attached to the actuating element and can be pivoted about a vertical axis of rotation between a locking position and a passage position, is developed in such a way that the locking element , seen in a vertical projection, runs essentially in a straight line and with this line on the hori zontal projection surface defines a vertical plane, which is to be called the blocking plane here. According to the invention, this blocking plane is at a distance from the vertical axis of rotation, so it does not include it. Since both the axis of rotation and the locking plane run vertically, there is a parallelism. This does not have to be given in the context of the present invention in the mathematical sense; rather, an approximate parallelism is sufficient in which the The axis of rotation and the barrier level do not meet in the area of the pedestrian barrier or the passage control device.

This inventive attachment of the locking element on the actuating element enables the actuating element to be placed very close to a side boundary of the corresponding passage control device when there are necessary or advantageous units for operation, for example, designed as functional modules, or a handrail of the passage control device are in the swivel range of the locking element. Because since the locking plane is spaced from the axis of rotation, the locking element can be attached to the actuating element in such a way that the locking plane in the passage position in the direction of the corridor center is spaced from the axis of rotation, so that the locking element is completely open, ie. H. can be pivoted by about 90 ° with respect to the locking position without hitting a functional module or a handrail and the like protruding beyond the side boundary. It is obvious that the actuating element does not have to protrude beyond the fully open locking element in the direction of the middle of the corridor, at least only a smaller overhang than previously required, so that the problems outlined at the beginning of a restriction of the passage width is eliminated, especially in the case of opposing actuating elements.

A pedestrian barrier according to the invention, since it is composed of the two parts attached to each other, the locking element and the actuating element, can be assembled in such a way that the pedestrian barrier can optionally be pivoted in either of the two directions of rotation about the vertical axis of rotation, the advantages of the invention being achieved.

The locking element of the pedestrian barrier according to the invention can, as has been customary up to now, be fastened to the actuating element in the vertical axis of rotation and then assume the vertical locking plane spaced from the axis of rotation by a course that is bent in vertical projection. The fiction, contemporary separation of the vertical locking plane from the vertical axis of rotation however, it enables further advantages in particular when the locking element is attached to the actuating element eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation. Because then a drive for the actuating element, which expediently has a shaft which is arranged in the vertical axis of rotation, and the fastening of the locking element are spaced apart from one another. For example, the fastening of the locking element on the actuating element can be released without having to feel the drive train with the shaft extending in the vertical axis of rotation. The blocking element of the pedestrian barrier according to the invention preferably has a flat shape, in particular being formed essentially as a panel which can be made of transparent material in the form of a disk. In particular for access control of security-relevant areas, such as in airports, such blocking elements are usually used, since they cannot be exceeded or fallen below. A tabular locking element is particularly easy to attach to the actuator when a flat mounting surface is provided there for attachment.

The actuating element is preferably designed as a vertically oriented column, and this column is advantageously composed of a fixed base part and a holding part that can be rotated with respect to it. The locking element is fastened to the latter, while the base part, which offers particular advantages, accommodates a drive device for pivoting the holding part, and thus also the locking element. As already mentioned above, such a drive device can comprise a shaft which runs in the vertical axis of rotation and on which the holding part sits so that it rotates with a rotation of the shaft. With an eccentric attachment of the locking element on the holding part, the connection of the holding part with the shaft of the drive device must not be released when the locking element is to be released to replace it or to attach it in a different orientation.

The pedestrian barrier according to the invention enables, as desired for security reasons, the blocking element vertically essentially over min- at least the entire vertical extent of the actuating element can extend, even if this means that strips, handrails or functional modules extend into the “normal” pivoting range of the locking element. It goes without saying that the locking element can also extend far beyond the vertical extent of the actuating element, in particular upwards.

The passage control device according to the invention contains the inventive pedestrian barrier, optionally with the preferred developments, as well as right and left side borders to form a corridor, at least one pedestrian barrier according to the invention being arranged on at least one side limitation. For various reasons, it can be advantageous and will usually be the case if the at least one pedestrian barrier consists of two oppositely arranged actuating elements, each of which carries a locking element, which in the locked position only extend approximately to the middle of the corridor. The result is a through gate with two pivoting wings, which is preferred due to the advantageously small area that is swept over by the respective pivoting wing when pivoting.

The passage control device according to the invention preferably has at least one functional module which is arranged on a side boundary, or in particular is also integrated into it, this functional module, which can be a switch cabinet or a detection device for access authorization, for example, in the pivoting range of the locking element is or due to the inventive spacing of the locking plane from the vertical axis of rotation can be arranged there without affecting the Schwenkbe rich of the locking element. This increases the flexibility of the arrangement of the individual modules or units of a Durchgangkontrollvor direction and in particular saves valuable floor space that a passage control device requires not only in the width, but also in the length of the corridor.

It is particularly advantageous if the person according to the invention is blocked at the beginning of the corridor of the passage control device is. Because there the actuating elements can be removed almost completely from the corridor, so that they do not disadvantageously reduce its width, especially when two opposing actuating elements are used. The same effect is obtained when the actuators of other pedestrian barriers are integrated into the side borders of the passage control device.

An exemplary embodiment of a passage control device with a pedestrian barrier designed according to the invention is described and explained in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Show it:

Figure 1 is a plan view of an example of the invention

configured passage control device; FIG. 2 a view from direction A according to FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 shows a side view along the line B / B from FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 shows an actuating element of one designed according to the invention

Pedestrian barrier.

In FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the same example of an access control device designed according to the invention is shown in three different views. To the right and left of a corridor 1, which is entered from the left in FIG. 1, there are two side boundaries 2, between which the people to be checked are guided. A pedestrian barrier 3, which is shown here in the locked position, blocks the corridor 1 and can release it if necessary. A reading unit (not shown), which is located in front of the corridor 1, checks the access authorization, for example a boarding pass for boarding an aircraft, and, if the check is positive, generates a signal, on the basis of which the pedestrian barrier 3 is swiveled into a passage position ( the passage position is indicated by broken lines in the pedestrian barrier 3 shown above in FIG. 1). A function module 4, here a switch cabinet, is integrated in the left side delimitation 2. This switchgear cabinet supplies both a drive (not shown) of the pedestrian barrier and a recognition module 6 with electrical energy, the recognition module 6 serving to recognize biometric data such as are often collected when entering the airport. Each handrail 5 closes the side boundaries 2 at the top, which is best illustrated in FIG.

As can be clearly seen from FIGS. 1 and 2, the pedestrian barrier 3 here consists of two mirror-inverted partial barriers, each of which includes a columnar actuating element 8 and a locking element 7 designed as a disk. About half of the actuating elements 8 are integrated into the side delimitations 2 and thereby narrow the corridor 1 only minimally. In the locked position, the locking elements 7 only extend almost to the middle of the corridor 1 in order to prevent the people to be checked from trapping their hands, for example, if the pedestrian barrier 3 closes unexpectedly. For the same reason, a free space is provided as anti-trap protection between the locking elements 7 and the actuating elements 8, with the exception of the point at which the locking element 7 is attached to the actuating element 8.

As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, the functional module 4, which is designed as a switch cabinet, is in its upper area facing the corridor 1 beyond the side boundary 2, so that a locking element 7, which, as previously usual, is located in an axis of rotation 11 of the pedestrian barrier 3 would be attached, in the passage position would possibly hit against the functional module 4; At least the required distance of 25 mm according to the standard, in this case 26 mm, to protect against crushing fingers would then no longer be guaranteed. However, since a vertical locking plane 12 defined by the locking element 7 is spaced from the likewise vertical axis of rotation 11 - in the present example, the locking element 7 is attached eccentrically to the actuating element 8 - the locking element 7 holds, as in Figure 1 with broken lines indicated, in spite of the extensive integration of the actuating element 8 in the side delimitation 2, the prescribed distance from the functional module 4 for an anti-trap protection even when it is pivoted into the passage position (indicated by broken lines).

As Figure 3 shows, the functional module 4 sits on a rail 15 of the side limit 2 and is connected by means of a cable channel 16 to the handrail 5, in which, for example, signal lines can be guided. As is also indicated here with broken lines, the locking element 7 can be pivoted about the axis of rotation 11, starting from the locking position in both directions by approximately 90 °.

As can be seen from FIG. 2, but essentially from FIG. 4, the actuating element 8 essentially consists of two parts, a base part 9 and a holding part 10. The base part 9 is fixed on the side delimitations 2, while the holding part 10 is can rotate on the base part 9 about the axis of rotation 1 1. For this purpose it can be provided that a drive device for rotating the holding part 10 is arranged inside the base part 9 (not shown here). The holding part 10 has, eccentrically or at a distance from the axis of rotation 11, a mounting surface 13 to which the locking element 7, designed as a disk, can be applied and to which the locking element 7 can be fastened by means of a mounting cover 14. The locking element can be used in different orientations by simply rotating the mounting cover around a horizontal axis; thus structurally identical parts (base part 9, holding part 10, assembly cover 14 and blocking element 7) can be used to form both sides of the two-wing pedestrian barrier.

The locking plane 12, which is defined by the mounting surface 13 or by the straight Ver running of the locking element 7 is indicated with dashed arrows. Both the locking plane 12 and the axis of rotation 11 are oriented vertically, that is, they are approximately parallel to one another, and are spaced apart by a distance S vonei. Due to the construction of the illustrated actuating element 8 and the shape of the locking element 7, the actuating element 8 can be largely rigid (height h 1), while the rotatable holding part 10 extends only over a small height h2 and thus minimizes the expansion of the moving parts is. This not only minimizes the risk of an accident, but also keeps the adjustment and the assembly and disassembly of the locking element 7 particularly simple.

As is immediately evident from the drawings, the actuating elements 8 of the pedestrian barrier 8 can advantageously be integrated well into the side borders 2, the locking elements 7 in the passage position being spaced far enough from the side borders 2 and in particular from the function module 4. As a result, there is a sufficient width of the corridor 1 between the two actuation elements 8 without the side boundaries 2 therefore having to be further separated. This saves valuable installation space.

Claims

Expectations

1 . Pedestrian barrier (3) for a passage control device, with a locking element (7) and an actuating element (8), the locking element (7) being attached to the actuating element (8) and by means of this around a vertical axis of rotation (1 1) between a locking position and is pivotable to a passage position,

characterized,

that the locking element (7) is designed to run essentially in a straight line in a vertical projection and in this case defines a vertical Sperrebe ne (12) which does not include the axis of rotation (1 1).

2. Pedestrian barrier according to claim 1, wherein the locking element (7) with respect to the axis of rotation (1 1) is attached eccentrically to the actuating element (8).

3. Pedestrian barrier according to one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the locking relement (7) has a flat shape.

4. The pedestrian barrier according to claim 3, wherein the blocking element (7) is essentially designed as a board, in particular made of transparent, almost transpa rentem or translucent material.

5. The pedestrian barrier according to at least one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the actuating element (8) is designed as a vertically oriented column and is composed of a fixed base part (9) and a holding part (10) that can be rotated with respect to it.

6. Passenger barrier according to claim 5, wherein the locking element (7) is attached to the holding part (10) of the actuating element (8).

7. Pedestrian barrier according to one of claims 5 or 6, wherein a drive device for pivoting the holding part (10) and the locking element (7) is housed in the base part (9).

8. Pedestrian barrier according to at least one of claims 5 to 7, wherein the holding part (10) has a mounting surface (13) for the locking element (7) spaced from the axis of rotation (1 1).

9. pedestrian barrier according to claim 4 and at least one of claims 5 to 8, wherein the locking element (7) extends vertically over at least the entire vertical extent of the actuating element (8) substantially.

10. Passage control device with a corridor (1) which is formed by right and left side boundaries (2), and with at least one pedestrian barrier (3) according to at least one of claims 1 to 9 arranged on one of the side boundaries (2).

1 1. Passage control device according to claim 10, wherein at least one side delimitation (2) is provided with a functional module (4) which is in the

Pivoting range of the locking element (7) is arranged.

12. Passage control device according to one of claims 10 or 1 1, wherein the pedestrian barrier (3) is arranged at the beginning and / or at the end of the corridor (1) and / or is integrated into the side boundary (2).