JP2017186121A - Operation board for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an operation board for an elevator which can be easily used by a visually-handicapped person and can suppress the lowering of a detection function with respect to an operation by a finger tip.SOLUTION: A boarding place operation board 1 has an operation board main body 2 having a touch panel 22, and a cover 3 for covering a display surface of the touch panel 22. A plurality of contact operation regions are set on the display surface of the touch panel 22. A plurality of opening parts 31 corresponding to contact operation regions 23, and a plurality of braille regions 32 corresponding to the opening parts 31 are formed at the cover 3. The contact operation regions 23 are individually exposed from the cover 3 through the opening parts 31 in a state that the cover 3 covers the display surface of the touch panel 22.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator operation panel having a touch panel.

  Conventionally, an elevator operation panel having a touch panel is known. In such a conventional elevator operation panel, a destination floor of a car can be registered by operating and selecting any of a plurality of button portions displayed on the display surface of the touch panel with a fingertip. However, such a conventional elevator operation panel does not have physical buttons on the display surface of the touch panel, so the position of the buttons cannot be identified only with the fingertips, and is difficult to use for visually impaired persons. It is a board.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an elevator operation panel has been proposed in which a tactile sheet provided with tactile convex portions or concave portions is superimposed on a display surface of a touch panel in order to facilitate the use of visually impaired persons. In such a conventional elevator operation panel, a visually handicapped person can touch a convex part or a concave part, and a visually handicapped person can operate like a healthy person by pressing the convex part or the concave part. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).

  Conventionally, in order to facilitate the use of visually impaired persons, a display cover having a transparent dome portion is overlaid on the display surface of the touch panel, and when the transparent dome portion is pressed with a finger, the transparent dome portion is reversed and contacts the touch panel. At the same time, an elevator operation panel has also been proposed in which the transparent dome is restored to a dome shape when the finger is removed from the transparent dome. In such a conventional elevator operation panel, a visually handicapped person can recognize the transparent dome portion, and can also be accompanied by a click feeling by restoring the transparent dome portion (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

JP 2006-69709 A JP 2005-82299 A

  However, in the conventional elevator operation panel shown in Patent Documents 1 and 2, since the fingertip cannot be brought into contact with the display surface of the touch panel, the operation by the fingertip becomes difficult to be detected, and the touch panel is sensitive to the fingertip. It will decline.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and can be easily used by visually impaired persons and can be used for an elevator that can suppress a decrease in detection function with respect to fingertip operations. The purpose is to obtain an operation panel.

  The elevator operation panel according to the present invention includes an operation panel main body having a touch panel and a cover that covers the display surface of the touch panel. A plurality of contact operation areas are set on the display surface of the touch panel, and each contact operation is performed on the cover. A plurality of openings corresponding to the areas and a plurality of braille areas corresponding to the openings are provided, and each contact operation area is individually separated from the cover through the openings with the cover covering the display surface of the touch panel. Is exposed.

  According to the elevator operation panel according to the present invention, when a passenger is a visually handicapped person, the fingertip can be brought into contact with the contact operation area by inserting the fingertip while checking the Braille area with the fingertip. Thereby, it is possible to facilitate the use of visually impaired persons with respect to the hall operation panel. In addition, since no cover is interposed between the contact operation area and the fingertip, it is possible to suppress a decrease in the touch panel detection function with respect to the fingertip operation.

It is a front view which shows the elevator operating panel by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a side view which shows the hall operating panel for elevators of FIG. It is a front view which shows the hall operation panel when the state of the cover of FIG. 1 is a non-use state. It is a side view which shows the hall operating panel of FIG.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
Embodiment 1 FIG.
1 is a front view showing an elevator hall operating panel according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view showing the elevator hall operating panel shown in FIG. A hall operation panel 1 that is an elevator operation panel includes an operation panel body 2 fixed to a wall surface of the elevator hall, a sheet-like transparent cover 3 provided on the operation panel body 2, and an operation panel body 2. And a winding device 4 that winds up the cover 3.

  The operation panel body 2 includes a housing 21 and a touch panel 22 provided on the housing 21.

  The touch panel 22 is attached to the housing 21 in a state where the display surface of the touch panel 22 is exposed from the open portion of the housing 21. On the display surface of the touch panel 22, a plurality of contact operation areas 23 and a display area 24 in which information input by an operation on each contact operation area 23 is displayed are set.

  Each contact operation area 23 is an area for detecting presence or absence of human contact, and is an operation area for inputting individual information to the touch panel 22 by human contact. Also, different information is displayed in the plurality of contact operation areas 23. On the touch panel 22, when a passenger's fingertip contacts the contact operation area 23, information displayed in the contact operation area 23 is input to the touch panel 22 and displayed on the display area 24.

  In this example, the contact detection method of the contact operation area 23 by the touch panel 22 is a capacitance method that detects the contact of a human fingertip with the contact operation area 23 due to a change in capacitance in the contact operation area 23. . In this example, information displayed in some of the contact operation areas 23 is a number, and the destination floor of the car is specified by a combination of numbers selected by the operation in the contact operation area 23. The information on the destination floor of the car specified by the touch panel 22 is sent to a control device that controls the operation of the elevator, and the call of the destination floor of the car is registered in the control device. The control device controls the operation of the elevator based on the information on the destination floor registered for calling.

  The winding device 4 is accommodated in the housing 21. The winding device 4 includes a winding shaft that winds up the cover 3 and a biasing spring that biases the winding shaft in the direction of winding the cover 3. A slit 25 through which the sheet-like cover 3 is passed is provided at an upper portion outside the range of the touch panel 22 of the housing 21.

  The cover 3 protrudes out of the casing 21 from the winding device 4 in the casing 21 through the slit 25. Moreover, the state of the cover 3 includes a use state (FIGS. 1 and 2) covering the display surface of the touch panel 22 and a non-use state (FIGS. 3 and 4 to be described later) removed from the display surface of the touch panel 22. Can be changed between.

  FIG. 3 is a front view showing the hall operating panel 1 when the cover 3 of FIG. 1 is in a non-use state. FIG. 4 is a side view showing the hall operating panel 1 of FIG. The cover 3 is used to cover the display surface of the touch panel 22 as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 by being drawn out of the housing 21 from the winding device 4 against the biasing force of the biasing spring of the winding device 4. As shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the touch panel 22 is brought into a non-use state by being wound on the winding device 4 by the biasing force of the biasing spring of the winding device 4.

  The cover 3 is made of a material that blocks contact detection of a human fingertip by the touch panel 22. That is, the material constituting the cover 3 is a material that makes it difficult to change the capacitance in the contact operation region 23 due to the interposition between the human fingertip and the contact operation region 23. As a material constituting the cover 3, a material having a low dielectric constant and low water absorption and flexibility is desirable. In this example, a vinyl resin is used as a material constituting the cover 3.

  The cover 3 is provided with a plurality of openings 31 that are through holes corresponding to the contact operation areas 23 and a plurality of braille areas 32 corresponding to the openings 31. Each braille region 32 is located next to the opening 31 corresponding to the braille region 32.

  When the state of the cover 3 is the use state, as shown in FIG. 1, the range of each opening 31 individually overlaps the range of each contact operation area 23. Thereby, when the state of the cover 3 is the use state, each contact operation area 23 is individually exposed from the cover 3 through each opening 31.

  Each Braille area 32 is provided with Braille indicating information displayed in the contact operation area 23 exposed through the adjacent opening 31 corresponding to the Braille area 32. In this example, braille indicating numbers is provided in the braille region 32. Further, when the cover 3 is in the use state, the range of each braille region 32 is out of the range of each contact operation region 23. Thereby, the erroneous detection by each contact operation area | region 23 when each braille area | region 32 is pushed is eliminated.

  A handle portion 33 is provided at the drawer end of the cover 3. The handle portion 33 is a protrusion protruding from the cover 3 in the thickness direction of the cover 3. The cover 3 is held in an unused state when the handle portion 33 is hooked on the edge of the slit 25 of the housing 21. The passenger can change the state of the cover 3 from a non-use state to a use state by pulling the cover 3 out of the housing 21 with the handle portion 33. The cover 3 is held in use by a fastener (not shown) provided in the housing 21.

  The casing 21 is provided with a sensor for detecting whether or not there is a person around the hall operating panel 1 and an announcement device. When a person is detected by the sensor, the announcement device announces how to use the hall operating panel 1 by voice.

  Next, how to use the hall operating panel 1 will be described. When a passenger who is visually impaired uses the hall operating panel 1, first, the cover 3 is pulled out from the housing 21 by holding the handle portion 33 that is hooked on the slit 25 of the housing 21, and the state of the cover 3 is changed. Change from the unused state to the used state. Thereby, the display surface of the touch panel 22 is covered with the cover 3. At this time, the range of each opening 31 overlaps the range of each contact operation area 23, and only each contact operation area 23 is individually exposed from the cover 3 through each opening 31.

  Thereafter, the passenger puts the fingertip into the opening 31 and makes the fingertip contact the contact operation area 23 while recognizing the Braille provided in each Braille area 32 of the cover 3, and information on the desired destination floor Is input to the touch panel 22. Thereby, the information on the destination floor is displayed in the display area 24, and the call registration of the destination floor is performed.

  In such a hall operation panel 1, a plurality of openings 31 corresponding to the contact operation areas 23 and a plurality of braille areas 32 corresponding to the openings 31 are provided on the cover 3 that covers the display surface of the touch panel 22. Since each contact operation area 23 is individually exposed from the cover 3 through each opening 31, when the passenger is a visually handicapped person, while checking the Braille in the Braille area 32 with the fingertip, the opening 31 The fingertip can be put into the contact operation area 23 and brought into contact therewith. Thereby, a visually handicapped person can grasp and operate the target contact operation area 23, and can prevent erroneous selection of the contact operation area 23 different from the purpose. Accordingly, it is possible to facilitate the use of visually impaired persons with respect to the hall operating panel 1. In addition, since the cover 3 is not interposed between the contact operation area 23 and the fingertip, it is possible to prevent a decrease in sensitivity to the fingertip in the contact operation area 23 and to suppress a decrease in the detection function of the touch panel 22 with respect to the fingertip operation. can do.

  Further, when the cover 3 covers the display surface of the touch panel 22, each braille area 32 is out of the range of each contact operation area 23, so even if the fingertip touches each braille area 32, The operation can be prevented from being detected by the contact operation area 23. This can further prevent erroneous selection of the contact operation area 23 by a visually impaired person.

  In addition, since the touch detection method of the touch operation area 23 by the touch panel 22 is a capacitance method, for example, even if the cover 3 is pressed with a fingertip to recognize Braille in the Braille area 32, the touch operation area 23 is not touched by the fingertip. No pressing is detected. As a result, it is possible to further prevent erroneous operations by visually impaired persons.

  Further, since the cover 3 is detached from the display surface of the touch panel 22, the cover 3 is displayed on the touch panel 22 when use of braille is unnecessary, for example, when a healthy person uses the hall operating panel 1. It can be removed from the surface, and the operability of the touch panel 22 can be improved.

  Moreover, since the winding device 4 for winding the sheet-like cover 3 is provided in the operation panel main body 2, when the cover 3 is not used, the winding device 4 winds the cover 3 to make the cover 3 compact. I can leave. Thereby, the enlargement of the hall operating panel 1 can be suppressed, and the handling of the cover 3 can be facilitated.

  Further, since the winding device 4 is provided in the casing 21 of the operation panel main body 2, it is possible to prevent the winding device 4 from being exposed to the outside of the operation panel main body 2. It is possible to prevent a decrease in design properties.

  In the above example, the touch detection method of the touch operation region 23 by the touch panel 22 is a capacitance method. However, the resistance for detecting the contact of the human fingertip with the touch operation region 23 by pressing against the touch operation region 23 is used. A film method (that is, a pressing method) may be used as a contact detection method of the contact operation area 23 by the touch panel 22. In this case, a reinforcing plate or a reinforcing rod may be disposed inside the Braille region 32 when there is a possibility that the pressing force on the Braille region 32 is transmitted to the contact operation region 23 and erroneous detection of the contact operation region 23 occurs. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the braille area 32 from being deformed even if the braille area 32 is pressed, and it is possible to prevent erroneous detection of the contact operation area 23 caused by pressing the braille area 32.

  In the above example, the cover 3 and the winding device 4 cannot be removed from the operation panel main body 2. However, the cover 3 and the winding device 4 may be detachable from the operation panel main body 2. . In this way, whether the cover 3 and the winding device 4 are necessary or not, the common operation panel body 2 can be used, and the cost can be reduced.

  In the above example, the cover 3 that covers the display surface of the touch panel 22 is a sheet-like cover, but the cover 3 that covers the display surface of the touch panel 22 may be a plate-like cover. In this case, the winding device 4 is not used, and the cover 3 is attached to the operation panel main body 2 with the display surface of the touch panel 22 covered. In this case, the plate-shaped cover 3 may be detachable from the operation panel main body 2, or the plate-shaped cover 3 may be fixed to the operation panel main body 2 so as not to be detached from the operation panel main body 2. Good.

  In the above example, the present invention is applied to the hall operating panel 1, but the present invention may be applied to a car operating panel that is an elevator operating panel.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Board operation panel, 2 operation panel main body, 3 cover, 4 winding device, 22 touch panel, 23 contact operation area, 31 opening part, 32 Braille area.

Claims (5)

An operation panel body having a touch panel, and a cover for covering the display surface of the touch panel,
A plurality of contact operation areas are set on the display surface of the touch panel,
The cover is provided with a plurality of openings corresponding to the contact operation areas, and a plurality of braille areas corresponding to the openings,
Each of the contact operation areas is an elevator operation panel that is individually exposed from the cover through the opening in a state where the cover covers the display surface of the touch panel.   2. The operation panel for an elevator according to claim 1, wherein each of the contact operation areas is out of a range of the Braille area in a state where the cover covers a display surface of the touch panel.   The elevator operation panel according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a contact detection method of the contact operation area by the touch panel is a capacitance method.   The operation panel for an elevator according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the cover is detachable from the operation panel main body. The cover is a sheet-like cover,
A winding device that is provided on the operation panel body and winds up the cover;
The said cover covers the display surface of the said touch panel by being drawn out from the said winding apparatus, and remove | deviates from the display surface of the said touch panel by being wound up by the said winding apparatus. The elevator operation panel described in 1.

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