JPH05178555A - Control panel for elevator for blind person - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a control panel which can be utilized without anxiety by a blind person by providing the control panel of an elevator for a blind person with a display part by Which the floor position of a car is displayed by braille points. CONSTITUTION:The floor position of a car is detected by a cage position detecting part SE, and a detected value therefrom is converted into a floor number by means of a numeral converting part NV. The converted numeral is converted into a braille point code by means of a processing part CPU, and the braille point code is displayed on a display part EB through a drive part CL. This constitution facilitates recognition of the floor position of a car in a way that a blind person touches the display part EB with his fingers.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement of a control panel for a blind elevator provided with a Braille display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an elevator for a blind person responds to a call registered by a car with a blind person-only landing button or a car destination button, that is, an operation button, as disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 52-150909. When a call is made, a speaker provided at each floor hall informs the operator of necessary items at appropriate times corresponding to the call, such as the destination direction of the car when the call is registered, and the floor that stops when the car starts decelerating. is doing.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, when the blind man operates the operation button, the warning is given only when the car reaches a specific floor, so the blind man cannot know whether the car is traveling normally. . Therefore, there is a problem that the blind man always has to wait with anxiety until the car reaches the destination floor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks, and an object thereof is an elevator operation panel for a blind person who can wait with peace of mind until the blind person reaches the destination floor after operating the operation button. To provide.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The purpose is to provide an elevator operation panel for a blind person who operates the car by operating a landing button on the operation panel of the elevator hall or a destination button on the operation panel in the car. , A display unit for displaying the Braille code in Braille in the operation panel, a drive unit for driving the display unit, a storage unit for storing the Braille code, and a hall button or a destination button of the operation panel. A conversion unit for converting the floor position of the traveling car into a number, and a processing unit for converting the converted number into a Braille code and performing an operation for displaying on the display unit via the drive unit. It is achieved by providing.

[0006]

According to the present invention, for example, when a blind person presses a landing button and touches a braille display portion provided near the landing button with his / her finger pad, when a car passes through the floor, Since the floors are displayed in Braille, the running condition of the car can be known, and the blind can feel at ease waiting for the car to arrive.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In addition, the elevator shall operate from the 1st floor to the 4th floor.

FIG. 4 is a front view of the operation panel of the hall on the second floor of the embodiment. In the figure, UH and DH are ascending and descending landing buttons, UHB and DHB are landing buttons UH and D
Braille indicating H, IN is an indicator, IH
~ 4H is the car position indicator on the 1st to 4th floor, EB is the landing button D
It is a Braille display portion provided under the H and displaying the floor.

FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the essential parts of the Braille display section EB. Braille is displayed by a combination of the presence or absence of protrusions arranged at regular intervals of 3 vertically and 4 horizontally (in some cases, two). For example, when there are protrusions, it will be described later like dot EB1. The protrusion rod EC is raised, and when there is no protrusion, the protrusion rod EC is lowered like a point EB2. FIG. 2 shows a configuration diagram of the drive mechanism of the protruding rod EC. EC is the above-mentioned protrusion rod, and EM is an electromagnet for moving the protrusion rod EC up and down. When the electromagnet EM is excited through the drive unit CL, the protrusion rod EC moves up and a protrusion such as a point EB1 is generated. Occur.

FIG. 1 shows an overall configuration diagram of this apparatus. In the figure, SE is a detector for detecting the traveling position of the car, which generates a pulse each time the car passes through the floor,
This pulse is converted by the number converting unit NV into a number such as 1 when the car is on the first floor and 2 when passing through the second floor, and the Braille code corresponding to this number is once It is stored in the storage unit ME. When the Braille code is displayed in Braille, the processing unit CPU calls the Braille code stored in the storage unit ME, and a predetermined electromagnet EM is selectively driven by a control signal corresponding thereto to display the Braille code on the display unit EB. To do.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

[0012] Now, on the second floor, a blind man operates the descending hall button DH to get down to the first floor, and touches his / her finger pad with the display portion EB. If the car is waiting on the 4th floor at this time, since the indicator light 4H lights up and 4 is displayed in Braille on the display section EB, the blind person can know that the car is on the 4th floor. When the car descends and passes the 3rd floor, the Braille becomes 3,
Blind people know that the basket is about to arrive, and Braille is 2
Then, you can see that the car has arrived on the second floor.

In this way, the blind person can check the traveling state of the car by Braille, so that the blind person can wait with peace of mind until the car arrives.

FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of this apparatus, in which a Braille display portion is provided on the operation panel in the car. In the figure, UC and DC are direction lights for raising and lowering the car, 1C to 4C are destination buttons on the first to fourth floors, and 1CB.
~ 4CB is the Braille, ECB representing the destination buttons 1C-4C
It is a display unit that displays the position of the basket in Braille. According to this configuration, similarly to the above, the blind person can easily know the position of the car by operating the destination button and touching the display portion ECB with his / her finger pad, so that the blind person can get on to the destination floor without anxiety.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The operation panel has a display unit that displays the floor position of the car in Braille, so the blind person can know the floor position of the car by pressing the operation button on the operation panel and placing his finger pad on this display unit. Therefore, there is an effect that the car can wait without anxiety until it arrives at the destination floor.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed view showing a drive mechanism of a drive unit.

FIG. 3 is a detailed view of a main part of a display unit.

FIG. 4 is a front view of an operation panel of a hall.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing an operation panel in a car according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 UH, LH Landing button 1C to 4C Destination button EB Display section CL drive section ME storage section SE detection section NV conversion section CPU processing section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A braille code in the operation panel of an elevator for the blind who operates the car by operating a landing button on the operation panel of the elevator hall or a destination button on the operation panel in the car. In Braille, a drive unit for driving the display unit, a storage unit for storing the Braille code, a landing button on the operation panel, or
A conversion unit that converts the floor position of the traveling car into a number in response to a destination button, and a calculation that converts the converted number into a Braille code and displays the number on the display unit via the drive unit. An elevator operation panel for the blind, which is equipped with a processing unit for performing.