Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Escalator and moving walkway system with safety sensor
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Application No.: US16168442Application Date: 2018-10-23
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Publication No.: US10351392B1Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Mark R. Gurvich
- Applicant: Otis Elevator Company
- Applicant Address: US CT Farmington
- Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
- Current Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Farmington
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Main IPC: B66B25/00
- IPC: B66B25/00 ; B66B29/00 ; B66B27/00 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a system including a conveyer, a sensor operationally directed to engage the conveyer, a controller for controlling the conveyer and the sensor, the controller renders a plurality of determinations including: a first determination that the conveyer is in an operational state, a second determination that first sensed data dynamically obtained from the sensor is indicative of a first passenger on the conveyer, a third determination to model shape of the first passenger, while the first passenger is on the conveyer, with a first nodal model, a fourth determination to track displacement differentials for the first nodal model, a fifth determination to identify from the differentials an occurrence of an alert condition with the first passenger, at an occurrence of an alert condition, a sixth determination to stop the conveyer, and the controller transmits first instructions to the conveyer to effect the sixth determination.
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