Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuya Yuge

Takayuki Kikuchi

Yoshinobu Ishikawa

Yoshio Ogimura

In order to suppress speed irregularity of step rollers () in a passenger conveyor, a bent section () is formed in a step guide rail () and a restraining member () is provided upstream thereof, the shape of the height of the bent section () and the restraining member () is corrected beforehand by the amount of the compression of resilient members of the step rollers (), which are formed with such resilient members around their shafts, by the compressive force acting between the bent section () and restraining member (). Thus generation of speed irregularity of the steps () is suppressed and passenger comfort is improved. Also, by providing a recess () in the step guide rail (), gripping of the step rollers () as they execute rolling movement along the undersurface of the restraining member () from below can be avoided, thereby preventing damage to the step rollers (), restraining member () and step guide rail ().

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Hyogo-ken, Japan

Kazuya Yuge