Otis Elevator Company

Takero Kobari

Hiromitsu Miyajima

Daisuke Meguro

Takako Fukuyama

A mechanical hoistway access control device for an elevator landing door includes a first and a second base plates mounted on the hoistway side of a landing door panel and arranged in parallel with one another, a slider slidably arranged between the first and second base plates and configured to move in conjunction with a car door and configured to protrude out from a door closing side end of the landing door by a first elastic member to take an extended position when the landing door is opened with no elevator car at the landing, and a latch attached to the landing door and configured to engage with the slider to keep the slider in the extended position once the slider protrudes out from the door closing side end of the landing door.

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Narita, Japan

Takero Kobari