Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Elevayor Engineering and Service Co., Ltd.

Yuki Yamamoto

Hiroshi Kinoshita

Masayuki Shigeta

Toshihiko Nara

Eiji Ikeda

Masanobu Itoh

Jun Sugahara

Tastuhiko Takahashi

Katutaro Masuda

Hideaki Seki

Nobuyoshi Sato

Yoshinari Atsumi

Shinkei Kakami

A passenger transport installation in which a large number of people can be efficiently transported between at least two vertically-spaced places. Stations communicate with a vertical elevator passage or passages along which vehicles can move upward and downward, and the vehicles stop at the stations to allow passagers to get on and off. While passengers get on and off the vehicles at the stations, other vehicles carrying other passengers can move upward and downwardly along the elevator passage or passages.

Passenger transport installation, vehicle for use therein, and method of

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Katsuta, Japan

Yuki Yamamoto