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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2022
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Xingang Gou, Tianjin, CN;
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A method for indicating a service status of an elevator, an elevator car operating panel for implementing the method, an elevator call-out operating panel and a computer-readable storage medium. An elevator car operating panel includes: a plurality of buttons, each of the buttons corresponding to one of a plurality of floors; a control unit coupled with the plurality of buttons, including a controller and a memory coupled with the controller, on which a computer instruction that can be executed by the controller is stored, when the computer instruction is executed: A. determining, in response to an event that one of the buttons is operated, whether a car door associated with the car operating panel is allowed to open when a car stops at a floor corresponding to the button; B. if it is allowed to open, the button is made to be in a normally lit state, otherwise, the button is made to be in a flashing state.
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