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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alan F Mandel, Scott Township, Allegheny County, PA (US);
Kenneth M Eichler, North Versailles, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B / ; G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364513 ; 340 / ; 340692 ; 364424 ;
Abstract
An elevator system having an elevator car, and communication apparatus which includes a speech synthesizer for each car which provides audible, informative messages in its associated elevator car in response to its operation. Messages which are repeated within a predetermined period of time have one or more parameters thereof varied, to relieve the monotony which would be otherwise caused by the repetition of identical messages presented in an identical manner, and/or, to emphasize predetermined words or phrases.