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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
May. 19, 2004
Michael P. Flynn, Avon, CT (US);
Vlad Zaharia, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
Michael P. Flynn, Avon, CT (US);
Vlad Zaharia, Rocky Hill, CT (US);
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A floor selection station () has at least one switch button (-) which visually handicapped people use in selecting floors, and a speaker () to emit a sound uniquely ndicative of which elevator to board. Stations () have a plurality of buttons with Braille indications of groups of floors (-) or individual floors (). A station () has only one button (). Near or at each elevator lobby related to a group of floors serving a building, a floor identifier () identifies with color, and optionally a symbol such as letter, each floor which is served by the group of elevators related to that lobby. At each elevator (-) there is an elevator indicator (-) which displays the same color, and optionally the same symbol, as displayed for any floor which the respective elevator is currently assigned to serve, and a speaker () which emits the same sound as at the floor selection station until the assigned elevator is dispatched.