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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2005
Kiyoji Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoji Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An operating apparatus for an elevator is equipped with a landing chair having a storable seat portion and provided at a landing, a landing chair displacement device for displacing the seat portion, and a control device for controlling the landing chair displacement device. The seat portion can be displaced between a landing chair storage position and a landing chair service position allowing a passenger to sit. The landing chair displacement device performs a storage execution operation of displacing the seat portion from the landing chair service position to the landing chair storage position to hold the seat portion at the landing chair storage position, and a storage releasing operation of releasing the seat portion from being held at the landing chair storage position. The control device has landing chair control means for controlling the landing chair displacement device based on information from operation detecting means for detecting an operational state of the elevator.