Patents by Inventor Chiaki HONDA

Chiaki HONDA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10407276
    Abstract: An elevator device that can continuously evacuate any evacuee left in a building by using an elevator. The elevator device includes a control device configured to maintain an evacuation operation mode corresponding to a rescue floor concerned when a car operation instructing device is operated on the rescue floor concerned before a predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned, and release the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned when the car operation instructing device is not operated on the rescue floor concerned before the predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki Honda, Masashi Komatsu, Ashiqur Rahman, David Willem Lodewijk Offerhaus, Takaharu Ueda, Shinichi Kuroda, Koji Yamagishi, Kenji Taniyama
  • Publication number: 20170320705
    Abstract: An elevator system includes: key switches, provided at a hall, used in an evacuation operation to select either a shuttle operation request mode requesting a car to shuttle between an evacuation floor and a rescue floor, or an evacuation completion mode indicating completion of evacuation; a first notification mechanism provided in the car; and an elevator controller switching between normal operation and the evacuation operation, determining, in a case at least one of the key switches is switched to the evacuation operation, that a floor at a hall whose key switch is in the shuttle operation mode is a rescue floor and a floor at a hall whose key switch is in the evacuation completion mode is an evacuation completion floor, and making, in a case a hall button provided at the hall of the evacuation completion floor is operated, the first notification mechanism notify of the evacuation completion floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Chiaki HONDA
  • Publication number: 20170305717
    Abstract: An elevator device that can continuously evacuate any evacuee left in a building by using an elevator. The elevator device includes a control device configured to maintain an evacuation operation mode corresponding to a rescue floor concerned when a car operation instructing device is operated on the rescue floor concerned before a predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned, and release the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned when the car operation instructing device is not operated on the rescue floor concerned before the predetermined time passes from when the car stops at the rescue floor concerned during the evacuation operation mode corresponding to the rescue floor concerned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Chiaki HONDA, Masashi KOMATSU, Ashiqur RAHMAN, David Willem Lodewijk OFFERHAUS, Takaharu UEDA, Shinichi KURODA, Koji YAMAGISHI, Kenji TANIYAMA