Abstract: An elevator rope elongation measuring device provided with: a camera for photographing one or a plurality of elevator ropes R; and an image processing unit for image processing a photographed image output from the camera, wherein: the image processing unit detects an external form portion of the elevator rope R as a regular hill and valley shape T, converts a cyclic length of the hill and valley shape into actual dimensions and makes this a measured value, and finds a ratio of the measured value with respect to a standard value prescribed for the elevator rope as an elongation, therefore attaining the effect of making it unnecessary to have a preliminary installation of a sensor or marker to the rope, or preliminary creation of a database.

Abstract: An elevator motion alert system for alerting a mechanic working inside a hoistway comprises a self-power-generating car beacon mounted on an elevator car, a self-power-generating counterweight beacon mounted on a counterweight, and a mobile device carried by the mechanic for receiving signals transmitted from the car beacon and the counterweight beacon and for providing an alert to the mechanic whenever the elevator car or the counterweight is approaching.

Abstract: An elevator rope elongation measuring device provided with: a camera for photographing one or a plurality of elevator ropes R; and an image processing unit for image processing a photographed image output from the camera, wherein: the image processing unit detects an external form portion of the elevator rope R as a regular hill and valley shape T, converts a cyclic length of the hill and valley shape into actual dimensions and makes this a measured value, and finds a ratio of the measured value with respect to a standard value prescribed for the elevator rope as an elongation, therefore attaining the effect of making it unnecessary to have a preliminary installation of a sensor or marker to the rope, or preliminary creation of a database.

Abstract: An elevator-rope inspection device comprising a camera for capturing images of the elevator rope R, and an image-processing unit for processing a captured image outputted by the camera, wherein the image-processing unit detects a location of wear by implementing binarization on the captured images, and a labeling process that assigns a label to the location of wear, measures a distance between labels 1, 2, and 3 assigned by the labeling process, and when that distance is less than a fixed value, it judges that the area between labels is a wire break, so texture information of the elevator rope is unnecessary in advance.

Abstract: An elevator motion alert system for alerting a mechanic working inside a hoistway comprises a self-power-generating car beacon mounted on an elevator car, a self-power-generating counterweight beacon mounted on a counterweight, and a mobile device carried by the mechanic for receiving signals transmitted from the car beacon and the counterweight beacon and for providing an alert to the mechanic whenever the elevator car or the counterweight is approaching.

Abstract: The bronchial plug (1) comprises a hollow body (2), the front side (4) of which is open and the back side (5) of which comprises at least one valve (6) being closed in the normal state thereof and adapted to be voluntarily or spontaneously opened so as to form a communication orifice. It further comprises gripping means (7) especially dedicated to a guide (10) adapted to position it in a bronchus (16), said gripping means (7) being arranged on the front side of said valve (6) and accessible through said valve (6).

Abstract: An elevator is provided with floor arrival correction control which monitors the elapsed time following completion of the previous floor arrival correction. If the time elapsed is less than a fixed time (102), the elevator car is controlled with a standard floor arrival control speed pattern (103, 52), if it is greater than the fixed time, the next floor arrival-corrected operation is compared with the direction of operation for the previous correction (104). If the same, the car has not yet arrived in the door zone (e.g., because the car is heavily loaded) and the car is controlled with an increased speed pattern (105, 51). If not the same, the car has overrun the door zone and it is controlled with a reduced speed pattern (106, 53).

Abstract: A system and method for recognizing an utterance of a speech in which each reference pattern stored in a dictionary is constituted by a series of phonemes of a word to be recognized, each phoneme having a predetermined length of continued time and having a series of frames and a lattice point (i, j) of an i-th number phoneme at an j-th number frame having a discriminating score derived from Neural Networks for the corresponding phoneme.

Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a diaphragm having a magnetic film fixed to one side thereof. The diaphragm is arranged to displace depending on a pressure differential applied thereacross to change an inductance of a coil which is arranged close to the magnetic film with a predetermined gap therebetween. An alternating current is supplied to the coil to be modulated by the inductance of the coil so that the pressure differential across the diaphragm is converted into an electric signal. A monitored pressure is derived based on this converted electric signal.

Abstract: A tire pressure detecting portion includes a housing, provided within the tire, within which a piezoelectric element is provided so as to be deformed by the tire pressure. The capacitance of said piezoelectric element is changed in accordance with its deformation. The piezoelectric element is electrically connected with a first coil diposed within said tire. The first coil is electromagnetically coupled with an excitation coil and a receiving coil, both of which are provided in the vehicle. The excitation coil provides an excitation voltage whole frequency is changed within a predetermined range including a resonant frequency. When the received voltage has the resonant frequency, a correspondinq tire pressure is determined based on a data map showing the relationship between said resonant frequency and the tire pressure.