Patents by Inventor Nobukazu Takeuchi

Nobukazu Takeuchi 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: 9878874
    Abstract: An elevator-landing device that can register a floor which is daily used as a destination floor without a button operation, and register another floor as a destination floor in accordance with necessity. The elevator-landing device includes a hall operating panel to which a user can input a destination floor, a reading part which reads identification information from an information recording medium carried by a user in the hall, by radio communication, a storage part which stores identification information associated with a destination floor, a temporary registration part which obtains the destination floor associated with the identification information and temporarily registers a call to the obtained destination floor, and a determination part which determines whether or not a predetermined destination floor establishment condition is established, when it is determined that the predetermined destination floor establishment condition is established by the determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeharu Kondo, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9384733
    Abstract: A call registration device for an elevator includes a voice input section which receives input of a user's voice, a voice recognition section which stores beforehand a predetermined call registration command representing a destination floor and a predetermined start command used for starting voice recognition of a call registration and which differs from the call registration command, the voice recognition section also performing voice recognition by judging whether the inputted voice is the call registration command or the start command, a call registration control section which, if the inputted voice was the call registration command, outputs a call registration request to the destination floor of the relevant call registration command, and a start command changing part which changes a start command which becomes effective by a predetermined condition. If the inputted voice is a start command made effective, the voice recognition section starts voice recognition of a call registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150183618
    Abstract: An elevator-landing device that can register a floor which is daily used as a destination floor without a button operation, and register another floor as a destination floor in accordance with necessity. The elevator-landing device includes a hall operating panel to which a user can input a destination floor, a reading part which reads identification information from an information recording medium carried by a user in the hall, by radio communication, a storage part which stores identification information associated with a destination floor, a temporary registration part which obtains the destination floor associated with the identification information and temporarily registers a call to the obtained destination floor, and a determination part which determines whether or not a predetermined destination floor establishment condition is established, when it is determined that the predetermined destination floor establishment condition is established by the determination part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeharu Kondo, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8678142
    Abstract: In a destination floor registration device 800, a boarding detection unit 804 detects a boarding of an elevator user; when no button operation by destination floor registration buttons 500 is performed after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since detection of the boarding, a voice destination floor registration unit 805 outputs from a voice output device 400 a message for prompting a passenger to pronounce a destination floor; a voice recognition unit 806 recognizes the destination floor pronounced by the passenger; and a voice destination floor registration unit 805 requests an elevator car control device 200 to register the destination floor recognized by the voice recognition unit 806.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140006034
    Abstract: A call registration device for an elevator includes a voice input section which receives input of a user's voice, a voice recognition section which stores beforehand a predetermined call registration command representing a destination floor and a predetermined start command used for starting voice recognition of a call registration and which differs from the call registration command, the voice recognition section also performing voice recognition by judging whether the inputted voice is the call registration command or the start command, a call registration control section which, if the inputted voice was the call registration command, outputs a call registration request to the destination floor of the relevant call registration command, and a start command changing part which changes a start command which becomes effective by a predetermined condition. If the inputted voice is a start command made effective, the voice recognition section starts voice recognition of a call registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8525652
    Abstract: A lobby detection device 100 placed in a lobby reads out an ID of an elevator user 300 from an individual identification tag 400 and transmits the ID to an authentication device 600, the authentication device 600 registers the ID if the ID has not been registered and performs a call registration for an elevator car 500 after an authentication processing, a car detection device 200 inside of the elevator car 500 reads out the ID from the individual identification tag 400 and transmits the ID to the authentication device 600, and when the same ID as a registered ID that has been registered becomes no longer transmitted from the car detection device 200, the authentication device 600 deletes a registration of the registered ID after a specific time elapses, so that even when the ID is read out by the lobby detection device 100 in the lobby where the elevator user 300 lands on at the time the elevator user 300 leaves the elevator car 500, a call registration is not performed since the registration is held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8403113
    Abstract: Provided is a destination floor indication device of an elevator which is excellent in the viewability of destination floor indications and can rapidly indicate destination floors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8157059
    Abstract: A destination floor indication device that enables elevator users to get to know destination floors that have already been registered easily and in a short time. For this purpose, a destination floor indication device installed in a hall or car of the elevator is includes an indication part that indicates registered destination floors to elevator users, and indication contents of this indication part are controlled by an indication control part. It is ensured through the control by the indication control part that when the number of indications of registered destination floors exceeds a prescribed specified value, the size of indications of destination floors is made smaller than when the specified value is not exceeded, whereby all registered destination floors are caused to be indicated in the indication part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nobukazu Takeuchi, Kazuya Izuta
  • Publication number: 20110168499
    Abstract: In a destination floor registration device 800, a boarding detection unit 804 detects a boarding of an elevator user; when no button operation by destination floor registration buttons 500 is performed after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since detection of the boarding, a voice destination floor registration unit 805 outputs from a voice output device 400 a message for prompting a passenger to pronounce a destination floor; a voice recognition unit 806 recognizes the destination floor pronounced by the passenger; and a voice destination floor registration unit 805 requests an elevator car control device 200 to register the destination floor recognized by the voice recognition unit 806.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20110031071
    Abstract: Provided is a destination floor indication device of an elevator which is excellent in the viewability of destination floor indications and can rapidly indicate destination floors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100315208
    Abstract: A lobby detection device 100 placed in a lobby reads out an ID of an elevator user 300 from an individual identification tag 400 and transmits the ID to an authentication device 600, the authentication device 600 registers the ID if the ID has not been registered and performs a call registration for an elevator car 500 after an authentication processing, a car detection device 200 inside of the elevator car 500 reads out the ID from the individual identification tag 400 and transmits the ID to the authentication device 600, and when the same ID as a registered ID that has been registered becomes no longer transmitted from the car detection device 200, the authentication device 600 deletes a registration of the registered ID after a specific time elapses, so that even when the ID is read out by the lobby detection device 100 in the lobby where the elevator user 300 lands on at the time the elevator user 300 leaves the elevator car 500, a call registration is not performed since the registration is held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20100044162
    Abstract: A destination floor indication device that enables elevator users to get to know destination floors that have already been registered easily and in a short time. For this purpose, a destination floor indication device installed in a hall or car of the elevator includes an indication part that indicates registered destination floors to elevator users, and indication contents of this indication part are controlled by an indication control part. It is ensured through the control by the indication control part that when the number of indications of registered destination floors exceeds a prescribed specified value, the size of indications of destination floors is made smaller than when the specified value is not exceeded, whereby all registered destination floors are caused to be indicated in the indication part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation,
    Inventors: Nobukazu Takeuchi, Kazuya Izuta
  • Patent number: 7591348
    Abstract: A destination floor registering apparatus that can at any time and appropriately afford information on each floor to elevator users. For this purpose, a floor information display is provided for each destination button so that the contents of displays of the floor information display become visible from an operation surface of each of the destination buttons which a user operates in registering a desired destination floor, and the contents of displays of the floor information display are changed at any time according to operation conditions. Furthermore, information is displayed by a continuous change in colors, characters, or graphics to positively communicate the contents of displays of the floor information display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7469772
    Abstract: An elevator destination floor display unit is installed in an elevator boarding area or an elevator car. The elevator destination floor display unit has a display portion having a screen selectively displaying destination floor representations relating to all floors, and a display control portion which arranges and displays, in a matrix form, only destination floor representations of destination floors registered on the screen. Therefore, the unit decreases the area of the required display space, makes it possible to visually recognize destination floor representations with ease, and possesses a high degree of freedom for installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 7404469
    Abstract: An elevator call registration device selectively switches between display of an operation screen for allowing a user to designate a registration for moving a car to an arbitrary destination floor from among a plurality of destination floors and display of a registered-floor screen for displaying the destination floor that is designated through operation on the operation screen and registered with an elevator control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D598931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D599814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D599815
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D599818
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: D602948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi