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).
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Patent number: 9878874Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeharu Kondo, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 9384733Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20150183618Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: July 2, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takeharu Kondo, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8678142Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140006034Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8525652Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8403113Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8157059Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Takeuchi, Kazuya Izuta
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Publication number: 20110168499Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2008Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20110031071Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2008Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20100315208Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20100044162Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation,Inventors: Nobukazu Takeuchi, Kazuya Izuta
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Patent number: 7591348Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2004Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7469772Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7404469Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: D598931Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: D599814Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: D599815Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: D599818Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: D602948Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshihisa Ogura, Nobukazu Takeuchi