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: 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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Publication number: 20070158140Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2004Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7207422Abstract: An elevator call registration system is equipped with a touch panel display, and a processing operation section that registers an operation from the touch panel display into an elevator control unit. The processing operation section detects the position of a user's touch to a touch panel, ticks time in synchronization with the start of the touch to the touch panel, and measures the time ticked away. A prescribed first time limit and the measured time are compared with each other, and voice guidance related to the detected touch position is provided after the measured time exceeds the first time limit.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2003Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20060225964Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2004Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20060207836Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: September 21, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7040459Abstract: A display system for an elevator includes: a speed detecting device that detects speed of an elevator car; a position detecting device that detects position of the car; an operation control system that outputs speed information, stop floor information, and car position information based on a speed detection signal and a position detection signal; and a display device that displays floor names using a display control device based on the speed information, the stop floor information, and the car position information. The floor names are displayed on a display unit in a continuous manner on a circumference of a predetermined shape, so that display positions of the continuously displayed floor names are moved on the circumference of the predetermined shape in proportion to moving speed of the car.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2002Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuko Matsuda, Masayuki Miyawaki, Fuuta Yamazaki, Kazuya Izuta, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6986408Abstract: A controller for a car/hall apparatus transfers an elevator operating program stored in a memory to an operating terminal through operating terminal communication unit and an operating terminal communication path, when necessary. The operating terminal which has received the elevator operating program executes this program to control an elevator car and a hoisting machine through the operating terminal communication path, the car/hall apparatus, a car/hall communication path, and a controlling apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2001Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20050252723Abstract: An elevator call registration system is equipped with a touch panel display, and a processing operation section that registers an operation from the touch panel display into an elevator control unit. The processing operation section detects the position of a user's touch to a touch panel, ticks time in synchronization with the start of the touch to the touch panel, and measures the time ticked away. A prescribed first time limit and the measured time are compared with each other, and voice guidance related to the detected touch position is provided after the measured time exceeds the first time limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2003Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20040134718Abstract: A display system for an elevator includes: a speed detecting device that detects a speed of an elevator car; a position detecting device that detects a position of the car; an operation control system that outputs speed information, stop floor information, and car position information based on a speed detection signal and a position detection signal; and a display device that displays a plurality of floor names using a display control device based on the speed information, the stop floor information, and the car position information so that the plurality of floor names are displayed on a display unit in a continuous manner on a circumference of a predetermined shape, and displays the plurality of continuously displayed floor names so that display positions of the plurality of continuously displayed floor names are moved on the circumference of the predetermined shape in proportion to a moving speed of the car.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: July 15, 2004Inventors: Kazuko Matsuda, Masayuki Miyawaki, Fuuta Yamazaki, Kazuya Izuta, Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20040060777Abstract: Controlling means (213) for a car/hall apparatus (21) provided for an elevator transfers an elevator operating program stored in storage means (214) to an operating terminal (16) through operating terminal communication means (212) and an operating terminal communication path (23) when necessary. The operating terminal (16) which has received the elevator operating program executes this program to control an elevator car and a hoisting machine through the operating terminal communication path (23), the car/hall apparatus (21), a car/hall communication path (22), and a controlling apparatus (13), thereby operating the elevator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6550586Abstract: A display/operation apparatus for an elevator system includes an intra-car operation panel or a hall-oriented operation panel or the like which includes an image display device and a touch screen display in which a touch switch array overlaps a displayed image of the image display device. In a normal operation state, functions of operation buttons displayed on the image display device or the like are validated. In the apparatus, a specific operation button array allows a predetermined input operation to be performed upon occurrence of a fault, at least in the touch screen display.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2002Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobukazu Takeuchi
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Patent number: 6471011Abstract: A cmmunications control system for elevators having control units including at least respective car control units and elevator hall registration control units, each of the control units having a node, the nodes being connected to each other via a network, and each of the nodes having a management table establishing correspondence between node number and network address.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Ando, Kunikazu Koura, Hiroshi Gokan, Nobukazu Takeuchi, Shougo Tatsumi
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Patent number: 6467583Abstract: A communications control system for elevators with control units inter-connected via a network and each control unit receives its own logical destination from an external location. The elevator communications control system includes a first control unit for detecting an initialized state of the network and operating as a network master node governing synchronization control among the control units when the first control unit is the first to send out, to the network, a network master node candidate request having a logical destination of the first control unit attached; and a second control unit for operating as a sub-node obeying the network master node when the initialized state of the network is not detected.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2001Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunikazu Koura, Nobukazu Takeuchi, Shougo Tatsumi