US 11,993,486 B2
Apparatus and method for controlling passenger transportation device
Lifei Cheng, Hangzhou (CN); Zhaoxia Hu, Hangzhou (CN); and Xinwei Gong, Haining (CN)
Assigned to OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed by Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,478.
Claims priority of application No. 202111094087.X (CN), filed on Sep. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0094547 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B66B 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 25/003 (2013.01) [B66B 25/006 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control apparatus for a passenger conveying apparatus, comprising:
a processor;
a memory coupled with the processor; and
a computer program stored on the memory and running on the processor, the running of the computer program causes:
in response to an internal control command of the control apparatus or an external control command outside the control apparatus, determining whether there is a passenger boarding signal in the passenger conveying apparatus within a specified time interval, wherein the internal control command and the external control command comprise commands for starting or stopping the passenger conveying apparatus; and
manipulating the passenger conveying apparatus based on the determining;
wherein, when the internal control command or the external control command is one for starting the passenger conveying apparatus, the specified time interval is a time interval between a previous stopping of the passenger conveying apparatus and generation of the internal control command or the receipt of the external control command for starting the passenger conveying apparatus;
upon determining that there is a passenger boarding signal within the specified time interval, sending a message that the passenger conveying apparatus is not to be started.