Braille information notification device

Abstract

A method for imputing a voice message recording for a particular floor served by an elevator car includes the steps of sensing elevator car positions ( 21 ), sensing that a selected car operating panel button has been held down ( 22 ) and enabling a voice input process ( 23 ). A device for displaying Braille information to an elevator user includes an elongated panel ( 42 ) having a central Braille character panel ( 31 ) and two buttons ( 32, 33 ) disposed at opposite ends of the elongated panel for causing the displayed information to move backward and forward. A plurality of actuators ( 38 ), and probes ( 35 ) extruding through the Braille panel form Braille characters.

1 . Audible floor call recording method comprising the steps of: 
 sensing elevator car position by moving the elevator car to a floor where an original voice is to be input and determining whether the elevator car has arrived at that floor,    sensing continuous button pressing, after determining that the elevator car has arrived at the aforementioned floor by the car position sensing process, by judging whether a preselected first button on an operating panel of the elevator car has been held down for a fixed period of time,    enabling a voice input process in response to the continuous button pressing sensing step,    initiating recording of a message in response to pressing a preselected second button on the aforementioned operating panel,    ending said recording of a message when a preselected third button on the aforementioned operating panel is pressed.    
     
     
         2 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , further comprising the step of repeating the sensing, enabling, initiating, and ending steps for each floor for which it is desired to record a unique audible floor call.  
     
     
         3 . A Braille information notification device for a elevator comprising an information panel, wherein said panel is equipped with an elongated rectangular Braille character panel disposed in the center thereof and at least two buttons disposed on the left and the right of said Braille character panel enabling a user to selectively move the Braille information presented on the Braille character panel backward or forward.  
     
     
         4 . The Braille information notification device described under  claim 3  characterized in that said Braille character panel includes an upper and a lower panel layer, having a fixed space between the layers and wherein the layers are pierced with multiple probes for forming Braille characters, said probes being provided with upper limit stops and lower limit stops, each probe further being configured such that it can be moved vertically, a plurality of corresponding actuators controlled by an information processing part in response to input information from an information input part, said probes moved up and down by said actuators to create Braille characters in accordance with said information processing part.