Passenger conveyor

Abstract

The present invention provides a passenger conveyor which ensures passenger safety in operation and furthermore can increase movement speed for improving the passenger conveying efficiency. The passenger conveyor is provided with a plurality of conveyors (12a,12b,12c,12d,12e,12f,12g) with a plurality of areas with different movement speeds. One conveyor is configured relatively to other one or two conveyors with a mode that one part of a movement direction (M) is superposed in a width direction (W). In the conveyors which are adjacent in the width direction (W), the areas which are superposed in the width direction (W) are set to a same movement speed.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a passenger conveyor used as a "moving sidewalk" for boarding and transferring passengers. Background technique [0002] Passenger conveyors used as moving walkways are equipped with endless conveyor belts. The endless conveyor belt is supported by a plurality of guide rollers arranged between the upper stair entrance and the lower stair entrance, and circulates under the drive of the driving device. Conventional passenger conveyors have a structure in which the conveyor belt is driven by pulleys arranged at the conveyor belt turn-back portion. The driving device is mostly arranged near the entrance of the ladder or near the mouth of the ladder. [0003] Passenger conveyors have handrails for passengers to hold on to as supports during the ride. The handrail is looped and the roll is hung on the railing. The handrail moves along the railing from the upper stair entrance to the lower stair entrance, and then circulat...

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Problems solved by technology

[0007] However, in the conveying device described in the following Patent Document 1, the speed change is discontinuous in the transfer portion between the transfer parts with different moving speeds.

Therefore, passengers sometimes stagger or fall at the transfer section, which is not ideal in terms of passenger safety.

Moreover, the greater the ratio of the moving speeds (acceleration and deceleration ratio) of the low-speed transfer part to the high-speed transfer part, the easier it is for passengers to stagger or fall at the above-mentioned discontinuous part. , improve passenger transport efficiency limited

[0008] In addition, in the "moving sidewalk" described in the following patent document 2, if the telescopic flat plate is stretched, a mechanical gap appears on the telescopic flat plate.

If a foreign object such as a small stone is caught in the gap, there may be a problem that the telescopic plate cannot be physically retracted.

Not only the moving speed is not slowed down, but also the telescopic flatbed cannot be turned over at the turn-back part, so the safety of passengers is not good

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