Electrical control system for stairway wheelchair lift

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4904916
SERIAL NO

07195251

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A stairway wheelchair lift includes a stationary motor drive unit, a mobile platform movable along a stairway and a user interface for receiving user-generated input commands. The mobile platform communicates with the motor drive unit through a continuously maintained broadbeam infrared communications link, while the motor drive unit communicates with the mobile platform through an intermittently established short range infrared link. The user interface communicates with the motor drive through a hard wired four conductor communicates link. The use of infrared communications links, together with the four conductor hard wired link, reduces overall system wiring, enhances ease of installation and improves overall system flexibility and economy. Microprocessor based micro-controllers, within the motor drive unit, the mobile platform and the user interface, permit system operation to be tailored in accordance with the operating constraints and requirements imposed by a particular stairway configuration.

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ACCESS INDUSTRIES INC4001 EAST 138TH STREET GRANDVIEW MO 64030

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gisske, Edward T Verona, WI 21 754
Prendergast, Sr John F Franklin, WI 6 126

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