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摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a passenger conveyor apparatus with a safety device surely allowing passengers to find that their shoes are in a dangerous position to prevent an accident that the shoes of the passengers using the passenger conveyor apparatus are caught in a slight gap between a skirt guard panel and a step side face or between adjacent steps.;SOLUTION: The passenger conveyor includes a step position detection device detecting that a step is in a specific position, an object detection device detecting at least one of approaching of an object on a step tread to the skirt guard panel and its approaching to the riser of an adjacent step, and a warning device emitting warning near the object detection device when the object detection device detects an object while the step position detection device detects that a step is in the specific position or in a given time from the detection.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT