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Title of the invention
Bus stop pole with light-emitting diode panels, touch screen liquid-crystal
display panel and
voice message device
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i?'ris invenfion relates to bus stop poles, by whip is maa~nt road n~"~itura
of the typ-
which is largely upright and intbndad to indicate to passengers and to drivers
where
a bus or other public transpdr v~bida is intand~ to stop to dis,:.harge ~d
pick up
pøsscng°r<. ,
G~=: 2 274 oS1 aisclQs~s a b:.~s siop in th~ 5 « o. an upright carrying a
cylindri;,al
~-; a->,m wi;icn is rotawble abaft L'~a axis cr the upr ighL Tne dn..~ has
flu;~escant
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T ila pr asant inYanijon alms at p; guiding a bus stop poly u,';iu~1 is w~tar-
and v=nda!_
prop, and v'.~i~ provides rnea-a by wilicfl intending passangar's.m~ay ask
,'or
relev~; ~: i, ~-~rn2fiLn is be G;SOiay°v vii r~U=s_ ~ '
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I'.'Jl~ ~h'lth ?Trr arlt:a tD Ille
ac~mpanying dr~ring, in v~%lic; L
Figure 7 is _ rear ela~~sfiora ~ ;,na embobimant of t~na irlvarJtion, and
1'1HLl1'E' 2 1S ~ ti D~ it QIPY~iIDi~ Oi a ~ pDl° SilOWil 1n f'I''~. Z.
Ttly bus step shows In Fig. '1 is as it ~ufd ba saazn fr~rn t,'la roadway. 1t
comprises
an upright in the ;o ~~ >of a polo 8, preferably of s',ainless Si~l. The
upri~h $ is
ini:andad to have its i~r artd (zs vmvwd) ~~b~ded in cement or ot'ler means to
ksep it in place despite attampis by vandals to remove or citsior't it At a
sui:able
height Lom the ground 10 is a ho~.ainq 7 st'~ciled arnly to the upright. The
ho~ainQ
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hes two oppositely-directed major surtacss '12 ark 14 (of whi~'~ only surface
12 is
shown in Fig. 1~ This surface is ittter~ed to face the roadvyay, so that it
cash be
viewed cxwaniently by people in passing vehicles, gnd on walkways on the
opposite side of the road. Surface 12 is intended to have its major area
covered by
a display papal on which a postar.6 may be mounted, the poster being able to
ba Lit
by means of a light source posifior~d within fete housing 7. The manner in
wf~i~ the
poster is positioned an the housing does not form part of the subject-matter
o. this
invention, and so will not be described herein in any tur~ther detail. Another
part of
t~7e su>;ace 12 may have a penal on which is displayed the name or Location of
the
bus stop, and this nay iiicewisa be illuminated from within the housing.
Tne portion of the up. fight 8 abov= the housing is sun~ounied 5y a plate 1
having
f v
two major i~.~s. Although Fig. 1 shows the plate as zing or ienied such that
it is
parallel with the roadside kert~, and therefore with the surfaces 12 and 14,
it is within
the purview of t~nis iw5-ttion to origin; if at right =ngles to the kerb, s~
that it may be
viewed fr om afar by intandir tg passengers appi awing ta"~a bvs stop from
either
direction. In another arnbodime~ (not shown), iha plats may be of ac.iciforrn
crcss-
saction, so that it pras3nts a similar appAaranc~ wi"satever the Location of a
viewer.
On both or all of its major surfaces, the plate year indicia Indi:.ating w~
ii; h routa(sy
serves the stop. i'tefarabfy the route identity in'orn ration is displayed on
a ;rack-Lit
t; ansparant or iranslu~ni member (pat shown).
As shown in Fig. 2, the display sur fag of the ho:,~sing 7 is signiricantiy
differ ant item
ti;at of Fig. 1. It is divided info a't least one large parsal 2 covered with
an gray of
light-emitting diodes (L?=Ds), and another panel 3 forming o touch-scr 3en
liquid-
crystal display. In on? embodiment of the invarr~on the pan°I 2 i5
o'i~de~ into tw3
incramasntal panels. Ona of these sub-panels Tay b$ used to display non-
transport
Information controlled by a rencte centre, v,~'~ile the other one wouild ba
inianded to
s
display bvs route irriormation anc operational ~na~esa~ges. At Limas the
display on
both sub-panels could ba changed from the centre to display advettsing
rrsateriat.
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The panel 3 could be used to displ2y route inf~orrnation, such as a route map
and a
fare table, togeihe~r with sub information that Lie bus operator wants to
show, suc~"~
as the Web page or address of the operator.
Positioned towards the bottom end of the housing tae view3d) is a loudspeaker.
This could be operated optionally at the choice of intending passengers, or
penranentfy, to announ;.e In words what the display is showing. When ttve
display
in oper ated in fw~ yr more languaoas, the langaaga of iha aural announcements
is
changed app. opriataly.
ay means whlG'7 ar l~nown, and whi:,h do not fo~ ~~ part of the subject-matter
of ~7is
--- invention, all'J~s ele~ricity-using and data-display devices loaning part
of ~e bus
:::
stop pole era connected through t..a bur ied end of the upright to alactriciy
and data
cables.
it will G'~us be seen that t..is invention provides a bu: stop pole w'stich
displays and
announces variable information r equesfed by i~tanding passengers, as welt as
the
usual static lrforrnativn, and adve~ ising matar;al under the c;,,ntroi of the
buy
c,~mpany.
