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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181312 | End-connector and method for fastening a flat-belt type suspension means of an elevator system An end-connector for fastening a flat-belt type suspension device of an elevator system comprises a housing with two side walls and a first and a second wrapping element each of which extends between the two side walls and is wrappable by the flat-belt type suspensi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8157061 | Elevator installation with a braking device and method for braking and holding an elevator installation An elevator installation has braking equipment for braking and holding an elevator car which moves in vertical direction within guide tracks or rails. The braking equipment consists of at least two brake units each comprising a normal force regulation device that se... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157060 | Elevator installation with braking equipment and method of braking in an elevator installation An elevator installation has an elevator car that moves in a vertical direction along guide tracks and is braked or held at standstill by a braking equipment. The braking equipment includes at least two brake units, at least one of the brake units, but preferably ea... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157058 | Elevator with belt-like transmission means, particularly with wedge-ribbed belt, as support means and/or drive means A transmission belt for driving and/or supporting an elevator car has a longitudinally extending body including an area tensile layer reinforced by chemical fibers. The belt can have a flat friction layer or a friction layer including alternating longitudinally exte... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151974 | Device for the linear movement of a carriage A linear axle for contactless energy transmission has a belt with an electrical conductor, a movable carriage and a circuit that is movable with the carriage and which is electrically connected with the conductor. In addition, a locationally fixed circuit and an ind... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8109369 | Method of optimizing the weight of a counterweight of an elevator system and elevator system with a counterweight of that kind An elevator system includes a car with an empty weight MK, which car can move a rated load MLmax, a counterweight, which is coupled with the car by a support device so that it rises when the car lowers and lowers when the car rises, as well as a drive device which c... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109367 | Counterweight and suspension for an elevator without an engine room In an elevator, with an elevator car, a counterweight, a drive unit arranged below the counterweight and provided with a drive pulley, and an elevator support device, which is guided over the drive pulley and at least one deflecting pulley and which supports and mov... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104587 | Elevator car An elevator car consists of a floor, side walls, a back wall and a roof which are each constructed in a modular manner from a plurality of panels and which can be held together by means of connecting elements. The floor is formed from, in total, eight floor panels. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8061485 | Elevator installation operating method for transporting elevator users A method of operating an elevator installation for transporting elevator users in a building area, including the steps of: detecting the position of elevator users in the building area, granting of an access authorization of the elevator users to building regions, t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054065 | Inspection of mixed material during installation An apparatus and a method for monitoring a ratio of at least two components being mixed use sensors detecting ferrous taggant particles in the component(s) and the mixture. The sensors include an annular drive coil positioned between inner and outer annular sense co... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052140 | Adjustable feeder/delivery board for printing press A feeder/delivery board (81) includes a generally planar platform (83) made of a flexible material, and a plurality of legs (84) attached to the platform and extending downwardly for supporting the board on a printing press table (80a | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052079 | Coiler and method for manufacturing a coil A swivel machine for wire processing includes a coiler arranged between a cutting-off/insulation-stripping unit and a second swivel arm. The cut length of wire whose leading wire-end has been processed is coiled by means of a coiling disk of the coiler. After the le... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051796 | Robotic apparatus and method for painting A robotic painting system includes a device for generating a vacuum and a dump line disposed upstream from a connection between an isolation line and a canister, wherein the device for generating a vacuum and the dump line are employed for filling and cleaning the r... | 11/08/2011 |
| D648161 | Shelf system | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047333 | Method and elevator installation for user selection of an elevator A method for allocation of a user to a elevator installation, which is provided with a plurality of elevator cars and with a destination call control unit, wherein the user lodges a destination call at the destination control unit using a communications unit. The de... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046102 | Control method for synchronous high speed motion stop for multi-top loaders across controllers A synchronous high speed motion stop for a series of multi-top loaders residing on “n” controllers on one rail achieves effective detection of the servo-error status and shut off of the trailing controller's servo power within 3 ITP time. The control method redu... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8028807 | Remote recording of maintenance operations for an elevator or escalator installation A method and device for maintenance of an elevator installation or an escalator installation communicates the presence of a maintenance technician at the elevator or escalator installation to a remote service center. The service center is thus informed about that th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8020751 | Apparatus for fastening and/or separating container portions An apparatus for at least partially separating at least two container portions includes first and second container portions. At least one tear line extends at least partially between the first and second portions and at least partially defines the first portion. The... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020671 | Elevator installation, a guide rail of an elevator installation, brake equipment of an elevator installation and a method for guiding, holding and braking an elevator installation An elevator installation includes a guide rail and brake equipment for guiding, holding and braking the elevator installation. The brake equipment has a brake lining which co-operates with a brake surface, advantageously with the brake surface of the guide rail, for... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016081 | Elevator drive brake device monitor An elevator drive with a brake device has compression springs that act on brake levers, whereby brake linings generate a brake force on a brake drum. The more the brake linings wear due to abrasion, the smaller the distance of the plunger from the brake magnet housi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011910 | Low noise gear set for gear pump A low noise gear set for use generally and preferably with a power plant having an engine driving a pump connected to a low pressure fluid source, generating high pressure fluid at an output. The idle gear meshes with the drive gear along two points of the profile o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011480 | Load sensor apparatus and method for an elevator car An elevator installation and a method for arranging a load sensor in the elevator installation includes a car, a support device for supporting the car, the load sensor and a deflecting roller unit. The deflecting roller unit is arranged at the car and has at least t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005572 | Flexible connection of teaching devices to programmable controllers An apparatus provides selective communication between multiple programmable robot controllers and one or more teaching devices connected by a network. The network controls communication between the teaching devices and the controllers including active tasks and pass... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7984794 | Device for sealing a gap between car door and car wall in an elevator car An apparatus for sealing a gap between an elevator car door and the associated car wall during car travel includes a sealing strip of resilient material with wall portions that can be reversibly stretched to bridge and seal the gap. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980362 | Safety equipment for preventing an elevator car collision with an object Safety equipment for an elevator installation with an upper elevator car and a lower elevator car, which cars are both movable substantially independently along a vertical direction in a common elevator shaft of the elevator installation includes a first electro-opt... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7967354 | Mixed size product handling end of arm tool A mixed size product end of arm tooling is used in conjunction with a robot to pick mixed size product and place the product onto a pallet or layers resting on top of a pallet. The end of arm tooling includes two center rails/forks mounted to a base. Two outer rails... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7963032 | Method for determining the position of a wire fitting on a wire A fitting head has a sleeve receptacle and a widener, the fitting head being displaceable forward/backward in the direction of the longitudinal axis of a wire. Also arranged on the fitting head are a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter generates a curtain-li... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7946392 | Drive for an elevator door with a displacement curve adapted to the air flows in the shaft A method of operating an elevator installation and the elevator installation include elevator doors actuated by an elevator drive according to a travel curve. At least one sensor unit detects pressure relationships and/or air flows. An evaluating unit determines a t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943201 | Robotic tire spraying system A robotic spray system is provided for accurately spraying mold release onto any size or shaped green tire. The system analyzes individual green tires using an integrated vision system. The system controls the robotic spray position, the fan, fluid, atomizing air, a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7923992 | Inspection of asphalt during manufacturing An apparatus and a method for monitoring a ratio of at least two components being mixed use sensors detecting ferrous taggant particles in the component(s) and the mixture. The sensors include an annular drive coil positioned between inner and outer annular sense co... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918318 | Method and system for modernization of an elevator installation A method for modernization of an elevator installation with several elevators in a building, wherein at least one floor terminal for input of a floor call is provided on at least one floor of the building, which floor terminal is, for communication of an input floor... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913818 | Elevator installation in a building with at least one transfer floor An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated ca... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7886336 | Method of initiating a security procedure within a building A method for initiating a security procedure within a building whereby a virtual key is generated by a certain event and transmitted to a selected person. If the selected person identifies himself by means of the virtual key, a security procedure, for example making... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882935 | Support means system with drive pulley and support means as well as elevator installation with such a support means system A support system has a belt-like support, which supports a load and which has at least one rib or groove with wedge-shaped cross-section extending in the longitudinal direction of the support, is driven by a support pulley, which pulley has at least one correspondin... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882934 | Elevator installation in a building with at least one transfer floor An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated ca... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882856 | Separated sanitary and storm sewer system An apparatus and method for improving the operation of sewer systems includes a first sewer pipe connected to a source of other water and a second smaller diameter sewer pipe passing through the first sewer pipe and connected to sources of sanitary effluent. The sec... | 02/08/2011 |
| D631178 | LED lamp | 01/18/2011 |
| 7866446 | Method and device for reducing the energy consumption of an elevator installation A device for reducing the energy consumption is used in an elevator installation which can be alternatively brought into an operating mode and a standby mode wherein in the standby mode the elevator installation is separated from a main energy source and connected w... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860609 | Robot multi-arm control system A robot multi-arm control system includes robot controllers that communicate via a network to transmit synchronization information from a master controller to one or more slave controllers in order to coordinate manufacturing processes. The system accounts for the n... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857106 | Vertical position detection of a suspended elevator car A system for detecting the position of an elevator car includes a belt at which the elevator car is suspended and a detector for detecting the position of the belt, wherein the belt has on a first side a toothing in which a gearwheel of the detector mechanically pos... | 12/28/2010 |
