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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 8066101 | Belt device for driving elevator A belt device for driving an elevator is provided, the rest retaining capability of which is improved in order to retain the stopped state of an elevator cage if oil or water adheres to between a belt and a pulley. In the belt device for driving an elevator in which... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7971687 | Elevator belt assembly with noise reducing groove arrangement An elevator load bearing assembly (20) includes a plurality of cords (22) within a jacket (24). The jacket has a plurality of grooves (32, 34, 36, 38 40) spaced along the length of the belt assembly. Each groove has a plurality of portion... | 07/05/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7828121 | Reinforced synthetic cable for elevators An elevator support, such as a cable or a belt connected with an elevator car or counterweight, has load-bearing synthetic material strands, which are reinforced by the introduction of a second phase and have a higher modulus of elasticity than that of the unreinfor... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7757817 | Elevator system having a flat belt with wedge-shaped ribs The invention relates to a lift system wherein a drive unit (2) drives, by means of a driving disk (4.1), a flat belt-type carrier means (12.1, 12.2) which carries the lift cage (3). Said flat belt-type carrier means comprises several rib... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748501 | Elevator system design including a belt assembly with a vibration and noise reducing groove configuration An elevator system design incorporates a belt having a jacket coating a plurality of elongate load bearing members such as steel cords. The jacket includes a plurality of spaced grooves on at least one side of the belt. The width of the grooves and the size of at le... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7661514 | Elevator belt for an elevator installation and method of producing such an elevator belt An elevator belt for an elevator installation includes a belt body in which a tensile carrier arrangement with several tensile carriers for transmission of a tension force in a longitudinal direction of the elevator belt is arranged. A profile body which spaces thes... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7610994 | Elevator compensating cable having a selected loop radius and associated system and method A compensating cable adapted to attach to an elevator car is provided, wherein the compensating cable includes two portions connected by an arcuate portion. The arcuate portion of the compensating cable defines a loop having an extended diameter such that the compen... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7383924 | Machine room-less elevator Rubber vibration isolators are held between a base frame supporting a driving device and an upper deflecting sheave, and a support connected to car guide rails and a counterweight guide rail. The rubber vibration isolators are held between a horizontal member and ve... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7316296 | Elevator apparatus In an elevator apparatus, a first driving machine having a first drive sheave and a second driving machine having a second drive sheave are disposed in an upper portion of a hoistway. A car and first and second counterweights are suspended inside the hoistway by a m... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7299896 | Elevator system having drive motor located adjacent to hoistway door An elevator system includes a hoistway having a plurality of hoistway doors. An elevator car and counterweight are provided in the hoistway. A drive motor is drivingly coupled to the elevator car and counterweight, and is located adjacent to either the top or bottom... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296662 | Elevator system with escalator-like passenger flow A passenger flow arrangement for use in moving passengers between two floors in elevator-like cabs allow the passenger to continue to face in a forward direction and exit the vehicle after having entered in the forward direction. In one aspect of this invention, a c... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7261186 | Elevator with transverse flux drive An elevator, particularly for transporting passengers, has an elevator car guided in an elevator shaft a direct drive motor. The drive motor includes an active primary part at the elevator car and a passive secondary part that is fixed in the elevator shaft and is s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7232009 | Ascension/descension apparatus and method A pole ascension apparatus and associated method are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the apparatus includes a track connected to a pole and a portable platform portion detachably connectable to the track. The portable platform portion may move upwardly and d... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232011 | Equipment for fine positioning of the cars of a multi-stage car for an elevator A multi-stage elevator car has equipment for fine positioning of the cars wherein the car thresholds are positionable at the level of the floor thresholds. Adjusting equipment operating on the principle of a differential block and pulley is provided for fine positio... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225901 | Elevator roping system An elevator, preferably an elevator without machine room, in which the hoisting machine (10) engages the hoisting ropes (3) by means of a traction sheave (11), the elevator car (1) being at least partially supported by the hoisting ropes ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222697 | Elevator An elevator is described, comprising a first series connected pulley set installed in a fixing frame, a carriage located below the first series connected pulley set, a second series connected pulley set installed on the top of the carriage, a rotary wheel installed ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219771 | Elevator counter weight An elevator counterweight comprises a counterweight frame constructed from several vertical beams and at least three horizontal crossbars wherein the vertical beams penetrate the horizontal crossbars and form therewith several grid fields in which weight elements ar... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207421 | Elevator An elevator in which the elevator car is suspended by means of hoisting ropes consisting of a single rope or several parallel ropes, said elevator having a traction sheave which moves the elevator car by means of the hoisting ropes. The elevator has rope portions of... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207420 | Installation with support means for driving an elevator car, and corresponding support means An elevator installation has a support device engaging a driven drive pulley for driving an elevator car. The support device loops around the drive pulley at least partly and has a safety section which is so arranged that the safety section interacts with the drive ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7191874 | Carrying apparatus The present invention provides a carrying apparatus that prevents an elevating motor and the like from projecting from a stacker crane to hinder the stacker crane from interfering with walls of an automatic warehouse. A traveling vehicle 2 of a stacker crane ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7156209 | Elevator roping arrangement An elevator installation includes an elevator car located in a hoistway and having a floor, and a rear wall extending upward from the floor. A counterweight is located in the hoistway adjacent to the rear wall of the elevator car. An underslung sheave assembly is lo... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7137483 | Rope and elevator using the same An elevator in which the sheave diameter is reduced and the attendant lowering of the rope life and strength is suppressed to secure safety and reliability. To this end, a rope is used in which a plurality of element wires constituting the wire rope are each covered... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7117978 | Dampening device for an elevator compensating cable and associated system and method A dampening device for a compensating cable operably engaged with an elevator car is provided, wherein the compensating cable includes two linear portions connected by an arcuate portion. A first guide including at least one roller member is disposed within the arcu... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108105 | Cable lift without a machine room In a cable lift, with a single compartment or shaft (1) for housing a movable cage (2) and an apparatus (3), comprising at least one fixed winch (4) and a counterweight (5), for displacement of the cage (2), the counterweigh... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7083026 | Engine frame with counter-roller support for an elevator drive An engine frame and counter-roller support assembly provides for adjustable positioning of the support with respect to the engine frame, thus allowing differing cable-line spacing to be accommodated. The support includes a pair of carrier elements. The counter-rolle... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077241 | Elevator installation with flat-belt-type suspension means arranged in parallel In an elevator installation with an elevator car and a counterweight suspended and driven by several flat-belt-type suspension devices arranged in parallel, the suspension devices are arranged in parallel vertical planes that run diagonal to main horizontal axes of ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7040456 | Elevator car drive and support belt having a twisted orientation An elevator system includes a roller arrangement and a belt for supporting an elevator car. The roller arrangement has two rollers with approximately parallel axes of rotation and structured circumferential surfaces engaging a complementary structured surface of the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036298 | Rope for elevator and method for manufacturing the rope An elevator rope includes: an inner layer rope; an inner layer covering body of resin and covering the outer periphery of the inner layer rope; an outer layer located in the outer periphery of the inner layer covering body; and an outer layer covering body of a high... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7019421 | Modular linear electric motor with limited stator excitation zone and stator gap compensation A linear motor system including compartmentalized stator sections provides an interchangeable and serviceable alternative to other linear motors. The stator sections may be individually-energized so that power is only sent to stator sections adjacent to the thrust p... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6860367 | Elevator system having drive motor located below the elevator car An elevator system includes an elevator hoistway defined in a surrounding structure, such as a building. An elevator car and counterweight are located in the hoistway. A drive motor and associated drive sheave are disposed at a bottom portion of the hoistway. The dr... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6779634 | Dumb waiter elevating and lowering platform device An elevating system is provided that includes a platform that may travel up and down a tower through the use of a pair of cables, pulleys mounted at the top of the tower and a low profile motor mounted near the bottom of the tower to selectively raise and lower the ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6776263 | Elevator system for the vertical transport of loads in an aircraft The invention is directed to an elevator system for the vertical transport of payloads in an aircraft. The object of the invention, to find a novel possibility for the arrangement of an elevator system for the vertical transport of payloads in an aircraft which perm... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6742627 | Elevator pressure traction arrangement A traction arrangement for propelling an elevator cab within an elevator system includes a traction device. The traction device applies a load normal to a driving sheave that biases the elevator rope or belt against the sheave. The tension device preferably includes... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6739433 | Tension member for an elevator A tension member for an elevator system has an aspect ratio of greater than one, where aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of tension member width w to thickness t (w/t). The increase in aspect ratio results in a reduction in the maximum rope pressure and an increa... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6668679 | Apparatus and method for pulley actuator A tensioning cable actuator has a housing with a nut held in the housing. The nut has threads which engage a lead screw that has corresponding threads. A pulley cradle is fixed to the lead screw. The pulley cradle is disposed within the housing to transla... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6626266 | Elevator system occupying reduced area An elevator system includes a cage hoisted by a rope; a counter weight hoisted by the rope; a traction machine in the elevator shaft and higher than a cage stopping position at the uppermost floor, having a driving sheave around which the rope is passed, ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6619433 | Elevator system using minimal building space An elevator system includes a hoistway having a vertically adjacent structural platform, i.e., a roof slab or pit slab, that includes a recess, and a machine that fits within the recess. The vertically adjacent structural platform defines either the ceili... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6520295 | Piston-type passenger conveying system A piston-type passenger conveying system includes at least three cabs to move between two floors. A control moves the cabs such that a cab is always waiting at each of said floors, and another cab is always moving to a floor. In this way, the system achie... | 02/18/2003 |
