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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7487861 | Elevator traffic control An elevator system includes a plurality of cars (22-30) that are capable of serving a plurality of floors (2-17). A controller (42) groups the floors into a plurality of sectors (S1-S4). The controller (42) ass... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7434665 | Elevator down peak sectoring with long call response In down peak, floors of the building are divided into sectors (38), empty cars (50) are assigned (63, 64) to the sector and assigned (65) the highest down call in the sector provided the highest down call is above the committable floor of... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7392883 | Elevator group control system An elevator group control apparatus collectively controls an elevator system where at least two cars can travel in each shaft independently of each other. The apparatus has a destination floor registration device installed at each hall for passengers to register des... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392884 | Elevator group management controller An elevator group supervisory control apparatus is obtained which can achieve efficient group supervisory control while preventing or reducing the possibility of collision and the safe stopping of an upper car and a lower car in one and the same shaft as much as pos... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7360629 | Zonally operated elevator installation and method An elevator installation for zonal operation in a building, a method for zonal operation of such an elevator installation and method for modernization of an existing elevator installation, in which the building is divided into several zones. The elevator installatio... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7353914 | Safety system for an elevator A safety system for an elevator installation for the transport of persons/goods in a building and a method for operating an elevator installation with a safety system. Several cages are moved one above the other in a shaft. Each cage is moved by a drive. At least on... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7281610 | Elevator control based on group size A method for allocating an elevator in a destination floor elevator system. An elevator group includes several elevators, a passenger data terminal for reserving elevators for use by passengers, and an elevator group control system for controlling the elevators in r... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7267202 | Elevator dispatching with guaranteed time performance using real-time service allocation The registration of each hall call (20, 21) is recorded (27) and the remaining response time of all available cars to each up hall call and each down hall call is determined. The response time for each car to answer is compared against a limit and a ta... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7258203 | Method for controlling the elevators in an elevator group The present invention relates to a method for controlling the elevators of an elevator group in a building divided into zones comprising different floors in such manner that, at the passenger's departure floor, the elevators are given calls to floors beyond the zone... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7233861 | Prediction of vehicle operator destinations A method for predicting vehicle operator destinations including receiving vehicle position data for a vehicle. The vehicle position data for a current trip is compared to vehicle position data for a previous trip to predict a destination for the vehicle. A path to t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7198136 | Elevator device for a multi-sky-lobby system An elevator system is provided with multiple sky lobbies to reduce the space required for elevator shafts and the space required for the entire elevator system, as well as the required elevator speed and motor capacity. Sky lobbies Ls1–Lsx | 04/03/2007 |
| 7152714 | Elevator car separation based on response time The time required for each car to reach each up hall call and each down hall call is calculated (30, 33). These times are then arranged in categories and the number of landings in each category is identified. From fuzzy sets (FIGS. 7–10), the count o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128190 | Zonally operated elevator installation and method for control thereof A method for controlling a zonally operated elevator installation, wherein on a changeover floor changing between zones is made possible, and wherein with a delivering elevator group and a collecting elevator group transportation to and from the changeover floor is ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123167 | Vehicle parking assistance electronic timer system and method An electronic timer system includes a first unit. The first unit includes a memory device configured to store predetermined parking rule data, a timer device configured to determine at least one of a day, a date and a time of day, and an alert device configured to e... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117980 | Method and apparatus for controlling an elevator installation with zoning and an interchange floor An elevator installation control method with zoning provides changes between zones at an interchange floor. Transportation to or from the interchange floor is by at least one feeder-elevator group and at least one connecting-elevator group. The feeder-elevator group... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108106 | Control for allocating main floor destination calls to multiple deck elevator A device for controlling a elevator installation with multiple deck cars which are simultaneously accessible at a main stopping point by different main stopping floors includes a call registering device by which a passenger can input a destination floor. In order to... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7083027 | Elevator group control method using destination floor call input A method controls the elevators in an elevator group when destination floor call input is used and the traffic within the elevator group is to be optimized. According to the concept of the method, based on traffic intensity, a cost function is optimized by changing ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7025180 | Method of and device for controlling an elevator installation with zonal control A method of controlling an elevator installation having a plurality of cars in a building with floors subdivided into several zones wherein travel orders are allocated to the cars. There is no allocation to an elevator car, which has just been allocated a travel ord... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014015 | Method and system for scheduling cars in elevator systems considering existing and future passengers A method schedules cars of an elevator system in a building. The method begins execution whenever a newly arrived passenger presses an up or down button to generate a call for service. For each car, determine a first waiting time for all existing passengers if the c... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6991068 | Method for controlling the elevators in an elevator bank in a building divided into zones Method for controlling the elevators in an elevator bank in a building divided into zones has a plurality of floors via a process whereby destination floor calls are issued to the elevators by destination floor call input devices in the lobby of departure and the ca... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6976560 | Service/equipment equalization destination system for elevators An elevator car equalization computer program product includes software instructions for enabling a computer to perform predetermined operations, a computer readable medium bearing the software instructions, and a computer system including a processor and a memory. ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6947988 | Method and apparatus for allocating resources of a contact center Resources of a contact center are allocated by electronically monitoring at least one operational parameter of the contact center and performing a comparison between the operational parameter and a threshold value for the operational parameter. An indication of an a... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6905003 | Elevator group supervisory control device An elevator group supervisory control system for an elevator system including indicators of positions of elevators, for a group supervisory control of elevators, in which a car reversal, which becomes a cause of irritation for passengers, is curbed. For a hall call ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6871727 | Elevator system with one or more cars moving independently in a same shaft The invention relates to an elevator system in tall buildings, the system having at least one first elevator shaft, which houses an elevator arranged to stop at floors called transfer levels, and at least one second elevator shaft, which houses elevators whose eleva... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6808049 | Optimal parking of free cars in elevator group control A method controls the distribution of free cars in an elevator system. First, the number of free cars in the elevator system are counted whenever this number changes. At the same time, the arrival/destination rates of passengers at each of the floor is determined. T... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6619437 | Elevator group control apparatus In an elevator system in which two cars operate in each shaft, there is provided an elevator group control apparatus providing efficient services while preventing collisions of cars in each shaft. The elevator group control apparatus includes a traffic de... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6601678 | Method of allocating elevator cars to operating groups of a destination call control A method of allocating elevator cars to operating groups in which the cars execute travel tasks for specific zones. For example, each elevator car can be assigned to an operating group (EXP) for long-distance trips, an operating group (LOC) for local trip... | 08/05/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6145631 | Group-controller for elevator A group-supervising control system for an elevator includes a cage position prediction unit for predicting cage positions after a predetermined time period based on the present positions, a service available time period distribution calculation unit for c... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5969304 | Elevator system having high rise elevator without express zone An elevator system comprises a plurality of low rise elevators providing service between a lobby floor and the highest floor of a low rise in the building, high rise elevators providing express service between a lobby floor and the lowest floor of a high ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5955708 | Control device for elevators Information is transmitted between respective control units to respond to a landing call made backward of other elevators in an elevator control apparatus with dispersed group management function, abolishing a group management device. An elevator control ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5883343 | Downpeak group optimization A system and method for optimally allocating elevator cars of an elevator group to serve downpeak traffic. The system monitors a "snap shot" of pending down hall calls and forms groups based upon an initialized floor separation value or response range. If... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5865274 | Elevator group management control apparatus and elevator group management control method In a vertically movable elevator group management control apparatus for control of a plurality of transversely shiftable cars among plural shafts, control is done by storing route data with respect to each said car, generating target floor data including ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5831226 | Group-controlled elevator system Multiple elevators are installed as a group in a building and are equipped with destination floor boarding location buttons (7), (8), (9) and (10) that are provided on the lobby floor. Multiple car controllers (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) are input car data... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5719360 | Adjustable transfer floor A multicar elevator system for servicing a plurality of floors in a building includes a plurality of elevator cars for servicing selected floors of the building; a controller for dispatching the plurality of elevator cars; input means for providing a tran... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5663538 | Elevator control system An elevator system for a multistory structure having a plurality of elevator shafts is shown which includes at least one independently movable elevator car in each elevator shaft. A digital computer with memory is used to control elevator cars including t... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5644110 | Elevator service for dual lobby during up-peak An elevator system for up-peak servicing of a building having a dual lobby. The system includes a controller having an electronic processor coupled to a memory; a plurality of elevator cars controllably connected to the controller, a dual lobby routine st... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5511635 | Floor population detection for an elevator system A computer controlled elevator system (FIG. 1) including signal processing means for dynamically computing the population spread of the building, i.e., the number of elevator users in a building on a floor-by-floor basis, including the lobby, in accordanc... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5511634 | Instantaneous elevator up-peak sector assignment Instantaneous car assignment is combined with sectoring for providing an elevator dispatching scheme in which, in response to a hall call registered at the lobby, a car not assigned to a sector and having the lowest remaining response time of all such car... | 04/30/1996 |
