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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113320 | Fire evacuation support system and fire door control device Provided, on each floor of a building, are an elevator installation zone, in which an elevator is installed, a neighboring zone which neighbors the elevator installation zone, and is in communication with the elevator installation zone through a first communication ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109368 | Elevator disaster rescue operation system According to one embodiment, there is provided an elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel. The system includes a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8091687 | Elevator system In an elevator system, an operation of a car is controlled by an operation control section. When a specific user in the car is certified by personal authentication of a personal authentication section after a landing call registration operation is performed by a use... | 01/10/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8047334 | Destination entry group elevator system for facilitating transport of large items Elevators (104) in a group elevator system (100) are controlled to facilitate transport of a large item (LI). A destination entry input device receives an input from a passenger (102) indicating that the passenger (102) has a large item (... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7954606 | Elevator system control responsive to hoistway access detection An elevator system (20) includes a sensor (30, 36) for detecting the presence of an individual within a hoistway (24). A controller (32) prevents movement of an elevator car (22) whenever an individual is in the hoistway (24... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7938232 | Evacuation control apparatus for an elevator An evacuation control apparatus for an elevator controls, in an event of a fire in a building provided with an elevator that is assigned to a plurality of floors as service floors, an operation of the elevator. The evacuation control apparatus for the elevator has a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7905329 | Earthquake control operating system for an elevator and earthquake control operating method for an elevator An earthquake control operating system for an elevator is provided so that the elevator can operate free of the influence of earthquakes. Data concerning zones without resonance between the intrinsic vibration frequency of the ropes of the elevator and the intrinsic... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7849973 | Refuge support system of double deck elevator An evacuation support system for a double-deck elevator allows people stranded in a building to evacuate to an evacuation floor upon an occurrence of a fire in the building including a plurality of floors. The evacuation support system includes an evacuation support... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7823700 | User identification enabled elevator control method and system An elevator control method and system. The system comprises a control unit and a memory unit. The memory unit comprises user data segments associated with users for elevators within the system and transponder identification data segments associated with transponders... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7681696 | Earthquake control system for elevator and elevator system using predicted arrival hour The earthquake control operation system for an elevator includes: an earthquake information delivering device for calculating a predicted arrival hour of earthquake waves in accordance with a position of a registered building based on an emergency earthquake bulleti... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7594564 | Elevator system The present invention discloses a method, a system and a computer program for the effective evacuation of a building in an emergency, in which at least one elevator can be used as an evacuation aid. In the method the group control of the elevators monitors the numbe... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7588126 | Building evacuation elevator system In the method of the present invention an evacuation mode is presented in an elevator system, which receives destination calls i.e. operates in accordance with so-called destination control. In the method the destination floor calls given on the evacuation floors of... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7581622 | Control device for elevator An elevator control system high in security and capable of enhancing operation efficiency is realized. In a system in which an elevator group management device which manages a plurality of elevators as a group is installed, a validation device is installed at a secu... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7552800 | Method and call system for remotely communicating with an elevator in prediction of a passenger A method and call system for an elevator car located within a building that may react to a passenger's approach and arrival in front of the actual elevator door. The system makes use of a sensor located near to an exterior door of the building containing the elevato... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7413059 | Fire control system for elevator In a fire control system for an elevator, the time for the fire and smoke to reach the elevator hall of each floor of a building during fire is pre-calculated as the evacuation time of the floor. When the evacuation time of a floor is longer than the time for making... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7353912 | Elevator system The invention relates to an elevator system with at least one shaft, in which at least two cars can be made to travel along a common traveling path, and also with a shaft information system for determining the positions and speeds of the cars, which is connected to ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347303 | Method and apparatus for generating elevator calls A method and a system for generating a request for elevator service in which the elevator user receives with his/her terminal a general transmission of information about the elevator system from base stations placed in the elevator lobby of the building. By way of t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7210564 | Fire control system for elevator In a fire control system for an elevator, the time for the fire and smoke to reach the elevator hall of each floor of a building during fire is pre-calculated as the evacuation time of the floor. When the evacuation time of a floor is longer than the time for making... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7145433 | System for transportation or access control of persons or goods, and method, device and computer program for maintenance of the system, and method for retrofitting a building with the system A system for transportation or access control of persons and/or goods in a building comprises at least one story terminal for recognition of at least one identification code of a person or an item, at least one data memory for storing at least one user profile with ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7114595 | Method of assigning elevators for sky lobbies An elevator operation system and apparatus reduce the round trip time of an elevator, by determining a target floor that corresponds to the destination floor requested by a passenger; and assigning the target floor to one of a plurality of elevators for service excl... | 10/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7093693 | Elevator access control system and method An information and access control system and associated methods for personnel transport devices. In one embodiment, the system comprises a signal emitter capable of emitting electromagnetic energy of a first frequency, the electromagnetic energy including first data... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7021429 | Elevator system indicating assigned car An elevator system includes a hall operation panel in an elevator hall and from which a destination floor is input; a group control which assigns a car to be stopped at the destination floor input from the hall operation panel; hall lanterns in the elevator hall for... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6997288 | Floor number display at landing and in car, informative to elevator passengers Floor number displays informative to the elevator passengers at the landing and in the elevator car when the passengers issue destination calls to the elevator. ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6948592 | Elevators equipped with emergency medical devices The invention provides an elevator cab equipped with an emergency medical device, such as an automated external defibrillator (AED). The elevator cab equipped with the emergency medical device may be controlled in order to deliver the emergency medical device to a f... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935465 | Method for modernization of an elevator installation A method for the modernization of an elevator installation having at least one elevator and at least one elevator control for controlling the elevator by way of at least one call report. The elevator installation is equipped with a destination call control during pr... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6902041 | Method and system to select elevator floors using a single control A system enables a handicapped person to select a destination floor in an elevator using a single control and comprises a first mechanism to sequentially enumerate potential destination floors, a second mechanism enabling user selection of a desired destination floo... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6868945 | Method for controlling an elevator utilizing a mobile telephone The invention relates to the equipping of an elevator (1, 2) with hardware in order to control the same. This hardware is provided in the form of a customary radio telephone (3) which serves as a unit for controlling the elevator. The radio telephone (... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6481536 | Method for isolating a single car in an elevator group According to the invention, an elevator installation of the type which has a group of cars controlled by controllers (A, B, C) which communicate with each other through at least one communications loop (10, 12) and a specific protocol, includes a supervis... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6397976 | Automatic elevator destination call processing A potential elevator passenger or occupant (bearer) carries a portable transmitting device with which he must overtly indicate his intent to take an elevator trip before interrogation by a beacon will cause an elevator call to be automatically registered ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6382363 | Method for preselecting a destination floor in an elevator installation This device allows an implicit or explicit input of destination calls on elevator installations. After a corresponding inquiry by a detector, an information transmitter transmits data. This data can contain direct information about the desired destination... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6354405 | Elevator system An elevator installation having a system of making payments so that the installation can be operated as a means of transport for providing chargeable transportation services for persons and/or goods. Also provided is an identification device for recogniti... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6325178 | Elevator group managing system with selective performance prediction A rule base storing control rule sets predicts elevator group management performance, such as waiting time distribution, obtained when applying each rule set stored in the rule base to the current traffic situation, and selects a rule set in accordance wi... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6202799 | Processing and registering automatic elevator cell destinations The next destination for an automatically registered elevator call is displayed to a passenger on a portable card that he carries, when he passes a beacon adjacent to the elevator, only if the destination is designated as "fixed"; if the destination is de... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6152265 | Accommodating visually handicapped in elevator up-peak channeling In an elevator system utilizing up-peak channeling which displays the floors of the sectors to be served by each elevator during its next trip, visually handicapped persons alert the system by means of a signal transmission from a portable device, and are... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6011839 | Control device for a lift A control device for access and lift operation to a predetermined story in multi-family dwellings or other buildings is provided. Call input devices which may comprise a first input button and a second input button are provided in the upper stories of the... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5984051 | Remote elevator call requests with descriptor tags Remote control devices borne by potential passengers are alerted to initiate a request for elevator service by beacons in the building. The beacon alert message includes a tag identifying the floor on which the beacon is located and a position on the floo... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5979607 | Multiple level building with an elevator system operable as a means of emergency egress and evacuation during a fire incident A building having a plurality of floors, a plurality of detectors, such as smoke detectors, located on the floors, and an elevator system usable for moving building occupants between floors during an emergency condition, such as a building fire. The eleva... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5949037 | Elevator call registration system There is described an elevator call registration system which enables automatic registration of a destination floor and correction of the thus-registered destination floor. A destination floor CC is anticipated for each passenger, and the thus-expected fl... | 09/07/1999 |
