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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278517 | Elevator installation with a device for furnishing a temporary protective space, a method for mounting the device and a method for furnishing the temporary protective space A device provides an elevator installation with a shortened car travel path to establish a temporary protective space below and/or above the car upon activation of the car safety brake device. The speed limiter cable is limited, independently of the speed limiter, i... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7137484 | Safety system for restraining movement of elevator car when car doors are open A safety system for restraining movement of an elevator car employing a bi-directional safety and an associated car mounted governor with a linkage, between the governor and the elevator car door, including a brake cable and clutch, wherein the governor would operat... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7040458 | Elevator destination protocol control with flexible user interface An elevator system having multiple elevator cars efficiently assigns cars and communicates the car assignments to the potential passengers. A hallway intuitive user interface is readily adapted to installations having varying numbers of elevator cars with varying fl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032716 | Destination selection control for elevator installation having multiple elevator cars The invention relates to a method for controlling an elevator installation with at least one shaft and a number of cars, it being possible to make at least two cars travel separately up and down along a common traveling path and a passenger being able to enter a des... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6954451 | Distributed time-multiplexed bus architecture and emulation apparatus A time-multiplexed data bus driver circuit includes a plurality of combinatorial circuits, each of the circuits forming a logic combination of a datum value, a datum enable signal and a datum timeslot signal, the plurality of circuits producing a plurality of output... | 10/11/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6481535 | Dispatching algorithm for piston-type passenger conveying system An algorithm dispatches a series of cabs in a passenger conveying system of the type wherein there are at least four cabs moving between two floors. One cab is positioned at each floor at all times, and a cab is moving to each floor at all times. A contro... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5679933 | Control panels for elevators An elevator control panel is provided with a means for selecting a destination among a plurality of destinations for the passenger using a minimum number of input devices.... | 10/21/1997 |
| 4832159 | Elevator control apparatus An elevator control apparatus in which a stop position command signal for floor arrival at each floor is generated irrespective of the position of a plate; comprising cage position-calculation means for calculating the current position of a cage on the ba... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4798267 | Elevator system having an improved selector A selector for an elevator system includes a tape vertically suspended in the hoistway that includes vertically aligned holes, a first set of strip magnets for identifying landings and a second set of strip magnets for indicating a door zone level positio... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4754851 | Control apparatus for elevator A control apparatus for an elevator comprises a position detector responsive to cage movement, a non-volatile semiconductor memory for storing representation of cage position, and a microcomputer operated under program control for controlling the position... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4635320 | Floor selector for lift A pulse floor selector for a lift, with a floor and location determining system based on counting pulses indicating the lift's velocity, with the aid of electronics thereto appropriate. Dense pulse floor selection is used for determining the lift's locati... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4515246 | Apparatus for controlling the arrival of an elevator cage at an elevator floor An apparatus for controlling the arrival of an elevator cage at a target elevator floor in which the elevator cage is not stopped at an intermediate position between adjacent floors even when a detection displacement occurs when the actual cage position a... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4469199 | Elevator system An elevator system in which indicia in the hatchway to signal elevator car slowdown points for the floors of a building are also used to maintain and update the advanced car position. The advanced car position is changed to the next floor in the car's tra... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4375249 | Floor selector system for elevator system A floor selector comprises a first and a second switch on an elevator car, a vertical array of first switch actuators each disposed between each pair of adjacent floors in a hoistway, and another vertical array of second switch actuators located below the... | 03/01/1983 |
| 4367811 | Elevator control system In an elevator control system, in which the elevator car is controlled on the basis of elevator car positions obtained through the counting of distance pulses provided in proportion to the distance travelled by the car and floor height data indicative of ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4317506 | Elevator system An elevator system having a notching floor selector which is notched or advanced by notching signals developed as the elevator car moves through the hoistway, to cause the selector to store information relative to the actual position of the elevator car. ... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4141435 | Elevator control system An elevator control system using an electric type floor selector is disclosed including a unit provided at at least one of the specific floors in the hoistway and for indicating the specific floor, units provided at the other floors than the specific floo... | 02/27/1979 |
| 4114729 | Halt selector system A halt selector system for a vehicle movable along a defined path, such as an elevator, comprises at least one bistable unit associated with each halt position and adapted to assume one state when the vehicle is located at one side of the halt position an... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4050547 | Floor controller for an elevator An elevator system is provided with a floor controller for controlling the speed of a car. One typical form of floor controller is composed of a synchronizer operated on a reduced scale in synchronism with the movement of an elevator car, an advancer whic... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4039049 | Elevator car call selection apparatus An elevator car call selection apparatus is disclosed in which in order for at least a car covering a plurality of floors to serve at least a hall call or cage call, an advance position where said car in travel is capable of stopping by deceleration and t... | 08/02/1977 |
