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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177031 | Commissioning of elevator hallway fixtures in a destination entry group elevator system A destination entry input device (30, 35) is commissioned in a group elevator system (10). The destination entry input device (30, 35) is connected to a dispatch controller (20). A network address is input into the destination entry input... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8151942 | Configurable communication system for a building The present invention deals with a method and system for producing services in the communication system of a building. In the method of the invention, the communication system includes at least one terminal device applicable for local-area communication, at least on... | 04/10/2012 |
| 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 |
| 7900750 | Elevator system The present invention discloses a method and a system for modernizing at least one elevator group, which comprises a plurality of elevators, a group control that controls the elevator group as well as call-giving appliances connected to the group control via the lan... | 03/08/2011 |
| RE41554 | Coordinated lift system A lift system that coordinates the raising and lowering of a vehicle relative to a surface by using wireless communications is provided. The lift system includes at least two lift mechanisms each having a post, a carriage, an actuating device and a control device. T... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7740109 | Method for wireless control of vehicle lifting device A method is provided for controlling a vehicle lifting device, having at least two, preferably moveable, lifting columns (1-4), which are controlled wirelessly. When a switch is activated for raising or lowering the lifting device, a corresponding sign... | 06/22/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7426982 | Elevator group supervisory control system An elevator group control system is provided which stably keeps cage's position in temporally equal interval condition over a long period of time. The present invention provides a system comprising: reference route generating means, which for each elevator, g... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426981 | Elevator wireless communication infrastructure using piconet modules An elevator system has on each floor hall call buttons that are inter-connected with piconet modules (15), such as modules conforming to BLUETOOTH™ specifications; similar piconet modules (16) may be associated with hall fixtures such as lanterns and... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7419032 | Elevator monitoring terminal and elevator monitoring apparatus with multiple display screens displaying operational data, in-car image data and communication request data An elevator monitoring terminal includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores screen-displayed data including monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation, and the processing unit displays the monitor-related screens i... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416058 | Method of operating an elevator installation providing at least one optional function, an elevator control and an elevator installation therefor A method of operating an elevator installation having an elevator control with a plurality of functions (F1, . . . Fn+m) for controlling the elevator installation, wherein the plurality of functions comprises at least one optional function (F | 08/26/2008 |
| 7398860 | Remote supervisory control system for elevating machine Supervisory control of an elevating machine is performed in a remote supervisory center via a general public line. The general public line has multiple networks including a high-speed digital network for transmitting large quantities of information from the elevatin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7387191 | Method and apparatus for bypass control of an elevator installation A method of controlling an elevator installation having an elevator car transporting passengers between floors of a building inputs destinations of the passengers into a destination call control and books destination calls and determines an instantaneous load dispos... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7350626 | Power-on-reset of elevator controllers An elevator (9) includes remote elevator monitoring equipment (10) connected by a communication linkage (12) to a central elevator monitoring and control station (11). Main, drive, and door controllers (16-18) are interconne... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350624 | Safety system for an elevator structure Safety system of an elevator installation, with a control unit, a bus node, a safety element and a bus, which enables a communication between the control unit and the bus node. The bus node includes a first switching arrangement, which on digital presetting by the c... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350883 | Detecting elevator brake and other dragging by monitoring motor current Elevator brake or other drag is checked by establishing (10-13) baseline motor currents at plural determined positions as the car is moved up and down both empty and with full load. In a normal run (21), the load is recorded (22) and the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344004 | Method of and apparatus for operating an elevator installation in a commissioning operation mode and an acceptance check mode A method of checking elevator installations with a car, an elevator drive and an elevator controller with a memory avoids or at least reduces errors by a person carrying out the check and enables convenient and reliable checking of the elevator installation. A check... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342371 | System and method for detecting motor run condition A motor control system for detecting motor run condition comprises power switches for connection to an AC line for controlling application of AC power to the motor. An input receives a motor start command. A controller is connected to the input and controls operatio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334665 | Interlock wiring communication system for elevators The systems and methods of present invention invoke an elevator communication system for providing communication between a plurality of hall fixture devices and at least one elevator system controller. The elevator communication system includes at least one elevator... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325657 | Elevator installation and monitoring system for an elevator installation An elevator installation with an elevator car moveable in an elevator hoistway by means a drive unit is controlled by a control unit. Sensors monitor the status of the elevator installation and are each connected via an assigned bus node to a data bus and thereby co... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324495 | System and method for broadcasting timing information to remote units in a wireless multiple access network A method has been provided for using the broadcast channel of a wireless multiple access network to communicate network timing information, or a time-stamp, to remote units. The method defines a broadcast channel protocol which divides communication frames into unit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314117 | Method for achieving desired performance of an elevator installation A method for the operation of an elevator installation, wherein the operating parameters for achieving a desired performance are determined by simulation of the operation of the elevator installation, the operating parameter and the desired performance are included ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7289446 | Controller area network (CAN) communication device Provided is a control area network (CAN) communication device formed such that a plurality of nodes are connected to communication channels in the CAN. Each of the nodes includes a transmitting/receiving unit for transmitting and receiving data including a CAN-ID fi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7269648 | Resolving multiple master node conflict in a DDB In a computer network having a plurality of computer nodes, a directory database (DDB) distributed throughout the network in each of the nodes, the contents of the DDB being maintained consistent or replicated throughout the network through the use of one of its nod... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264090 | Elevator employing radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) An elevator safety chain includes a plurality of passive radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) (15-18, 22, 34-36 and 63), which are associated, respectively, with hoistway door locks, upper hoistway limits, lower hoistway limits,... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257463 | Traveling body system, automated storage and retrieval system, and method for controlling traveling body A travel distance-measuring unit measures optically a distance to a stacker crane by a travel distance-measuring sensor provided at a reference measuring position between the stacker crane that can travel on a predetermined route along a travel rail and a ceiling ra... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242770 | Secure encryption/decryption for elevators This system relates to a secure encryption/decryption protocol for elevator displays and controls. The protocol uses an algorithm to scramble information before transmission and reassemble it after transmission. The system uses at least one block of data assembled i... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237653 | Elevator controller Signals sent from detectors through input units are inputted to respective microcomputers. Microcomputers are synchronized with each other by an external clock, and execute input processing and arithmetic operation processing. In addition, a common memory is connect... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7219770 | Coordinated lift system with user selectable RF channels A coordinated lift system with user selectable RF channels coordinates the raising and lowering of a vehicle relative to a surface by using wireless communications. The lift system includes at least two lift mechanisms each having support frame, including a post, a ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207142 | System and related methods for signaling the position of a movable barrier and securing its position A system for signaling the position of a movable barrier includes a movable barrier; a motor coupled to the movable barrier for moving the movable barrier between limit positions; a position detection device that monitors the movable barrier to generate a barrier po... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204347 | Arrhythmic pulse sequence for sonic distance measurement A position detecting device for detecting the position of an object (12) movable along a predetermined path of movement, comprising a signal transmission medium (13) extending along the path of movement, a signal generator (15) movable together ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7182174 | Method and system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and a method for modernization of an existing building with said system A method and a system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and to a method for modernization of an existing building with the evacuation system. The system is used in a multi-story building having a plurality of floors and with at least one elevator positi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172055 | Generating elevator or escalator installation fault log A method and a device for maintenance of an elevator or escalator installation includes an interface for connection of a controller of the installation with a display and control unit for display of operating parameters or for input of control commands and data, and... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165655 | Neural network detection of obstructions within and motion toward elevator doors A camera (26), with suitable illumination (such as IR) provides images to a processing card (33) which converts the images to numerical vectors and applies them to a neural network (35) which is capable of providing a door-open signal (38... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162394 | Generic embedded device and mechanism thereof for various intelligent-maintenance applications A generic embedded device (GED) and a mechanism for retrieving and transmitting information of various intelligent-maintenance (IM) applications are disclosed. The GED is an object-oriented and cross-platform device built in an embedded real-time operating system, a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156211 | Information distribution system for use in an elevator The invention features a system for displaying video information to passengers of an elevator in accordance with a play list defining a sequence of messages. The video information messages can include combinations of digital advertising, “real-time” general info... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158869 | Method,device and bus manager for operating a device that is connected to a motor vehicle communications network A method of operating a device which is connected to a vehicle communications network is described, a switched-off device being reactivated by the bus manager via a frequency pulse transmitted over a power supply line. The device may be switched off by the bus manag... | 01/02/2007 |
| 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 |
