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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7546905 | System and method for scheduling elevator cars using pairwise delay minimization A method schedules cars of an elevator system, the elevator system including a set of cars, and a set of hall calls. For each car, a waiting time is determined independently if the hall call is the only hall call assigned to the car. For each car, a mutual delay ΔW... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7404469 | Elevator call registration device An elevator call registration device selectively switches between display of an operation screen for allowing a user to designate a registration for moving a car to an arbitrary destination floor from among a plurality of destination floors and display of a register... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7377364 | Elevator arrangement The present invention deals with a method and an apparatus for the input call needed in an elevator system by means of a wireless call input device. The call input device may be a device provided with a display and a keypad, designed especially for this use. In a pr... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370732 | Method and device for automatic checking of the availability of an elevator installation A method for automatic checking of the availability of an elevator installation having at least one elevator ascertains at least one first estimated value for a use frequency of the elevator for a first time period and/or a second estimated value for the use frequen... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7353915 | Automatic destination entry system with override capability An elevator system (20) utilizes destination entry dispatching techniques. A controller (28) receives an automated destination request that includes a prestored, primary destination. This allows for seamlessly integrating building access and destinatio... | 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 |
| 7322446 | Elevator call assignment indications for multiple elevators in each of a plurality of elevator hoistways A plurality of hoistways (11, 12) in a building serving a plurality of floors utilizes destination call entry panels (22, 22A) having buttons (23) with which passengers can enter destination call requests. A display (26, 26a) adjac... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7284639 | Passenger actuated elevator alarm device A signal for warning of danger in the car is sent to a monitoring chamber without a suspect noticing, and the interior of the car is monitored without alarming the suspect. A call for service is registered upon activating the car manipulating panel and an alarm is r... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275623 | Allocating landing calls in an elevator group using a cost function An elevator group control method for the allocation of calls, in which method a given service time of the elevator group is assigned a target value. The service time may be passenger waiting time, call time, traveling time, riding time or an average value of one of ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7213685 | Control device and control method for elevator An elevator control device which realizes, in a multi-car system, operation control superior in transportation efficiency. A first shunting device outputs a first shunting command for moving a car which has responded to a call request to a shunting floor. A blocked ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207422 | Elevator call recording device An elevator call registration system is equipped with a touch panel display, and a processing operation section that registers an operation from the touch panel display into an elevator control unit. The processing operation section detects the position of a user's ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7090056 | Double deck elevator that controls a velocity change during inter-cage distance adjustment A double deck elevator including a winding machine which lifts up/down a cage frame loaded with two cages in a vertical direction, a cage driving unit which changes a relative distance between upper and lower cages, and a cage position controller which starts an int... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065299 | Medical device having a combination data reader and infrared data transceiver and method of using same An electronic apparatus comprising: a housing; an infrared filter window supported by the housing; and an infrared transceiver mounted in the housing so that infrared light emitted by the infrared transceiver is focused in the vicinity of the infrared window, and ra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7032715 | Methods and apparatus for assigning elevator hall calls to minimize energy use Energy saving methods and apparatus for elevator systems having a plurality of elevator cars operating in a plurality of elevator shafts. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining which one of the plurality of elevator cars is to be assign... | 04/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6986408 | Remotely controlled elevator operating apparatus A controller for a car/hall apparatus transfers an elevator operating program stored in a memory to an operating terminal through operating terminal communication unit and an operating terminal communication path, when necessary. The operating terminal which has rec... | 01/17/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6971480 | Elevator communication devices, systems and methods A device for facilitating communications between an elevator passenger and a person outside of the elevator through use of an elevator telephone. The device includes a service port configured for connection to a telephone company feed line and an elevator telephone ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6955245 | Elevator installation comprising a number of individually propelled cars in at least three adjacent hoistways Elevator cars move in two vertical hoistways each having at least one crossing-point to a third vertical parking hoistway arranged between the two hoistways to allow transfer of the elevator cars between adjacent ones of the hoistways. A control system and a drive m... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6937067 | System and method for balancing capacitively coupled signal lines A signal balancing circuit for capacitively coupled signaling between transmitting and receiving devices over a plurality of capacitively coupled signal lines on which data signals are transmitted from the transmitting device to the receiving device. The signal bala... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6892861 | Destination call control for modernizing elevator installation A device and a system 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 cont... | 05/17/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6578675 | Elevator information and advertising delivery system An apparatus and method for delivering advertising messages to occupants of an elevator cab includes a network mainframe server located remotely from the elevator cab. The apparatus further includes an individual processing unit (IPU) located at the eleva... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6510924 | Speech-controlled location-familiar elevator Conventional elevators have a console for entering control information, via key depression. To make the known control arrangements simpler and more flexible to use by the user, the invention provides audio recording equipment and a speech analysis unit, w... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6408986 | Charger for elevator call devices An elevator capable of supplying electric power to accessory hall devices such as up/down elevator buttons and position indicators without requiring power supply lines between the cage and each hall. A drive battery which supplies electric power to hall d... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6386325 | Elevator system with hall scanner for distinguishing between standing and sitting elevator passengers An elevator system includes a scanner installed in a call registerer of an elevator hall and/or on a jamb of an elevator hall for scanning the elevator hall or an area proximate the elevator hall; an image recognizing section for recognizing an image capt... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6349795 | Communication device for elevator control system A communication system includes a CPU for controlling internal operations; a management table storage portion for storing a management table referred to for communication control; an intrinsic identification number setting portion for setting a number for... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6336522 | Deck elevator car with speed control The hoist control device controls the hoist in such a manner that once the speed change of the cage frame has accelerated at a fixed acceleration, constant speed is maintained, after which it decelerates at a fixed deceleration and stops. Meanwhile, the c... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6334511 | Double-deck elevator control system A double-deck elevator control system for running two elevator cars in a car frame, such that the two elevator cars travel at the same acceleration and deceleration, and stopping the elevator cars according to a floor-to-floor distance without deteriorati... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6315083 | Transportation system control with user input of travel destination designations A user communicates travel destinations to a transportation system utilizing a human-machine interface having a touch screen with a selection of designations that can be individually selected by touching the screen. For example, a selected designation "Li... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6269912 | Elevator system for controlling response to call In accordance with an elevator system for controlling a response to a call of the present invention, each of sub-controllers includes a unit of storing the information regarding service ability to a hall call, and a unit of determining service ability bas... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6223160 | Apparatus and method for acoustic command input to an elevator installation A portable input apparatus permits an elevator destination call to be generated remotely from an associated elevator installation with respect to time and location. The input apparatus can be formed as, for example, a wristwatch having a user interface in... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6129182 | Hall controller parameter-setting device When a reference cage is designated at the time of determining the parameters which distinguish hall devices, reference cage determination device 1 determines as the reference cage the designated cage out of upper and lower cages, and the reference cage d... | 10/10/2000 |