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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7377365 | Multi-deck elevator equipped building In a multi-deck-elevator-equipped building control system, operating modes of an elevator control portion include a double operating mode. In the double operating mode, only a first cage is permitted to stop at first cage stop floors, and only a second cage is permi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6978863 | Apparatus for elevator group control In an apparatus for elevator group control which performs group management of a set of elevators, the set consisting of an upper car and a lower car which are disposed in a vertical relation within one elevator shaft and which ascend and descend independently, the f... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6945365 | Method for allocating passengers to an elevator A method for the allocation of passengers in an elevator group. The group has several elevator lobbies and multi-door elevators. Each passenger gives his/her destination floor by means of a call input device, so that the passenger's starting and destination floors a... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6913117 | Method and apparatus for allocating passengers by a genetic algorithm The invention relates to a method for allocating landing calls issued by passengers, in which method each passenger gives his/her destination floor via a call device. According to the invention, the call is allocated to an elevator car to serve the passenger via gen... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6802396 | Double deck elevator with adjustable floor height A double deck elevator includes a floor height adjusting mechanism that adjusts the distance between the upper and lower decks located within a cage frame. The adjusting mechanism includes a pantograph having an upper portion coupled to the upper deck and lower port... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6786305 | Double-deck elevator A double-decker elevator includes a winch, an upper car, a lower car, a car support frame supporting the upper and lower car, a car space adjusting device capable of adjusting the space between the upper and lower car, and an emergency operation controller. When the... | 09/07/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6508333 | Method of controlling elevator installation with multiple cars An elevator installation with multiple deck cars serves several floors simultaneously with one stop is controlled such that the travel requests are allocated to the most suitable elevator car of the elevator group and the allocation of a travel request fr... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6505712 | Device and method for control of double deck elevator system The present invention improves the performance of the group control of elevators by shortening the waiting time for connections to the top floor in a system composed of a plurality double deck elevators having upper decks (1aU)~(1eU)... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6419051 | Control system and control method for reassigning the cars of a double-deck elevator A control device for a double-deck elevator system having an upper deck and a lower deck, includes a group control device for assigning the upper and lower decks to respond to car calls from the upper and lower decks and boarding hall calls from a plurali... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6401874 | Double-deck elevator group controller for call allocation based on monitored passenger flow and elevator status A procedure for controlling an elevator group consisting of double deck elevators consists of allocating landing calls to elevators and elevator decks in such a way that passenger journey time is optimized. The time of the call and the estimated time of a... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6364065 | Elevator system controller and method of controlling elevator system with two elevator cars in single shaft An elevator system controller for efficient group supervisory control while avoiding collisions between two elevator cars in service in a single elevator shaft. The elevator system controller includes a risk calculating unit for calculating a risk of a co... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6360849 | Elevator system, including control method for controlling, multiple cars in a single shaft An elevator system having cars in service at top and bottom in a single shaft with efficient group control. The elevator system is provided with a shaft assignment finalizing unit for selecting a shaft and a car to be assigned to a new call, and a reassig... | 03/26/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6293368 | Genetic procedure for multi-deck elevator call allocation Genetic procedure for the allocation of calls issued via the landing call devices of elevators included in a multi-deck elevator group, in which procedure a multi-deck elevator model is formed in which the limitations of and rules of behaviour for each el... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6237721 | Procedure for control of an elevator group consisting of double-deck elevators, which optimizes passenger journey time A method for controlling an elevator group of double-deck elevators. Landing calls are allocated to the elevators and elevator decks in such a way that the passenger journey time is optimized. The method takes into account the current landing call time an... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6176351 | Double deck elevator allocation controlling apparatus An controlling apparatus for a double deck elevator is disclosed. An allocation control unit (5), when a predetermined specified floor is registered in an elevator hall call registering unit (4) in a double operation mode, makes both of upper and lower ca... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6161652 | Method and apparatus for controlling elevator cars in a common sling A method and an apparatus for controlling an elevator is equipped with a deck-distance drive machine which by reference to positional information adjusts the distances between the individual cars in a common car sling in such a way that each car can stop ... | 12/19/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5907136 | Adjustable double-deck elevator A double deck elevator (1) includes a linking mechanism (14) disposed between the cars (2, 3).... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5861587 | Method for operating a double deck elevator car A method of operating a double deck elevator system when the trailing elevator deck (26,28) is empty, whereby the leading deck answers all registered hall calls except upon the occurrence of certain conditions.... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5844179 | Method of operation for double-deck elevator system An elevator system having a double-deck car (24) normally responds to unanswered up hall calls from intermediate floors with the upper deck (26), except, under one or more conditions, whereby a subsequent stop may be avoided, its lower deck (28) is utiliz... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5749441 | Extra deck elevator shuttle An elevator shuttle includes a plurality of elevator hoistways (14, 19, 24) which overlap, the elevator car frames (13, 21, 25) traveling in each hoistway including two decks per cab being carried by the car frame, plus an extra deck on car frames (20) in... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5663539 | Passenger transfer, double deck, multi-elevator shuttle system Double deck elevator cars (10-12) are moveable in corresponding adjacent overlapping hoistways (7-9). Passengers entering the bottom deck (39) from a ground landing are transferred into the bottom deck (47) of a second elevator as passengers in the upper ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5625176 | Crowd service enhancements with multi-deck elevators In an elevator dispatching system controlling the assignment of elevator cars in a building, a method of assigning a multi-deck elevator car includes determining if a crowd exists at a floor in the building; if it is determined that the crowd exists at th... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5086883 | Group control for elevators with double cars with immediate allocation of target calls A group control for double car elevators permits the upper as well as the lower cars to be used at a main stopping floor for travel to both even-numbered and odd-numbered floors. The control has a call memory for each car in which the target calls entered... | 02/11/1992 |
| 4993518 | Method and apparatus for the group control of elevators with double cars In a group of elevators with double cars, the assignment of such double cars to floor calls takes place at scanner positions in two procedural steps, according to two parameters: primarily by assignment of the individual cars of all double cars by... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4836336 | Elevator system floor call registering circuit A floor call registering circuit for an elevator system includes a keyboard at each floor for inputting the destination floors. The call registering circuit at the main stopping location permits only travels to destination floors which are allocated to a ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4655325 | Method and apparatus for controlling elevators with double cars An elevator control receives car calls for certain floors which are subject to a restriction of operation, but does not prevent the storage of these car calls. The car calls subject to the restriction of operation are only served during the trip in the op... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4632224 | Multicompartment elevator call assigning In an elevator having a group of double-deck cars, a hall call is assigned to one of the decks according to a priority scheme that takes into account the service capability of each car and its decks in a way that favors assignment of the call to the laggi... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4582173 | Group control for elevators with double cars A group control for elevators in which the allocations of the individual cars of double cars in an elevator group to stored floor calls can be optimized with respect to time, and newly occurring floor calls can be assigned immediately. A computing device ... | 04/15/1986 |
