Double deck elevator allocation controlling apparatus

Patent 6176351 Issued on January 23, 2001. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 22, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 218075 filed on 12/22/1998

US Classes:

187/387, Assigns calls to load supports on predetermined basis187/902CONTROL FOR DOUBLE-DECKER CAR

Examiners

Primary: Salata, Jonathan

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

Foreign Patent References

48-67944 JP. 09/13/1973
8-73138 JP. 03/13/1996
10-212078 JP. 08/13/1998
11-60086 JP. 03/13/1999

International Class

B66B 005/06

Foreign Application Priority Data

1997-12-26 JP

Abstract

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 cages of each double deck elevator respond thereto. Each cage call registering unit (9) is capable of registering a cage call to both of the upper and lower cages in the double operation mode as far as the specified floor is concerned. An operation control unit (8) in each elevator controls operations of the upper and lower cages to respond to the elevator hall call to the specified floor which is allocated by the allocation control unit (5) and to a cage call to the specified floor which is registered in the cage call registering unit (9).