Otis Elevator Company

Goodrich Corporation

Marioff Corporation Oy

Gulf Security Technology Company Limited

Nippon Otis Elevator Company

Otis Elevatro Company

Ggodrich Corporation

Utc Fire and Security Corporation

Enrico Manes

Goran Djuknic

Zaffir A Chaudhry

Zbigniew Piech

Paul R Braunwart

Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu

Bruce P Swaybill

Joseph V Mantese

Richard N Fargo

Tadeusz Pawel Witczak

Richard J Ericson

Wayde R Schmidt

Yu Zhang

Walter Thomas Schmidt

Suman Dwari

William A Veronesi

Bryan Robert Siewert

Ronnie E Thebeau

Ziyou Xiong

Ram Ranjan

Thomas M Yun

Daryl J Marvin

Arthur Hsu

Andrzej Ernest Kuczek

Michael Anthony Lynch

Randall Keith Roberts

Craig Drew Bogli

Vladimir Blasko

Michael J Tracey

Michael A Klecka

Fanping Sun

Shashank Krishnamurthy

Stephen Edward Tongue

Xin Wu

Shenhong Wang

Shihemn Chen

Xiaodong Luo

Stephen Savulak

Adam Marian Myszkowski

Luke A Mishler

Wojciech Szelag

Cezary Jedryczka

Beata I Wawrzyniak

Loi Cheng

Meghan Mastriano

Giacomo Gentile

Marco Rocchetto

Luca Manica

Valerio Senni

Davide Martintoni

Richard A Kolk

Kishore K Reddy

Joseph C Rampone

Michael Garfinkel

Kenneth David Smith

Robert Edward Rudd, Iii

Louis Chiappetta, Jr

Atsushi Yamada

Robert A Barth

Richard Paul Metzger, Jr

Connie E Bird

Arto Huotari

Soumalya Sarkar

Charles C Coffin

Timothy P Galante

Norbert Antony Murray Hootsmans

Anais Espinal

Ajit Rajagopalan

Parikshith B Channegowda

Michael Kenneth Krager

Paul Martin Franz

Guido Poncia

Nicholas Cope

Brian J Stumm

Stephen Richard Nichols

An elevator system includes a hoistway, an elevator car movable along the hoistway, and a power management and transfer system. The power management and transfer system includes an electrical power source, a hoistway contactor secured in the hoistway and operably connected to the electrical power source, and a car contactor disposed at the elevator car, such that when the car contactor is brought into operable contact with the hoistway contactor, electrical power is transferrable between the power source and the elevator car.

Electrical power transmission to elevator system cars

Provided are embodiments that include a safety system and method for implementing presence detection. Embodiments can include a receiver that is configured to receive a signal from a transmitter, and a detection module that is configured to detect a signal strength of the signal. Embodiments can also include a processor that is configured to compare the signal strength of the signal with a signal strength threshold, and a task module that is configured to perform a task based at least in part on the comparison.

Safety system based on hoistway access detection

Disclosed is an elevator system having an elevator entryway, the elevator entryway including: a first door, which is an elevator door, a first controller operationally connected to the first door for opening and closing the first door to provide access to an elevator, wherein when the first door is closing: the first controller monitors for first instructions over a frequency applicable to light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and/or a radio detection and ranging (RADAR), and upon receiving the first instructions, the first controller executes the first instructions.

Elevator system with LIDAR and/or RADAR sensor

An aspect includes a system with an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system, a power management system configured to determine a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system, and a dispatching system configured to modify a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule.

Energy-aware dispatching for conveyance systems

An elevator system includes a controller; an elevator car; an elevator car controller mounted on the elevator car; a transceiver on the elevator car; an access point; the transceiver and the access point configured to provide wireless communications between the controller and the elevator car controller over a first communications path and a second communications path.

Elevator system with plural wireless communications paths

Provided are embodiments including a system a method for performing smart beamforming for reliable and secure wireless data transmission. The can embodiments include receiving at least one parameter of an elevator car operating in a hoistway, and determining a steering angle based on the received parameters. The embodiments can also include performing beamforming of an antenna array based on the determined steering angle, and transmitting data from the antenna array based at least in part on a beamforming process.

Smart beamforming for reliable and secure wireless data transmissions

A hybrid energy storage system for an elevator car includes a converter disposed on the elevator car and receives power from a power source and provides a first DC voltage to a first DC bus and a second DC voltage to a second DC bus, a first energy storage device connected to the converter receives the first DC voltage on the first DC bus, and a second energy storage device connected to the converter receives the second DC voltage on the second DC bus. The system also includes a first load connected to the first DC bus and a second DC bus, and a second load connected to the second DC bus. Power is provided from the first energy storage device to the first load under a first selected condition and power is supplied from the second energy storage device to the first load under second selected condition.

Hybrid energy storage system architectures

Disclosed is an escalator system having: escalator steps; and a plurality of state sensors including a master sensor and slave sensors, wherein the slave sensors are secured to different ones of the escalator steps, wherein the master sensor is configured to: receive slave sensor data from the slave sensors; and transmit data to an escalator call center upon detecting an occurrence of a fault condition from the slave sensor data.

Escalator with distributed state sensors

A wireless power transfer system for wirelessly powering a conveyance apparatus of a first conveyance system and a conveyance apparatus of a second conveyance system including: a wireless electrical power transceiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus of the first conveyance system, a wireless electrical power transceiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus of the second conveyance system, the surface of the conveyance apparatus of the second conveyance system being opposite of the surface of the conveyance apparatus of the first conveyance system, wherein the wireless electrical power transceiver of the first conveyance system is configured to wirelessly transfer electrical power to the wireless electrical power transceiver of the second conveyance system when the wireless electrical power transceiver of the first conveyance system and the wireless electrical power transceiver of the second conveyance system are located proximate to one another.

Car to car wireless power transfer

According to a wireless power transfer system for wirelessly powering a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system including: a wireless electrical power transmitter located along a side of the conveyance system in a first location; a power management system configured to control operation of the wireless electrical power transmitter; a wireless electrical power receiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus opposite the side; an energy storage device configured to receive electrical power from the wireless electrical power receiver; an energy storage device management system configured to monitor data of the energy storage device and the conveyance apparatus, the energy storage device management system being in wireless communication with the power management system, wherein the energy storage device management system is configured to transmit the data to the power management system and the power management system adjusts operation of the wireless electrical power transmitter in response to the data.

Closed loop control wireless power transmission system for conveyance system

An illustrative example elevator assembly includes a header beam and a first elevator cab supported by the header beam. A plurality of vertically oriented rods extend beneath the first elevator cab. A horizontally oriented mid-beam is coupled to a first one of the rods near a first end of the mid-beam and coupled to a second one of the rods near a second end of the mid-beam. A second elevator cab is situated beneath the first elevator cab and beneath the mid-beam. At least one linear actuator is supported at least partially on the mid-beam. The linear actuator selectively causes vertical movement of the second elevator cab relative to the rods.

Double deck elevator with linear actuator adjustment mechanism

A conveyance system includes a transmitter configured to generate a signal; a receiver configured to receive the signal; the transmitter and receiver located so that the signal passes through a passenger area of the conveyance system; a controller configured to receive a signal strength of the signal received at the receiver; the controller configured to determine a loading factor in the passenger area in response to the signal received at the receiver.

Conveyance system with loading factor detection

A linear propulsion machine and system () is disclosed that includes a stator () having a plurality of teeth () and a mover () moveable in a linear direction along the stator (). The mover may include a plurality of spaced apart ferromagnetic strata (), a plurality of slots (), a plurality of wire coils (), and a plurality of magnet layers (). Each of the slots () may be adjacent to at least one of the strata (). Each coil () may be disposed in a slot (). Each magnet layer () may be sandwiched between strata () and disposed inside one of the plurality of coils (). Each coil () is disposed perpendicularly to the direction of magnetic flux of the magnet layer () around which the coil () is wound. In an embodiment, the teeth () or the magnet layer () may be disposed at an angle.

Linear propulsion system

A wireless power transfer system for wirelessly powering a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system including: a wireless electrical power transmitter located along a side of the conveyance system in a first location, the side being stationary; and a wireless electrical power receiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus opposite the side, the wireless electrical power receiver and the wireless electrical power transmitter being in a facing spaced relationship defining a gap therebetween when the wireless electrical power receiver is located at the first location.

Wireless power transfer system for elevators with extended range

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Feeding Hills, MA, United States of America

Enrico Manes