Thyssenkrupp Elevator Ag

Tk Elevator Innovation and Operations Gmbh

Thyssen Krupp Ag

Inguran, LLC

Thyssenkrupp Elevator Innovation and Operations Gmbh

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Jie Xu

Frank Peter Dudde

Peter Feldhusen

Alan Parker

Mike Palazzola

Stephen Allen

Aesop Cho

Gomaa G Abdelsadek

Michael Palazzola

William Delk

John Keith Anderson

Olivia Stone

William John Watkins

Choung U Kim

Michael Graupe

Peiyuan Wang

Barton W Phillips

Devan Naduthambi

Juan F Moreno

Eric Q Parkhill

Jonathan William Medley

Samuel E Metobo

Zhimin Du

Thomas Butler

Neil H Squires

Evangelos Aktoudianakis

Kin Shing Yang

Scott Preston Simonovich

Christopher Allen Ziebenhaus

Paulo A Machicao Tello

Lateshkumar Thakorlal Lad

Prasenjit Kumar Mukherjee

Thomas Felis

Marcos Pérez Pérez

Pieter-Bas De Kleer

Andreas Schierenbeck

Ana Belén Quiroga Sánchez

Francisco Javier Sesma Sanchez

Fuliang Du

Stephen D Allen

Frank P Dudde

Alan M Parker

Peter P Feldhusen

A method of planning a platform lift. The platform lift includes a rail, platform, chair, and a drive unit attached to the platform to drive the platform along the rail. The method includes acquiring 3D-data of a stair on which the platform lift is to be installed utilizing an augmented reality device. Calculating a travel path of the rail is based on acquired 3D-data and predetermined clearance information. Visualizing part or all of the platform lift is based on the calculated path of travel via the augmented reality device. Acquiring the 3D-data includes observing the stair with the augmented reality device; marking several locations and confirming the locations via a user input; extracting surface information via a computer based analysis of the markings and optical information taken by the augmented reality device. Based on the optical information and predetermined clearance information the path of travel is calculated.

Method of planning a platform lift

Depth cameras may be placed within an elevator car hoistway to capture depth images of the elevator rope. 3D sensing software may be used to identify the rope within the depth images and assign tracking points to locations along the rope. Tracked images are saved over time and compared to prior tracked images to determine the movement of tracked points between images. Movement of tracked points may be used to determine the velocity, acceleration, frequency of wave motion, and other characteristics of the rope during a period of time. When measured characteristics exceed specified thresholds, the system may take one or more actions to mitigate the undesirable behavior or provide notification of the undesirable behavior.

Real-time rope/cable/belt sway monitoring system for elevator application

A suspension and transmission device for use with an elevator system comprises one or more strips that provide load carrying, transmission or traction, and load carrying redundancy or safety functions for the elevator system. In one version a single strip comprised of polymer and composite materials provides these functions. In another version multiple strips comprised of polymer and composite materials provide these functions. In another version, a strip comprises a hollow interior portion. In another version one or more strips incorporate materials that can be detected when using the strip to monitor the condition of the one or more strips.

Elevator suspension and transmission strip

A system and method for controlling the movement of an elevator is provided. The elevator controller directs the operation of the elevator and receives information from the elevator system to calculate a brake profile. The elevator system transmits the brake profile to a master controller. The master controller selectively actuates the brakes to apply a braking force configured to generate the brake profile. The system and method may include local controllers, each configured to actuate a respective brake, wherein the master controller selectively directs the local controllers to generate a brake force commensurate with the braking profile.

Elevator with master controller

A hydraulic-boosted rail brake is provided for use with an elevator having a guide rail. The rail brake includes a braking plate having friction material, a spring package in communication with the braking plate, a hydraulic cylinder, a piston housed at least partially inside the hydraulic cylinder, and a brake controller. The braking plate is selectively movable relative to the guide rail, and the spring package biases the friction material to interact with the guide rail to cause braking. The piston is in communication with the braking plate and is selectively: (a) movable in a release direction to diminish or overcome force from the spring package; and (b) movable in an engage direction to supplement the force from the spring package. The brake controller selectively causes the piston to move in the release direction and in the engage direction.

Hydraulic-boosted rail brake

A method of liquid nitrogen surface vitrification requiring an embryo washed in a rinsing medium, then incubated in a base medium and incubated in a hold medium before being washed in a vitrification medium and produced into a vitrification droplet (). For forming the droplet, vitrification medium (), an intermediary fluid such as air, followed by vitrification medium containing at least one embryo () are aspirated into the channel. The vitrification droplet consequently can contain an air bubble (). The vitrification droplet can be produced from an instrument with a channel and dropped directly into liquid phase nitrogen producing a vitrified droplet. The vitrified droplet can be stored in cryo-vessels, and warmed for revitalization of biological function of vitrified biological cell mass or tissues, such as oocytes and/or embryos.

Method of liquid nitrogen surface vitrification

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