Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Masamoto Mizuno

Terumi Hirabayashi

Masanori Tawada

Toshiyuki Kodera

Toshiaki Ishii

Kazuhiko Sugita

Eiki Watanabe

This invention is concerned in a secondary conductor for an elevator-driving linear induction motor in which, in connecting secondary conductor members to one another, adjoining portions of secondary conductor members are cut and engaged with one another by lapping them over each other, and the edge portions of them are joined at least on one side with a fastening member or by pressure joining or by welding, whereby the difficulty is eliminated that the secondary conductor members, being bent for instance, are raised to form a step therebetween, so that the secondary conductor members are brought into contact with or struck against the primary windings of the linear induction motor, and the secondary conductor members and the primary windings are damaged.

Secondary conductor of an elevator-driving linear induction motor

A linear motor elevator system comprising a sheave disposed in the upper portion of an elevator hoistway, a length of rope wound around the sheave, a movable member connected to said rope, a primary winding disposed only on a first side of said movable member and a secondary conductor extending within and along the hoistway in association with said primary winding to constitute a linear motor. The system may comprise a brake unit disposed on a second side of said movable member which is opposite to said first side and a guide rail disposed within said hoistway for being engaged by said brake unit.

Linear motor elevator system

A controller for a ropeless elevator, includes: a cross induction line cable arranged along the hoistway; an exciter provided on the car side to generate sinusoidal waves for positional detection in the cable; a movement amount detector provided on the car side to detect a car movement amount; a data calculator provided on the car side to calculate data on car speed and on secondary-conductor magnetic pole phase from the movement amount detected by the movement amount detector; a data transmitter provided on the car side to utilize the cross induction line cable in transmitting the data calculated by the data calculator to the building side; an induction radio circuit provided on the building side to utilize the cable in receiving data from the data transmission device and calculate the initial phase of the secondary conductor from the sinusoidal waves generated in the cross induction line cable; and an inverter control circuit provided on the building side to interpolate the initial phase calculated by the induction radio circuit on the basis of the magnetic pole phase received by the induction radio circuit and control the inverter on the basis of the calculated car position and the car speed data received by the induction radio circuit.

Controller for ropeless elevator

The present invention provides a linear motor driven elevator apparatus which enables a decrease in the thrust variation at the passage of primary windings of a linear induction motor loaded on a car or a balance weight through joints of secondary conductors and which can prevent an unpleasant impression from being given to the passengers. In the elevator apparatus, each of the connections of the secondary conductor members of the linear induction motor serving as a drive source for vertically driving an elevator car has a structure in which each of the secondary conductor members is notched to about half of the thickness thereof, and the notch portions are superposed. The length of each of the notch portions is set to a value greater than the pole pitch of the primary windings of the linear induction motor, and the set heights of the joints are different from each other.

Joining segments of the secondary in a linear motor driven elevator

An elevator controlling device includes hoist controller, disposed in a mechanical room, for controlling hoist; door controller, disposed in an elevator cage, for controlling the opening and closing of an elevator door; information exchanger between the hoist controller and the door controller; data setting unit for setting predetermined data to the door controller using the hoist controller; and a data display unit for displaying the contents of the data. The data setting unit sets data such as a central processing unit number, a start address of a memory to be read, and a number of bytes in the memory required for reading data, to the door controller being made up of a plurality of central processing units, and the data display unit displays the contents at addresses of the memory. The data setting unit and the data display unit may be assembled into elevator operation supervising unit connected to the hoist controller through a telephone line.

Door control and data display system

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door comprises a motor for opening and closing an elevator door, an inverter unit for controlling the driving of the motor, a door position detecting unit for detecting the position of the door, first and second sensors for respectively detecting that the door passes through a terminal reference point on the opening side and a terminal reference point on the closing side, a speed command generating unit for generating a speed command on the basis of a distance between the door position detected by the door position detecting unit to a stop target on the opening side or the closing side when the first and second sensors respectively detect the passage of the door, and a control unit for controlling the inverter unit on the basis of the speed command output from the speed command generating unit.

Apparatus for controlling elevator door

An elevator door control apparatus includes an alternating current motor for opening and closing an elevator door. An inverter for converts a DC voltage from a first DC power supply into an AC voltage and supplies it to the motor. A first switching device for connects and disconnects the inverter and the motor, and a second switching device connects and disconnects a second DC power supply and the motor. A detection device detects at least one of an abnormality of the first DC power supply and an abnormality of the motor. A control device, at normal times supplies an AC voltage from the inverter to the motor by means of the first switching device and cuts off a DC voltage from the second DC power supply to the motor by means of the second switching device. When the detection device detects an abnormality, the control device cuts off an AC voltage from the inverter to the motor by means of the first switching device and supplies a DC voltage from the second DC power supply to the motor by means of the second switching device so as to cause a braking torque to be generated in the motor.

Elevator door control apparatus

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door based on controlling an electric motor for driving the door with a microcomputer and resetting the microcomputer when the power supply fails has a voltage monitor which detects the power source voltage and a braking circuit forcibly brakes the motor if the power source voltage detected by the voltage monitor is lower than a prescribed voltage. The motor is forcibly braked when the detected power source voltage is between the prescribed voltage and the lower limit of the range of voltages at which the microcomputer can operate.

Apparatus for controlling elevator door based on power source voltage

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door comprises a motor which closes and opens the door of an elevator and applies to the door torque necessary for maintaining a closed state of the door, an inverter apparatus for controlling the driving of the motor, a polarity deciding device for deciding the polarity of a slip frequency signal output from the inverter apparatus, and a driving stop device for causing the inverter apparatus to stop the driving of the motor when the polarity deciding device detects the inversion of the polarity of the slip frequency signal during the time that a closed state of the door is maintained by the motor.

Apparatus for controlling an elevator door using a drive motor slip

An apparatus for controlling elevator doors where door operation velocity is calculated based on the rotational velocity of the door driving motor. An abnormality detection circuit is provided to alert an elevator supervisor when the calculated door operation velocity exceeds a predetermined value. A velocity limiting circuit is provided to decelerate the doors when the door operation velocity exceeds the predetermined value.

Control apparatus for elevator doors using velocity limiting circuits

The elevator control apparatus of the present invention comprises a plurality of drive control apparatus that control the driving of various motions of the elevator, a signal mutual transmission device for connecting the plurality of the drive control apparatus and for transmitting signals among them, and a plurality of abnormality judgment devices, disposed on each of the plurality of the drive control apparatus, that monitor the motions of the elevator controlled by the plurality of the drive control apparatus by transmitting sigals among them via the signal mutual transmission device, each one of the plurality of the abnormality judgment devices individually judging the abnormality of the same motion.

Apparatus for detecting abnormalities in elevator motion

A system for controlling operation of an elevator car door includes a torque command output device for outputting a torque command for controlling a car door driving motor on the basis of a difference between a speed command commanding the operating speed of the motor and the actual speed of operation of the motor, a door position detector for detecting the position of the car door in terms of the number of pulses in a pulse train produced by an encoder connected to the motor, and a memory for storing torque limit values as a function of the door position. The system also has a controller which reads the torque limit value corresponding to the car door position detected by the door position detector. The controller then compares the read torque limit value with a torque command output from the torque command output device and generates a reversing instruction to be given to the motor upon determining that the torque command is not smaller than the torque limit value. An obstruction of the door is sensed as a rise in the torque command so that the car door is reversed to ensure safety.

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Inazawa, Japan

Masamoto Mizuno