Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Elevayor Engineering and Service Co., Ltd.

Masanobu Itoh

Masakatsu Tanaka

Toshihiko Nara

Masayuki Shigeta

Noboru Arabori

Jun Sugahara

Tastuhiko Takahashi

Katutaro Masuda

Hideaki Takahashi

Yoshio Sakai

Ichiro Nakamura

Hiroshi Kinoshita

Masao Nakazato

Yuji Toda

Eiji Ikeda

Mitsuo Saito

Tatsuhiko Takahashi

Yoshinari Atsumi

Yuki Yamamoto

Hideaki Seki

Nobuyoshi Sato

Shinkei Kakami

Katsutaro Masuda

Tasuhiko Takahashi

An elevator apparatus is provided with a hoisting unit including a drive sheave for winding a rope around it. The hoisting unit includes a rotary member. The rope has a car attached at one end thereof for suspending. A braking force is applied to the rotary member by a biasing unit. The braking force against the rotary member is released by a releasing unit, and is reduced by a reducing unit. In emergency stop of such an elevator apparatus, slipping of the rope is not caused to control the braking force with ease.

Elevator apparatus

An electromagnetic disc brake for an elevator lifting apparatus comprises a disc spline-coupled with a rotational shaft. Braking body and an armature disposed to clamp the disc; braking springs press the armature against the disc, and an iron core is provided which includes inner and outer magnetic poles each facing the armature and concentrically formed with respect to the rotational shaft. An electromagnetic coil generates magnetic flux to pass through the inner and outer magnetic poles as magnetic paths. In addition, at least one of the pole face of the outer magnetic pole and the facing portion of the armature where it faces the pole face is provided with an arrangement for increasing a magnetic gap, and the braking springs are disposed in portions of the outer magnetic pole. Further, the braking body is supported through a sound absorbing member or one side of the armature facing the disc is formed of a sound absorbing member.

Electromagnetic disc brake for elevator lifting apparatus

A passenger transport installation in which a large number of people can be efficiently transported between at least two vertically-spaced places. Stations communicate with a vertical elevator passage or passages along which vehicles can move upward and downward, and the vehicles stop at the stations to allow passagers to get on and off. While passengers get on and off the vehicles at the stations, other vehicles carrying other passengers can move upward and downwardly along the elevator passage or passages.

Passenger transport installation, vehicle for use therein, and method of

A braking device for an elevator winding machine generates a braking force by contacting a rotary body driven by a rotary shaft of the winding machine with a brake section supported through the intermediary of an elastic body. The elastic body has a nonlinear elastic characteristic so that a starting shock to the passengers in the elevator car is prevented and the braking torque detecting accuracy is improved.

Braking device for elevator winding machine and elevator using the

An elevator car and a counterweight is suspended on a sheave by means of a rope in a well-rope faashion. In dependence on the number of passengers on the car, the sheave is applied with an unbalance torque making appearance between the car and counterweight. Upon starting of the elevator operation by releasing a brake, upward or backward bouncing of the car takes place due to the unbalance torque. For preventing such bouncing of the car, a start compensation is performed by generating a motor torque which can cancel out the unbalance torque in precedence to the releasing of the brake. The brake is installed swingably on a winding equipment. Displacement of the brake during actuation thereof indicates the presence of the unbalance torque. By taking advantage of this displacement, the start compensation is carried out by increasing the motor torque progressively in the direction depending on the displacement and by holding the motor torque constant at a value attained when the displacement becomes smaller than a predetermined value.

Elevator control apparatus

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Katsuta, Japan

Masanobu Itoh