Thyssen Krupp Ag

Thyssenkrupp Elevator Ag

Tk Elevator Innovation and Operations Gmbh

Thyssenkrupp Elevator Innovation and Operations Ag

Michael Palazzola

Peter Feldhusen

Frank Peter Dudde

Jie Xu

Alan Parker

William Delk

Olivia Stone

Stephen Allen

John Keith Anderson

Jordan Strother

Frank Dudde

John Anderson

An electrical monitoring connector for electrically monitoring the health of electrically conductive tension members in an elevator hoisting member includes a housing for insertion therein of a terminal end of an elevator hoisting member, and an elastomeric connector block inside the housing having a plurality of alternating electrically conductive and non-conductive layers. The connector block is slidable within the housing, and configured to be both electrically connected to active health monitoring equipment and biased by a spring against exposed cut ends of the plurality of electrically conductive tension members, when the terminal end of the elevator hoisting member is inserted in the housing, so as to make electrical connections between the exposed ends of the tension members and only those of the electrically conductive layers that are aligned and make contact therewith, to permit monitoring signals from the health monitoring equipment to be sent down the tension members.

Electrical monitoring connector for an elevator hoisting member

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

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Elevator belt position tracking system

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

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