Otis Elevator Company

Michael W Hmelovsky

John E Games

An elevator system includes a microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on an elevator car, which controls the operation of the elevator door. Elevator door motion is commanded in response to the difference in actual door velocity from a desired, dictated door velocity in accordance with desired rates of acceleration and deceleration, and desired maximum velocity, acceleration and deceleration, the point at which deceleration is to begin, and a velocity at which decleration is to decrease. The disclosed invention provides a bench velocity, a final, slow velocity, by controlling the velocity at which deceleration is to decrease, so that the acceleration vs time of the profile exceeds the deceleration vs time of the profile by an amount resulting in the desired, final bench velocity. An exemplary elevator system, an exemplary microprocessor-based controller, and logic flowcharts for an overall door control program, illustrative of an environment of the invention, as well as details of the invention, are disclosed herein.

Elevator door motion bench velocity

An elevator system has a microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on the elevator car, the elevator door mechanism is connected to a transducer which provides signals as a function of the position of the door mechanism, and the cab controller controls the door motion in a closed loop manner by providing door command signals to the elevator door mechanism in dependence upon the deviation of the present door velocity from a current value of a dictated velocity in accordance with a desired door traverse velocity profile which includes desired increasing and decreasing rates of acceleration and deceleration, and desired maximum velocity, acceleration and deceleration. The disclosure includes a typical elevator system, an exemplary cab controller, and an exemplary door control program flowchart as an environment for the present invention, in addition to details concerning the invention.

Time controlled elevator door motion

An elevator system includes a microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on an elevator car, which controls the operation of the elevator door. Elevator door motion is commanded in response to the difference in actual door velocity from a desired, dictated door velocity in accordance with desired rates of acceleration and deceleration, maximum velocity, acceleration and deceleration, the point at which deceleration is to begin, and a velocity at which deceleration is to decrease. The disclosed invention provides selective modification in maximum velocity along with the point at which deceleration is to begin, the velocity at which deceleration is to decrease along with the point at which deceleration is to begin, and/or simply the point where deceleration is to begin, so that door velocity profiles may be tailored to suit any particular door of a given type. An exemplary environment for and details of the present invention are disclosed.

Elevator door motion modification

An elevator system includes a microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on an elevator car, which controls elevator door motion in response to a velocity error indicative of the difference between the actual elevator door velocity and a desired dictated door velocity in accordance with a velocity profile. The door motor is driven in response to signals generated as a function of the velocity error, both with proportional gain and with integral gain. However, the integral gain component of the motion command signal is set to zero if the velocity error changes the sign of its polarity, which is indicative of overcompensation. Similarly, if the velocity error is below some acceptable magnitude, no integral gain is provided. An exemplary elevator system, an exemplary microprocessor-based controller, and logic flowcharts for an overall door control program, illustrative of an environment of the invention, as well as details of the invention, are disclosed herein.

Integral gain elevator door motion control

An elevator door motion control is operative in either of two modes, the first mode being set in the case where door motion begins with the doors fully open and closed and no special conditions, such as initiation, exist. In this mode, door motion is controlled as the difference between door velocity and a dictated velocity in accordance with desired rates of acceleration and deceleration, and desired maximum velocity, acceleration and deceleration. The second mode of operation takes into account initiation at start-up, door reversals, nudging commands, high force conditions created by obstructions, and resumption of door motion following stall, other than when the door is either fully open or closed in stall. In the second mode of operation, the door is commanded by the difference between its present velocity and a dictated velocity which is selected as the lesser of an acceleration to a maximum desired velocity and a function of the distance of the door remaining to a target distance. As an environment for the present invention, an exemplary elevator system and microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on the elevator car, a general door control program logic flowchart are disclosed, together with details of the invention.

Elevator door motion mode control

An elevator system includes a microprocessor-based cab controller mounted directly on an elevator car, which controls elevator door motion in response to the difference between elevator door velocity and a desired dictated door velocity. The signals driving the elevator motor include compensation signals for hoistway door spirators, static door friction, and variations in the door operator mechanism as a function of door position, and are generated, in the disclosed embodiment, to take into account the variation in door motion as a function of door motor motion. An exemplary elevator system, an exemplary microprocessor-based controller, and logic flowcharts for an overall door control program, as well as details of the invention herein are disclosed.

Elevator door motor compensations

An elevator system includes a microprocessor-based cab controller which controls door motion and which controls the generation of stall forces in the door. The disclosed embodiment includes a dictated velocity, high-speed door profile, and a position-controlled dictated velocity profile, door motion being controlled as the difference between actual door velocity and dictated velocity. A stall mode, in which the door motor is provided with currents required to provide a desired force on the door, is invoked with the door velocity is less than a predetermined stall velocity, provided that the door is at an extreme position of traverse, the previous cycle was a stall cycle, or a hysteresis time period has elapsed with the velocity consistently less than the stall velocity. An exemplary elevator control system and microprocessor-based cab controller, as well as an exemplary overall door control program and details of the present invention are disclosed.

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Warehouse Point, CT, United States of America

Michael W Hmelovsky