Kone Corporation

Paul Karlstedt

Antti Kallioniemi

Antti Saarelainen

An operational entity for controlling movement of a plurality of elevator cars of a multicar elevator system includes a user interface having a first input element and a second input element. The user interface generates, on the basis of the first input element, an indication of selection of at least one elevator car from among the plurality of elevator cars to be moved; and generates, on the basis of the second input element, one or more control signals indicative of a request to control the movement of the selected at least one elevator car in a predefined direction. A multicar elevator system including the operational entity is provided.

Operational entity and a multicar elevator system for controlling movement of a plurality of elevator cars of a multicar elevator system

The invention relates to a method for controlling movement of two or more elevator cars of a multicar elevator system. The method comprises: selecting manually via a user interface of an operational entity an elevator car from among a plurality of elevator cars to be moved and controlling movement of one or more other elevator cars from among the plurality of the elevator cars away from a driving area of the selected elevator car. The invention relates also to a multicar elevator system and an operational entity implementing at least portions of the method.

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Paul Karlstedt