Inventio Ag

Girsberger Holding Ag

Philipp Angst

Romeo Deplazes

Thomas Duenser

Thierry Aubert

Urs Baumgartner

Thomas Dünser

Michael Rickli

An elevator installation has at least three vertical elevator shafts arranged adjacent to one another, at least one boarding zone and a plurality of individually movable elevator cars. At least two directly adjacent changeover zones are provided in the region of the boarding zone and enable horizontal displacement of the elevator cars between the elevator shafts.

Elevator installation and method for operating a vertical elevator shafts arranged adjacent to one another

An elevator installation has a vertical elevator hoistway and a plurality of elevator cars individually movable therein. An elevator control system readies at least two of the elevator cars in the hoistway in an area of two mutually adjacent entrance areas. Thus, simultaneous loading/unloading of the elevator cars via the entrance areas is possible. The two elevator cars then travel to destination floors, the first elevator car traveling a distance which is at least as great as that traveled by the second elevator car.

Elevator installation with individually movable elevator cars and method for operating such an elevator installation

An improved lift system door control or safety circuit utilizes locking devices for the lift shaft doors and lock sensors to monitor the status of the locking devices. The lock sensors are coupled to a lift drive unit control through a data bus, which need not be especially designed as a safety data bus. The lock sensors are repeatedly interrogated at short term intervals. The status of the doors is interrogated on a longer time interval, and such data is also passed to the drive unit control by the data bus. The interrogations are used to determine the operating condition of the locking sensors as well as whether communications or transmission errors are present.

Safety circuit for lift doors

A method and system for supervising the safety of an elevator having a car driven by a drive within a hoistway wherein a travel parameter (X,X&#x2033;,X') of the car is sensed and continually compared with a similarly sensed travel parameter (X&#x2032;) of the drive. If the comparison shows a large deviation between the two parameters, an emergency stop is initiated. Otherwise one of the travel parameters (X,X&#x2033;X&#x2032;; X&#x2032;) is output as a verified signal (X;X&#x2032;). The verified signal is then compared with predetermined permitted values. If it lies outside the permitted range then an emergency stop is initiated.

Elevator supervision

Safety system of an elevator installation, with a control unit, a bus node, a safety element and a bus, which enables a communication between the control unit and the bus node. The bus node includes a first switching arrangement, which on digital presetting by the control unit acts on the safety element by a first analog signal. The bus node additionally includes a second switching arrangement which derives an analog signal from the safety element and makes digital feedback information available to the control unit by way of the bus.

Safety system for an elevator structure

A shaft monitoring system for an elevator installation includes a contactless sensor enabling recognition from the elevator car whether a shaft door lock and a shaft door leaf are in a correct locked setting. A securing device mechanically secures the shaft door lock in order to prevent opening of the shaft door and is mechanically and/or electromagnetically actuatable from the elevator car. The contactless sensor includes an active sensor part arranged at the car door and a passive sensor part arranged at the shaft door lock to be monitored. The active sensor part interacts with the passive sensor part as soon as the elevator car stops behind the shaft door and the shaft door leaf and the shaft door lock are disposed in the correct locked setting. The active sensor part also can transiently interact with the passive sensor part when the elevator car moves past the shaft door.

Shaft door monitoring system for an elevator installation

An elevator installation with an elevator car moveable in an elevator hoistway by means a drive unit is controlled by a control unit. Sensors monitor the status of the elevator installation and are each connected via an assigned bus node to a data bus and thereby connected to the control unit. In order to obtain improved operational safety and improved availability, each sensor controls a voltage supply of the associated bus node.

Elevator installation and monitoring system for an elevator installation

An elevator system includes an elevator car having a car door, a drive unit for moving the elevator car along an elevator shaft wall provided with shaft doors and a controller for controlling movement of the elevator car along the elevator shaft wall. A separate fault detecting device is mounted in a region of each of the shaft doors and in a region of the car door for generating fault information to controller. A status detecting unit generates to the controller status information about a position and a speed of the elevator car. In the case of a fault in the region of one of the shaft doors, the controller permits operation of the elevator car between those floors that can be reached by the elevator car without having to pass the floor at the shaft door where the fault has occurred.

Situation-dependent reaction in the case of a fault in the region of a door of an elevator system

An elevator installation with an elevator case, an elevator shaft, and a drive unit. The elevator cage is installed in the elevator shaft to be movable and is controllable by the drive unit so that the elevator cage can be stopped in different positions in the elevator shaft. The elevator shaft is equipped with a detecting device which detects whether a person is standing in a critical zone in the elevator shaft or is about to go into this. The detecting device is connected with the drive unit so that the elevator installation can be transferred to a special mode of operation in case a person is standing in the critical zone or is about to go into this. The drive unit includes special control equipment which in the special mode of operation stops the elevator cage before it moves into the critical zone. In that case the detecting device and the special control equipment are designed to be operationally safe in order to prevent movement of the elevator cage into the critical zone. The special control equipment enables, in the special mode of operation, an undisturbed operation of the elevator cage in a zone outside the critical zone.

Elevator installation having a virtual protection area at the bottom and/or the top of the elevator shaft, and method for controlling the same

A method for preventing an inadmissibly high speed of a load receiving unit of an elevator, including the steps of supplying information about an actual position and an actual speed of the load receiving unit in an area of an entire travel way of the load receiving unit to a speed monitoring device by at least one measuring system, continuously comparing the actual speed with a speed limit value by the speed monitoring device, and activating braking measures if the speed of the load receiving unit exceeds a speed limit value. At least three different braking measures are successively triggered by the speed monitoring device.

Method for preventing an inadmissibly high speed of the load receiving means of an elevator

A monitoring system for monitoring doors such as a shaft or cabin door, of a lift installation includes a sensor element associated with the doors for monitoring the state or position of the door. An evaluation system is connected to the sensor element and evaluates the sensor signals. The evaluation system can perform continued evaluation in short time intervals in order to provide a continuous record of the state of the monitored doors and temporal changes in the signal characteristics of the sensor signals.

Elevator door monitoring system

A method for monitoring shaft doors of a elevator installation uses at least one contactlessly acting shaft door monitoring sensor to emit a beam of electromagnetic waves, wherein at least during specific detection phases the beam extends over several floors and is detected by a receiver. The beam is influenced by a shaft door panel not being completely closed and/or a shaft door lock not being disposed in the locking setting such that a disturbance signal is generated to the elevator control.

Method of contactlessly monitoring elevator shaft doors

The invention concerns a seat ( ) with a seat support ( ) which has a seating surface ( ) as well as a backrest ( ) connected pivotable with it, which seating surface ( ) and backrest ( ) are mounted adjustably and fixably on a seat bracket ( ) for adjusting the position of the seat support ( ). For the seat ( ) of the invention, it is characteristic that back inclination of the backrest ( ) is adjustable in connection with a fixed seating angle (&agr;) between backrest ( ) and seating surface ( ) by pivoting the seat support ( ) relative to the seat bracket ( ), and that the seating angle of the seating surface ( ) is adjustable in connection with a pivotal point ( ) fixed in the longitudinal direction of the seat by pivoting the seating surface ( ) relative to the backrest ( ). The seat ( ) of the invention is distinguished by a comparatively short adjustment pathway through a large back inclination adjustment of the backrest ( ).

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Philipp Angst