Kone Corporation

Sakari Mantyla

Mikko Puranen

Jarkko Saloranta

Jaakko Kalliomaki

Joonas Sorvari

The invention relates to a method for operating an elevator installed in connection with a building, particularly a high rise elevator, in which method the expected rope sway is monitored using building acceleration data obtained by means of a sensor to calculate a building sway, and whereby based on the building sway and the position of an elevator car a rope sway is estimated, which rope sway is compared with a threshold value to determine excessive rope sway and to deduct operation measures for the elevator in order to counteract a determined excessive rope sway. According to the invention a succession of following steps is performed: This leads to an early detection of a possible excessive rope sway happening in the future in course of servicing elevator calls by the allocated elevator car.

Method for operating an elevator

The invention relates to a method for operating an elevator installed in connection with a building, particularly a high rise elevator, in which method the expected rope sway is monitored using building acceleration data obtained by means of a sensor to calculate a building sway, and whereby based on the building sway and the position of an elevator car a rope sway is estimated, which rope sway is compared with a threshold value to determine the amount of rope sway and to deduct operation measures for the elevator based on the amount of the rope sway, characterized by the succession of following steps

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