Otis Elevator Company

Nippon Otis Elevator Company

Tsuyoshi Sekine

Hideki Arai

Hideki Nakano

Takami Koyama

Kota Ojima

An exemplary roller guide assembly for an elevator device comprises a shaft supporting a roller for engaging a guide rail, a shaft support member that receives the shaft therein, and a member inserted between the shaft and the aforementioned shaft support member. According to this invention, because the shaft is supported by the shaft support member via the elastic member, when the rollers are biased in the horizontal direction by the guide rail, the member limits the shaft from turning relative to the shaft support member.

Elevator device and roller guide assembly

An elevator car () which moves vertically along the hoistway is provided with a roller guide assembly () guided by a guide rail (). The roller guide assembly () is provided with a horizontal fixing shaft () which is fixed to a base member () and rollers () which are supported by the horizontal fixing shaft (). The rollers () are each provided with a roller outer circumference section (), a rolling bearing (), an annular rubber (), and an inner cylinder (). The configuration eliminates the need for a conventional spring or a conventional damper mechanism because the rubber () deforms elastically.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tsuyoshi Sekine