Otis Elevator Company

Carrier Corporation

United Technologies Corporation

Otis Elevatro Company

Otis Elavator Company

Zbigniew Piech

Tadeusz Pawel Witczak

Wojciech Szelag

Cezary Jedryczka

Daryl J Marvin

Adam Marian Myszkowski

Enrico Manes

Richard N Fargo

Richard E Kulak

Thomas M Kowalczyk

Stella M Oggianu

Bruce P Swaybill

Harold Terry

Richard E Peruggi

Thomas He

David W Barrett

Jerome F Jaminet

Edward E Ahigian

Thomas M McHugh

Bryan Robert Siewert

Stephen R Nichols

Benjamin J Watson

Pawel Witczak

Jacek F Gieras

Richard J Ericson

Jagadeesh Kumar Tangudu

Randall Keith Roberts

Justin Billard

Xiaodong Luo

David J Lanesey

Adrian D West

Patricia L Driesch

Jamie A Rivera

Richard Andrew Himmelmann

William A Veronesi

Arthur Hsu

Marcin Piech

Ram Ranjan

Robin Mihekun Miller

Vladimir Blasko

Walter Thomas Schmidt

Anthony Cooney

Roy Stephen Colby

James Leo Hubbard

Leandre Adifon

Jinliang Wang

Pedro S Baranda

Guohong Hu

Thomas M Yun

Mikhail B Gorbounov

James M Draper

Beata I Wawrzyniak

Martin J Hardesty

Robert R Wheeler

Kyle W Rogers

Arthur Blanc

John L Kettle

Shihemn Chen

Mark Olthuis

Igor I Fedchenia

Frank Guliuzza, Jr

HakKi Han

Jaime A Rivera

Paul Dieter Wagner

Bruce W Horne

Gianfranco Giannini

Rafal Wojciechowski

Amy Robinson

Tadeusz Witczak

Rodolfo Robledo Barrio

Muhammad Jehanzeb Noor

An electromagnetic machine includes a universal circuit board and a plurality of universal coils. The universal circuit board includes a first coil configuration imprint and a second coil configuration imprint. The plurality of universal coils each including a positive lead and a negative lead for electrical connection to one of the first and second coil configuration imprints.

Universal electromagnetic machine

An elevator system includes an elevator car constructed and arranged to travel in a hoistway. A linear propulsion system of the elevator system is configured to impart a force upon the elevator car to control movement of the car. The linear propulsion system includes a secondary portion mounted to the elevator car and having a plurality of magnets. A first primary portion of the linear propulsion system includes a mounting assembly, a plurality of coils engaged to the mounting assembly, and a first cooling device including at least one conduit projecting outward from the mounting assembly and into the hoistway for transferring heat.

Elevator linear propulsion system with cooling device

An electromagnetic machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is adapted to rotate about an axis. The stator includes a support structure, a plurality of bobbins engaged to the support structure, and a plurality of electric coils with each one wound about a respective bobbin of the plurality of bobbins.

Electromagnetic machine

A coreless electromagnetic machine includes a dual rotor and a stator. The dual rotor is adapted to rotate about an axis, and includes inner and outer rotor segments. The outer rotor segment is spaced radially outward from, and axially aligned to, the inner rotor segment. The inner and outer rotor segments radially define an annular chamber. The stator is disposed, at least in-part, in the annular chamber.

Dual rotor, coreless, electromagnetic machine

A method and system for managing an elevator system (), includes providing a plurality of elevator cars () to travel in a hoistway (), and selectively introducing and removing at least one of the plurality of elevator cars () to and from the hoistway () via a loading station ().

Configurable multicar elevator system

A device for a friction force provider for an emergency safety actuator for an elevator is disclosed. The friction force provider may include a housing having a first end and an opposing second end, where the first end may define an opening. The friction force provider may further include a primary magnet positioned within the housing and configured to move between an armed position and a working position. The primary magnet may be configured to create a force on a rail of an elevator system in the working position and be held within the housing in the armed position.

Emergency safety actuator for an elevator

A transfer station () for a ropeless elevator system hoistway () is provided. The transfer station () includes a first lane (), a second lane (), and a parking area () located proximate one of the first lane () and the second lane (). The transfer station () also includes a plurality of carriages () moveable within the first lane (), the second lane (), and the parking area (), the plurality of carriages () configured to support and move an elevator car (). The transfer station () further includes a cassette () configured to support and move the plurality of carriages (). The transfer station () yet further includes a guiding member () engaged with the cassette (), wherein the position of each of the plurality of carriages () relative to the first lane (), the second lane () and the parking area () is modified by horizontal or vertical movement of the cassette ().

Transfer station for a ropeless elevator system with redundancy of subcomponents and parking zone

A guidance mechanism for an elevator car is constructed and arranged to move along a lane defined at least in-part between two opposing first and second lane structures of a stationary structure. The guidance mechanism includes a first support structure supported by the first lane structure. The first support structure includes a first retainer face disposed between the elevator car and the first lane structure that substantially faces the first lane structure, and is spaced from the first lane structure. A first retention device of the mechanism is disposed, at least in part, between the first retainer face and the first lane structure. The first retention device is supported by the elevator car and is constructed and arranged to contact the first retainer face for limiting lateral movement of the elevator car away from the first lane structure and toward the second lane structure.

Elevator car guidance mechanism

A permanent magnet linear motor. The permanent magnet linear motor including a primary comprising a magnetically permeable core having a first face surface on a first side of the core a plurality of teeth forming a plurality of slots on the first side, and a plurality of multi-phase windings wound to have segments thereof in the slots forming a plurality of magnetic poles at each of the first face surfaces; a permanent magnet pair of opposing polarity configured to produce magnetic flux and cause the primary to exert a force on the secondary when the plurality of multiphase windings are excited by a multiphase source; and a passive ferromagnetic secondary adjacent to but spaced from the first face surface, the passive ferromagnetic secondary being moveable with respect to the primary.

Door operator with switched flux linear motor

An elevator system includes a lane and at least one rail extending along the lane. The at least one rail includes a first end portion and a second end portion. A transfer station is arranged at one of the first end portion and the second end portion, and an alignment system is arranged at the transfer station. The alignment system includes at least one guide member configured and disposed to establish a desired alignment between an elevator car and the at least one rail.

Alignment system for an elevator car

The present disclosure relates generally to a propulsion system for an elevator having a first motor portion mounted to one of an object to be moved and a stationary structure and a second motor portion mounted to the other of the object to be moved and the stationary structure, the first motor portion having at least one coil.

Thermal management of linear motor

An elevator system including a hoistway, an elevator car disposed in the hoistway, the elevator car including a first braking device configured to engage a first braking surface in a first direction in the event of a guidance occurrence, and a second braking device configured to engage a second braking surface in a second direction in the event of the guidance occurrence.

Braking system for an elevator system

A method and system for managing an elevator system, includes providing a recovery car to travel in the hoistway via a motor, and engaging the car via an attachment device of the recovery car.

Elevator recovery car

An intelligent surface system is provided for deployment in a space. The intelligent surface system includes a personnel movement device (PMD) configured to move an individual between first and second locations, sensors deployed to sense characteristics of the individual and a controller configured to determine a condition of the individual based on the characteristics and control an operation of the PMD in accordance with the determined condition of the individual.

Intelligent surface systems for building solutions

An elevator system () is disclosed. The elevator system () may comprise a hoistway () including first and second hoistway portions (), a first car (), a first stationary stator () disposed in the first hoistway portion () and a second stationary stator () disposed in the second hoistway portion (), a first mover () mounted on the first car (), and a first guiderail () disposed in the first hoistway (). The first hoistway portion () may be free of other guiderails () for the first car (). The first car () may be propelled in the first hoistway portion () by only the interaction of the first mover () with the first stationary stator (). The first car () may be propelled in the second hoistway portion () by only the interaction of the first mover () with the second stationary stator ().

Ropeless elevator system

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Cheshire, CT, United States of America

Zbigniew Piech