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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2019
Applicant:
Kone Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Inventors:
Marja-Liisa Siikonen, Helsinki, FI;
Mirko Ruokokoski, Helsinki, FI;
Assignee:
KONE CORPORATION, Helsinki, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/28 (2006.01); B66B 1/24 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01); B66B 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/28 (2013.01); B66B 1/2466 (2013.01); B66B 5/0018 (2013.01); B66B 9/003 (2013.01); B66B 2201/242 (2013.01); B66B 2201/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an aspect, there is provided a method for determining the number of elevator cars in a two-shaft multi-car elevator system. The method comprises determining the number of active elevator cars N in the two-shaft multi-car elevator system by wherein RTT is a round trip time of the two-shaft multi-car elevator system, arr is the arrival rate of passengers, a is a car load factor, and carsize is the number of passengers one elevator car is able to carry.