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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Otis Elevator Company;
Inventor:
Arthur Hsu, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/28 (2006.01); B66B 1/24 (2006.01); B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/28 (2013.01); B66B 1/2458 (2013.01); B66B 1/3407 (2013.01); B66B 5/0012 (2013.01); B66B 2201/303 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a shuttle elevator group including: detecting an arrival of an elevator car at a landing; determining a time since a previous elevator car departed the landing; determining a fullness percentage of the elevator car; determining an estimated time until a next elevator car arrives at the landing; and determining when the elevator car departs the landing based upon at least one of the fullness percentage of the elevator car, the time since the previous elevator car departed the landing, and the estimated time until the next elevator car arrives at the landing.