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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2019
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Meidensha Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuru Kato, Inzai-City, JP;
Hideki Miyazawa, Sakura, JP;
Yoshiki Nota, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Watabe, Tokyo, JP;
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US);
MEIDENSHA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An elevator-rope inspection device comprising a camera for capturing images of the elevator rope R, and an image-processing unit for processing a captured image outputted by the camera, wherein the image-processing unit detects a location of wear by implementing binarization on the captured images, and a labeling process that assigns a label to the location of wear, measures a distance between labels, andassigned by the labeling process, and when that distance is less than a fixed value, it judges that the area between labels is a wire break, so texture information of the elevator rope is unnecessary in advance.