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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2014
Kone Corporation, Helsinki, FI;
Osmo Björni, Hyvinkää, FI;
Ari Hänninen, Hyvinkää, FI;
Johannes De Jong, Järvenpää, FI;
Pentti Alasentie, Espoo, FI;
Matti Räsänen, Hyvinkää, FI;
Timo Mertanen, Helsinki, FI;
Santeri Suoranta, Espoo, FI;
Antti Plathin, Vantaa, FI;
Antti Kallioniemi, Jokela, FI;
KONE CORPORATION, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
An elevator arrangement includes a plurality of elevators in a building, which plurality includes a plurality of zoned elevators moving in an elevator hoistway, which have different ranges of movement of the elevator car in the building to each other, and which zoned elevators each have a top limit and a bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car, to above the top limit and to below the bottom limit of which range of movement travel of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question is prevented. The vertical location, in relation to the building, of the top limit and/or bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car of each aforementioned zoned elevator can be changed. The arrangement also comprises a lobby elevator, the range of movement of the elevator car of which differs from the ranges of movement of the elevator cars of the aforementioned zoned elevators, and the stopping floors of the lobby elevator comprise a plurality of lobby floors, each of which is a stopping floor of one or more zoned elevators belonging to the aforementioned zoned elevator plurality. A method is provided for re-adjusting the elevator arrangement, wherein the range of movement of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question is changed to reach to a different height in the elevator hoistway by changing the vertical location in relation to the building of the top limit and/or the bottom limit of the range of movement of the elevator car of the zoned elevator in question.