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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventor:
Mustapha Toutaoui, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01); B66B 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 5/0025 (2013.01); B66B 29/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for providing preventative maintenance of switchable components includes a load-moving system including one or more switchable components. The system also includes a microcontroller configured to operate the one or more switchable components of the load-moving system, to determine a number of switching events of the one or more switchable components and to perform a preventative maintenance action based on determining that the number of switching events is greater than a threshold number of switching events.