Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
187414000 | MISCELLANEOUS | 21 |
20080196981 | DAMPENING DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING CABLES - A sway reduction or dampening device operably engaging a wall adjacent an elevator car or floor of an elevator shaft, and receiving an elevator compensating cable is described. The device is made of two molded parts having an outer surface and inner surface with the inner surface for each part being complementary to each other to define a passage for a cable. The parts are made of molded material and include in one part molded rods which pass through corresponding openings in the other part. The two parts are held together through conventional securing elements such as nuts when the rods are threaded bolts. The nuts can be secured on the backside of a bracket to which the device is attached within an elevator shaft with an elevator cable passing therethrough. | 08-21-2008 |
20080217114 | EMERGENCY DEVICE FOR INSTALLING IN AN ELEVATOR CAR OF AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - An emergency device for installing in an elevator car of an elevator installation, with an emergency control region, which is to be opened from the interior of the elevator car by an emergency key, wherein a key switch is arranged in the emergency control region so as to transfer the elevator installation to an emergency operation by the same emergency key. Mounted in the elevator car is a key mechanism which has a mechanical profile insert with a key slot and is designed so that through insertion of the emergency key into the key slot and turning the emergency control region is mechanically unlocked. The key switch includes an electromechanical key insert with a key slot and is so designed that through insertion of the emergency key into the key slot and turning the elevator installation can be switched over to the emergency operation. | 09-11-2008 |
20080308362 | CABLE MANAGEMENT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTION ELEVATOR SYSTEMS - A cable management assembly ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090127033 | METHOD FOR REPLACING THE HOISTING ROPING OF AN ELEVATOR AND A TRACTION APPLIANCE ARRANGEMENT USED IN THE REPLACEMENT - The present invention relates to a method and a traction appliance arrangement for replacing the hoisting roping of an elevator, which elevator comprises at least guide rails ( | 05-21-2009 |
20100032248 | ELEVATOR DAMPER ASSEMBLY - A damper assembly ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100059319 | GOVERNOR SHEAVE WITH AN OVERLAPPING FLYWEIGHT SYSTEM - A mechanism for use in an elevator governor assembly including a ground configured to rotate about a ground axis, three or more circumferentially overlapping cams each pivotally attached to the ground at one of three or more ground pivot points radially spaced from the ground axis, and a plurality of links pivotally attaching the three or more cams to one another at a plurality of link pivot points. The circumferentially overlapping cams form a substantially contiguous circular ring about the ground axis. The interconnection of the ground, the cams, and the links form a generally circular mechanism. | 03-11-2010 |
20100133048 | METHOD OF INSTALLING AN ELEVATOR - A method in the installation of an elevator includes arranging a movable platform structure in the bottom end of the elevator hoistway with a temporary hoisting appliance in the elevator hoistway. The movable platform structure is lifted in the elevator hoistway with the temporary hoisting appliance. The final hoisting machine of the final elevator is installed from the platform structure and the final hoisting roping of the elevator is installed. The movable platform structure can be the final elevator car or at least a part of the final elevator car. | 06-03-2010 |
20100163349 | ELEVATOR HOISTWAY INSTALLATION GUIDE SYSTEMS, METHODS AND TEMPLATES - A template for accurately positioning structural components of elevator(s) in a elevator hoistway(s), or of elevator hoistway walls or partitions in a building, includes a thin, flexible sheet of material adapted to be placed on a floor of elevator hoistway(s), has indicia on the flexible sheet of material to show locations, and points of attachment, of elevator structural components which are to be installed in the elevator hoistway(s). Tensioning elements attachable to the flexible sheet of material may be used to square up the flexible sheet of material. The template may be made by forming a thin, flexible sheet of material, providing indicia on the flexible sheet of material, and by providing tensioning elements to square up the flexible sheet of material. The flexible template may be placed on the floor of the elevator hoistway(s), squared, and the squared up template used as a guide to install the major elevator structural components. The template may, alternatively, be made of a substantially rigid, e.g., corrugated, sheet material and employ interconnected sections. | 07-01-2010 |
20110005869 | Method and Apparatus of Space Elevators - A space elevator and method of construction of the same that allows a space elevator to be constructed with a single rocket launch by simultaneously sending cables down to earth and away from earth via a construction satellite. When the earthbound cable reaches the surface, additional cable of gradually increasing cross section is fed from the surface of the earth to finish the construction. The finished space elevator uses moving cables to transport simplified elevator cars into space, thereby greatly increasing the throughput of cargo into space compared to prior art and previous designs. | 01-13-2011 |
20120061190 | LOAD MEASURING DEVICE FOR AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - An elevator installation includes an elevator cage with a support construction carrying the elevator cage, wherein the support construction has two beams. Mounted on each beam is a positioning arrangement on which, for example, a sensor is positioned, which is part of a load measuring device, wherein the positioning arrangements have material structures or sensor carriers. The sensors detect a change in spacing of the material structures or of the sensor carriers from one another, wherein this change in spacing is caused by a change in loading of the elevator cage. Signals of the sensors are processed in an evaluating unit and a signal representing the loading is used in an elevator control. | 03-15-2012 |
20120217101 | ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD - An elevator arrangement includes an elevator hoistway, an elevator car, and a movable supporting platform for supporting the elevator components in the elevator hoistway. The supporting platform includes a supporting frame. The supporting frame includes a plurality of beams that are rigidly fixed to each other. The plurality of beams are arranged such that towards each of all four lateral directions of the supporting platform points at least one beam end of the supporting frame, at which beam end is a movable support element belonging to a plurality of movable support elements movable between a position extended from the platform towards the side and a position retracted towards the platform. | 08-30-2012 |
20120241260 | SUSPENSION DEVICE AND SUSPENSION ARRANGEMENT - A suspension device and a suspension arrangement for suspending a cable in an elevator hoistway are provided. The suspension device includes a mechanical fixing interface for fixing the suspension device to a supporting structure. The suspension device also includes a fixing part of the cable, which fixing part of the cable is made to be turnable in relation to the mechanical fixing interface. | 09-27-2012 |
20120325592 | ELEVATOR WITH COMPENSATING DEVICE - An elevator includes a compensating device having the purpose of providing compensation for changing weight of a support on the cage side or on the counterweight side. Depending on the respective position of an elevator cage and a counterweight in the elevator shaft there are more meters of the support on the cage side or on the counterweight side. In the case of a small support length on the cage side, a large compensating device length on the cage side results and conversely. The compensating device suspended at the elevator cage and at the counterweight forms a loop in a shaft pit and can be set in oscillation. Provided as a remedy are, for example, rods which guide and stabilize the compensating device. | 12-27-2012 |
20130020150 | ARRANGEMENT FOR DAMPING LATERAL SWAYS OF A ROPE-LIKE MEANS FIXED TO AN ELEVATOR CAR - The object of the invention is an arrangement for damping lateral sways of a rope-like means fixed to an elevator car in an elevator hoistway, the bottom end of which rope-like means comprises an upward opening bottom loop. A detachable damping means producing a mass effect is disposed to be supported by the top surface of the bottom loop. | 01-24-2013 |
20130233655 | METHOD AND AN ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT - A method of constructing an elevator, the elevator including a hoistway, an elevator car, a first movable support structure in the hoistway above the elevator car, for supporting the elevator car with a roping, and a roof structure, separate from the movable support structure, in the hoistway above the support structure, where the elevator car is used for transporting passengers and/or goods, and thereafter the first movable support structure is lifted higher in the hoistway, and thereafter the elevator car is used again for transporting passengers and/or goods. The method includes lifting the roof structure higher in the hoistway so as to make more room below the roof structure, the roof structure being a movable roof structure, and in that the movable roof structure is lifted in the hoistway taking support for the lift from a second movable support structure mounted in the hoistway above the roof structure. | 09-12-2013 |
20140000987 | METHOD AND AN ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140027211 | Coated Rope or Belt for Elevator Systems - Elevator coated ropes or belts are disclosed. The coated rope or belt may include at least one cord and a jacket retaining the at least one cord. The cord may include a plurality of filaments. The filaments are free of second-order helical structure. In a first embodiment, the filaments includes at least one inner filament and a plurality of outer filaments surrounding the at least one inner filament. The outer filaments are bunched together by forming a first-order helical structure through the length of the cord. In a second general embodiment, the filaments are free of both first- and second-order helical structures. The filaments are bunched together by a restraining loop or adhesive at one or more locations along the length of the cord. Methods of making the tension cord are also disclosed. | 01-30-2014 |
20140069747 | Elevator Rope Sway and Disturbance Estimation - A sway of an elevator rope is determined during an operation of an elevator system. A disturbance of the elevator system is determined based on a state model of the elevator system and at least one measurement of a state of the elevator system. The sway of the elevator rope is determined based on the disturbance and a system model of the elevator system. | 03-13-2014 |
20140332326 | APPARATUS FOR FIXING A HOISTING MACHINE OF AN ELEVATOR AND A FIXING ARRANGEMENT - The object of the invention is an apparatus for fixing a hoisting machine of an elevator in an elevator comprising at least an elevator car configured to move reciprocally in an elevator hoistway and at least one or more counterweights or compensating weights, which are for their part connected to support the elevator car by the aid of at least one support member, such as by the aid of a rope or a belt, and also by the aid of diverting pulleys, and a hoisting machine provided with at least one traction sheave or corresponding, and also at least one or more traction members, such as a belt, a rope or a chain, which are configured to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave into movement of the elevator car guided by the guide rails and of the one or more counterweights or compensating weights guided by the counterweight guide rails or compensating weight guide rails. The apparatus comprises a machine station, comprising at least fixing points and means for fixing the traction sheave of the elevator, the motor and the diverting pulleys of the traction members into their position essentially precisely in relation to each other. | 11-13-2014 |
20150060214 | Anti-Rotation System and Anti-Rotation Device - An anti-rotation system for an elevator system that includes an elevator shaft, elevator suspension cables, and a mechanical room includes a hitch plate disposed on a floor of the mechanical room and at a top of the elevator shaft, a plurality of cable shackles, each cable shackle including a cable locking mechanism on a first end thereof configured to lock one of the elevator suspension cables and a threaded rod on a second end thereof configured to extend through the hitch plate from the elevator shaft to the mechanical room, and a plurality of anti-rotation devices, each anti-rotation device being fixed to the threaded rod of one of the plurality of cable shackles in the mechanical room, and each anti-rotation device being connected to at least one other anti-rotation device, whereby rotation of cable shackles is prevented. | 03-05-2015 |
20160176675 | ROPE STORAGE UNIT AND METHOD FOR INSTALLING ELEVATOR ROPES | 06-23-2016 |