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7621376 Elevator installation and method for operating a vertical elevator shafts arranged adjacent to one another  
An elevator installation has at least three vertical elevator shafts arranged adjacent to one another, at least one boarding zone and a plurality of individually movable elevator cars. At least two...
7591347 Control method and system for elevator  
An operation control method of plural elevators working between many floors is constructed so that a risk floor having a high probability that a long wait occurs is selected from among floors on...
7575099 Remotely resettable ropeless emergency stopping device for an elevator  
A brake mechanism ( 10 ) for an elevator ( 2 ) is activated in response to an electronic control signal to prevent movement of an elevator car ( 16 ) under predetermined conditions. The brake...
7575103 Elevator supervisory system for managing operating condition data  
An elevator supervisory system capable of managing abnormality data, operating condition data and car interior video data in association with one another, so that this data can be displayed in...
7568556 Elevator group management control device  
An elevator group management controller, that: predicts an arrival time each elevator car can arrive from a present position to a floor where a hall call is generated; estimates a travel distance...
7562746 Method, system, and display for elevator allocation using multi-dimensional coordinates  
A method and a display for elevator allocation evaluating are provided. When an elevator allocated to a hall call is selected by employing two different view points such as a real and a future call...
7556127 Elevator control device  
In an elevator control apparatus, a stack region storing information required for calculations for controlling operation of an elevator is set within a RAM. A stack region surveillance portion...
7546905 System and method for scheduling elevator cars using pairwise delay minimization  
A method schedules cars of an elevator system, the elevator system including a set of cars, and a set of hall calls. For each car, a waiting time is determined independently if the hall call is the...
7546906 Elevator system  
The present invention discloses an extension to a prior-art genetic algorithm, with which the routing of elevators based on the calls given in an elevator system is formed. A new type of gene, a...
7546907 Method for operating an elevator installation  
A method for the operation of an elevator installation, wherein the operating parameters for achieving a desired performance are determined by simulation of the operation of the elevator...
7540359 Electrical connector device for use with elevator load bearing members  
An electrical connector device ( 40 ) for use with an elevator load bearing member ( 30 ) assembly includes at least one electrical connector member ( 42 ) for making electrically conductive...
7537089 Elevator installation with individually movable elevator cars and method for operating such an elevator installation  
An elevator installation has a vertical elevator hoistway and a plurality of elevator cars individually movable therein. An elevator control system readies at least two of the elevator cars in the...
7511626 Residential elevator with automatic pet door for detection and logic component for operation  
The present invention combines a residential elevator and automatic pet door with an intelligence component comprised of a Programmable Logic Controller with programmed intelligence that enables...
7510054 Energy saving elevator dispatching  
When an average wait time is low ( 23, 24 ) an elevator car ( 31 - 34 ) is parked ( 39 ), unable to answer calls, or if a parameter ( 45 ) is low ( 46 ), the car is shut-down. If wait time is high,...
7493991 Electromagnetic/ultrasonic roll-calling/answering (EURA) system for elevator positioning  
A positioning system for an elevator cab ( 37 ) includes transponder modules ( 10 ) having a unique ID for receiving a signal ( 39 ) and emitting an ultrasonic signal when the signal is equivalent...
7490698 Elevator traffic control  
An elevator traffic flow control strategy utilizes the advantages of sector assignment channeling and destination entry systems. A controller ( 30 ) monitors a handling capacity ( 62 ) of the...
7487861 Elevator traffic control  
An elevator system includes a plurality of cars ( 22 - 30 ) that are capable of serving a plurality of floors ( 2 - 17 ). A controller ( 42 ) groups the floors into a plurality of sectors (S 1 -S 4...
7482771 Method for monitoring a drive device for a standstill condition, monitoring system therefore, and drive system therefore  
In a method for monitoring a stationary condition of a drive device, a monitoring device provides the drive device with a temporally varying monitoring signal which, when a sensor device connected...
7475757 Elevator dispatching with balanced passenger perception of waiting  
A perceived waiting time for a hall call to be answered by a car is determined as a constant times the square ( 46 ) of the summation ( 45 ) of remaining response time ( 39 ) and the amount of time...
7434665 Elevator down peak sectoring with long call response  
In down peak, floors of the building are divided into sectors ( 38 ), empty cars ( 50 ) are assigned ( 63, 64 ) to the sector and assigned ( 65 ) the highest down call in the sector provided the...
7426981 Elevator wireless communication infrastructure using piconet modules  
An elevator system has on each floor hall call buttons that are inter-connected with piconet modules ( 15 ), such as modules conforming to BLUETOOTH™ specifications; similar piconet modules ( 16...
7426982 Elevator group supervisory control system  
An elevator group control system is provided which stably keeps cage's position in temporally equal interval condition over a long period of time. The present invention provides a system...
7419032 Elevator monitoring terminal and elevator monitoring apparatus with multiple display screens displaying operational data, in-car image data and communication request data  
An elevator monitoring terminal includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores screen-displayed data including monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring...
7416058 Method of operating an elevator installation providing at least one optional function, an elevator control and an elevator installation therefor  
A method of operating an elevator installation having an elevator control with a plurality of functions (F 1 , . . . F n+m ) for controlling the elevator installation, wherein the plurality of...
7398860 Remote supervisory control system for elevating machine  
Supervisory control of an elevating machine is performed in a remote supervisory center via a general public line. The general public line has multiple networks including a high-speed digital...
7387191 Method and apparatus for bypass control of an elevator installation  
A method of controlling an elevator installation having an elevator car transporting passengers between floors of a building inputs destinations of the passengers into a destination call control...
7350626 Power-on-reset of elevator controllers  
An elevator ( 9 ) includes remote elevator monitoring equipment ( 10 ) connected by a communication linkage ( 12 ) to a central elevator monitoring and control station ( 11 ). Main, drive, and door...
7344004 Method of and apparatus for operating an elevator installation in a commissioning operation mode and an acceptance check mode  
A method of checking elevator installations with a car, an elevator drive and an elevator controller with a memory avoids or at least reduces errors by a person carrying out the check and enables...
7342371 System and method for detecting motor run condition  
A motor control system for detecting motor run condition comprises power switches for connection to an AC line for controlling application of AC power to the motor. An input receives a motor start...
7334665 Interlock wiring communication system for elevators  
The systems and methods of present invention invoke an elevator communication system for providing communication between a plurality of hall fixture devices and at least one elevator system...
7325657 Elevator installation and monitoring system for an elevator installation  
An elevator installation with an elevator car moveable in an elevator hoistway by means a drive unit is controlled by a control unit. Sensors monitor the status of the elevator installation and are...
7314117 Method for achieving desired performance of an elevator installation  
A method for the operation of an elevator installation, wherein the operating parameters for achieving a desired performance are determined by simulation of the operation of the elevator...
7264090 Elevator employing radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs)  
An elevator safety chain includes a plurality of passive radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) ( 15 - 18, 22, 34 - 36 and 63 ), which are associated, respectively, with hoistway door...
7219770 Coordinated lift system with user selectable RF channels  
A coordinated lift system with user selectable RF channels coordinates the raising and lowering of a vehicle relative to a surface by using wireless communications. The lift system includes at...
7182174 Method and system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and a method for modernization of an existing building with said system  
A method and a system for emergency evacuation of building occupants and to a method for modernization of an existing building with the evacuation system. The system is used in a multi-story...
7165655 Neural network detection of obstructions within and motion toward elevator doors  
A camera ( 26 ), with suitable illumination (such as IR) provides images to a processing card ( 33 ) which converts the images to numerical vectors and applies them to a neural network ( 35 ) which...
7156211 Information distribution system for use in an elevator  
The invention features a system for displaying video information to passengers of an elevator in accordance with a play list defining a sequence of messages. The video information messages can...
7152714 Elevator car separation based on response time  
The time required for each car to reach each up hall call and each down hall call is calculated ( 30, 33 ). These times are then arranged in categories and the number of landings in each category...
7147084 Elevator control using switched speed and position  
An elevator control method is provided, where the elevator motor is controlled in such manner that the velocity of the elevator follows a speed reference. When the elevator is decelerating, the...
7140472 Genetic allocation method for an elevator group  
A genetic allocation method in an elevator group for allocating a landing call to one of several elevator cars in the elevator group, the cars moving and stopping within the area of several...
7142694 Image processing apparatus  
An image processor includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a target area, a face region extraction unit that extracts a face region, which corresponds to a face of a person, from the...
7134530 Elevator system utilizing wireless transmission units to exchange control information between elevator car and elevator control unit  
An elevator system in which a car travels upward and downward among a plurality of floors. The elevator system includes a first terminal having a wireless transmitting/receiving unit provided for...
7128190 Zonally operated elevator installation and method for control thereof  
A method for controlling a zonally operated elevator installation, wherein on a changeover floor changing between zones is made possible, and wherein with a delivering elevator group and a...
7117980 Method and apparatus for controlling an elevator installation with zoning and an interchange floor  
An elevator installation control method with zoning provides changes between zones at an interchange floor. Transportation to or from the interchange floor is by at least one feeder-elevator group...
7079669 Image processing device and elevator mounting it thereon  
An image processing apparatus detecting a wheelchair passenger for an elevator. This image processing apparatus includes a TV camera installed so that a hail where passengers are waiting is...
7073633 Device and method for remote maintenance of an elevator  
A device for remote maintenance and monitoring of an elevator installation has at least one input for the detection of first signals from an elevator control and/or from a sensor, at least one...
7032715 Methods and apparatus for assigning elevator hall calls to minimize energy use  
Energy saving methods and apparatus for elevator systems having a plurality of elevator cars operating in a plurality of elevator shafts. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for...
7025180 Method of and device for controlling an elevator installation with zonal control  
A method of controlling an elevator installation having a plurality of cars in a building with floors subdivided into several zones wherein travel orders are allocated to the cars. There is no...
7014012 Coordinated lift system  
A lift system that coordinates the raising and lowering of a vehicle relative to a surface by using wireless communications is provided. The lift system includes at least two lift mechanisms each...
7014015 Method and system for scheduling cars in elevator systems considering existing and future passengers  
A method schedules cars of an elevator system in a building. The method begins execution whenever a newly arrived passenger presses an up or down button to generate a call for service. For each...
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