DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230146042A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-11

    申请号:US17906753

    申请日:2021-03-22

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Inventor: Valerio Villa

    CPC classification number: B66B1/3469 B66B5/0087 B66B5/027

    Abstract: A device for controlling an elevator system, the elevator system having an elevator shaft delimited by a shaft wall including a wall opening connecting an inner face of the shaft wall to an outer face of the shaft wall, is positioned in the wall opening. The device has a housing receiving a controller for controlling the elevator system, wherein the housing includes a housing opening allowing access to the controller and the housing is rotatably mounted in the wall opening for rotation between a first position and a second position in an operational state of the device. The housing opening is accessible from the outer face of the shaft wall in the first position and from the inner face of the shaft wall in the second position.

    METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELEVATOR FOR MAINTENANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20250051132A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-13

    申请号:US18723489

    申请日:2022-12-16

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Abstract: A method for operating an elevator for maintenance controls the elevator that includes a car being displaceable along an elevator shaft, a drive for displacing the car, a plurality of shaft doors, at least one of the shaft doors being arranged at each of multiple floors along the elevator shaft including at least a lowermost floor and a uppermost floor and an elevator control unit. The elevator control unit performs the method including among other steps, the step of checking whether a person is within a predefined danger zone in the elevator shaft.

    METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND ELEVATOR SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20250002295A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-02

    申请号:US18709046

    申请日:2022-11-16

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Abstract: A method operates an elevator system that includes an elevator car, a first communication device, and a plurality of stationary second communication devices communicatively connected to the first communication device. The method includes determining car position indicators, each of the car position indicators being indicative of a position and/or a position-dependent communication condition of the elevator car relative to an associated one of the second communication devices. The method further includes, based on the car position indicator, determining a priority indicator for each of the second communication devices and, based on the priority indicators, prioritizing or non-prioritizing a communication between the first communication device and each of the second communication devices.

    Method for operating an elevator for an inspection

    公开(公告)号:US11679957B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-20

    申请号:US17757148

    申请日:2020-11-27

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    CPC classification number: B66B5/0087 B66B5/005

    Abstract: A method for operating an elevator having a car, a drive engine, shaft doors, signal receptors, an engine controller and a door controller. Each of the shaft doors is reciprocally opened and closed by an associated active door drive and has one of the signal receptors thereat. The method includes: receiving a requesting signal at one of the signal receptors; responding to the requesting signal by instructing the engine controller to control the drive engine to displace the car to a first position with the car roof adjacent to the shaft door at the floor from which the requesting signal originated when that floor is not the lowermost floor, and when the floor is the lowermost floor to a second position above the lowermost floor; instructing the door controller to control the door drive to actively open the door; and switching the engine controller to an inspection mode.

    Method and arrangement for determining elevator data based on the position of an elevator car

    公开(公告)号:US10556774B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-11

    申请号:US15506764

    申请日:2015-08-27

    Applicant: INVENTIO AG

    Inventor: Valerio Villa

    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for determining elevator data based on the position of an elevator car of an elevator system includes the elevator car having a flag reading sensor, the elevator car being movably arranged in a hoistway and can be moved by a drive with a suspension rope over a traction sheave, and the elevator car can be stopped at a plurality of stopping positions of the hoistway. Each stopping position has a flag marker with a flag height. Movement of the elevator car is determined by a control unit connected to an encoder at the traction sheave. When leaving a stopping position, the travelled distance of the elevator car between the stopping position and a flag edge is measured and a stopping inaccuracy is determined by the control unit.

    METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR DETERMINING ELEVATOR DATA BASED ON THE POSITION OF AN ELEVATOR CAR

    公开(公告)号:US20170253461A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-07

    申请号:US15506764

    申请日:2015-08-27

    Applicant: INVENTIO AG

    Inventor: Valerio Villa

    CPC classification number: B66B1/44 B66B1/28 B66B1/3492 B66B5/0018 B66B9/00

    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for determining elevator data based on the position of an elevator car of an elevator system includes the elevator car having a flag reading sensor, the elevator car being movably arranged in a hoistway and can be moved by a drive with a suspension rope over a traction sheave, and the elevator car can be stopped at a plurality of stopping positions of the hoistway. Each stopping position has a flag marker with a flag height. Movement of the elevator car is determined by a control unit connected to an encoder at the traction sheave. When leaving a stopping position, the travelled distance of the elevator car between the stopping position and a flag edge is measured and a stopping inaccuracy is determined by the control unit.

    ELEVATOR, METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELEVATOR IN AN EMERGENCY

    公开(公告)号:US20240051788A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-15

    申请号:US18258258

    申请日:2021-12-23

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Abstract: An elevator has a safety control unit that distinguishes between a first input signal and a second input signal at an input for selecting an operating mode. The elevator has a main switch device with a switch, the main switch device being accessible from outside a shaft of the elevator. The main switch device and the safety control unit are connected, wherein the switch is switchable from a first state into a second state. The safety control unit operates in a first operating mode when the switch is in the first state, in a second operating mode when the switch is in the second state and the safety control unit detects the first input signal at the input, and in a third operating mode when the switch is switched to the second state and the safety control unit detects the second input signal at the input.

    METHOD AND CONTROLLER FOR EVALUATING INFORMATION ABOUT A CURRENT LOCATION OF A CAR IN A SHAFT OF AN ELEVATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20240017960A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US18256643

    申请日:2021-12-15

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Inventor: Valerio Villa

    CPC classification number: B66B1/3492

    Abstract: A method and controller evaluate information about a current location of a car in a shaft of an elevator. The method includes the steps of: measuring a distance between a car reference position at the car and a shaft reference position in the shaft using a laser distance measuring device; acquiring laser quality data from the laser distance measuring device, the laser quality data representing a quality of a laser beam detected by the laser distance measuring device upon measuring the distance; and evaluating the information about the current location of the car taking into account the measured distance and the laser quality data.

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING MULTIPLE ABSOLUTE CAR POSITIONS OF AN ELEVATOR CAR WITHIN A SHAFT OF AN ELEVATOR ARRANGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220297976A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17596835

    申请日:2020-06-24

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Abstract: A method for determining multiple absolute positions of an elevator car within a shaft of an elevator arrangement uses a portable smart device (smart phone) having a sensor (camera). The method steps include: displacing the elevator car along the shaft during a learning procedure with the portable smart device being releasably attached at a predetermined position at the elevator car; detecting localizing characteristics at each of multiple locations during the learning procedure, the localizing characteristics indicating an absolute position within the shaft, wherein the localizing characteristics are generated by markers such as QR-codes and are detected using the sensor of the portable smart device; communicating information indicating the absolute positions detected during the learning procedure from the portable smart device to an elevator controller; and correlating each of the absolute positions detected during the learning procedure to one of the multiple absolute car positions and storing derived correlation data.

    Elevator car roller guide and method of use

    公开(公告)号:US10662031B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US15535745

    申请日:2015-12-14

    Applicant: Inventio AG

    Inventor: Valerio Villa

    Abstract: A roller guide for an elevator car includes at least one roller rotatably mounted on an axis. The roller guide further includes a support element for supporting the axis, and at least one braking element for the roller for damping vertical oscillations of the elevator car. The brake element is a magneto-rheological fluid.

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