Patents Assigned to Innova Patent GmbH
  • Publication number: 20100089279
    Abstract: Tracks are arranged on the floor of the entry region of a station of the chair lift, the tracks running below and in accordance with the path of movement of the seats of the chair and having a substantially equal width with the corresponding seats. The seat part and/or the backrest of a seat differ/differs with regard to the graphical design from the seat part and/or backrest of an adjacent seat. It is therefore made clear to the passengers, in particular children, how the seat division on the chair has been conceived by the manufacturer and where to stand in the entry region in order to be correctly seated on an approaching seat. If the graphical design of the tracks is identical to the graphical design of the corresponding seat, the effect of the chair according to the invention is reinforced by the unambiguous visual association between the track and seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Josef Sutter
  • Publication number: 20100089278
    Abstract: A seat part and/or a backrest of a seat differ with regard to the graphical design from the seat part and/or backrest of an adjacently arranged seat. The seat division on the chair is therefore made clear to the passengers, in particular to children. Tracks are arranged on the floor of the entry region of a station of the chair lift, the tracks running below and in accordance with the path of movement of the seats of the chair and being substantially identical in width to the corresponding seats. If the graphical design of the tracks is identical to the graphical design of the corresponding seat, the effect of the chair is reinforced by the unambiguous visual relationship between the track and seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Sutter
  • Publication number: 20100083867
    Abstract: The seat surface of a chair of a chair lift can be pivoted with the aid of a pivot mechanism. Thus, the seat surface can, while a passenger is sitting thereon, be pivoted in such a way that it extends so as to descend, or descend more markedly, toward the rear edge of the seat part. Passengers enter automatically, and independently of their size and sitting position on the chair, into a stronger, stable back position, thereby reliably counteracting slipping in the direction of the front edge of the seat part and thus slipping-through between the seat surface and transverse hoop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Kurt Switzeny
  • Patent number: 7690313
    Abstract: A chairlift has chairs for conveying persons. The chairs may be detachably fastened to a haulage and conveying cable. A closing bar can be moved from a closed position into an open position and is mechanically connected by way of a Bowden cable or the like to a lever which interacts with rails that are arranged at the entry and exit of a station of the cableway system. In order to check whether the closing bar is completely opened or closed, a sensor for detecting the position of the actuating device is arranged in the region of the end of the rails as viewed in the conveying direction of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Sutter, Manfred Ă–sterle, Herbert Schwendinger
  • Patent number: 7685947
    Abstract: A cable railway system has a valley station and at least one mountain station. Transport vehicles such as cable cars are moved along a carrying and conveying cable and they are uncoupled from the cable in the stations and moved through the stations along a guide rail. The passengers board and disembark from the cable cars in entry and exit areas. Switches are disposed along the course of the guide rail for selectively moving a first group of cable cars along a first guide path and a second group along a second guide path through the entry and exit area. A common entry and exit area for the passengers is associated with the two groups of vehicles and disposed between the two guide paths. Entry and exit doors of the first group of vehicles open on a first side of the same and entry and exit doors of the second group of vehicles open on a second side, such that they face the common entry and exit area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Moritzhuber
  • Publication number: 20100043666
    Abstract: A cable railway system has a valley station and at least one mountain station. Transport vehicles such as cable cars are moved along a carrying and conveying cable and they are uncoupled from the cable in the stations and moved through the stations along a guide rail. The passengers board and disembark from the the cable cars in entry and exit areas. Switches are disposed along the course of the guide rail for selectively moving a first group of cable cars along a first guide path and a second group along a second guide path through the entry and exit area. A common entry and exit area for the passengers is associated with the two groups of vehicles and disposed between the two guide paths. Entry and exit doors of the first group of vehicles open on a first side of the same and entry and exit doors of the second group of vehicles open on a second side, such that they face the common entry and exit area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Johannes Moritzhuber
  • Publication number: 20100018434
    Abstract: A cable railway system has two or more stations and at least one carrying cable and a conveying cable extending between the stations and guided in the stations by way of deflection pulleys. At least one of the pulleys is driven. Vehicles, such as cable cars or chairs, may be boarded or disembarked from in the stations by the passengers. The system may also have one or more fixed carrying cables along which the cars are moved by way of one or more hauling cables. At least one device is associated with the vehicles along the section of the cable railway system, by way of which device the pendulum movements that the vehicles are subject to transversely relative to the direction of movement of the vehicles are detectable and its output signals are conducted to a device that controls the drive of the cable railway system. The drive is thereby controllable in dependence on the extent of the pendulum movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Moritzhuber, Markus Beck
  • Patent number: 7628267
    Abstract: An installation for conveying goods, such as bulk materials, breakdown and overburden materials, mineral substances, and the like, from a loading station to an unloading station has a continuous conveyor belt that is borne by supporting cables, is moved along guide cables, from the loading station to the unloading station, rolls on supporting rollers, and is guided over deflecting drums in the loading and the unloading station. A respective turning device is located downstream of the unloading station and upstream of the loading station, as seen in the movement direction of the conveyor belt, is fastened on supporting frames, is provided for turning the return strand of the conveyor belt. The guide is formed with a helically running guide track for turning the conveyor belt downstream of the unloading station and upstream of the loading station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Trieb
  • Publication number: 20090293757
    Abstract: An installation for carrying individuals down from a mountain station into a valley station has a running rail which is fastened on a supporting cable at a distance from the ground. The running rail contains a multiplicity of sub-rails connected to one another at joints and along which carriages can be displaced. In the region of the joints, the sub-rails are elevated in relation to their central region, and are preferably curved such that their curvature profile creates the elevation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Bischofberger
  • Publication number: 20090294254
    Abstract: An assembly on a cableway or a goods-conveying system for detecting incorrect positioning of a carrying cable on a mount with a channel in which the carrying cable is located. The assembly includes a device for detecting the faulty positioning of the carrying cable. A segment of the mount is movable, and the device for detecting the incorrect positioning of the carrying cable detects movement of the portion of the mount. It is thus possible for incorrect positioning of the carrying cable, which results in this segment being displaced, to be detected in good time, even before the carrying cable in this portion has been completely derailed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Luger, Josef Gisler
  • Patent number: 7571803
    Abstract: A bearing unit for a conveying installation for the transport of goods by way of a conveyor belt that is guided at the two ends of the installation by deflection drums and which is fastened to the underside of spaced-apart, transverse carrying beams. Running rollers are mounted to the two ends of the carrying beams. The rollers are mounted on bearing journals and they roll along two pairs of carrying ropes or carrying rails of the conveying installation along a forward and a return strand of the conveyor belt. A bearing bolt of the bearing units has an extension which is fastened releasably to the assigned carrying beam. The extension is an upwardly open trough, onto which the assigned end of the carrying beam is placed and releasably fastened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Trieb
  • Patent number: 7562767
    Abstract: A conveying installation for transporting goods has a conveyor belt that is guided over deflecting drums at the two ends of the installation and which is formed with a pair of first supporting cables that are borne by supports that are strategically placed in the installation and on which there are fastened supports for a pair of second supporting cables and for a pair of third supporting cables. The conveyor belt has supporting bars with supporting rollers mounted at each end. The supporting rollers of the forward strand of the conveyor belt roll along the second supporting cables and the supporting rollers of the return strand roll along the third supporting cables. There are provided first supporting frames, which bear the second supporting cables such that they run along catenary curves between the supports, and second supporting frames, which bear the third supporting cables such that they run more or less rectilinearly over the course of the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Herbert Trieb
  • Publication number: 20090151594
    Abstract: A cableway system has a carrying and conveying cable on which transportation devices, such as chairs or gondolas, are carried on load-bearing bars. The latter can be fastened with clamps and they are guided, in the stations, over reversing pulleys. Between the stations, the cable is guided over supporting rollers and beneath hold-down rollers. A first strand of the cable is guided over a group of deflecting rollers or the like and a second strand is guided over at least one deflecting drum along a angled portion of the travel path. The deflecting drum is rotated continuously by the carrying and conveying cable and it is formed with a plurality of circumferentially distributed recesses which accommodate the load-bearing bars for the transportation devices as they are moved past the deflecting drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert DUR, Umit TURK
  • Publication number: 20090139427
    Abstract: A transportation device, mainly a gondola or a chair with a covering hood, for a cableway system having a supporting and conveying cable which is guided, in the stations, over deflecting pulleys, of which at least one is driven. The transportation device may be firmly clamped to the supporting and conveying cable or it can be coupled thereto and, in the stations, can be uncoupled therefrom and moved along guide rails, through the boarding and disembarking regions, at a speed which is substantially reduced in relation to the speed of the supporting and conveying cable, and the passengers board the transportation device or disembark therefrom in the process. The gondola is formed with transparent wall parts or the chair is formed with a pivotally mounted transparent covering hood. The transparent wall parts or the transparent covering hood are produced from a plastic material, in particular from a polycarbonate, containing a dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Ekkehard Assmann
  • Publication number: 20090139426
    Abstract: A method of producing a wall part for a gondola of a cableway system or a covering hood for a lift chair starts out from a panel made of plastic material, in particular of polycarbonate. The panel is introduced into a heatable mold, and pressed therein, in order to form the wall part or the covering hood. The plastic material of the panel contains at least one dye. Different gradations of color of the wall part or of the covering hood indicate different wall thicknesses and insufficient wall thicknesses of this wall part or covering hood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Ekkehard Assmann
  • Publication number: 20090127077
    Abstract: An installation for conveying goods, such as bulk materials, breakdown and overburden materials, mineral substances, and the like, from a loading station to an unloading station has a continuous conveyor belt that is borne by supporting cables, is moved along guide cables, from the loading station to the unloading station, rolls on supporting rollers, and is guided over deflecting drums in the loading and the unloading station. A respective turning device is located downstream of the unloading station and upstream of the loading station, as seen in the movement direction of the conveyor belt, is fastened on supporting frames, is provided for turning the return strand of the conveyor belt. The guide is formed with a helically running guide track for turning the conveyor belt downstream of the unloading station and upstream of the loading station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Trieb
  • Publication number: 20090101473
    Abstract: A conveying installation for transporting goods has a conveyor belt that is guided over deflecting drums in a loading station and in an unloading station. The conveyor belt is mounted to the underside of supporting bars which are oriented transversely to the movement direction of the conveyor belt. Supporting rollers mounted in each case at the two lateral ends of the supporting bars roll on two pairs of supporting cables or supporting rails which are provided along the installation and are respectively assigned to the forward strand and the return strand of the conveyor belt. An assembly for cleaning the conveyor belt is formed with a scraper strip or the like which can be moved in the direction of the conveyor belt by way of a closed-loop controller, which is controlled by the position of the supporting bars. The scraper strip is brought more or less into abutment against the conveyor belt between the supporting bars, and it is raised off from the conveyor belt in the region of a supporting bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Berchtold
  • Patent number: 7500552
    Abstract: A transporting device, for conveying goods over a conveying route, includes a transporting belt and at least one rope-like traction element for exerting a traction force upon the transporting belt. The transporting belt follows the traction element, at least along a transporting section of the conveying route, and is in communication there with the traction element through a coupling. The coupling has at least one spring element which, in the aforementioned transporting section, encompasses the traction element, with spring effect, for the creation of a force coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Innova Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Kurt Switzeny
  • Publication number: 20090058170
    Abstract: A transporting means of a chair lift or of a cableway system has a safety bar, a device for closing the safety bar, an energy storage device, a device for charging the energy storage device and a blocking device which prevents the energy storage device from being charged. The blocking device can be activated and deactivated. The opening of the safety bar is prevented in the active state of the blocking device. The blocking device prevents the safety bar from being opened over at least part of the distance covered by the safety bar between its fully open position and its fully closed position, in particular over the entire distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Kurt Switzeny
  • Publication number: 20090057106
    Abstract: A conveying installation for transporting goods has a conveyor belt that is guided over deflecting drums at the two ends of the installation and which is formed with a pair of first supporting cables that are borne by supports that are strategically placed in the installation and on which there are fastened supports for a pair of second supporting cables and for a pair of third supporting cables. The conveyor belt has supporting bars with supporting rollers mounted at each end. The supporting rollers of the forward strand of the conveyor belt roll along the second supporting cables and the supporting rollers of the return strand roll along the third supporting cables. There are provided first supporting frames, which bear the second supporting cables such that they run along catenary curves between the supports, and second supporting frames, which bear the third supporting cables such that they run more or less rectilinearly over the course of the installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Trieb