Patents by Inventor Alessandro D'Apice

Alessandro D'Apice has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240034596
    Abstract: An elevator system has an installation bracket fixed in an aligned manner in a region of a door-side shaft wall of an elevator shaft, wherein guide rails for guiding an elevator car arranged in the elevator shaft are fixed on the installation bracket. The installation bracket is fixed exclusively by at least one floor fixing section, wherein the at least one floor fixing section is fixed on a horizontal surface of the floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Publication number: 20240034597
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for guiding a counterweight includes a single-piece guide element made of a plastic material. The guide element has an engagement element that extends in the longitudinal direction and can be brought into interlocking engagement in a cutout formed in a yoke of a counterweight frame. The guide element further includes a collar engaging around the cutout and forming a stop for positionally securing the guide element, the collar adjoining the engagement element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 11884510
    Abstract: A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension includes a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment device for setting a tilt of the drive about the rotary joint. The support element can be a guide rail wherein the drive system is arranged in an upper end region of the elevator installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Alessandro D Apice, Luciano Guarnuto, Romeo Lo Jacono, Urs Polin, Dominik Schmitt, Eric Wang
  • Publication number: 20230356978
    Abstract: A safety brake for a traveling body in an elevator system brakes against a brake rail oriented in a traveling direction. The safety brake includes a housing with a catch element and a brake pad attached to the housing opposite one another. The catch element is mounted on the housing such that an application movement of the catch element relative to the housing is possible, and the application movement reduces an opening width between the brake pad and the catch element. At least the catch element or the brake pad has a notch for fitting around a protrusion of a brake rail during braking. The opening width corresponds to at least twice the depth of the notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Publication number: 20230113785
    Abstract: A positioning aid positions a nut on a guide rail of an elevator system, the guide rail being formed as a hollow rail, the hollow rail having a plurality of elongated holes arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the hollow rail in order to be fastened to a guide rail holder. The positioning aid includes an elongate fastening portion to which at least one nut is fastened and which is dimensioned such that it can be passed through one of the elongated holes together with the at least one nut and moved within the hollow rail. The positioning aid also includes a holding portion for holding the fastening portion, the holding portion being fastened to one end of the fastening portion and being configured to be wider than the elongated hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: ALESSANDRO D'APICE, ROMEO LO JACONO, PETER MÖRI, ANDREAS URBEN
  • Publication number: 20230016386
    Abstract: A drive system for an elevator installation includes a drive and a drive suspension for fastening the drive to a support element of the elevator installation. The drive suspension includes a rotary joint for tiltably mounting the drive on the support element and an adjustment device for setting a tilt of the drive about the rotary joint. The support element can be a guide rail wherein the drive system is arranged in an upper end region of the elevator installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Alessandro D Apice, Luciano Guarnuto, Romeo Lo Jacono, Urs Polin, Dominik Schmitt, Eric Wang
  • Patent number: 11136219
    Abstract: An elevator car has a connecting device and at least one wall element, wherein the connecting device connects the at least one wall element with a bare ceiling of the elevator car. The connecting device includes a rail element with two legs, of which a first leg bears in the mounted state against the bare ceiling and a second leg has a mounting surface for the at least one wall element. The mounting surface has a first hole for suspending the at least one wall element. The at least one wall element has a suspension element at an edge which faces upwardly in the mounted state for engaging into the first hole of the connecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Oliver Notter, Simon Ottiger
  • Patent number: 10926977
    Abstract: An elevator car with special measures for evacuation has several side walls, a floor and a ceiling, which together enclose an interior of the elevator car. The elevator car has a flap arranged on one of the side walls and a ladder for evacuating persons from the interior of the elevator car. The flap is movable between a closed state, in which the flap blocks access from the interior of the elevator car to an area behind the flap, and an open state, in which access is possible from the interior of the elevator car to the area behind the flap. The flap has a height less than the height of the side walls. In the closed state of the flap, the ladder is arranged in the area behind the flap. The ladder is removable from behind the flap and can be increased in length for the evacuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Marcel Nicole
  • Publication number: 20190292016
    Abstract: An elevator car has a connecting device and at least one wall element, wherein the connecting device connects the at least one wall element with a bare ceiling of the elevator car. The connecting device includes a rail element with two legs, of which a first leg bears in the mounted state against the bare ceiling and a second leg has a mounting surface for the at least one wall element. The mounting surface has a first hole for suspending the at least one wall element. The at least one wall element has a suspension element at an edge which faces upwardly in the mounted state for engaging into the first hole of the connecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Oliver Notter, Simon Ottiger
  • Publication number: 20180244497
    Abstract: An elevator car with special measures for evacuation has several side walls, a floor and a ceiling, which together enclose an interior of the elevator car. The elevator car has a flap arranged on one of the side walls and a ladder for evacuating persons from the interior of the elevator car. The flap is movable between a closed state, in which the flap blocks access from the interior of the elevator car to an area behind the flap, and an open state, in which access is possible from the interior of the elevator car to the area behind the flap. The flap has a height less than the height of the side walls. In the closed state of the flap, the ladder is arranged in the area behind the flap. The ladder is removable from behind the flap and can be increased in length for the evacuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Marcel Nicole
  • Patent number: 10029885
    Abstract: An elevator having a car with a car roof includes a barrier on the roof for anti-fall safety purposes. The barrier has a toeboard, and at least some of the cables for the cabin electrical system are routed within the toeboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Adrian Steiner, Marcel Nicole
  • Publication number: 20170355561
    Abstract: An elevator having a car with a car roof includes a barrier on the roof for anti-fall safety purposes. The barrier has a toeboard, and at least some of the cables for the cabin electrical system are routed within the toeboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Adrian Steiner, Marcel Nicole
  • Patent number: 8632432
    Abstract: A supporting and drive belt including a belt body or sheathing which encloses tensile carriers. The running surface of the belt can be flat and parallel to the belt back or have trapezium-shaped or semicircular ribs and grooves, wherein the profile of a drive pulley or of a deflecting pulley is approximately complementary to the running surface of the belt. One or more tensile carriers are provided for each rib, wherein the tensile carriers are laid or stranded alternately in the “Z” direction and the “S” direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Roland Lorenz, Tobias Noseda, Florian Dold, Claudio De Angelis
  • Publication number: 20120325592
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Hanspeter Bloch, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Publication number: 20120006627
    Abstract: An elevator comprises an elevator car, a counterweight, a drive and a support, wherein the support couples the elevator car and the counterweight with the drive so that the elevator car and the counterweight are movable in opposite vertical directions by the drive, and wherein the support has a support section at the car side and a support section at the counterweight side. The elevator further comprises a sensor line which is coupled to both the elevator car and the counterweight and which is guided so that in the case of movement of the elevator car and the counterweight in opposite directions it generally remains tensioned by a substantially constant tension stress. The elevator further comprises a sensor which is coupled with the sensor line so that slackening of a support section is detectable by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Inventors: Donato Carparelli, Martin Rogger, Francesco Tiani, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 7757472
    Abstract: A synthetic fiber cable has the strands of a strand layer mutually spaced apart. With the mutual spacing, the strands of the outer strand layer can move radially in the direction of the cable center and exert a radial pressure on the strands of the first inner strand layer. The radial pressure is passed on from the strands of the first inner strand layer to the strands of the second inner strand layer. The radial pressure is passed on from the strands of the second inner strand layer to the core strand. The radial pressure increases inwardly from strand layer to strand layer. The soft cable sheathing does not act as a support between the strands in circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Florian Dold, Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Tobias Noseda, Roland Lorenz, Claudio De Angelis
  • Publication number: 20080078157
    Abstract: A synthetic fiber cable has the strands of a strand layer mutually spaced apart. With the mutual spacing, the strands of the outer strand layer can move radially in the direction of the cable center and exert a radial pressure on the strands of the first inner strand layer. The radial pressure is passed on from the strands of the first inner strand layer to the strands of the second inner strand layer. The radial pressure is passed on from the strands of the second inner strand layer to the core strand. The radial pressure increases inwardly from strand layer to strand layer. The soft cable sheathing does not act as a support between the strands in circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Florian Dold, Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Tobias Noseda, Roland Lorenz, Claudio De Angelis
  • Publication number: 20080081721
    Abstract: A supporting and drive belt including a belt body or sheathing which encloses tensile carriers. The running surface of the belt can be flat and parallel to the belt back or have trapezium-shaped or semicircular ribs and grooves, wherein the profile of a drive pulley or of a deflecting pulley is approximately complementary to the running surface of the belt. One or more tensile carriers are provided for each rib, wherein the tensile carriers are laid or stranded alternately in the “Z” direction and the “S” direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Inventors: Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Roland Lorenz, Tobias Noseda, Florian Dold, Claudio De Angelis