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).
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Publication number: 20240034596Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
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Publication number: 20240034597Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
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Patent number: 11884510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Alessandro D Apice, Luciano Guarnuto, Romeo Lo Jacono, Urs Polin, Dominik Schmitt, Eric Wang
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Publication number: 20230356978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Erich Butler, Alessandro D'Apice, Romeo Lo Jacono
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Publication number: 20230113785Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: ALESSANDRO D'APICE, ROMEO LO JACONO, PETER MÖRI, ANDREAS URBEN
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Publication number: 20230016386Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Alessandro D Apice, Luciano Guarnuto, Romeo Lo Jacono, Urs Polin, Dominik Schmitt, Eric Wang
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Patent number: 11136219Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Oliver Notter, Simon Ottiger
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Patent number: 10926977Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Marcel Nicole
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Publication number: 20190292016Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: Inventio AGInventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Oliver Notter, Simon Ottiger
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Publication number: 20180244497Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Adrian Steiner, Alessandro D'Apice, Marcel Nicole
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Patent number: 10029885Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Adrian Steiner, Marcel Nicole
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Publication number: 20170355561Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Alessandro D'Apice, Adrian Steiner, Marcel Nicole
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Patent number: 8632432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Inventio AGInventors: Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Roland Lorenz, Tobias Noseda, Florian Dold, Claudio De Angelis
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Publication number: 20120325592Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Hanspeter Bloch, Alessandro D'Apice
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Publication number: 20120006627Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Donato Carparelli, Martin Rogger, Francesco Tiani, Alessandro D'Apice
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Patent number: 7757472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Inventio AGInventors: Florian Dold, Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Tobias Noseda, Roland Lorenz, Claudio De Angelis
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Publication number: 20080078157Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Florian Dold, Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Tobias Noseda, Roland Lorenz, Claudio De Angelis
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Publication number: 20080081721Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Adolf Bissig, Alessandro D'Apice, Herbert Bachmann, Manfred Wirth, Roland Lorenz, Tobias Noseda, Florian Dold, Claudio De Angelis