Abstract: An elevator system may include an elevator car that is configured to transport a passenger between floors of a building as well as a sensor system in the elevator car that is configured to detect a passenger's location, orientation, and/or height. The elevator system may further include a touchscreen that can display a virtual car operating panel at a location on the touchscreen that is based on the location, orientation, and/or height of the passenger. The virtual car operating panel may be configured to receive input from the passenger regarding a destination floor. The touchscreen may be configured to display a virtual car operating panel for each passenger based on each passenger's location, orientation, and/or height on the elevator car.

Abstract: A method of prioritizing passenger travel in an elevator to one or more destination floors in a building, wherein the number of floors comprise at least high security floors and low security floors, includes identifying a security level of each passenger, verifying the security clearance level assigned to each passenger, generating a prioritized sequence to specify an order in which the cabin will travel to the destination floors based on the security clearance level, and executing a travel plan for the elevator cab causing the elevator cab to move to the relevant destination floors in the order specified in the prioritized sequence.

Abstract: Systems and methods may be used to monitor the integrity of a belt of an elevator system. Many buildings nowadays do not have the luxury of being able to regularly take an elevator system out of service to perform a giant magneto-resistance (GMR) scan of an entire length of the belt from which an elevator car is suspended. One method to avoid this inconvenience involves performing GMR scans of segments of the belt during the course of everyday passenger traffic and compiling data associated with different segments into a complete GMR profile for the belt. To determine whether the belt contains an irregularity, the GMR profile may then be compared to one or more baseline GMR profiles that were acquired previously, ideally at a time when the belt was known not to contain any irregularities.

Abstract: Systems and methods may be employed to identify high-wear sections of a belt in an elevator system. Many buildings nowadays do not have the luxury of being able to regularly take an elevator system out of service to inspect an entire length of the belt from which an elevator car is suspended. One method to avoid this inconvenience involves storing position versus time data for an elevator car, determining which section of the belt engages with one or more sheaves in a hoistway based on the position of the elevator car, and identifying a high-wear section of the belt based on the position versus time data and at least one high-wear factor. One such high-wear factors concerns an amount of time that each section of the belt spends idly wrapped around a sheave.

Abstract: Corner rounding of negative features is reduced by etching a targeted opening defined by the intersection of a hard mask opening and a photoresist mask opening. Embodiments include forming a hard mask over an underlayer in which the targeted opening is to be formed in a targeted area, forming a first opening in the hard mask layer exposing a first portion of the underlayer including part of the targeted area, forming a photoresist mask over the hard mask, the photoresist mask having a second opening exposing the targeted area of the substrate and part of the hard mask, and forming the targeted opening in the targeted area.

Abstract: A method and device for control of a low-cost DC motor such as that suitable for portable or battery-powered applications are disclosed such that an intended behavior for the motor may be programmed without reliance on external equipment or specific expertise. The invention enables programming of a motor controlling device by means of physical manipulation of the motor. In other words, the invention allows for the training of a motor by demonstrating the intended behavior for the motor. The invention specifies a method of parsing an observation of the motor system into storable commands, while preserving information on motor response and conditions for execution. A motor controller device comprising an implementation of this method is also presented.