Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an elevator capable of providing enhanced comfort to passengers by reducing and compensating for propulsion change and propulsion ripples, the apparatus comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting the moving acceleration of an elevation member, and a control circuit including a speed controller for generating an acceleration command to be issued to the elevation member in accordance with a speed deviation. An acceleration controller for generating a corrected propulsion command to be issued to the elevation member in accordance with an acceleration deviation between the acceleration command and the moving acceleration is provided and a electric power command generater for generating an electric power command to be issued to the inverter in accordance with the corrected propulsion command is also provided.

Abstract: An elevator control apparatus comprises a torque command generating device for generating a torque command, a converter device for supplying electric power to a motor for driving an elevator car, a car position calculation device for calculating the present position of the elevator car, a compensation device for calculating an unbalanced rope torque on the sides of the elevator car and a counterweight from the torque command generated by the torque command generating device and the present position of the elevator car calculated by the car position calculation device, a load weighing device for detecting a load in the elevator car, and a final torque command supply device for adding outputs of the compensation device and the load weighing device to the torque command generated by the torque command generating device and supplying the torque command as a final torque command to the converter device.

Abstract: An elevator adjusting apparatus for adjusting a brake torque produced by a brake for braking travel of an elevator cage includes a brake torque adjustment mode setting unit for setting an adjustment mode for the brake torque, a cage position recognizing unit for recognizing a cage position, a cage speed detecting unit for detecting a cage speed, a brake actuation command generating unit for reissuing a brake actuation command generating unit for issuing a brake actuation command when the brake torque adjustment mode is set by the brake torque adjustment mode setting unit and the cage position recognizing unit recognizes that the cage position has reached a predetermined position of a lift passage, a brake control unit for actuating the brake in response to the brake actuation command issued from the brake actuation command generating unit, and a brake torque calculating unit for calculating the brake torque based on the cage speed detected by the cage speed detecting unit during the brake actuation.

Abstract: A linear motor elevator includes: a multitude of primary side coils mounted on the hoist way along the whole hoist path, and vertical columns of permanent magnets constituting the secondary side magnets mounted on the elevator car. The polarity of the permanent magnets alternate both horizontally across the columns and vertically along respective columns. When the elevator car is displaced horizontally in a direction perpendicular to the hoisting direction of the elevator car, a circulating current producing a magnetic flux that counterbalances the variation of the flux caused by the displacement flows through each primary side coils opposing the permanent magnets on the elevator car. Thus, the position of the elevator car within the hoist way is automatically adjusted in accordance with the null-flux method.

Abstract: A linear induction motor for an elevator which includes a secondary, stationary element having a body formed with a plurality of iron-core mounting holes arranged longitudinally of the body at a certain interval, and iron cores disposed in the holes. The stationary, secondary element allows magnetic flux flowing therethrough to pass through the iron cores, thereby reducing the dimension of the total magnetic gap in the motor. Furthermore, the combination of the iron cores in which eddy currents flow with difficulty and the body along which eddy currents tend to flow makes it possible to reduce the ineffective eddy currents.

Abstract: A linear motor elevator includes permanent magnets 4 mounted on a pair of wing-shaped support members 21 secured on and projecting sideways from the right and the left side walls 3a of the elevator car 3. The polar axes of the permanent magnets 4 are arranged in the direction of the thickness of the support members 21, such that both the north and the south poles of the permanent magnets 4 are exposed on the front and the back surface of the support members 21 and hence are utilized effectively for producing driving force (thrust) for the elevator car 3. Each one of the right and the left side coils 20a and 20b of the primary side coils 20 for forming vertically translating magnetic field is bent at the middle to form two horizontally extending branches, such that the primary side coils 20 sandwich the permanent magnets 4 across predetermined gaps in the direction of polar axes of the permanent magnets 4, when the elevator car 3 passes by the primary side coils 20.

Abstract: A linear motor elevation system comprising an elongated magnetic induction member (21) mounted along the hoistway. The induction member (21) has a plurality of magnetic poles (21a) disposed at equal intervals along the hoistway so that they face toward the armature (27). An elevator car (4) or a counter weight has attached thereto a field magnet (26) disposed in a facing relationship with respect to the magnetic induction member (21) for generating magnetic poles in the induction member (21). The field magnet (26) comprises an iron core (23) having a U-shaped cross section including a central web portion on which a field winding 24 is wound and parallel flange portions extending from the web portion toward the magnetic induction member (21).

Abstract: A control apparatus for an elevator according to this invention comprises a signal setter for setting a new value instead of a value of great variation when at least one signal at the present time among a transmission reference speed command signal transmitted to a speed controller through a transmission interface, a cage speed signal, and a controlled variable based on these signals greatly varies as compared with the time-serial value of the corresponding signal detected in the past.In this invention, the signal setter stores a value at the present time and also stores serially past values with respect to time as to the transmitted reference speed command signal, the cage speed signal, or the controlled variable based on these signals, and it sets the new value not greatly varying, as a present value if the value at the present time greatly varies in view of the past serial values of the corresponding signal. Accordingly, even if any of the transmission interface, cage speed signal-detector, etc.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an A.C. powered elevator is provided to reduce a primary current frequency to an induction motor to be smaller than a specific value when the motor is switched from a power drive to a brake mode of operation. In other words, the frequency after the motor is switched to the brake mode is reduced to be lower than the frequency at which the machine input power to the induction motor is equal to the internal power consumption of the induction motor.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an A.C. elevator having a variable voltage and variable frequency inverter for driving an induction motor coupled to a cage of the elevator, a control device for controlling the inverter in accordance with a deviation between a speed signal detected from the induction motor and a speed command signal having a preset value, and an abnormality detection device for interrupting feed of the A.C. power to the induction motor upon detecting that a slip frequency command corresponding to the deviation is greater than a predetermined set value and continues exceeding the predetermined set value in excess of a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a speed control apparatus for an elevator wherein direct current is inverted into alternating current of variable voltage and variable frequency by a current-control type inverter and wherein an induction motor is driven by the inverted A.C. power so as to operate a cage, the speed control apparatus comprising control means to intensify a field of the induction motor beforehand at the time of start of the elevator and to reduce it down to a predetermined value after the start.

Abstract: A voltage detector detects the terminal voltage of a smoothing capacitor which is disposed between a converter for generating direct current and an inverter for generating alternating current. The presence and magnitude of regenerative power to the converter is judged by the detecting operation, and when the terminal voltage of the smoothing capacitor has risen, a power control device decreases the slip of an induction motor in succession, whereby the regenerative power is suppressed to zero.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an A-C powered elevator wherein: when a frequency instruction value lies within a predetermined frequency range, an inverter in the apparatus produces an A-C electric power having a frequency which lies outside said predetermined frequency range, so that the frequency of the electrical power supplied from said inverter to the motor driving an elevator cage will be out of the resonant frequency range of the mechanical system of the elevator.

Abstract: Disclosed is an AC elevator control apparatus, in which AC power supplied from an AC source is rectified by a converter and a smoothing capacitor into DC power, the DC power being in turn converted by an inverter into variable-frequency AC power by which an AC electric motor is driven to operate an elevator cage. The apparatus includes a rectifying circuit connected to the AC source, a resistor connected between the rectifying circuit and the smoothing capacitor, a charging time measuring circuit for measuring the time from turn-on of the AC source until the completion of charging the smoothing capacitor, and a control circuit for producing an abnormality detection signal when it is detected that the output of the charging time measuring circuit is shorter than a predetermined value, whereby the reduction in capacitance of the capacitor, and hence the expiration of the lifetime of the same, can be evaluated in advance.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an AC powered elevator by rectifying a commercial AC power source into a direct current through a rectifier, converting the direct current into a variable frequency AC power through a main inverter, driving the AC motor by the thus converted AC power to operate the cage of the elevator, and sending the regenerated electric power back to the commercial AC power source via a regeneration inverter connected to the DC side of the main inverter when regeneration braking is applied to the electric motor. If the main inverter becomes defective, the main inverter is separated from the electric motor, the AC side of the regeneration inverter is connected to the motor, and the motor is operated by relying upon the regeneration inverter.