Patents by Inventor Kurt Steinmann

Kurt Steinmann 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).

  • Patent number: 7445090
    Abstract: A device and a method for informing passengers of an elevator installation in a building includes at least one information display at at least one start floor and/or at least one second information display in at least one car. The first information display indicates the arrival time of a car at a start or destination floor and the second information display indicates the arrival time of the car at a destination floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Christian Bodmer, Steffen Grundmann, Lukas Finschi, Kurt Steinmann, Philipp Wyss
  • Patent number: 7387191
    Abstract: A method of controlling an elevator installation having an elevator car transporting passengers between floors of a building inputs destinations of the passengers into a destination call control and books destination calls and determines an instantaneous load disposed in the elevator car with a load measuring device at a fixable point in time. In order to make uniform the waiting times of the passengers in the case of incorrect operation of the destination call control and to ensure, for all passengers, an optimized transport time with maximum transport capacity the method additionally compares the instantaneous load with a full load parameter and in the case of exceeding of the full load parameter activating a bypass function those floors for which destination calls are booked and which are passed during a half circuit of the fully loaded elevator car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Patent number: 7128190
    Abstract: A method for controlling a zonally operated elevator installation, wherein on a changeover floor changing between zones is made possible, and wherein with a delivering elevator group and a collecting elevator group transportation to and from the changeover floor is realized, and wherein a trip destination is entered via a destination-call control by each passenger to be transported. An elevator installation for zonal operation in buildings with several elevators, wherein each elevator group contains at least one destination-call input device for registering the destination of a passenger. Each elevator is assigned to an elevator group, the building is divided into zones, and a changeover floor for changing between the elevator groups is arranged between the zones. The delivering elevator group and the collecting elevator group are combined into a multi-group which is controlled by a multi-group control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Publication number: 20050279587
    Abstract: A device and a method for informing passengers of an elevator installation in a building includes at least one information display at at least one start floor and/or at least one second information display in at least one car. The first information display indicates the arrival time of a car at a start or destination floor and the second information display indicates the arrival time of the car at a destination floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Christian Bodmer, Steffen Grundmann, Lukas Finschi, Kurt Steinmann, Philipp Wyss
  • Publication number: 20050077114
    Abstract: A method of controlling an elevator installation having an elevator car transporting passengers between floors of a building inputs destinations of the passengers into a destination call control and books destination calls and determines an instantaneous load disposed in the elevator car with a load measuring device at a fixable point in time. In order to make uniform the waiting times of the passengers in the case of incorrect operation of the destination call control and to ensure, for all passengers, an optimized transport time with maximum transport capacity the method additionally compares the instantaneous load with a full load parameter and in the case of exceeding of the full load parameter activating a bypass function those floors for which destination calls are booked and which are passed during a half circuit of the fully loaded elevator car.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Publication number: 20040163895
    Abstract: A method for controlling a zonally operated elevator installation, wherein on a changeover floor changing between zones is made possible, and wherein with a delivering elevator group and a collecting elevator group transportation to and from the changeover floor is realized, and wherein a trip destination is entered via a destination-call control by each passenger to be transported. An elevator installation for zonal operation in buildings with several elevators, wherein each elevator group contains at least one destination-call input device for registering the destination of a passenger. Each elevator is assigned to an elevator group, the building is divided into zones, and a changeover floor for changing between the elevator groups is arranged between the zones. The delivering elevator group and the collecting elevator group are combined into a multi-group which is controlled by a multi-group control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 26, 2004
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Patent number: 6508333
    Abstract: An elevator installation with multiple deck cars serves several floors simultaneously with one stop is controlled such that the travel requests are allocated to the most suitable elevator car of the elevator group and the allocation of a travel request from a starting-point floor to a destination floor to a car deck of the elevator car takes place shortly before reaching the starting-point floor. A travel request can also be redistributed or allocated to another deck at any time up to shortly before reaching the starting-point floor. The allocation of the travel request is carried out in dependence on general criteria and/or in dependence on allocated travel requests for the region of the starting-point floor and/or in dependence on allocated travel requests for the region of the destination floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Publication number: 20020033306
    Abstract: An elevator installation with multiple deck cars serves several floors simultaneously with one stop is controlled such that the travel requests are allocated to the most suitable elevator car of the elevator group and the allocation of a travel request from a starting-point floor to a destination floor to a car deck of the elevator car takes place shortly before reaching the starting-point floor. A travel request can also be redistributed or allocated to another deck at any time up to shortly before reaching the starting-point floor. The allocation of the travel request is carried out in dependence on general criteria and/or in dependence on allocated travel requests for the region of the starting-point floor and/or in dependence on allocated travel requests for the region of the destination floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann
  • Patent number: 6065570
    Abstract: The invention concerns a control system for a plurality of groups of lifts (G1-G5), according to which system the passenger can input his destination at any destination call input device (TE) without having to know which group of lifts (G1-G5) serves the desired storey. In this way, in large buildings in which, for structural reasons, the ranges of storeys served by individual groups of lifts (G1-G5) are disposed adjacent one another in a confused manner, the passenger's search for the appropriate lift is facilitated. The multiple groups control system always selects the most favorable lift from all the available lifts and, when the storey ranges served by a plurality of groups of lifts (G4-G5) overlap, the selection is made from all the possible lifts. If the passenger has to change lifts, the connecting lift is shown on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Paul Friedli, Miroslav Kostka, Kurt Steinmann