Patents by Inventor Shigeki Yamakawa
Shigeki Yamakawa 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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Patent number: 7419032Abstract: An elevator monitoring terminal includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores screen-displayed data including monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation, and the processing unit displays the monitor-related screens in the screen-displayed data read from the storage unit on a display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20060144645Abstract: An elevator monitoring terminal includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores screen-displayed data including monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation, and the processing unit displays the monitor-related screens in the screen-displayed data read from the storage unit on a display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2004Publication date: July 6, 2006Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20050167205Abstract: An elevating machine monitoring system has a monitoring display information file that stores monitoring display information relating to an elevating machine. A monitoring display information change acceptor accepts a request for changing the monitoring display information from a client, and a monitoring display information updater updates the monitoring display information, for which a change has been requested, in the monitoring display information file. A monitoring display information transmission request accepter accepts a request for transmitting the monitoring display information from the client, and a monitoring display information display allows the client to display the monitoring display information after updating, for which transmission has been requested, by referring to the monitoring display information file.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2003Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Masaaki Amano
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Patent number: 6896105Abstract: An elevator system includes a hoistway including a hoistway wall and a bottom portion, the hoistway wall including a protrusion projecting from the hoistway wall inside the hoistway, a vertical moving member ascending and descending the hoistway without interfering with the protrusion, and a control panel for controlling the movement of the vertical moving member, the control panel being disposed within the hoistway and in an overlapping relationship with a projected region of the protrusion, projected in the direction of movement of the vertical moving member. The space within the hoistway is efficiently utilized and easy maintenance of the elevator system is provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2000Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6860161Abstract: The displacement of a shackle, which is coupled with a main rope hanging an elevator car, caused by loading of the car, is converted, through a wire, into the rotary motion of a pulley which has a substantially vertical rotating surface, and an acceleration sensor for detecting the angle of rotation of the pulley is fixedly secured to the pulley, so that the load of the car is detected from the angle of rotation of the pulley.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Horizaki
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Patent number: 6631788Abstract: An elevator system has a pair of horizontally opposed vertical surfaces defining therebetween a doorway or opening to an elevator cage and a door moving horizontally to open and close the opening. In particular, the system has a first optical device having a light emitter for emitting light and a second optical device having a light receiver for receiving the light emitted from the light emitter. The first and second optical devices are positioned in a vertical plane crossing the opening and adjacent to the opening. One of the first and second optical devices is positioned below the other of the first and second optical devices and mounted in the vertical surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2002Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Shikai, Hajime Nakajima, Toshiro Nakashima, Kazuo Takashima, Tatsushi Takahashi, Shigeki Yamakawa, Takeshi Fujiki, Kunikazu Koura, Koichi Nanno, Shigeru Abe
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Publication number: 20030074986Abstract: The displacement of a shackle 2, which is coupled with a main rope 1 hanging an elevator car, caused in accordance with the loading capacity of the car is converted through a wire 5 into the rotary motion of a pulley 100 which has a rotating surface positioned substantially in a vertical posture, and an acceleration sensor 110 for detecting the angle of rotation of said pulley is fixedly secured to said pulley, so that the loading capacity of the car is detected from the angle of rotation of said pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Kazuhiro Horizaki
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Patent number: 6488126Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a radiation fin device on which heat generating parts are mounted and a cooling fan for cooling the radiation fin device by forced air are accommodated in a tall and narrow case. The cooling fan has a rotation shaft extending in a direction perpendicular to a fin attaching surface of the case. A ventilating passage is provided between the radiation fin device and the cooling fan by a ventilating duct.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Satoshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20020125077Abstract: An elevator system has a pair of horizontally opposed vertical surfaces defining therebetween a doorway or opening to an elevator cage and a door moving horizontally to open and close the opening. In particular, the system has a first optical device having a light emitter for emitting light and a second optical device having a light receiver for receiving the light emitted from the light emitter. The first and second optical devices are positioned in a vertical plane crossing the opening and adjacent to the opening. One of the first and second optical devices is positioned below the other of the first and second optical devices and mounted in the vertical surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Shikai, Hajime Nakajima, Toshiro Nakashima, Kazuo Takashima, Tatsushi Takahashi, Shigeki Yamakawa, Takeshi Fujiki, Kunikazu Koura, Koichi Nanno, Shigeru Abe
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Patent number: 6405834Abstract: In a maintenance driving control apparatus of an elevator, switches and other components operated at the time of maintenance are separated from a control panel and combined in a driving operation panel. A maintenance operation panel having this driving operation panel and at least one of a brake release device for remote operation, a meter for indicating a voltage of a speed generator, and car position confirmation unit utilizing movement of a rope or some other member is provided in the vicinity of an elevator hall. The maintenance driving control apparatus enables maintenance operations without directly operating the control panel or a hoisting machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2001Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihiro Chida, Junichiro Ishikawa, Shigeki Yamakawa, Hiroshi Ando, Kunio Katou
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Patent number: 6357015Abstract: A data interface for communicating data between processors having: a writing-side register group in which data in a writing-side processor which transmits data is written in response to a clock signal; a reading-side register group into which the data written into the writing-side register group is transferred and written in response to a later clock operation, the data being read out by a reading-side processor of a data receiving side; a write controller for selectively writing data in a register in the writing-side register group in accordance with an address signal and a write signal of the writing-side processor; and a read controller for selectively reading data from a register in the reading-side register group in accordance with an address signal of the reading-side processor; so that a double buffer structure consisting of the writing-side buffers and the reading-side buffers causes the address signal and the data signal to individually be connected in the writing side and the reading side.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1999Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Hiroshi Gokan, Akio Ohtsuji
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Patent number: 6321877Abstract: A control panel is divided into units in accordance with each control function, units to be controlled by or connected to the divided unit are divided into unit groups in accordance with a place where the unit is to be disposed, and unit groups having a relationship form a control section, the control section being disposed in the vicinity of the unit group so that it is unnecessary to provide a large integral control panel. There is no difficulty in finding an installation place for the control panel, it is unnecessary to prepare a special machine room, it is possible to provide the control panel in an empty space around the respective unit to be controlled, and to effectively use the building while enhancing the layout of the units and it is possible to quickly control a localized situation for the unit to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2001Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeki Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6311801Abstract: A brake control apparatus for an elevator includes an auxiliary power source for storing energy for driving a brake coil of an electromagnetic brake upon release of a brake wheel. A DC voltage is boosted only when the brake is released, and the voltage-boosting function ceases when the brake is held in a released condition. This brake control apparatus for an elevator uses a lower voltage and only one DC power source and immediately supplies the necessary energy to the brake coil to release the brake independently of the power source voltage at the time.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2000Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Inventors: Hiroyuki Takagi, Shigeki Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20010002635Abstract: According to this invention, a control panel is divided into a plurality of units in accordance with every control function, units to be controlled or connected of the divided unit is divided into a plurality of unit groups summed in accordance with a place where the unit is to be disposed, and one or a plurality of divided unit groups of the divided units having a strong relationship with at least one unit of the unit group is extracted to form a control section, the control section is disposed in the vicinity of the unit group so that it is unnecessary to provide a large integral control panel, there is no difficulty in finding an installation place for the control panel, it is unnecessary to prepare a special machine room, it is possible to provide it in an empty space around the respective unit to be controlled, it is possible to effectively use the building while enhancing the layout property of the units and it is possible to perform a quick control while reflecting a localized situation for the unit toType: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2001Publication date: June 7, 2001Inventor: Shigeki Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6230846Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a control panel is disposed below a lowermost movement position of a proximity switch projecting from a car. The control panel is mounted on a hoistway wall through a mounting bracket at a position which is overlapped by a cross-section of the proximity switch projected in the ascending and descending directions of the car. Namely, the control panel is mounted by utilizing the space below the movement range of the proximity switch. Also, a gap is present between the surface of the hoistway wall and the control panel by the mounting bracket.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Namba, Shigeki Yamakawa
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Patent number: 6230845Abstract: A controller for an elevator. The elevator includes a landing passageway where a car stops and passengers board or alight and a hoistway through which the car is raised or lowered. A control panel for controlling the raising, lowering, and stopping of the car is disposed in the hoistway at a position where the control panel does not interfere with the raising or lowering of the car, and a mechanism for drawing out the control panel to the landing passageway is provided. Accordingly, space in the hoistway is effectively used, and the landing passageway which passengers do not use during maintenance can be readily utilized for a maintenance operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2000Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeki Yamakawa, Hiroyuki Takagi, Junichiro Ishikawa, Seiji Okuda, Tatsushi Takahashi, Tomohiko Yao
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Patent number: 6223860Abstract: In an elevator controlling apparatus, a first suspension member and a second suspension member are fixed to a guide rail at a vertical interval. A control panel can be suspended from either a first or second suspension member. Thus, the control panel can be moved between a operation position at a first height from a bottom portion of a hoistway and a maintenance position lower than a operation position. A junction box is fixed on a hoistway wall. The junction box and the control panel are connected to each other through flexible cables.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Namba, Tatsushi Takahashi, Shigeki Yamakawa, Takehiko Kubota