Patents Assigned to Inventio
  • Patent number: 11999592
    Abstract: An elevator system, suitable both for normal operating situations and for emergency situations, includes an elevator car that can be displaced directly or indirectly within an elevator shaft, a guide means that is connected to the elevator car, a derailment protection device that is connected to the elevator car, and a guide rail that has a first subregion which works together with the guide means and is used to guide the elevator car along the guide rail, and that has a second subregion which works together with the derailment protection device. A clearance between the derailment protection device and the second subregion of the guide rail is large enough that the derailment protection device and the second subregion of the guide rail remain spaced apart from each other during the normal operating situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Erich Bütler, Romeo Lo Jacono, Paolo Ferrario, Peter Möri
  • Patent number: 12000162
    Abstract: A printer device for creating a concrete support structure of a passenger transport system configured as an escalator or moving walkway in an existing building. The printer device has at least one printer guide device, a 3D concrete printer device, which is arranged so as to be movable along the printer guide device, and a printer controller. The printer guiding device comprises at least one guideway whose guide path can be adjusted at least in the vertical direction in relation to its spatial position of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Csaba Boros, Georg Wagenleitner
  • Patent number: 11993490
    Abstract: A rail fastening system fastens a rail of a vertically movable elevator system car has a first clamp connected to a holding structure, and a second clamp connected to the rail. The first clamp has a laterally extending first central part connectable to the holding structure and the second clamp has a laterally extending second central part connectable to the rail. Each clamp has two tabs attached in the lateral direction at opposite ends of the respective central part. A first tab of the first clamp can be connected to one of tabs of the second clamp on a first contact surface, and a second tab of the first clamp can be connected to the other of the tabs of the second clamp on a second contact surface. A first plane runs through the first contact surface and intersects with a second plane that runs through the second contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: André Weibel
  • Patent number: 11993974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for controlling access to a restricted area in a building, which system has a sliding door system and a controller for the sliding door system. The sliding door system has a door frame and a sliding door which can be displaced by a drive unit actuated by the controller. The door frame has a passage region and a wall shell region which accommodates the sliding door in the open position. The sliding door has an end face which points toward the passage region in the open position. The controller has a processor unit and a sensor unit, the sensor unit is arranged on the end face and the processor unit is arranged between the door leaves. A recognition device captures and checks credentials presented by a user. If the credentials are valid, a record is determined in a storage device, in which the credentials are assigned to an opening width (W) of the sliding door, in order to trigger the movement of the sliding door according to said opening width (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Paul Friedli
  • Patent number: 11981535
    Abstract: An elevator system vibration stabilizer device retains an information carrier extending through an elevator shaft at at least one point of the information carrier and includes a retaining element and a clamping element according to an assembly method. The clamping element is connected to the information carrier at the at least one point by a clamping force transmission device whereby the information carrier is applied with a clamping force against at least one contact region on the retaining element. The retaining element is stationary in the elevator shaft. A magnet element is an alternative to the clamping force transmission device. The vibration stabilizer device is included in an elevator system shaft information system to provide a method for preventing vibrations of the information carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Eric Birrer
  • Patent number: 11975942
    Abstract: The invention relates to a floor terminal for an elevator system in a building, comprising an elevator operating terminal and a wireless network device. The elevator operating terminal has a user interface for calling an elevator cabin, an elevator data interface for communicating data with an elevator controller, and a processing device which is coupled to the user interface and the elevator data interface. The wireless network device has a wireless transceiver for communicating with a communication device, a data interface for communicating data with the network access point, and a processing device coupled to the wireless transceiver and the data interface. By using such a floor terminal, a building can be equipped with additional functionality with relatively little installation effort during a redevelopment process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Florian Troesch
  • Patent number: 11977364
    Abstract: A modernization method of an existing passenger transport system which is designed as an escalator or a moving walkway is disclosed. In the process, the modernization method can include generating a three-dimensional supporting framework model data set of the existing supporting framework, integrating the same into a digital double data set, producing the required components on the basis of the digital double data set, and installing said components into the existing framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Gilbert Zimmermann, Thomas Novacek
  • Patent number: 11970363
    Abstract: A double-deck elevator car has first and second vertically spaced cars each accessible via a different floor in a stop position, a car frame with at least one longitudinal support, a first support structure in the frame supporting the first car, a second support structure in the frame supporting the second car, and a linear guide movably coupling the first support structure to the longitudinal support. The linear guide has at least one rail element fastened to the longitudinal support, and at least one coupling element slidably mounted on the rail element and fastened to the first support structure. The coupling element has first and second mounting portions mounting on the rail element and a fastening portion fastening the coupling element to the first support structure. A drive moves the first support structure relative to the second support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: André Weibel, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 11970365
    Abstract: A protective device for protecting assembly personnel during assembly work on a passenger transport system configured as an escalator or moving walkway. The passenger transport system has at least one clamping device for a balustrade panel. A base region of the protective device is configured in such a way that the base region can be held in the clamping device such that it can be clamped in place in lieu of a balustrade panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Alexander Pfeiler, Georg Wagenleitner
  • Patent number: 11970366
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a handrail disinfecting device for a handrail of a passenger transport installation. The handrail disinfecting device has a plurality of light-emitting diodes that can emit germicidal electromagnetic radiation in the region of their light cone. A pass-through segment of the handrail disinfecting device is divided into at least two sectors and has a carrier having planes that are arranged in the sectors. The light-emitting diodes are arranged on the carrier such that they are oriented according to the planes. In one of the sectors, there are two planes that are arranged in parallel with the longitudinal extension of the pass-through segment and so as to be mutually inclined at an angle of 100° to 160°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Georg Wagenleitner, Gerhard Kleewein, Michael Berger, Richard Schütz, Ulrich Häberle
  • Patent number: 11970362
    Abstract: A fastening apparatus for fastening a drive of an elevator system, wherein the elevator system includes an installation structure for installing the drive, has a beam with two feet for fastening the beam to the installation structure. The fastening apparatus includes a drive bracket for receiving the drive, wherein the drive bracket is fastened to the beam, and a support leg that is fastened at one end to the drive bracket and additionally supports the drive bracket on the installation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Christoph Liebetrau
  • Patent number: 11970364
    Abstract: A passenger transport system having a conveyor belt is described. The passenger transport system comprises at least one handrail and a fastening device for a protective device in the region of the handrail end curve. A control unit blocks the operation of the passenger transport system in one direction of travel on the basis of a sensor signal, such that, if there is at least one protective device in the region of the handrail end curve, the direction of travel in which the handrail runs into the protective device is blocked. A method for controlling a bidirectional passenger transport system is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Andreas Drahohs-Föderler, Christoph Eder, Gerhard Stoiber
  • Patent number: 11952240
    Abstract: A roller for an elevator system has a roller body made of a metal material and a shell made of a POM material forming a running surface of the elevator roller. The shell and the roller body each have a wave profile running in a circumferential direction on a shared contact surface, wherein the shell has, on the running surface, a V-ribbed profile aligned with the wave profile of the roller body that has a rib spacing which substantially corresponds to a wave spacing of the wave profile. The elevator roller is manufactured using a molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Florian Dold, Gian-Reto Petruzzi, Volker Zapf
  • Patent number: 11945686
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to monitoring a state of a physical passenger transport system. In an aspect, monitoring includes use of an updated digital double dataset that reproduces characterizing properties of components of the physical passenger transport system in an actual configuration of the passenger transport system after assembly and installation thereof in a building, in a machine-processable manner. At least one detection device is arranged in the physical passenger transport system, which detects a load profile which is transmitted to the updated digital double dataset. A set of rules is used to convert the load profile into modified characterizing properties of virtual components. Through the monitoring, changes and change trends on the components are tracked and evaluated using the updated digital double dataset by calculations and/or by static and dynamic simulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Andreas Drahohs-Föderler, Mark Dirk Blondiau, Dominik Prax-Marer, Gerhard Stoiber, Herbert Schmied, Martin Ortbauer, Richard Schütz, Thomas Novacek, Yixin Wu
  • Patent number: 11945691
    Abstract: An elevator suspension member arrangement includes at least two suspension members having electrically conductive cords. A monitoring arrangement generates first and second alternating voltages phase shifted by 180° and includes a plurality of input connectors and output connectors electrically connected to the cords and a voltage analyzer arrangement analyzing a neutral point voltage resulting from applying the voltages to the cords. Each suspension member can have the cords connected in parallel between the input connector and the output connector or have two groups of the cords connected in series between the connectors with the groups connected to an interconnecting connector. A multiplexer arrangement can be used to selectively test each pair of suspension members when the suspension member arrangement includes more than two suspension members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Vincent Robibero, Philippe Henneau
  • Patent number: 11939187
    Abstract: An elevator installation erection method includes installing in an elevator shaft: a construction phase elevator system having a self-propelled elevator car whose usable lifting height is adapted to an increasing elevator shaft height; at least one guide rail in the elevator shaft guiding the elevator car along its travel path; and a drive system driving the elevator car and including a primary part attached to the elevator car and a secondary part attached along the elevator car travel path, wherein the guide rail and the secondary part are gradually extended upwards during the construction phase, wherein the self-propelled elevator car transports persons and/or material for the construction of the building and passengers and freight for floors already used as residential or business premises, and wherein after the elevator shaft has reached its final height the construction phase elevator system is replaced by a final elevator system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Christian Studer, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 11919746
    Abstract: A passenger transport system includes a bus system transferring data between a central control unit and a plurality of field devices. In a failure detection method, the field devices are configured in an unbranched chain configuration and the control unit transmits a test telegram to a first field device to start a monitoring cycle during which each field device receiving the test telegram forwards the test telegram to a next field device in the chain. During the monitoring cycle, the control unit monitors a communication between the field devices occurring via the bus system, in order to detect when a field device does not forward the test telegram. A data volume transmitted via the bus system during the failure detection method is significantly reduced in comparison to conventional failure tests such that failures can be recognized more quickly and/or simpler hardware and/or software can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, Ivo Lustenberger, Thomas Hartmann, Adrian Knecht, Kurt Heinz
  • Patent number: 11919745
    Abstract: A mounting device and a method for carrying out an installation process in a vertically extending elevator shaft of an elevator system include a carrier component, a mechatronic installation component and a displacement system. The displacement system displaces the carrier component vertically within the elevator shaft. The installation component is held on the carrier component and, at least semi-automatically, performs a mounting step as part of the installation process. The displacement system also displaces the carrier component horizontally in a shift direction within the elevator shaft between adjacent vertical car tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: D1021918
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Jacqueline Walther
  • Patent number: D1024821
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Ronny Kolb, Martin Egli, Dennys Taiana, Massimo Calzavara, Alessio Buetti, Remo Frei, Thomas Helmer, Tobias Skuhra