Patents Assigned to Inventio AG
  • Patent number: 12258807
    Abstract: A building wall module for partitioning a first region from a second region has a frame structure with inner and outer wall panels and lateral fastening devices for connecting the building wall module to a building. In addition, a sliding door system and a secondary door system are integrated in the frame structure, wherein the secondary door system is arranged separated from the sliding door system and can be controlled separately from the control device of the sliding door system. An electrical interface device connects the building wall module to a building system of a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Max Schwitalla, Florian Trosch, Jonas Vonaesch
  • Patent number: 12258240
    Abstract: A method for assembling a hollow rail for guiding an elevator car and/or a counterweight of an elevator installation includes: arranging a first and second hollow rail parts at different heights in an elevator shaft; aligning the first rail part relative to the second rail part by an alignment piece so that the first and second rail parts extend along a common longitudinal axis, wherein the alignment piece protrudes partially into an open end of the first rail part and partially into an open end of the second rail part; fastening one clamping element to each of the first and second rail parts; and applying a force to the clamping elements in opposite directions parallel to the common longitudinal axis to bring together the first and second rail parts, wherein the alignment piece is pressed into the open end of the first and/or the second rail part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Erich Butler, Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice, Serge Strebel, Peter Mori
  • Patent number: 12259008
    Abstract: An adjusting ring for a moving walkway or an escalator can include a hollow cylindrical annular body and at least one adjusting screw. An outside diameter of the annular body is greater than an inner outside ring diameter of an outer ring of a roller bearing arranged adjacently in the assembled state. Furthermore, the adjusting ring can include at least one annular groove arranged concentrically to the inside diameter in a lateral ring face of the annular body which is directed against the roller bearing in the assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Michael Berger
  • Patent number: 12246943
    Abstract: An elevator car has car walls that form an interior for passengers. A handrail providing a rest surface for passengers is disposed in the interior on at least one of the car walls. The handrail rest surface has a height of at least 15 cm and is inclined, relative to the vertical, by an angle of inclination between 5° and 20°. The handrail can be L-shaped with two handrail portions, wherein one of the handrail portions is shorter than the other handrail portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Elena Carrara
  • Patent number: 12246948
    Abstract: A method for moving an elevator car of an elevator to evacuate passengers from the elevator car in the event of a power failure, wherein a brake blocks a vertical movement of the elevator car, includes the following steps: transmitting electrical power to the brake of the elevator to release the brake and enable the vertical movement of the elevator car, the brake being moved and held in a large number of positions, ranging between a fully closed position and a fully opened position, according to the electrical power transmitted; determining an actual speed at which the elevator car is moving; comparing the actual speed with a target speed; and adjusting, in particular increasing or reducing, according to a deviation of the actual speed from the target speed, the electrical power transmitted to the brake, so that the actual speed substantially corresponds to the target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Steffen Bewersdorf
  • Patent number: 12240514
    Abstract: A mobile transport device and a method for introducing an installation frame into a shaft, in particular an elevator shaft, are used for transporting an installation frame and for introducing the installation frame into the shaft. The installation frame has a base frame and a bearing frame on which the installation frame is supported from above. The transport device additionally has a fixing device arranged on the base frame for fixing the base frame to a shaft opening of a shaft wall of the shaft and for preventing the transport device from tilting. The bearing frame is supported by the base frame and is movable in the horizontal direction relative to the base frame such that, when the base frame is arranged outside of the shaft, the bearing frame, and thus also the installation frame, can be moved into the shaft from outside the shaft through the shaft opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Guido Achermann, Roger Beck, Gabriele Bizzozero, Dragan Gavric, Ralph Harmath, Nico Langhi, Stefan Weber, Andre Weibel
  • Patent number: 12234127
    Abstract: A construction site elevator system temporarily bridges at least part of the distance between the top stop of a jump lift and the top work level on the construction site. The construction site elevator system includes a frame structure and an elevator within the frame structure, the frame structure being configured to be insertable into an elevator shaft and being mountable at different positions in the elevator shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Claus-Dietmar Luther, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 12221321
    Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring a state of a physical passenger transport system are described. The method includes monitoring the state of the passenger transport system using an actualized digital replica dataset (ADRD) which reproduces characterizing properties of components of the passenger transport system in an actual configuration in a machine-processable manner after assembly and installation thereof in a building. At least one detection device is arranged in the physical passenger transport system and detects changes in at least one characterizing property that occur due to wear. These changes are transmitted to the ADRD, wherein changes and change trends in the components are monitored and evaluated using calculations and/or using static and dynamic simulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Thomas Novacek, Alexander Pfeiler, Christoph Sander, Gerd Laglbauer, Hannes Dragsits
  • Patent number: 12208990
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a rail fastening device for fastening guide rail sections in a guide rail system of an escalator or a moving walkway. The guide rail system includes at least one side plate having a hole, wherein the area of the hole has a hole length which is greater than its hole width. The rail fastening device has a rail receiving part, a screw connection and a clamping bar piece, wherein the length and width of the clamping bar piece match the hole width and the hole length of the hole such that said clamping bar piece can be guided through the hole in a first position and can be supported on the material of the side plate surrounding the hole in a second position, in the fully assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Neszmerak, Alexander Pfeiler
  • Patent number: 12212691
    Abstract: A method of operating a computer-controlled first device for establishing a secure data communication with a computer-controlled second device in a passenger transportation arrangement distributed control system includes: generating an encryption key including a public and private key pair; creating credentials (e.g. X.509 certificate) based on the generated encryption key; preparing a certificate signing request CSR and dispatching the CSR via a secured data communication path to a certificate authority CA that is based on a public key infrastructure PKI operated by the passenger transportation arrangement operator; receiving the certificate from the CA with a signature using a private key held secret by the operator; establishing the secure data communication with the second device by transmitting the credentials to the second device, wherein the second device accepts establishing the secure data communication upon verification of the signature of the credentials executed using a public key of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Claudio Colombano
  • Patent number: 12203316
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to a restricted area in a building includes a sliding door system and a controller. The sliding door system has a door frame and a sliding door which can be moved in the door frame between a closed position and an open position. The door frame has a passage region and a wall shell region which at least partially accommodates the sliding door in the open position. The sliding door has an end face which faces the passage region in the open position. The controller has a processor unit and a sensor unit. The controller is designed to generate an alarm signal if a height of an object in the passage region, as determined by the sensor unit, deviates from a height range stored for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Paul Friedli
  • Patent number: 12195302
    Abstract: A safety monitoring device of an elevator system having a shaft extending over at least two floors has a safety circuit with door contact switches being closed or opened accordingly when a respective shaft door is closed or opened. The door switches form an electrical series circuit that is electrically broken to block the elevator car from moving when any of the door switches is opened. The monitoring apparatus has at least one bypass switch that actuates a first door switch for a first shaft door on a first floor such that, when the elevator car reaches the first floor, the bypass switch bypasses the first door switch to switch the safety circuit independently of the first door switch. A monitoring means of the monitoring apparatus monitors the switching state of the safety circuit and/or of a second door switch for a second shaft door on a second floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Frank Olivier Roussel
  • Patent number: 12187577
    Abstract: A method for determining a mapping of a number of floors to be served by an elevator includes the steps of: (a) determining, during a multiplicity of trips of an elevator car of the elevator, a trip-dependent physical parameter value which unambiguously depends on at least one of a trip duration and a trip distance; and (b) clustering the determined trip-dependent physical parameter values to clusters to define each of the floors in the mapping. In a training phase, the method automatically determines the number of floors served and then, in an operation phase, classifies each of the observed trips and finally detects and tracks a current position of the elevator car. An elevator monitoring device implementing such method may be retrofitted into existing elevators for e.g. remotely monitoring the elevator operation and does not necessarily require any data transfer between components of the elevator and the elevator monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Martin Kusserow, Michael Guarisco, Zack Zhu
  • Patent number: 12180037
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a handrail treatment device which comprises a housing and a cylindrical base body which is arranged in the housing so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. A cleaning facing is arranged on a cylinder outer surface of the base body, over which a circulating handrail of a passenger transport system can be guided for the purpose of removing dirt and germs. At least one radiation source is arranged inside the housing, which radiation source can emit germicidal electromagnetic radiation, wherein the radiation source is aligned with the base body in such a way that the cleaning facing moving continuously past the radiation source is exposed to the germicidal electromagnetic radiation of this radiation source when the base body rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bauer, Michael Haider, Wolfgang Neszmerak
  • Patent number: 12179330
    Abstract: A setting tool used in a method for percussively driving an anchor rod into a borehole in a substrate has a drive-side end and, in an opposite tool direction, an end facing away from the drive. The setting tool has a tool adapter that forms the drive-side end and is arranged to interact with a driven impact tool. The end facing away from the drive is formed by a receiving element that has a recess arranged to receive part of an anchor rod. The tool adapter and the receiving element are coupled together by a coupling element such that an impact force introduced via the tool adapter is transmitted to an anchor rod arranged in the recess of the receiving element. The coupling element, in particular a coil spring, is arranged to allow for a displacement of at least part of the receiving element transversely to the tool direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
  • Patent number: 12180039
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for guiding a counterweight includes a single-piece guide element made of a plastic material. The guide element has an engagement element that extends in the longitudinal direction and can be brought into interlocking engagement in a cutout formed in a yoke of a counterweight frame. The guide element further includes a collar engaging around the cutout and forming a stop for positionally securing the guide element, the collar adjoining the engagement element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 12182481
    Abstract: The application relates to a method for creating a framework or truss dataset of an escalator or moving walkway using a computer program. In this method, client-specific configuration data are collected, a type-specific, two-dimensional layout is selected, and this layout is adapted in terms of the conveyor height in accordance with the configuration data. In addition, the guideway of the adapted layout is checked using division sections and the layout is transformed into a subdivided two-dimensional layout. The latter is overlaid with fields of defined structure, wherein the resulting overlaid layout serves as a starting point for arranging profile bar datasets in the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Thomas Novacek, Andreas Drahohs-Föderler, Barbara Pohl, Johannes Drögsler, Robert Bartonik, Stefan Brinskelle
  • Patent number: 12162728
    Abstract: An elevator rail guides moving bodies of an elevator system. The moving bodies serve in particular as a car for the transport of people or goods or as a counterweight. The elevator rail has more than one guide contour including a guide contour 6 that interacts with a guide shoe such that in a first horizontal direction, a relative horizontal movement between the guide contour and the guide shoe is delimited at least on one side, and such that in a second horizontal direction, perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a relative horizontal movement between guide contour and the guide shoe is delimited on both sides. The elevator rail has a hollow cross section bordered in a closed manner. The elevator rail has at least three of the guide contours that are formed on the outer surface of the elevator rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Erich Bütler, Paolo Ferrario, Peter Möri, Romeo Lo Jacono
  • Patent number: D1056747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Jacqueline Walther
  • Patent number: D1060728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Elena Carrara