Abstract: A car floor for an elevator car includes a planar base part and installation feet arranged thereon. The installation feet support the car floor on the shaft floor of an elevator shaft during the elevator car installation phase. In order to orient the base part in a horizontal position, each of the installation feet is in the form of a height-adjustable installation foot. The height-adjustable installation foot has a threaded rod as part of a threaded spindle for height adjustment.

Abstract: A landing door of an elevator system has a door leaf equipped with an integrated floor display that indicates to a person the floor at which an elevator car approaching the floor of departure is currently located. The door leaf of the landing door has a wall element made of sheet metal, the floor display having at least one controllable light source arranged behind the wall element, and a cover layer. The wall element has a display segment with a plurality of light passage openings, the light passage openings forming a perforated screen structure. The cover layer functions such that after the light source is activated to display the desired floor information, light from the light source penetrates through the light passage openings and the cover layer to the outside and when the light source is deactivated, the cover layer does not let light through to the outside.

Abstract: A transportation system for a building with multiple floors includes a shaft in the building, a traction sheave drive type elevator and a lift. The elevator vertically conveys persons using an elevator car that is movable in the shaft together with at least two counterweights, the elevator car and the counterweights moving in opposite directions. The elevator car and the counterweights are driven by drive engines with traction sheaves. The lift vertically conveys objects and is designed as a self-propelled lift. The lift has a lift platform designed as a vehicle for supplying goods, which vehicle can be brought in and out the shaft and which lies, when located in the shaft, within a vertical projection of the elevator car.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding and braking an elevator system traveling body movable along a guide track includes a holder fastened to the body, a guide device and a braking device. The holder transmits guiding forces between the guide device, guided on at least one track surface in the longitudinal direction, and the body. The guide device is held on and is elastically movable relative to the holder transverse to the longitudinal direction by at least a predetermined tolerance distance. The braking device includes a carrier and a braking element movable between a deactivated configuration, in which a braking surface of the braking element is laterally spaced apart from the guide track, and an activated configuration, in which the braking surface abuts the guide track, in a reversible manner by an activation distance transverse to the guide track. The carrier of the braking device is rigidly coupled to the guide device.

Abstract: A method for forming a guide structure in an elevator shaft provides a guide structure configured to guide an elevator car during vertical travel in the elevator shaft. The method includes the following steps: moving a tool, such as a milling tool, vertically along the elevator shaft, wherein the tool is precisely positioned with respect to the horizontal position thereof within the elevator shaft, and forming the guide structure by removing material on a shaft wall of the elevator shaft using the tool.

Abstract: A method for controlling an elevator system comprises receiving media data, receiving at least one of control data and sensor data, transmitting the media data and at least one of the control data and sensor data via a real-time data communication network between a central controller adapted for controlling a drive of the elevator system and a local controller, the local controller being provided in one of an elevator car control panel and a door control panel, wherein the real-time data communication network is adapted for transmitting data packets while ensuring that a data packet is transmitted during a maximal transmission time.

Abstract: A brake system for an elevator system includes a first brake circuit, a second brake circuit and a control unit, the first and second brake circuits each having a brake, and each brake including an actuator and a main spring unit, the actuator being preloaded by the main spring unit in the closing direction of the brake with the force required for applying the braking force. The actuator is activated by a control signal of the control unit to compensate the force of the main spring unit, and thus release the brake. The control unit, upon activation, selects only one of the two control signals between the activation of the first and second brake circuits, such that the ratio of the number of activations of the first brake circuit and the number of activations of the second brake circuit aims for a fixed ratio.

Abstract: In an access control system (1) for a building, a security gate (14) separates a restricted-access zone (20) from a public zone (22). Radio devices (6) are arranged at established distances from the security gate (14) and define a monitoring area. A control device (10, 12) of the system (1) is communicatively coupled to a building device (16), and a data storage device (18) stores processing instructions for situation-specific calibration modes. A signal processing device (8) evaluates the radio communication in the monitoring area, determines at least one situation indicator therefrom which indicates a radio situation prevailing in the monitoring area and, for each radio device (6), captures a received signal strength indicator and uses it to determine at least one situation indicator (RSSIi) based on radio communication with a first wireless device (2).

Abstract: An elevator system for a building, wherein an elevator shaft becomes taller as the building height increases during a construction phase, includes a self-moving construction-phase elevator car guided on a guide rail section(s) for conveying persons or goods during the construction phase, an assembly platform arranged above the car from which the guide rail section is elongated upwards in a rail assembly phase, an upper protection platform temporarily fixed in the elevator shaft on which the assembly platform is suspended via a cable-based lifting device or is suspended in the rail assembly phase, a lower protection platform, wherein the assembly platform is moved vertically between the upper platform and the lower platform by the lifting device during the rail assembly phase, and a docking device temporarily suspending the car on the lower platform to secure the car for evacuations, the docking device connecting the car to the lifting device.

Abstract: A method for forming and smoothing a hollow-profile guide rail of an elevator system uses a smoothing apparatus to smooth mutually opposing surfaces on a hollow-profile guide rail. The smoothing apparatus includes a guide device, a removal device and a pressing device. The guide device has rollers for moving in a low-friction manner in a longitudinal direction along a first of the opposing surfaces and to thus guide the smoothing apparatus along the first surface. The pressing device has spring elements to press the removal device away from the guide device and toward a second of the opposing surfaces. The removal device has a rasp element to remove material from the second surface during a movement in the longitudinal direction along the second surface.

Abstract: An installation device for use in an elevator shaft includes a carrier that extends in a carrier direction, the carrier having a first carrier end and a second carrier end, a support element that is pivotably arranged on the first carrier end and a receiving device for receiving a displacement device by which installation material can be displaced in the elevator shaft. The receiving device is supported on the carrier via an adjustable support device such that an angle between a support plane, in which plane a support surface of the receiving device extends, and the carrier direction of the carrier can be changed.

Abstract: A fastening system has two fastening elements for mounting a bracket of a rail system of an elevator installation. The fastening elements each have a clamping plate having a through-hole and a receiving sleeve receiving an anchor bolt. The receiving sleeves each have a through-opening for the anchor bolt and an angularly movable ball joint is formed between the clamping plate and the receiving sleeve.

Abstract: A pulley for guiding a belt for carrying a car and/or a counterweight of an elevator system has a plurality of peripheral, axially spaced channels for receiving ribs of the belt. Each of the channels has two opposing channel flanks for force transmission by frictional engagement with one of the ribs and a peripheral groove between the two channel flanks. A width of the groove is at least 25 percent of an axial spacing of the channels and at least 80 percent of a height of the channels.

Abstract: An elevator trip based on destinations and activity parameters of a user is planned by a system having an elevator controller of an elevator installation, a storage device storing building plan data and a route planning computer. The user's trip inquiry, including a desired destination and a desired activity parameter, is received by the planning computer. Building plan data is read from the storage device by the planning computer. The current location of the user is determined by the planning computer, which calculates at least one route proposal based on the user's location, the destination and the activity parameter. The route proposal is communicated to the user. Upon receipt of a confirmation that the user selected the route proposal, a control signal identifying a boarding floor and a destination floor is transmitted by the planning computer to the elevator controller. The elevator installation is controlled according to the control signal.

Abstract: Method for building an elevator system in a building under construction including: installing in an elevator shaft a movable machine platform supporting an elevator car and a counterweight; installing above the machine platform a lifting platform; raising the lifting platform by a construction crane or lifting device before raising the machine platform; and equipping the lifting platform with a cable catch device having a safety cable arranged between the lifting platform and a cable pulley support fixed above the lifting platform, the safety cable having a first load-bearing cable portion fixed to or above the lifting platform and a last load-bearing cable portion guided through a cable stop device attached to the lifting platform, the cable stop device blocking the last portion to prevent further lowering of the lifting platform after a speed of the last portion relative to the cable stop device exceeds a specified limit.

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.

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.

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).