Abstract: An apparatus for opening and closing the car door of an elevator car which is situated in the door opening zone of a floor is coupled together with a shaft door, and is driven automatically by a drive motor or, in the case of a power failure, manually by a passenger. If the elevator car is situated outside a door opening zone, the car door remains locked by the same apparatus. The car door is driven through a drive belt by way of an entraining parallelogram linkage, which linkage includes a rigid cam and a movable cam and is mounted at the upper part of a car door. For free travel through a door opening zone, the linkage is closed, and the linkage opens for the coupling with the shaft door between two coupling rollers mounted on the shaft door before a movement of the doors takes place. The movable cam includes a compressible ramp cam which, during the travel and on stopping outside a door opening zone, lifts off from a rigid cam carrier due to leaf springs.

Abstract: An assembly unit for the interior finishing of passenger carrying vehicles, in particular of two story railroad car type, consists of modular prefabricated functional units each having at least one of the functions cable duct, loudspeaker, illumination, baggage repository, window shade, and interior covering. Support beams of the functional units are suitably designed aluminum extrusions. The prefabrication of the functional modules takes place outside of the car body in a workshop region specially equipped for this purpose and comprises the working procedures, mechanical processing, surface treatment, assembly of the functional devices, prewiring and functional testing. The functional modules are installed and assembled in a predetermined sequence in the car body into an assembly unit containing the named functions.

Abstract: A group control for an elevator system, in which it is possible to assign a newly entered floor call to a car for the first time, immediately and finally, includes a computer and a comparator circuit for calculating operating costs and assigning the call to the car with the lowest cost during a comparison cycle. The operating cost includes car load values for the floors which are stored in a load table for the assigned car. Upon the assignment of a floor call, the load value for the call input floor is increased proportionally to the number of entered calls and the load values at the floors of destination are reduced proportionally to the number of calls for the respective floor of destination. These load values are used by a monitoring circuit to prevent the assignment of a call which would cause an overload condition.

Abstract: A hydraulic elevator system 10 having an elevator car 12 in which car velocity V and car position L are determined by detecting the quantity Q of hydraulic fluid transferred between a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic fluid reservoir. The car velocity V is directly proportional to Q and the car position L is directly proportional to the integral of Q. The car velocity V, or quantity Q, is compared with a desired velocity pattern, or desired flow rate pattern, PG, and the difference is a control signal C which is used to control the quantity Q. The car position L may also be used to determine the distance-to-go to a target floor, which may be used to initiate slowdown and/or to calculate all, or selected portions of, the desired pattern PG.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the control of the dispatch of elevator cars from the main floor are implemented in a plurality of algorithms performed by a process computer. A first algorithm for an elevator group receives data representing the measured arriving and departing building filling passenger traffic from sensors. The first algorithm determines the traffic requirements and the actual departure load of the elevator group from this data and various constants, and determines the transport capacity of the elevator group. The transport capacity is assigned to second algorithms associated with the elevator cars and corresponding to the nominal load of each respective car. Based upon the assigned transport capacity and the round trip time of the respective elevator car, the second algorithm calculates the nominal departure load. Dependent on the nominal departure load and the actual departure load, the second algorithm calculates a corrected departure load with which the elevator car should be loaded.

Abstract: An elevator car having a clutch carried by a car door for engaging drive rollers of an adjacent hatch door via "open" and "close" vanes of the clutch. A door operator mounted on the car includes a door drive arm which is linked to the car door via a door crank arm. A door lock carried by the door clutch prevents normal operation of the door crank arm, unless the open vane of the door clutch contacts a hatch door drive roller. Thus, unless the car is in a floor landing zone, the car door cannot be opened by a passenger inside the car.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the control of the dispatch of elevator cars from the main floor during up peak traffic conditions are implemented in an algorithm performed by a process computer. The algorithm for an elevator group, consisting of at least one elevator, calculates a transport capacity and a nominal time interval. The transport capacity and the nominal time interval are dependent on the nominal departure load and the compound values are stored in a transport capacity field and in an interval field, respectively. From data generated by a sensor, an elevator control and an input/output unit, the algorithm determines the traffic requirement at the main floor and the traffic requirement at an associated car, and the transport capacity is computed dependant on the higher of the two traffic requirements. Subsequently, the algorithm searches in the transport capacity field for the nominal departure load corresponding to this transport capacity.

Abstract: An elevator car having a clutch pivotally carried by a car door and biased to an operative position in which drive rollers of an adjacent hatch door may be engaged by "open" and "close" vanes. A first parallelogram linkage operates the close vane in direct response to car door position, in a direction opposite to initial car door opening movement. A second parallelogram linkage, associated with the open vane, is operated when the open vane contacts a hatch door roller at the start of door opening, to unlock the car door by retracting a plunger from an opening in the car door sill. The car door clutch bias may be manually overcome by authorized maintenance personnel, to disengage the car door from a hatch door.

Abstract: An elevator system including a door post having inner and outer sides, and a hall lantern assembly fixed to the inner side. The door post includes a jamb defining upper and lower openings, and the hall lantern assembly includes upper and lower lenses which are resiliently biased to project through the upper and lower openings, respectively, in operating positions of the lenses. The upper and lower lenses have service positions achievable by depressing a lens against the bias, and then slidably moving the lens in a vertical direction, with the service positions of the upper and lower lenses enabling the hall lantern assembly to be serviced through the upper and lower openings in the jamb.

Abstract: A call registering and indicating device includes a keyboard wherein calls for desired floors of destination can be entered without pressing a register key after a correct input or pressing a correction key after an incorrect call input. A call input is possible only if a proximity switch connected with the call input keyboard is activated. On deactivation of the proximity switch, a delay circuit causes the call to be automatically registered. An erroneously entered call is automatically cancelled by means of a second control circuit, where simultaneouly a second indicating element lights up in the form of a double question mark. A third indicating element, signaling the selected elevator, located on the same indicating panel, as well as a fourth and fifth indicating element, signaling the position of the selected elevator in relation to the actuated keyboard, are connected with a group control circuit by way of further control circuits.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for improving the command performance of distance controlled positioning drives, as well as the positioning performance in the region of the destination, responds to different interferences, such as changing load and friction conditions, which act from travel to travel on the positioning drive. A distance control is periodically optimized to a constant set of standardized operating parameters and the position errors caused by interferences are eliminated during every travel. The control is a cascade control with fourfold forward correction by direct bias of the generated desired values of the jerk, the acceleration, and the velocity. A distinction is made between predictable deterministic interferences and not predictable stochastic interferences. Deterministic interferences are detected quantitatively by a start up test during the first phase of jerk in a measuring means.

Abstract: A group control for an elevator system in which a call firmly assigned to a car, but not serviceable at a stop at the respective floor due to an expected overload, can be serviced subsequently by the same car. For this purpose first and second circuits, assigned to the floors, are provided. A selector scanning the floor and car call memories activates at every position the assigned first and second circuits, where the first circuit causes the car to pass the respective floor if an overload would be generated at a stop. The second circuits assigned to the upward and downward directions are linked to each other in such a manner that, on establishment of an overload, the scanning by the selector of the floor and car call memories assigned in each case to the calls of opposite direction is prevented.

Abstract: A method of assigning hall calls to a plurality of elevator cars (0, 1, N) which biases the assignment process to balance the number of cars serving up and down service directions. Prior to each call assignment update the method determines the number of cars serving each service direction (78, 80, 82). A predetermined relationship (88) between there two numbers is used to determine if up hall calls should be assigned first, or down hall calls (90, 92, 94, 96). The balancing of cars serving the two service directions lowers the average waiting time, and it results in dispersing the cars throughout a building when service subsides, to enable prompt service for newly entered calls without the necessity of moving the cars during periods of low service to be in position for new calls.

Abstract: A group control for an elevator system, in which it is possible to assign a newly entered floor call to a car for the first time, immediately and finally, includes a computer and a comparator circuit for calculating servicing costs and assigning the call to the car with the lowest cost during a comparison cycle. The floor call generates an entry floor signal which is stored in a floor call memory and an assignment memory for the assigned car. Storage cells of the assignment memory and the floor call memory are linked to each other by way of an automatic holding circuit that prevents reassignment of the floor call during subsequent comparison cycles.

Abstract: A pair of light barriers are mounted on a pair of spaced apart balustrade sockets located on opposite sides of an endless step conveyor-type escalator. The light barriers are positioned at the transition of upper and lower transisition arches to an inclined run of the conveyor. The light barriers each include a transmitter and receiver for emitting and receiving a light beam transversely to the direction of travel of the conveyor. The light beam is interrupted by side shields on the conveyor steps. An opening is formed adjacent a leading edge of each side shield and one or more openings are formed adjacent a trailing edge of each side shield. The trailing edge openings are formed as oblong holes each with a longitudinal axis extending with respect to the tread of the step at the same angle as the inclination of the inclined run of the escalator with respect to the horizontal.

Abstract: An actual position value transmitter for an elevator position control circuit includes a pulse transmitter in the form of a digital tachometer which is driven by way of a cable and a car distance counter responsive to the pulses for generating an actual position signal. Stopping errors of the elevator car caused by slip of the cable are avoided by utilizing a correction table in the form of a write-read memory, in which correction values assigned to the floors and corresponding to the stopping errors are stored. The correction table is connected to the car distance counter and on departure of the elevator car from a floor or on passing a floor, a correction value assigned to the next floor is fetched from the correction table and fed to the car distance counter for the purpose of correction of the actual position signal.

Abstract: An elevator system stopping control generates the difference between the actual speed value and a set point speed value on the transition from an unregulated travel phase to the regulated arrival or braking phase and prevents that difference from becoming effective so that the travel comfort is not impaired and the stopping accuracy remains assured. For this purpose, a multiplication factor is formed from the actual speed value and an associated nominal speed value by means of a divider during the travel phase before the onset point of braking and stored during the arrival phase in a memory. Stored in a travel curve memory are travel-dependent set point speed values, which values are multiplied by the factor by means of a multiplier and conducted as set point signals to a motor speed regulating circuit during the arrival phase.

Abstract: A floor call registering circuit for an elevator system includes a keyboard at each floor for inputting the destination floors. The call registering circuit at the main stopping location permits only travels to destination floors which are allocated to a certain group of destination floors. According to an alternate embodiment, the call registering circuit is provided either with a pulse generator or with a decade keyboard. If the keyboard at the main stopping location has keys for all the destination floors, a circuit is provided which frees the destination floor calls allocated to the certain group of destination floors and blocks the destination floor calls lying outside the certain group of destination floors.

Abstract: An elevator control apparatus suppresses the jerk at the start-up of speed controlled elevator installations in both directions of travel, not only the friction jerk at the transition from the static friction to the sliding friction, but also the imbalance jerk at unbalanced car loads. A set point signal multiplier is connected to the output side of a set point memory in the hoist motor drive control and the set point multiplying factor can be controlled by way of an on/off circuit. The multiplier is switched, prior to the start of the movement, by the on/off circuit to a value greater than one, and is switched back to one at start of movement in the direction of travel. The motor driving force is controlled to a value which, when summed with the imbalance force, is equal to the sliding friction force at start-up. This suppression of jerks is eminently suitable for the refitting of controlled elevator drives and increases, due to the earlier start of movement, their elevating capacity.

Abstract: A system for remote management includes central management, planning and rationalization of the upkeep of elevator installations. The system comprises a modularly constructed remote management system, which makes possible the management centrally, the inspection regionally and the monitoring of decentralized processes locally of elevator installations. The management exchange is connected by modem and telephone network with the regional exchanges and has access to all relevant data. The regional exchange permits an inspection of all processes of several buildings. Direct speech connections with all the peripheral devices are by means or remote alarms from the regional exchange. For each building, a communications module manages the data traffic between the regional exchange and the processes to be inspected in the building.