Patents Assigned to Otis Elevator
  • Patent number: 12240734
    Abstract: A guide rail for an elevator system has an elongate length with a cross-section perpendicular to the length; the cross-section including a base section for mounting to a wall of a hoistway, and a blade section extending from the base section; the blade section including a guide surface for interacting with a guide element of a component movable in the elevator hoistway; the guide rail including: a pair of separate rail piece parts fixed together to form the guide rail; the pair of separate rail piece parts including a first rail piece part and a second rail piece part; the first rail piece part being formed from a first thickness of sheet material bent to have a cross-section of a first predetermined shape, and the second rail piece part being formed from a second thickness of sheet material bent to have a cross-section of a second predetermined shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrés Monzón, Javier García Casla, José-Manuel González-Rodil
  • Patent number: 12240732
    Abstract: A notification system and a notification method for an elevator, and an elevator system are provided by the present disclosure. The notification system for an elevator includes: a wake-up module, which is configured to wake up a user mobile terminal when the user mobile terminal enters a specified area, so that the user mobile terminal sends a request to a server; and the server, which is configured to receive a reminder item setting from an administrator, and which is configured to push a reminder item to the user mobile terminal upon receiving the request from the user mobile terminal, the reminder item including elevator repair or maintenance information. The system and method according to the present disclosure allows a user to conveniently know about elevator repair or maintenance information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Lieping Wei, Wenbo Huang, Heping Qiu, Jingyu Tong
  • Patent number: 12240733
    Abstract: An elevator-calling device and elevator system. The elevator-calling device includes a processor to receive an input instruction and send a signal to a main controller of an elevator system; a display device connected to the processor; a rotatable button, wherein the rotatable button is connected to the processor, and the rotatable button is pressable and rotatable in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, and wherein the rotatable button has an initial zero scale; and an assistant sound generating unit connected to the processor; wherein the processor is configured to have an assistant elevator-calling mode, in which a preset target floor is increased when the rotatable button rotates in the first direction, the preset target floor is decreased when the rotatable button rotates in the second direction, and the preset target floor is confirmed when the rotatable button is pressed at a non-zero scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Heping Qiu, Shanghua Yang
  • Patent number: 12234120
    Abstract: An aspect includes a system with an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to a conveyance apparatus of a conveyance system, a power management system configured to determine a charging schedule to recharge the energy storage device based at least in part on a status of the conveyance system, and a dispatching system configured to modify a dispatch schedule of the conveyance system based at least in part on the charging schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Enrico Manes, Suman Dwari, Stephen Savulak, Ronnie E. Thebeau
  • Patent number: 12234123
    Abstract: An elevator door interlock device, an elevator door interlock operation method and an elevator system. The elevator door interlock device is arranged on an elevator car and has a first state in which to operate a landing door lock at a current arrival position of the elevator car to open or close a landing door, and a second state in which it makes no contact with the landing door lock, and the elevator door interlock device is configured to be in the first state when the elevator car travels in a vertical direction, and to be in the second state when the elevator car travels in a horizontal direction and to switch to the first state to open or close the landing door after the elevator car reaches a landing door position, and to return to the second state when the elevator car continues to travel in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Xingang Gou
  • Patent number: 12234121
    Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of a method of remotely maintaining a connection status of a connection port of a passenger carrying system includes determining that the connection port is not connected to an authorized device, determining whether at least one criterion is satisfied while the connection port is not connected to an authorized device, and providing a notice to an authorized individual when the at least one criterion is satisfied and the connection port is not connected to an authorized device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak
  • Patent number: 12234126
    Abstract: A connection device and a connection method for detection of a tension member for an elevator. The connection device includes a plurality of electrical connection terminals and is configured to be detachably connected to an end portion of a tension member for an elevator. The tension member is configured for suspending an elevator car and/or a counterweight and has a covering layer and a load-bearing portion including a plurality of separate load-bearing core wires and covered by the covering layer. The respective one ends of the plurality of electrical connection terminals are electrically connected correspondingly to the load-bearing core wires located at the end portion and exposed outwardly and respective other ends are used for outward electrical connection, after the connection device is connected to the end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 12234122
    Abstract: Authorization management and authorization requesting for an elevator service request, and belongs to the field of elevator management technologies. An authorization management apparatus for an elevator service request according to the present invention comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive authorization request information from one or more personal mobile terminals, wherein the authorization request information comprises an elevator identifier of a corresponding elevator of an elevator system acquired by a corresponding personal mobile terminal and a terminal identifier of the personal mobile terminal mapped to the elevator identifier; and an authorization management unit configured to determine, at least according to a mapping relationship between the elevator identifier and the terminal identifier in the authorization request information, whether the authorization request information from the corresponding personal mobile terminal is allowed to be authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Yu Zhang, Kai Li, Siqi Ma, Haofeng Hou
  • Patent number: 12221320
    Abstract: A movement detection system for a passenger in the present invention includes: a first Bluetooth module (150) mounted in an elevator landing area; and a movement prediction unit (270) configured to predict, based on Bluetooth movement data, that a movement of a passenger in the elevator landing area is a normal movement or an abnormal movement. The movement detection system and a movement detection method in the present invention can automatically detect an abnormal movement of a passenger, and are especially applicable to an elevator system that completes an elevator call operation without an input operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Adriaan Joris H. Larmuseau, Changle Li
  • Patent number: 12214994
    Abstract: A turning device includes a hand disc coupled to an input shaft; a reduction gear set accommodated in a housing and connected to the input shaft and an output shaft; and a shaft connector for connecting the output shaft and a motor spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: FengKun Zhu, Hongliang Wu, James L. Hubbard
  • Patent number: 12214995
    Abstract: A safety brake system (40; 240) for use in a conveyance system. The safety brake system (40; 240) includes a guide rail (20) and a conveyance component moveable along the guide rail (20). The safety brake system (40; 240) includes a safety brake (42; 242), a linkage mechanism (56; 256) and an actuator (44; 144; 244) for the safety brake (42; 242). The safety brake (42; 242) is moveable between a non-braking position where the safety brake (42; 242) is not in engagement with the guide rail (20) and a braking position where the safety brake (42; 242) is engaged with the guide rail (20). The actuator (44; 144; 244) is configured to be mounted to the conveyance component and positioned between first and second ferromagnetic components. The actuator includes an array of magnetic components including a first magnetic component adjacent to and arranged between two second magnetic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Juan Antonio Illán García, Javier Muñoz Sotoca, Manuel Garcia Canales
  • Patent number: 12214993
    Abstract: Configuring stoppable floor information set for an elevator cabin of an elevator system. The elevator system of the present invention comprises an elevator cabin, an elevator control device and a wireless signal module which is configured to wirelessly receive a request of registering a destination floor from a passenger's personal mobile terminal and send a corresponding destination floor of the elevator cabin to the elevator control device based on the request of registering the destination floor; wherein the wireless signal module is further configured to obtain landing floor information corresponding to the elevator cabin from the elevator system, and the elevator system configures an stoppable floor information set corresponding to the elevator cabin based on the obtained landing floor information through a handheld terminal and/or the wireless signal module. The stoppable floor information set configured in the present invention is accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Lieping Wei
  • Patent number: 12208992
    Abstract: A method and assembly includes at least one suspension member that supports an elevator car and facilitates movement of the elevator car within a hoistway. A jacket encases the at least one suspension member. A coating at least partially covers the jacket, and the coating includes at least one light resistant property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Bardia Guilani, George Shaw
  • Patent number: 12202705
    Abstract: A method of monitoring health of an elevator system including: detecting, using a sensing apparatus, sensor data, the sensor data including at least one of an acceleration of an elevator car, temperature data of the elevator system, and pressure data proximate the elevator car; determining a health level of the elevator system in response to at least one of the acceleration of the elevator car, the temperature data of the elevator system, and the pressure data proximate the elevator car; determining whether the health level is greater than a selected threshold; determining that there is a potential health issue if the health level is greater than the selected threshold; determining one or more possible locations for the health level within an elevator shaft; determining a probability of each of the one or more possible locations; and displaying the probability of the health level being at a plurality of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Derk Oscar Pahlke
  • Patent number: 12187578
    Abstract: A protector (200) for an elevator car (102) includes a protective panel (202) and at least one magnet (204) mounted to the protective panel (202). The magnet (204) is configured to be attracted to an internal wall (106) of a passenger compartment (104) of an elevator car (102) so as to retain the protective panel (202) against the internal wall (106). The magnet (204) may be retained against a support (210) of the protector (200) by a retainer assembly (220). The protector (200) may further comprise an electrical device which comprises a lighting device (240) configured to emit light into the passenger compartment (104) of the elevator car (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Javier Muñoz Sotoca, Borja de Diego Restrepo
  • Patent number: 12187579
    Abstract: A system and method for adjustably positioning elevator guide rail. The system includes: an adjustment device arranged on a moving platform and having a clamping portion and a powering portion, the clamping portion being arranged to be capable of clamping an elevator guide rail to be installed through a power output from the powering portion and moving in a first, a second and/or a third directions, and the moving platform being capable of moving up and down in the first direction; a detection device arranged to detect current movement characteristics of the clamping portion when the elevator guide rail is not clamped or has been clamped by the clamping portion; and a control device connected to the detection device and the adjustment device, and arranged to adjust the position of the clamping portion in place by controlling the powering portion according to the movement characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Gang Huang, Xiaodong Shang, Shenhong Wang, Jianfeng Wu
  • Patent number: 12180033
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a controller; an elevator car; an elevator car controller mounted on the elevator car; a transceiver on the elevator car; an access point; the transceiver and the access point configured to provide wireless communications between the controller and the elevator car controller over a first communications path and a second communications path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Enrico Manes, Goran Djuknic
  • Patent number: 12180040
    Abstract: A load bearing tension member for an elevator system includes a plurality of tension elements arrayed across a tension member width. The tension elements are offset from a tension member central axis, the central axis bisecting a tension member thickness and extending across the tension member width. The tension elements include a plurality of fibers extending along a length of the tension element, and a matrix material in which the plurality of fibers are embedded. A jacket at least partially encapsulates the plurality of tension elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Jun Ma
  • Patent number: D1059195
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaofei Guo, Yunpeng Wang
  • Patent number: D1060095
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Zhe Li, Sisi Zheng