Patents Assigned to ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG
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Publication number: 20160251202Abstract: An example elevator system may include a shaft in which a first elevator car and a second elevator car positioned below the first elevator car are separately movable up and down in a vertical direction along a common guideway. The first elevator car may be coupled to a first counterweight by first suspension ropes and by first compensation ropes, and the second elevator car may be coupled to a second counterweight by second suspension ropes and second compensation ropes. Further, first and second ends of the first compensation ropes may be secured to the first counterweight or to the first elevator car. The first compensation ropes may be guided around at least one roller positioned on a bottom surface of the first elevator car or on the counterweight.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Jörg Müller, Holger Zerelles, Bernd Altenburger, Ronald Dietze, Juri Schäfer
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Publication number: 20160244299Abstract: An elevator installation includes a shaft in which at least two elevator cars are arranged one above the other and are capable of travel upward and downward in a vertical direction separately from one another, wherein each elevator car is assigned a travel drive. The elevator cars are capable of travel with large and small spacings to one another without the risk of collision by coupling at least two elevator cars together by way of a variable-length, releasable coupling device, wherein the spacing between the coupled-together elevator cars can be varied, in a manner dependent on the relative speed between the two elevator cars, with the aid of at least one of the travel drives.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Holger ZERELLES, Bernd ALTENBURGER, Ronald DIETZE, Juri SCHÄFER
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Publication number: 20160207738Abstract: An example elevator system may include at least one elevator cage that is displaceable in an elevator shaft, a connection means that has a first elevator cage-side end and a second end, and a suspension disposed on the elevator cage. The connection means may include, for instance, a balance chain or belt. The first end of the connection means may be fastened to the suspension on the elevator cage. Further, the example elevator system may include a support unit that exerts a force on the suspension that counteracts a force acting on the suspension due to a mass of the connection means. The support unit may include a rope, a deflection roller, and a counterweight, wherein the rope is fastened to the counterweight and the suspension and is guided over the deflection roller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Bernd ALTENBURGER, Holger ZERELLES, Darrell HERTEL
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Publication number: 20160200550Abstract: The invention relates to a cable clamp for a cable of a lift system, having a supporting device which has a wedge receptacle with a first supporting surface and a second supporting surface which is arranged at an angle from the first supporting surface, and having a wedge-shaped clamping device which can be moved to and fro in the wedge receptacle between a clamped position and a released position and has a first clamping surface which lies opposite the first supporting surface and a second clamping surface which lies opposite the second supporting surface, wherein the two clamping surfaces are oriented obliquely with respect to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Günter REUTER, Gerhard SCHIFFNER, Karl-Otto SCHÖLLKOPF, Herrmann WILTS
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Publication number: 20160194182Abstract: An example electromotive linear drive mechanism for moving walkways for conveying people or objects may comprise a long stator as an active primary part positioned along a direction of movement of a moving walkway, as well as a plurality of passive secondary parts that are movable with respect to the active primary part and are arranged with one another along the direction of movement. The long stator may have a plurality of successive long stator sections in the form of coil groups along the direction of movement. Each long stator section may have its own control device that is configured to move the secondary parts using control parameters stipulated for the respective long stator section. Further, example methods for operating the electromotive linear drive mechanism may involve predefining different movement profiles for the respective control devices for at least some of the long stator sections such that the secondary parts move along the long stator in a non-uniform manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Jürgen FRANTZHELD, Qinghua ZHENG, Friedrich LÖSER
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Publication number: 20160167930Abstract: People movers, such as escalators and moving walkways, for instance, may comprise a support member belt comprised of a plurality of support members guided on rails. The support members may be, for example, steps of an escalator or pallets of a moving walkway. Each support member may be secured to a pair of drag rollers that runs on the rails, and each support member may include a roller spindle that is held rotationally conjointly in or on a body of the support member. Between the roller spindle and the body of the support member, there may be a plug-in connection by way of which the roller spindle is maintained against an undercut under bias of a latching device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Reiner LUDWIG, Detlev LINDEMEIER
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Publication number: 20160083223Abstract: The invention concerns a lift system with at least one lift car able to ride in a lift shaft, while a travelling cable is provided, having a first end at the lift car side and a second end at the shaft side, wherein the weight force of the travelling cable is at least partially channelled into a traction means or balancing means engaging with the lift carType: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP AG, THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventor: Bernd ALTENBURGER
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Patent number: 9260275Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling gear device for entraining a shaft door by means of an elevator car door that can be actuated by a door drive for elevator devices, comprising entrainment means (110) provided on the side of the elevator car door and counter entrainment means (210) arranged on the side of the shaft door. The counter entrainment means can be acted on by the entrainment means (110) for entraining the shaft door, wherein the entrainment means (110) and/or the counter entrainment means (210) can be lowered at least partially in the elevator car door or the shaft door.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventors: Guenter Reuter, Gerald Steinz, Thomas Netzer, Aleksandr Gentner, Petros Burutjis, Adam Kolasinski
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Patent number: 9206016Abstract: An electric motor for an elevator drive comprises a motor housing; a number of motor windings which are connected to at least one terminal; ribs or webs being arranged on the motor housing; and the at least one terminal is arranged between the ribs or webs.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Olaf Breidenstein, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Patent number: 9169107Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for mounting lift components of a lift system in a vertical shaft of a building with the aid of a mounting system which can be moved in the shaft, wherein the lift system has at least one cage which can travel along guide rails in the shaft. In order to develop the method to achieve shorter fitting times and less dependency upon how advanced the construction of the building is, according to the invention a mounting system is positioned in the shaft, having a support platform and a mounting platform, which are disposed one above the other, and having a lifting and pulling device, the support platform and the mounting platform being alternately fixed in position in the shaft and the platform which is not fixed in position at any one time is displaced in the vertical direction by means of the lifting and pulling device relative to the platform fixed in position. In addition, the invention relates to a mounting system for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Hermann Wilts, Martin Madera, Michael Neumeier, Holger Zerelles
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Publication number: 20150239708Abstract: A system and method relate to magnetic hoisting member monitoring in an elevator system having an elevator car, a hoisting motor, and a magnetic hoisting member. A monitoring system is used that includes a magnetic field producer, a giant magneto-resistance sensor, a housing unit, and an indicator system. The housing unit is structured to position the magnetic hoisting member of the elevator system relative to the magnetic field producer and the giant magneto-resistance sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Michael A. Palazzola, Jie Xu, Peter Feldhusen, Stephen D. Allen, Alan Mano Parker, Frank Dudde, Olivia L. Stone
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Publication number: 20150166306Abstract: The invention relates to a lift door having a bearing unit with a supporting unit and at least one running roller arrangement which is attached to the supporting unit and which has a running roller and a bearing axle, on which the running roller is rotatably mounted, and a door leaf attached to the bearing unit, wherein the bearing unit is designed to displaceably mount the lift door in a door transom, in that the running roller of the running roller arrangement can roll on a rail of the door transom, wherein the running roller arrangement is designed to be installed on the supporting unit and removed from the supporting unit as a unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Maurizio Esposito, Bernd Heim, Adam Kolasinski
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Patent number: 9051157Abstract: A method for monitoring a brake which is operated by a spring force and a device for monitoring the force, comprising the steps of taking into account a force which is required to load or bias at least one spring by means of the device for monitoring the force.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Olaf Breidenstein, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Patent number: 9016438Abstract: A carrying device (1b) for relocating an elevator car (1c) of an elevator, which carrying device is movable in at least one direction (V) not corresponding to a longitudinal direction (B) of an elevator shaft in which the elevator car (1c) is moved in operation, wherein the elevator car (1c) is movable in the longitudinal direction (B) of the elevator shaft from an operating position into a receiving position in the carrying device (1b) and, in the receiving position, is connected to the carrying device (1b) and movable in the at least one direction (V) commonly with the carrying device (1b).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventor: Stefan Altenburger
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Publication number: 20150107186Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for mounting lift components of a lift system in a vertical shaft of a building with the aid of a mounting system which can be moved in the shaft, wherein the lift system has at least one cage which can travel along guide rails in the shaft. In order to develop the method to achieve shorter fitting times and less dependency upon how advanced the construction of the building is, according to the invention a mounting system is positioned in the shaft, having a support platform and a mounting platform, which are disposed one above the other, and having a lifting and pulling device, the support platform and the mounting platform being alternately fixed in position in the shaft and the platform which is not fixed in position at any one time is displaced in the vertical direction by means of the lifting and pulling device relative to the platform fixed in position. In addition, the invention relates to a mounting system for carrying out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Hermann Wilts, Martin Madera, Michael Neumeier, Holger Zerelles
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Publication number: 20150074971Abstract: A method for positioning counter entraining means which are provided on a shaft door of a lift installation, with respect to entraining means provided on a lift cage door of a lift cage of the lift installation, wherein the shaft door and the lift cage door can be coupled to each other by the entraining means acting upon the counter entraining means.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Petros Burutjis, Gerald Steinz, Maurizio Esposito
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Publication number: 20140368062Abstract: Disclosed is a linear synchronous motor comprising an elongate stator extending in a longitudinal direction and having a plurality of coil windings, and a runner having a multiplicity of successive magnets disposed along the length thereof the longitudinal direction. The elongate stator has a plurality of elongate-stator segments arranged successively in the longitudinal direction, with each elongate-stator segment separated from the next successive elongate-stator segment by a gap. A total section length of one elongate-stator segment and an adjacent gap is a constant value over a plurality of successive elongate-stator segments, wherein a runner length measured in the longitudinal direction across all magnets successively disposed on the runner, is an integer multiple of the total section length.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Friedrich Loeser, Qinghua Zheng
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Patent number: 8863909Abstract: A braking device (2) for braking a lift car which moves relative to a lift shaft, having at least one braking module (6) which is provided in order to interact with a device, and having a catch (4) which can be adjusted between two operating positions (36, 360, 38), wherein the catch (4), in a first operating position (36, 360), is connected to the at least one braking module (6) such that the catch (4) transmits a release force (22) to the at least one braking module (6), and wherein the catch (4), in a second operating position (38), is separated from the at least one braking module (6), and the at least one braking module (6) is therefore in contact with the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventors: Frank Dudde, Philllip Federle
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Patent number: 8826516Abstract: A method for applying at least one magnet, a holding device for such a method, and an arrangement comprising a number of holding devices. The method is used for applying at least one magnet to a surface of a part made of a magnetic material. The at least one magnet is moved towards the surface of the part while being retained in the holding device using a retaining force, and a force of attraction that acts against the retaining force is substantially directed towards the part and is applied to the at least one magnet such that the magnet is transferred to the surface of the part as soon as the magnet has been moved towards the surface of the part so as to be at a certain distance therefrom at which the force of attraction exceeds the retaining force.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventors: Stefan Bopple, Thomas Hannusch
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Patent number: 8453799Abstract: An actuator for a speed governor of an elevator system includes a governor wheel equipped with at least two flyweights. The governor wheel can be driven by a governor cable looped around it. An actuator wheel is stationary in a basic position. A coupler engages the actuator wheel when the governor wheel attains an actuation speed and thus couples with the governor wheel so that the actuator wheel is caused to rotate. An elastic material, preferably transmitting a high degree of friction, is provided between the coupler and the actuator wheel. The actuator wheel has a lining or tire of the elastic material and/or the coupler is equipped with the elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventors: Jochen Müller, Christian Schulz