Patents Examined by Minh Truong
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Patent number: 10625984Abstract: A counterweight is provided including a counterweight frame including a crosshead. A counterweight hitch is operably coupled to the counterweight frame. The counterweight hitch includes a vertically stacked first sheave channel and a second sheave channel. Each of the first sheave channel and second sheave channel includes an interior cavity within which at least one individual sheave assembly is mounted. The plurality of individual sheave assemblies is substantially identical and arranged at an angle relative to a central plane of the counterweight frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Bruce St. Pierre, Daniel B. Davis, III, Bruce P. Swaybill
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Patent number: 10625983Abstract: A landing jamb including a jamb main body having surfaces on which a design plate being flat plate having a larger plate thickness than a plate thickness of the jamb main body is superposed. The design plate is fixed to the jamb main body by a plurality of sets of fixtures. Each of the fixtures of at least one set of fixtures includes a stud bolt, a main nut screwed over the stud bolt, and an intermediate member through which the stud bolt is caused to pass, and which is interposed between the main nut and the jamb main body. A melting point of a material used to form the intermediate member is lower than a melting point of a material used to form the stud bolt and a melting point of a material used to form the main nut.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Keigo Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10627047Abstract: A lubrication control system for intermittent dosing of lubricant to one or more lubrication stations in a centrifugal separator includes a lubricant supply arrangement for supplying lubricant to at least one lubrication station. At least one pump is supplying intermittent pulsed volumes of lubricant from the lubricant supply arrangement to at least one lubricant pulse monitoring device including an elastic chamber to receive said pulsed volumes of lubricant from the pump, an outlet export valve at an outlet from the elastic chamber closing when a pulsed volume is delivered to the elastic chamber and opening to deliver the lubricant to the lubrication station, and a pressure transmitter measuring the pressure in said elastic chamber at least when a pulsed volume is received in the elastic chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE ABInventor: Per Karlsson
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Patent number: 10619713Abstract: The present invention is to provide a regulation mechanism capable of dynamically adjusting balance of tension on two sides of a multi-groove transmission belt between a driving wheel and a driven wheel, which includes a pivot balance plate pivotally connected to a transmission mechanism; two smooth idlers and a multi-groove idler pivotally connected on the pivot balance plate respectively and spaced apart from each other by a first gap and a second gap respectively; and a tension regulating rod rotatably disposed between the transmission mechanism and the pivot balance plate for dynamically adjusting balance of tension on the two sides of the multi-groove transmission belt, such that the multi-groove transmission belt can pass these gaps sequentially to wind on the driving wheel and the driven wheel, thereby the outer and inner side surfaces thereof are abutted with the smooth idlers and the multi-groove idler respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: SOLID FOCUS INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Peter Chang
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Patent number: 10611605Abstract: The invention relates to an elevator car comprising a support frame, a floor structure and a ceiling structure, as well as at least one car door, and side walls extending between the floor structure and the ceiling structure, wherein the side walls are formed from several wall elements, which are aligned end-to-end or end-to side in corners, wherein the wall elements are composite panels consisting of at least one support material and at least one noise insulating material, that the elevator car comprises at least one flatbar, extending over the surface of both adjacent wall elements, and covering the joint between them, which flatbar comprises or is connectable with fixing elements to at least one of both adjacent wall elements. Via this means the joint between two noise insulating wall elements does prevent any essential noise leakage.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Pekka Halonen, Aki Haikonen
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Patent number: 10597259Abstract: A side of the seal member 35 is provided rotatably to a car-side door sill 31. The rotation of the side allows the side to be displaceable between a sealing position and an evacuation position. The link mechanism for rotating the seal member 35 releases an engagement with the car-side actuating member to rotate the seal member 35 to a sealing position and fixes the seal member 35 at the sealing position. The link mechanism engages with the actuating member and releases the fixing of the seal member 35 at a sealing position when the car door moves to the door-close end.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Miyuki Wakasa
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Patent number: 10589962Abstract: In an elevator hoisting machine mounting device, an elastic support device includes a supporting elastic body that deforms elastically upon reception of a load from a hoisting machine unit. A buckling suppression device disposed at a remove from the elastic support device in a horizontal direction includes first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies that sandwich, from above and below, a buckling suppression attachment portion provided on a lower portion of the hoisting machine unit, and a holding tool that holds the first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies on a machine base. The buckling suppression device suppresses, by an elastic restoring force of the first and second buckling suppression elastic bodies, buckling of the hoisting machine unit relative to the machine base due to the elastic deformation of the supporting elastic body.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuo Watanabe
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Patent number: 10589964Abstract: An elevator car (6) comprises at least one movable wall panel (16, 18), which is movable between a closed position, in which the at least one movable wall panel (16, 18) constitutes a portion of a sidewall of the elevator car (6), and at least one open position providing an opening (24) which allows access to areas outside the elevator from inside the elevator car (6). The at least one movable wall panel (16, 18) includes a first movable wall panel (16) constituting or supporting a car operation panel (7b).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventor: Juan Cortes
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Patent number: 10562745Abstract: Ground care maintenance systems, lift adapters for turning standard vehicle lifts into ground care maintenance or turf lifts, and methods for converting vehicle lifts to ground care maintenance or turf lifts are disclosed. The ground care maintenance system includes a two post pivoting arm lift and a lift adapter configured to couple to the two post pivoting arm lift. The lift adapter including four arm covers and two adapter members each coupled to two arm covers. The method for converting a vehicle lift to a ground care maintenance or turf lift and the turf lift back to the vehicle lift are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: MOHAWK RESOURCES LTD.Inventors: Ronald W. Veresko, Christopher H. Strom, Steven Perlstein
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Patent number: 10556777Abstract: A rope wheel assembly of an elevator includes a frame, a plurality of rope wheels for guiding ropes of the elevator, and a plurality of bearings. The rope wheels are mounted coaxially on the frame such that they are rotatable relative to the frame as well as relative to each other. The rope wheel assembly includes a central shaft passing through the rope wheels, which central shaft is non-rotatable relative to the frame, and the rope wheel assembly includes a hollow cylinder surrounding the central shaft, the hollow cylinder being mounted on the central shaft rotatably relative to the central shaft, each said rope wheel being mounted on the cylinder rotatably relative to the cylinder. The rope wheel assembly includes a bearing axially between rope wheels that are next to each other via which bearing they are supported on each other in axial direction. A compensator and an elevator arrangement implementing the rope wheel assembly are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: KONE CORPORATIONInventor: Markus Salmi
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Patent number: 10549971Abstract: A guide-roll arrangement for guiding movement of a second mast segment relative a first mast segment of a lift-truck, comprising a roll pin having opposing first and second ends, wherein the first end comprises a recess, and a roll supported on the roll pin; and a sliding element arranged in the recess, said sliding element comprising opposing contact and sliding surfaces, wherein a support piece is arranged in the recess and comprising a contact surface for supporting the sliding element, wherein the contact surface of the sliding element is supported on the contact surface of the support piece and wherein one of the contact surfaces of the support piece and the sliding element is concave and the other is convex.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden ABInventor: Mikael Nordenhem
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Patent number: 10544717Abstract: A method of distributing oil to a component within a gas turbine engine includes directing a first oil flow from an oil source to an engine component and back to the oil source, directing a second oil flow from the oil source to a generator driven by the engine and back to the oil source, monitoring a parameter of the second oil flow downstream of the generator and upstream of the oil source, detecting a contaminant in the second oil flow based on the parameter, and reducing the second oil flow to the generator when the contaminant is detected without reducing the first oil flow to the engine component. A shared oil system for a component of a gas turbine engine and a generator driven by the gas turbine engine is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: David Waddleton, Daniel Matthew McGuire
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Patent number: 10544023Abstract: A guide-roll arrangement for guiding movement of a first member relative a second member of a lift-truck, comprising a roll pin having opposing first and second ends, wherein the first end comprises a recess; and a roll supported on the roll pin; and a sliding element arranged in the recess, said sliding element comprising opposing contact and sliding surfaces, wherein a support piece is arranged in the recess and comprising a contact surface for supporting the sliding element, wherein the contact surface of the sliding element is supported on the contact surface of the support piece and wherein one of the contact surfaces of the support piece and the sliding element is concave and the other is convex.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden ABInventor: Mikael Nordenhem
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Patent number: 10538415Abstract: A ceiling unit includes a first side beam supported by at least one of a plurality of upright columns erected on a floor plate of an elevator car, a second side beam supported parallel to the first side beam by a different upright column, among the plurality of upright columns, from the upright column supporting the first side beam, a rear beam that connects respective rear side end portions of the first and second side beams, and a ceiling plate supported by the first and second side beams and the rear beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Naoyuki Maruyama
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Patent number: 10539224Abstract: A lubricating device of a gear apparatus for a vehicle lubricates a low-rotation-side gear and a high-rotation-side gear meshing with the low-rotation-side gear. The lubricating device comprises a first tooth surface lubricating oil supply part configured to supply a lubricating oil directly to a tooth surface position located more upstream of a rotating direction of the low-rotation-side gear than a meshing position of the low-rotation-side gear with the high-rotation-side gear so as to spray some of the lubricating oil from the tooth surface position toward a tooth surface of the high-rotation-side gear, and an in-shaft lubricating oil supply part configured to supply the lubricating oil into a shaft of the high-rotation-side gear.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Hori, Hakuba Okuno, Yukinobu Nishikawa, Hiroaki Kiyokami
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Patent number: 10526172Abstract: A mechanical hoistway access control device for an elevator landing door includes a first blocking member mounted on a position on a landing door frame above a landing door, and a second blocking member mounted on a position on a car door frame above a car door. The first blocking member is pivotably attached between an upright position and a first horizontal position extending in the door opening direction about a horizontal shaft. The second blocking member is pivotably attached between an upright position and a second horizontal position about a horizontal shaft, the second horizontal position being where the second blocking member protrudes out to the landing door side to block movement of the first blocking member.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Daisuke Meguro, Hiromitsu Miyajima, Atsunori Kondo
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Patent number: 10519006Abstract: The invention concerns an elevator guide rail bracket for securing a guide rail section to a base via a counterpart, the guide rail bracket comprising a face, a pair of fixed claws arranged into the face, and a fastening part with fastening elements. The claws form a claw coupling with the guide rail section. The claw coupling has a fitting position and a retaining position. The guide rail bracket is attached to the guide rail section by fitting the guide rail section between the claws and turning the guide rail bracket from the fitting position to the retaining position.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Richard Baker, Jari Hakkila
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Patent number: 10513419Abstract: A slope-adaptive inclined special elevator includes a bumper, an elevator car system, a slope guide rail system, a counter-weight system, a traction machine, a governing rope governor, and a traction rope guiding wheel. The two ends of the traction rope are connected to the elevator car system and the counter-weight system respectively, and the traction rope is towed and lifted under the driving action of the traction machine and the guiding action of the traction rope guiding wheel; over-speed protection is realized by means of the governing rope governor and a safety gear linkage and the bumper; to adapt to slope variations, the car body is leveled automatically by an automatic leveling assembly, the traction rope is guided forcibly via traction rope lifting devices and traction rope pressing devices, and the governing rope is guided forcibly via governing rope lifting devices and governing rope pressing devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignees: DONGNAN ELEVATOR CO, LTD, CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Guohua Cao, Zhencai Zhu, Lei Wei, Jiancong Qin, Xiaoguang Bo, Weihong Peng, Yiping Ma, Lei Wang
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Patent number: 10501288Abstract: A seal member for sealing a gap between a car-side door sill and a landing-side door sill is slidable between a sealing position and a retracted position and is driven by a link mechanism. The seal member is connected to an actuation spring that receives a movement force toward the sealing position. The link mechanism releases engagement with the actuating member in synchronization with a start of a door open operation of the car door to permit sliding toward the sealing position caused by the actuation spring. The link mechanism is engaged with the actuating member of the car door side in synchronization with movement of the car door toward a door close end to move the seal member to the retracted position resisting to the actuation spring.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Taku Yoshida
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Patent number: 10479651Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor is rotatable about a central axis of the machine. The machine further includes a stator having a stator hub and a plurality of stator windings positioned at the stator hub and located radially inboard of the plurality of permanent magnets. A plurality of fins extend radially inwardly from an inner surface of the stator hub.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventor: Zlatko Strbuncelj