Patents Examined by Robert Nuppi
  • Instantaneous elevator up-peak sector assignment
    Patent number: 5511634
    Abstract: Instantaneous car assignment is combined with sectoring for providing an elevator dispatching scheme in which, in response to a hall call registered at the lobby, a car not assigned to a sector and having the lowest remaining response time of all such cars is assigned to the next available sector and the sector assignment is displayed to passengers immediately on a screen in the lobby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Otis Elevator Company
    Inventors: Zuhair S. Bahjat, Thomas R. Bean