Patents by Inventor Andres Monzon
Andres Monzon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230356977Abstract: An elevator car (2, 2?), includes a first safety brake (8, 8?), including a first electronic safety actuator (512, 612), the first safety brake (8, 8?) positioned on a first side of the elevator car (2, 2?) at a first height (20, 20?); and a second safety brake (10, 10?), including a second electronic safety actuator (512, 612), the second safety brake (10, 10?) positioned on a second side of the elevator car (2, 2?) at a second height (22, 22?); the first height is different to the second height.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Andres Monzon, Ariana Marco, Francisco Sanz, Antonio de Miguel Urquijo, Agustin Jimenez-Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Illan, Luis Mena Rosell, Jose-Miguel Aguado-Martin, Luis Martí Sánchez, Juan Jose Fernandez
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Patent number: 11787663Abstract: An elevator car (2, 2?), includes a first safety brake (8, 8?), including a first electronic safety actuator (512, 612), the first safety brake (8, 8?) positioned on a first side of the elevator car (2, 2?) at a first height (20, 20?); and a second safety brake (10, 10?), including a second electronic safety actuator (512, 612), the second safety brake (10, 10?) positioned on a second side of the elevator car (2, 2?) at a second height (22, 22?); the first height is different to the second height.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Andres Monzon, Ariana Marco, Francisco Sanz, Antonio de Miguel Urquijo, Agustin Jimenez-Gonzalez, Juan-Antonio Illan, Luis Mena Rosell, Jose-Miguel Aguado-Martin, Luis Martí Sánchez, Juan Jose Fernandez
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Publication number: 20220177275Abstract: An elevator car enclosure (106) which defines a volume (142) for receiving a load to be transported, wherein the elevator car enclosure (106) is formed from a single moulded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Andres Monzon Simon, Mario Sanz Abia, Ariana Marco Foruny, Manuel Garcia Canales
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Patent number: 11286132Abstract: An elevator system (2) comprises a hoistway (4) extending between a plurality of landings (8a, 8b, 8c); an elevator car (60) configured for moving along the hoistway (4) between the plurality of landings (8a, 8b, 8c); a load/weight sensor (44) configured for detecting the load of the elevator car (60); a speed detector (34) configured for detecting the speed of the elevator car (60); and an elevator safety system. The elevator safety system comprises a safety gear (20) configured for stopping, upon activation, any movement of the elevator car (60); and an electronic safety controller (30) configured for activating the safety gear (20) when the detected speed of the elevator car (60) exceeds a set speed limit. The electronic safety controller (30) is configured for setting the speed limit as a function of the load detected by the load/weight sensor (44).Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Andres Monzon, Fernando Del Rio
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Patent number: 10589963Abstract: A safety gear alignment system for an elevator system includes an elevator shaft and an elevator car having an interior region and disposed in and moveable within the elevator shaft. Also included is an upright structure operatively coupled to the elevator car, the upright structure defining at least one aperture. Further included is a safety gear member having a brake and a frame, the frame operatively coupled to the upright structure. Yet further included is at least one access region defined by the frame of the safety gear member, the access region accessible from the interior region of the elevator car and wherein measurement between the frame and a guide rail of the elevator shaft is made for alignment of the safety gear member relative to the guide rail.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Justin Billard, Andrés Monzon, Richard N. Fargo, Nicolas Fonteneau
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Publication number: 20200048032Abstract: An elevator system (2) comprises a hoistway (4) extending between a plurality of landings (8a, 8b, 8c); an elevator car (60) configured for moving along the hoistway (4) between the plurality of landings (8a, 8b, 8c); a load/weight sensor (44) configured for detecting the load of the elevator car (60); a speed detector (34) configured for detecting the speed of the elevator car (60); and an elevator safety system. The elevator safety system comprises a safety gear (20) configured for stopping, upon activation, any movement of the elevator car (60); and an electronic safety controller (30) configured for activating the safety gear (20) when the detected speed of the elevator car (60) exceeds a set speed limit. The electronic safety controller (30) is configured for setting the speed limit as a function of the load detected by the load/weight sensor (44).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Andres Monzon, Fernando Del Rio
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Publication number: 20190389695Abstract: An elevator system (2) comprises a hoistway (4) extending between a plurality of landings (8a, 8b, 8c); an elevator car (60) configured for moving in two opposite directions along the hoistway (4); and an elevator safety system. The elevator safety system comprises a bidirectional safety gear (20) configured for stopping, upon activation, any movement of the elevator car (60) traveling in any of the two opposite directions; and a safety controller (30) configured for activating the bidirectional safety gear (20) when a predefined safety condition is met. The safety controller (30) is switchable between a plurality of different safety modes, each safety mode setting at least one predefined safety condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Andrés Monzon, Mario Sanz Abia, Ruben Marante-Chasco, Fernando Del Rio
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Patent number: 10252886Abstract: A combined guide rail for an elevator system includes a car guide rail portion to guide an elevator car along an elevator car travel path and a counterweight guide rail portion to guide a counterweight of the elevator system along a counterweight travel path. A connecting portion extends from the car guide rail portion to the counterweight guide rail portion. The car guide rail portion, the counterweight guide rail portion and the connecting portion are formed together as a single unitary structure from a single piece of material.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Juan Jose Fernandez, Andres Monzon, Francisco Luis Sanz, Santiago Gil
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Publication number: 20190100410Abstract: An elevator car (4) comprises at least two maintenance openings (14, 16): an overhead maintenance opening (14) provided in the ceiling of the elevator car (4) for providing access to at least one component arranged on top of and/or above the elevator car (4) and a lateral maintenance opening (16) provided in one sidewall (18) of the car for providing access to at least one component arranged besides the elevator car (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Carlo Mezzadri, Ricardo Cano-Torres, Gianluca Foschini, Juan Jose Fernandez, Antonio De Miguel Urquijo, Jose Luis Hortelano, Andres Monzon, Rosa Querejeta-Marco, Raul Gomez
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Publication number: 20180118518Abstract: A safety gear alignment system for an elevator system includes an elevator shaft and an elevator car having an interior region and disposed in and moveable within the elevator shaft. Also included is an upright structure operatively coupled to the elevator car, the upright structure defining at least one aperture. Further included is a safety gear member having a brake and a frame, the frame operatively coupled to the upright structure. Yet further included is at least one access region defined by the frame of the safety gear member, the access region accessible from the interior region of the elevator car and wherein measurement between the frame and a guide rail of the elevator shaft is made for alignment of the safety gear member relative to the guide rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: May 3, 2018Inventors: Justin Billard, Andrés Monzon, Richard N. Fargo, Nicolas Fonteneau
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Patent number: 9919897Abstract: A governor includes a housing, a pulley, a belt, a first flyweight, and second flyweight. The housing defines a housing cavity. The pulley is disposed at least partially within the housing cavity. The belt is in contact with the pulley. The belt is operable to rotate the pulley at a rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are pivotably connected to the pulley, and are biased towards one another. At least a portion of the first and second flyweights are operable to move away from the pulley when the rotational speed of the pulley is increasing toward a predetermined threshold rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are operable to contact the housing, and thereby transmit rotational energy to the housing, when the rotational speed of the pulley is equal to at least the predetermined threshold rotational speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Jose Miguel Aguado, Jesus Canizares, Andres Monzon, Juan Jose Fernandez, Luis Marti, Javier Narrillos
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Publication number: 20170008733Abstract: A combined guide rail for an elevator system includes a car guide rail portion to guide an elevator car along an elevator car travel path and a counterweight guide rail portion to guide a counterweight of the elevator system along a counterweight travel path. A connecting portion extends from the car guide rail portion to the counterweight guide rail portion. The car guide rail portion, the counterweight guide rail portion and the connecting portion are formed together as a single unitary structure from a single piece of material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Juan Jose Fernandez, Andres Monzon, Francisco Luis Sanz, Santiago Gil
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Publication number: 20160362277Abstract: A governor includes a housing, a pulley, a belt, a first flyweight, and second flyweight. The housing defines a housing cavity. The pulley is disposed at least partially within the housing cavity. The belt is in contact with the pulley. The belt is operable to rotate the pulley at a rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are pivotably connected to the pulley, and are biased towards one another. At least a portion of the first and second flyweights are operable to move away from the pulley when the rotational speed of the pulley is increasing toward a predetermined threshold rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are operable to contact the housing, and thereby transmit rotational energy to the housing, when the rotational speed of the pulley is equal to at least the predetermined threshold rotational speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2015Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Jose Miguel Aguado, Jesus Canizares, Andres Monzon, Juan Jose Fernandez, Luis Marti, Javier Narrillos
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Publication number: 20160101965Abstract: Embodiments are directed to obtaining an elevator with low overhead space and low pit space by positioning a car of the elevator to have a space from a vertical wall of a hoist-way, mounting a governor in the space between the car and the wall, and mounting a sheave to the car, wherein the sheave is positioned in a projection of the car to the wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2013Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Juan José FERNÁNDEZ, Francisco Luis SANZ, Agustin JIMÉNEZ-GONZÁLEZ, Juan QUILES, Antonio de Miguel URQUIJO, Andrés MONZÓN, Ricardo CANO TORRES, Esmeralda DE DIEGO, Elviro LORENZO MICHELENA
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Publication number: 20130098711Abstract: A device for stopping an elevator car travelling up or down along guiderails installed in a hoistway includes a chassis mounted on a side of the car, and an overspeed governor, a guiding device and safety gear mounted on the chassis. The overspeed governor detects when a car overspeed is occurring. The guiding device guides the elevator car along a guiderail. The safety gear is vertically aligned with the guiding device on the chassis and stops the elevator car by frictionally engaging the elevator guiderail, which passes through a channel formed in each of the safety gear and the guiding device. The safety gear causes the elevator car to stop by frictionally engaging the guiderail when the overspeed governor detects a car overspeed is occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2010Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Jose Miguel Aguado, Luis Marti, Jose Luis Vergara, Andres Monzon, Francisco Luis Sanz, Francisco Cervera
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Patent number: 8365870Abstract: An elevator car includes a foldable handrail mounted on top of the car. Safety switches are associated with the foldable handrail including a first safety switch and a second safety switch. The first safety switch is closed only when the handrail is folded in a fully retracted position. The second safety switch is closed when the handrail is unfolded in a fully deployed position. A safety chain is associated with the first and second safety switches for supplying power to an elevator drive system in a normal operation or an inspection operation depending on the state of the first and second safety switches.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Gérard Sirigu, Pascal Rebillard, Olivier Dukacz, Dominique Goulet, Alain Simonot, Jean-Noel Cloux, David Pillin, Florence Picard, Frédéric Beauchaud, Thomas Coquerelle, Michel Beeuwsaert, Nicolas Fonteneau, Andres Monzon, Fernando Del Rio, Peter Herkel, Dirk Tegtmeier
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Publication number: 20120175193Abstract: The elevator has a car movable vertically within a shaft between lower and upper end positions and a drive system coupled to a traction system for controlling movement of the car. A limit switch which is open when the car is in a selected distance range from one of the end positions. The limit switch forms part of a power line supplying power to the drive system for controlling movement of the car in a direction towards that end position in an inspection operation. Thus movement of the car is prevented only in that direction when the car is in the selected distance range in an inspection operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Gérard Sirigu, Pascal Rebillard, Olivier Dukacz, Dominique Goulet, Alain Simonot, Jean-Noel Cloux, David Pillin, Florence Picard, Frèdèric Beauchaud, Thomas Coquerelle, Michel Beeuwsaert, Nicolas Fonteneau, Andres Monzon, Fernando Del Rio, Peter Herkel, Dirk Tegtmeier
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Patent number: 8162108Abstract: The elevator has a car movable vertically within a shaft between lower and upper end positions and a drive system coupled to a traction system for controlling movement of the car. A limit switch which is open when the car is in a selected distance range from one of the end positions. The limit switch forms part of a power line supplying power to the drive system for controlling movement of the car in a direction towards that end position in an inspection operation. Thus movement of the car is prevented only in that direction when the car is in the selected distance range in an inspection operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Gérard Sirigu, Pascal Rebillard, Olivier Dukacz, Dominique Goulet, Alain Simonot, Jean-Noel Cloux, David Pillin, Florence Picard, Frédéric Beauchaud, Thomas Coquerelle, Michel Beeuwsaert, Nicolas Fonteneau, Andres Monzon, Fernando Del Rio, Peter Herkel, Dirk Tegtmeier
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Patent number: 8113318Abstract: An elevator machine (10) includes a machine shaft (14, 14?) and a sheave (26) that rotates with the machine shaft (14, 14?). A motor (12) selectively rotates the machine shaft (14, 14?). A brake (30) having at least one brake armature (36) selectively moves a brake rotor (28) coupled for rotation with the shaft (14, 14?) between a braking position and a released position. The brake rotor (28) selectively contacts a braking surface (44) formed directly on a housing (20, 22, 84, 90) to resist rotation of the machine shaft (14, 14?).Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Andres Monzon, Jose Miguel Aguado, Juan Manuel Oronoz, Juan Martin, Antonio Sanchez, Jose Sevilleja
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Patent number: 8061486Abstract: An elevator system has a hoistway (4) and an elevator car (2) arranged to travel vertically within the hoistway, the hoistway is provided with a sensing arrangement such as an infrared curtain (10, 12) for detecting the presence of a person on top of the car as the car approaches the top of the hoistway (8). The elevator system is arranged to limit further upward movement of the car in the event that a person is detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2004Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Otis Elevator CompanyInventors: Andrés Monzon, Ricardo Cano, Armondo Serviá, Jose Cabellero