Patents by Inventor George Scott Copeland
George Scott Copeland 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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Patent number: 11905142Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator situated in a hoistway of a building includes detecting sway of the building, determining characteristics of the detected sway including a plurality of frequencies and associated periods of the sway, determining an expected sway of an elongated member of the elevator system based on the determined characteristics, and controlling at least one of position and movement of an elevator car in the hoistway based on the expected sway.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Randy Roberts, George Scott Copeland, Luis C. Encinas Carreno, Patricia Derwinski, Cuauhtemoc Castro
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Patent number: 11873191Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator propulsion device includes at least one drive member configured to engage and climb along a vertical structure, a motor module including at least one motor configured to cause movement of the drive member and corresponding movement of an elevator cab, and a power supply including at least one energy source that is configured to provide power to the motor. The power supply is situated adjacent the motor module such that a mass of the at least one energy source provides a noise barrier to reduce transmission of noise from the motor into the elevator cab.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventor: George Scott Copeland
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Patent number: 11780704Abstract: A component monitoring system for monitoring a component of a conveyance system including a conveyance apparatus including: a camera configured to capture a sequence images of the component, the sequence of images being motion data; and a processor configured to determine an evaluation summary of the component in response to at least the motion data.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: George Scott Copeland, Pradeep Miriyala, Rachit Sahgal, Jinho Song
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Publication number: 20230234810Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of system includes at least one detector that detects a horizontal position of elevator roping at a selected vertical location. The detector provides an indication of the horizontal position at the selected vertical location in two dimensions. A processor determines at least an amplitude and a frequency of sway of the elevator roping in each of the two dimensions at the selected vertical location based on the indication from the detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Randy ROBERTS, George Scott COPELAND, Patricia DERWINSKI
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Publication number: 20220267118Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator situated in a hoistway of a building includes detecting sway of the building, determining characteristics of the detected sway including a plurality of frequencies and associated periods of the sway, determining an expected sway of an elongated member of the elevator system based on the determined characteristics, and controlling at least one of position and movement of an elevator car in the hoistway based on the expected sway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Randy Roberts, George Scott Copeland, Luis C. Encinas Carreno, Patricia Derwinski, Cuauhtemoc Castro
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Patent number: 11292693Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator situated in a hoistway of a building includes detecting sway of the building, determining characteristics of the detected sway including a plurality of frequencies and associated periods of the sway, determining an expected sway of an elongated member of the elevator system based on the determined characteristics, and controlling at least one of position and movement of an elevator car in the hoistway based on the expected sway.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Randy Roberts, George Scott Copeland, Luis C. Encinas Carreno, Patricia Derwinski, Cuauhtemoc Castro
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Publication number: 20220063961Abstract: An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator propulsion device includes at least one drive member configured to engage and climb along a vertical structure, a motor module including at least one motor configured to cause movement of the drive member and corresponding movement of an elevator cab, and a power supply including at least one energy source that is configured to provide power to the motor. The power supply is situated adjacent the motor module such that a mass of the at least one energy source provides a noise barrier to reduce transmission of noise from the motor into the elevator cab.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventor: George Scott COPELAND
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Patent number: 11198589Abstract: An illustrative example elevator system includes a hoistway that establishes a vertical pathway. The hoistway has an interior border established by a plurality of stationary boundaries. The interior border defines a first area. An elevator car is within the hoistway and has an exterior border that defines a second area that is smaller than the first area. At least one hoistway liner assembly is situated in the hoistway. The hoistway liner assembly includes a plurality of bumpers that collectively establish a protected area that is smaller than the first area and larger than the second area such that the elevator car can move through the protected area. The protected area prevents contact between the load bearing assembly and the interior border of the hoistway.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: George Scott Copeland, Patricia Derwinski, Richard K. Pulling, Randy Roberts
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Publication number: 20210245995Abstract: A component monitoring system for monitoring a component of a conveyance system including a conveyance apparatus including: a camera configured to capture a sequence images of the component, the sequence of images being motion data; and a processor configured to determine an evaluation summary of the component in response to at least the motion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: George Scott Copeland, Pradeep Miriyala, Rachit Sahgal, Jinho Song
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Publication number: 20200283268Abstract: An illustrative example elevator system includes a hoistway that establishes a vertical pathway. The hoistway has an interior border established by a plurality of stationary boundaries. The interior border defines a first area. An elevator car is within the hoistway and has an exterior border that defines a second area that is smaller than the first area. At least one hoistway liner assembly is situated in the hoistway. The hoistway liner assembly includes a plurality of bumpers that collectively establish a protected area that is smaller than the first area and larger than the second area such that the elevator car can move through the protected area. The protected area prevents contact between the load bearing assembly and the interior border of the hoistway.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: George Scott COPELAND, Patricia DERWINSKI, Richard K. PULLING, Randy ROBERTS
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Publication number: 20200255260Abstract: An illustrative example method of controlling an elevator situated in a hoistway of a building includes detecting sway of the building, determining characteristics of the detected sway including a plurality of frequencies and associated periods of the sway, determining an expected sway of an elongated member of the elevator system based on the determined characteristics, and controlling at least one of position and movement of an elevator car in the hoistway based on the expected sway.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Randy Roberts, George Scott Copeland, Luis C. Encinas Carreno, Patricia Derwinski, Cuauhtemoc Castro
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Patent number: 10723588Abstract: A system and method of measuring and diagnosing the ride quality of an elevator system, including (a) operating the mobile device to acquire ride quality data, (b) operating the mobile device to transmit ride quality data to an external computing device, (c) operating the external computing device to compare the acquired ride quality data to pre-determined system data to create performance data, (d) operating the external computing device to perform a ride quality diagnostics based at least in part on the performance data, and (e) operating the external computing device to transmit the ride quality diagnostics to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: George Scott Copeland, Soumitra Borthakur, Jinho Song, Daniel Rush
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Patent number: 10669124Abstract: An illustrative example elevator system includes a hoistway that establishes a vertical pathway. The hoistway has an interior border established by a plurality of stationary boundaries that each have a height aligned with a vertical length of the hoistway. Each of the stationary boundaries has a width generally perpendicular to the height. An elevator car is within the hoistway. At least one vertically extending load bearing assembly includes a plurality of elongated load bearing members extending along a vertical path and facilitating movement or support of the elevator car. At least one hoistway liner assembly is situated in the hoistway. The hoistway liner assembly includes a plurality of bumpers that each have an axis that is generally perpendicular to the vertical length of the hoistway. The axes of at least two of the bumpers are non-parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: George Scott Copeland, Patricia Derwinski, Richard K. Pulling, Randy Roberts
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Publication number: 20200122967Abstract: A monitoring system includes one or more detection devices, a communication device, and an analytics system. The one or more detection devices generate, at a conveyance system, one or more data streams describing the ride of the conveyance system, where the data streams include at least one of vibration data and audio data. The communication device transmits sensor data based on the one or more data streams. The analytics system receives the sensor data from the communication device and, based on the sensor data, determines a ride quality of the conveyance system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2018Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Soumalya Sarkar, Teems E. Lovett, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Nikola Trcka, George Scott Copeland, George S. Ekladious, Peter Liaskas, Sandeep Sudi
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Patent number: 10547917Abstract: A passenger conveyor diagnostic system includes a mobile terminal in signal communication with a cloud computing network. The cloud computing network stores at least one diagnostic algorithm. The mobile terminal device is configured to determine ride quality data of a passenger conveyor system, and to exchange the ride quality data with the cloud computing network. The mobile terminal device further displays one or more diagnostic results which are received from the cloud computing network. The diagnostic result is generated by the cloud computing network in response to applying the at least one diagnostic algorithm to the ride quality data.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: George Scott Copeland, Jinho Song
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Publication number: 20180332368Abstract: A passenger conveyor diagnostic system includes a mobile terminal in signal communication with a cloud computing network. The cloud computing network stores at least one diagnostic algorithm. The mobile terminal device is configured to determine ride quality data of a passenger conveyor system, and to exchange the ride quality data with the cloud computing network. The mobile terminal device further displays one or more diagnostic results which are received from the cloud computing network. The diagnostic result is generated by the cloud computing network in response to applying the at least one diagnostic algorithm to the ride quality data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: George Scott Copeland, Jinho Song
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Publication number: 20180290862Abstract: An illustrative example elevator system includes a hoistway that establishes a vertical pathway. The hoistway has an interior border established by a plurality of stationary boundaries that each have a height aligned with a vertical length of the hoistway. Each of the stationary boundaries has a width generally perpendicular to the height. An elevator car is within the hoistway. At least one vertically extending load bearing assembly includes a plurality of elongated load bearing members extending along a vertical path and facilitating movement or support of the elevator car. At least one hoistway liner assembly is situated in the hoistway. The hoistway liner assembly includes a plurality of bumpers that each have an axis that is generally perpendicular to the vertical length of the hoistway. The axes of at least two of the bumpers are non-parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: George Scott COPELAND, Patricia DERWINSKI, Richard K. PULLING, Randy ROBERTS
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Patent number: 9914619Abstract: A method of operating an elevator system includes detecting a building sway which causes sway of elevator suspension or compensation members. An elevator control system is switched into a building sway mode, and operation of one or more elevator cars of the elevator system is changed via the building sway mode to mitigate vibratory effects of the building sway on the one or more elevator cars.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Randall Keith Roberts, George Scott Copeland, Theresa M. Christy
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Publication number: 20180044134Abstract: A system and method of measuring and diagnosing the ride quality of an elevator system, including (a) operating the mobile device to acquire ride quality data, (b) operating the mobile device to transmit ride quality data to an external computing device, (c) operating the external computing device to compare the acquired ride quality data to pre-determined system data to create performance data, (d) operating the external computing device to perform a ride quality diagnostics based at least in part on the performance data, and (e) operating the external computing device to transmit the ride quality diagnostics to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: George Scott Copeland, Soumitra Borthakur, Jinho Song, Daniel Rush
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Patent number: 9556002Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a portable recording device, multiple recordings of sounds made by an elevator during operation of the elevator, the multiple recordings generated at different times. The method includes analyzing, by a sound analysis circuit, the multiple recordings generated at the different times to detect changes in an elevator characteristic over time and generating, based on detecting the changes in the elevator characteristic over time, a notification to perform an action on the elevator.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Michael Wilke, George Scott Copeland, Soumitra Borthakur, Kelly Martin Dubois, Juan Jose Fernandez