Patents by Inventor Kan Kawasaki
Kan Kawasaki 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: 8172041Abstract: A machineroom-less elevator in which a counterweight is vertically moved behind a cage, with the cage and the counterweight being suspended in a jig back manner through a first and second diverting sheaves. In this machineroom-less elevator, a sufficiently large vertical stroke of the counterweight can be secured, while a durability of a hoist rope is improved. In addition, since no tensile difference is generated in respective parts of the hoist rope, vertical vibrations of the cage are prevented when the cage restarts a vertical movement. A traction sheave is disposed on one of right and left sidewalls of an elevator shaft. A first diverting sheave is disposed below and sufficiently apart from the traction sheave, and a second diverting sheave is disposed on a top of a rear wall of the elevator shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Shun Fujimura, Satoshi Takasawa
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Patent number: 7562745Abstract: An elevator in which a driving apparatus, a traction sheave, and a counterweight-side rope hitching portion are arranged above one rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails, while a cage-side rope hitching portion and a speed governor are arranged above the other rail of the right and left cage-side guide rails. Since a control panel is arranged along a rear inner wall surface of the machine room, a large operation space can be secured in a center part of the floor of the machine room. Further, since a machine beam can be extended at full length in the back and forth direction in the machine room, no additional building-side receiving beam is needed.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Ishii, Kazuaki Miyakoshi, Shigeru Takaishi, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Kazuhiro Izumi, Takanori Urata, Shun Fujimura, Masayuki Higashi, Satoshi Takasawa, Masahiro Kuramitsu
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Publication number: 20090008192Abstract: An elevator has a machineroom of a comparatively low height so designed that a sufficiently large working space necessary for inspection and maintenance work is available in the machineroom and a hoist cable can be wound round a traction sheave disposed in the machineroom at a large contact angle. The elevator has a cage provided with front and back cage-side sheaves and suspended for vertical movement in an elevator shaft, and a counterweight that moves vertically in a space behind a vertical plane containing the back wall of the cage in the elevator shaft. The traction sheave and a drive unit for driving the traction sheave are disposed in the machineroom with their axes laterally extended. The back cage-side sheave lies below the traction sheave.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2006Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Kazuhiro Tanaka, Shigeru Takaishi, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Toshinori Iwai
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Publication number: 20080277207Abstract: A machineroom-less elevator in which a counterweight is vertically moved behind a cage, with the cage and the counterweight being suspended in a jig back manner through a first and second diverting sheaves. In this machineroom-less elevator, a sufficiently large vertical stroke of the counterweight can be secured, while a durability of a hoist rope is improved. In addition, since no tensile difference is generated in respective parts of the hoist rope, vertical vibrations of the cage are prevented when the cage restarts a vertical movement. A traction sheave is disposed on one of right and left sidewalls of an elevator shaft. A first diverting sheave is disposed below and sufficiently apart from the traction sheave, and a second diverting sheave is disposed on a top of a rear wall of the elevator shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2004Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Shun Fujimura, Satoshi Takasawa
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Patent number: 7413055Abstract: In an elevator, a drive device, a traction sheave, and a weight-side stop portion are arranged above one of a pair of left and right cage-side guide rails, and a cage-side stop portion and speed governor are arranged above the other cage-side guide rail. A wide workspace is realized in the middle of the floor of the machinery chamber, since the control panel is arranged along the middle of the inside wall surface of the front face of the machinery chamber. Furthermore, provision of an additional supporting beam mounted in the building is unnecessary, since the machine beam can extend fully in the forwards/rearwards direction in the interior of the machinery chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Kazuaki Miyakoshi, Masahiro Kuramitsu, Kazuhiro Izumi, Hiroshi Sano, Shigeru Takaishi, Shun Fujimura, Takanori Urata, Satoshi Takasawa, Masayuki Higashi
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Patent number: 7383924Abstract: Rubber vibration isolators are held between a base frame supporting a driving device and an upper deflecting sheave, and a support connected to car guide rails and a counterweight guide rail. The rubber vibration isolators are held between a horizontal member and vertical members of a support frame supporting lower deflecting sheaves. Transmission of vibrations generated by the driving device, the upper deflecting sheave, and the lower deflecting sheaves to the side walls of an elevator shaft can be intercepted.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2004Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuhiro Izumi, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Takanori Urata, Shun Fujimura, Masayuki Higashi, Masahiro Kuramitsu
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Patent number: 7293631Abstract: There is provided an machineroom-less elevator which can reduce the pit depth in a bottom part of an elevator shaft, mostly perform maintenance work on an upper space of a cage, and reduce a top clearance. A pair of right and left cage-side sheaves are disposed in the upper space of the cage, and the rotational axes of the traction sheave and the cage-side sheaves are extended in the longitudinal direction. A sheave supporting beam to rotatably support cage-side sheaves is disposed in a space between and upper beam of the cage frame and a ceiling of the cage, and disposed below rotary shafts of the cage-side sheaves.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Ishii, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20070175707Abstract: In an elevator according to the present invention, a driving apparatus 42, a traction sheave 41, and a counterweight-side rope hitching portion 46 are arranged above one rail 21L of the right and left cage-side guide rails, while a cage-side rope hitching portion 44 and a speed governor 47 are arranged above the other rail 21R of the right and left cage-side guide rails. Since a control panel 48 is arranged along a rear inner wall surface 34 of the machine room, a large operation space can be secured in a center part of the floor 31 of the machine room 30. Further, since a machine beam 53 can be extended at full length in the back and forth direction in the machine room 30, no additional building-side receiving beam is needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2004Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Ishii, Kazuaki Miyakoshi, Shigeru Takaishi, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Kazuhiro Izumi, Takanori Urata, Shun Fujimura, Masayuki Higashi, Satoshi Takasawa, Masahiro Kuramitsu
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Publication number: 20070170003Abstract: Rubber vibration isolators are held between a base frame supporting a driving device and an upper deflecting sheave, and a support connected to car guide rails and a counterweight guide rail. The rubber vibration isolators are held between a horizontal member and vertical members of a support frame supporting lower deflecting sheaves. Transmission of vibrations generated by the driving device, the upper deflecting sheave, and the lower deflecting sheaves to the side walls of an elevator shaft can be intercepted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2004Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiro Izumi, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Takanori Urata, Shun Fujimura
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Publication number: 20060163009Abstract: An elevator system having no machineroom is provided in which a height of a pit in a bottom of an elevator shaft can be reduced, a maintenance operation can be carried out at one on an upper part of the cage, and cage-side sheaves and cage-side guide rails can be disposed symmetrically with respect to the center of gravity of the cage. The elevator system having no machineroom includes a pair of right and left cage-side sheaves 16L and 16R disposed above a cage 10, and a traction sheave 17 disposed behind a cage-side guide rail 11L. The pair of right and left cage-side sheaves 16L and 16R are disposed such that each rotational angle of the pair of right and left cage-side sheaves 16L and 16R is extended parallel to a rotational axis of the traction sheave, or extended at a direction angle close to that of the rotational axis of the traction sheave.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2003Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: TOSHIBA ELEVATOR KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Ishii, Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Satoshi Takasawa, Shun Fujimura
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Publication number: 20060042885Abstract: An elevator comprises a cage (2) suspended in an elevator shaft (5) and provided with cage-side sheaves (2a, 2b); a counterweight (3) suspended in the elevator shaft (5) and provided with a counterweight-side sheave (3a); a diverting sheave (11) disposed at a position above the counterweight (3) in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5); first and second upper sheaves (9, 12) disposed in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5); and a main rope (4) wound around the first and the second upper sheaves (9, 12), and having a first part wound around the cage-side sheaves (2a, 2b) and having a first end fastened to a fixed structure in an upper part of the elevator shaft (5), and a second part passed successively via the counterweight-side sheave (3a) of the counterweight (3) and the diverting sheave (11) and having a second end fastened to the counterweight (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: March 2, 2006Applicant: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kan Kawasaki, Takashi Ishii, Hiroshi Sano
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Publication number: 20050178621Abstract: A drive device (42), a traction sheave (41) and a weight-side stop portion (46) are arranged above one (21L) of a pair of left and right cage-side guide rails and a cage-side stop portion (44) and speed governor (47) are arranged above the other (21R) cage-side guide rail. Also a wide workspace can be guaranteed in the middle of the floor (31) of the machinery chamber (30), since the control panel (48) is arranged along the middle of the inside wall surface (37) of the front face of the machinery chamber (30). Furthermore, provision of an additional supporting beam mounted in the building is unnecessary, since the machine beam (53) can extend fully in the forwards/rearwards direction in the interior of the machinery chamber (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Applicant: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kan Kawasaki, Ikuo Asami, Takashi Ishii, Kazuaki Miyakoshi, Masahiro Kuramitsu, Kazuhiro Izumi, Hiroshi Sano, Shigeru Takaishi, Shun Fujimura, Takanori Urata, Satoshi Takasawa, Masayuki Higashi
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Publication number: 20040206580Abstract: An elevator in which a dimension of an elevator shaft does not need to be increased when enlarging a hoist, and a position where a cage is suspended by a hoist cable can be flexibly selected. In an elevator according to the present invention, a hoist 10 is disposed such that a rotational axis thereof is vertically extended. Thus, when an axial dimension of the hoist 10 is increased to enlarge the hoist 10, a dimension of an elevator shaft does not need to be increased. Since a driving shaft 10a of the hoist 10 is vertically extended, an area occupied by the hoist is remarkably reduced when viewed in a horizontal cross-sectional view of the elevator shaft. Thus, the freedom to dispose the hoist 10 is enhanced so that a position where a cage 3 is suspended by a hoist cable 14 can be flexibly selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventors: Takashi Ishii, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki
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Publication number: 20040182651Abstract: There is provided an machineroom-less elevator which can reduce the pit depth in a bottom part of an elevator shaft, mostly perform maintenance work on an upper space of a cage, and reduce a top clearance. A pair of right and left cage-side sheaves are disposed in the upper space of the cage, and the rotational axes of the traction sheave and the cage-side sheaves are extended in the longitudinal direction. A sheave supporting beam to rotatably support cage-side sheaves is disposed in a space between and upper beam of the cage frame and a ceiling of the cage, and disposed below rotary shafts of the cage-side sheaves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventors: Takashi Ishii, Hiroshi Sano, Kan Kawasaki