Patents by Inventor Markus Jetter
Markus Jetter 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: 11084687Abstract: A method for operating an elevator system having a shaft system and elevator cars that are moved separately between floors in a circulation operation may involve moving the elevator cars upward in a first shaft and moving the elevator cars downward in a second shaft. A number of shaft positions that can be respectively adopted by the elevator cars and that correspond to the number of elevator cars is defined, and synchronization of movement of the elevator cars may be carried out with respect to these defined shaft positions. Further, each of the elevator cars may be moved according to a travel curve. To synchronize the movement of the elevator cars the travel curve for each elevator car may be adapted to account for positions of the elevator cars in the same shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: TK Elevator Innovation and Operations GmbHInventors: Stefan Gerstenmeyer, Markus Jetter
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Patent number: 10526166Abstract: A method for operating an elevator system can be used with elevator systems that include at least two cars and at least two vertically extending elevator shafts where the at least two cars can be moved between the at least two elevator shafts. In a first operating mode transportation operations are performed by the at least two cars in the at least two elevator shafts. In a second operating mode a location of at least one of the at least two cars is restricted to at least one region of at least one of the at least two elevator shafts. In the second operating mode, the at least one of the at least two cars is not available for transportation operations in remaining regions of the at least two elevator shafts.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Stefan Gerstenmeyer, Markus Jetter, Patrick Michael Bass
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Patent number: 10266374Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lift installation having a lift car which can be moved along a guide rail. The lift installation here comprises at least a first pair of rollers and a second pair of rollers. The guide rail runs between the two rollers of the first pair of rollers and between the two rollers of the second pair of rollers. The lift installation also has an apparatus for subjecting the lift car to a retaining force, wherein there is a horizontal offset between the point at which the retaining force takes effect and the center of gravity of the lift car, and therefore the lift car is subjected to a first torque.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignees: thyssenkrupp Elevator AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Friedrich Löser, Markus Jetter
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Publication number: 20180334360Abstract: An elevator system may include a plurality of elevator banks that extend vertically over stories of a building, a plurality of cabs that are movable in the plurality of elevator banks and may change between elevator shafts of the plurality of elevator banks, and one or more cab-accommodating shafts for accommodating one or more of the cabs. The cab-accommodating shafts may extend vertically over fewer stories than one of the elevator shafts of the plurality of elevator banks. In some cases, elevator banks may be separated by a shaft-free intermediate space, and the cab-accommodating shafts may extend over the shaft-free intermediate space to connect multiple elevator shafts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Eduard STEINHAUER, Thomas KUCZERA, Michael KIRSCH, Stefan GERSTENMEYER, Markus JETTER, Patrick Michael BASS
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Patent number: 10106372Abstract: Lift systems may include a first shaft unit and a second shaft unit, each of which may include a number of lift shafts. One or more single-car systems and/or multi-car systems may be disposed in the first shaft unit, whereas one or more shaft-changing multi-car systems may be disposed in the second shaft unit. A transporting operation may be carried out from an initial floor to a destination floor wherein a control unit determines whether to utilize one or more cars from the single car systems, the multi-car systems, the shaft-changing multi-car systems, or some combination thereof depending on factors such as the destination floors of the passengers, traffic density, energy demand, and/or availability of cars.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Markus Jetter, Stefan Gerstenmeyer
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Publication number: 20180237257Abstract: A method for operating an elevator system can be used with elevator systems that include at least two cars and at least two vertically extending elevator shafts where the at least two cars can be moved between the at least two elevator shafts. In a first operating mode transportation operations are performed by the at least two cars in the at least two elevator shafts. In a second operating mode a location of at least one of the at least two cars is restricted to at least one region of at least one of the at least two elevator shafts. In the second operating mode, the at least one of the at least two cars is not available for transportation operations in remaining regions of the at least two elevator shafts.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Stefan GERSTENMEYER, Markus JETTER, Patrick Michael BASS
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Publication number: 20180201472Abstract: A method for operating an elevator system having a shaft system and elevator cars that are moved separately between floors in a circulation operation may involve moving the elevator cars upward in a first shaft and moving the elevator cars downward in a second shaft. A number of shaft positions that can be respectively adopted by the elevator cars and that correspond to the number of elevator cars is defined, and synchronization of movement of the elevator cars may be carried out with respect to these defined shaft positions. Further, each of the elevator cars may be moved according to a travel curve. To synchronize the movement of the elevator cars the travel curve for each elevator car may be adapted to account for positions of the elevator cars in the same shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Stefan GERSTENMEYER, Markus JETTER
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Publication number: 20170327346Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lift installation having a lift car which can be moved along a guide rail. The lift installation here comprises at least a first pair of rollers and a second pair of rollers. The guide rail runs between the two rollers of the first pair of rollers and between the two rollers of the second pair of rollers. The lift installation also has an apparatus for subjecting the lift car to a retaining force, wherein there is a horizontal offset between the point at which the retaining force takes effect and the center of gravity of the lift car, and therefore the lift car is subjected to a first torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicants: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, ThyssenKrupp AGInventors: Friedrich Löser, Markus Jetter
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Publication number: 20170305719Abstract: A device for checking guides of an elevator car that can be moved along guide rails may include means for measuring contact forces of the guides on the guide rails. The device may further include an evaluation unit. The means for measuring contact forces may be configured to make measured values determined by the means for measuring contact forces available to the evaluation unit, either through wired connection or wireless connection. In some cases, the means for measuring contact forces may measure contact forces on the guide rails in at least two different directions. Also disclosed are methods for balancing elevator cars.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicants: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG, ThyssenKrupp AGInventors: Markus Jetter, Matthias Glück, Günter Reuter
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Publication number: 20170001829Abstract: Lift systems may include a first shaft unit and a second shaft unit, each of which may include a number of lift shafts. One or more single-car systems and/or multi-car systems may be disposed in the first shaft unit, whereas one or more shaft-changing multi-car systems may be disposed in the second shaft unit. A transporting operation may be carried out from an initial floor to a destination floor wherein a control unit determines whether to utilize one or more cars from the single car systems, the multi-car systems, the shaft-changing multi-car systems, or some combination thereof depending on factors such as the destination floors of the passengers, traffic density, energy demand, and/or availability of cars.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Markus Jetter, Stefan Gerstenmeyer
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Patent number: 9206016Abstract: An electric motor for an elevator drive comprises a motor housing; a number of motor windings which are connected to at least one terminal; ribs or webs being arranged on the motor housing; and the at least one terminal is arranged between the ribs or webs.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Olaf Breidenstein, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Patent number: 9051157Abstract: A method for monitoring a brake which is operated by a spring force and a device for monitoring the force, comprising the steps of taking into account a force which is required to load or bias at least one spring by means of the device for monitoring the force.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AGInventors: Olaf Breidenstein, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Publication number: 20140021813Abstract: An electric motor for an elevator drive comprises a motor housing; a number of motor windings which are connected to at least one terminal; ribs or webs being arranged on the motor housing; and the at least one terminal is arranged between the ribs or webs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: ThysseKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Olaf BREIDENSTEIN, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Publication number: 20140020985Abstract: A method for monitoring a brake which is operated by a spring force and a device for monitoring the force, comprising the steps of taking into account a force which is required to load or bias at least one spring by means of the device for monitoring the force.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: ThysseKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Olaf BREIDENSTEIN, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Hermann, Markus Jetter, Nils-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag
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Publication number: 20090101449Abstract: Disclosed are an elevator drive, a clamping arrangement for an elevator machine, a braking mechanism for an elevator system, and a rotor fixture for an elevator machine. The inventive elevator drive is subdivided into a number of segments, to each of which a converter is assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Olaf Breidenstein, Jochen Schulze, Eberhard Vogler, Andreas Wilhelm, Torsten Gessner, Gunther Herrmann, Markus Jetter, Nis-Anton Mollgaard, Uwe Resag