Patents by Inventor Nikola Trcka
Nikola Trcka 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: 11964846Abstract: A method of detecting a location of a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system including: detecting a sync sensor along a path of a conveyance apparatus at a first point in time, the sync sensor being at a known location along the path of the conveyance apparatus; monitoring a first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus along a first axis from the first point in time to a second point in time; determining a first distance away from the sync sensor along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus and a period of time between the first point in time and the second point in time; and determining a first location of the conveyance apparatus along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the known location of the sync sensor and the first distance away from the sync sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Sandeep Sudi, Nikola Trcka
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Patent number: 11767194Abstract: An illustrative example elevator sensor device includes at least one sensor supported on a door of an elevator car. The sensor provides an output including an indication of at least movement of the door along at least one axis and movement of the elevator car along at least one axis. A processor associated with the at least one sensor receives the output and determines at least one characteristic of the movement of the door based on the indication of the movement of the door. The processor also determines a location of the elevator car where the movement of the door occurs based on the indication of movement of the elevator car.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Craig Drew Bogli, Derk Oscar Pahlke, Nikola Trcka, Yrinee Michaelidis
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Patent number: 11649136Abstract: A method of monitoring a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system is provided. The method including: obtaining a starting location position probability distribution of the conveyance apparatus within the conveyance system; detecting motion of the conveyance apparatus away from the probable starting location for a period of time; determining a distance traveled by the conveyance apparatus during the period of time; determining a direction of motion of the conveyance apparatus during the period of time; and determining a probability of the conveyance apparatus being at each of a plurality of possible destination locations at a conclusion of the period of time in response to the starting location position probability distribution and at least one of the distance traveled, the direction of motion, and the period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Nikola Trcka, Lindsay Wos, Oleh Shvets, Andrzej Bohonos, Lukasz Majchrzak, Pawel Drzycimski
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Patent number: 11591183Abstract: Methods and systems for enhancing sensor operation are provided. Aspects includes obtaining, by a primary sensor, primary sensor data associated with an electrical mechanical system, obtaining, by at least one secondary sensor, secondary sensor data associated with the electrical mechanical system, and analyzing the primary sensor data responsive to a determination of a predetermined state of the electrical mechanical system based on the secondary sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Peter Liaskas, Nikola Trcka, Sandeep Sudi, Leslie Lamontagne
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Publication number: 20220119224Abstract: An elevator monitoring system, includes: one or more sensors; a controller arranged to acquire sensor data from the one or more sensors; analyse the sensor data to identify a first event and a second event, the first event corresponding to an elevator door motion; categorize the first event based on the sensor data for the first event and the second event.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Antoine Blanchard, Nikola Trcka, Romain Marechal, Karl D. Pedersen
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Publication number: 20220112050Abstract: A method of generating a floor height map for an elevator system having an elevator car traveling in a hoistway includes: accessing run group data, the run group data including information corresponding to a plurality of runs of an elevator car for a plurality of floor traversals by the elevator car; evaluating potential floor heights for at least one floor of the hoistway and potential floor travel sequences in response to the run group data; determining a likelihood of each combination of potential floor heights and potential floor travel sequences for the plurality of floor traversals; selecting potential floor heights and a potential floor travel sequence, as selected floor heights and a selected floor travel sequence, in response to the likelihood; generating the floor height map in response to the selected floor heights and the selected floor travel sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2020Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Nikola Trcka
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Patent number: 11286133Abstract: An elevator system includes a component adapted to perform a function, a sensor, and a control configuration. The sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter associated with the function. The control configuration is configured to receive a parameter signal from the sensor, and extract a predesignated feature from data associated with the parameter signal. The predesignated feature is then aggregated by the control configuration and machine learning is applied to determine a degradation level of the function associated with the predesignated feature.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Sandeep Sudi, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Peter Liaskas
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Patent number: 11214466Abstract: A monitoring system for a passenger conveyor including: at least one acceleration sensor provided on a movable component of the passenger conveyor, wherein the moveable component moves in a closed loop path (P) when the passenger conveyor is in use; a fault detection sensor associated with the or each acceleration sensor and configured to provide data indicative of a fault in the moveable component. The monitoring system includes a controller configured to: receive data from the or each acceleration sensor; monitor a gravity vector (V) of the or each acceleration sensor; determine a direction of travel of the or each acceleration sensor; determine a current location of the or each acceleration sensor based on the monitored gravity vector (V) and the determined direction of travel; detect a fault from the data received from the or each fault detection sensor; identify a location of the detected fault.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Craig Drew Bogli, Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Nikola Trcka, Philipp Schedl, Robert Takacs
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Publication number: 20210371239Abstract: Disclosed is an elevator system, including a gateway configured to: receive, from an elevator car controller of an elevator car, car controller data for the elevator car that includes a car positional log of the elevator car; receive, from a beacon mounted to the elevator car, car operational data for the elevator car that includes car and door data representing car and door events; and transmit, to one of an elevator management center and a cloud service, a combination of the car controller data and the car operational data to identify an alert condition and a position of the elevator car during the alert condition, wherein the gateway or the one of the elevator management center and the cloud service is configured to stitch together the car controller data and the car operational data to identify the alert condition and position of the elevator car during the alert condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Craig Bogli, Nikola Trcka
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Publication number: 20210276833Abstract: A monitoring system for a passenger conveyor including: at least one acceleration sensor provided on a movable component of the passenger conveyor, wherein the moveable component moves in a closed loop path (P) when the passenger conveyor is in use; a fault detection sensor associated with the or each acceleration sensor and configured to provide data indicative of a fault in the moveable. The monitoring system includes a controller configured to: receive data from the or each acceleration sensor; monitor a gravity vector (V) of the or each acceleration sensor; determine a direction of travel of the or each acceleration sensor; determine a current location of the or each acceleration sensor based on the monitored gravity vector (V) and the determined direction of travel; detect a fault from the data received from the or each fault detection sensor; identify a location of the detected fault.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Craig Drew Bogli, Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Nikola Trcka, Philipp Schedl, Robert Takacs
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Publication number: 20200247643Abstract: A method of monitoring a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system is provided. The method including: obtaining a starting location position probability distribution of the conveyance apparatus within the conveyance system; detecting motion of the conveyance apparatus away from the probable starting location for a period of time; determining a distance traveled by the conveyance apparatus during the period of time; determining a direction of motion of the conveyance apparatus during the period of time; and determining a probability of the conveyance apparatus being at each of a plurality of possible destination locations at a conclusion of the period of time in response to the starting location position probability distribution and at least one of the distance traveled, the direction of motion, and the period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Nikola Trcka, Lindsay Wos, Oleh Shvets, Andrzej Bohonos, Lukasz Majchrzak, Pawel Drzycimski
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Publication number: 20200239270Abstract: An illustrative example elevator sensor device includes at least one sensor supported on a door of an elevator car. The sensor provides an output including an indication of at least movement of the door along at least one axis and movement of the elevator car along at least one axis. A processor associated with the at least one sensor receives the output and determines at least one characteristic of the movement of the door based on the indication of the movement of the door. The processor also determines a location of the elevator car where the movement of the door occurs based on the indication of movement of the elevator car.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Craig Drew Bogli, Derk Oscar Pahlke, Nikola Trcka, Yrinee Michaelidis
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Publication number: 20200207578Abstract: Methods and systems for enhancing sensor operation are provided. Aspects includes obtaining, by a primary sensor, primary sensor data associated with an electrical mechanical system, obtaining, by at least one secondary sensor, secondary sensor data associated with the electrical mechanical system, and analyzing the primary sensor data responsive to a determination of a predetermined state of the electrical mechanical system based on the secondary sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Peter Liaskas, Nikola Trcka, Sandeep Sudi, Leslie Lamontagne
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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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Publication number: 20200122964Abstract: A method of detecting a location of a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system including: detecting a sync sensor along a path of a conveyance apparatus at a first point in time, the sync sensor being at a known location along the path of the conveyance apparatus; monitoring a first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus along a first axis from the first point in time to a second point in time; determining a first distance away from the sync sensor along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus and a period of time between the first point in time and the second point in time; and determining a first location of the conveyance apparatus along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the known location of the sync sensor and the first distance away from the sync sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Sandeep Sudi, Nikola Trcka
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Publication number: 20200087111Abstract: An elevator system includes an elevator car configured to travel in a hoistway, the elevator car including an elevator car door; a controller configured to control motion of the elevator car; at least one sensor configured to sense an operating condition of the elevator system; and a sensor interface configured to detect a shutdown state of the elevator system in response to the operating condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventors: Lindsay Wos, Nikola Trcka, Sally Day Mahoney, Leslie Lamontagne, Sandeep Sudi
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Publication number: 20200065691Abstract: Embodiments include techniques for developing a model framework for remote unit monitoring condition-based maintenance. The techniques include collecting data associated with unplanned service requests, and generating one or more models from the collected data. The techniques also include predicting unplanned service requests based at least in part on the one or more models, and transmitting an output of the prediction of the unplanned service request.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Teems E. Lovett, Murat Yasar, Nikola Trcka, Peter Liaskas, Kin Gwn Lore
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Publication number: 20200002125Abstract: Embodiments include a system and method for scheduling maintenance based on remote monitoring data and service data analytics. The embodiments include a controller configured monitor performance of one or more units, a remote system configured to store service data associated with the one or more units, and a processor operably coupled to the controller and the remote system. The processor is configured to receive monitoring data from the controller for the one or more units, and receive service data for the one or more units. The remote system is also configured to generate a health score based at least in part on the monitoring data and the service data. The processor is further configured to predict a failure based at least in part on the health score, and execute an action based at least in part on the generated health score.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Peter Liaskas, Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Frank Higgins, Sally Day Mahoney
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Publication number: 20190010022Abstract: An elevator system includes a component adapted to perform a function, a sensor, and a control configuration. The sensor is configured to detect an operating parameter associated with the function. The control configuration is configured to receive a parameter signal from the sensor, and extract a predesignated feature from data associated with the parameter signal. The predesignated feature is then aggregated by the control configuration and machine learning is applied to determine a degradation level of the function associated with the predesignated feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Nikola Trcka, Teems E. Lovett, Sandeep Sudi, Paul R. Braunwart, Sudarshan N. Koushik, Peter Liaskas