Patents by Inventor Patrick Michael BASS

Patrick Michael BASS 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).

  • Method for operating an elevator with multiple shafts and cars
    Patent number: 10526166
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Stefan Gerstenmeyer, Markus Jetter, Patrick Michael Bass
  • ELEVATOR SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF SHAFTS AND A PLURALITY OF CABS AND AN ADDITIONAL CAB-ACCOMMODATING SHAFT
    Publication number: 20180334360
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Eduard STEINHAUER, Thomas KUCZERA, Michael KIRSCH, Stefan GERSTENMEYER, Markus JETTER, Patrick Michael BASS
  • METHOD FOR OPERATING A LIFT SYSTEM HAVING A NUMBER OF SHAFTS AND A NUMBER OF CARS
    Publication number: 20180237257
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Stefan GERSTENMEYER, Markus JETTER, Patrick Michael BASS