Patents by Inventor Stephan Jans

Stephan Jans 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).

  • Patent number: 8640828
    Abstract: A supporting belt for a transport device, such as an elevator system, includes at least one stranded wire made of an electrically conducting material for absorbing the forces absorbed by the supporting belt and an electrically insulating jacket that encloses the wire. In order to determine the state of the wire, the wire can be contacted by a contact element securely and reliably and in an exact manner. To achieve this, the jacket is at least partially removed in the area of an opening of the supporting belt and the wire is at least partially exposed in the area of the opening. The wire thus does not include a jacket substantially perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis formed by a center point of a cross-section of the wire. The wire can be contacted by a contact element without the jacket being pierced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Mirco Annen, Stephan Jans, Hans Kocher
  • Publication number: 20110240234
    Abstract: A sliding door comprises a plurality of guide panels guided in a straight guide rail track of a guide rail. During an opening movement along a slide axis, the door panels are deflectable by an abutment into an angled guide rail track of the guide rail along a stacking axis so that the door panels can be stacked approximately in the direction of the slide axis and during a closing movement can be unstacked by deflection into the straight guide rail track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Stephan Jans
  • Publication number: 20110220438
    Abstract: A supporting belt for a transport device, such as an elevator system, includes at least one stranded wire made of an electrically conducting material for absorbing the forces absorbed by the supporting belt and an electrically insulating jacket that encloses the wire. In order to determine the state of the wire, the wire can be contacted by a contact element securely and reliably and in an exact manner. To achieve this, the jacket is at least partially removed in the area of an opening of the supporting belt and the wire is at least partially exposed in the area of the opening. The wire thus does not include a jacket substantially perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis formed by a center point of a cross-section of the wire. The wire can be contacted by a contact element without the jacket being pierced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Mirco Annen, Stephan Jans, Hans Kocher
  • Patent number: 7913818
    Abstract: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has at least one transfer floor. A first elevator has at least three elevator cars arranged vertically one above the other in a shaft. In addition, at least three car zones are allocated to a building zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Hans Kocher, Stephan Jans
  • Patent number: 7882934
    Abstract: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has at least one transfer floor and at least one further transfer floor. A first elevator has at least three elevator cars, which are arranged vertically one above the other and which comprise a middle and two adjacent elevator cars, wherein the middle elevator car is independently movable in a middle car zone and the two adjacent elevator cars are independently movable in two adjacent car zones. The middle car zone and an adjacent car zone serve at least one common floor. In addition, at least one of these car zones is allocated to two building zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Hans Kocher, Stephan Jans, Jean-Philippe Escher
  • Publication number: 20080149428
    Abstract: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has at least one transfer floor and at least one further transfer floor. A first elevator has at least three elevator cars, which are arranged vertically one above the other and which comprise a middle and two adjacent elevator cars, wherein the middle elevator car is independently movable in a middle car zone and the two adjacent elevator cars are independently movable in two adjacent car zones. The middle car zone and an adjacent car zone serve at least one common floor. In addition, at least one of these car zones is allocated to two building zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Hans Kocher, Stephan Jans, Jean-Philippe Escher
  • Publication number: 20080149427
    Abstract: An elevator installation is arranged in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into building zones and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car is independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone has at least one transfer floor. A first elevator has at least three elevator cars arranged vertically one above the other in a shaft. In addition, at least three car zones are allocated to a building zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Hans Kocher, Stephan Jans