Patents by Inventor Tomoaki MAEHARA

Tomoaki MAEHARA 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).

  • Publication number: 20230391583
    Abstract: An elevator includes a plurality of elevator units each including a car and a unit control section that controls operation of the car; and an operation management device that manages operation of the plurality of elevator units, in which, in a case where it is determined that any of the elevator units has left any of passengers behind, the operation management device additionally and immediately dispatches the car of another elevator unit to a floor where any of passengers has been left behind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Taichi SAITO, Tomoaki MAEHARA, Takahiro HATORI, Yuki SAITO, Masaki MIYAMAE
  • Publication number: 20220207203
    Abstract: This construction model data evaluation server is provided with: a construction model part detection unit which receives construction model data used in a client terminal and detects an elevator construction model part included in the construction model data; a properness determination unit which performs properness determination on the elevator construction model part; and an evaluation processing unit which transmits, to the client terminal, evaluation result data including an evaluation result obtained by evaluating the construction model data when a determination result of the properness determination and the construction model data are received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Masayasu FUJIWARA, Takahiro HATORI, Wataru TORIUMI, Tomoaki MAEHARA, Takamichi HOSHINO, Satoru TORIYABE
  • Publication number: 20220169480
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a car that ascends and descends a hoist way, a power feeding device installed at a specific power feeding point of the hoist way, a power receiving device that receives power from the power feeding device when the car stops at the power feeding point, a battery that is charged by the received power, and an elevator control panel that controls ascent and descent of the car. When the remaining capacity of the battery is equal to or less than a predetermined capacity, the elevator control panel performs a rescue operation of a passenger in the car, and after the rescue operation, performs an automatic search operation of searching for a power feeding point where the power feeding device is installed according to the remaining capacity of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoaki MAEHARA, Koichi YAMASHITA, Yuki SAITO, Toshiharu MATSUKUMA, Takahiro HATORI, Satoru TORIYABE, Hayate TANABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220024717
    Abstract: In the present invention, a process of receiving an image obtained by capturing a measurement target place with a camera, calculating a number of people in the measurement target place based on the image received, and allocating a car according to the calculated number of people is performed. Here, when an abnormality that an image from the camera cannot be received is determined, a process of referring to a detection value of a sensor or the like installed in a car or in the measurement target place to calculate the number of people in the car or the measurement target place is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yuta SUKEGAWA, Takahiro HATORI, Tomoaki MAEHARA, Takahiro OKADA