Patents by Inventor Yasunori Katayama

Yasunori Katayama 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: 4367811
    Abstract: In an elevator control system, in which the elevator car is controlled on the basis of elevator car positions obtained through the counting of distance pulses provided in proportion to the distance travelled by the car and floor height data indicative of the heights of individual floors, the distance pulses are counted by moving the car at a low speed from the lowest floor to the highest floor, and the count at the time of the actuation of a floor position detector, which is actuated when the car passes by each floor, is stored as the floor height value of that floor in a RAM (Random Access Memory). With this arrangement, the measurement of the floor heights is facilitated, and also the preparation of a ROM (Read-Only Memory) for storing the floor height data for each elevator car is made needless to promote the standardization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yoneda, Kazuhiro Sakata, Takeo Yuminaka, Masao Nakazato, Tomiaki Kurihara, Soshiro Kuzunuki, Yasunori Katayama
  • Patent number: 4350225
    Abstract: A control logic for an elevator servicing a plurality of floors of a building comprises two microcomputers. The two microcomputers are provided with abnormal state detectors of their own. When the abnormal state detector of one microcomputer is actuated, the elevator is operated for recovery to the nearest floor by the other microcomputer on the condition that the abnormal state detector of the other microcomputer is not actuated, and thereafter retrial for the abnormal microcomputer is effected by an instruction from the other microcomputer. When the abnormal microcomputer recovers to normal state by the retrial, the elevator keeps operating, thereby preventing such a problem that the elevator cannot continue service by erroneous operation due to noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Sakata, Takeo Yuminaka, Masao Nakazato, Kenji Yoneda, Soshiro Kuzunuki, Yasunori Katayama