Abstract: A control panel is divided into units in accordance with each control function, units to be controlled by or connected to the divided unit are divided into unit groups in accordance with a place where the unit is to be disposed, and unit groups having a relationship form a control section, the control section being disposed in the vicinity of the unit group so that it is unnecessary to provide a large integral control panel. There is no difficulty in finding an installation place for the control panel, it is unnecessary to prepare a special machine room, it is possible to provide the control panel in an empty space around the respective unit to be controlled, and to effectively use the building while enhancing the layout of the units and it is possible to quickly control a localized situation for the unit to be controlled.

Abstract: A bracket assembly and method for coupling a motor to a hoist machine comprising an adapter plate for coupling to a motor face and sized to cover the face of the motor and accommodate an existing motor register on the hoist machine, a drum flange member coupled to the hoist machine to reduce vibrations, the drum flange member having a central cavity for receiving the motor shaft, a second flange member having a bushing sized to the motor shaft, and a coupling plate positioned between the first and second flange members, the coupling plate made of a resilient material such as a plastic. Each of the first and second flange members and coupling plates have hole portions radially positioned and in alignment with one another, the drum flange having holes formed therein for accommodating a connecting rod such as a bolt to securely fasten the drum flange to the drum brake of the hoist machine.

Abstract: A drive system for an elevator includes a drive machine by means of which the for moving and supporting an elevator car. The primary circuit of a linear motor is permanently fitted to a wall of a building while its secondary circuit is fitted in conjunction with the elevator car and moves with the elevator car. Pressurized air is supplied between the primary and secondary circuits of the reluctance-type linear motor to maintain an air gap between them.

Abstract: A direct drive apparatus for an elevator wherein a movable part of the direct drive, particularly a linear motor, is connected with an elevator car or counterweight for transmission of compression and tension in the travel direction by a tension/compression strut with settable damping properties. The tension/compression strut includes first and second rods which lie on a longitudinal axis of the strut and extend into opposite ends of a sleeve. First and second nuts are threadably received in the ends of the sleeve. First and second spring elements are positioned in the sleeve abutting the first and second nuts respectively. A central spring element is positioned between first and second spring plates which abut the first and second spring elements respectively. Each rod extends through the respective nut, spring element and spring plate into the central spring element and is attached the respective spring plate to optimize the oscillation and body sound insulation.

Abstract: In an elevator installation system of at least one elevator installation with one or more elevators and a service center, which is functionally connected therewith, but provided spatially separate therefrom, the control device of the elevator installation is likewise disposed in the service center. The control device stands in connection with the elevator installation by way of a data transmission device. Data for the control of the elevator installation are prepared in situ and transmitted either to the service center or to the control device, preferably by way of a public telephone network. After processing of the information in the service center, a return transmission of the ascertained control instructions and a corresponding actuation of the setting members and actuators for the operation of the elevators take place.

Abstract: An elevator in which an elevator-car and a counter weight are hung like a draw well. The elevator includes a receiving unit for receiving an electric power from a feeding unit provided in a hoistway, an inverter for converting the received electric power into ac power, a motor connected to an ac side of the inverter, for driving the counter weight in up and down directions, a sensor for detecting a position of a receiving unit, and a control unit for controlling an inverter on the basis of the position detected by the position sensor. The counter weight has the receiving means, the inverter, and the motor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a procedure for setting the magnitudes of the axial air gaps and/or the mutual positions of the rotors and stators defining the axial air gaps in a gearless elevator drive machine comprising an electromechanical apparatus having two axial air gaps. In the procedure, the size of the axial air gap and/or the positions of the rotors and stators is/are adjusted based on a selected property, e.g. a current or voltage property.

Abstract: A linear motor for lifts for driving a lift car guided in a lift shaft with at least one stator winding row which can be fixed to the lift shaft or to the lift car and with at least one row of exciter magnets of alternating polarity which are situated opposite the stator windings at a distance and which can be fixed to the lift car or the lift shaft, respectively, in such a way that the linear motor exerts only small transverse forces on the motor support and also operates as noiselessly as possible and is easy to assemble, wherein that the stator windings are of iron-free design and are disposed between two mutually oppositely situated exciter magnet rows. In addition, a lift having a lift car which can be driven in a lift shaft wherein the lift has a linear motor of this type for driving the lift car.

Abstract: An elevator system includes a counterweight assembly having a plurality of drive machines having integrally formed drive wheels adapted to frictionally engaged a guide rail for driving the counterweight assembly along the guide rail to effect movement of an elevator car.

Abstract: Elevator cabs are transferred between elevators, which may be shuttles, in various levels of a building, such as transport floors, in response to car calls registered in the cabs and hall calls registered on the transport floors. The cabs may be transferred from carriages or bogeys onto elevator car frames in a lateral direction, which is perpendicular to the motion of the cab on a carriage or bogey, or in a longitudinal direction which is the same as the direction of motion of a cab on a carriage or bogey. The horizontal/vertical control and transfer may be effected in response to the arrival at transport floors of elevators having cabs therein, or in response to the arrival at an elevator of a bogey carrying a cab which must be transported between a transport floor on one level of a building and a transport floor on another level of a building, in order to serve the need of a car call registered therein or a hall call.

Abstract: On a traction machine motor wherein both a rotor (6) and a driving sheave (10) are attached on the rotating shaft (5), which is supported by both a motor bracket (1) and a bearing stand (2), and a motor frame (7) which supports the stator (8) is connected to the motor bracket (1), a gap (G.sub.5) is provided between a spigot joint (18) which is concentric with the rotating shaft (5) and an arcuate part (19) to indirectly measure a bias in the circumferential direction of the gap (G.sub.4).

Abstract: A motor secondary in a linear induction motor used for opening and closing doors in an elevator system includes a secondary guide system having a first secondary guide and a second secondary guide. The first secondary guide is disposed on a bottom longitudinal edge of the motor secondary and the second secondary guide is disposed on a top longitudinal edge of the motor secondary. The guides space apart the motor secondary from the motor primary and establish small and constant running clearances therebetween.

Abstract: Each of a pair of vertically and horizontally adjacent hoistways has an elevator car coupler roped through a traction machine to a counterweight so as to be able to raise and lower the elevator car within the related hoistway. A transition section joins the upper end of the lower hoistway with the lower end of the upper hoistway. A pair of guide rails are disposed on each side of the elevator system, including the upper hoistway, the transition section and the lower hoistway. Elevator cars are guided from the top of the upper hoistway to the bottom of the lower hoistway and/or vice versa by one of the pairs of rails. Power in the transition section is provided by a pair of LEMs, one on each side of the hoistways.

Abstract: A cab having a wheeled carriage fixed thereto is moved between rails on an elevator car frame and similar rails on a wheeled bogey. The ends of the rails are scarfed in a complimentary fashion so as to provide a temporary half-lap joint between the rails of the bogey and the rails of the car frame. Motion is provided by linear motors having active primaries disposed on the car frame and the bogey and passive secondaries disposed on the cab carriage. Motor control is in response to position signals provided by magnetostrictive linear displacement transducers. The cab carriage includes rollers on vertical axes which contact the insides of the rails for guidance. The cab carriage wheels and rollers are disposed in pairs separated sufficiently so that at least one roller and one wheel of each pair is in contact with a full rail as the carriage crosses the rail joints between the car frame and the bogey.

Abstract: A plurality of express shuttle elevators S1-S4 exchange elevator cabs at a transfer floor 26 with local elevators L1-L10 by means of a carriage 107, the casters of which 93 are guided by tracks 70-83. The transfer floor has linear induction motor (LIM) primary segments 60-67 disposed on the transfer floor; the carriage has a LIM secondary 128 thereon for propulsion. The carriages can be locked 91, 92 to the transfer floor for loading, and cabs can be locked 131 onto the carriages for stability when being moved. A controller (FIGS. 10-13) keeps track of the progress of the cabs from one elevator to another.

Abstract: An elevator system, having a three phase rectifier (20) which converts energy from a three phase AC main (21) to provide DC power on a bus (19) to a three phase inverter (18) that drives a three phase inductive hoist motor (17), utilizes regenerated energy applied (46, 47) to a boost regulator (52) to drive (54, 55) a flywheel motor generator (26) to store the regenerated energy in the form of inertia therein. When the flywheel motor generator reaches a limiting speed, any continued regenerated energy is dumped (59, 60) in an energy dissipating device (61). During periods of high demand, the inertial energy stored in the flywheel motor generator is utilized (67, 68) to add energy to the DC bus to provide additional current to the three phase inverter for driving the hoist motor. The control is provided by software embedded in an elevator computer (such as used for dispatching and motion control).

Abstract: A linear motor elevator includes a linear motor that is permitted motion within the hoistway. The linear motor is mounted in a manner permitting motion of the entire linear motor, including stator, through the hoistway. As a result, the length of the hoistway and the run of the elevator may extend beyond the length of the stator. In a particular embodiment, the linear motor is connected to a car in a configuration permitting the car to travel at approximately twice the speed of the linear motor within the hoistway. The moving element of the linear motor is connected to the car to permit the car and moving element to travel at the same speed relative to the hoistway. As a result, the moving element moves relative to the stator at half the speed of the car speed and the height of the hoistway may be approximately double the height of the stator.

Abstract: This invention is concerned in a secondary conductor for an elevator-driving linear induction motor in which, in connecting secondary conductor members to one another, adjoining portions of secondary conductor members are cut and engaged with one another by lapping them over each other, and the edge portions of them are joined at least on one side with a fastening member or by pressure joining or by welding, whereby the difficulty is eliminated that the secondary conductor members, being bent for instance, are raised to form a step therebetween, so that the secondary conductor members are brought into contact with or struck against the primary windings of the linear induction motor, and the secondary conductor members and the primary windings are damaged.

Abstract: The overspeed governor is provided with a switch to disable the operation of the elevator motor. The apparatus includes a controllable actuator which resets the switch into a state enabling the operation of the elevator motor. The actuator is preferably a geared d.c. motor.

Abstract: A control system for a materials-handling device, especially for a shelf storage and retrieval device. The device includes a horizontal travelling mechanism having a horizontal drive; a lift truck which can be raised and lowered on a mast via a lifting drive; and a storage/retrieval drive for storage and/or retrieval of the goods to be handled. The present system provides a simplified assembly and a design with respect to the supply of current. The simplified assembly and design is accompanied by supplying the electrical power for the storage/retrieval drive and for data transmission with a signal converter through the use of contact conductors arranged on the mast and the power is picked up from the contact conductors by sliding contacts on the lift truck.

Abstract: A linear motor elevator system comprising a sheave disposed in the upper portion of an elevator hoistway, a length of rope wound around the sheave, a movable member connected to said rope, a primary winding disposed only on a first side of said movable member and a secondary conductor extending within and along the hoistway in association with said primary winding to constitute a linear motor. The system may comprise a brake unit disposed on a second side of said movable member which is opposite to said first side and a guide rail disposed within said hoistway for being engaged by said brake unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an elevator capable of providing enhanced comfort to passengers by reducing and compensating for propulsion change and propulsion ripples, the apparatus comprising an acceleration sensor for detecting the moving acceleration of an elevation member, and a control circuit including a speed controller for generating an acceleration command to be issued to the elevation member in accordance with a speed deviation. An acceleration controller for generating a corrected propulsion command to be issued to the elevation member in accordance with an acceleration deviation between the acceleration command and the moving acceleration is provided and a electric power command generater for generating an electric power command to be issued to the inverter in accordance with the corrected propulsion command is also provided.

Abstract: A mover vibration absorbing device for a linear motor elevator is described. The device includes top and bottom frames provided on top and bottom of a counter support unit respectively. A plurality of top steel plates are coupled to flanges of the top and bottom frames respectively. Top and bottom support members are provided on top and bottom surfaces of a hollow cylindrical mover of the linear motor respectively. A plurality of bottom steel plates are coupled to flanges of the top and bottom support members respectively. Top and bottom vibration absorbing rubbers each are interposed between an associated top steel plate and an associated bottom steel plate. Bolts and nuts are adapted for fixing the top steel plates to the flanges of the top and bottom frames and for fixing the bottom steel plates to the flanges of the top and bottom support members.

Abstract: An elevator car door is moved by a variable voltage, variable frequency linear induction motor which is driven open current loop to achieve a desired velocity profile indicated by an incremental linear encoder, with washed out proportional and integral gain. A magnetizing current insufficient to overcome the weight of the door is added in quadrature with the linear force current, and frequency is determined open loop in a predetermined fashion. Pulse width modulation voltage control signals are utilized to apply fixed voltages of correct polarity through a low pass three phase filter to the windings of the motor for correct intervals of time so as to synthesize desired sinusoidal winding currents. A boost of current is provided following each zero crossing of the sinusoidal winding currents to overcome lags therein. A ramp down of voltage avoids dropping the door at the end of door opening and door closing.

Abstract: A linear motor supporting apparatus for a linear motor elevator capable of greatly dampening a load from a stator when a relative displacement of the stator and guide rails occur, includes a linear motor including a rotor and a stator; a tensile force adjusting device, disposed below the stator, for adjusting a tensile force upon the stator; and a stator displacement adjusting device, disposed between the tensile force adjusting device and a supporting frame, for greatly reducing a load upon the stator by moving the stator by as much as a relative displacement between the stator and the rotor.

Abstract: Torque current reference I.sub.Tref and reference acceleration a.sub.ref are sampled in a vector controlled induction motor drive for developing a quality criterion by which an estimated rotor time constant .tau..sub.2 may be adapted to the actual rotor time constant .tau..sub.2. More specifically, the torque current reference I.sub.Tref and reference acceleration a.sub.ref are sampled and then a slope of I.sub.Tref versus a.sub.ref is plotted against the offset of that line, which offset is proportional to the lead torque T.sub.LOAD. The no-load slope is then determined from this plot and subtracted from an ideal no-load slope and the difference passed through a proportional-integral circuit for providing an estimated rotor time constant .tau..sub.2 which is adapted to the actual rotor time constant .tau..sub.2.

Abstract: A support device for an item of retractable street furniture having electrical actuation is provided having a stationary box installed in the ground; moving equipment housed in the box and including a top support plate for supporting the item of street furniture, the equipment being movable between a high position in which the item of street furniture emerges from the box above the level of the ground, and a low position in which the item of street furniture is retracted into the box so that the top portion thereof does not project above ground level; an electrical motor and gear box unit; and a transmission for converting the rotary motion of the motor and gear box unit into translation motion of the moving equipment between its high position and its low position.

Abstract: In the energy conservation type hydraulic elevator, a load carrying elevator and a balancing elevator are each provided on a respective hydraulic cylinder. The hydraulic cylinders are connected to one another by a fluid circuit. The balancing elevator is weighted so as to minimize the power input required of a hydraulic pump in the fluid circuit. In the speed control method of a hydraulic elevator, a negative pressure is first produced in a fluid path connecting a hydraulic pump and a control valve. Descent of the elevator is then permitted to start by opening a control valve, allowing hydraulic fluid to flow from a cylinder, by way of a hydraulic pump, to an oil tank. The hydraulic pump and a motor rotate with the hydraulic fluid, and the motor is rotated at a synchronous number of revolutions by switching on an inverter power source when the number of revolutions has reached the synchronous number of revolutions of the motor.

Abstract: An elevator control apparatus has a converter for converting AC power to DC power, an inverter for converting the DC power resulting from the conversion by the converter into AC voltage of a variable voltage and a variable frequency so as to drive with the AC voltage an induction motor for vertically moving an elevator car, a current detector for detecting the current output by the inverter and for producing an output signal indicative of the detected current, a current command generating circuit for generating a current command value for the induction motor, and a control circuit for controlling the inverter on the basis of both the current command value from the current command generating circuit and the output signal from the current detector.

Abstract: System For Detecting A Breakage Of A Power Cable For An Elevator System Which can accurately detect the breakage of at least one copper wire in the respective power cables present between the inverter of the elevator system and a linear motor moving element and which is difficult to visually inspect.

Abstract: An elevator includes a cab supported and guided by guide rails for travel along the guide rails. Emergency stop devices for stopping the travel of the cab are fixed to the cab. Mounted on the cab is a governor for actuating the stop devices when the traveling speed of the cab exceeds a predetermined speed. The governor includes a roller mounted on the cab and in rolling contact with one of the guide rails so that the roller rolls on the guide rail in interlocking engagement upon travel of the cab. A governor pulley is rotatably mounted on the cab and connected to the roller through a belt so as to rotate in interlocking cooperation with the roller. A safety Link mechanism is mounted on the cab and actuates the stop devices when the rotating speed of the governor pulley exceeds a predetermined speed.