摘要:
An elevator system which develops information relative to car location in the associated building from an extensible coded tape in the hoistway. The tape is tensioned and then fixed at predetermined locations such that predetermined positional relationships between the tape and the hoistway remain fixed, notwithstanding compression of the building and temperature induced dimensional changes of the tape.
摘要:
An elevator system including an elevator car and a drive machine having a DC drive motor, a dual converter, and a phase controller for providing gate drive signals for the dual converter. A reference signal relates to the desired motor armature current is developed in response to the operation of the elevator system. The reference signal indicates when the current source should be switched from one converter bank to the other converter bank. The switching is accomplished by a method which includes retarding the firing angle of the gate drive signals applied to the operative converter, until current is extinguished, applying the gate drive signals to the other converter bank, and advancing the firing angle towards rectification to initiate current flow in the on-coming converter. The rate at which the firing angle is advanced towards rectification is a function of the control signal.
摘要:
An elevator system including an elevator car mounted for guided movement in the hoistway of a building having a plurality of floors. The speed of the elevator car versus its position is monitored in terminal zones adjacent to the terminal floors, as the elevator car approaches each terminal floor. An overspeed signal is generated when an overspeed condition is detected. If the elevator car is traveling towards a terminal floor in a terminal zone but is not set to decelerate and stop at the terminal floor, the conditions for issuing the overspeed signal are modified such that the issuance of the signal is advanced in time, compared with the time at which it would be provided without such modification, with the magnitude of the advancement being inversely proportional to the speed of the elevator car.
摘要:
An elevator system in which the movement of the elevator car is responsive to a comparator which provides an error signal responsive to the difference between the magnitude of a speed pattern signal provided by a speed pattern generator, and a signal responsive to actual car speed. An adjustable impedance device controls the affect of the speed pattern signal on the comparator, with the impedance of the adjustable impedance device being responsive to at least one predetermined parameter of the speed pattern signal.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for selectively controlling the energization of a plurality of lamps in an elevator system, utilizing a microcomputer based lamp controller, and for detecting failure of the lamps while utilizing a minimum number of communication lines. A first communication line synchronizes signals which are placed on the remaining communication lines. Signals indicating the need for lamp energization are detected by the lamp controller. When such signals are recognized by the lamp controller, the lamp controller prepares and places signals on a second communication line which requests lamp energization of the associated lamps, and it stores indications of the requests. Signals responsive to the detection of actual energization of a lamp are placed on a third communication line and directed to the lamp controller. The lamp controller logically relates signals detected on the third communication line with the stored indications of lamp energization requests to determine or test system integrity, and to detect lamp burn-out.
摘要:
An elevator system having an elevator car, a DC drive motor for driving the elevator car, an adjustable voltage DC source for the drive motor, overvoltage and overacceleration detectors responsive to the armature voltage of the drive motor, test apparatus for testing the operability of the detectors during each run of the elevator car, and a protective circuit. The protective circuit initiates an emergency stop of the elevator car in response to overvoltage, or overacceleration, and it prevents the elevator car from starting a new run when the test apparatus detected a malfunction during the prior run.
摘要:
An elevator system including an elevator car, and control apparatus for controlling the speed of the elevator car, including a speed pattern generator. The speed pattern generator provides a running speed pattern and a slowdown speed pattern, and it forces the slowdown speed pattern to match the running speed pattern prior to transfer between the speed patterns, to achieve a stepless transfer therebetween. It also automatically adjusts the deceleration rate of the slowdown speed pattern prior to transfer, such that by maintaining the deceleration rate at its value at the time of transfer, the elevator car will be decelerated at a constant rate, and the slowdown speed pattern will have a predetermined value when the elevator car is at a predetermined location relative to the target floor, enabling stepless transfer at this predetermined location from the slowdown speed pattern to a landing speed pattern which is initialized to the predetermined value.
摘要:
An elevator system including an elevator car and counterweight mounted for guided vertical movement in the hoistway of a building. A magnetically operated detector mounted on the elevator car cooperates with a magnetic shield disposed in the hoistway to noiselessly provide signals which indicate when the elevator car and counterweight are in a predetermined collision zone where collision is possible should the counterweight deviate from its normal travel path. The detector also provides signals when the elevator car and counterweight are outside the collision zone, which signals indicate the relative positions of the elevator car and counterweight.
摘要:
An elevator system in which hall calls from an independent inconspicuous riser (IR) are handled by the same dispatcher as hall calls from the normal hall call riser. Each floor of the building is assigned its own unique timing scan slot position for detecting normal hall calls, with the number of scan slots being at least twice the number of floors in the building. IR calls appear in scan slot positions for floors which are not in the actual building, and the dispatching function treats the building as though it had twice its actual number of floors. A car on IR duty translates its advanced car position into the imaginary portion of the building, before sending its advanced position signal to the dispatching function. When a car on IR duty receives an assignment from the dispatching function, its associated car controller translates an assignment for a fictitious floor to an actual floor of the building, and it utilizes its actual advanced car position in the process of serving the IR call.
摘要:
A digital tachometer in which first pulses are produced at a rate proportional to the speed of a device. Second pulses are produced at a constant rate which exceeds the maximum rate of the first pulses, and a binary counter provides a binary count of the second pulses produced between two consecutive first pulses. A look-up table memory provides several blocks of addressable storage locations containing digital representations of speed. The MSB of the binary count selects a specific block of the memory, and the address of the selected block is derived from the binary count.