ELEVATOR ACCESS CONTROL
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230035825A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17963584

    申请日:2022-10-11

    申请人: KONE Corporation

    IPC分类号: G07C9/00 G07C9/27

    摘要: An apparatus for managing access to one or more elevators of a building is configured to: receive, for a plurality occupants of the building, a respective occupant registration request including at least occupant characteristics recorded for the respective occupant; assign each occupant into one of a plurality of occupant groups based on the occupant characteristics recorded for the respective occupant, wherein each occupant group has respective access rights with respect to said one or more elevators that are different from access rights of other occupant groups in terms of a time schedule of accessing said one or more elevators; and selectively allow or disallow an occupant of the building to access said one or more elevators in accordance with the access rights of the occupant group into which said occupant is assigned.

    SOLUTION FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC INFORMATION CONTENT OF A PEOPLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230021485A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-26

    申请号:US17959791

    申请日:2022-10-04

    申请人: Kone Corporation

    摘要: The invention relates to a method for generating dynamic information content of a people transport system. The method comprises: receiving an information content request from a terminal device, obtaining status information representing the current status of at least part of the people transport system from a server system, generating a document map comprising references to one or more information content topics based at least on the obtained status information, retrieving the one or more information content topics referred in the document map, generating the dynamic information content based on the retrieved one or more information content topics from the server system, and providing the generated dynamic information content to the terminal device. The invention relates also to a computing unit, a system, and a computer program.

    Elevator
    5.
    发明授权
    Elevator 有权

    公开(公告)号:US11554933B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US16883212

    申请日:2020-05-26

    申请人: KONE Corporation

    摘要: An elevator includes an elevator shaft defined by surrounding walls and top and bottom end terminals; an elevator car vertically movable in the elevator shaft; elevator hoisting ropes coupled to the elevator car; an elevator hoisting machine including a traction sheave engaged with the elevator hoisting ropes; a traction monitor configured to determine traction of the hoisting machine; an electromechanical brake; a measuring apparatus adapted to provide speed data and position data of the elevator car; and a safety processor associated with the traction monitor and the measuring apparatus. The safety processor includes an ETLS threshold configured to decrease towards the top and/or bottom end terminal in accordance with the position of the elevator car. The ETSL threshold is adjusted on the basis of the traction of the hoisting machine. The safety processor is configured to determine an elevator car slowdown failure if the speed data meets or exceeds the ETSL threshold.

    Method and elevator
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11554932B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US16566617

    申请日:2019-09-10

    申请人: KONE Corporation

    摘要: A method for controlling movement of an elevator car includes driving the car vertically to a landing; activating a park brake; and holding the car immovable with the park brake. The holding includes compressing a guide rail by compression members with a first compression force; opening a door for allowing loading and/or unloading the car; maintaining the door open for allowing loading and/or unloading the car while the car is held immovable; and starting closing movement of the door. After the starting closing movement of the door, relieving the brake for allowing the elevator car to start to move vertically. The relieving includes reducing the compression force of the brake, to be smaller than the first compression force, such that the compression members start sliding vertically against the guide rail; maintaining compression with a smaller compression force than the first compression force, allowing the compression members to continue to slide vertically against the guide rail; and thereafter removing the compression.

    METHOD FOR TESTING A BRAKE OF A HOISTING MACHINE AND SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230007842A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17941499

    申请日:2022-09-09

    申请人: KONE Corporation

    IPC分类号: B66B5/00 B66B5/02

    摘要: A method for testing an elevator hoisting machine brake with a preselected test load TL includes confirming empty elevator car positioned at a test location stest; obtaining information of elevator balancing B; obtaining information of friction Fr of the elevator at the test location stest; determining required assisting test torque TM of a hoisting machine motor based on said test load TL, balancing B and friction Fr; opening one of the brakes while keeping rest of the brakes engaged in braking position, applying torque with the motor at most up to the required test torque TM, measuring movement of the elevator car, and if movement of the elevator car was detected, generating a signal indicating degraded condition of one or more hoisting machine brakes.

    Managing elevator cars in a multi-car elevator shaft system

    公开(公告)号:US11542117B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16268080

    申请日:2019-02-05

    申请人: KONE CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: B66B1/24 B66B9/00

    摘要: According to an aspect, there is provided a method for managing elevator cars in a multi-car elevator shaft system. The method comprises determining, by an elevator control entity, the optimum number of elevator cars for a given time of a day in the multi-car elevator shaft system; and commanding, by the elevator control entity, at least one elevator car into at least one elevator car storage or back to service from the at least one elevator car storage based on the determination, wherein elevator cars in the at least one elevator car storage act as standby elevator cars for the multi-car elevator shaft system.