Motion profile for empty elevator cars and occupied elevator cars
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsArthur Hsu, David Ginsberg, Jose Miguel Pasini
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Abstract
A method of operating an elevator system is provided. The method comprising: detecting an occupancy status of the elevator car, the occupancy status comprising at least one of occupied and unoccupied; selecting a motion profile of the elevator car in response to the occupancy status, the motion profile comprising at least one of an unoccupied motion profile, an occupied motion profile, an occupied lateral movement motion profile, a power-save motion profile, and an occupied descent motion profile; and moving the elevator car in accordance with the motion profile selected.
Claims20
A method of operating an elevator system, the method comprising:
- detecting an occupancy status of the elevator car, the occupancy status comprising at least one of occupied and unoccupied;
- selecting a motion profile of the elevator car in response to the occupancy status, the motion profile comprising at least one of an unoccupied motion profile, an occupied motion profile, an occupied lateral movement motion profile, a power-save motion profile, and an occupied descent motion profile;
- and
- moving the elevator car in accordance with the motion profile selected.
An elevator system comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- detecting an occupancy status of the elevator car, the occupancy status comprising at least one of occupied and unoccupied;
- selecting a motion profile of the elevator car in response to the occupancy status, the motion profile comprising at least one of an unoccupied motion profile, an occupied motion profile, an occupied lateral movement motion profile, a power-save motion profile, and an occupied descent motion profile;
- and
- moving the elevator car in accordance with the motion profile selected.
A computer program product tangibly embodied on a computer readable medium,
- the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- detecting an occupancy status of the elevator car, the occupancy status comprising at least one of occupied and unoccupied;
- selecting a motion profile of the elevator car in response to the occupancy status, the motion profile comprising at least one of an unoccupied motion profile, an occupied motion profile, an occupied lateral movement motion profile, a power-save motion profile, and an occupied descent motion profile;
- and
- moving the elevator car in accordance with the motion profile selected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.